PokerStars Tournament #174526769, Pot Limit Omaha
Buy-In: $10.00/$1.00
198 players
Total Prize Pool: $1980.00
Tournament started 2009/07/03 16:50:00 ET
Dear iD.VaLi,
You finished the tournament in 1st place. A USD 495.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.
From now on I'm going to try and update my blog everyday that i play. Since I play mtt's i only play about 5 days a week since it can be pretty draining to go deep in a tourny and get coolered or sucked out on near the end of it.
Looking for feedback on this blog format so tell me what you think.
Playing a small session as we speak because I'm probably gonna be playing Dota tonight. Ill update again tomorrow probably. Also looking for advice from good mtt players.
PokerStars Game #30046726627: Holdem No Limit ($0.25/$0.50) - 2009/07/03 7:38:37 ET
Table Frisia 6-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: Kimberleyxxx ($104.85 in chips)
Seat 2: floxizz ($54.15 in chips)
Seat 3: darkcaller ($50 in chips)
Seat 4: shipopotamus ($272.25 in chips)
Seat 5: DoC.LemOn ($50.25 in chips)
Seat 6: rick beek ($58.70 in chips)
DoC.LemOn: posts small blind $0.25
rick beek: posts big blind $0.50
Holecards Dealt to DoC.LemOn
Kimberleyxxx: folds
Kimberleyxxx is sitting out
floxizz: folds
darkcaller: raises $1.25 to $1.75
shipopotamus: calls $1.75
DoC.LemOn: raises $5.50 to $7.25
rick beek: folds
darkcaller: folds
shipopotamus: raises $11.25 to $18.50
DoC.LemOn: raises $31.75 to $50.25 and is all-in
rick beek said, "he has ace ace or 2 kings"
shipopotamus: folds
Uncalled bet ($31.75) returned to DoC.LemOn
rick beek said, "i think"
DoC.LemOn collected $39.25 from pot
DoC.LemOn: shows (high card Ace)
Here I could pot flop and bet more turn, lost a couple bucks there. + Show Spoiler +
Submitted by : LemOn[5thF]
PokerStars Game #30047009458: Holdem No Limit ($0.25/$0.50) - 2009/07/03 7:54:21 ET
Table Indus 6-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: Dr. Sexxxx ($53.45 in chips)
Seat 2: Matigol9 ($64.50 in chips)
Seat 3: Summetone ($52.90 in chips)
Seat 4: DoC.LemOn ($55 in chips)
Seat 5: MAQAS ($74.60 in chips)
DoC.LemOn: posts small blind $0.25
MAQAS: posts big blind $0.50
Bacco777: sits out
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to DoC.LemOn
Dr. Sexxxx: folds
Matigol9: folds
Summetone: calls $0.50
DoC.LemOn: raises $1.50 to $2
MAQAS: folds
Summetone: calls $1.50
Showdown DoC.LemOn: shows (a straight, Six to Ten)
Summetone: shows (two pair, Nines and Eights)
DoC.LemOn collected $61.10 from pot
Summary Total pot $63.10 | Rake $2
Board
Seat 1: Dr. Sexxxx folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 2: Matigol9 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 3: Summetone (button) showed and lost with two pair, Nines and Eights
Seat 4: DoC.LemOn (small blind) showed and won ($61.10) with a straight, Six to Ten
Seat 5: MAQAS (big blind) folded before Flop
His stats were tight (11/10), but my gut told me he might have been trying to pick the dead money a decent amount of time+ the turn bet was way too weak. + Show Spoiler +
Submitted by : LemOn[5thF]
PokerStars Game #30047110244: Holdem No Limit ($0.25/$0.50) - 2009/07/03 7:59:51 ET
Table Asta 6-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: mavverick001 ($49.25 in chips)
Seat 2: Floh_1887 ($23.50 in chips)
Seat 3: WimHell ($49.25 in chips)
Seat 4: protossuser ($51.95 in chips)
Seat 5: DoC.LemOn ($67.90 in chips)
Seat 6: jonah2008 ($46.60 in chips)
protossuser: posts small blind $0.25
DoC.LemOn: posts big blind $0.50
protossuser: bets $14
DoC.LemOn: raises $41.90 to $55.90 and is all-in
protossuser: folds
Uncalled bet ($41.90) returned to DoC.LemOn
DoC.LemOn collected $53.75 from pot
Summary Total pot $56.50 | Rake $2.75
Board
Seat 1: mavverick001 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 2: Floh_1887 folded on the Flop
Seat 3: WimHell (button) folded before Flop
Seat 4: protossuser (small blind) folded on the Turn
Seat 5: DoC.LemOn (big blind) collected ($53.75)
Seat 6: jonah2008 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
PokerStars Game #30047215902: Holdem No Limit ($0.25/$0.50) - 2009/07/03 8:04:46 ET
Table Asta 6-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: zinc0u ($12 in chips)
Seat 2: Floh_1887 ($19.75 in chips)
Seat 3: WimHell ($46.75 in chips)
Seat 4: protossuser ($53.20 in chips)
Seat 5: DoC.LemOn ($92.15 in chips)
Seat 6: jonah2008 ($47.10 in chips)
protossuser: posts small blind $0.25
DoC.LemOn: posts big blind $0.50
DoC.LemOn: bets $7
zinc0u: calls $6.50 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($0.50) returned to DoC.LemOn
Showdown DoC.LemOn: shows (two pair, Tens and Sevens)
zinc0u: mucks hand
DoC.LemOn collected $23.10 from pot
zinc0u leaves the table
Summary Total pot $24.25 | Rake $1.15
Board
Seat 1: zinc0u mucked
Seat 2: Floh_1887 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 3: WimHell (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: protossuser (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: DoC.LemOn (big blind) showed and won ($23.10) with two pair, Tens and Sevens
Seat 6: jonah2008 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
NL50 So far: (the drop is from a very standard AK vs AA against a Maniac PF All-in)inhttp://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/589193531e1c29cfaea315807d450fcd.png
Something tells me that red line will be my major source if income at this limit. I have been applying 4bet bluffs, double barrels, range balancing c/r bluffs and donk bets at NL25 for a long time now, with only breakeven results from the bluffs and benefit of metagame, But at NL50 it seems to be finally tipping into positive figures.
So last night a few girls came up from Iowa to party and chill at my buddies house.
We played some P & A and Ride The Bus, even I got pretty drunk... But then again I swear I was the only one drinking legit drinks, and I had a mixed drink on top of that.
Funny story I end up crashing on the couch, and my buddy crashes on the one adjacent to it. A few minutes go by then I hear someone walking up from downstairs over to the couch, I look over and it's obv one of the girls (the model to be exact) then I start hearing kissing shit and before long they're fucking hardcore right next to my fucking head. I had a pretty sick read on the guy not lasting more than 5 minutes so I figured I'd enjoy the trip and also add some lullz in at the end.
So about 5 minutes go by and they stop, he gets up to go to the bathroom when I pop up off the couch and say pretty loudly "Tag Out!" He instinctively puts up his hand and I kinda skip over to the girl who proceeds to call me a few rude names and goes back downstairs.
Tonight is the beer pong tourney; I'll have pics hopefully tomorrow morning, if not... I'll have a long update on the 5th that will include tonight and tomorrow's adventures.
I hope I didn't kill my chances with fucking that chick though :[
p.s. a few nights ago I was at a party after bar close with a few buddies and people I graduated with... Anyways one girl there was all on my cock, I end up asking her, "In that closet... Or in the woods"
[I had no idea who she was, apparently a friend of a friends who was there, if I knew her name I'd look up photo's on facebook but All I remember is her name was Angie xD /phail........]
She chose in the woods, I am like [yezzzzzzz] I tell her I'm going to piss I'll brb. 1 Minute later I walk out of the bathroom, I cant find the girl outside, I walk back in and she's passed out COLD ON THE FUCKING COUCH.
I RUN SOOOOOOOOOO BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Selllling WSOP Main Event Action!by BigRed0000, July 03
Hello Liquid Poker
I'm selling 50% action total in the WSOP ME. B/c it's the main event and it's so incredibly soft/awesome i'm selling at 1.1 to 1. 10% = 1100$. If you are in vegas and have cash that is great and preferred, anyone who wants to buy but can only send online, if I don't find enough people with live cash then I will let you know . PM or leave messages if you are interested, thanks and GL everyone. See lots of you tomorrow at Evan's for the 4th of July!
So far I have been limiting myself to shorter +3-6 BI sessions and then stopping to play again later. It has gone really well doing this so far as I have been playing a morning/afternoon/night session. Here are the results for that so far.
As you can see most of the sessions are super super short with the exception of the one where i got stuck alot right away and had to grind back up to even. I have done this in the past before with awesome results each time so hopefully I can continue with it this month. I somehow booked about 2.5k more in action against me hitting 10k but I am pretty sure I will not be getting anymore action. Total I have around 8k in Props now so hopefully I can take them all down.
I have a few volume prop bets also this month but at this rate I feel like i wont hit them playing nl100 because I really don't want to potentially have a big bad session so I will most likely put in the hands at nl50 6max or nl200 FR.
I really don't know how/why I am winning so much right away at the start of my sessions. Usually I will just load up 10+ empty tables and then join other tables when I start my session and the players that sit with me to start tables are super bad and I win alot right away. I see how jrockhaf has been able to win so much at his sick winrate by doing this. I have been working on my HU/shorthanded game alot lately and feel my progress is going really well. Hopefully can keep studying my game/watching videos and get better.
probably the worst run prelim event I've ever played. nothing spectacular within the first 2-3 hrs except for 2 hands.
1st hand: everyone folds to me otb with ATo at 75/150 with eff. stack of 16k. I opened to 500 cuz the bb is an old guy who defends his bb pretty wide and plays quite straightfoward. BB 3bets to 1600 and I flat with intention of using my postflop skill to take down the pot later.
Flop (3275) Kd Qs Js
bb cbets 2k and I made a gay raise with my flopped nuts to 4475 and bb tank called.
Turn (12275) Tc
bb checks and I bet 4k and he instant crai for the rest of his chips and i knew we were chopping..
bb turns over AQo for the chop. well played sir.
2nd hand:
After the 2nd break, I had around 11k left and blinds were 150/300/25
prior to this hand, I have 3bet-allin pre 2 hands w/ 99 and 77 respectively so my table image is def not as tightish as I was in the first 4 lvls.
utg limps, and co (who wears a 2009 bracelet but i have no clue who he is cuz I own him postflop pretty bad and he's been getting out of my way) made it 1100 to go. I looked down and saw AdAs and decided to flat and go with my hand on pretty much all flops. Blinds folded and utg also called.
Flop (3800) Ac Kh 4h (uber nuts baby!)
utg donks out 1400 and pfr raised to 4800, I thought for a min and shipped the rest of my chips and utg folded. pfr instant called and turned over Q8hh. one time plz!
turn was a 5 and river was a 10 of heart and sent me to the rail.
cliff notes: played very well and solid and got my money in way good but couldnt' hold up. fml
Does anyone here remember learning in school about the March of the Bonus Army in 1932? If so please let me know.
Here is a youtube video on it, it is in 3 parts
Personally I can't recall even any mention of this and I'm pretty sure I would remember something like this. A shame if you ask me.
I am reminded of Rage Against the Machine
Who controls the past now, controls the future
Who controls the present now, controls the past
Who controls the past now ,controls the future
Who controls the present now?
Now testify
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Pokerwise, June '09 overall was a very interesting month to say the least. Started out bad but ended really good. I now play on both Stars and FTP and I got hands in everyday in June except for 3. I am very happy with the overall results.
I am debating how I am going to go about July '09 pokerwise tho. For a few different reasons, I am conjuring up and debating doing a small challenge to myself. Basically to keep things interesting and the need of the grind sharp I am envisioning me cashing out and starting over on one of the sites (most likely Stars) and grinding and blogging about my overall monthly grind. There is a part of me that would like to blog more about poker this month but another part of me that says there is no need to tack yet another thing onto my list so I'm not sure yet.
I have a pretty packed 4th tho so I do not think I am going to start getting tons of hands in until around the 7th. I'll mule it over until then. It pretty much revolves around the cashout.
That's it for now
peace~
I have never really posted here, but as I decided to quit it I realized that it would be nice to summarize my time playing poker and share it with those who wanna read it.
I started playing 2 years ago. First freerolls, but never more than once a week and such. The true beginning was typical - deposited 30$ in December last year, played NL2 and built up. I was still learning the game multitabling FR playing typical ABC. I was doing fine and I really enjoyed playing as well as reading everything I got my hands on, watching every single piece of poker television ever released and listening to countless poker podcasts. I didn't play that many hands and was more devoted to learning the game, but still as the time went by I moved to NL10 after about 2 months and in March last year I shot at NL25 with 20BI. My first 3 days were awesome. I had 900$ and was having another great session and then bam, in 40 minutes I lost set over set to rivered quads 2 times, AA vs KK twice and 6BI was gone. I didn't really understand how this could happen, but quit that day and decided to play NL10 again the next day. Unfortunetely nothing was going ok and after 3 months of struggling I was almost broke. I withdrew my last 50$ and decided not to play for some time.
Three weeks later I was ready to play again with a fresh mindset. I deposited 200$ and played again FR NL10. After a day I was down to 30$. I decided to try sitngos I was always doing good at and built back up to about 500$ in a week. Started playing NL25 and NL50, as I thought I couldn't beat NL10 anymore. It went great and after running well for 3 weeks I was up to 1500$. I continued playing with some swings down to 800$ and back to 2000$ withdrawing like 400-500$ every month in the process. Then I made a shot at SH NL100 and got on a heater (first 4 days of November). After a week I was up to 4000$ and happy that I can finally play and enjoy it again. I remember saying "Wow, now that I have not been getting suckouted on every single time I will have to pay for it with a large downswing". Said it as a joke, because after so many months of running extremely bad I didn't really believe it could come back. I thought that it was a one time deal and I will just play poker with normal swings like everyone else.
Then came November, 5th. I lost a few buyins. Next day the same. A day after that again. I quickly moved back to NL50, but it didn't help and by the end of November I was down to 2k in disbelief. I decided to change the room to IPoker and play at Chili. I moved 1k$ there and played NL50 for some time. I didn't win a single hand playing cash games there. It just didn't matter if I had the guy down to 2 outs, to 3 outs, to 5 outs, to 9 outs - the result was always the same. Then I played one table FR sitngos and didn't cash in 25 in a row. I took me a month to go broke there. Every day I would sit, get suckouted on 3 times, quit for the day, come back the next day and the same thing over and over again. I've had enough.
I didn't play at all during Christmas. I came back in January to my old pokerroom where I had built my bankroll previously. I played NL25 and NL10 with my last 1k and it wasn't that bad. I had 13 straight winning days. I was still running bad, but the level of play somehow made me get a BI or half a BI a day there. Then I withdrew half of my bankroll and left myself with 600$. A losing day, another losing day and another one. I made a trip with my friends to play live. I won some money in cashgames, won a very small tournament and was happy. Came back ready to own, but I still couldn't win and almost didn't play at all after a few days.
Around April I decided to move to FTP to get a welcome bonus and play there. I couldn't believe it, as I played the nitty NL10 FR there and was running kings into aces 3-4 times a day. After 4 days I was down a few buyins, mostly because I lost 18BI KK vs AA and never won it even once. Then I ran with AA vs KK 4 times in a row and lost all of them. I was just pissed off and left FTP.
My friend knew that I was really good at Sitngos so he decided to put me on stars to play 6.50 turbo sitngos as I didn't want to deposit anything again. I shipped him the rest of my FTP money and got on a nice deal at stars. I was going to multitable sitngos and just going to go for goldstar. I was running ok for some time at steady 20% ROI getting to battle of planets high orbit top40 every week. My friend told me to give him some of my money as we decided on at the beginning and to keep the rest and build up again. Then I started running bad. One week, second week, third week. Every single time I had a good turbo shoving hand someone had aces, kings etc. I could never steal blinds, as every nit on the blind woke up with aces. I was getting coolered over and over again and when I was the favorite it didn't matter, as it was like a coinflip between losing and winning. I was constantly losing to underpairs flopping sets after getting it in pf. I decided to start counting flips as I was playing (turbo is obviously kinda flippish) and I won 283 out of 1000. Then I moved to normal sitngos. The level of play was awful and there were no regulars there. I guess people are more into turbo sitngos where they just use shoving ranges in their favor and play tons of them to get more fpps. At the beginning I was building back again, but then it again got bad. I've had enough and decided to quit it and go back to playing cash games. Today after getting it in good 20 times in a row, I busted the rest of my bankroll.
I've been running terrible for 8 straight months. Nothing helped. Reading books didn't help. Watching training videos didn't help. As I was watching leggo videos I realized that I wasn't doing anything wrong in general. I obviously had a few minor leaks, but nothing that would cause constant losing for a year. I consider myself to be a very bright and intelligent guy with a good feel for games in general. I tried to make myself believe that I was just playing bad and I had a lot to fix, but it just wasn't the case. I used to never go on tilt. Nowadays every single hand tilts me to death. I don't have streaks where I get 3 of my hands to hold up in a row. I have had streaks of 15-20 lost flips in a row (23 is the record) on the daily basis, but I didn't win 4 flips in a row for a year now. Anywhere I go I can't even get one good winning session. I have played a few tournaments to score sth big to make up for all the wasted time playing, but I was only able to mincash a few times thanks to playing good without showdowns and maybe getting one hand to hold up in the process. After the bubble period I have never won a major flip, got my hand to hold up or just run KK vs AA. I have met people through poker who noticed that I was pretty good and kept persuading me that everyone has downswings and it will turn back on in my favor soon. I obviously know that. But I just can't win.
I used to love poker. It gave me a chance to compete and earn some money (I am extremely competitive) at the same time. Nowadays I hate poker. I don't consider it to be a game of skill anymore. I believe that it has never been a game of skill. Statistics is not mathematics. There are just people who run better and people who run worse. Those who play well just maximize their winnings or go broke slower. I devoted every minute of my free time in the last 2 years (aside from school obviously) to learn the game and play it well. It backfired badly. I wasted so many hours that it is just painful to think about. I am mentally destroyed, I can't keep my mind straight anymore. I am an atheist, I don't believe in all the paranormal shit, but I just think I am cursed. I don't think I can play the game anymore. I can't think straight, I am scared of taking flips or getting money in as a small favorite. I don't believe I can ever win again. As as student I liked a few hundred extra bucks a month for small expenses. Now I think I would be better off just finding myself a part-time job.
To all the beginners: think twice before starting to play this game. You may be successful at it and earn some money or destroy yourselves in every way possible. Don't take anything for granted. Never.
regards, hope you don't hate me for wasting a few minutes to read it all, as I tried to make it as short as possible (and yeah, it's not really written too well. I am better at english than that),
Tomasz
This is exciting and sad at the same time. I'm gonna miss my girl like crazy and already feel it, but at the same time this is my first trip to Vegas and I've been preparing for it for months. I even started playing live poker, which I used to hate, so that I wouldn't be a total fish when I showed up in Vegas. At least now I understand how things work in a casino - at least a little bit.
Mostly done packing and I'm sure I forgot some stuff, so hopefully I remember what it was before tomorrow morning. Gonna be doing an 11 hr drive (according to mapquest, but I have heard it only takes 9) from CO to Vegas. I've got a friends place to stay at once I arrive but I'm hoping I can find an LP couch to crash on later so that I can spend more time with other poker players.
Trying to do this all on a budget, hence the couch surfing. I'm also gonna be on the subway 5 dollar footlong plan unless I can figure out another cheap way to eat while I'm there. I have this fantasy that I'll get some comps for the buffets, but that's probably from watching too many movies about Vegas, haha.
I'm excited to meet everyone. I've been talking to a lot of LP guys for ages and never met em in the flesh. Milkman, MiPwnya, Frinkx, Night201, SakiSaki, Wisdom, and a bunch more. I have a feeling this will be pretty similar to going to WCG, except everyone will be much more baller.
I'll try to post pictures here in my blog if anything exciting goes down while I'm around. And I'll probably be updating this quite a bit as I play and so on. I've been lazy on the blog lately cause I've spent a lot more time working my part time job for a non-profit than I have for poker (it's been pretty full time for the last few months cause I wanna help em out). But starting with this trip my life is gonna refocus on poker. I really want to be a 2/4 reg taking 3/6 shots by the end of this year. I feel pretty confident that I could beat 2/4 right now if I was rolled for it, but it would be for a very tiny winrate. I'm hopeful that spending time with a bunch of LP guys will allow me to learn and break through that wall. Plus if I run good I should be able to boost my roll quite well vs all the fish who will be in town.
Gonna spend tonight with my lady and then get up and I'm off to Vegas! Crazy to think that the time has actually arrived for me to do this =)
Wondering if there is anywhere else that has NL10 or lower since my rakeback provider doesn't know the fucking difference between a username and nickname and because Cellsino is rigged as fuck.
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