so today i was plodding along, playing my session, trying to get in 2k hands since the FPP bonus is in full swing and i want maaaaad ipods. and then this happens:
Submitted by : nolan
PokerStars Game #9982982433: Hold'em No Limit ($1/$2) - 2007/05/18 - 18:00:26 (ET)
Table 'Harding' 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: seannolan ($207 in chips)
Seat 2: Rondavu ($261.75 in chips)
Seat 4: RoKaFeLa ($212.40 in chips)
Seat 5: johnny79 ($196.80 in chips)
Seat 6: miko555 ($390.15 in chips)
seannolan : posts small blind $1
Rondavu: posts big blind $2
seannolan : bets $155 and is all-in
miko555: calls $155
Showdown seannolan : shows (four of a kind, Fives)
miko555: shows (a straight flush, Ace to Five)
miko555 collected $416 from pot
Summary Total pot $418 | Rake $2
Board
Seat 1: seannolan (small blind) showed and lost with four of a kind, Fives
Seat 2: Rondavu (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 4: RoKaFeLa folded on the Flop
Seat 5: johnny79 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: miko555 (button) showed and won ($416) with a straight flush, Ace to Five
For those of you who are new to the game, when something like that happens, quit immediately. You probably won't be able to make much money afterwards unless you're a really disciplined mothafucka. Thank god we weren't 3 or 5 buyins deep.
Ok i needed a target, it will be 30K hands per month for cash games (+2,3 donkaments each day). I think it's easily reachable, not putting aside other activities. Bought PT yesterday so i can monitor how i am doing everyday, that program is fucking awesome and doesn't lie to you like all poker players do about themselves, if you suck you suck. Period. Sometimes im surprised cuz i think i put up a good session and when i look at PT, i realize it was shit (playing too passivly, calling too much etc ...).
SOooo, today was a pretty bad session as you can see:
Deck was colder than a canadian chick's ass. The only time i got something playable was 2 pairs in 1k hands, got some action with a fish and he hit top 2 pairs on river, gg me. So i was bored out of my mind folding hands for about 1 hour and a half and decided to quit. When i was about to leave all my tables, one of them would freeze, the others were ok and i was like wtf ? Then massive people joined the table and started spamming shit, i realized it was the milestone thing event and went AI PF with A2o, lost to K7o and got credited 100 bucks. +10BI earned in that shitty session was fine IMHO, gonna play some donkaments tonite and see what happens.
That's right baby! I had a winning day yesterday and won about $850 in 600 hands so I immediately stopped just to say I had a winning day. Today it started as break even for my first 1000 hands, then randomly at one of my only 4 tables I was told that I got dealt into the milestone hand! ZOMG???? To my surprise I found that I was dealt AK at that table!!! OMG OMG OMG!?!?! I figured it out the other day that if I was to win the milestone hand on a NL200 table I'd net a total of $5500-$6000 (assuming my Supernova bonus). Well here is the hand...
Submitted by : JonnyCosMo
PokerStars Game #9933000000: Hold'em No Limit ($1/$2) - 2007/05/15 - 20:48:54 (ET)
Table 'Soyuz-Apollo' 6-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: Duckslayer2k ($201.10 in chips)
Seat 2: samfy ($188.15 in chips)
Seat 3: xfactr21 ($449.10 in chips)
Seat 4: lllFSlll ($255.25 in chips)
Seat 5: JonnyCosMo ($259.05 in chips)
Seat 6: AH74 ($128.10 in chips)
JonnyCosMo : posts small blind $1
AH74: posts big blind $2
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to JonnyCosMo
JonnyCosMo said, "WEEEEEEEEEE"
JonnyCosMo said, "I got best hand btw"
Duckslayer2k: folds
Duckslayer2k leaves the table
samfy: calls $2
xfactr21: folds
JonnyCosMo said, "SHIP IT"
lllFSlll: raises $8 to $10
JonnyCosMo : raises $249.05 to $259.05 and is all-in
AH74: folds
samfy: calls $186.15 and is all-in
lllFSlll: calls $245.25 and is all-in
Showdown JonnyCosMo : shows (high card Ace)
lllFSlll: shows (a pair of Tens)
lllFSlll collected $134.20 from side pot
samfy: mucks hand
JonnyCosMo said, "AKAKA"
lllFSlll collected $563.45 from main pot
Summary Total pot $700.65 Main pot $563.45. Side pot $134.20. | Rake $3
Board
Seat 1: Duckslayer2k folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: samfy mucked
Seat 3: xfactr21 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: lllFSlll (button) showed and won ($697.65) with a pair of Tens
Seat 5: JonnyCosMo (small blind) showed and lost with high card Ace
Seat 6: AH74 (big blind) folded before Flop
As you can see, I didn't win. So rigged. The most hilarious thing is: "Duckslayer2k leaves the table", poor guy thought our table froze and left before the milestone hand was dealt! LOL Total Donkey! Oh well, I lost that $200 stack, but PokerStars depositted $880 to my account just for getting dealt into the hand which is cool, so I netted $660. The actual winner got $2200 because he was a SilverStar. What a waste. Overall I had a winning day so I'm happy, my luck might be changing for the better! WOOOT
That's right baby! I had a winning day yesterday and won about $850 in 600 hands so I immediately stopped just to say I had a winning day. Today it started as break even for my first 1000 hands, then randomly at one of my only 4 tables I was told that I got dealt into the milestone hand! ZOMG???? To my surprise I found that I was dealt AK at that table!!! OMG OMG OMG!?!?! I figured it out the other day that if I was to win the milestone hand on a NL200 table I'd net a total of $5500-$6000 (assuming my Supernova bonus). Well here is the hand...
Submitted by : JonnyCosMo
PokerStars Game #9933000000: Hold'em No Limit ($1/$2) - 2007/05/15 - 20:48:54 (ET)
Table 'Soyuz-Apollo' 6-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: Duckslayer2k ($201.10 in chips)
Seat 2: samfy ($188.15 in chips)
Seat 3: xfactr21 ($449.10 in chips)
Seat 4: lllFSlll ($255.25 in chips)
Seat 5: JonnyCosMo ($259.05 in chips)
Seat 6: AH74 ($128.10 in chips)
JonnyCosMo : posts small blind $1
AH74: posts big blind $2
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to JonnyCosMo
JonnyCosMo said, "WEEEEEEEEEE"
JonnyCosMo said, "I got best hand btw"
Duckslayer2k: folds
Duckslayer2k leaves the table
samfy: calls $2
xfactr21: folds
JonnyCosMo said, "SHIP IT"
lllFSlll: raises $8 to $10
JonnyCosMo : raises $249.05 to $259.05 and is all-in
AH74: folds
samfy: calls $186.15 and is all-in
lllFSlll: calls $245.25 and is all-in
Showdown JonnyCosMo : shows (high card Ace)
lllFSlll: shows (a pair of Tens)
lllFSlll collected $134.20 from side pot
samfy: mucks hand
JonnyCosMo said, "AKAKA"
lllFSlll collected $563.45 from main pot
Summary Total pot $700.65 Main pot $563.45. Side pot $134.20. | Rake $3
Board
Seat 1: Duckslayer2k folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: samfy mucked
Seat 3: xfactr21 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: lllFSlll (button) showed and won ($697.65) with a pair of Tens
Seat 5: JonnyCosMo (small blind) showed and lost with high card Ace
Seat 6: AH74 (big blind) folded before Flop
As you can see, I didn't win. So rigged. The most hilarious thing is: "Duckslayer2k leaves the table", poor guy thought our table froze and left before the milestone hand was dealt! LOL Total Donkey! Oh well, I lost that $200 stack, but PokerStars depositted $880 to my account just for getting dealt into the hand which is cool, so I netted $660. The actual winner got $2200 because he was a SilverStar. What a waste. Overall I had a winning day so I'm happy, my luck might be changing for the better! WOOOT
Played a short session today, got KK 4 times and lost 2,5 BI. Deck was horribly cold but managed to not tilt like crazy when it happened wich is enough to make me think i can handle bad beats now. Pretty standarts suck out, i would not even say anything and played good till end of session, i was even amused when it happened (is that a good sign ?).
I registered in a limit donkament by accident yesterday and placed 4th/315. It's so fucking long and boring, everybody draw their hands so it's like a huge lottery, u can make difference only by folding premium hands when you know u re beat, pot odds are always good so it's funny to draw out on people and watch them complaining about how bad you play, and you're a fish and blablabla. These guys don't even know what pot odds are, if they start with top pair and bet, you re supposed to fold even when you're offered 5:1.
Made it to the final table chips leader then got sucked out twice in a row, blinds were huge and i had to go all-in with some marginal hands, whatever, limit sucks, it's so fucking long, requires no skill and is boring as fuck.I'll look after that shit since it was a nice BR boost tho, if i can make more money faster...
So we won the live poker league, I got sucked. I raised with AKs to 1000 (150/300 blinds) in mid position, a guy who just sat down at my table went allin. I was thinking and thinking and I finally made the call for about 5500 more in chips, 10-7c - WTF? Of course I can't manage to win an allin when I'm a clear favorite, just like the past 2 months. But i'm not one to bitch about that since we won it.
So I got about $600-700 for being in the team The team got $4500 or so.. I got a $100 tourney ticket at betsson, and hopefully I'll cash there.
Next goal: reaching the finals of the martinspoker league, which will be played in Vegas! I'm the blonde dude with the long hair on the pics
Being at home always reminds me that I'm sort of an asshole. I went over to my friends house today and three of us sat around with his dad who is the most hilarous person of all time and just told stories. I know im a pretty nice guy but I always say the most assholish things of all time. Two stories that I forgot about but came up tonight:
The first:
So I'm in the airport in vegas and you have to take a little train from where you get off the plane to the baggage claim area. So I walk on the little tram and its totally packed, so I squeeze into a little area and hold on to the bar in the center so I dont fall over like a jackass.
Right before the door closes this smoking hot girl walks on the tram and squeezes into a little area, but she doesnt have anything to hold on to. Before saying something I just have to check her out because I cant take my eyes off her body. she obviously sees me because im probably gawking, and i realize it would be gentlemanly to help her out, so i speak up and say "So you want some pole?"
she was about 2 seconds away from punching me in the face but i think she realized what I meant. However, she probably thought i was creepy and declined my invitation to hang out on the bar. smooth operator huh?
second story:
My last day at school, 6 of us go out to a waffle shop to get some breakfast. On my right is georger, who is a really big dude, like 6'1 330, and he obviously orders a ton of food. On my left is steve, who is a pretty funny guy, but is basically a meathead, and when the food arrives, he makes some comment about how much georger ordered, I wish I remembered what it exactly cause it was pretty funny.
Georger replies "yeah yeah, blow me". The waitress was standing next to him and probably felt a little uncomfortable, but was cool enough to make a funny retort saying "oh not here, maybe later". she didnt really mean it, but it was a nice little funny moment. So asshole me goes "OH SWEET GEORGERS GETTING A BJ LATER". I dont think she really found that funny but whatever it was ok she let it slide.
so we finish eating, and on the other side of the table, my buddy rhett, who is extremely hungover, has his head down on the table and is just looking like total shit. so I go "hey i know what will make you feel better, you want me to get the waitress to blow you instead of georger?"
Immediately after I say that I see a look of horror come across my 3 friends on the other side of the table. the waitress was standing over my right shoulder ready to ask us if we wanted anything else or wanted the check. she obviously heard me and was obviously not pleased about it. oops.
oh well, i heard some good stories on their part too, but mine were doozies.
and not to leave you guys sitting there with a woody, ill finish you off. i have a picture i drew today. there was a contest in the pocketfives off topic forum to photoshop a picture of actionjeff on a swing hanging out with gobboboy.
well, as we all know I am the mike matusow of computer drawing, I'm not really the most talented guy around but I definitely have the most heart. Photoshop is for the professionals who know what theyre doing, mspaint is for the guys who are all heart.
i would have liked to do some more work on it, but i didnt really play magic and am really bad at this lol.
and now a contest. take a picture you find of me online and put it in a magic card. post the picture and your name on stars in a comment on this post, and the best one gets 50 bucks. ill be crossposting this on LP/cardrunners, so ill choose the best one within the next few days.
Being at home always reminds me that I'm sort of an asshole. I went over to my friends house today and three of us sat around with his dad who is the most hilarous person of all time and just told stories. I know im a pretty nice guy but I always say the most assholish things of all time. Two stories that I forgot about but came up tonight:
The first:
So I'm in the airport in vegas and you have to take a little train from where you get off the plane to the baggage claim area. So I walk on the little tram and its totally packed, so I squeeze into a little area and hold on to the bar in the center so I dont fall over like a jackass.
Right before the door closes this smoking hot girl walks on the tram and squeezes into a little area, but she doesnt have anything to hold on to. Before saying something I just have to check her out because I cant take my eyes off her body. she obviously sees me because im probably gawking, and i realize it would be gentlemanly to help her out, so i speak up and say "So you want some pole?"
she was about 2 seconds away from punching me in the face but i think she realized what I meant. However, she probably thought i was creepy and declined my invitation to hang out on the bar. smooth operator huh?
second story:
My last day at school, 6 of us go out to a waffle shop to get some breakfast. On my right is georger, who is a really big dude, like 6'1 330, and he obviously orders a ton of food. On my left is steve, who is a pretty funny guy, but is basically a meathead, and when the food arrives, he makes some comment about how much georger ordered, I wish I remembered what it exactly cause it was pretty funny.
Georger replies "yeah yeah, blow me". The waitress was standing next to him and probably felt a little uncomfortable, but was cool enough to make a funny retort saying "oh not here, maybe later". she didnt really mean it, but it was a nice little funny moment. So asshole me goes "OH SWEET GEORGERS GETTING A BJ LATER". I dont think she really found that funny but whatever it was ok she let it slide.
so we finish eating, and on the other side of the table, my buddy rhett, who is extremely hungover, has his head down on the table and is just looking like total shit. so I go "hey i know what will make you feel better, you want me to get the waitress to blow you instead of georger?"
Immediately after I say that I see a look of horror come across my 3 friends on the other side of the table. the waitress was standing over my right shoulder ready to ask us if we wanted anything else or wanted the check. she obviously heard me and was obviously not pleased about it. oops.
oh well, i heard some good stories on their part too, but mine were doozies.
and not to leave you guys sitting there with a woody, ill finish you off. i have a picture i drew today. there was a contest in the pocketfives off topic forum to photoshop a picture of actionjeff on a swing hanging out with gobboboy.
well, as we all know I am the mike matusow of computer drawing, I'm not really the most talented guy around but I definitely have the most heart. Photoshop is for the professionals who know what theyre doing, mspaint is for the guys who are all heart.
i would have liked to do some more work on it, but i didnt really play magic and am really bad at this lol.
and now a contest. take a picture you find of me online and put it in a magic card. post the picture and your name on stars in a comment on this post, and the best one gets 50 bucks. ill be crossposting this on LP/cardrunners, so ill choose the best one within the next few days.
EDIT:
Lol, graph of todays small sessions, will post some hands from this later
Decided to make a video, of course it came out ungodlyishly huge since the quality is basically completely awesome ;D
900 mb or so, need to figure out how to make it smaller.. (haven't used Vdub in years, and the video seems to be too big - not file size but .. area wise).
Or maybe make a new one where I have a set recording area instead, would probably be good!~ The video is mostly for myself to find out what I'm doing badly/force myself to think about hands.
But also in case anyone felt like watching it and providing some critcism.
Ok, some hands from yesterday, possibly something older too, I forget;
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/191356 - should bet/fold river, especially since the guy had previously made a comment about how I raised QJ utg (which he obviously thought was bad).
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/191388 - the guy had bet a high % of the time I checked to him so far, but I've been told the board is too drawy to ever check here
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/191391 - could have folded since the guy was 50/5/.05 but I have serious trouble folding AA to anyone with a VPIP of 50 -_- Maybe he was trapping with KK, what the hell do I know.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/191392 - this hand was 20 seconds later, I thought he had a pair or a draw this time.. And yeah, booooooooooooooooooooooooh.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/191405 - 67d OESFD vs AKd ace high flushdraw. First limper was limping almost every hand and I'd have raised 67d usually but I'd been raising alot so I limped.
Thought for a long time about the jacks, but after reviewing the above hand, and taking into consideration how little respect I was likely getting (first two hands at the table I had TT and QQ, then I push my OESFD, I felt I was probably not getting a ton of respect), I decided I can't fold this.
Got a ton of nice input on all these hands by naz/midian/day so that was great, thanks =]
Getting a bit bored with UB's lack of tables/bad multitabling capabilities so I'll probably be getting back to star as soon as my rakeback arrives.
Decide for yourself... I just dont know whats going on anymore. I can't seem to get myself a winning day. I'm just going to throw hands out in this blog post. Just tell me what you think of them.
Good Hands:
+$194http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/191469 - Against Colombo218. I can't justify doing this vs anyone else at NL200, but this guy is just so lagtardedly bad.
+179http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/191472 - Again this is against Colombo218, and me finally getting lucky. So sick how I get coolered in these spots. River one time for me!
+200http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/191476 - This is the one hand I think I dont like how I played. The opponent seems to be aggressive and capable of making moves thou. I dont know... terrible turn card thou. Seemed like a fishy call by me.
-$220http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/191482 - Set over set, guy was pretty solid thou so... foldable? Maybe? I tank'd this for a good minute before I shoved.
Ok that's about it... only down $550 today though over 4200 hands. It got pretty sick towards the end of the session thou... On another note... Colombo218 is sick. For being one of the biggest donating fish on PokerStars' NL200 right now, he's sure got some balls.
You gotta respect that... To read more about his sick 24+ hour session goto 2+2's BBV section here:
Decide for yourself... I just dont know whats going on anymore. I can't seem to get myself a winning day. I'm just going to throw hands out in this blog post. Just tell me what you think of them.
Good Hands:
+$194http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/191469 - Against Colombo218. I can't justify doing this vs anyone else at NL200, but this guy is just so lagtardedly bad.
+179http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/191472 - Again this is against Colombo218, and me finally getting lucky. So sick how I get coolered in these spots. River one time for me!
+200http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/191476 - This is the one hand I think I dont like how I played. The opponent seems to be aggressive and capable of making moves thou. I dont know... terrible turn card thou. Seemed like a fishy call by me.
-$220http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/191482 - Set over set, guy was pretty solid thou so... foldable? Maybe? I tank'd this for a good minute before I shoved.
Ok that's about it... only down $550 today though over 4200 hands. It got pretty sick towards the end of the session thou... On another note... Colombo218 is sick. For being one of the biggest donating fish on PokerStars' NL200 right now, he's sure got some balls.
You gotta respect that... To read more about his sick 24+ hour session goto 2+2's BBV section here:
PLEASE NOTE BEFORE YOU READ THIS BLOG POST: I'm going to complain. I only lost $125 today, but I'm still going to complain. If you dont like someone that complains about losing only $125, then just stop reading now. For those that are going to continue reading, prepare accordingly-->
Today's Graph @ NL200
So I played 3800 hands today after completely taking yesterday off. I just needed to rest my brain yesterday. Also, I woke up this morning and read about the 10 billionth hand promo going on by PokerStars and realized that there was now a realistic chance that I could make my last 8k VPP's before the Supernova freeroll tomorrow morning. Well that hope went out the window pretty quickly after the continue BS that I was playing through.
Overall, I had some excellent tables, the fish were just sooo freaking bad. Friday + the new promo has brought out some juicy cash games. Allow me to show you-->
To top this off, I had sooo many hands where I made a value bet and was called and beat. I'm still in shock as to how many times I was out kicked or schooled by some guy playing his hand super passively.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/190963 - Valuebet and again outkicked vs some random passive donkey who can't seem to play a single hand correctly to begin with.
At the end of my session I just lost it for about a minute and a half and proceeded to tilt off two buyins in the following ways:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/190965 - Light stack off vs FGators26 which sometimes is good but I shouldn't have been in the hand to begin with.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/190967 - Against the retarded donkey Doakie88 that open shoved vs me earlier. This hand was like 2 hands after that hand I posted above.
I can admit those two hands were totally uncharacteristic mistakes that I almost never do, but the beats finally just got to me mentally and I lost it for a moment. Pretty costly but in the long run it's just a learning expierence. Technically without those two last hands I should have been up on the day. But I can't take them back now. Anyways, tomorrow I'm going to be playing loads and will probably be Supernova by tomorrow night. Wish me luck! I need it...badly.
PLEASE NOTE BEFORE YOU READ THIS BLOG POST: I'm going to complain. I only lost $125 today, but I'm still going to complain. If you dont like someone that complains about losing only $125, then just stop reading now. For those that are going to continue reading, prepare accordingly-->
Today's Graph @ NL200
So I played 3800 hands today after completely taking yesterday off. I just needed to rest my brain yesterday. Also, I woke up this morning and read about the 10 billionth hand promo going on by PokerStars and realized that there was now a realistic chance that I could make my last 8k VPP's before the Supernova freeroll tomorrow morning. Well that hope went out the window pretty quickly after the continue BS that I was playing through.
Overall, I had some excellent tables, the fish were just sooo freaking bad. Friday + the new promo has brought out some juicy cash games. Allow me to show you-->
To top this off, I had sooo many hands where I made a value bet and was called and beat. I'm still in shock as to how many times I was out kicked or schooled by some guy playing his hand super passively.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/190963 - Valuebet and again outkicked vs some random passive donkey who can't seem to play a single hand correctly to begin with.
At the end of my session I just lost it for about a minute and a half and proceeded to tilt off two buyins in the following ways:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/190965 - Light stack off vs FGators26 which sometimes is good but I shouldn't have been in the hand to begin with.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/190967 - Against the retarded donkey Doakie88 that open shoved vs me earlier. This hand was like 2 hands after that hand I posted above.
I can admit those two hands were totally uncharacteristic mistakes that I almost never do, but the beats finally just got to me mentally and I lost it for a moment. Pretty costly but in the long run it's just a learning expierence. Technically without those two last hands I should have been up on the day. But I can't take them back now. Anyways, tomorrow I'm going to be playing loads and will probably be Supernova by tomorrow night. Wish me luck! I need it...badly.
anyways, i played some serious FR today to rack up mad FPP's cause im going to buy maaaad stuff with them like ipod's and tv's and all that. i also want to get that chipset that nasty nazgul showed me it's dope. here's how today went.
if you guys want to be my friend check out http://www.liquidpoker.net/hand/id/1/user/20955
and let me know how you feel about some of those hands. i think they're standard but there is a few spots for criticism.
Went out with my law school buddies tonight cause they just finished their last final and are done with their first year. They were pretty pumped because it's basically the last summer they will ever have to do what they want. When I was sitting there listening to them talk about how it's all downhill after this summer I just felt so lucky. I get to do the thing I enjoy the most for the rest of my life and whatever else I want.
I think im heading home tomorrow. I'll probably spend the next 10 days relaxing, reading, working out, playing some poker, and hanging out with friends. I'm heading to vegas on the 21st to play in the mandalay bay WPT event and prelims, then pretty much every wsop event I can.
I have pretty modest goals for the summer, just want to make at least 1 final table and make an overall profit playing in tournaments at the WSOP. Hopefully all goes well.
Oh by the way, if you havent seen it, i highly suggest renting crank. One of the most awesomely bad movies ive ever seen in my life. Basically this dude gets injected with a Chinese super virus called the Beijing Cocktail, and the only way to extend his life is to keep his adrenaline levels high, so basically its just an awesome excuse to work in gratuitous action scenes.
One spoiler, jason statham gets to bang his girlfriend in public, and during it, screams I FEEL ALIVE. After all he needs to keep his adrenaline going, so what better way to do it than exhibitional coitus. There are a whole bunch of crazy asian people watching it and going bonkers. It's an awesome scene in an awesome movie. I'd draw a picture but I just cant do it justice.