I think title should be that I am looking to sell 50% of my action, but steaks sounds cooler. Playing in 5 different tourneys next week at a local live casino I frequent, and the cost is around 410 total. I can afford this myself, but I do not want to dip as far into my spending money (my poker money is seperate)
The calendar for the tournaments can be found at the bottom of this page
I will be playing in 5 tournaments. 4 will be 70 dollar entry FR NLH events, and one will be a $130 6 max NLH event. I am looking to sell 50% of my action in each tournament. I play at this casino fairly frequently when they hold decently structured tournaments, and I cash in a little over 33% of them from what I can estimate(they almost always end up chopping when the blinds get too big). I have gotten to know many of the people that frequent the poker room. These tourneys are sure to be VERY soft, and I feel my edge is significant. The typical turnout of last year when they held this event was around 7-8 tables (10 players per table at this particular casino). I will be prepared to phone you of the size of the room beforehand and ask if you are still interested if you feel the size of the field is not warranted enough to your risk, as from what I can see they do not have guarantees on any of the tournaments except for the main.
I'm currently in the transition from NL25 to NL50. Here is a graph from my last month of play
If you would me to answer any questions, feel free to PM me or ask in this thread. Forgive me if I have missed anything blatantly obvious about staking, but I have never done this before
PokerStars Game #57248984958: Tournament #405010507, $100+$9 USD Holdem No Limit - Level XXXI (20000/40000) - 2011/02/06 19:31:20 PT [2011/02/06 22:31:20 ET]
Table 405010507 2 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: shaniac (1031598 in chips)
Seat 2: Jackovich (1431708 in chips)
Seat 3: a$$ou (679305 in chips)
Seat 4: armenioz (422377 in chips)
Seat 5: elmerixx (2260438 in chips)
Seat 6: stevie444 (1461024 in chips)
Seat 7: Hero (1395573 in chips)
Seat 8: TIETYMM (624977 in chips)
shaniac: posts the ante 4000
Jackovich: posts the ante 4000
a$$ou: posts the ante 4000
armenioz: posts the ante 4000
elmerixx: posts the ante 4000
stevie444: posts the ante 4000
Hero: posts the ante 4000
TIETYMM: posts the ante 4000
TIETYMM: posts small blind 20000
shaniac: posts big blind 40000
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
Jackovich: folds
a$$ou: folds
armenioz: folds
elmerixx: folds
stevie444: folds
Hero: raises 40000 to 80000
TIETYMM: folds
shaniac: raises 947598 to 1027598 and is all-in
Hero: calls 947598
Showdown shaniac: shows (a full house, Fours full of Aces)
Hero: shows (two pair, Aces and Fours)
shaniac collected 2107196 from pot
Summary Total pot 2107196 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: shaniac (big blind) showed and won (2107196) with a full house, Fours full of Aces
Seat 2: Jackovich folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 3: a$$ou folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: armenioz folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: elmerixx folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: stevie444 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 7: Hero (button) showed and lost with two pair, Aces and Fours
Seat 8: TIETYMM (small blind) folded before Flop
For the chiplead
Then this:
Submitted by : thewh00sel
PokerStars Game #57249389267: Tournament #405010507, $100+$9 USD Holdem No Limit - Level XXXII (25000/50000) - 2011/02/06 19:47:17 PT [2011/02/06 22:47:17 ET]
Table 405010507 2 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: shaniac (1886397 in chips)
Seat 2: Jackovich (1007887 in chips)
Seat 4: armenioz (386377 in chips)
Seat 5: elmerixx (3851058 in chips)
Seat 6: stevie444 (854049 in chips)
Seat 7: Hero (516950 in chips)
Seat 8: TIETYMM (804282 in chips)
shaniac: posts the ante 5000
Jackovich: posts the ante 5000
armenioz: posts the ante 5000
elmerixx: posts the ante 5000
stevie444: posts the ante 5000
Hero: posts the ante 5000
TIETYMM: posts the ante 5000
TIETYMM: posts small blind 25000
shaniac: posts big blind 50000
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
Jackovich: folds
armenioz: folds
elmerixx: raises 60000 to 110000
stevie444: folds
Hero: raises 401950 to 511950 and is all-in
TIETYMM: folds
shaniac: folds
elmerixx: calls 401950
Showdown elmerixx: shows (two pair, Eights and Fives)
Hero: shows (a pair of Fives)
elmerixx collected 1133900 from pot
Hero finished the tournament in 7th place and received $13513.50.
Summary Total pot 1133900 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: shaniac (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: Jackovich folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: armenioz folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: elmerixx showed and won (1133900) with two pair, Eights and Fives
Seat 6: stevie444 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 7: Hero (button) showed and lost with a pair of Fives
Seat 8: TIETYMM (small blind) folded before Flop
I'm still trying to master ICM which is getting a bit easier after someone explained how he does it, but requires practice.
In the 18 man sng I was able to get 4th and 2nd place. 4th place finish was a bit fencey mistake. Had 88 and shoved over a raise thinking it was a blind steal but the other guy had KK. In the 2nd place I got sucked out 88 vs 87.
In the 27 man sng I finished pretty far from the money primarily because of suck outs and needed shoves losing to a caller.
In the 180 man sng I got all the way up to final 45, but then ran into a situation of all in with AK, AK, JJ and the JJ won. A bit unlucky to be in that spot but ok.
Submitted by : jiykong
PokerStars Game #57248637321: Tournament #361866117, $4.00+$0.40 USD Holdem No Limit - Level V (75/150) - 2011/02/06 22:17:31 ET
Table 361866117 3 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: wilkinson850 (5843 in chips)
Seat 2: fran rossi (6547 in chips)
Seat 3: koreanfather (2800 in chips)
Seat 4: gfernandez88 (5287 in chips)
Seat 5: diamond185 (6015 in chips)
Seat 6: knubi85 (5966 in chips)
Seat 7: NeonRyder (6280 in chips)
Seat 8: Dmillz_TBNL (9075 in chips)
Seat 9: PiedroSantos (1993 in chips)
Dmillz_TBNL: posts small blind 75
PiedroSantos: posts big blind 150
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to koreanfather
wilkinson850: folds
fran rossi: folds
koreanfather: raises 300 to 450
gfernandez88: raises 450 to 900
diamond185: folds
knubi85: folds
NeonRyder: folds
Dmillz_TBNL: folds
PiedroSantos: raises 1093 to 1993 and is all-in
koreanfather: raises 807 to 2800 and is all-in
gfernandez88: calls 1900
Showdown koreanfather: shows (a pair of Queens)
gfernandez88: shows (two pair, Queens and Jacks)
gfernandez88 collected 1614 from side pot
PiedroSantos: shows (a pair of Queens)
gfernandez88 collected 6054 from main pot
koreanfather finished the tournament in 51st place
PiedroSantos finished the tournament in 52nd place
Summary Total pot 7668 Main pot 6054. Side pot 1614. | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: wilkinson850 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 2: fran rossi folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 3: koreanfather showed and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 4: gfernandez88 showed and won (7668) with two pair, Queens and Jacks
Seat 5: diamond185 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: knubi85 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 7: NeonRyder (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 8: Dmillz_TBNL (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 9: PiedroSantos (big blind) showed and lost with a pair of Queens
The 9 man sng was where my problem shows when I was on the bubble and just melted away my chips. I did feel a little tilted though so yea XD.
i happy today because i have doubled my bankroll at the 25nl pot limit omaha after one week of play. i am also happy because it has give me some confidence in this crazy game of ours. i shall post graph...
this is the book i have readen that make me confident in playing this game. i hope everyone will also read this book studiously because it has help me.
i think i will take shot at 50plo tomorrow because my ambition is to reach 200plo.
In my last entry i was contemplating if i should start playing poker or not, and i have recently decided to give it a shot. I don't live in japan anymore which means i can finally start playing without being branded a criminal. I have been playing on and off for about 4-5days now, i made an account on Pokerstars and transfered $15 and it's been going good so far even though +$2 in 4-5days isn't really a sick streak. I have started on the lowest limits and i'm planning on just learning the basics and just try to grind my way up.
I'm not sure i'm going about this the right way though, is $2 profit normal for 4-5days? been playing for ~1hours each day. I read up on SSS and basics on how to start playing etc. but the problem is i'm not seeing a pattern when i'm playing. People are playing kind of stupid, at least that's the way it feels to me, they try to do stupid bluffs, betting, raising etc. when it makes absolutely no sense. It is kind of like when you scout someones base in SC and you see something stupid like roach/hydra den with no gas and you're thinking "wtf, that makes no sense, what do i do?!" Now i obviously don't know how to play every hand perfectly but according to the guides and what not some of their plays makes no sense. How do you play properly at these stakes in order to be able to climb to the higher stakes later on? right now all i'm doing is playing the extremely good hands which means i have to fold most of my hands, that makes climbing extremely slow.
Also, for all the swedes out there (or other people that might know), is playing on Pokerstars ok? i heard a lot about taxes being an issue? withdrawing $20 or something like that will probably not be a problem but in the future, is it worth staying at PS? i have $10 on SvS but i seriously despise their software and it just feels stale playing there.
Ehhhhhhhh made about 2K yesterday, and maybe ~9K vpps. I'm behind pace by 5K vpps so far this month, not bad. Playing in some sunday major mtts today to try and bink some $$$. GL at the tables!
So real life sucks and just as I started making good progress on grinding my cash BR I have to withdraw basically all of it to pay for fixing my car. So I'll only have about 80 bucks left to work with.
That being said I'll just move back down to NL5 and keep crushing that, but I'm not going to put in NEARLY as much volume as I did in those coupla days. I have gotten my SNG action covered again and will only use the NL5 to fill in GAPS. I plan on putting in ALOT more volume in the upcoming days in the SnG world.
Basically I talked with the wife about doing this instead of replacing my seasonal job with a bush league part time job til something better comes up. I've very confident I can make more than minimum wage at the 6 dollar level, I just have to be focused and put in the volume. The plan is to start posting daily updates and really focus on getting more volume in and continuing to better my game.
I really want to be able to pull at least 100 a week off of the site, so I would need to profit 200 bucks a week. If I keep up my current ROI which is right about 50%, I'd only need about 50 games a week to pull this off. If I ever don't have 50 games in a week I'm going to be VERY angry with myself.
Since keeping a 50% ROI would be tough over a huge sample, I would like to set a goal of 150 a week starting off to see what I can do. I don't like playing much more than 8 tables but I may expand that to starting with 10 since early stages are so roboty. As the tournies progress I would like to keep 8 rolling for a good period of time.
So recap of goals: starting Monday
Weekly average of 150 games played in Feb.
Withdraw an average of $100/week in Feb.
Grind my small personal BR at NL5 try to get about 5k hands a week, but not mandatory.
As I am sure there are quite a few LP'ers from So Cal, I figured I would make a blog post about it.
At the casino I normally go to, there is going to be a tournament series I will be playing in in a week or two. Smaller buy-ins, but that is not the reason for the blog post.
On the 19th of February, there is going to be a 10-25 NL cash game hosted by the casino to promote Mike Mizrachi being there. I have been the casino a fair bit, and the players there are INSANELY soft. You will be playing with grinder, but it is most likely going to be a 10 seat table (this casino has 10 seats in FR), so I am sure there will be plenty of fish.
Game is on the 19th of February, and I think if you want a seat, you have to call and arrange to be in the game. It is at the Pala Casino in Pala, an indian reservation off of the 15 just south of Temecula. I think it is 1k min and 10k max, so you may get some really deep play going depending on who shows up. Expect to see a few old man grinders that think they are decent, but their handreading skills are laughably awful.
I could be posting something that a lot of you already know about, but for any of you that play at the Palomar or something similar, this might be a pretty juicy game for you guys. For anyone that shows up, good luck!
Oh yeah, and wish me good luck as Im gonna be playing a lot of the small tourneys
2011 update (finally I can brag!)by SugoGosu, February 05
So I have been a member of LiquidPoker for some time now. I have been break evenish for the past 3 years hovering from NL10 to NL25 for a long time. Just never really able to get anything going.
Back in September my bankroll was at an all-time low since I first started playing. My bankroll was at $85. Yea that's right. I was only rolled for NL2.
So I decided to give poker one last shot. If it didn't work then I was going to quit. But things started going well. I ended up money last year.
So far this month I made $500 (20 buy-ins at 25NL) and I'm taking shots at 50NL.
I also made a little more than $1,300 in stakes. yay run good!
I have decided to cash out for the very first time leaving me enough of a cushioned roll for NL50 and I hope to buy something nice, like maybe a new bed or something.
I have another Ambient Music Blog coming so keep your eye out for that (should be out in about a week).
Had a real good day yesterday. Netted ~7K at the tables, ev was ~2K. The run good felt great! Got in ~10K vpps. Lookin' forward to a very profitable weekend, and gonna try to score in some MTTs.
GL at the tables,
Poopy
just started playing some 10 dollar hu sngs after seeing player99's posts that show him destroying it so I thought I'd give it a shot.
Been going well so far but the downswing is probably coming soon
ALso, i cant seem to play cash games anymore. they feel so foreign to me after not playing for so long. or maybe its becuase im just really impatient and want to play hands.
anyways, gonna just play a few hu sngs a day since im so busy.
I played 140hrs last month, it's the most I've played in a single month. I pwnd nl100 some more, and played bad / ran sorta bad during my nl200 shot, I made alot of stupid mistakes. It feels like a big jump from nll00 to nl200.. seems like theres alot more regs and less fish. Hopefully I play better during my next shot, im gonna stay at nl100 abit more and earn ~2k before I move up again.
Also, can someone trade me paypal$ for my stars$? I need ~375 to buy some hockey tickets I'll send first to reputable members, ill send an extra $10 to whoever does it.
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(a full house, Fours full of Aces)
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I'll send first to reputable members, ill send an extra $10 to whoever does it.
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