Check this runner runner...

PokerStars Game #20794215376: Tournament #111145828, $3.00+$0.25 Hold'em No Limit - Level VI (100/200) - 2008/09/29 15:53:10 ET
Table '111145828 1' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 3: Dwight Box (4720 in chips)
Seat 4: donhamel (2185 in chips)
Seat 5: LUPILEON (1730 in chips)
Seat 6: CrusaderP19 (6300 in chips)
Seat 7: ItsHolliday (770 in chips)
Seat 8: beliall666 (2415 in chips)
Seat 9: Riddick2000 (2945 in chips)
CrusaderP19: posts small blind 100
ItsHolliday: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to ItsHolliday [3h Qs]
beliall666: folds
Riddick2000: folds
Dwight Box: folds
donhamel: folds
LUPILEON: calls 200
CrusaderP19: calls 100
ItsHolliday: checks
*** FLOP *** [Jh Ts As]
CrusaderP19: bets 200
ItsHolliday: raises 370 to 570 and is all-in
LUPILEON: calls 570
CrusaderP19: folds
ItsHolliday said, "K"
*** TURN *** [Jh Ts As] [Js]
*** RIVER *** [Jh Ts As Js] [Ks]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
ItsHolliday: shows [3h Qs] (a Royal Flush)
LUPILEON: shows [Ad Tc] (two pair, Aces and Jacks)
ItsHolliday said, "LOL"
ItsHolliday collected 1940 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1940 | Rake 0
Board [Jh Ts As Js Ks]
Seat 3: Dwight Box folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: donhamel folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: LUPILEON (button) showed [Ad Tc] and lost with two pair, Aces and Jacks
Seat 6: CrusaderP19 (small blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 7: ItsHolliday (big blind) showed [3h Qs] and won (1940) with a Royal Flush
Seat 8: beliall666 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: Riddick2000 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Where the hell is everyone?

Poker....ever heard of it? It's this neat little game with cards and chips and stuff. Anyway, I was just checking in since everyone disappeared so I'm not even sure if anyone will even read this. How's everyone doing? Winning? Losing? Playing the hottest new online multiplayer geekfest?

Anyway, I've gone back to my old ways for a bit (playing 8-12 tables of full ring). I've been winning so I'm happy about that. I think I need to grind myself out of the lower limits so I can go back to 6-handed.

Tournaments are going OK. I played in the WCOOP Appreciation Freeroll (anyone who played in the WCOOP got a ticket) yesterday. Took 251st out of 10,180 so that wasn't too bad...only won $31.50 but it was nice to go pretty deep. I'm playing in the $1 Million Turbo Takedown today so we'll see how that goes as well.

Hope all is well. Latez...

Meet Nick S.

So yesterday at the a tourney I met someone named Nick S. his last name was some long name I can't remember. Anyway, he has been serious about Hold'em for 5 years now, even got a degree in pysch. He moved out to vegas with 3k and started gambling. Thinks were going ok, he was running late to a tourney and missed it so he found that it was only $333 for a satalite for the WSOP. He gave it a shot and won, then he sold the seat for $10,200. He played it again (34 people) and won again, so he sold that seat as well. He decide he would play more and if he wins again he would go and play the 2008 WSOP. So third satalite he just missed it and didn't win, was very close. So he played a fourth, then a fifth, and finally winning his 3rd time on the sixth.

He went back and slept for 3 hours and came back to play in WSOP, he played very tight on day 1, day 2 he sat with a maniac and watched this guy just run over people by playing reckless, so day 3 he decided to do the same thing, then day 4 he continued playing that way, finally day 5 he started tighting back up. Well he did very well and ended up in 13th place they started out with around 6.5k people. He took in $436k. Pretty crazy meeing someone like that at a free tourney...he even told Holliday in the middle of the hand...man you gonna play your kings that way? He had a pocket pair of Kings..lol.

Also in the tourney grats to Holliday for 5th place, Nick placed 3rd. I went all in with AKo vs Ad Qd Flop hit rainbow A 10 J dealer says you sure you don't want a Q I said ok I'll take a Q, so next card, BAM Q I hit my straight. Dealer said now you don't want a Queen do you, well BAM Q again, Villian hits a full boat..tough way to go out. Final Hero: AK, Villian: AQ, Board A 10 J Q Q. Rachel went out on Ac7c and board was 2 clubs, went all in and missed the flush against 2 pair.

On Fire

So I feel like I'm really getting 10 NL down. This weekend it is amazing how many fish there are who go all in with nothing. I did catch some cards so it wasn't all skill but I feel I did pretty well. If I kept this rate up I would be at $25 in no time, but I'm not in a hurry yet. I do feel like I get burnt out much quicker because of how much I am concentrating on the game. Well here is my overall progress thus far.

Why you need at least 20 buy-ins for any particular level you play.

I saw your post about losing to quads Kev and thought you might get a kick out of this.

POKERSTARS GAME #20064805583: HOLD'EM NO LIMIT ($3/$6) - 2008/09/01 - 12:00:29 (ET)
Table 'Peitho II' 6-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: TTURQUOISE ($1604.50 in chips)
Seat 2: bingotnght ($573 in chips)
Seat 3: Jschlach ($629.30 in chips)
Seat 4: k345 ($802.45 in chips)
Seat 5: Hyi_Vam ($120 in chips)
Seat 6: Luciferian ($123.80 in chips)
k345: posts small blind $3
Hyi_Vam: posts big blind $6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to bingotnght [As Ad]
Luciferian: folds
TTURQUOISE: calls $6
bingotnght: raises $24 to $30
Jschlach: folds
k345: raises $66 to $96
Hyi_Vam: folds
TTURQUOISE: folds
bingotnght: raises $477 to $573 and is all-in
k345: calls $477
*** FLOP *** [Ah Ts 2c]
*** TURN *** [Ah Ts 2c] [Ks]
*** RIVER *** [Ah Ts 2c Ks] [Kd]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
k345: shows [Kc Kh] (four of a kind, Kings)
bingotnght: mucks hand
k345 collected $1155 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $1158 | Rake $3
Board [Ah Ts 2c Ks Kd]
Seat 1: TTURQUOISE folded before Flop
Seat 2: bingotnght mucked [As Ad]
Seat 3: Jschlach (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: k345 (small blind) showed [Kc Kh] and won ($1155) with four of a kind, Kings
Seat 5: Hyi_Vam (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: Luciferian folded before Flop (didn't bet)

This was such a small raise out of SB for this particular player, I expected him to be very strong so decided to push and make it look like AK. Everything worked out except for the results, lol.

Here's another one from the same table 20 minutes later.

POKERSTARS GAME #20065406396: HOLD'EM NO LIMIT ($3/$6) - 2008/09/01 - 12:27:11 (ET)
Table 'Peitho II' 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: TTURQUOISE ($1312.95 in chips)
Seat 2: bingotnght ($591 in chips)
Seat 3: Jschlach ($2184.90 in chips)
Seat 4: no_dow_for_u ($591 in chips)
Seat 5: Hyi_Vam ($600 in chips)
Seat 6: LittleZen ($244 in chips)
TTURQUOISE: posts small blind $3
bingotnght: posts big blind $6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to bingotnght [7h 7c]
Jschlach: raises $15 to $21
no_dow_for_u: folds
Hyi_Vam: folds
LittleZen: folds
TTURQUOISE: folds
bingotnght: calls $15
*** FLOP *** [9h 7d Kd]
bingotnght: checks
Jschlach: bets $30
bingotnght: raises $30 to $60
Jschlach: raises $120 to $180
bingotnght: raises $300 to $480
Jschlach: raises $300 to $780
bingotnght: calls $90 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($210) returned to Jschlach
*** TURN *** [9h 7d Kd] [Ks]
*** RIVER *** [9h 7d Kd Ks] [6s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
bingotnght: shows [7h 7c] (a full house, Sevens full of Kings)
Jschlach: shows [9d 9s] (a full house, Nines full of Kings)
Jschlach collected $1182 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $1185 | Rake $3
Board [9h 7d Kd Ks 6s]
Seat 1: TTURQUOISE (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: bingotnght (big blind) showed [7h 7c] and lost with a full house, Sevens full of Kings
Seat 3: Jschlach showed [9d 9s] and won ($1182) with a full house, Nines full of Kings
Seat 4: no_dow_for_u folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Hyi_Vam folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: LittleZen (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Set over set your getting stacked every time, unless you hit quads of course.
Btw, I was playing 6 tables at the time and almost timed out so hit the raise button real quick and I think default is a min-raise. Usually make it $84 or $96 in that spot.

Video

Hey everyone! Been busy, but cool to see everyone still at it.
I made a 6max $.25/.50 NL video.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VECC6F3V

PokerStars: Missing HUD Display?

Make sure to update the PokerTracker after updating PokerStars to 3.17 this fixes it.

http://www.pokertracker.com/products/PT3/download.php

Played on Full Tilt while they got this fix up and running, up $13 tonight not bad.

Holes in my game

I'm writing this out for maybe some advice, possibly you suffer from these issues as well, also so I can identify what I need to improve on. I really want to get even more serious since I have noticed I really do enjoy playing online as well. Without playing this weekend I went crazy..so anyway, here is what I have noticed.

I raise to much out of the blinds. Anytime I get a hand I would open in CO I raise it up and I notice I loose most of my money out of the blinds as do most. I feel I need to call from these spots and if I hit an over card be weary about the kicker. I feel all my other spots I play very well pre-flop.

I need to be careful with tilting, after awhile I randomly start "chasing" pots thinking oh they don't have it, I'm better then this player..etc. I maybe better then that player but everyone is going to hit cards. I need to stay tight and not loosen up. If I would do this I can see myself increasing my bankroll very quickly as well.

I don't quit when I know I should. I say hey these are free hands I already paid for, why don't I wait to see if I get good cards, I then get decent cards and end up loosing money on them. I need to just close the table and not worry about that whole ten cents I spent on blinds. I doubled up yesterday and didn't close the table then lost everything the very next hand. I need to restart my internal clock by closing the table so I can tighten up more. If I have $10 on $10NL I play very well, once it gets up I loosen up.

Board hits a flush/straight, when this happens I think they don't have any piece of it, and I think we will chop, I'm not sure if this is the correct move because so far I have been paying off the other person, comments on this?Pot odds are something I am aware of but I don't follow them like I should. I'm not calculating my outs enough and I'm taking chances if I feel the player will pay me off. Even though this is one of my biggest weaknesses I don't feel it is effecting my game as much as it should be at this point since I do get lucky sometimes. This is something I need to practice and the online action is to fast for me to start out, I may just start with some change and a deck of cards, any other ideas how to increase this?

I feel my betting habits are very good, Some situations I need to be betting less, mainly against a good player that knows I'm trying to get him off a hand if I'm not positive I have it, they expect a blocker/value bet and I put to much on but over all my betting habbits are very good.

Any info on this stuff I would appreciate.

Poker Tracker Beta 16 - TRIAL EXTENSION

If the PT software hasn't prompted you yet, go download the new beta 16 version and you'll get an extension back to 60 day trial (unless of course you registered to the full version).

Glad they were small stack

I thought I had this hand won for sure... this person was a poor player..

Hand #20072367099 begins at 2008/09/01
Dealing down cardsDealt to kevinsmak [Kd Ks]
marcd6969 posts the small blind of $0.05
kevinsmak posts the big blind of $0.10
UCSB_Georgi folds.
xxvexinxx raises to $0.40.
gatomalo17 raises to $0.80.
blade1905 folds.marcd6969 folds.
kevinsmak raises to $2.40.
xxvexinxx folds.gatomalo17 raises to $3.45, and is all-in.kevinsmak calls $1.05.
Dealing Flop [3c Kh 7h]Dealing Turn [7c]Dealing River [8d]
kevinsmak shows [Kd Ks]kevinsmak has Full House, Kings full of Sevens
gatomalo17 shows [7d 7s]gatomalo17 has Four of a Kind, Sevensgatomalo17 wins $7

Got a buck or two back before he left the table at least. I did have some luck...
Hand #20072949527 begins at 2008/09/01
Dealing down cardsDealt to kevinsmak [Js Jh]
ScUmMyBuBbLe posts the small blind of $0.05
zito43 posts the big blind of $0.10
Macho_Corde folds.xxvexinxx folds.
MetzgerSau raises to $0.40.
kevinsmak raises to $1.20.
ScUmMyBuBbLe raises to $3.90, and is all-in.zito43 folds.
MetzgerSau folds.
kevinsmak calls $2.70.
Dealing Flop [3h 9c Tc]Dealing Turn [8c]Dealing River [Qs]
ScUmMyBuBbLe shows [Ac As]ScUmMyBuBbLe has One Pair, Aces
kevinsmak shows [Js Jh]kevinsmak has Straight, Queen High
kevinsmak wins $7.90

Tournament

Quick announcement. I played in the $80k guaranteed tournament last night and finished in the money. Finished 190 out of 2500 people who entered. Not bad. I won an entry by playing a satellite using my VIP points. I won $90, which puts me back on track. I definitely recommend playing the tournaments using your VIP points. Might as well unless you are trying to buy merchandise. I will say that these tournaments are wild, loose, aggressive games. I routinely witnessed people pushing their whole stack to win relatively small blinds, and then multiple people calling them. It's crazy because everytime someone shoved pre-flop, with no raises in front of them, they usually had a small pocket pair or big cards. I'm trying to understand why they make this play. One dude towards the end of the tournament would risk his whole stack each time it was his turn if nobody raised before him. His name was Maniac something. Fitting. I waited for premium hands before making any plays. It seemed to work for me.