MIDSTAKES LOL

Submitted by : edzwoo

PokerStars Game #21741205417: Hold'em No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2008/11/03 21:19:45 ET
Table 'Prokne III' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: edzwoo ($25 in chips)
Seat 2: DreamJW ($25.75 in chips)
Seat 3: haozi_jay ($9.30 in chips)
Seat 4: mortadelo05 ($27.55 in chips)
Seat 5: Knockels ($40.90 in chips)
Seat 6: murk-puzz ($19.35 in chips)
Seat 7: karter_35 ($4.65 in chips)
Seat 8: yabasta9 ($28.70 in chips)
edzwoo : posts small blind $0.10
DreamJW: posts big blind $0.25

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to edzwoo
haozi_jay: folds
mortadelo05: folds
Knockels: raises $0.50 to $0.75
murk-puzz: folds
karter_35: folds
yabasta9: folds
edzwoo : raises $2.75 to $3.50
DreamJW: folds
Knockels: calls $2.75

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $7.25)

   
edzwoo : bets $5.50
Knockels: raises $5.50 to $11
edzwoo : raises $10.50 to $21.50 and is all-in
Knockels: calls $10.50

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $50.25)

   

River (Pot : $50.25)

   

Showdown
edzwoo : shows (three of a kind, Queens)
Knockels: shows (a flush, King high)
Knockels collected $47.80 from pot

Summary
Total pot $50.25 | Rake $2.45
Board  
Seat 1: edzwoo (small blind) showed and lost with three of a kind, Queens
Seat 2: DreamJW (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: haozi_jay folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: mortadelo05 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Knockels showed and won ($47.80) with a flush, King high
Seat 6: murk-puzz folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: karter_35 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: yabasta9 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)

PokerStars Game #21741531747: Hold'em No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2008/11/03 21:33:37 ET
Table 'Slipher II' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: Congobob ($25 in chips)
Seat 2: Seaboat ($23.55 in chips)
Seat 3: edzwoo ($25.35 in chips)
Seat 4: tom504 ($25 in chips)
Seat 5: Jake1954 ($14.35 in chips)
Seat 6: Spankweiler ($97.05 in chips)
Seat 7: littlesammy2 ($18.20 in chips)
Seat 8: Mirquinho ($3.90 in chips)
Seat 9: helios25 ($33.80 in chips)
Mirquinho: posts small blind $0.10
helios25: posts big blind $0.25

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to edzwoo
Congobob: folds
Seaboat: folds
edzwoo : raises $0.75 to $1
tom504: folds
Jake1954: folds
Spankweiler: calls $1
littlesammy2: calls $1
Mirquinho: folds
helios25: folds

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $3.35)

   
edzwoo : bets $3
Spankweiler: raises $6 to $9
littlesammy2: calls $9
edzwoo : raises $15.35 to $24.35 and is all-in
Spankweiler: folds
littlesammy2: calls $8.20 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($7.15) returned to edzwoo

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $46.75)

   

River (Pot : $46.75)

   

Showdown
edzwoo : shows (two pair, Kings and Fours)
littlesammy2: shows (a full house, Fives full of Fours)
littlesammy2 collected $44.45 from pot

Summary
Total pot $46.75 | Rake $2.30
Board  
Seat 1: Congobob folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: Seaboat folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: edzwoo showed and lost with two pair, Kings and Fours
Seat 4: tom504 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Jake1954 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: Spankweiler folded on the Flop
Seat 7: littlesammy2 (button) showed and won ($44.45) with a full house, Fives full of Fours
Seat 8: Mirquinho (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 9: helios25 (big blind) folded before Flop

PokerStars Game #21741669961: Hold'em No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2008/11/03 21:39:39 ET
Table 'Kochera V' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: edzwoo ($25 in chips)
Seat 2: DreamJW ($27.70 in chips)
Seat 3: jtgl ($19.70 in chips)
Seat 8: dkcard ($27.40 in chips)
Seat 9: ladyluck1124 ($31.30 in chips)
ladyluck1124: posts small blind $0.10
edzwoo : posts big blind $0.25

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to edzwoo
unluckyducks leaves the table
DreamJW: folds
jtgl: folds
dkcard: raises $0.50 to $0.75
ladyluck1124: folds
edzwoo : calls $0.50

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $1.60)

   
edzwoo : checks
dkcard: bets $0.75
edzwoo : raises $0.75 to $1.50
dkcard: raises $3.75 to $5.25
edzwoo : raises $3.75 to $9
dkcard: raises $17.65 to $26.65 and is all-in
edzwoo : calls $15.25 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($2.40) returned to dkcard

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $50.10)

   

River (Pot : $50.10)

   

Showdown
edzwoo : shows (three of a kind, Deuces)
dkcard: shows (a straight, Deuce to Six)
dkcard collected $48.10 from pot

Summary
Total pot $50.10 | Rake $2
Board  
Seat 1: edzwoo (big blind) showed and lost with three of a kind, Deuces
Seat 2: DreamJW folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: jtgl folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: dkcard (button) showed and won ($48.10) with a straight, Deuce to Six
Seat 9: ladyluck1124 (small blind) folded before Flop

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I cannot beat NL25. It sucks when you kill half your roll playing it, grind up like $300~ in SNGs to get rolled for it again, constantly get rivered over and over and over until you're down almost 10 buyins.






Here are some interesting statistics for my last 8000 hands in NL25:

My biggest losing hand is AKo (lol set magnet) at -$77.70

There are only 4 pocket pairs that I profit with.


Rofl at set < oversets and draws.

And to top it off, I can't even look at my holdem manager allin EV graph and feel better about being good and just unlucky because hands like this don't count:

Submitted by : edzwoo

PokerStars Game #21724037853: Hold'em No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2008/11/03 9:52:58 ET
Table 'Anacostia IV' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 2: droppie75 ($7.40 in chips)
Seat 4: LiLZhiMiNG ($26.70 in chips)
Seat 5: edzwoo ($25 in chips)
Seat 6: Duff@Poker ($25 in chips)
Seat 7: U.S.Tuermer. ($23.45 in chips)
Seat 8: Lornk ($25 in chips)
Seat 9: Ninja_Gambit ($34 in chips)
U.S.Tuermer.: posts small blind $0.10
Lornk: posts big blind $0.25
loescha: sits out
VolkerRachow: sits out

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to edzwoo
Ninja_Gambit: calls $0.25
droppie75: calls $0.25
LiLZhiMiNG: folds
edzwoo : raises $1.25 to $1.50
Duff@Poker: folds
U.S.Tuermer.: folds
Lornk: folds
Ninja_Gambit: calls $1.25
droppie75: calls $1.25

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $4.85)

   
Ninja_Gambit: bets $0.75
droppie75: calls $0.75
edzwoo : raises $4.25 to $5
Ninja_Gambit: calls $4.25
droppie75: folds

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $15.60)

   
Ninja_Gambit: bets $2
edzwoo : raises $7 to $9
Ninja_Gambit: calls $7

River (Pot : $33.60)

   
Ninja_Gambit: bets $10
edzwoo : calls $9.50 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($0.50) returned to Ninja_Gambit

Showdown
Ninja_Gambit: shows (a straight, Five to Nine)
edzwoo : mucks hand
Ninja_Gambit collected $50.05 from pot

Summary
Total pot $52.60 | Rake $2.55
Board  
Seat 2: droppie75 folded on the Flop
Seat 4: LiLZhiMiNG folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: edzwoo mucked
Seat 6: Duff@Poker (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: U.S.Tuermer. (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 8: Lornk (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 9: Ninja_Gambit showed and won ($50.05) with a straight, Five to Nine

PokerStars Game #21719764642: Hold'em No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2008/11/03 3:16:26 ET
Table 'Palamedes IV' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: PiS.AA ($51.05 in chips)
Seat 2: CUbuffs818 ($11.40 in chips)
Seat 3: levoson ($11.25 in chips)
Seat 4: crapschick ($19.90 in chips)
Seat 5: IpityU ($21.15 in chips)
Seat 6: stakrw ($23.90 in chips)
Seat 7: Edo_the_kid ($14.50 in chips)
Seat 8: Sky1967 ($37.85 in chips)
Seat 9: edzwoo ($55.65 in chips)
levoson: posts small blind $0.10
crapschick: posts big blind $0.25

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to edzwoo
IpityU: raises $0.25 to $0.50
stakrw: folds
Edo_the_kid: folds
Sky1967: calls $0.50
edzwoo : calls $0.50
PiS.AA: calls $0.50
CUbuffs818: calls $0.50
levoson: folds
crapschick: folds

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $2.85)

   
IpityU: bets $1
Sky1967: calls $1
edzwoo : raises $3 to $4
PiS.AA: folds
CUbuffs818: folds
IpityU: raises $3 to $7
Sky1967: calls $6
edzwoo : raises $13 to $20
IpityU: raises $0.65 to $20.65 and is all-in
Sky1967: calls $13.65
edzwoo : calls $0.65

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $64.80)

   
Sky1967: bets $16.70 and is all-in
edzwoo : calls $16.70

River (Pot : $98.20)

   

Showdown
Sky1967: shows (a pair of Queens)
edzwoo : shows (three of a kind, Eights)
edzwoo collected $33.40 from side pot
IpityU: shows (three of a kind, Tens)
IpityU collected $61.80 from main pot

Summary
Total pot $98.20 Main pot $61.80. Side pot $33.40. | Rake $3
Board  
Seat 1: PiS.AA folded on the Flop
Seat 2: CUbuffs818 (button) folded on the Flop
Seat 3: levoson (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: crapschick (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: IpityU showed and won ($61.80) with three of a kind, Tens
Seat 6: stakrw folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: Edo_the_kid folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: Sky1967 showed and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 9: edzwoo showed and won ($33.40) with three of a kind, Eights

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Dorm internet connection was disconnected because of copyright violations (downloading Halo 2). Got a warning and it's back up now.

Random find:
http://www.pokerpages.com/players/profiles/95124/hevad-khan.htm

Hevad "Rainbow" Khan? Is that for real?

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Played about 70 games 8 tabling at a time. Started at about $430, went down to around $390, then finished up $10 at $440. Ran pretty bad, I got AA cracked twice in a row by A9 and A3 aipf (trip 9s and wheel straight). I also lost an abnormal amount of 40-60s, but of course I sucked out my fair share as well.





Random curiosity: what are the bankrolls of the higher stakes players of LP? What about the bankrolls of the people who play nosebleed stakes? When I joined this site, I was expecting to find some sort of bankroll thread where people posted their rolls to brag.

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The $6.50s are a goldmine in terms of grinding, and I'm closing in on 50bi for the $10+1. Of course SNGs are a high variance game, but I feel as though I'm crushing the $6.50s. I go back and re-analyze my hands via SNGWiz, and of course I make mistakes, but I feel the softness far outweighs my slip ups.

However, should I be moving up? The $10+1s are not turbos, so naturally the hourly rate will decrease. Also, the skill level will probably increase, meaning my ROI will drop. Also, I tend to play EXTREMELY nitty in the first initial stages, mainly because my edge is much stronger as the blinds go up, so the increase in time is not really a HUGE advantage for me.

My other plan is to just grind it out until I'm rolled for the $16 turbos.

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So there was this hard drive I was looking at.



Doesn't it look like a robot's mouth?

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Doing pretty good so far. I'm probably down $30 playing random tournaments and the $4.40 180s, but they're more for fun anyway. I'm still grinding the $6.50 turbos, and am running at 15% ROI over a small sample. I'm still fixing a bunch of leaks with SNGWiz, and I know I'm playing far from perfect, but the field is very soft.

One minor thing that was annoying was that I was browsing stars and saw a sunday warmup double shootout satellite for $11.70. It guaranteed two seats to the sunday warmup, which essentially meant $215 if you place in the top two. Minimum registrants was 8 people, and there were 5 people registered with 5 minutes left. Naturally, I registered and figured I'd unregister if the satellite became crowded.

Now obv, the rules stated in the tournament was that you can't unregister in the last 10 minutes of registration, so that was fail number one. Fail number two was that I sat down 3handed and took one guy out, sitting with a 2:1 chip advantage vs the other guy, and then busted by two aipf: AQ vs AJ J on board and JJ vs KK.

Anyways, I plan on moving up if I can hit 50bi for the $16s and keep an ROI over 10% at the $6.50s.

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Table Harding II. Average pot is $30, people open shoving 800bb (yes, $200 at NL25) w/ A6ss and getting called by 64o.

EDIT: Dead now.

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Pretty big fail. Sorry if you were expecting something interesting to read. That is all.

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I lent my friend a few bucks to play in a $2.20 tournament, and he mowed through a field of 2200. He was 4th in chips with 30 players left and was looking in great shape to FT the thing and this happens:

Submitted by : edzwoo

PokerStars Game #21152843694: Tournament #112086262, $2.00+$0.20 Hold'em No Limit - Level XIX (3000/6000) - 2008/10/13 1:23:03 ET
Table '112086262 145' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: bigdog658 (147879 in chips)
Seat 2: jikong414 (424992 in chips)
Seat 3: MitchRich23 (183958 in chips)
Seat 4: dyer88 (253165 in chips)
Seat 5: savannah03 (211635 in chips)
Seat 6: nurse-gr (220760 in chips)
Seat 7: gabor poker (138779 in chips)
Seat 9: BrunoPT (512053 in chips)
bigdog658: posts the ante 600
jikong414: posts the ante 600
MitchRich23: posts the ante 600
dyer88: posts the ante 600
savannah03: posts the ante 600
nurse-gr: posts the ante 600
gabor poker: posts the ante 600
BrunoPT: posts the ante 600
MitchRich23: posts small blind 3000
dyer88: posts big blind 6000

Holecards(Odds)
savannah03: folds
nurse-gr: folds
gabor poker: folds
BrunoPT: raises 18000 to 24000
bigdog658: folds
jikong414: raises 72000 to 96000
MitchRich23: folds
dyer88: folds
BrunoPT: calls 72000

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $205,800.00)

   
BrunoPT: checks
jikong414: bets 328392 and is all-in
BrunoPT: calls 328392

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $862,584.00)

   

River (Pot : $862,584.00)

   

Showdown
BrunoPT: shows (a full house, Eights full of Fives)
jikong414: shows (two pair, Aces and Fives)
BrunoPT collected 862584 from pot
savannah03 said, "ouch"
BrunoPT said, "gg"

Summary
Total pot 862584 | Rake 0
Board  
Seat 1: bigdog658 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: jikong414 (button) showed and lost with two pair, Aces and Fives
Seat 3: MitchRich23 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: dyer88 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: savannah03 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: nurse-gr folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: gabor poker folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: BrunoPT showed and won (862584) with a full house, Eights full of Fives

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