sharkscope leaderboard!
ChoboPokeR_r, Apr 14 2008
--- Nuked ---
props to ya mammy
NeillyJQ, Apr 14 2008
=)
Bellagio: 3rd Place... F*ck My Life :(
JonnyCosMo, Apr 14 2008
Got 3rd place after 2 and a half hours of playing at the final table. Gigabet is one of the most aggressive tournament players I've ever seen, and everything he does is pretty well thought out. JC Tran on the other hand... apparently misred my ability to soul read, and analyize situations perfectly. I was looking over the final table chip counts last night and realized an interesting dynamic that was going to pop-up:
1 Roy Winston (Las Vegas, NV, USA) Going to the final table with 255,500 chips - seat 8
2 J.C. Tran (Sacramento, CA, USA) Going to the final table with 200,000 chips - seat 3
3 Darrell Dicken AKA "Gigabet" (Waterloo, IA, USA) Going to the final table with 190,000 chips - seat 7
4 Jonathan McGowan (San Diego, CA, USA) Going to the final table with 156,500 chips - seat 4
5 Kevin Iacofano (Concord, OH, USA) Going to the final table with 90,000 chips - seat 5B
6 Frank Cremen (Las Vegas, NV, USA) Going to the final table with 88,000 chips - seat 1
7 James Hoeppner (Las Vegas, NV, USA) Going to the final table with 65,000 chips - seat 6
8 Vasile Buboi (Anaheim, CA, USA) Going to the final table with 64,500 chips - seat 9
9 Allie Prescott (Memphis, TN, USA) Going to the final table with 45,500 chips - seat 2
Note the chip counts and seats, JC Tran is to my direct right. To my left is Kevin Iacofano and James Hoeppner who were easily the tightest two players I have ever met in my entire life. So... on my button, Gigabet is UTG so his raising range tightens up considerably, while both those nits are going to be in the blinds and it is basically a free round of blinds for me as long as JC Tran behaves himself in the cut-off. So naturally JC Tran isn't going to behave himself, and I'm sure he realizes this situation as well. 6 hands into the tournament, and I'm not kidding, litterally the 6th hand of the tournament we are still 9 handed and this spot happens. Action gets folded around to JC Tran in the cut-off and I'm thinking in my head "He is raising the deck" so naturally he pops it up to 11k at 2k/4k blinds. I look down at Q9o with the plan to reraise anything decent, so obv Q9o in position vs the deck range is good enough and I reraise to 33k. Both blinds insta-fold (standard) and action gets back around to JC Tran. This is what I expect him to do: I expect him to fold some of his absolute crap that doesnt flop well, flat call with everything that flops even remotely well (all the way down to as bad as 53o) and reraise a range of like 77+ and AJ+ for value. My plan was simple, if he reships it preflop I have to fold, otherwise I'm more than comfortable to see a flop in position. JC Tran flat calls and instantly I know that to do this profitably with a wide range (which he does flat call here with a retardedly wide range) he will have to be shipping it in insanely light on the flop to give himself some fold equity. So the flop comes T-9-6 which is almost like the effective nuts for my hand. He checks, I bet 44k and action gets around to him and he tanks for a little bit then shoves all-in. Whaaaa? The tanking threw my off a bit, since I expect him to insta-shove if he was actually doing it light. I looked over at him and said "I don't think I can fold this hand". In my head it just felt like the sickest cooler ever if I was beat in this spot since Q9 on that board beats prolly close to 80% of hands he shoves with on that board (KJ, KQ, J9, 98, 76, 65, J8, 85, etc etc etc)so I call for my last 77k and someone asks if I have an overpair, and I'm like "wat?" He turns up 76s, and I yell "HOOOOLLDD" as I table Q9. The look on everyone's face was fucking priceless since half the table had no clue what in the world was going on, or how I thought Q9 could ever be good there. I looked over at Gigabet and obv you could tell he was just like "so standard, how do u not snap call that with Q9 lol" Turn and river brick, and I double up to over 300k + the chip lead. JC Tran shakes his head after the hand saying "I knew you were making a move" trying to justify his play in some weird way obviously not realizing how bad his preflop call was given the situation vs me.
Then I get card dead, which sucked. Finally we get down to 4 handed and the short stack in the sb shoves into me and I look down at Ac and think about calling with just looking at one, then I squeeze out the other one and bam it's the As. LOL GG! Flop comes A-4-4 and the guy's 88 was dead. 3 handed vs Roy Winston & Gigabet, I have the chip lead. Roy is playing very tight and basically letting Gigabet and I clash. I try and establish some dominance and Gigabet insta-puts me back in my place with some well timed reraises. God he's so good  Finally I get coolered when I call out of the bb with QTdd and the flop comes Q-9-9, I check he c-bets from the button and I check-raise an amount leaving enough behind where it looked like I could get shoved off the hand. He shoves, and I snap call caz I felt like I induced the shove given how we were playing and bam he happens to have AQ which was so sick! Finally I squeeze all-in with JTs for my last 12bbs and Gigabet calls with QJo and holds. Out in 3rd place for $58,890. Such a sick life Gigabet proceeds to annilate Roy Winston heads-up and wins. Boo!!!! Fuck my life 
Bellagio: 3rd Place... F*ck My Life :(
JonnyCosMo, Apr 14 2008
Got 3rd place after 2 and a half hours of playing at the final table. Gigabet is one of the most aggressive tournament players I've ever seen, and everything he does is pretty well thought out. JC Tran on the other hand... apparently misred my ability to soul read, and analyize situations perfectly. I was looking over the final table chip counts last night and realized an interesting dynamic that was going to pop-up:
1 Roy Winston (Las Vegas, NV, USA) Going to the final table with 255,500 chips - seat 8
2 J.C. Tran (Sacramento, CA, USA) Going to the final table with 200,000 chips - seat 3
3 Darrell Dicken AKA "Gigabet" (Waterloo, IA, USA) Going to the final table with 190,000 chips - seat 7
4 Jonathan McGowan (San Diego, CA, USA) Going to the final table with 156,500 chips - seat 4
5 Kevin Iacofano (Concord, OH, USA) Going to the final table with 90,000 chips - seat 5B
6 Frank Cremen (Las Vegas, NV, USA) Going to the final table with 88,000 chips - seat 1
7 James Hoeppner (Las Vegas, NV, USA) Going to the final table with 65,000 chips - seat 6
8 Vasile Buboi (Anaheim, CA, USA) Going to the final table with 64,500 chips - seat 9
9 Allie Prescott (Memphis, TN, USA) Going to the final table with 45,500 chips - seat 2
Note the chip counts and seats, JC Tran is to my direct right. To my left is Kevin Iacofano and James Hoeppner who were easily the tightest two players I have ever met in my entire life. So... on my button, Gigabet is UTG so his raising range tightens up considerably, while both those nits are going to be in the blinds and it is basically a free round of blinds for me as long as JC Tran behaves himself in the cut-off. So naturally JC Tran isn't going to behave himself, and I'm sure he realizes this situation as well. 6 hands into the tournament, and I'm not kidding, litterally the 6th hand of the tournament we are still 9 handed and this spot happens. Action gets folded around to JC Tran in the cut-off and I'm thinking in my head "He is raising the deck" so naturally he pops it up to 11k at 2k/4k blinds. I look down at Q9o with the plan to reraise anything decent, so obv Q9o in position vs the deck range is good enough and I reraise to 33k. Both blinds insta-fold (standard) and action gets back around to JC Tran. This is what I expect him to do: I expect him to fold some of his absolute crap that doesnt flop well, flat call with everything that flops even remotely well (all the way down to as bad as 53o) and reraise a range of like 77+ and AJ+ for value. My plan was simple, if he reships it preflop I have to fold, otherwise I'm more than comfortable to see a flop in position. JC Tran flat calls and instantly I know that to do this profitably with a wide range (which he does flat call here with a retardedly wide range) he will have to be shipping it in insanely light on the flop to give himself some fold equity. So the flop comes T-9-6 which is almost like the effective nuts for my hand. He checks, I bet 44k and action gets around to him and he tanks for a little bit then shoves all-in. Whaaaa? The tanking threw my off a bit, since I expect him to insta-shove if he was actually doing it light. I looked over at him and said "I don't think I can fold this hand". In my head it just felt like the sickest cooler ever if I was beat in this spot since Q9 on that board beats prolly close to 80% of hands he shoves with on that board (KJ, KQ, J9, 98, 76, 65, J8, 85, etc etc etc)so I call for my last 77k and someone asks if I have an overpair, and I'm like "wat?" He turns up 76s, and I yell "HOOOOLLDD" as I table Q9. The look on everyone's face was fucking priceless since half the table had no clue what in the world was going on, or how I thought Q9 could ever be good there. I looked over at Gigabet and obv you could tell he was just like "so standard, how do u not snap call that with Q9 lol" Turn and river brick, and I double up to over 300k + the chip lead. JC Tran shakes his head after the hand saying "I knew you were making a move" trying to justify his play in some weird way obviously not realizing how bad his preflop call was given the situation vs me.
Then I get card dead, which sucked. Finally we get down to 4 handed and the short stack in the sb shoves into me and I look down at Ac and think about calling with just looking at one, then I squeeze out the other one and bam it's the As. LOL GG! Flop comes A-4-4 and the guy's 88 was dead. 3 handed vs Roy Winston & Gigabet, I have the chip lead. Roy is playing very tight and basically letting Gigabet and I clash. I try and establish some dominance and Gigabet insta-puts me back in my place with some well timed reraises. God he's so good Finally I get coolered when I call out of the bb with QTdd and the flop comes Q-9-9, I check he c-bets from the button and I check-raise an amount leaving enough behind where it looked like I could get shoved off the hand. He shoves, and I snap call caz I felt like I induced the shove given how we were playing and bam he happens to have AQ which was so sick! Finally I squeeze all-in with JTs for my last 12bbs and Gigabet calls with QJo and holds. Out in 3rd place for $58,890. Such a sick life Gigabet proceeds to annilate Roy Winston heads-up and wins. Boo!!!! Fuck my life
solid article
nolan, Apr 13 2008
it's not often i come across a poker article that i like so i thought i'd share this one with you guys.
was browsing the second gen coaching sites and came across this article on deucescracked:
http://www.deucescracked.com/articles/373-Thoughts-about-winrates-and-variance
Forget who wrote it, but check it out it's pretty neat.
HOLY HERO CALL BATMAN!
tae-g, Apr 13 2008
Today was a good day. I'm getting more comfortable playing loose. I recommend everyone at low stakes on PS table select like crazy because then this will happen...
Submitted by : tae-g
PokerStars Game #16700576719: Hold'em No Limit ($0.25/$0.50) - 2008/04/13 - 13:26:27 (ET)
Table 'Hamal II' 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: TORBREM ($58.20 in chips)
Seat 2: asia2110 ($104.60 in chips)
Seat 3: SwissCantMis ($55.10 in chips)
Seat 4: ExumaKeys ($96.65 in chips)
Seat 5: MITCHOU0NE ($106.45 in chips)
Seat 6: VasileAlex ($61.70 in chips)
VasileAlex: posts small blind $0.25
TORBREM: posts big blind $0.50
Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to ExumaKeys  
asia2110: calls $0.50
SwissCantMis: folds
ExumaKeys : raises $2 to $2.50
MITCHOU0NE: calls $2.50
VasileAlex: folds
TORBREM: folds
asia2110: calls $2
Flop(Odds) (Pot : $8.25)
  
asia2110: checks
ExumaKeys : bets $7
MITCHOU0NE: raises $15.50 to $22.50
asia2110: folds
ExumaKeys : raises $71.65 to $94.15 and is all-in
MITCHOU0NE: calls $71.65
Turn(Odds) (Pot : $196.55)
River (Pot : $196.55)
Showdown
ExumaKeys : shows (a straight, Nine to King)
MITCHOU0NE: mucks hand
ExumaKeys collected $193.55 from pot
Summary
Total pot $196.55 | Rake $3
Board
Seat 1: TORBREM (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: asia2110 folded on the Flop
Seat 3: SwissCantMis folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: ExumaKeys showed and won ($193.55) with a straight, Nine to King
Seat 5: MITCHOU0NE (button) mucked  
Seat 6: VasileAlex (small blind) folded before Flop
HOLY HERO CALLS BATMAN!
story of my life
NeillyJQ, Apr 13 2008
hit n runners.
then playing hu vs someone named f4zi who turned out to be a 100/200 player...
needless to say i got raped
hahahaha
i suck
haha im such a liar
NeillyJQ, Apr 13 2008
hu stats
During current Hold'em 1on1 session you were dealt 5934 hands and saw flop:
- 1034 out of 2967 times while in big blind (34%)
- 896 out of 2967 times while in small blind (30%)
- 0 out of 0 times in other positions (0%)
- a total of 1930 out of 5934 (32%)
Pots won at showdown - 332 of 657 (50%)
Pots won without showdown - 2954
gg gl
Ryan
Bellagio: Event #5 - Final Table Zoom Zoom!!!
JonnyCosMo, Apr 13 2008
About freakin time, I've played a total of 5 events this week, and went zero for 4 in the first 4 events I played which was really discouraging along with the epic fail of a bubble expierence in my $2,000 event. Anyways, today things finally went my way. Woke up this morning to play the $2,500 event and found that there were over 230 players entered which made for a sweet prize pool. To make things better, instead of paying out 27 like they usually do for these size fields, they decided to pay out 18, making the bottom pay-out x2 your buyin for once, and making it a pretty top-heavy pay-out. Got a godly table draw with no one I knew and a bunch of old guys that played like absolute fish for my starting table. Scott "BigRiskky" Clements was then moved to my table but looked pretty card dead for the most part. The first 4 hours I showed down exactly one hand, and that was a forced showdown where Psyduck was short stack and shoved on my blinds and I woke up with 77 and snap called and held vs his A2.
I was then moved to the most nightmare table ever. Two seats to my left was my boy Blair Hinkle (mig.com's roommate) who just lucksacked a stack of like 75,000+ at 200/400 blinds. To his left is Gigabet, and to the left of that is JC Tran. Gigabet played pretty tight/solid for the most part, and as expected JC Tran was playing an insane amount of pots. It was actually interesting watching him, caz there were clear spots were whatever he was doing was just totally retarded spewing. But then there were spots where it was just fucking sick pwnage. He is a really weird player. Anyways, I played pretty tight for the most part while being at that table, then as luck would have it, I was moved over to another table which happened to be the easiest table ever. I was hovering around 20,000, and built it up to 50,000 right before dinner break at this new table just by raising every single hand for 20 mins. I come back from dinner break and it was just sick bubble ownage after that. We went from 28 players left to 21 really fast, and during that time my stack went from 50,000 to 120,000 without showdown. My table had 6 complete super tard tight nits, and one REALLY fucking good young kid named Dan who apparently plays the highest live cash games around. When I didn't raise, Dan raised, and Dan didn't raise I raised. It was a pretty cute trade off, but something had to be done about his raising so I tried to get the upper hand with some 3 bets on his opening raises. He proceeds to get into a 3 & 4 betting war with me and it was at this point I realized this kid was definitly not going to have my shit.
Blair Hinkle! Bubbled out in 21st place. /wrists
Then it happened... With 20 players left, some nit opens utg, and Dan flat calls in middle position. The flop comes Q-7-4, the money goes in, Dan shows 77 and I'm like thinking: 'wtf sickest life ever caz now he's going to have a fucking massive stack and and be able to do some fearless annilation of the bubble'. But NOPE! UTG tables QQ for top set, and the most mega cooler I've ever seen. ROFL!!! Dan loses half his stack and is stuck around 40,000. This gives me a little upper hand as he was more careful of his opening raises now that he couldnt 4 bet bluff me and that my 3 bets clearly committed me to calling a shove. With 20 players left, Dan had chipped back up to about 70,000 and then I proceeded to run like fucking god as someone from the other table busted leaving us with 19, and they decided to move Dan from my table to the other table leaving me with 6 complete retard nits. I zoom zoom my stack up to 140,000 before the bubble burst. Once again, I redraw the easy table, with Roy Winston being the only other person I recognized. Dan was also at my new table but was pretty crippled after his AA got cracked by Roy's flopped flush. This table was a breeze compared to the other table which had Danny Wong, Gigabet, JC Tran, and Bakes. Roy Winston made it clear that he wasnt going to have my shit either so I played a pretty tight/solid game and cruised to the final table.
Tomorrow's final table starts at 3:00pm, the blinds are 2k/4k with a 500 ante for 15 minutes, then the blinds increase to 3k/6k with a 1k ante. I'm 4th in chips with 156,000. Roy Winston is the chip leader with 250k+, JC Tran has 200k, Gigabet has 190k, everyone else left has under 100k. Tomorrow is going to be very interesting indeed... lets see what these live pros are made of. Key to tournament poker success: Fuck getting cards, Run good with table draws and pwn the donkeys.
And on a small side note, I came up $7,500 at 10/20 NL yesterday. Up close to $15k in cash games on the trip after playing a little over 15 hours total. Live poker is so easy
Bellagio: Event #5 - Final Table Zoom Zoom!!!
JonnyCosMo, Apr 13 2008
About freakin time, I've played a total of 5 events this week, and went zero for 4 in the first 4 events I played which was really discouraging along with the epic fail of a bubble expierence in my $2,000 event. Anyways, today things finally went my way. Woke up this morning to play the $2,500 event and found that there were over 230 players entered which made for a sweet prize pool. To make things better, instead of paying out 27 like they usually do for these size fields, they decided to pay out 18, making the bottom pay-out x2 your buyin for once, and making it a pretty top-heavy pay-out. Got a godly table draw with no one I knew and a bunch of old guys that played like absolute fish for my starting table. Scott "BigRiskky" Clements was then moved to my table but looked pretty card dead for the most part. The first 4 hours I showed down exactly one hand, and that was a forced showdown where Psyduck was short stack and shoved on my blinds and I woke up with 77 and snap called and held vs his A2.
I was then moved to the most nightmare table ever. Two seats to my left was my boy Blair Hinkle (mig.com's roommate) who just lucksacked a stack of like 75,000+ at 200/400 blinds. To his left is Gigabet, and to the left of that is JC Tran. Gigabet played pretty tight/solid for the most part, and as expected JC Tran was playing an insane amount of pots. It was actually interesting watching him, caz there were clear spots were whatever he was doing was just totally retarded spewing. But then there were spots where it was just fucking sick pwnage. He is a really weird player. Anyways, I played pretty tight for the most part while being at that table, then as luck would have it, I was moved over to another table which happened to be the easiest table ever. I was hovering around 20,000, and built it up to 50,000 right before dinner break at this new table just by raising every single hand for 20 mins. I come back from dinner break and it was just sick bubble ownage after that. We went from 28 players left to 21 really fast, and during that time my stack went from 50,000 to 120,000 without showdown. My table had 6 complete super tard tight nits, and one REALLY fucking good young kid named Dan who apparently plays the highest live cash games around. When I didn't raise, Dan raised, and Dan didn't raise I raised. It was a pretty cute trade off, but something had to be done about his raising so I tried to get the upper hand with some 3 bets on his opening raises. He proceeds to get into a 3 & 4 betting war with me and it was at this point I realized this kid was definitly not going to have my shit.
Blair Hinkle! Bubbled out in 21st place. /wrists
Then it happened... With 20 players left, some nit opens utg, and Dan flat calls in middle position. The flop comes Q-7-4, the money goes in, Dan shows 77 and I'm like thinking: 'wtf sickest life ever caz now he's going to have a fucking massive stack and and be able to do some fearless annilation of the bubble'. But NOPE! UTG tables QQ for top set, and the most mega cooler I've ever seen. ROFL!!! Dan loses half his stack and is stuck around 40,000. This gives me a little upper hand as he was more careful of his opening raises now that he couldnt 4 bet bluff me and that my 3 bets clearly committed me to calling a shove. With 20 players left, Dan had chipped back up to about 70,000 and then I proceeded to run like fucking god as someone from the other table busted leaving us with 19, and they decided to move Dan from my table to the other table leaving me with 6 complete retard nits. I zoom zoom my stack up to 140,000 before the bubble burst. Once again, I redraw the easy table, with Roy Winston being the only other person I recognized. Dan was also at my new table but was pretty crippled after his AA got cracked by Roy's flopped flush. This table was a breeze compared to the other table which had Danny Wong, Gigabet, JC Tran, and Bakes. Roy Winston made it clear that he wasnt going to have my shit either so I played a pretty tight/solid game and cruised to the final table.
Tomorrow's final table starts at 3:00pm, the blinds are 2k/4k with a 500 ante for 15 minutes, then the blinds increase to 3k/6k with a 1k ante. I'm 4th in chips with 156,000. Roy Winston is the chip leader with 250k+, JC Tran has 200k, Gigabet has 190k, everyone else left has under 100k. Tomorrow is going to be very interesting indeed... lets see what these live pros are made of. Key to tournament poker success: Fuck getting cards, Run good with table draws and pwn the donkeys.
And on a small side note, I came up $7,500 at 10/20 NL yesterday. Up close to $15k in cash games on the trip after playing a little over 15 hours total. Live poker is so easy
april 12th
Sheitan, Apr 12 2008
Gonna use my blog to keep track of my hands, sorry if it's boring but all comments are welcome on them ! =)
Winners:
Standard, i've been very aggro on this table and he wouldn't fold anything vs me.
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Station value towned
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Fold turn ? he pot it i doubt i have any FE whatsoever on that kind of board, badly played but nice outcome (gg me)
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Losers:
Lead Turn, check/fold or check/call ? im very confused on that kind of situations. I think the correct move is actually to repop the flop and jam any turn.
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Stop and Go gone bad, had no reads at the moment.
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Standard suck out, what can you do heh.
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interesting last month 1/2
NerO, Apr 12 2008
Ya i havent made a blog update for a reason, i didnt get to play any poker since feb. 29th... Long story short me and the girlfriend were very serious. We started having issues end of feburary, and were living together and about 2 weeks later we broke up. So i've had to spend the last lil over a month figuring out whats next in my life.
when you have a girlfriend its fine to do work/school/poker/her but once u take her out god did i realize how unconnected to society i was so i went and got a job serving at UNO's bar and grill w/ no experience which was cool, been getting my mind clear, doing a lot of surfing( theres nothing better then being out in the atlantic and watching the sun come up over a nice set) and getting back in touch w/ the friends.
I finally feel my mind is clear and i can really focus on some poker in my down time. I was previously afraid to play cus when you cant focus 100% on poker and ur mind wanders... which usually causes ur money to wander, usually away from u lol. So I'll start blogging my progress gunna jump right back to 4-8 tabling 6max 25NL was having great success there so hopefully a month 1/2 lull of no poker doesnt affect my game. I have finals coming up in the next 2weeks so i dont know how much ima play but it'll definately be increasing as soon as that ends.
next update will hopefully be a graph in the green 
wee
NeillyJQ, Apr 12 2008
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/423537
Stars for epassporte
CrownRoyal, Apr 11 2008
anyone interested in doing this?
let it be known
nolan, Apr 11 2008
for reasons of 3/6 full ring putting me on insane tilt and me running ridiculously bad there (or running like god everywhere else?) let it be known that from 5pm EST today and on (14:00 LP Time) anyone who sees me playing on a 3/6 full ring table may take a SS and PM it to me and will receive $50.
Sitting at a table but not playing hands in order to trash talk or coax a fish into playing me heads up does not count as "playing." Your SS must show me being dealt in.
Thanks.
Sean.
i just don't know anymore
Reload, Apr 11 2008
this post was gay so i deleted it
Bellagio: NO ONE HERE KNOWS HOW TO PLAY POKER
JonnyCosMo, Apr 11 2008
Title says it all. I've come to realize that there arent very many good players that can play poker even close to decently well. I played the $3,000 event on Tuesday and get knocked out in the 2nd level after Micheal Mizrachi thinks it's a good idea to 3 bet me with 74o and then ends up calling a 3/4 bet on the turn to hit a gut shot. I took a nap after that event and played some 5/10 from 6:00pm to 2:00am. Needless to say, I absolutely raped bitches. Came up $4660 in the session which contained one fairly epic / note-worthy hand I played:
This british guy and I are going at it, I get 3 streets of value from him with AA on a 2-6-7-J-9 board after he calls a $600 bet on the river with 98. I proceed to rape him even more after he turns a straight on me with KJ on a 5d-Td-Qc-9d board, but he slowplays and I check behind ATss, river comes 7d and he checks his straight w/o a diamond and I turn my hand into a bluff and piss all over him when he folds. He then starts to raise $60 instead of $40 everytime it's my big blind. So finally he makes it $60 and I look down at J7dd in the big blind and make a sloppy call just to play a pot with him. Flop comes 4h-8s-Js, I check and he bets $80, I check-raise to $240 and he makes a quick call. Turn comes Kh, I check and he checks behind. River comes 5h, and I bet $300 for value since he was a sick station that could easily pay me off with worse here. He takes about 5 seconds and then shoves all-in for $1200 total. LOL? So I go over the situation and ask for a count, and it's about $900 more for me to call. I quickly realize that it is either a bluff or a backdoor flush since this tard wasnt capable of any type of thin value raise with this line, and he'd bet the turn with 2pr or a set. I tanked for about 5 minutes, and then made the call. He taps the table saying 'good call' and mucks, and I table my J7dd... [vital]Myth is across the table and instantly goes 'HOLY SHIT OMFG COSMO UR MY HEROOOOO' Then txts me the same thing about an hour later to confirm my his belief in my heroism.
Played the $5,000 event today, 132 players entered. LOL jokes... 1st hand I pick up KK, UTG old guy raises to 150, I reraise to 550, gets back around to him, he makes it 2500. I puke. With 10,000 starting stacks I figured there are better spots than to be shipping in 200bbs vs a complete unknown the 1st hand of a $5,000 event. I fold and he shows KK. Sick, whatever... 20 mins later I flop a pair + flush draw and brick the river losing about another 4,000 chips. I end the first break at 7,600 in chips. Get back from break and chip up to 10,000 again then get all-in QQ vs AT on a ten high board. It holds and I'm up to 20,000. Steal some blinds and bluff a big pot vs Frank (the guy I went heads-up vs at the Wynn Classic) to get myself up to a healthy 30,000 in chips at 100/200 blinds. FrinkX gets moved to my table and insta rapes bitches, going from 20,000 to 40,000+ after 5 betting all-in vs some guy who folded after getting 3.5 to 1 on a call after 4 betting. Sweet play. Our table had to be one of the easiest tables in the tournament. Tuan Le was across from me and the only other notable player worth mentioning was Danny Wong who was seated directly to my left. From what I heard, Danny Wong is suppose to be a sick good tournament player with tons of sucess and huge scores. I definitly got to witness some gosu ninja short stacking on his part, as he kept himself alive between 5bbs-10bbs for over an hour before doubling up to 20bbs and getting back into the hunt with another double up a little while later. When blinds got to 200/400, things went to shit for both me and FrinkX:
UTG (stack size: 12,000 total) opens for 1400, Tuan Le (stack size: 14,000 total) flat calls. FrinkX (monster stack / has both covered) pops it up to 5,500. UTG flat calls (lol) and Tuan Le overcalls (wat?). Flop comes 2d-5s-Jd, and UTG shoves, Tuan shoves, and FrinkX obv insta-calls both short stack tards with KK. UTG has AJ, and Tuan Le has ATdd (ROFL? Nice preflop call dumbass?). Turn bricks 8s, river comes 3d... fucking so sick. Huge 40k+ pot gets shipped to Tuan Le. FrinkX proceeds to order a much needed vodka redbull. As for me, I mix it up with Danny Wong. Why? Because I can. In the $2,000 event I bubbled I was pissing all over him, and ended up bluffing him off a huge pot with QT high. He basically had been giving me a lot of respect, waiting for a spot to pick me off. Unfortunately for him, I have been holding the cards over him for the past few days, and have won almost every pot we've played. So far in the tournament I had check-raised him twice all-in (once as a bluff, and once with two pair). So it gets folded to me in the small blind and I pop it up to 1200 with Q8o. He flat calls in the big blind and the flop comes Qc-3s-2c. I check, he bets 2,000 and I check-raise all-in for 12,000 more. LOL overbet shove ftw~!!! Danny Wong instantly looks at me and starts tanking for what seemed like forever. He started saying things like "This looks so drawy" "This can only be a draw" "Flush draw?" "Do you want a call?" and asking me all these question. After 5 or so minutes Danny picks up his hand looking like he was going to fold when all of the sudden FrinkX steps in and saves the fucking day: "CLOCK!!!" he yells at the dealer. LOL~!!! Danny then brings his hand back and the floor guy starts a clock on him. Danny rethinks over the hand and seems to be rushed, as with about 15 seconds left he made the call and turned over A3. HOLD ONE TIME DEALER!!! Turn came an Ace, and I totally puked River dropped a 5 and I lost a 30k pot to him, dropping me down to about 16,000. So so sick. Other than this hand though, I was impressed with Danny Wong's dicipline and patience as he never really made any big mistakes if you ignore this blow-up call.
FrinkX proceeds to run a set into Danny Wongs rivered straight and finally busts out when he runs KT vs Tuan Le's A5 and doesn't get there. I continue to run like dog shit, getting all my chips in with AJ on a A-9-3-9 board vs the big fishes A5. River 9. Fuck my life! After that, nothing seemed to be working out for me. I repopped with AJ and the nit shoves on me so I fold and leave myself with 10,000 as blinds moved up to 400/800. Finally my last hand, I raise to 3,000 with AQ, and some big fish calls out of the small blind. Flop comes 3s-5s-8s, and the guy checks, I recheck my hand and find I have the Q of spades, so I shove. Guy in the blind has A9ss for the flopped nuts. I'm drawing dead, gg my life. Lyric was still in when I busted but got all-in with AK vs AQ... Q on river. So sick. [vital]Myth gets it all-in w/ top pair vs some donk who limp-calls his raise with 93 suited and flops a flush draw. Flush draw gets there. How are tournament players so bad? It's amazing. Lyric tells me later that his tables had some of the softest players he's played with in a while. Ironic since we over hear some live pros talking earlier about how these fields in the prelim events are some of the toughest on the tournament circuit? Wat? R U JOKING?
Here are some live pros who totally suck at this game:
JC Tran (Plays every hand. Limp-calls a fuck ton. Calls off %75 of his stack with 66 vs a nit then proceeds to shove an ace high flop as a bluff and is surprised when he's called by AK, and justifys his play by saying that he put the guy on QQ... So you called off 75% of your stack to bluff someone off of QQ? Obv genius)
Micheal Mizrachi (Plays 80% of his hands then 3 bets 74o expecting to get respect? Then fails to c-bet a beautiful flop, then proceeds to call off half his stack when he improves to a gut-shot)
Tuan Le (Overcalls ATdd for 1/4 of his stack and acts like it's standard. LOL?)
Eugene Todd (Flat calls 77 for 1/4 of his stack, saying that he put the guy on a big hand and that he had to set mine)
Mike Sexton (Old and dumb in general. I have too many examples of his general stupidity. He's a real nice guy thou!)
Mark Seif (Limp calls a fuck ton of hands. Called off 1/2 of his stack with 76 suited and thought it was standard. Yes you read it right, I just said he called off half his stack preflop with 76 suited. For value?)
Ted Lawson (LOL @ Bet sizing tells, and old man passiveness syndrome)
David Plastik (Loves that limp-call, and the zero c-bet flop frequency when he misses)
I'll add more names to this list as they come. So far these are people I've played with and have been very unimpressed with their knowledge of what they are doing. Went back to cash games tonight, got set over setted and only lost $400? On top of that I was totally card dead for about 3 hours and was stuck as low as $1900 on the night. But when your entire table plays with their cards on their forehead, it's pretty easy to grind some profit without showdowns. Finally I flop a set and get paid off by top pair for a $3,000 pot which puts me up $420 on the night. How are people so bad live? It's amazing
End rant.
Bellagio: NO ONE HERE KNOWS HOW TO PLAY POKER
JonnyCosMo, Apr 11 2008
Title says it all. I've come to realize that there arent very many good players that can play poker even close to decently well. I played the $3,000 event on Tuesday and get knocked out in the 2nd level after Micheal Mizrachi thinks it's a good idea to 3 bet me with 74o and then ends up calling a 3/4 bet on the turn to hit a gut shot. I took a nap after that event and played some 5/10 from 6:00pm to 2:00am. Needless to say, I absolutely raped bitches. Came up $4660 in the session which contained one fairly epic / note-worthy hand I played:
This british guy and I are going at it, I get 3 streets of value from him with AA on a 2-6-7-J-9 board after he calls a $600 bet on the river with 98. I proceed to rape him even more after he turns a straight on me with KJ on a 5d-Td-Qc-9d board, but he slowplays and I check behind ATss, river comes 7d and he checks his straight w/o a diamond and I turn my hand into a bluff and piss all over him when he folds. He then starts to raise $60 instead of $40 everytime it's my big blind. So finally he makes it $60 and I look down at J7dd in the big blind and make a sloppy call just to play a pot with him. Flop comes 4h-8s-Js, I check and he bets $80, I check-raise to $240 and he makes a quick call. Turn comes Kh, I check and he checks behind. River comes 5h, and I bet $300 for value since he was a sick station that could easily pay me off with worse here. He takes about 5 seconds and then shoves all-in for $1200 total. LOL? So I go over the situation and ask for a count, and it's about $900 more for me to call. I quickly realize that it is either a bluff or a backdoor flush since this tard wasnt capable of any type of thin value raise with this line, and he'd bet the turn with 2pr or a set. I tanked for about 5 minutes, and then made the call. He taps the table saying 'good call' and mucks, and I table my J7dd... [vital]Myth is across the table and instantly goes 'HOLY SHIT OMFG COSMO UR MY HEROOOOO' Then txts me the same thing about an hour later to confirm my his belief in my heroism.
Played the $5,000 event today, 132 players entered. LOL jokes... 1st hand I pick up KK, UTG old guy raises to 150, I reraise to 550, gets back around to him, he makes it 2500. I puke. With 10,000 starting stacks I figured there are better spots than to be shipping in 200bbs vs a complete unknown the 1st hand of a $5,000 event. I fold and he shows KK. Sick, whatever... 20 mins later I flop a pair + flush draw and brick the river losing about another 4,000 chips. I end the first break at 7,600 in chips. Get back from break and chip up to 10,000 again then get all-in QQ vs AT on a ten high board. It holds and I'm up to 20,000. Steal some blinds and bluff a big pot vs Frank (the guy I went heads-up vs at the Wynn Classic) to get myself up to a healthy 30,000 in chips at 100/200 blinds. FrinkX gets moved to my table and insta rapes bitches, going from 20,000 to 40,000+ after 5 betting all-in vs some guy who folded after getting 3.5 to 1 on a call after 4 betting. Sweet play. Our table had to be one of the easiest tables in the tournament. Tuan Le was across from me and the only other notable player worth mentioning was Danny Wong who was seated directly to my left. From what I heard, Danny Wong is suppose to be a sick good tournament player with tons of sucess and huge scores. I definitly got to witness some gosu ninja short stacking on his part, as he kept himself alive between 5bbs-10bbs for over an hour before doubling up to 20bbs and getting back into the hunt with another double up a little while later. When blinds got to 200/400, things went to shit for both me and FrinkX:
UTG (stack size: 12,000 total) opens for 1400, Tuan Le (stack size: 14,000 total) flat calls. FrinkX (monster stack / has both covered) pops it up to 5,500. UTG flat calls (lol) and Tuan Le overcalls (wat?). Flop comes 2d-5s-Jd, and UTG shoves, Tuan shoves, and FrinkX obv insta-calls both short stack tards with KK. UTG has AJ, and Tuan Le has ATdd (ROFL? Nice preflop call dumbass?). Turn bricks 8s, river comes 3d... fucking so sick. Huge 40k+ pot gets shipped to Tuan Le. FrinkX proceeds to order a much needed vodka redbull. As for me, I mix it up with Danny Wong. Why? Because I can. In the $2,000 event I bubbled I was pissing all over him, and ended up bluffing him off a huge pot with QT high. He basically had been giving me a lot of respect, waiting for a spot to pick me off. Unfortunately for him, I have been holding the cards over him for the past few days, and have won almost every pot we've played. So far in the tournament I had check-raised him twice all-in (once as a bluff, and once with two pair). So it gets folded to me in the small blind and I pop it up to 1200 with Q8o. He flat calls in the big blind and the flop comes Qc-3s-2c. I check, he bets 2,000 and I check-raise all-in for 12,000 more. LOL overbet shove ftw~!!! Danny Wong instantly looks at me and starts tanking for what seemed like forever. He started saying things like "This looks so drawy" "This can only be a draw" "Flush draw?" "Do you want a call?" and asking me all these question. After 5 or so minutes Danny picks up his hand looking like he was going to fold when all of the sudden FrinkX steps in and saves the fucking day: "CLOCK!!!" he yells at the dealer. LOL~!!! Danny then brings his hand back and the floor guy starts a clock on him. Danny rethinks over the hand and seems to be rushed, as with about 15 seconds left he made the call and turned over A3. HOLD ONE TIME DEALER!!! Turn came an Ace, and I totally puked River dropped a 5 and I lost a 30k pot to him, dropping me down to about 16,000. So so sick. Other than this hand though, I was impressed with Danny Wong's dicipline and patience as he never really made any big mistakes if you ignore this blow-up call.
FrinkX proceeds to run a set into Danny Wongs rivered straight and finally busts out when he runs KT vs Tuan Le's A5 and doesn't get there. I continue to run like dog shit, getting all my chips in with AJ on a A-9-3-9 board vs the big fishes A5. River 9. Fuck my life! After that, nothing seemed to be working out for me. I repopped with AJ and the nit shoves on me so I fold and leave myself with 10,000 as blinds moved up to 400/800. Finally my last hand, I raise to 3,000 with AQ, and some big fish calls out of the small blind. Flop comes 3s-5s-8s, and the guy checks, I recheck my hand and find I have the Q of spades, so I shove. Guy in the blind has A9ss for the flopped nuts. I'm drawing dead, gg my life. Lyric was still in when I busted but got all-in with AK vs AQ... Q on river. So sick. [vital]Myth gets it all-in w/ top pair vs some donk who limp-calls his raise with 93 suited and flops a flush draw. Flush draw gets there. How are tournament players so bad? It's amazing. Lyric tells me later that his tables had some of the softest players he's played with in a while. Ironic since we over hear some live pros talking earlier about how these fields in the prelim events are some of the toughest on the tournament circuit? Wat? R U JOKING?
Here are some live pros who totally suck at this game:
JC Tran (Plays every hand. Limp-calls a fuck ton. Calls off %75 of his stack with 66 vs a nit then proceeds to shove an ace high flop as a bluff and is surprised when he's called by AK, and justifys his play by saying that he put the guy on QQ... So you called off 75% of your stack to bluff someone off of QQ? Obv genius)
Micheal Mizrachi (Plays 80% of his hands then 3 bets 74o expecting to get respect? Then fails to c-bet a beautiful flop, then proceeds to call off half his stack when he improves to a gut-shot)
Tuan Le (Overcalls ATdd for 1/4 of his stack and acts like it's standard. LOL?)
Eugene Todd (Flat calls 77 for 1/4 of his stack, saying that he put the guy on a big hand and that he had to set mine)
Mike Sexton (Old and dumb in general. I have too many examples of his general stupidity. He's a real nice guy thou!)
Mark Seif (Limp calls a fuck ton of hands. Called off 1/2 of his stack with 76 suited and thought it was standard. Yes you read it right, I just said he called off half his stack preflop with 76 suited. For value?)
Ted Lawson (LOL @ Bet sizing tells, and old man passiveness syndrome)
David Plastik (Loves that limp-call, and the zero c-bet flop frequency when he misses)
I'll add more names to this list as they come. So far these are people I've played with and have been very unimpressed with their knowledge of what they are doing. Went back to cash games tonight, got set over setted and only lost $400? On top of that I was totally card dead for about 3 hours and was stuck as low as $1900 on the night. But when your entire table plays with their cards on their forehead, it's pretty easy to grind some profit without showdowns. Finally I flop a set and get paid off by top pair for a $3,000 pot which puts me up $420 on the night. How are people so bad live? It's amazing
End rant.
Quest to the top day 1
CrownRoyal, Apr 10 2008
I realized today that i fucking hate my life when I seen a porsche sitting in the parking garage of the hotel im renovating.
This is exactly the life I told myself i'd never fucking live or settle for. I've never felt so motivated to play poker in my life, it's sickening.
I four tabled for 8 hours today (i think?) played about 2k hands or so with some absurd results.
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ChoboPokeR_r, Apr 10 2008
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