Yesterday I won event #1 of the Oct. Macau Poker Cup series. Just a small buyin tourney I wasn't even planning on playing. ~130usd R/A, and pretty much a turbo shove fest as well. 1st was $4k with free entry to the Red Dragon (the MPC main event, 1300 buy in) and I got a really nice glass trophy to boot, which I think is really cool because it's something tangible I can show to my parents etc. that sorta legitimizes what I do (with a tv appearance @ some huge event being the ultimate legitimizer)
Pretty much ran amazing from start to finish. Kinda regrettable actually, because when I won the FTP 50/50 at the start of 2009 I won like maybe 2 flips and the rest was sheer dominance and getting it in good. This time I just got it in horrible a bunch of times and sucked out, and despite being the chip leader at the FT the whole way through there were many times where I should've lost. Kinda wished I coulda used that run good for some bigger event . There was also one point during the FT where utg1 opened for everything but 1-2bb behind, folded to me OTB and at this point I thought everyone had folded before me, so I'm like stealing any 2 here so I announce "all in" with my 52o then I see utg1 and I'm just like...well, fuck. He actually tanks for a bit and calls with a2s lol and I don't bink. But yeah I'm playing like my D-game this tourney and just binking like crazy.
What's funny is you know when people win live tourneys they pose with their chipstack + hole cards that won them the tourney? Well whenever my picture is up you're going to see me with my awkward chip stacking and the magical 43o that won me everything. So now everyone knows I sucked out . Truth is by HU I had like 98% of the chips in play and he jams like 2.5bb so it's a snap call with any two, and I rivered a straight vs J7o.
Anyway, haven't been updating much because I've neither been doing good nor bad. Hopefully I can make another update after I ship the Red Dragon :D. I think if I get to ship that, along with like ~75k usd, I might have enough points to win the Macau Leaderboard and winning that makes you Asia Player of the Year or something. Additionally, I read the slow habit PLO book and it's very good and I've been looking to start training PLO hardcore, so that should be fun to write about as well as I try to get good in that. GL everyone
PokerStars Game #34378705691: Holdem No Limit ($0.25/$0.50 USD) - 2009/10/22 19:51:13 PT [2009/10/22 22:51:13 ET]
Table Kiviuq 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Zalfor ($59 in chips)
Seat 2: MJRULES2323 ($54.15 in chips)
Zalfor: posts small blind $0.25
MJRULES2323: posts big blind $0.50
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Zalfor
MJRULES2323 said, "how bad can u possibly play"
Zalfor: raises $1 to $1.50
MJRULES2323 said, "and hit miracle after miracke"
MJRULES2323: calls $1
MJRULES2323 said, "this is unreal to fui ck ign witness"
MJRULES2323: checks
Zalfor: bets $2.50
MJRULES2323: raises $2.50 to $5
Zalfor: raises $6 to $11
MJRULES2323: raises $41.65 to $52.65 and is all-in
Zalfor: calls $41.65
MJRULES2323 said, "THE THIS"
Showdown MJRULES2323: shows (four of a kind, Threes)
Zalfor: shows (a full house, Eights full of Threes)
MJRULES2323 said, "HAHAHAHAHAHHAA"
MJRULES2323 collected $107.80 from pot
MJRULES2323 said, "U LOSE"
Summary Total pot $108.30 | Rake $0.50
Board
Seat 1: Zalfor (button) (small blind) showed and lost with a full house, Eights full of Threes
Seat 2: MJRULES2323 (big blind) showed and won ($107.80) with four of a kind, Threes
Still lookin for girls, jobs, and all that, but I'm def. a lot more emotionally stable. These games seem easier now since I've been thinking a lot about theory of poker rather than 12-16 tabling 6 max. Still, BR at 2.3k, got another 1.7 to go before i start playing nl100.
I woke up 2 days ago feeling like I was on tilt and since then i've tilted all the time and palyeedd like shit and i feel really awful about everything. I lost most of my winnings for the month and its mostly my fault, some standard downward variance as well but mostly my fault
I don't know why I feel like this, maybe I'm going crazy
And I felel ike I should learn HU but I played today and its like always where I just don't seem ot have any patience when playing HU and I lose my mind and they always have the nuts
God I really feel like the worst and like I probably cna't even beat nl10 at my current skill level tbh
I'll get over it. I self excluded for the first time ever (this feels pathetic and is something I never thought I should have to do).. only 24 hours tho.`
I am too good and therefore can't get any action at NL25 at stars, so I am signing up on Fulltilt to own some bitches there when I don't play on Stars*
I signed up through PokerSrategy (I got my Stars account through them too) - 27% RB, Deposit bonus and Poker strategy points and races.
Anyway to my questions:
1)How does the deposit bonus releasing stand against the 27% rakeback?
Does anyone know what is the rakeback % with the bonus AND rb running at the same time?
2)Where do I see how much RB I am going to receive? Is it somewhere in my FTP account?
3) Is there an alternative to Tableninja on FTP?
That'll be all, I got $600 on both FTP and PS, I will spend about 15% of my time on FTP when I am tilting to change the routine and cut on tables and make the transition next February when my Supernova expires (unless I make it to NL100/ez keep SN by then).
Here I snap called, but w/e I am posting this to show you my cool FTP Nickname, gimme some love for it :D
Submitted by : LemOn[5thF]
Full Tilt Poker Game #15513049503: Table Stratton (6 max) - $0.10/$0.25 - No Limit Hold'em - 18:25:54 ET - 2009/10/22
Seat 1: lopatka123 ($25.17)
Seat 2: I PL2Y N4K7D ($28.06)
Seat 3: TheKid157 ($9.02)
Seat 4: YesIIIIcaN ($24.09)
Seat 5: lynxman73 ($39.86), is sitting out
Seat 6: Mueggi III ($30.42)
lopatka123 posts the small blind of $0.10
I PL2Y N4K7D posts the big blind of $0.25
The button is in seat #6
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to I PL2Y N4K7D
TheKid157 calls $0.25
YesIIIIcaN folds
YesIIIIcaN is sitting out
Mueggi III folds
lopatka123 folds
I PL2Y N4K7D raises to $0.85
TheKid157 calls $0.60
I PL2Y N4K7D checks
TheKid157 has 15 seconds left to act
TheKid157 bets $2.78, and is all in
I PL2Y N4K7D calls $2.78
Showdown TheKid157 shows King Jack high
I PL2Y N4K7D shows a pair of Kings
I PL2Y N4K7D wins the pot ($17.24) with a pair of Kings
TheKid157 is sitting out
Summary Total pot $18.14 | Rake $0.90
Board:
Seat 1: lopatka123 (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 2: I PL2Y N4K7D (big blind) showed and won ($17.24) with a pair of Kings
Seat 3: TheKid157 showed and lost with King Jack high
Seat 4: YesIIIIcaN didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: lynxman73 is sitting out
Seat 6: Mueggi III (button) didn't bet (folded)
So in keeping with my last blog I've won 20 buyins at each stake 2/4-5/10, and will now be moving up to 10/20$. It took me about 2.5 months, but some of that time I was traveling for EPT barcelona and EPT london, and didn't play any online while there.
I think i've been playing pretty decent, I've been 9 tabling throughout this whole thing and I don't think i play my A game when 9 tabling, but it probably raises my hourly below $10/20. I think for $10/20 I may have to cut back on tables, which should be pretty easy considering I don't think 9 10/20 games run pretty much ever. The 5/10 and 10/20 regs are pretty similar in a lot of ways, and probably have a similar A-game, but the 10/20 regs I believe tend to play their best game and fewer tables far more often than the players at 5/10, who are often mass tabling and being a bit robotic (i'm guilty of it aswell). I've never really grinded much at 10/20 in my poker career, sorta always have played 25/50 and if that wasn't going then i would play 5/10 idk why but I've never felt as comfortable at 10/20 as I was at 5/10 or 25/50.
since i'm assuming most of you guys have lcd monitors or laptops i found a nice little built in thing for windows
if you type "dccw" into the search bar or run command u get a nice little calibrator. it helped a little bit (it was noticeable for me) don't expect anything magical.
also for those of you who got game check my last blogpost plz
Looking forward to the weekend. Going to be rollin out to Vegas Fri-Sun it's obv gonna be entertaining, and hopefully get a nice poker lesson, get some drunk fun, and get some live poker in. Which for a weekend sounds pretty awesome haha.
So far school still got 4.0 this semester, Got 2 A's on my econ midterm and my history midterm last week so pretty stoked, now time to vent Obv Vegas ftw
I'm also looking to give the PCA qualifiers a whirl, any advice on best route to take to qualify?? see if i can't lucksack a free bad ass vaca
Edit: Hah~ love this pichttp://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/1aaaf.ChargerFanvsRaiderFan.jpg
Well like most people who quit poker im back 6 months later, and grinding up another roll.
Deposited $100 usd (about $110ausd or somethn) to stars about 2 weeks back, and im playing a 10bi rule till i get to $750 and ill do 15 for nl50 then 30 after that (since im pretty confident that i can beat these micro stakes).
So far have been running pretty super hot (despite bad ev), and I think im playing pretty well too. Have had a few spewwy situations and spots im unsure of, but considering the long break im overall pretty happy with how things have been going.
stats for the first 5k hands below. Comments/criticism welcome. (Obviously incredibly small sample)
accidently have the nl25 one selected, but the $'s obviously green, not red ^^. Nitty NL10 stats via some of it being FR.
it's my friend's bday in 2 days. she's a really nice girl and has shown some interest in me as well. don't want to get her anything that seems desperate but i think some sorta gift is in order. any ideas?
plz no suggestions of starcraft boxed sets or anything of the sort...
also i want to make a video of me playing mainly to get some feedback. i remember some links or rapidshares or something, if there is an easier way plz educate
lost like 5 bi today lol so standard ofc but for some reason I'm feeling crappy about it, I know the last 250 hands I shouldn't of even beetn playing. I wasn't outright spewing or anything but my head wasn't right anymore
I dont know what it was today but ppl were shit talking me all day lol Whether it was my name they were chirping or my avatar it was just all day chirps chirps and more chirps. It was really funny though and I loved it. I was literally tilting guys and not doing anything. One person would start then they would all join in. Literally I didnt say anything to make people shit talk me either so I was really confused. Whatever though I let me stack do the talking.
Things have been going pretty good at the tables lately though. The last two days Ive had pretty meh results though but I feel like Im playing really well and making the right plays a lot so thats all that really matters.
Im on pace to start taking shots at 100NL at the end of the month and Im really excited for this. I was taking shots at it about 2 months ago and felt really good up at that level and had decent results but Ive had to make a few really big withdrawls over the last couple months for school/getting shit face/weed etc. so its taking a bit longer then it should but oh well. Making it to 100NL has been a goal of mine for a real long time and Im really glad Im getting closer to reaching it.
Not much else really to talk about, just felt like doing a quick littel blog before I crashed.
- Live :
Nothing interesting really, played a lot more tennis than usual, i think i've more or less the same level as raszi. Tbh it's hard to judge because every country has their own rank system. Played my first match of the year and lost already, 3 sets. Didn't really like the way it's been played, even though i won the 2nd set, it was my worst set of the match because i didn't find it fun to play "safe and let him do unforced errors".
Still seeking a GF, hard to find someone who would be willing to understand ur handicap (i'm deaf) blablabla. I could join a deaf community, but i've been raised differently and now it's really hard to "join" because they are sometimes in their own world, and i don't want to talk with only deaf ppl. It's hard to explain. Whatever.
Poker wise, i've played my first "real" poker with real ppl (except obv with friends) and i've been running really good so far. The structure is like 20$ for 10 000 play money chips. Each wednesdays you start with 1000 chips with 5/10 blinds and the goal is to get the most (obv) by the end of the year. You can rebuy 1000$ chips only twice per night (to avoid allin on every hands)
Played 2 times : first i got to 5850 chips. It was my very first time playing with unknown ppl and my hands were shaking a little. It was pretty fun and a good experience.
2nd : got to 10 000 chips or 9960 exactly. It was huge because there were only 30 ppl playing 3 tables so 10k is like crushing half of them and all in only 3 hours. Made some sick call, like JJ vs TT on a 53823 3 colors board where i spotted some weakness not only because of his betting ways but also because he was somewhat hesitating whenever i 3betted him. And when he went allin on the river, i knew exactly that i was ahead and then won 5000 chips.
I don't know, maybe that's because i'm really deaf and thus i'm observing ppl a lot about their betting patterns and tells and everything, but maybe i should try to take a shot a some live casino ?
I think i'll try it once i get a more healthier bankroll.
Ok that's about it for now. Hope you enjoyed it !
Untill then !
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. There was also one point during the FT where utg1 opened for everything but 1-2bb behind, folded to me OTB and at this point I thought everyone had folded before me, so I'm like stealing any 2 here so I announce "all in" with my 52o then I see utg1 and I'm just like...well, fuck. He actually tanks for a bit and calls with a2s lol and I don't bink. But yeah I'm playing like my D-game this tourney and just binking like crazy.
. Truth is by HU I had like 98% of the chips in play and he jams like 2.5bb so it's a snap call with any two, and I rivered a straight vs J7o. 
(four of a kind, Threes)
King Jack high
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