PokerStars Game #32533363043: Tournament #200909011, $500+$30 USD Holdem No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2009/09/06 19:14:29 ET
Table 200909011 461 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: Octavian_C (10908 in chips)
Seat 2: duckworth1 (11300 in chips)
Seat 3: plo8monster (8460 in chips)
Seat 4: Achou (8895 in chips)
Seat 5: blauenf (11775 in chips)
Seat 6: Marinchik (5800 in chips)
Seat 7: krococos (14975 in chips)
Seat 8: ag1390 (17542 in chips)
Seat 9: JaimeFarriol (10545 in chips)
Octavian_C: posts the ante 10
duckworth1: posts the ante 10
plo8monster: posts the ante 10
Achou: posts the ante 10
blauenf: posts the ante 10
Marinchik: posts the ante 10
krococos: posts the ante 10
ag1390: posts the ante 10
JaimeFarriol: posts the ante 10
Octavian_C: posts small blind 50
duckworth1: posts big blind 100
duckworth1: checks
Achou: bets 375
JaimeFarriol: calls 375
duckworth1: raises 625 to 1000
Achou: raises 1400 to 2400
JaimeFarriol: folds
duckworth1: raises 8590 to 10990 and is all-in
Achou: calls 6185 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (2405) returned to duckworth1
River (Pot : $18,585.00)
Showdown duckworth1: shows (four of a kind, Queens)
Achou: shows (a full house, Queens full of Nines)
duckworth1 collected 18585 from pot
Summary Total pot 18585 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: Octavian_C (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: duckworth1 (big blind) showed and won (18585) with four of a kind, Queens
Seat 3: plo8monster folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: Achou showed and lost with a full house, Queens full of Nines
Seat 5: blauenf folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: Marinchik folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 7: krococos folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 8: ag1390 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 9: JaimeFarriol (button) folded on the Turn
For the limited amount of people who may be interested in following my progress (not to mention for a personal checkpoint), here's a bit of an update.
I'm waiting on Brunson's "Super System," Hansen's "Every Hand Revealed," and Caro's "Book of Poker Tells" to be delivered, but the long weekend is killing me and Amazon says they'll be in this coming Thursday. Damn my impatience!
I bought into a table with fake money on Full Tilt, 5/10 NL Hold'em. (I'm still not too sure of some of the terms that are commonly used.) In about an hour, I turned that 400 into over 4,000. I realize it's fake money and is completely worthless, but I feel I've gained a decent amount of knowledge in terms of what I should be playing and not playing.
Like I said in my previous blog, I'm not playing for real money until I read the books and feel like I have a strong foundation with which I can proceed into the realm of cash games. Today is my only day off (even though I had to run in to work briefly and it's already 4 PM...), so I'll be using it to become more comfortable with NL Hold'em. I might post another blog tonight with an update on the day.
I didnt post any poker updates during the summer, so I feel like writing at least a short summary now.
July
I decided to dedicate July mostly to learning and playing PLO online and see how it goes. To be honest, I didnt really do much learning, only seen like 1 or 2 videos and the rest was just learning by playing. I played mostly 2/4 and 3/6 PLO at Microgaming. I finished the month in positive, but quite below what I hoped for. I made around $4,000 + some rb.
As for the competition, the fish players were making more big mistakes than similar players make in NLHE games, but I felt the regs were rather solid and some definately (and unsurprisingly) had an edge over me.
In the end of the month I went to Venice for the Italian Poker Tour. I was the first to go out from the main event though after my AA lost to KK 600bb deep aipf first level. Surprisingly, the guy who knocked me out wasnt an Italian gambler, but a young German player. Well he said he saw a picture card in my hand when I was checking my hole cards. But my friends went quite deep, 2 made the money and overall it was a fun trip.
Btw for anyone living in Venice, how often do you see anyone jumping down from the top of the Rialto bridge? We saw couple of drunken foreigners do it, they got even an applaus from everyone who were watching, like even waitresses stopped to watch, so I figured pretty unusual. Anyways, I prolly wouldnt do it even for good money, seemed a bit dangerous.
August
In August I decided to come back to NLHE as my primary game and only play PLO when I spot a huge fish. Since there were some interesting rake races at Unibet (some specifically for Czech players) and I didnt have any big travelling plans for August, I decided to go into a grind mode and play a ton of hands. I have been a bit lazy as far as putting in hours and hands goes in the past several months and except for June the results werent very good either, so I felt like a big-grind month would be good for me. But in the begining of the month I hit a big downswing and in the middle of the month I was down about $26,000 playing mostly 3/6 NLHE. Most of it was due to bad allin luck though and I felt my game was quite ok. Of course I did a bit of analysing of the big losing hands etc. made a few slight changes in my game, but basically continued to grind a lot of tables all the time. Luckily for me, it finally started to work and in the end I managed to finish the month in positive numbers, around +$5,000 + rb.
Well so I made around $8-9k in the 2 summer months, which sux. At least I have a decent rakeback so I got another about $10k for that
September
On a most recent note, I played the WPT Slovakia tournament, which was a 4,400€ freezeout. I was quite looking forward to this event, but it turned out to be quite below expectations. Only 100 people played the main tournament, the side events were cancelled and only small number of side games were running (but they were good games). In the main event I got knocked out 21st when 18 were in the money.
Right now I am back at home, currently ill and trying to get back into shape as fast as possible, because a) my futsal season is starting the next week and b) there is quite a few decent tournaments I want to play in my country this month.
I use Mozilla Firefox newest Version
I have major problems with the dl speed of youtube and other flash player videos for the last 4 days
It run all very smooth and fast >-< ( loding a youtube video was usually finished before the bar reached even 10% maximum)
suddenly one day it became sooo slow ...
atm its almost impossible for me to watch a Video >5 minutes cause it needs like 30minutes to load ???
it loads fast the first 10 seconds and then becomes incredible slow T_T to where it stopps all 2 seconds and buffers
Surfing the internet is smooth and fast as usual.
I tried using InetExplorer and had flash videos go a little faster but still very slow.
With Inetexplorer its just fast enough to play videos at the same speed they load ( meaning if i stop the play and let video preload 10 seconds -> i can watch smooth)
However Firefox did load youtube videos a looooot faster in the past.
Showdown shipopotamus: shows (three of a kind, Sixes)
nu-munee: shows (a full house, Sixes full of Threes)
nu-munee collected 14359 from pot
Summary Total pot 14359 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: ezflyfisher folded on the Flop
Seat 2: Nappi86 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 3: AvAssisi folded on the Flop
Seat 4: nu-munee (button) showed and won (14359) with a full house, Sixes full of Threes
Seat 5: yogo03 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: shipopotamus (big blind) showed and lost with three of a kind, Sixes
Seat 7: watoz86 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 8: Its1mc folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 9: sudagai folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Submitted by : shaw67193
PokerStars Game #32524735036: Tournament #200909009, $200+$15 Holdem No Limit - Level VIII (60/120) - 2009/09/06 15:44:04 ET
Table 200909009 1070 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: gaiaknight (19702 in chips)
Seat 2: F.Briatore (20119 in chips)
Seat 3: AvAssisi (18058 in chips)
Seat 4: nu-munee (19205 in chips)
Seat 5: klinteparken (3205 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 6: Hero (10868 in chips)
Seat 7: TehdPwneD99 (16654 in chips)
Seat 8: Its1mc (1802 in chips)
Seat 9: Donkey_asseT (3270 in chips)
gaiaknight: posts the ante 15
F.Briatore: posts the ante 15
AvAssisi: posts the ante 15
nu-munee: posts the ante 15
klinteparken: posts the ante 15
Hero: posts the ante 15
TehdPwneD99: posts the ante 15
Its1mc: posts the ante 15
Donkey_asseT: posts the ante 15
F.Briatore: posts small blind 60
AvAssisi: posts big blind 120
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
nu-munee: folds
klinteparken: folds
Hero: raises 320 to 440
TehdPwneD99: raises 785 to 1225
Its1mc: folds
Donkey_asseT: folds
gaiaknight: folds
F.Briatore: folds
AvAssisi: folds
Hero: raises 1275 to 2500
klinteparken has returned
TehdPwneD99: raises 14139 to 16639 and is all-in
Hero: calls 8353 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (5786) returned to TehdPwneD99
Showdown Hero: shows (two pair, Aces and Fours)
TehdPwneD99: shows (a full house, Kings full of Fours)
TehdPwneD99 collected 22021 from pot
TehdPwneD99 said, "gg ul"
Summary Total pot 22021 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: gaiaknight (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 2: F.Briatore (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: AvAssisi (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: nu-munee folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: klinteparken folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: Hero showed and lost with two pair, Aces and Fours
Seat 7: TehdPwneD99 showed and won (22021) with a full house, Kings full of Fours
Seat 8: Its1mc folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 9: Donkey_asseT folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Time for a new goal? by piratematerial, September 06
on August 5 i set myself the goal to make 10bb/100 in HU by max 2 tabling from then on. Before that i had a 70k sample of HU on this computer making 3bb/100. Since then i played about 40k hands and these hands almost pulled the entire sample to 10bb/100 So Jujj!
Very happy with these results as they reflect last year's results and i thought i had improved since then. Now i've got something to show for. But still i've been running good lately. So i'm taking that in consideration. Taking carefull shots at 200nl now.. If i lose a few buyins i go back to 100nl because the most important thing to me right now is my confidence and mindset. If i feel good i will be taking shots. Fairly sure i could just dive in as i have been a regular there last year but i'm feeling so good right now. This works for me. Taking it slow.
Although i haven't succeeded in my goal to make 10bb/100 at 100nl in a definite way i feel i should raise the bar and set a new goal:
Beating 200nl for 10bb/100 over a 20k sample will give me something to work on for awhile. Because im taking shots only now and then, and starting with a big negative after my first 1k hands i feel this will be a nice one?
Not very creative though. If you have suggestions for good goals i could set that would help me to improve, your input is appreciated.
So our dreams was over due to a fucktard referee, most of the talk was about how most of the Swedish players played a much better game then most of the time. Mikael Nilsson didn't fuck up to bad more then once of twice, non of our central mid fielders was responsible for any Hungarian goals and I didn't want to kill any of our attackers to die during any point of the game. Even our goalie played good. Then with just seconds to go the Hungarians fucks up and gives Zlatan a free chance to win us the game.
Only a couple of more wins and then we might get to next stage.
Little poker, much more studyby killmepl, September 06
Hello,
thanks for comments, I really appreciate them
So, today I wanted to warn you all readers For next two weeks I must prepare to exams from differential equations ( I'm on Control engineering and Robotics, if I did good translation to English) so there will be no poker for me.
But still I got time to watch High Stakes (shame on me for not watching this earlier), and some other vids about poker.
But not playing really sucks :/
My thoughts on that would be that I'm little addicted to the game. But not like in some poor movie... I do not ever deposit again, that's not the point. I like this feeling that I'm sitting on the table with 5 fishes and omg winning their money. This adrenaline shots are something what I know only from poker. And it is good.
Recently I started to play with my friends live for low-low-micro like 5PLN (Wolfram says it's like $1.73) so very very low, but still +2bi up and I can buy cigarettes for free
Last time I was going home +5bi and it was pretty cool. The game with them is mega-simple, they are supercalling-stations so it's sooooo easy, and feels soooooo good to see that I have money from the game in my pocket, not only as a number on cashier window on stars. With that live game I realized that these money are real, and it really boost my morale up. And I want to play really bad,but I can't :<
As said, on Sep 18th I will go straight to my house from university, and take what is mine from random fishes (i hope).
And final word for today - I can't play poker now, so I wanted to show you all my biggest pot ever (both in cash and bb)- 558bb on nl5. Villan was like any other standard calling station from ultramicro.
Submitted by : killmepl
PokerStars Game #31211882085: Holdem No Limit ($0.02/$0.05) - 2009/08/03 23:51:53 CET [2009/08/03 17:51:53 ET]
Table Elvira 6-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: derRaabe13 ($4.38 in chips)
Seat 2: jimcrawford ($3.22 in chips)
Seat 3: salvatope ($14.16 in chips)
Seat 4: czechkwaky ($10 in chips)
Seat 5: Hero ($14.83 in chips)
Seat 6: miguelitos77 ($12.24 in chips)
czechkwaky: posts small blind $0.02
Hero: posts big blind $0.05
miguelitos77 leaves the table
Hero: bets $9.28 and is all-in
salvatope: calls $8.61 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($0.67) returned to Hero
Showdown Hero: shows (a full house, Queens full of Kings)
salvatope: shows (three of a kind, Kings)
Hero collected $27.24 from pot
Summary Total pot $28.64 | Rake $1.40
Board
Seat 1: derRaabe13 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 2: jimcrawford folded before Flop
Seat 3: salvatope (button) showed and lost with three of a kind, Kings
Seat 4: czechkwaky (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: Hero (big blind) showed and won ($27.24) with a full house, Queens full of Kings
Seat 6: miguelitos77 folded before Flop
Transfer help pls Stars-Moneybookersby Ezekiell, September 06
Hi guys!
I need some help with a transfer: Stars doesnt allow me to cash out to Moneybookers due some database changes in their system /i can include the full email conversation w their support obv/, and i really need to cash out. Tbh i have real life money problems right now
So: 300$ on Stars for 300$ on Moneybookers plz? I send first.
lagret: bets $42.10 and is all-in
Hero: calls $37.15 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($4.95) returned to lagret
River (Pot : $96.55)
Showdown lagret: shows (a pair of Eights)
Hero: shows (three of a kind, Sixes)
Hero collected $94.55 from pot
Summary Total pot $96.55 | Rake $2
Board
Seat 1: SeeVeeR folded on the Flop
Seat 2: Hero (button) showed and won ($94.55) with three of a kind, Sixes
Seat 3: lagret (small blind) showed and lost with a pair of Eights
Seat 4: WillGiveU$$$ (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: dxwind folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Hi!
I created this blog for three reasons:
* to improve myself at poker
* to keep track of what I've been doing
* and to improve english writing skills.
About myself:
I'm from Poland, my whole life living in Cracow. I'm 20, and been playing poker for about one and a half year.
My friend RockingBastard first introduced me to this game, and gave me my first deposit. And second. ... And third.
For the first year I was like WTF I'M ALWAYS LOSING WTF WTF stupid game. But it was temporary frustration. Meantime I was in last class of school, and picking my university.
So when for the third time I have got broke I decided to deposit my money, with that thought that I will have more will to learn poker when I have something mine on the line.
So I deposited $23 on stars (like 9-10 months ago) and started to learn at nl2.
At the same time my classes started ad university, but uhmm poker>>>study.
It took me like 6-7 months to move up to nl5 permanently, but it's ok, I really don't care WHEN I move up, if only I will know that time will come.
This summer I managed to move to nl10, and as I write this words I have 20bi for that limit, so it's mine first achievement at poker.
Aside from poker i play on my guitars, reading books (fantasy and sci-fi mostly - The Witcher and Dune Chronicles are my favorite) and manga as well. I watch anime, and some tv series like House MD, Scrubs, Big Bang Theory, and Dexter. Also i play game of Go (Igo, Weiqi, Baduk), but I'm like 16-13 kyu so I'M pretty bad i think.
For games I played Starcraft, Counter-Strike, Heroes III and Diablo II. For now I wait for SCII
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