whatta night at fallsview last night lmao...
D_zoo, me and one of his buddies Chris go to fallsview to play some live...We get there and the room is retarded and we have like a 2hr wait to play w/e
D_zoo and I sit down at a 5/5 table and start ordering some drinks and shit...
Dzoo runs like absolute ass all night, loses AA vs JJ on QTx... couple races, set vs flushdraw etc etc...
I of course run like god and build up a 3500$ stack.
Anyways on to the main event.
Dzoo opens AJ otb gets a call from a 25yr old kid whos been a douche all night, flop is AJx rainbow and dzoo cbets and gets called... turn is the Tc bringing a fd and d_zoo gets it allin with the kid, kid flips KJcc and spikes the Qc on the river obv. ROYAL FLUSH WHATTTTT???!? Course the kid rubs it in and is an asshole about it.
Couple hands later Dzoo opens gets called by the kid, he cbets Khi and gets called, he then turns to me and calls the kid a terrorist lmfao...somehow the kid interpreted that as "Im allin in the dark" and precedes to call.
Dzoo gets pissed off challeneges the kid to a fight, tough guy eh
Floor comes over and acts like a douche and calls security who do a fucking horrible job with the situation as Dzoo is trying to leave... So one of the main security guys named Domininc comes over and tries to escort Dzoo to the cashier
We get over to the cashier and Dominic just keeps needling Dzoo about the shit that just happened, so finally Dzoo just turns to Me and Chris looks us dead in the eye and tosses his drink on the guy.......... ooops
Dominic flips out and tackles Dzoo from behind in a chokehold
Dzoo bein the hero that he is blocks the hold and pins Dominics arm to the ground and at the same time tells Dominic whatta horrible attempt at a choke that was rofffffffl
Dzoo finally lets the big tough guy go and gets taken to the police station where the cops love him and let him off with a 60$ fine and give him a ride back to the hotel...
Soooo funny watching this shit go down and Dzoo is quite easily my new hero ahhahah
EDIT: Almost forgot the bets fucking part.... 20yr old kid sits down and we had heard hes a real douchbag, gets folded to Dzoo whos in MP and is thinking about raising. After literally 10 seconds this guy goes "I call the clock" Im just like wtffffffffff
Without missing a beat Dzoo insta responds with "I call cunt" loloolol
Kid leaves 10 mins later after Dzoo repeatedly asks him to step into the octagon aahahahahahaha
and wow, this is so amazingly ridiculous easy money. Everyone just seems to be a huge weak tight passive nit if they're a reg, otherwise the place is filled with huge donks. Lately I've just been killing w/o showdown here (hadn't really been running well when cards were actually shown..), and today I actually had my first losing session at 200nl since dropping down, had my big pairs pf run up against bigger pairs 4x within a 900 hand scope and was really sad. Played another session after that (It's 5 AM I have class in several hours sadface), and went on a massive heater and made 12 buy ins in an hour and 30 mins lolol. I really didn't NEED it though, 200nl is just so ridic beatable it's crazy. It's not even like I'm table selecting either, who knows. I played a lot of hilarious hands (so many huge fish here omg), check these out:
So I don't know did I mention in my last blog that this month im gonna grind my ass off to make 4k or hopefully above at NL50,if I didn't,well thats the plan.
And so far its going fairly well!I'm satisified with my game,I think I play a lagish style or something?I don't know judge by my stats.
Last night I got fucking wasted and lost in the finals of the billiards donkament by disqualification,yay for me...And thats ofcourse after I btchowned the guy,I have only the black ball left,he has 3 of his + the black ball and then accidentally I play his ball directly which resulted in disqualification.
Fuck :-( the 1st prize is 40$(LoL),but thats decent in my country and ofcourse I didn't get jackshit,but on a sidenote I didn't feel hungover this morning so thats pretty cool.
Heres the graph of April so far,unfortunately 3.5k-4k hands are missing where im up another 250-300$ or smth so thats sweet,also had to make a new PT database cuz the old one keeps giving me this fucked up error over half of my screen when I try to import hands,fuck you very much.
Later on afternoon since my mom is going on a trip I'll organize a poker homegame most likely and go out tonight get wasted and try to get laid as usual.
P.S. SeanBam if you can send me that workout excercise for losing weight please do(the one you put in mezmerize's thread when he had a prop bet against peachy)
Bellagio: NO ONE HERE KNOWS HOW TO PLAY POKERby JonnyCosMo, April 11
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
Well I guess I can't really feel like him, but what I do feel is certain and it has exciting implications. I think my headsup game has elevated to officially "the best" meaning I don't think there are more than 5 people that can beat me longterm. I really think this applies to both NLHE and LHE, partly because the best LHE players generally don't play nosebleeds for long (hello TLK and Bryce, I'll be joining you shortly in retirement.) But really, I feel my understanding of the game combined with the style I play just fit together so well that I have few exploitable weaknesses. Whatever, I'm not going to be explaining any more of that in depth as I don't care to create a blueprint on how to beat me.
Today I played a session of 100/200NL vs a two fish, and I think I played exceptionally. To elaborate, I feel like I fired 2 and 3 barrels with precision, and when I was caught it only helped to bolster my image. Therefore of all the plays I ran I was at least 90% effective, which is deadly. Some hands:
Almost my biggest pot ever, he bought in for 12k and I think this busted his acct, GG:
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FullTiltPoker Game #5986313342: Table Emery (heads up) - $100/$200 - No Limit Hold'em - 23:52:02 ET - 2008/04/10
Seat 1: squeegeenh ($22,214.80)
Seat 2: Hero ($43,063.25)
squeegeenh posts the small blind of $100
Hero posts the big blind of $200
The button is in seat #1
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
squeegeenh raises to $600
Hero raises to $2,100
squeegeenh calls $1,500
squeegeenh shows a pair of Tens
Hero shows a pair of Queens
Hero wins the pot ($44,429.10) with a pair of Queens
squeegeenh is sitting out
Summary Total pot $44,429.60 | Rake $0.50
Board:
Seat 1: squeegeenh (small blind) showed and lost with a pair of Tens
Seat 2: Hero (big blind) showed and won ($44,429.10) with a pair of Queens
This guy was waiting for me to spew, I was waiting to cooler him or win a flip. Note: I don't spew:
Submitted by : franchise
FullTiltPoker Game #5986049176: Table Emery (heads up) - $100/$200 - No Limit Hold'em - 23:29:41 ET - 2008/04/10
Seat 1: Harlem41 ($15,625.65)
Seat 2: Hero ($36,595.50)
Harlem41 posts the small blind of $100
Hero posts the big blind of $200
The button is in seat #1
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
Harlem41 raises to $400
Hero raises to $1,200
Harlem41 calls $800
Hero has 15 seconds left to act
Hero checks
Harlem41 has 15 seconds left to act
Harlem41 bets $3,825
Hero has 15 seconds left to act
Hero raises to $33,795.50, and is all in
Harlem41 calls $9,000.65, and is all in
Hero shows
Harlem41 shows
Uncalled bet of $20,969.85 returned to Hero
River (Pot : $31,251.30)
Hero shows a flush, King high
Harlem41 shows a flush, Jack high
Hero wins the pot ($31,250.80) with a flush, King high
Harlem41 adds $4,000
Summary Total pot $31,251.30 | Rake $0.50
Board:
Seat 1: Harlem41 (small blind) showed and lost with a flush, Jack high
Seat 2: Hero (big blind) showed and won ($31,250.80) with a flush, King high
I don't post limit hand because they are boring. Lets this be a lesson on how to win in LHE:
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FullTiltPoker Game #5968109879: Table Rudy (heads up) - $300/$600 - Limit Hold'em - 16:14:15 ET - 2008/04/09
Seat 1: Hero ($23,241)
Seat 2: Jigga100 ($12,730)
Jigga100 posts the small blind of $150
Hero posts the big blind of $300
The button is in seat #2
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
Jigga100 raises to $600
Hero calls $300
Hero bets $600
Jigga100 raises to $1,200
Hero raises to $1,800
Jigga100 calls $600
River (Pot : $6,000.00)
Hero bets $600
Jigga100 calls $600
Showdown Hero shows a straight, Jack high
Jigga100 mucks
Hero wins the pot ($7,199.50) with a straight, Jack high
Summary Total pot $7,200 | Rake $0.50
Board:
Seat 1: Hero (big blind) showed and won ($7,199.50) with a straight, Jack high
Seat 2: Jigga100 (small blind) mucked - a pair of Aces
Oh here's my biggest pot to date. I think I'm going to get the entire country of Canada to quit me
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FullTiltPoker Game #5892656345: Table Janell (heads up) - $50/$100 - No Limit Hold'em - 14:34:36 ET - 2008/04/03
Seat 1: Hero ($29,595)
Seat 2: RolandThetrault ($22,427)
RolandThetrault posts the small blind of $50
Hero posts the big blind of $100
The button is in seat #2
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
RolandThetrault raises to $300
Hero raises to $1,100
RolandThetrault has 15 seconds left to act
RolandThetrault raises to $2,850
Hero has 15 seconds left to act
Hero calls $1,750
Hero has 15 seconds left to act
Hero bets $3,400
RolandThetrault has 15 seconds left to act
RolandThetrault calls $3,400
River (Pot : $12,500.00)
Hero has 15 seconds left to act
Hero has requested TIME
Hero bets $23,345, and is all in
RolandThetrault has 15 seconds left to act
RolandThetrault has requested TIME
RolandThetrault calls $16,177, and is all in
Uncalled bet of $7,168 returned to Hero
Showdown Hero shows three of a kind, Fours
RolandThetrault mucks
Hero wins the pot ($44,853.50) with three of a kind, Fours
RolandThetrault adds $10,000
Summary Total pot $44,854 | Rake $0.50
Board:
Seat 1: Hero (big blind) showed and won ($44,853.50) with three of a kind, Fours
Seat 2: RolandThetrault (small blind) mucked - a pair of Queens
Anyhow, alluding to my title for this rant, I feel like my game is coming together with the precision that I saw when I watched PA vs Genius sometime in November, which was the best HU match I've ever seen. Unlike previous months where I've started strong and finished lackluster I am fully motivated to keep up my level of intensity during play and I can only hope the future is as bright as I'd like to believe.
Next time I will post about some milestones in the not-so-distant future.
GL at the tables,
Franchise
Hooray! originally the plan was to take a stab at NL50 now and move down if i go to $800, but i rethought it and psychologically i want my BR to stay over 1k. any ideas or thoughts? i dont need to cash out or anything.
anyway, just a shoutout to all of this website, cheers
Well, I have been playing 400 nl permanently for like 18k hands now, and its not going good at all. Swung down 12 buyins, back up 10 to only down 2, then down 10 buyins total again, to finally back to 0.
I think I have a really bad image or something, because I always get my bluffs snapped, and people sometimes autostackoff TT like its normal all in preflop, even when I change my 3 betting range to AK/JJ+. They don't notice when I slow down, EVER. Its kind of annoying, I like being aggressive and pushing people around, but it seems people just play back way too much and stack off so light that I have no choice to play tight cuz I can't soul read.
The problem I am having is that its not fun to play when I am a marginal winner. I can have a -$4k day without even playing badly. So moving ups opportunity cost is a smaller winrate and even less hands because I am less motivated to play. I just have to climb the mountain top and be able to crush 400 nl, I can't wait until that day because I am so ready to grind out a ton of money at mid stakes and maybe even get to 1k nl in not that long.
Here are my stats. I think the most noticeable problem is my turn AF, I feel like my double barreling tendencies are off, I always pick the wrong time to do it, and that makes me want to do it even less in the future. I need to get the gameflow/board texture/aggression of opponents down better for turn frequencies.
microstakes adventures soon to end...by whamm!, April 10
yay! been doing fairly well with rebuilding after cashing out 90% of my roll (lol). got a new pc, home theater system and some cash left in my hands. left stars with 750 before my surfing trip two weeks ago and after playing about 9 days ive more than doubled my roll already, i should be playing 100nl again but ive made a lot of those "extra" sessions where i lose 2bi asap then proceed to loose 400usd in a day haha. so playing good pc games aside from going out really helped me lately. if things run normal ill be getting my 100nl shot by monday, but now, ill be less conscious of losing 2bi coz all i really had recently was 750, and rebuilding makes me less of a br nit, especially if i rebuild coz of a cashout, much like with what happened to me 3 months ago when i bought a watch. maybe next time itll be a new car lol. peace out and hope we all run good today
My first post and already about money. I play on Full Tilt, nick Broken Dude, sometimes on PS under a different nick. I play HU S&G low stakes and sometimes PLO and some low BI tournaments. And just hour ago... GOT BROKE again. Must be 17th time or so...Its like a fuckin nightmare. Whenever i deposit i play well and then, build solid roll, go up and then... go busto.
I guess its time to stop messing around and start taking things seriously. So heres the plan:
- take a brake from poker for a while (exams at the uni ;( )
- gather solid amount of money and deposit like 50 BI on my stakes
- start playing according to BM with no crazy ideas and trying to avoid fancy plays
- move up when reached +50 bi to higher stakes.
- DONT GO BUSTO NEVER EVER AGAIN !!!!
I think that collecting that amount of money will take a bit so i give myself one month. Untill then i will learn to pass the exams and try to improve psychological site of my game, cause i think i really crash the game at 5 and 10 $ hu sng on stars and full tilt but somehow i cant to manage the money and lose it all in the end.
If got any ideas, advices, previous esperiences - go ahead and post it. Any advices appreciated.
As i said it will last a bit but i will be posting some things in between.
English isnt my fluent language so if u see any mistakes go ahead and tell me about it.
Well I think its all. I hope i will find the time and will update this blog often.
So see ya and wish me luck in collecting some money.
Btw. any ideas about the money?? i want to start some savings and borrow a little from my bro. Any gambling tips ?
And one more thing. Theres gonna be some rules about this blog.
# Rule No. 1. Every post will end with a picture of some really hot chick (I heard that poker players should post pics of cats to bring luck but cmon pplz...
So for good start wery well known and beeeeeautiful poker player from my country JO JO. SHIP IT !!
S0 over all i am up 485.04 this week, which is a bit shocking considering the massive win i had on 2/4. othewr than that i made a loss at other tables still, considering student finances thas 3 weeks living for me i made this week lol so cant complain.
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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. 
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