So I saw commercials for this new "Fringe" show on Fox and thought "awesome!"... I missed the premiere and was sad. So I DL'd the first episode and then never watched it cause I was too busy with work/poker/Obama stuff. Tonight I had a good poker session (7 buyins woot!) and so I stopped and decided to have some fun and watch Fringe! Bad move.
I watched the first episode and it started off with a bit of an X-files feel. But it quickly dissolved into a hyper paced attempt to build a creepy x-files esque show. Didn't fly with me. they tried to introduce crazy conspiracy shit way too quickly, the characters love story got started already, and overall the story felt like they were trying to skip character development so that they could get to the "juicy stuff" asaply. It was not what I was hoping for and overall fell very flat.
An NL50 sinner repentsby thestoryteller, October 11
The strangest thing happened to me yesterday.
So there I was, a miserable sinner, taking my first real shot at NL50 this week while dowloading porn via bitcomet. Yes, gambling, pornography and copyright infringement all at the same time. Bad beats and coolers came nonstop until my poker graph looked like it was tracking the value of the Aussie dollar.
I was ready to throw my keyboard out the window in disgust when I decided to change the music I was playing in the background to... the Hallelujah chorus. And then my luck just turned around.
Imagine a chorus singing HALLELUJAH! HALLELUJAH! as the perfect flop hits. Imagine FOR THE LORD GOD OMNIPOTENT REIGNETH ringing out as your hand holds up.
cleric2525: checks
Cynicism328: bets $4
Karen668 : raises $8 to $12
cleric2525: folds
Cynicism328: raises $28 to $40
Karen668 : raises $75.60 to $115.60 and is all-in
Cynicism328: calls $20.60 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($55) returned to Karen668
Showdown Cynicism328: shows (a pair of Kings)
Karen668 : shows (a flush, Queen high)
Karen668 collected $123.70 from pot
Summary Total pot $126.70 | Rake $3
Board
Seat 1: Sealand folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: airman63 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: Karen668 showed and won ($123.70) with a flush, Queen high
Seat 4: Shego folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Free-Cash-PS (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: ord_cubs (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 7: cleric2525 (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 9: Cynicism328 showed and lost with a pair of Kings
And then to the jubilant declaration of
KING OF KINGS!
and LORD OF LORDS!
I inflict grevious harm on a multitabling villain with a nasty, heaven sanctioned cooler.
POKERSTARS GAME #21100533713: HOLD'EM NO LIMIT ($0.25/$0.50) - 2008/10/11 4:27:35 ET
Table 'Kythera IV' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: FourAcesNow ($59.25 in chips)
Seat 2: BNice21 ($8.90 in chips)
Seat 3: Zpat82 ($76.30 in chips)
Seat 4: Free-Cash-PS ($57 in chips)
Seat 5: chrisf021620 ($11.40 in chips)
Seat 6: King Tubbys ($35 in chips)
Seat 7: zefi666 ($15.45 in chips)
Seat 8: Karen668 ($80.75 in chips)
kingly66 will be allowed to play after the button
FourAcesNow: posts small blind $0.25
BNice21: posts big blind $0.50
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Karen668
Zpat82: folds
Free-Cash-PS: raises $0.75 to $1.25
chrisf021620: folds
King Tubbys: folds
zefi666: folds
Karen668 : raises $2.75 to $4
FourAcesNow: folds
BNice21: folds
Free-Cash-PS: calls $2.75
Showdown Free-Cash-PS: shows (a full house, Fours full of Eights)
Karen668 : shows (a full house, Queens full of Eights)
Karen668 collected $111.75 from pot
Summary Total pot $114.75 | Rake $3
Board
Seat 1: FourAcesNow (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: BNice21 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: Zpat82 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: Free-Cash-PS showed and lost with a full house, Fours full of Eights
Seat 5: chrisf021620 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: King Tubbys folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: zefi666 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: Karen668 (button) showed and won ($111.75) with a full house, Queens full of Eights
In a rush of religious ecstacy I continued with "Angels We Have Heard on High", appropriately sung by the Law Vegas Masters Singers accompanied by the Las Vegas Philharmonic. As the hymn's distinctive chorus rang out,
Jayage3: bets $5
TeCeK: raises $11.65 to $16.65 and is all-in
Karen668 : raises $11.65 to $28.30
Jayage3: calls $10.05 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($11.65) returned to Karen668
Showdown TeCeK: shows (high card King)
Karen668 : shows (a pair of Aces)
Karen668 collected $3.20 from side pot
Jayage3: mucks hand
Jayage3 leaves the table
Karen668 collected $87.90 from main pot
Summary Total pot $94.10 Main pot $87.90. Side pot $3.20. | Rake $3
Board
Seat 1: birbidon (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: Zpat82 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: ckdemon (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: Jayage3 mucked
Seat 5: helios25 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: ssp25 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: TeCeK showed and lost with high card King
Seat 8: Karen668 showed and won ($91.10) with a pair of Aces
Seat 9: Asta92 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
I'm sure nobody calls PF 4 bets with hole cards like those without divine intervention.
The track ended and I immediately ran into this hand:
birbidon: checks
Karen668 : bets $30.40 and is all-in
birbidon: calls $29.45 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($0.95) returned to Karen668
River (Pot : $111.25)
Showdown birbidon: shows (three of a kind, Aces)
Karen668 : mucks hand
birbidon collected $87 from side pot
weall138: mucks hand
birbidon collected $21.25 from main pot
weall138 leaves the table
Summary Total pot $111.25 Main pot $21.25. Side pot $87. | Rake $3
Board
Seat 1: weall138 mucked
Seat 2: KONAN V11 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: DrPsychee (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: Mad fmQ (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: FourAcesNow folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: birbidon showed and won ($108.25) with three of a kind, Aces
Seat 7: Karen668 mucked
Seat 8: Free-Cash-PS folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: King Tubbys folded before Flop (didn't bet)
But it was not long before "Come All Ye Faithful" was reverberating from my speakers. As I roared out "GLORY TO GOD, GLORY IN THE HIGHEST" I came storming back, delivering the smackdown (smitedown?) to win a big chunk of it back.
Showdown Karen668 : shows (two pair, Aces and Fours)
birbidon: mucks hand
OneM24 said, "sigh"
Karen668 collected $67.55 from pot
birbidon leaves the table
Summary Total pot $70.55 | Rake $3
Board
Seat 1: birbidon (button) mucked
Seat 2: Zpat82 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: ckdemon (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: Dryelarf folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: helios25 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: ssp25 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: TripleA113 folded before Flop
Seat 8: Karen668 showed and won ($67.55) with two pair, Aces and Fours
Seat 9: OneM24 folded before Flop
The rest of the session continued in that vein. When I finally stopped, I found that my download speed had dropped to 6kbs and I had won back the 6 buy ins I had lost and a whole lot more so my overall winrate is now a decent 3ptbb/100.
I'm definitely attending evening mass tonight and giving a hefty donation.
so ummmmm, update, reached 5k goal, will shoot at nl100fr shortly
im trying to nit it up br wise because i figure if i cant handle grinding out this many buyins at nl50 then i wont be able to stand grinding at higher limits plus it just makes me more comfortable i guess.
goals by end of year:
[ ] become a sick grinder, i still dont play enough i want to be playing like 10-12 hour days and i still only do 6-8 on good days
[ ] hit supernova, should be okay to hit by mid nov to early dec.
[ ] become comfortable with nl100fr on stars. i dont have any definition of what means i have, but ill know.
ive only played like 130k lifetime hands at nl50 and i feel like at nl100 i want to play at least 200k.
Well shit, maybe the move wasn't such a good idea after all. I think I have grown way too accustomed to Pokerstars that I cannot play on anything else? I played 3 sessions today, 2 4 tabling and 1 2 tabling and I got a collective winrate of -18BB/100. Srsly, wtf? I dunno what it is, those little avatar people make it feel like a joke and and then I play like shit. I tried iBollide too to try and make things better, but same thing. Well, I think I'll move back to Stars. Rakeback must be so nice, but what does it matter when your lose rate makes it look like a mickey mouse joke.
Well september was my best month ever - around $10k with rakeback and bonuses. I was happy and rdy to hit 2/4 tables but i decided to make a cashout for $4k and continue grindin 1/2 till the end of october and then with big roll play 2/4 november....
Then this happens... http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/521cbf67d87617b0163214043ae5d270.jpg
I am very close to droping back to 100 nl, we'll see next few days.
I hate life obv and will be playin 0.5/1 in november not 2/4. 11 sessions this month and not one in the green. U gotta be kiddin me - stupid monkeys runnin like gods all the time, random coolers and ofc tilt/spew a bit. I just gotta hope it will end soon and i will be able to recover till the end of this month.
Take care and gl.
I enjoy reading lp so i felt like writing a bit; its my first blog here; just some random stuff about recent happenings in my life.
Got some freetime next to my job so I decided to spend some time on online poker. I've played some poker around 2yrs ago but quit because of job,gf and sports only a few weeks after ive started. wasnt any good and just played for fun a bit.
So I started playing again in october on micro tables $0.01/$0.02 NL, mostly 6-max with 6-8 tables at the same time. I played around 2k hands so far (will try to play around 30k hands until the end of october). graph of my last two sessions: http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/7415/gra2cd1.jpg
Below some random pictures of my trip to netherlands during this summer with my gf (no partying, no rush, just lots of silence and time for relaxing) http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/104/ur1ip5.jpg
Beat: Playing AKHoosier1 heads-up, and being quite disappointed by his play. Given that I needed the money more than the ticket, I wasn't exactly playing my heart out to win, and he really failed to adjust to exploit that.
Variance: Wanted to play the EPT Warsaw Step 6 because they pay $2900 for 2nd and 3rd, but couldn't because nobody wants to go to Poland.
Reposting this cause in this time of nonstop smears it's nice to seem some positive images.
Cool video with a bunch of behind the scenes footage at the DNC showing Barack/Biden/Michelle when they're off stage. Some of it's boring but skip around and check it out - about 9 minutes in there's a fun spot with Barack and Michelle backstage goofing off.
I just played my first session on Propaganda Poker (50NL to get used to things) and to sum it up, it was completely /wrists. I really think the aesthetics and layout completely sucks wrinkly old scrotums. Haven't enjoyed it at all so far except for maybe a few moments when my overpair rivered a set vs a flopped set. That was about it. I am going to try playing again later today so hopefully things will work out better and hopefully I can get used to it. I miss stars
I'm offering coaching to people who play Fullring at NL50 or NL100.
Hourly rate would be 65 for NL50 players and 75$ for NL100 regs,doing it anything under that would be massively -EV for me since my hourly rate is way higher but I just wanna give coaching a shot.
If one would take a 5-10 lession pack and would be unsatisified how things are going by the 3rd lession refunds are available.
Payments would be done 50% upfront 50% on the end of the lession pack.
Long term coaching is also a possibility If I get multiple applies for it I will only take one person who I will pick after reviewing some important factors as dedication to poker,future plans and personality.
Quite a few people can vouch for my credibility and my game understanding.
If interested PM me and we'll go from there.
I play a 17/14 style at FR and I'm a big winner at NL100 and NL50,currently playing NL200...
I won the EPT Budapest package worth $9,250 via PS EPT Steps, which seems to me like a kinda easy way to EPT's btw.
That means, I am coming to Budapest on the 27th of October and will stay there till 2nd of November probably.
Anyone here knows Budapest? I heard its a nice city, so I would like some recommendation on where to go, what to visit, etc.
Also, who else is coming from LP?
On an unrelated note, I am currently going through probably the worst downswing this year so far. I started the month very good, being almost +10k in first 4 days, but since then I have been losing every single day and managed to lose like $24k or something like that playing mostly 3/6 with a bit of 5/10. Kinda dissapointing since I was hoping October would be my best month of the year as it was the past 2 years. Well there is still a chance to make it the month of the year, but I would prolly need to hit some tourney or get on a sicko heater for the rest of the month in cash games.
Epic fail at donkament + sng updateby edzwoo, October 11
Submitted by : edzwoo
PokerStars Game #21094810419: Tournament #112086260, $2.00+$0.20 Hold'em No Limit - Level VIII (150/300) - 2008/10/10 22:13:20 ET
Table '112086260 107' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: zavier00 (15997 in chips)
Seat 2: Cinimod1 (5984 in chips)
Seat 3: shoalhopper (16298 in chips)
Seat 4: huniobba (6382 in chips)
Seat 5: robocopper34 (10067 in chips)
Seat 6: Hero (15213 in chips)
Seat 7: agize (18001 in chips)
Seat 8: 1 EUR (7821 in chips)
Seat 9: pooter117 (10772 in chips)
zavier00: posts the ante 25
Cinimod1: posts the ante 25
shoalhopper: posts the ante 25
huniobba: posts the ante 25
robocopper34: posts the ante 25
Hero : posts the ante 25
agize: posts the ante 25
1 EUR: posts the ante 25
pooter117: posts the ante 25
Hero : posts small blind 150
agize: posts big blind 300
Showdown Hero : shows (high card Queen)
agize: shows (a straight, Nine to King)
agize collected 30601 from pot
Summary Total pot 30601 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: zavier00 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: Cinimod1 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: shoalhopper folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: huniobba folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: robocopper34 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: Hero (small blind) showed and lost with high card Queen
Seat 7: agize (big blind) showed and won (30601) with a straight, Nine to King
Seat 8: 1 EUR folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: pooter117 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Don't ask why because I don't know
Anyways, I went down playing a bit playing the $6.50 turbos, but I just finished a +$75 session. Ship ship.
PokerStars Game #21098037033: Tournament #112090750, $100+$9 Hold'em No Limit - Level VIII (150/300) - 2008/10/11 0:56:17 ET
Table '112090750 31' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: nutshot2 (7519 in chips)
Seat 2: gregoryc42 (5600 in chips)
Seat 3: seanpark (10115 in chips)
Seat 4: HooBangin (10200 in chips)
Seat 5: Dinhjo (10535 in chips)
Seat 6: JSD1000 (7693 in chips)
Seat 7: Ididthis (17783 in chips)
Seat 8: darbo1 (8294 in chips)
Seat 9: UNC#1 (2445 in chips)
nutshot2 : posts the ante 25
gregoryc42: posts the ante 25
seanpark: posts the ante 25
HooBangin: posts the ante 25
Dinhjo: posts the ante 25
JSD1000: posts the ante 25
Ididthis: posts the ante 25
darbo1: posts the ante 25
UNC#1: posts the ante 25
gregoryc42: posts small blind 150
seanpark: posts big blind 300
Showdown seanpark: shows (two pair, Nines and Sevens)
nutshot2 : shows (a pair of Nines)
nutshot2 said, "??????????????????????????"
seanpark collected 15363 from pot
Summary Total pot 15363 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: nutshot2 (button) showed and lost with a pair of Nines
Seat 2: gregoryc42 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: seanpark (big blind) showed and won (15363) with two pair, Nines and Sevens
Seat 4: HooBangin folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Dinhjo folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: JSD1000 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: Ididthis folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: darbo1 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: UNC#1 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
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(a pair of Kings)
(a full house, Fours full of Eights)
(high card King)
i want to be playing like 10-12 hour days and i still only do 6-8 on good days
, good luck on the tables guys.
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