I almost don't want to play anymore now, what if I can't repeat this :D (first heater in a month, feels so goooooood).
What kind of minimum buyin-requirement should I follow if I continue to play 26/21 or thereabouts? I'm guessing my old 25buyin-> move up, might be a bit risky :c
Ok, first things first - some of you may know me as frozenarbiter back on Teamliquid, and yeah, just wanted to mention that.
2nd, why am I writing this? Cause I've had a horrible bad run and I'm finally out of it (I think) and I feel fucking fantastic :D!
Anyway, I started playing poker with the help of GroT, back in late november 2006, really enjoyed it and by the end of december I was a silverstar and rolled for NL25 (yeah, I 12tabled sickening amounts, while watching the simpsons/futurama).
NL25 full ring.. was unkind to me. For whatever reason, my fearless raising of pocketpairs and constant cbetting (yeah, a bit unusual for full ring NL10 I guess) wasn't working at all here (probably also had a lot to do with the money being a lot more to me and therefore leading to me playing less confidently), lost like 200$+ in 2 days (but hey, I made silverstar once more for january).
Np tho, I was on a sickening heater at this time - I had beaten NL10 for 100$++/day for a few days before moving to NL25, and after my downswing (if you can call it that) I proceeded to make back 20 buyins in 2 days (yeah..).
NL25 full ring still sucked so I decided to move to 6max which worked out pretty damn well, and by the end of the month I took my first stab at NL50 (with only 20 buyins tho, I had lost several times when I had close to 25 and was getting frustrated.. silly me).
SOOoooo, I move up with 1000$, game feels the same.. then 5 bad beats later, I move back down to NL25. Np, I'll just rebuild, right? Yeah.. Unfortunately I don't think I ever reached 800$ again, I lost several buyin pots everytime I reached 790.
I was probably tilting quite a bit and playing waaaaaaay too much, but at the end of 3-4~ days, once the dust settled, I had around 430$ left and decided that enough was enough - NL10 let's go.
I proceeded to drop 10 buyins - instantly.
OK, at this point I was slightly confused. I can't beat NL10? Wtf? Yeah. This was like early february..
I spend 1 month never winning more than 5 buyins at once, often dropping more.. Win rate of like 2bb/100 .. yeah, ughhhhhhhh.
Today I finally realized why.
After losing 3+ buyins to some huge donkeys after I'd been patient and waited for premium hands, I kinda blew a fuse, went berserk on my boxing bag, randomly allined in the 1$ tournament I was in and then opened 12 tables of NL10 and fucking killed it.
3000 hands
+14.5 buyins.
Super aggro play, started off the session by raising almost any 2 cards in position, and sometimes out of it, cbetting and reraising when someone was weak, etc. After a while, I could almost open push the nuts and get called.
FUN :D!
So yeah, almost back to NL25 (I was actually even closer at one point a week or two back but I screwed it up). 555$ bankroll.
Wee. Not quite the 1000$ I had a month ago, but yeah, what can you do.
Also, got samsung monitor from FPP store = awesome.
Maybe now I'll finally stop pestering foolsplay/midian/grot about the ridiculous beats I recieve - afterall, it's hard to get too upset when you don't play just premium hands..
So I played a $10+2 yesterday with 1050 people in it. I never play MTT's but I decided to play the daily double (A). My goal was of course to get ITM, next goal was FT. Then I wanted a Top 5 place, I ended up in 3rd and recieving $880 or something. I got to bed like at 08:30 AM - I played the whole night. Today I'm just going to take it easy, I'll play a session in a while, but first I'm going to eat breakfest
Regarding the martinspoker league, we are still in first place. We beat De Knjiff and Thurtiz team last time
Down 10 buyins on full tilt NL50
Kept playing after losing like 4 buyins and then my aces lost to JJ all in preflop deep stacked so I close all my table and for some reason decide to play nl100 and lose 2 buyins
So that is really shitty...
I’m still rolled for nl50 comfortably I'm just kind of disappointed in 2 things
1. Playing after losing 4 buyins
2. Playing nl100 when running bad
Got to learn to discipline myself
Oh and btw I’ve been trying to win a seat to the Sunday million... I have come heads up a few times but always fell short... I dropped like $150 trying to get a seat
I’m really bummed out and feel like a terrible idiot...
Tomorrow I work all day, but after work I’m going to come home and eat and shower and have a 1 hour session at nl50... depending how that goes with results and how I play ill decide if I’m going to continue playing nl50 for the month or play like 7k hands of nl25 and then reevaluate
For some reason I almost subconciously keep doing them...its werid bc at the time I'll think to myself, "No dont do that thats not profitable..." and then I just find myself clicking the call button...
Down like $150 in sng this month. Down like $100 in nl25 this month. Down like $60 in nl10 this month.
I think im playing ok, especially in sng. probably being insanely too aggro at nl25. All in all i just really dont have any confidence and am really questioning my game. A week of losing sessions can do that i guess.
I think im going to lower my number of sng tables from 24 to 12 and my cash tables from 12 to 8. Maybe I can fix some of my leaks by doing that.
Well, it's been a while. I went broke with that dollar, ran it up to 10 or something and i dunno, i dont really remember it's unimportant.
Whats new: I got staked about 2 weeks ago by ggplz (badass motherfucker) with 40buyins minus rake at the $3 10p sng.
I agreed to pay him back 240 when i reached 360, and if I went busto he was ok with it. No way was I going to go busto with someone elses money, but oh well.
I reached the 360 pretty easily, it was februrary 27th and I had one day left to earn 400fpp or so to earn for silverstar and ggplz agreed to let me continue playing the 6s so that I could accomplish that. I think that came up to something like 133 sng or so, whatever it was, i've played many many more in a day before so I wasn't too concerned.
I ran red hot that day and at about 10:40 PM with my newly found $500br I decided to take a little break, I had an hour left to go and only a few sng left to play. I get back, decide to earn the final 40fpp via nl25 since I was bored as hell with sng. Then bam, 11pm, PS resets and I have to earn 1500 more to acheive silverstar, central time zone < easter time zone
what the fuck, gay? 20fpp away or something, I also lost 2buyins in 300 hands. What a fucking bummer.
I shipped ggplz his 240 and I had 200 left.
Since then, ive earned TWO sunday million tickets, unregistered from both, cashed out $50 and besides that ran insanely shitty in sng (down $100 or something)
Played in a lot of MTT recently, I feel my game improving there a lot lately. Didn't hit any FT's tonight, but I got top 18 in two tournaments which is such a cocktease.
oh well.
edit - forgot to mention, i got absolutely fucking raped at nl10 for no reason this week.
during my stake from ggplz i was making well over 2buyins/1k hands.
I think i lost like 6 buyins in 1k hands or so the other day, I have no idea what the hell was going on. Probably going to play some NL10 tommorow, and after I get some confidence back there, switch it up to some nl25.
Finally! Just finished a 2k hand session and it was good.
Its been awhile since I have seen that green colour in my poker tracker, but I finally recoverd from that shitty downfall.
I just hope the next one is not anytime soon, like next session would suck, but for now I am happy.
Moster Winrate
couldnt play all that much during this 19 days strech, busy with other things.
Hey dudes/chicks, my name is mfcmurray and Ive been playing poker for about 2 years now. I play tournies/sngs at the low/micro level, I also tilt/donate at nl25. I need to stick to $4 180 sngs because I prove to be most successful in these games, my roi is almost 200%. Ive made over 3k in mtts but have given some back, still a decent winner so ship it. I go on ventrilo whenever Im on the comp so hit me up whenever, Holla!
So I checked my group, and we got Team Martinspoker De Knijff/Thuritz in our group. I am not playing today, they will send this league on a webradio, so you are more than welcome to listen. I will also update you guys when I'm playing. €55800 in the prizepool, and the finals takes place in las vegas. There are 32 teams in the leauge; MartinsPoker. I am playing in the bluff devision, agressive conference!
I myself haven't really played any poker at all since I was at the casino last sunday. I played basiclly the whole weekend and I am sort of "out-pokered".
Oh, my roommate and I both play poker, and we challenged eachother yesterday. We each will deposit $100. In 7 days time we'll see who made the most out of those $100 (no rebuys). I think he will mainly play SnG's $10+1, I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet. Any advice?
Well this saturday i just raced my first gravel rally and it was FUCKING SICK.
I almost ran over my dad in one ugly corner where he were taking pictures, i lost the car but i managed to spin it into the corner at the last second in a very violent motion, scary stuff.
Meat said they would give me a camera to record my future rallies but they didnt... :< bastards, it would be so awesome because this one really had some thrilling moments like when i went zig-zag trying to control the car while my co-driver screamed some shit like a girl :D
not many videos and the corner they picked was awful since it was a narrow and long corner that wasnt a good spot to show off at all...
As a few of you know i crashed the Audi TT cuz i were drunk... so i lost my glasses in the process and i had to use the most awful pieces of garbage ever.. they look ridiculous, plus i sat on them before the rally and they are bent :<, look:
The 2nd place on 2006 national championship decided to race this rally and oooooopps he destroyed his N4 Evo6.
So I just remembered a funny poker story I read. A few years back when a bunch of us were making little poker threads on a starcraft forum, this one guy came in acting like he owned the place and making all these ridiculous posts about hands he supposedly played in a casino. They were always totally outrageous and had weird nicknames for everyone in the hand.
Here is an example of one (it's pretty long but definitely worth reading):
Hello everyone, i have been visiting these forums for about 3 years, just never had the urge to post anything until recently when all the poker disccusion has come about. My name is Alex the Greek, or thats what everyone calls me at the hardrock casino and the dogtrack. I have never played a hand of online poker, yet ive been playing living live action for around 2 and a half years.
The highest ring game limits aloud in florida to people under 21 is 2-4 fixed, which doesnt give your bankroll much room for improvement unless you hit a fantastic rush. The average night of a session of about 5 hours i cash for around a 100-200, yet i know the softer games and i steer clear of the tables that are screwed down. Anyway i have noticed a couple high caliber players here, and when i mean a few i mean a few. anyway i will start posting the some hands here and would like feedback from anyone. I am always trying to seal my leaks. ok heres the latest hand i played in a 180 person 500$+50 buy in NL(only way i can play NL without going out to the boats and im not 21 for a year) Plus NL is by Far my most solid game. Ok here is the Hand
Blinds 10,000/20,000 ante of 2000 FinalTable
Jon Baacks: UTG raises 60,000 to go <---big stack at the table 580K
Tony Terror Tremis: folds
Jared Piazza: folds
Tiny tom:folds
unknown fish: calls (with hands shakin)
AlexTheGreek: KhJh I call i have 427k
rest fold to the button
Sticky Sam: sits for a while actin incredbly strong and moves his shortstack all-in for 150,000
(this guy just took a huge beat to jonny straight to the boat, so i knew he was either stealin and movin in with a desperation hand)
Jon:Re raises Sticks big bet to obvisously push me out of the pot. His raise was 250,000.
Unknown Fish folds slopily
Now let me give you some info on how jon plays. Ive played him heads up in about 35 tournaments and our paths have crossed many a time, hes loose and will bet suited connectors just like aces. So i put him on the holdings inbetween 9-Js, 10-Js, 7-8s, 9-Qs and maybe , i mean maybe AKs or wired 9's and below. BUT VERY unlikly for he wouldve moved in on me there.
AlexTheGreek: I start shuffling my chips and smiling. I ask, "thats not ganna be enough to get me outta this one jon boy," I proclaimed. "In fact jonny your destined to go broke on this hand" once again taunting trying to trying to pull him into conversation. "Your really re raising that much with just 4's" He proceeds to tell me hes got a made hand. I take a WHILE TO Call this, im almost positive my reads right and hes really weak. Then all of a sudden he asks for the fuckin clock to be brought out, now i know.
"RAISE" I EXCLAIM. Make it 300k to go jon boy, while i slide in almost 3/4ths of my stack
"Thats enough to keep you in right jon? in a cocky arrogant voice."
Jon looks disgusted: after nearly mucking his hand he reluctanly calls. usually i would take this as he has a monster, and my read was way off, but like i said i know this guy well enough to put him on a hand and decide a betting pattern suited for that particular situation.
The Flop
10d 8s 3d
Jon still looks steaming at this point. this is were i know i can win this hand with anything, i am going to use the edge of him being off his game for some reason or another, or maybe its because i have straight up outplayed this guy on many occasions. and the best thing about it is i have confidence oozing out of me.
Jon checks - Now this is not good.why not put me all in here??? i was almost sure hed do it and id call him instantly with K High, but now im wondering how far behind i am i in this hand
AlexTheGreek - this is not time for a bet at all, im 99% sure hell go all in and im beat.
Check!!!!
The Turn
4h
Jon: again he checks, now im baffled, because if he had a straight draw he woulda bet it at the less expensive street or check raised, therefore almost certainly getting a free card. Is this fucker slow playin a set of 8's even on a straight draw and flush draw board?? now this is a possibilty. Ok its time to stop bullshiting and find out where im at
Alex the Greek: 27k leaving me a hundred Thousand left. The thing i love about these bets in no limit they are sooo hard to see through and if he comes over the top i can easily lay this down and still have plenty of chips to work with since most of the table is tight and ive been pushing them around with ease.
Now this is were he went wrong. Its funny how even good players like him who cash almost every tournament in Tampa can make such dumb mistakes
Jonny BOY: gives me the weirdest look, puts his hands over all his chips and to my dismay he gives me the question ive heard fuckin a billion times, how much you got left over there Greek. this is a question that i dont feel obligated to answer, so i take my hands out of the way and the dealer counts em down. I give a smirk cause i cant believe how many tells ive gotten on him these past few minutes!and i also realize something else, how weak his STRAIGHT DRAW IS LOOKIN! ive finally narrowed it down to J-9cd Not spades or he wouldve been firing. My first analysis of startin hands was pretty on point.
Jonny Boy: Smooth calls.
Now at this point i cant believe it, but i know im ahead with just a K High, insane. and here comes the river down and dirty.
River
The Ace of Spades
Also known as Calamity Jane by all card room rounders
and boy oh boy did she live up to her name.
Jon boy:Without a thought of hesitation he moves all-in
by this time about 300+ railbirds are screaming people are goin wild, because this is by far the biggest pot played in the tourny and the 2 big stacks fire at eachother.(i was told this by my boy jared who folded pre flop, because all i saw and heard was jon and the chips getting splashed around the pot. NOW THIS IS A HUGE DECESION for all my money. of course im getting at least 8-1 8.5-1 on the pot. thats great odds but the payout for 10th is 1,500, but the money doesnt really matter. to me if it isnt 1st then its as good as finishing 180th. This is what i was debating, did he have the case ace? it took me only a few moments to rule it out after going through the hand twice. so this is what i said.
alex the greek: "Jonny boy, this might be the sickest read ever or you played this hand fuckin brilliant(i was warned for profanity AGAIN!) Jon, i got you sittin on J-9 trying to steal this pot with a busted draw. I dont have much of a hand AT all. in NL my ability to read people and put myself in their shoes is my god given gift. i made sure not to second guess my instincts and got all my money in there.
SHOWDOWN FOR SIDE POT 854k
Alex the Greek: Shows K high J kicker
Jon Boy: Shows J high 9 kicker
SHOW DOWN MAIN POT 450K
Alex the Greek: Shows K high J kicker
Sticky Sam: Shows Kc 9h
the crowd is awstruct or so i was told no body could stop talkin about how either i had a fuckin killer read on my opponent or im just a calling station who will cold call with K high, and the funniest thing was the biggest pot in the hole tournament won with a K high.
any constructive criticism is fine, im always looking for ways to improve my hand. i will be posting alot more. and yes i did go on to win the 22k 1st place prize as short handed and 10-1 chip ration was a walk in the park against everyone expect my boy jared. AND WHO KNOWS I MIGHT GIVE THIS ONLINE THING A CHANCE feel free to PM anytime or IM me
One of the guys on the forum, (i think his stars name is kimjongillin) decided to counter it with the following post:
Will somebody please read this hand history and tell me how I could have played it better? I'm always looking to improve on my hands.
It was a hot and dry day in El Paso when I played that hand in 1849. I'm not sure why I decided to return to the saloon, and once more risk losing it all; maybe it was boredom, days on end of seeing nothing from my porch besides hot, dry sand and desert lizards reflected in the rising steam. God knows where that steam came from. There wasn't water for miles.
I burst through the doors of The Broken Spoke holding all that i had earned from my 3 long months working on the ranch of Dallas Bill, one hundred and two dollars. I looked down back to my usual table: the usual suspects were at it again: Switchblade Joe, Tumbleweed Tim, Vegas Black, and Double Dee. Me? They call me Six-Shooter Sam.
I took my seat. The name of the game was $100 NL, the highest stakes in town. I shouted at the bartender. "Hey Lady, bring me some goddamn whiskey." Luckily, she had it. I would have taken horse piss. Anything to rid myself of the grit on the back of my throat.
First hand I'm on the big blind, and I look down to find the king of hearts and the ten of spades. Folds all around to me, except for Vegas Black who makes it three to go. I eyed him over carefully. He was a smooth one, that Vegas Black; unpredictable, like a cross-breed between a rattlesnake and a scorpion: you never quite could tell which way he was slithering, but one sting from him and men were pushing up daisies. Vegas Black was known in Texas to raise pots with any old hand, he could be sitting on anything from 2 7 offsuit to a pair of bullets. I saw a drop of sweat roll down my forehead and hit the felt. Vegas gave me a sinister grin. "Call." He urged. "I dare ya."
I called his raise. The flop comes 10 clubs, 7 clubs, A spades. Vegas bets out strong, $6, clearly trying to bluff me out.
"It'll take a lot more than that to get me out of this pot, partner," I said to Vegas in a raspy voice, my throat raw from the sand and the whiskey. "$20 to go."
Vegas lit a cigarette and sucked the smoke through the gap where his left front tooth used to be before he lost it taming Memphis, the wild black stallion that townsfolk rumored Vegas found at the gates of hell after getting shot by Kentucky Jack on the longest day December. "$50."
"I call."
The turn comes up, the Ace of diamonds. Vegas checks. Now I'm in for it. My pair of tens is looking worse by the minute. I check behind.
The river comes, the ten of hearts. Vegas checks again, settting his trap, except this time I can fight back. "I'm all-in."
Vegas looks at me and gives another wicked grin. He stands up from the table, pulls his pistol out from his holster, and pointing it at his own head says to me, "I raise you your life."
A lot of things went through my mind at that moment. My wife, my children, my future goals of saving enough money to move out west to california and strike it rich, but for some reason, I knew Vegas Black wasn't holding an ace.
"Vegas," I said, with shaky hands, pulling out my six-shooter from its brown leather holster, "you're a dead man." I pointed my six-shooter at my own head with my right hand, and flipped over K10 with the other. Vegas flipped over 88 and shot himself dead, in the middle of The Broken Spoke, on that hot and dry 1849 day in El Paso, when I made the biggest gamble of my life.
True story. No ban plz.
pretty awesome. ive been using the "i raise you your life" line ever since.
and not to go too long without posting awesome paint pictures heres a pretty cool one:
So my friend beth is a vegan, but she has a dog, Daniel, who is like this little hunter. He's killed squirrels, rabbits, woodchucks and even got a beaver once. Now being a vegan, Beth doesnt take kindly to the death of any animal, so she obviously goes apeshit whenever Daniel ends the life of a little woodland creature. So obviously I had to draw a picture about this:
As you can see shes pretty jacked so dont fuck with her. Or the dog for that matter.
So I just remembered a funny poker story I read. A few years back when a bunch of us were making little poker threads on a starcraft forum, this one guy came in acting like he owned the place and making all these ridiculous posts about hands he supposedly played in a casino. They were always totally outrageous and had weird nicknames for everyone in the hand.
Here is an example of one (it's pretty long but definitely worth reading):
Hello everyone, i have been visiting these forums for about 3 years, just never had the urge to post anything until recently when all the poker disccusion has come about. My name is Alex the Greek, or thats what everyone calls me at the hardrock casino and the dogtrack. I have never played a hand of online poker, yet ive been playing living live action for around 2 and a half years.
The highest ring game limits aloud in florida to people under 21 is 2-4 fixed, which doesnt give your bankroll much room for improvement unless you hit a fantastic rush. The average night of a session of about 5 hours i cash for around a 100-200, yet i know the softer games and i steer clear of the tables that are screwed down. Anyway i have noticed a couple high caliber players here, and when i mean a few i mean a few. anyway i will start posting the some hands here and would like feedback from anyone. I am always trying to seal my leaks. ok heres the latest hand i played in a 180 person 500$+50 buy in NL(only way i can play NL without going out to the boats and im not 21 for a year) Plus NL is by Far my most solid game. Ok here is the Hand
Blinds 10,000/20,000 ante of 2000 FinalTable
Jon Baacks: UTG raises 60,000 to go <---big stack at the table 580K
Tony Terror Tremis: folds
Jared Piazza: folds
Tiny tom:folds
unknown fish: calls (with hands shakin)
AlexTheGreek: KhJh I call i have 427k
rest fold to the button
Sticky Sam: sits for a while actin incredbly strong and moves his shortstack all-in for 150,000
(this guy just took a huge beat to jonny straight to the boat, so i knew he was either stealin and movin in with a desperation hand)
Jon:Re raises Sticks big bet to obvisously push me out of the pot. His raise was 250,000.
Unknown Fish folds slopily
Now let me give you some info on how jon plays. Ive played him heads up in about 35 tournaments and our paths have crossed many a time, hes loose and will bet suited connectors just like aces. So i put him on the holdings inbetween 9-Js, 10-Js, 7-8s, 9-Qs and maybe , i mean maybe AKs or wired 9's and below. BUT VERY unlikly for he wouldve moved in on me there.
AlexTheGreek: I start shuffling my chips and smiling. I ask, "thats not ganna be enough to get me outta this one jon boy," I proclaimed. "In fact jonny your destined to go broke on this hand" once again taunting trying to trying to pull him into conversation. "Your really re raising that much with just 4's" He proceeds to tell me hes got a made hand. I take a WHILE TO Call this, im almost positive my reads right and hes really weak. Then all of a sudden he asks for the fuckin clock to be brought out, now i know.
"RAISE" I EXCLAIM. Make it 300k to go jon boy, while i slide in almost 3/4ths of my stack
"Thats enough to keep you in right jon? in a cocky arrogant voice."
Jon looks disgusted: after nearly mucking his hand he reluctanly calls. usually i would take this as he has a monster, and my read was way off, but like i said i know this guy well enough to put him on a hand and decide a betting pattern suited for that particular situation.
The Flop
10d 8s 3d
Jon still looks steaming at this point. this is were i know i can win this hand with anything, i am going to use the edge of him being off his game for some reason or another, or maybe its because i have straight up outplayed this guy on many occasions. and the best thing about it is i have confidence oozing out of me.
Jon checks - Now this is not good.why not put me all in here??? i was almost sure hed do it and id call him instantly with K High, but now im wondering how far behind i am i in this hand
AlexTheGreek - this is not time for a bet at all, im 99% sure hell go all in and im beat.
Check!!!!
The Turn
4h
Jon: again he checks, now im baffled, because if he had a straight draw he woulda bet it at the less expensive street or check raised, therefore almost certainly getting a free card. Is this fucker slow playin a set of 8's even on a straight draw and flush draw board?? now this is a possibilty. Ok its time to stop bullshiting and find out where im at
Alex the Greek: 27k leaving me a hundred Thousand left. The thing i love about these bets in no limit they are sooo hard to see through and if he comes over the top i can easily lay this down and still have plenty of chips to work with since most of the table is tight and ive been pushing them around with ease.
Now this is were he went wrong. Its funny how even good players like him who cash almost every tournament in Tampa can make such dumb mistakes
Jonny BOY: gives me the weirdest look, puts his hands over all his chips and to my dismay he gives me the question ive heard fuckin a billion times, how much you got left over there Greek. this is a question that i dont feel obligated to answer, so i take my hands out of the way and the dealer counts em down. I give a smirk cause i cant believe how many tells ive gotten on him these past few minutes!and i also realize something else, how weak his STRAIGHT DRAW IS LOOKIN! ive finally narrowed it down to J-9cd Not spades or he wouldve been firing. My first analysis of startin hands was pretty on point.
Jonny Boy: Smooth calls.
Now at this point i cant believe it, but i know im ahead with just a K High, insane. and here comes the river down and dirty.
River
The Ace of Spades
Also known as Calamity Jane by all card room rounders
and boy oh boy did she live up to her name.
Jon boy:Without a thought of hesitation he moves all-in
by this time about 300+ railbirds are screaming people are goin wild, because this is by far the biggest pot played in the tourny and the 2 big stacks fire at eachother.(i was told this by my boy jared who folded pre flop, because all i saw and heard was jon and the chips getting splashed around the pot. NOW THIS IS A HUGE DECESION for all my money. of course im getting at least 8-1 8.5-1 on the pot. thats great odds but the payout for 10th is 1,500, but the money doesnt really matter. to me if it isnt 1st then its as good as finishing 180th. This is what i was debating, did he have the case ace? it took me only a few moments to rule it out after going through the hand twice. so this is what i said.
alex the greek: "Jonny boy, this might be the sickest read ever or you played this hand fuckin brilliant(i was warned for profanity AGAIN!) Jon, i got you sittin on J-9 trying to steal this pot with a busted draw. I dont have much of a hand AT all. in NL my ability to read people and put myself in their shoes is my god given gift. i made sure not to second guess my instincts and got all my money in there.
SHOWDOWN FOR SIDE POT 854k
Alex the Greek: Shows K high J kicker
Jon Boy: Shows J high 9 kicker
SHOW DOWN MAIN POT 450K
Alex the Greek: Shows K high J kicker
Sticky Sam: Shows Kc 9h
the crowd is awstruct or so i was told no body could stop talkin about how either i had a fuckin killer read on my opponent or im just a calling station who will cold call with K high, and the funniest thing was the biggest pot in the hole tournament won with a K high.
any constructive criticism is fine, im always looking for ways to improve my hand. i will be posting alot more. and yes i did go on to win the 22k 1st place prize as short handed and 10-1 chip ration was a walk in the park against everyone expect my boy jared. AND WHO KNOWS I MIGHT GIVE THIS ONLINE THING A CHANCE feel free to PM anytime or IM me
One of the guys on the forum, (i think his stars name is kimjongillin) decided to counter it with the following post:
Will somebody please read this hand history and tell me how I could have played it better? I'm always looking to improve on my hands.
It was a hot and dry day in El Paso when I played that hand in 1849. I'm not sure why I decided to return to the saloon, and once more risk losing it all; maybe it was boredom, days on end of seeing nothing from my porch besides hot, dry sand and desert lizards reflected in the rising steam. God knows where that steam came from. There wasn't water for miles.
I burst through the doors of The Broken Spoke holding all that i had earned from my 3 long months working on the ranch of Dallas Bill, one hundred and two dollars. I looked down back to my usual table: the usual suspects were at it again: Switchblade Joe, Tumbleweed Tim, Vegas Black, and Double Dee. Me? They call me Six-Shooter Sam.
I took my seat. The name of the game was $100 NL, the highest stakes in town. I shouted at the bartender. "Hey Lady, bring me some goddamn whiskey." Luckily, she had it. I would have taken horse piss. Anything to rid myself of the grit on the back of my throat.
First hand I'm on the big blind, and I look down to find the king of hearts and the ten of spades. Folds all around to me, except for Vegas Black who makes it three to go. I eyed him over carefully. He was a smooth one, that Vegas Black; unpredictable, like a cross-breed between a rattlesnake and a scorpion: you never quite could tell which way he was slithering, but one sting from him and men were pushing up daisies. Vegas Black was known in Texas to raise pots with any old hand, he could be sitting on anything from 2 7 offsuit to a pair of bullets. I saw a drop of sweat roll down my forehead and hit the felt. Vegas gave me a sinister grin. "Call." He urged. "I dare ya."
I called his raise. The flop comes 10 clubs, 7 clubs, A spades. Vegas bets out strong, $6, clearly trying to bluff me out.
"It'll take a lot more than that to get me out of this pot, partner," I said to Vegas in a raspy voice, my throat raw from the sand and the whiskey. "$20 to go."
Vegas lit a cigarette and sucked the smoke through the gap where his left front tooth used to be before he lost it taming Memphis, the wild black stallion that townsfolk rumored Vegas found at the gates of hell after getting shot by Kentucky Jack on the longest day December. "$50."
"I call."
The turn comes up, the Ace of diamonds. Vegas checks. Now I'm in for it. My pair of tens is looking worse by the minute. I check behind.
The river comes, the ten of hearts. Vegas checks again, settting his trap, except this time I can fight back. "I'm all-in."
Vegas looks at me and gives another wicked grin. He stands up from the table, pulls his pistol out from his holster, and pointing it at his own head says to me, "I raise you your life."
A lot of things went through my mind at that moment. My wife, my children, my future goals of saving enough money to move out west to california and strike it rich, but for some reason, I knew Vegas Black wasn't holding an ace.
"Vegas," I said, with shaky hands, pulling out my six-shooter from its brown leather holster, "you're a dead man." I pointed my six-shooter at my own head with my right hand, and flipped over K10 with the other. Vegas flipped over 88 and shot himself dead, in the middle of The Broken Spoke, on that hot and dry 1849 day in El Paso, when I made the biggest gamble of my life.
True story. No ban plz.
pretty awesome. ive been using the "i raise you your life" line ever since.
and not to go too long without posting awesome paint pictures heres a pretty cool one:
So my friend beth is a vegan, but she has a dog, Daniel, who is like this little hunter. He's killed squirrels, rabbits, woodchucks and even got a beaver once. Now being a vegan, Beth doesnt take kindly to the death of any animal, so she obviously goes apeshit whenever Daniel ends the life of a little woodland creature. So obviously I had to draw a picture about this:
As you can see shes pretty jacked so dont fuck with her. Or the dog for that matter.
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