Hand me a chip and a seat

Still have about 80 to transfer from UB to Stars. Anyone want ABS/UB money? I send first to reputable, or we can work out increments if you're unknown.

PM or post, thanks.

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$130 and change (like 130-132) and need to transfer to stars. You keep the change.

Does anyone need UB moniez? I'll send first to long-term members, obviously, otherwise we can work something out.

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Oh I just played this one a minute ago. My favorite.

Submitted by : MadJukes

PokerStars Game #38038250091: Holdem No Limit ($0.02/$0.05 USD) - 2010/01/12 4:29:03 CT [2010/01/12 5:29:03 ET]
Table Hagihara 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: kaizen5678 ($5.50 in chips)
Seat 2: DancingMonke ($7.59 in chips)
Seat 3: MadJukes ($5.26 in chips)
Seat 4: TREE8758 ($19.31 in chips)
Seat 5: ecatkinsV ($15.05 in chips)
Seat 6: saorete333 ($4.74 in chips)
DancingMonke: posts small blind $0.02
MadJukes: posts big blind $0.05

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to MadJukes
TREE8758: raises $0.10 to $0.15
ecatkinsV: folds
saorete333: folds
kaizen5678: calls $0.15
DancingMonke: folds
MadJukes: calls $0.10

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $0.47)

   
MadJukes: checks
TREE8758: checks
kaizen5678: checks

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $0.47)

   
MadJukes: bets $0.45
TREE8758: calls $0.45
kaizen5678: folds

River (Pot : $1.37)

   
MadJukes: bets $1.30
TREE8758: raises $17.41 to $18.71 and is all-in
MadJukes: calls $3.36 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($14.05) returned to TREE8758

Showdown
TREE8758: shows (four of a kind, Sevens)
MadJukes: shows (a full house, Eights full of Sevens)
TREE8758 collected $10.19 from pot

Summary
Total pot $10.69 | Rake $0.50
Board  
Seat 1: kaizen5678 (button) folded on the Turn
Seat 2: DancingMonke (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: MadJukes (big blind) showed and lost with a full house, Eights full of Sevens
Seat 4: TREE8758 showed and won ($10.19) with four of a kind, Sevens
Seat 5: ecatkinsV folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: saorete333 folded before Flop (didnt bet)

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Its one of those weeks where every river card seems to bite you in the ass and every chasing 60/5 fish catches his draws and every AA gets cracked.

Anybody have humongously bad beat/running bad/feeling card-dead stories they want to share? Misery needs company.

Oh and PM plz if you can do a 20 transfer, my stars, ur FT. =)

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I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! The WBCOOP is a free online Poker tournament open to all Bloggers, so register on WBCOOP to play.

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Just a theory question. Why should you always shove with KK or QQ? I'm talking about Full Ring, NL5, where 3-betting light doesn't exist.

For example, I've never seen JJ call a full stack 100bb all in. Therefore, if you have QQ, it seems to follow that the only hands that will call you is QQ, KK, AA. Is that a fair assumption?

I'm bringing this up because I've run into a seemingly ridiculous amount of "coolers" so to speak, where my QQ/KK are either not getting action postflop, or are dominated preflop by KK/AA. Any thoughts/reasoning for microstakes (NL5-NL10) play on QQ/KK?

I'm playing pretty standard where I 5x bb PFR QQ/KK or 3-bet any previous raises to ~3x their bet. The trouble I'm running into is when they 4-bet all in.

Thoughts would be appreciated!

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I was having a discussion with a friend recently. Quick summary of when I started online poker :

Because I rule live poker with an iron fist and therefore must be a poker god, lol, I deposited $100-200 several times, each time running it up to $500-1600, before going broke due to poor bankroll management, overall spewiness due to being too aggressive, and also the variance gods were angry from time to time.

So I thought that running it up a bit and losing it all meant you had a LOT to learn; you lose it all in the end anyways. Good players keep what they make and keep moving up. (At one point during my degen days, I had $6 left and played a PS $6 HU, and only played HU sng's, increasing stakes every time I had 5 BI's for the next level, until I hit $1600 before losing it all in a $1k HU. Brilliant huh?) He argued that bad poker players couldn't win in the first place, so people like XBLINK and etc were actually good poker players, just lacking some fundamentals, such as BR management.

Any thoughts on this topic? Can degens be good poker players?

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Ok. So. What's the whole hype about Avatar? I'll give you that it was a pretty fun fantasy movie. But... I feel like the obsession with Avatar is tantamount to what Twilight is to girls...(OMGZ COOL DRAGONZ I WANT ONE!!!11!!one)

Lol. And as for Xblink, sure I know everyone is saying he's on a sick heater and he just slipped through the net of variance by playing his entire roll the whole time and bagging it up. Apparently he started through his last $11 on a MTT sng and won. And BAM next time you know, he's acing it up with the big boys up at 100/200. But if you look at PTR, I honestly don't understand how he can go all in preflop with hands like Q9 suited...and win?? Is AP really that soft??

Update with my own personal game! I'm responding to everyone's comments (and thanks for reading btw!) and asked responded with questions to your comments as well. So if you've been commenting, please read my responses too! I've hit my $100 at NL2 but paid off my very kind benefactor who lent me the $20 to start off =P. (Thanks edzwoo). So now I'm at a $80 or so roll again and about to move up! The only thing is...I'm about to hit the end of the road with my HEM. =(
And I sure as heck don't have the bankroll to withdraw and buy the program haha. Thinking about DL'ing PT3 for its free trial to last me a while but can I shift all the stats over...?

Overall, getting more used to the pace of 16-18 tables FR. My VPIP/PFR has dropped from around 35/19 when I first started to ~15/10. Before playing online, I've never even heard of stats like VPIP/PFR and even right now, I'm not very clear on which numbers mean what range of hands played. Am I a nit? What do the stats say about me, if anything? What numbers correlate to "fishy" and what numbers (at higher stakes) say more about regs? I figure if I have the tools to see the numbers, I want to know how they interpret players.

And ofc. Graph.



GL to the tourney players on Stars today!

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I think poker is an evolutionary game. Obviously. 5 years ago it was filled with fishies, loose and passive, before sharks came along to gobble them up. Then higher stakes became more and more aggressive as 3-betting and 4-betting light came around. And now there's 4-bet bluffs? What??

I've decided to coin my OWN wicked cool play. I've taken set mining to a whole new level...I call it "BOAT mining".

Submitted by : MadJukes

PokerStars Game #37186385864: Holdem No Limit ($0.01/$0.02 USD) - 2009/12/25 18:30:29 CT [2009/12/25 19:30:29 ET]
Table Herge V 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: bailarin245 ($2.12 in chips)
Seat 2: macteri ($4.88 in chips)
Seat 3: AmiWinehouse ($3.67 in chips)
Seat 4: II VII o ($1.97 in chips)
Seat 5: vince37_m ($2.95 in chips)
Seat 6: Hero ($2 in chips)
Seat 7: lepegoalPVC ($0.92 in chips)
Seat 8: 7NIKITA7 ($0.45 in chips)
Seat 9: xlfixer ($1.68 in chips)
7NIKITA7: posts small blind $0.01
xlfixer: posts big blind $0.02

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to Hero
bailarin245: folds
macteri: folds
AmiWinehouse: folds
II VII o: folds
vince37_m: calls $0.02
Hero is connected
Hero: calls $0.02
lepegoalPVC: calls $0.02
7NIKITA7: calls $0.01
xlfixer: checks

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $0.10)

   
7NIKITA7: bets $0.02
xlfixer: folds
vince37_m: raises $0.04 to $0.06
Hero: calls $0.06
lepegoalPVC: calls $0.06
7NIKITA7: calls $0.04

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $0.34)

   
7NIKITA7: checks
vince37_m: bets $0.22
Hero: calls $0.22
lepegoalPVC: folds
7NIKITA7: raises $0.15 to $0.37 and is all-in
vince37_m: calls $0.15
Hero: calls $0.15

River (Pot : $1.45)

   
vince37_m: bets $0.48
Hero: raises $1.07 to $1.55 and is all-in
vince37_m: calls $1.07

Showdown
Hero: shows (a full house, Fives full of Eights)
vince37_m: shows (a flush, Queen high)
Hero collected $2.95 from side pot
7NIKITA7: shows (two pair, Tens and Eights)
Hero collected $1.40 from main pot

Summary
Total pot $4.55 Main pot $1.40. Side pot $2.95. | Rake $0.20
Board  
Seat 1: bailarin245 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 2: macteri folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 3: AmiWinehouse folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: II VII o folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: vince37_m showed and lost with a flush, Queen high
Seat 6: Hero showed and won ($4.35) with a full house, Fives full of Eights
Seat 7: lepegoalPVC (button) folded on the Turn
Seat 8: 7NIKITA7 (small blind) showed and lost with two pair, Tens and Eights
Seat 9: xlfixer (big blind) folded on the Flop

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Day 5 or so, (according to my Holdem Manager trial at any rate...10/15 days left ), and I'm almost at the finish line to reach the next stakes.

So a few thoughts on NL2 (.01/.02)

Today I've experimented with just calling with top pair when others bet into me. When I say top pair, I mean top pair good kicker that you are reasonably sure you have the best hand (non-drawy boards). Happily, calling while in position has induced a lot of microstakes players to get FPS, or fancy play syndrome. I've had 3 players bluff their stacks at me which I called down because the plays just made no sense whatsoever.

Also: people do not fold flush draws, no matter what pot odds they're given. So when I've been betting my top pair, good kicker (first to act) into a board with 2 suits and they call and another card of the same suit comes down, I bet and fold to their raise without thinking twice. I looked over my hand histories and calling them down with top pair when they hit their draw has been a big leak of mine.

Lastly, set mining has been hitting gold recently! Phrenik reminded me of the profitability of set mining and I've been calling any raise up to 4x bb with any pocket pair and always in multiway pots. I think of my last 20 or so pocket pairs, 3-4 have hit a set on the flop. <3. SHIP ITTT

And of course, merry Christmas everyone! I still have to go see Avatar because I heard it's the best thing since sex and I'm probably the only person who has yet to see it. (Don't ruin it for me!!)

My graph up to today:

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