Sunday, February 24, 2008
Friday night game
Played Friday night at Club G (friends house where a bunch of friends play on Fridays). Was able to work up a nice stack going to the final table, kept building my stack and final split the payout with Club G himself. We both had a huge stack of chips, so we figured a split would better than playing heads up for 2 hours. I probably should have played it out but it is a pain to try to deal every other hand and focus on your cards. Need to talk to Club G about giving 3rd an extra $20 and have them deal. So I made $140 in the tournament and gave back about $90 in the cash game. Which brings me to my next item... I see myself as mainly a cash player who enjoys playing tourns.. I always felt like my cash game was better than my tourny playing but lately, my bankroll (about $5K) has come from 2 nice cashes (won 7K pulling a 2nd in a $200 buyin and won on the SunCruz for a $1700 cash)... go figure.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
I really suck at this blogging (and probably poker)
OK.. been two weeks. Just nothing interesting to post.. sos (same old shit).. bankroll keeps going up.. then down.. up.. then down... up then down.. nothing new there. Only real positive is I havent gotten bored playing and committed bankroll suicide.
Played Mookie last night and got ousted when I shoved 22 into a blind steal and the blind steal calls with A9s (I had the guy pegged as a tight player and figured he would only call my push with AA through JJ, AK and AQ but obvious I wrong). Hoyazo hit a flush on the river and that was it for me.
I really need to stick to ABC poker when I am in pots with certain players (really thought my read on his range was correct and was surprised at the call but thats poker.. yea!).
To top the night off, I was deep in the $3 rebuy, just started the Dookie and just started a $10 turbo on Bodog when my modem went out.. I rebooted, got reconnected and then it quit for the night. I blind to a cash in the $3 rebuy and was blinded out in the others.
Just grinding for now, if I can get time, will start posting some Omaha hands.. need to make this site worth something (right now I am failing miserably at that).
Played Mookie last night and got ousted when I shoved 22 into a blind steal and the blind steal calls with A9s (I had the guy pegged as a tight player and figured he would only call my push with AA through JJ, AK and AQ but obvious I wrong). Hoyazo hit a flush on the river and that was it for me.
I really need to stick to ABC poker when I am in pots with certain players (really thought my read on his range was correct and was surprised at the call but thats poker.. yea!).
To top the night off, I was deep in the $3 rebuy, just started the Dookie and just started a $10 turbo on Bodog when my modem went out.. I rebooted, got reconnected and then it quit for the night. I blind to a cash in the $3 rebuy and was blinded out in the others.
Just grinding for now, if I can get time, will start posting some Omaha hands.. need to make this site worth something (right now I am failing miserably at that).
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Computer setup and Final won a big pot
Just got my KVM (Keyboard, Video and Mouse) switch from NewEgg and it works great. Nice deal for $20. Now I will be able to play on my laptop hard drive and use my desktop keyboard, mouse and monitor. The advantage of this is that I can load PokerTracker Omaha on my laptop, use the laptop to play poker (either at my desktop or wireless if my wife is using the desktop) and then take the laptop with me to work, on the road, vacation, etc; and be able to analyze the hands I played as all the hand histories will now be on one drive (before I would play on both the laptop and the desktop and my hand histories were split between the two. It became a pain trying to keep track of the hand histories (I was storing them on a USB drive and swapping the USB drive between computers to store hand histories but his gets tedious). Now that I have this setup, my goal is to start posting a daily Omaha hand analysis.
Finally had a hand hold up in Omaha.. AA86 (me) vs KKxx vs J857...
Cap Limit of $40 (.50/1)
I limp, KKxx raises, J857 calls, another caller, I pot bet to $25 ($40 is cap), KKxx caps it, J857 calls and I call (I had to call but I dont like having AAxx vs 2 callers).
57x on flop. J857 flops 2 pairs and I flop a straight draw.
turn 3.
river 3. I won with two pair.. After 3 weeks of beat downs, I feel like I won the lottery..lol (Looking forward to getting the Omaha PokerTracker software and analyzing some of the pots I am getting involved in).
Qualified for 2 FTOP Sats (PLO and PLO8).
Ran JJ into AA in the Mookie
Missed nut flush draw in the Dookie.
Finally had a hand hold up in Omaha.. AA86 (me) vs KKxx vs J857...
Cap Limit of $40 (.50/1)
I limp, KKxx raises, J857 calls, another caller, I pot bet to $25 ($40 is cap), KKxx caps it, J857 calls and I call (I had to call but I dont like having AAxx vs 2 callers).
57x on flop. J857 flops 2 pairs and I flop a straight draw.
turn 3.
river 3. I won with two pair.. After 3 weeks of beat downs, I feel like I won the lottery..lol (Looking forward to getting the Omaha PokerTracker software and analyzing some of the pots I am getting involved in).
Qualified for 2 FTOP Sats (PLO and PLO8).
Ran JJ into AA in the Mookie
Missed nut flush draw in the Dookie.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Rakeback
Merry Christmas... I received my Rakeback today at Full Tilt which was about $450. I signed up with Rakebrain about 5 months ago and have received about $1800 in rakeback.
Use this link if you decide to sign up for rakeback as I could use the extra dough (getting my a@@ handed to me in Omaha). You can use the Rakebrain to sign up for several different sites. I just signed up for Cake poker and once I figure out how to get my money in (both credit card were declined) I plan to play there (getting burned out on FT and also getting crushed there lately)
http://www.rakebrain.com/?referral=Brad11351
Use this link if you decide to sign up for rakeback as I could use the extra dough (getting my a@@ handed to me in Omaha). You can use the Rakebrain to sign up for several different sites. I just signed up for Cake poker and once I figure out how to get my money in (both credit card were declined) I plan to play there (getting burned out on FT and also getting crushed there lately)
http://www.rakebrain.com/?referral=Brad11351
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Been slacking on the blogging
So much for the blog a day new years resolution.. I am still sucking at this.
Quick update.
SunCruzing with Ron and JD Schellnutt!
Went SunCruzing the last weekend and won/chopped the $110 Friday NL tournament. Nice cash for $1700... had on river magic card that saved me early but for the most part, my money was in good and I survived most of my races.
Lost may patience in the cash game on the night trip and was down $100. It was one of those session where I should have been happy breaking even (card dead) but I forced a hand with a weak kicker against a player who had been playing TAG all night and he took me for about $175.
Finished up about $1500 for the trip (minus the money I spent taking Ron and JD out to celebrate the tourny win/chop).
Spent the last week getting my a@@ handed to me in online Omaha and tournys... dropped levels in Omaha cash game to work on my aggression (spent to much money just calling raises... want to work on running the table).
Friday at ClubG!
Won/chopped our weekly Friday tournament at Club G. 14 players and we grinded down to 3 after about 5 hours of play. It was 2am and we were burnt, so we chopped and called it a night (my son has basketball games at 8 am on Sat. so I needed some sleep). I have to talk to ClubG about his structure. We need to get through a 13 person tourny in no more than 3 hours.
SuperBowl Rebuy at ClubG!
We had 18 players for our ClubG rebuy/addon tourny on Sunday. I rebought once and addon at the break. Worked my way to the final table stealing blinds and pushing with position with any 2 cards. This strategy finally blew up as I ran Q8 into JD's AJ. A on the flop, 8 on the turn (some hope), blank on the river sealed my fate. JD went on the take it down and the $1000 first place prize (ClubG got second and $700) while Andy pulled a 3rd for $300. CONGRATS JD.. well deserved win.
Quick update.
SunCruzing with Ron and JD Schellnutt!
Went SunCruzing the last weekend and won/chopped the $110 Friday NL tournament. Nice cash for $1700... had on river magic card that saved me early but for the most part, my money was in good and I survived most of my races.
Lost may patience in the cash game on the night trip and was down $100. It was one of those session where I should have been happy breaking even (card dead) but I forced a hand with a weak kicker against a player who had been playing TAG all night and he took me for about $175.
Finished up about $1500 for the trip (minus the money I spent taking Ron and JD out to celebrate the tourny win/chop).
Spent the last week getting my a@@ handed to me in online Omaha and tournys... dropped levels in Omaha cash game to work on my aggression (spent to much money just calling raises... want to work on running the table).
Friday at ClubG!
Won/chopped our weekly Friday tournament at Club G. 14 players and we grinded down to 3 after about 5 hours of play. It was 2am and we were burnt, so we chopped and called it a night (my son has basketball games at 8 am on Sat. so I needed some sleep). I have to talk to ClubG about his structure. We need to get through a 13 person tourny in no more than 3 hours.
SuperBowl Rebuy at ClubG!
We had 18 players for our ClubG rebuy/addon tourny on Sunday. I rebought once and addon at the break. Worked my way to the final table stealing blinds and pushing with position with any 2 cards. This strategy finally blew up as I ran Q8 into JD's AJ. A on the flop, 8 on the turn (some hope), blank on the river sealed my fate. JD went on the take it down and the $1000 first place prize (ClubG got second and $700) while Andy pulled a 3rd for $300. CONGRATS JD.. well deserved win.
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