Friday night I started played at around 9pm. I quit 2193.45 full tilt points later, down -$1,548.85 and running about $900 below expectation in all in pots. I manged to get enough points to play the Full Tilt WSOP ME freeroll but I busted in that relatively early.
Playing the Sunday Million at the moment, and it's going pretty well. Hopefully I can make a big score in that, this month has been going pretty bad. Down 7.5k at the moment.
Notable hands from this past session.
Biggest pot of the session I won.
I felt his two barreling range was pretty wide, but didn't include a lot of big aces.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4274489
Tricky spot, John thinks bet/folding river is better.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4268797
This one is pretty gross too, raising turn is probably better. I was a bit concerned he might have 76 or a set, but even if he does, I'm probably stacking off on blank rivers.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4268795
This is a really sick spot. I think I have to bet/call it off. I don't really see a better way to play.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4274866
I lost two big pots with QQ < AA, and QQ < A9 where he rivered an A. Also lost $600 BVB with AK vs KK. Pretty standard imo.
Mostly just run bad, but I was definitely tired and didn't play my best.
The World Series of Poker starts tomorrow. Can't wait, I'm going to be playing Event #4, the $1,000 buyin. They are expecting over 5,000 players, so the prize pool should be over 5 mill. First will be around $900k. Saving all of my run good for this donkament? I hope so.
See you across the felt.
Bryce
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
My Pet Project
So, ever since I graduated, I've been trying to get a Pot Limit Omaha game going at the Hustler. Most people are familiar with No limit hold'em, PLO differs in that the most you can bet is whatever is in the pot at the given time and you are dealt four cards instead of two. It is a very very different game that seems similar enough to Hold'em that many people who play Hold'em will give it a spin.
On Monday, I finally got them to run a small stakes PLO game. It had 2-2 blinds with a 100-400 buyin. The game went really smoothly because the blinds are the game. It makes a pot sized raise preflop $8, and generally only needs a $2 chip to make it work. However, the guys who run the casino didn't like that for some reason and gave me a hard time for it. Whatever, right? Well they changed it to a 2-3 blind 100-500 buyin. This is bad for two reasons. First it allows someone to shortstack the game by buying in for around 30 big blinds, and then also makes calculating the pot way harder. Now a pot sized raise is $11 which means you need two $5 chips and a $1 chip. That's way worse. But I get no respect, so whatever, they don't listen to me. Can't do much else.
At the end of April, I won a WSOP ME seat on Pokerstars. I entered a $650 Sunday satellite and won one of the 57 seats. I don't know if I'll play yet, because if I choose not to play, I'll have $12,000 in cash. That's a lot of money and it might be better if I just don't play. If I can win another $10k before it starts, I might take my shot and try to play. I'd really, really like to play the WSOP ME, so I'm a bit torn.
The brown chip game at the Hustler ran last night (5/10 NLHE), and we made it a mix with 5-5 PLO. I won around $1500, which is a solid win. I won most of it on a big semi bluff that got there on the river.
See you across the felt.
Bryce
On Monday, I finally got them to run a small stakes PLO game. It had 2-2 blinds with a 100-400 buyin. The game went really smoothly because the blinds are the game. It makes a pot sized raise preflop $8, and generally only needs a $2 chip to make it work. However, the guys who run the casino didn't like that for some reason and gave me a hard time for it. Whatever, right? Well they changed it to a 2-3 blind 100-500 buyin. This is bad for two reasons. First it allows someone to shortstack the game by buying in for around 30 big blinds, and then also makes calculating the pot way harder. Now a pot sized raise is $11 which means you need two $5 chips and a $1 chip. That's way worse. But I get no respect, so whatever, they don't listen to me. Can't do much else.
At the end of April, I won a WSOP ME seat on Pokerstars. I entered a $650 Sunday satellite and won one of the 57 seats. I don't know if I'll play yet, because if I choose not to play, I'll have $12,000 in cash. That's a lot of money and it might be better if I just don't play. If I can win another $10k before it starts, I might take my shot and try to play. I'd really, really like to play the WSOP ME, so I'm a bit torn.
The brown chip game at the Hustler ran last night (5/10 NLHE), and we made it a mix with 5-5 PLO. I won around $1500, which is a solid win. I won most of it on a big semi bluff that got there on the river.
See you across the felt.
Bryce
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Double Monthly Updates - March and April
Monthly Updates. I've been swamped with school, but I'm done now, so I can start posting again.
Online Cash Games:
March: +$2,630.35
April: -$1,692.75
YTD: $344.71
Online Tournaments:
March: -$1,790.19
April: +$10,375.19
YTD: +$11,390.79
Live Cash Games:
March: -$6,015
April: -$1,700
YTD: +$1,390
Live Tournament Poker:
March: -$510
April: +$625
YTD: -$220
Net for poker:
March: -$6,900.48
April: +$7,607.44
YTD: +$11,689.86
Stakes
March: -$911.71
April: -$44
YTD: -$1,744.56
Total Net for
March: -$7,812.19
April: +$7,563.44
YTD 2009: +$9,945.30
Online Cash Games:
March: +$2,630.35
April: -$1,692.75
YTD: $344.71
Online Tournaments:
March: -$1,790.19
April: +$10,375.19
YTD: +$11,390.79
Live Cash Games:
March: -$6,015
April: -$1,700
YTD: +$1,390
Live Tournament Poker:
March: -$510
April: +$625
YTD: -$220
Net for poker:
March: -$6,900.48
April: +$7,607.44
YTD: +$11,689.86
Stakes
March: -$911.71
April: -$44
YTD: -$1,744.56
Total Net for
March: -$7,812.19
April: +$7,563.44
YTD 2009: +$9,945.30
Monday, March 23, 2009
Monthly Report - February
Coming a bit late this month, but I've been ridiculously busy. February is going to look amazing, but I've been getting killed in March.
Online Cash Games:
February: -$214.59
YTD: -$592.89
Onine Tournaments:
February: +$738.59
YTD: +$2,805.79
Live Cash Games:
February: +$9,105 (!!)
YTD: +$9,105
Live Tournament Poker:
February: -$335
YTD: -$335
Net for poker:
February: +$9,294
YTD: +$10,982.90
Stakes
February: -$715.66
YTD: -$788.85
Total Net for the months: +$8,578.34
YTD: +$10,194.05
I wish every month was like this. Unfortunately March is something like the opposite. Bleh.
Online Cash Games:
February: -$214.59
YTD: -$592.89
Onine Tournaments:
February: +$738.59
YTD: +$2,805.79
Live Cash Games:
February: +$9,105 (!!)
YTD: +$9,105
Live Tournament Poker:
February: -$335
YTD: -$335
Net for poker:
February: +$9,294
YTD: +$10,982.90
Stakes
February: -$715.66
YTD: -$788.85
Total Net for the months: +$8,578.34
YTD: +$10,194.05
I wish every month was like this. Unfortunately March is something like the opposite. Bleh.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Progress Report #26 - LAPC and FTOPS - Fun with acronyms
February 1st was a very interesting day for me.
You see, the Los Angeles Poker Classic is running at the Commerce Casino right now. I dropped by on Superbowl Sunday to play a tournament there. All my friends were out of town for various reasons, and without anyone to watch it with, I decided I might as well play some poker too.
I buy into a $335 side event. It's a "deepstack" event, which to me means its about the same as one of the slower structures online. We start with 6,000 in chips, the blinds are 25-25, and increase at a reasonable pace around every 40 minutes. The tables are also 10 handed which means you get fewer hands in, but this is balanced by seeing more hands per round of blinds.
I draw table 42 seat 1, and I look around for my table. For the life of me, I can't figure out any pattern to the table location. I finally locate table 42, and notice someone is in my seat. I am confused, so I ask the dealer if this is table 42. (Note there is a small plaque on the table with the number 42 on it.)
The dealer says "No, its 35."
I am beyond confused now. I ask the dealer where table 42 is then. He points over to the left, and I'm like what?
Then he points up. And for the first time I notice there are numbers hanging along wires above all the tables. And everything is once again right in the world.
I head over to table 42 and eat lunch while waiting for the tournament to begin.
The tournament had over 760 players. Some people had to play downstairs, but the TD promised to have them back in the room before kickoff. Nice guy, yea? Apparently people didn't realize that meant at least 20% of the field would be gone by then.
I get a decent table draw, but there is a guy sitting three seats to my right who seems pretty solid. I mostly stay out of his way, although there is one spot where I two barreled him on a dry board after raising under the gun. I'm pretty sure he decided that my hand range pretty much is almost always an overpair, and he laid it down. That's the kind of play I can only make vs a thinking player who doesn't know me. He simply has to give me respect if he thinks I'm not a bluffing machine. I am, but hey he doesn't know that yet.
After the first break I'm up to about 8,500 in chips. A decent increase, but nothing spectacular. Shortly after I'm moved to a new table that is probably going to break soon. I managed to chip up to 15,000 at this new table, thanks to several weak players, and a few solid hands. I'm feeling pretty good when the table breaks, and I'm shuffled off to table 2. This means I'll be at this table a long time. Assuming I don't bust myself. (Foreshadowing!!!)
At the new table stacks look pretty good for me. I have everyone out chipped except for one guy two to my left.
I enter on the BB due to a lack of planning on my part. (I should've waited for the button to pass before I sat down.) On my first button I get A9o. It's folded to me, so I pop it up to 750. The blinds are currently 150/300/ante 50.
The BB calls me, with about 19k behind. Well I have position and reasonable hand for a button raise, so I'm liking my chances.
The flop comes out 8d 8h 2d. Not amazing, but something I'd probably continuation bet against an unknown live player. Most people will just give it up if they missed. My opponent then surprises me by betting out. This wouldn't be a big deal if he didn't bet half my stack. Yea he bet 8,000 into a pot that was around 2,000. Seems bad. I really have no option, but to fold here. If I had like 99 or better, I'd strongly consider going broke, simply because such a play is so bad with an 8, I'd like discount it almost entirely. My guess is he bet out with a weakish pair or a flush draw. Almost under no circumstances is donking out for 4x times the pot good. But hey it worked for him. Or didn't depending on how you look at it.
I steal a few more times since my table is pretty nitty playing back at my raises. That's the power of a large stack, people are scared of you. Often unreasonably so, but they are.
When I'm 3 off the button, I get A3o. I hadn't raised for a while, and it got folded to me, so I decide this is a pretty reasonable chance to steal. I make it 750 again, and the CO calls me. This is the same guy who bet out 8,000 earlier.
The flop is Js Ts 3d. This is simultaneously a good and bad flop. It's good because a lot of reasonable hands I would raise from middle position hit that board. AK, AQ, AJ, AT, KQ, KJ, QJ, QT, Q9 and so on. And of course AA, KK, QQ, JJ, TT and 33. I also have a pair and a backdoor nut flush draw. Those don't mean too much right now, but sometimes the turn and river can make you a monster.
On the other hand, it's a bad flop. For a similar reason. Reasonable calling hands for him include all pocket pairs JJ and lower, JT, AJ, KJ and so on. Also any two spades made a flush draw, and I get the feeling he'll be really hard to push him off that.
I think he would reraise JJ and TT, and if he has like 66 or 78, this would be a really bad spot to call the flop. I think he might do it though, and if it wasn't for the fact I actually had a pair, I might not bet at all. In the end, I bet out 1,100. He calls relatively quickly. Now I've heard from some reliable sources that people at the Commerce like to float a lot. I get a gut feeling here that he isn't that strong.
The turn is a 5h. Changes almost nothing. He only hit that if he has 55, 5s Xs, or something like A4s, 4s6s. That sounds like a lot but really it's not that many hands.
I decide to follow through on my instincts and fire another bullet of 1,700 into the pot. And this is where things get interesting. He raises me to 3,700. I have about 14,000 behind if I fold. And folding is very reasonable here. I check his stack and he has about 14,000 behind if he folds also. So he has about 4,000 more in chips than I do.
I go into the tank. My mind tells me to fold. My gut screams he has nothing. My instincts tend to me right. My mind then rationalizes that a shove would be good against a wide range of hands. All I have to do is be right that he is floating me a lot.
I jam in the rest of my 14,000.
And he audibly groans. I'm estatic. I thought he would snap call or fold. There was almost no inbetween. If he had a big draw, I'm still coinflipping, and I'll take that when I'm putting the pressure on him to call off over 80% of his remaining stack. The second break begins while he's still deciding.
And then he makes a crying call.
With 44.
My eyes practically shoot out of my head. That is either the most amazing or most terrible call. And it really depends on the reason he called. Even against my bluffing hands, he's a small favorite. I actually have one of the only hands he's in good shape again.
The river is a Ks, which meant if I was semibluffing with, AK, AQ, 98, spades, or various other straight draws, I would've smashed his fours. But I wasn't. So he knocks me out.
I go outside to take a break. Quite frankly, I'm mindblown. I just got soulcrushed. What can I say? I just got freaking owned.
2/17/2009
The FTOPS just ended. That standards for the Full Tilt Online Poker Series. I played several events, and did ok. I probably lost a bit of money overall, but mostly I want to talk about the FTOPS ME.
I ran good during the FTOPS ME. We started with 7500 chips at 15/30 starting blinds. I picked up a bunch of solid hands, and then made some good decisions when I was put in some tough spots. I was doing well, and then this hand came up. This is just a brag really.
Full Tilt Poker Game #10655702577: FTOPS Main Event (73899945), Table 338 - 200/400 Ante 50 - No Limit Hold'em - 21:26:29 ET - 2009/02/15
Seat 1: Aaron_Hacker (21,114)
Seat 2: steelerjay (9,847)
Seat 3: SvetlaB (11,093)
Seat 4: BeNzitO85 (16,951)
Seat 5: Leviathan101 (32,215)
Seat 6: CPGR (7,098)
Seat 7: I am from ice (24,283)
Seat 8: Tryangle (29,255)
Seat 9: jross1901 (10,415)
Aaron_Hacker antes 50
steelerjay antes 50
SvetlaB antes 50
BeNzitO85 antes 50
Leviathan101 antes 50
CPGR antes 50
I am from ice antes 50
Tryangle antes 50
jross1901 antes 50
CPGR posts the small blind of 200
I am from ice posts the big blind of 400
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Leviathan101 [Jd As]
Tryangle folds
jross1901 folds
Aaron_Hacker folds
steelerjay folds
SvetlaB folds
BeNzitO85 folds
Leviathan101 has 15 seconds left to act
Leviathan101 raises to 900
CPGR folds
I am from ice has 15 seconds left to act
I am from ice raises to 2,150
Leviathan101 calls 1,250
*** FLOP *** [Td 4d 3h]
I am from ice has 15 seconds left to act
I am from ice bets 2,900
Leviathan101 calls 2,900
*** TURN *** [Td 4d 3h] [6c]
I am from ice checks
Leviathan101 bets 4,200
I am from ice has 15 seconds left to act
I am from ice raises to 19,183, and is all in
Leviathan101 calls 14,983
I am from ice shows [9d Ac]
Leviathan101 shows [Jd As]
*** RIVER *** [Td 4d 3h 6c] [2d]
I am from ice shows Ace Ten high
Leviathan101 shows Ace Jack high
Leviathan101 wins the pot (49,116) with Ace Jack high
[x] Soulread
I also busted Jon Turner, a red pro on Full Tilt. Some people may know him better as Pearljammer, although really it doesn't mean much. I get a T-shirt for it though. Woot!
As we approach the bubble, I made a really dumb play that was too high risk. He was reraising pretty lightly, but on the prize bubble, it just so much safer to just fold and wait. I'm guaranteed $650 if I just fold, so that was definitely a mistake.
Full Tilt Poker Game #10657802532: FTOPS Main Event (73899945), Table 285 - 800/1600 Ante 200 - No Limit Hold'em - 23:25:34 ET - 2009/02/15
Seat 1: holla-athca-boy (18,818)
Seat 2: rayfa (35,107)
Seat 3: lei_kung (51,430)
Seat 4: bill0756 (34,018)
Seat 5: Leviathan101 (83,024)
Seat 6: BPV (122,802)
Seat 7: dirkkuijt (26,522)
Seat 8: sirklas (39,777)
Seat 9: KillerKohles (146,218)
holla-athca-boy antes 200
rayfa antes 200
lei_kung antes 200
bill0756 antes 200
Leviathan101 antes 200
BPV antes 200
dirkkuijt antes 200
sirklas antes 200
KillerKohles antes 200
sirklas posts the small blind of 800
KillerKohles posts the big blind of 1,600
The button is in seat #7
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Leviathan101 [Tc Ah]
holla-athca-boy folds
rayfa folds
lei_kung folds
bill0756 folds
Leviathan101 raises to 3,600
BPV has 15 seconds left to act
BPV raises to 10,250
dirkkuijt folds
sirklas folds
KillerKohles folds
Leviathan101 has 15 seconds left to act
Leviathan101 has requested TIME
Leviathan101 raises to 82,824, and is all in
BPV has 15 seconds left to act
BPV calls 72,574
Leviathan101 shows [Tc Ah]
BPV shows [Ad Qs]
*** FLOP *** [7h 4d 2h]
*** TURN *** [7h 4d 2h] [Qd]
*** RIVER *** [7h 4d 2h Qd] [9s]
Leviathan101 shows Ace Queen high
BPV shows a pair of Queens
BPV wins the pot (169,848) with a pair of Queens
Leviathan101 stands up
The 25th Billion hand got dealt on Pokerstars on 2/16/2009. It's kinda crazy. If you think about it, 25 billion is a larger number. And they made money off most of those hands. Pretty sick, online poker is a massively profitable business. I tried to open a 24 tables in order to maximize my chance of being dealt in that hand, but I ended up costing myself $50. LOL, funny how that works. I couldn't focus on that many games at once.
I officially moved up to 1/2 now. I've had some really swingy session so far. I'm bad at poker lol. Spewing off stacks with top pair vs sets and stuff. Somehow I'm still winning. I need to tighten up my postflop play, I'm still playing poorly in too many spots. I'm gonna start doing some study sessions, and examine my play more closely.
I'll see you across the felt.
Bryce
You see, the Los Angeles Poker Classic is running at the Commerce Casino right now. I dropped by on Superbowl Sunday to play a tournament there. All my friends were out of town for various reasons, and without anyone to watch it with, I decided I might as well play some poker too.
I buy into a $335 side event. It's a "deepstack" event, which to me means its about the same as one of the slower structures online. We start with 6,000 in chips, the blinds are 25-25, and increase at a reasonable pace around every 40 minutes. The tables are also 10 handed which means you get fewer hands in, but this is balanced by seeing more hands per round of blinds.
I draw table 42 seat 1, and I look around for my table. For the life of me, I can't figure out any pattern to the table location. I finally locate table 42, and notice someone is in my seat. I am confused, so I ask the dealer if this is table 42. (Note there is a small plaque on the table with the number 42 on it.)
The dealer says "No, its 35."
I am beyond confused now. I ask the dealer where table 42 is then. He points over to the left, and I'm like what?
Then he points up. And for the first time I notice there are numbers hanging along wires above all the tables. And everything is once again right in the world.
I head over to table 42 and eat lunch while waiting for the tournament to begin.
The tournament had over 760 players. Some people had to play downstairs, but the TD promised to have them back in the room before kickoff. Nice guy, yea? Apparently people didn't realize that meant at least 20% of the field would be gone by then.
I get a decent table draw, but there is a guy sitting three seats to my right who seems pretty solid. I mostly stay out of his way, although there is one spot where I two barreled him on a dry board after raising under the gun. I'm pretty sure he decided that my hand range pretty much is almost always an overpair, and he laid it down. That's the kind of play I can only make vs a thinking player who doesn't know me. He simply has to give me respect if he thinks I'm not a bluffing machine. I am, but hey he doesn't know that yet.
After the first break I'm up to about 8,500 in chips. A decent increase, but nothing spectacular. Shortly after I'm moved to a new table that is probably going to break soon. I managed to chip up to 15,000 at this new table, thanks to several weak players, and a few solid hands. I'm feeling pretty good when the table breaks, and I'm shuffled off to table 2. This means I'll be at this table a long time. Assuming I don't bust myself. (Foreshadowing!!!)
At the new table stacks look pretty good for me. I have everyone out chipped except for one guy two to my left.
I enter on the BB due to a lack of planning on my part. (I should've waited for the button to pass before I sat down.) On my first button I get A9o. It's folded to me, so I pop it up to 750. The blinds are currently 150/300/ante 50.
The BB calls me, with about 19k behind. Well I have position and reasonable hand for a button raise, so I'm liking my chances.
The flop comes out 8d 8h 2d. Not amazing, but something I'd probably continuation bet against an unknown live player. Most people will just give it up if they missed. My opponent then surprises me by betting out. This wouldn't be a big deal if he didn't bet half my stack. Yea he bet 8,000 into a pot that was around 2,000. Seems bad. I really have no option, but to fold here. If I had like 99 or better, I'd strongly consider going broke, simply because such a play is so bad with an 8, I'd like discount it almost entirely. My guess is he bet out with a weakish pair or a flush draw. Almost under no circumstances is donking out for 4x times the pot good. But hey it worked for him. Or didn't depending on how you look at it.
I steal a few more times since my table is pretty nitty playing back at my raises. That's the power of a large stack, people are scared of you. Often unreasonably so, but they are.
When I'm 3 off the button, I get A3o. I hadn't raised for a while, and it got folded to me, so I decide this is a pretty reasonable chance to steal. I make it 750 again, and the CO calls me. This is the same guy who bet out 8,000 earlier.
The flop is Js Ts 3d. This is simultaneously a good and bad flop. It's good because a lot of reasonable hands I would raise from middle position hit that board. AK, AQ, AJ, AT, KQ, KJ, QJ, QT, Q9 and so on. And of course AA, KK, QQ, JJ, TT and 33. I also have a pair and a backdoor nut flush draw. Those don't mean too much right now, but sometimes the turn and river can make you a monster.
On the other hand, it's a bad flop. For a similar reason. Reasonable calling hands for him include all pocket pairs JJ and lower, JT, AJ, KJ and so on. Also any two spades made a flush draw, and I get the feeling he'll be really hard to push him off that.
I think he would reraise JJ and TT, and if he has like 66 or 78, this would be a really bad spot to call the flop. I think he might do it though, and if it wasn't for the fact I actually had a pair, I might not bet at all. In the end, I bet out 1,100. He calls relatively quickly. Now I've heard from some reliable sources that people at the Commerce like to float a lot. I get a gut feeling here that he isn't that strong.
The turn is a 5h. Changes almost nothing. He only hit that if he has 55, 5s Xs, or something like A4s, 4s6s. That sounds like a lot but really it's not that many hands.
I decide to follow through on my instincts and fire another bullet of 1,700 into the pot. And this is where things get interesting. He raises me to 3,700. I have about 14,000 behind if I fold. And folding is very reasonable here. I check his stack and he has about 14,000 behind if he folds also. So he has about 4,000 more in chips than I do.
I go into the tank. My mind tells me to fold. My gut screams he has nothing. My instincts tend to me right. My mind then rationalizes that a shove would be good against a wide range of hands. All I have to do is be right that he is floating me a lot.
I jam in the rest of my 14,000.
And he audibly groans. I'm estatic. I thought he would snap call or fold. There was almost no inbetween. If he had a big draw, I'm still coinflipping, and I'll take that when I'm putting the pressure on him to call off over 80% of his remaining stack. The second break begins while he's still deciding.
And then he makes a crying call.
With 44.
My eyes practically shoot out of my head. That is either the most amazing or most terrible call. And it really depends on the reason he called. Even against my bluffing hands, he's a small favorite. I actually have one of the only hands he's in good shape again.
The river is a Ks, which meant if I was semibluffing with, AK, AQ, 98, spades, or various other straight draws, I would've smashed his fours. But I wasn't. So he knocks me out.
I go outside to take a break. Quite frankly, I'm mindblown. I just got soulcrushed. What can I say? I just got freaking owned.
2/17/2009
The FTOPS just ended. That standards for the Full Tilt Online Poker Series. I played several events, and did ok. I probably lost a bit of money overall, but mostly I want to talk about the FTOPS ME.
I ran good during the FTOPS ME. We started with 7500 chips at 15/30 starting blinds. I picked up a bunch of solid hands, and then made some good decisions when I was put in some tough spots. I was doing well, and then this hand came up. This is just a brag really.
Full Tilt Poker Game #10655702577: FTOPS Main Event (73899945), Table 338 - 200/400 Ante 50 - No Limit Hold'em - 21:26:29 ET - 2009/02/15
Seat 1: Aaron_Hacker (21,114)
Seat 2: steelerjay (9,847)
Seat 3: SvetlaB (11,093)
Seat 4: BeNzitO85 (16,951)
Seat 5: Leviathan101 (32,215)
Seat 6: CPGR (7,098)
Seat 7: I am from ice (24,283)
Seat 8: Tryangle (29,255)
Seat 9: jross1901 (10,415)
Aaron_Hacker antes 50
steelerjay antes 50
SvetlaB antes 50
BeNzitO85 antes 50
Leviathan101 antes 50
CPGR antes 50
I am from ice antes 50
Tryangle antes 50
jross1901 antes 50
CPGR posts the small blind of 200
I am from ice posts the big blind of 400
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Leviathan101 [Jd As]
Tryangle folds
jross1901 folds
Aaron_Hacker folds
steelerjay folds
SvetlaB folds
BeNzitO85 folds
Leviathan101 has 15 seconds left to act
Leviathan101 raises to 900
CPGR folds
I am from ice has 15 seconds left to act
I am from ice raises to 2,150
Leviathan101 calls 1,250
*** FLOP *** [Td 4d 3h]
I am from ice has 15 seconds left to act
I am from ice bets 2,900
Leviathan101 calls 2,900
*** TURN *** [Td 4d 3h] [6c]
I am from ice checks
Leviathan101 bets 4,200
I am from ice has 15 seconds left to act
I am from ice raises to 19,183, and is all in
Leviathan101 calls 14,983
I am from ice shows [9d Ac]
Leviathan101 shows [Jd As]
*** RIVER *** [Td 4d 3h 6c] [2d]
I am from ice shows Ace Ten high
Leviathan101 shows Ace Jack high
Leviathan101 wins the pot (49,116) with Ace Jack high
[x] Soulread
I also busted Jon Turner, a red pro on Full Tilt. Some people may know him better as Pearljammer, although really it doesn't mean much. I get a T-shirt for it though. Woot!
As we approach the bubble, I made a really dumb play that was too high risk. He was reraising pretty lightly, but on the prize bubble, it just so much safer to just fold and wait. I'm guaranteed $650 if I just fold, so that was definitely a mistake.
Full Tilt Poker Game #10657802532: FTOPS Main Event (73899945), Table 285 - 800/1600 Ante 200 - No Limit Hold'em - 23:25:34 ET - 2009/02/15
Seat 1: holla-athca-boy (18,818)
Seat 2: rayfa (35,107)
Seat 3: lei_kung (51,430)
Seat 4: bill0756 (34,018)
Seat 5: Leviathan101 (83,024)
Seat 6: BPV (122,802)
Seat 7: dirkkuijt (26,522)
Seat 8: sirklas (39,777)
Seat 9: KillerKohles (146,218)
holla-athca-boy antes 200
rayfa antes 200
lei_kung antes 200
bill0756 antes 200
Leviathan101 antes 200
BPV antes 200
dirkkuijt antes 200
sirklas antes 200
KillerKohles antes 200
sirklas posts the small blind of 800
KillerKohles posts the big blind of 1,600
The button is in seat #7
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Leviathan101 [Tc Ah]
holla-athca-boy folds
rayfa folds
lei_kung folds
bill0756 folds
Leviathan101 raises to 3,600
BPV has 15 seconds left to act
BPV raises to 10,250
dirkkuijt folds
sirklas folds
KillerKohles folds
Leviathan101 has 15 seconds left to act
Leviathan101 has requested TIME
Leviathan101 raises to 82,824, and is all in
BPV has 15 seconds left to act
BPV calls 72,574
Leviathan101 shows [Tc Ah]
BPV shows [Ad Qs]
*** FLOP *** [7h 4d 2h]
*** TURN *** [7h 4d 2h] [Qd]
*** RIVER *** [7h 4d 2h Qd] [9s]
Leviathan101 shows Ace Queen high
BPV shows a pair of Queens
BPV wins the pot (169,848) with a pair of Queens
Leviathan101 stands up
The 25th Billion hand got dealt on Pokerstars on 2/16/2009. It's kinda crazy. If you think about it, 25 billion is a larger number. And they made money off most of those hands. Pretty sick, online poker is a massively profitable business. I tried to open a 24 tables in order to maximize my chance of being dealt in that hand, but I ended up costing myself $50. LOL, funny how that works. I couldn't focus on that many games at once.
I officially moved up to 1/2 now. I've had some really swingy session so far. I'm bad at poker lol. Spewing off stacks with top pair vs sets and stuff. Somehow I'm still winning. I need to tighten up my postflop play, I'm still playing poorly in too many spots. I'm gonna start doing some study sessions, and examine my play more closely.
I'll see you across the felt.
Bryce
Monthly Report - January
I upgrade my process to microsoft excel, so my numbers should be more accurate from here on out.
Online Cash Games:
January: -$378.30
YTD: -$378.30
Onine Tournaments:
January: +2,067.2
YTD: +$2,067.20
Live Cash Games:
January: $0
YTD: $0
Live Tournament Poker:
January: $0
YTD: $0
Net for poker:
January: +$1,688.90
YTD: +$1,688.90
Stakes
January: -$73.19
YTD: -$73.19
Total Net for the months: +1,615.71
YTD: +$1,615.71
I think maybe I should just go tournament pro... my cash game results have been very disappointing.
See you across the felt.
Bryce
Online Cash Games:
January: -$378.30
YTD: -$378.30
Onine Tournaments:
January: +2,067.2
YTD: +$2,067.20
Live Cash Games:
January: $0
YTD: $0
Live Tournament Poker:
January: $0
YTD: $0
Net for poker:
January: +$1,688.90
YTD: +$1,688.90
Stakes
January: -$73.19
YTD: -$73.19
Total Net for the months: +1,615.71
YTD: +$1,615.71
I think maybe I should just go tournament pro... my cash game results have been very disappointing.
See you across the felt.
Bryce
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Progress Report #25 - Happy Holidays
It’s been a while. I’ve been really busy over the past two months with Thanksgiving, a trip to Vegas, group projects, finals, and now Christmas. During which I was having my usual swings in poker.
I guess I’ll start with the Vegas trip. I headed out with Matt, although we didn’t time our trip very well. We headed out during all the huge fires in California, but we got pretty lucky. We didn’t have to detour at all on the way there or back, although some of the freeways we used got shutdown while we were there. I have to admit, sometimes I run good at life.
We ended up staying at the New Orleans, since we had a comped room there. They didn’t have any good sized games there, so I didn’t play much the first night. The next day, I headed out to the strip to hit up the bigger casinos there. I started with the Venetian, but didn’t end up going anywhere else
I played a tournament at the Venetian and busted out relatively early when I lost a lot of my stack against a player who I didn’t realize was quite good. He made an extremely good call on an interesting hand.
The blinds are 50/100, and he has about 25k in chips. I cover with almost 33k.
I open UTG+1 to 275, and I get called in the small blind by the good player.
The flop is Ad Kc Th. He checks, I bet 350, he raises to 900, and I call.
The turn is a 2d, he bets 1200, I raise to 3000 and he calls again.
The river is an Ah. He checks, and I bet 5000.
He calls me with KT.
I was very surprised. I didn’t think he was good enough to call with a counterfeited two pair there, but I hadn’t been playing with him for very long. He wasn’t a calling station at all. He was just good. I thought about for hours, figured out his thought process and then decided I probably shouldn’t have bluffed against this guy.
I never have three aces there. It’s a straight, full house or nothing. I should’ve thought about it longer myself, but I was pretty sure the river card bricked him/was a bad card given his physical reaction to it. However that doesn’t mean he can’t still call.
Can’t see why? After all it’s only a pair of kings. I’ll go into a detailed process of what I think his thought process is.
When I raise preflop in early position, I personally don’t think his call with KTo out of position is very good, but it’s not terrible either. It really depends on how good your opponent is, and he doesn’t really have any reason to assume I’m a good player, other than I have a big stack.
When the flop comes out AKT rainbow, your first thought should be how to maximize value vs. AQ, while not getting stacked by AK. That’s a harder task than it first appears, because it can be very hard to distinguish which hand I have on the early streets, and by the later streets, you might be pot committed with two pair, to look up a large, but not huge bet compared to the pot size. This final bet could be a significant percentage of your chip stack, and it could cripple your chances of being a big stack for the length of the tournament.
Anyways, he flops bottom two pair and goes for the check raise. That’s standard, as it obtains solid value out of most hands while protecting your still vulnerable hand. Bottom two is up against 5 out draws from top pair immediately, and also has to dodge running board pairs. Regardless it’s quite strong, so check raising is a good way to get value. When I call, his hand range for me should be most aces, probably with a gutshot draw, and maybe two pairs, sets and the broadway straight. I might float with two random cards here, but that would be pretty rare. It’s what I did though lol. Gutshot straight draw + backdoor flush draw FTL!
So when the deuce of diamonds hits the turn, it’s a pretty big brick. Only a backdoor flush draw improved. (I had clubs, not diamonds.) So when he bets, and I raise, I’m repping a HUGE hand now. Two pair at least. I never have just AQ or AJ here. Why would I raise with huge stacks into a hand that he is clearly saying is a strong holding? I’ll never get called by worse. So I basically have to have AT, AK, KT, QJ, AA, KK, or TT. That’s not too many hands and since he has KT, I’m basically saying I have AA or QJ, as all the other combinations are somewhat discounted by his own cards. His call here is still somewhat questionable versus an unknown player as most unknown simply aren’t capable of making a move this advanced, but he may call just to see if I give up and showdown a bluff or if I am some terrible player who raises just a bare ace here.
When the board pairs the Ace, my first thought was great, now I can legitimately give a ton of hands a huge scare card. However, in retrospect, the only change is that a straight now loses to a set, and I don’t think a straight would fold the river for a 5k bet, even though it is now only a bluff catcher, or maybe owning someone who value bets three aces her.
This is the important part for him. When I bet 5000, he has about 3.5:1 odds to see if I’m bluffing. On the river, I can’t have just three aces unless I’m terrible and would raise the turn with AK AJ. I could have AT, AK, or maybe even A2, all of which would probably play similarly. I could have TT, or KK, but those hands might’ve 3balled (3bet) the flop, which somewhat discounts them here. However, if I had a bluff… I would probably play it exactly the same way.
And that’s all he needs to know. He makes the call and I show down J8c. Nice hand sir.
I make all of my money back and then some playing the 2/5 game at the Venetian. At 6PM, Matt and I went to the new show called The Real Deal at the Venetian. The only poker based show on the strip you can actually play with the live pros which is sick. It’s pretty neat, although from the perspective of a poker mindset, the game setup is basically just a crapshoot on who gets luckiest. But whatever, it’s still cool. I watched Jen Harman suck out on Eli Elezra’s AA with the 95c. Definitely seems like a role reversal lol.
I bought a Gucci wallet at the Forum in Caesar’s Palace. $250? Wow, I am so good at lighting money on fire. But I really needed a new wallet, and I had money burning a hole in my pocket. To be fair I don’t do stuff like that often.
Back in L.A. I’m back to my usual stuff. Play poker live, online, at home games and so on. Usual swings, with some interesting occurrences.
I got invited to a home game in Cypress by Gianni, one of my friends from LMU. I brought Mike along, just to find out two interesting things.
First, they play dealers choice. I didn’t know that, and Mike only knows how to play No Limit Hold’Em and Stud.
Second, apparently Omaha Hi, is also played No Limit, in some circles, despite the popularity of Pot Limit Omaha.
I cleaned up the game because I’m a much stronger Omaha player than most of the players in the games. I also won a big hand vs Gianni where I made a straight with 76s vs his JJ. It wasn’t all good, since I also made a HUGE laydown in Omaha, which was wrong. =/ My reads are usually right though.
One night, I was playing at the Hollywood Park big game, which is $5/$10 blind, $500 minimum buyin with no cap buyin. I was up about $500-800, when the game started to break. We were 4 handed and I was about to leave, when a mega fish sat down. He didn’t actually say this, but I’m guessing he is worth tens of millions if not hundreds of millions of dollars. Gino had his own posse, seemed extremely self confidant, (but not arrogant) and seemed brand new to poker. I think he was being entirely honest when he said he just lost $100,000 in blackjack and wanted to try his hand at poker for the first time.
Gino bought in for $2,000 after asking the guy on his right how much he bought in for. I knew he was either the most amazing hustler or he was just a huge fish, when on the 4th hand, he decided to open shove $2k into a $40 pot with 3 opponents. With bottom pair. It was at that time, I decided I had better stick around for a while.
A bit later I get QQ, he limped in, I raised to $100 and he calls me. Normally a 10 big blind raise is a very big raise, but I know he doesn’t know that, and I want to play heads up with position on him. He calls and we take the flop heads up. It comes out J62 rainbow, and he checks to me. I bet $400 and he calls. The turn is another 6. He checks again, and I bet $800 this time, and he moves all in on me. I hate it, but I have to call with my overpair as there is so much money in the pot I have to call because sometimes he’ll have Jx, or some random bluff. He turns over A6 for trips and wins a $4k pot. =/ On the other hand, this hand practically proved to me that he is simply a bad player, for no hustler would ever commit so much money in a spot they are clearly beat. While most hustlers aren’t very good, that’s the kind of mistake only true beginners make. They don’t connect the size of the bet with the strength of the hand, and in doing so find themselves constantly winning small pots and losing big ones. Gino is a smart man though, and he gets a lot better throughout the session, although by the end he is still terrible and severely outclassed.
I’m sitting on his direct left, and I notice when he holds his cards, sometimes he flashes them to me. There are two schools of thought on this. The first is that revealing that you can see their cards is an ethically good move and having a reputation that you won’t take advantage of this kind of stuff will help you get action in the future from people who know you play straight up. There is also the value of simply making the most ethical move.
On the other hand you are sacrificing immediate gain for future earnings. If you never play with these people again, your choice to take the high way will cost you money. Normally I tell people that I can see their cards, but if my opponent is going to make me make decisions for thousands of dollars on nearly every hand, I want to get every edge I can.
Funny how life works sometimes. Maybe it’s karma, but that information ends up costing me. A bit later, he looks at his cards and I see the three of diamonds. I have AQ myself, and he limps in. I limp behind trying to keep him in and see if I can get him to make a big shove somewhere. The flop comes out K Q 7 two spades and he checks. I check it back. The turn is a 8, and now he open shoves. It’s $1800 to me and now I have to decide whether he has a King as his second hole card. I think about it for a long time, and decide there is a good chance he could be bluffing again, and I call.
He has K3. I just got owned.
Gino gets me again when he flops a full house and I turn a straight. =/
He ends up winning nearly $10,000, and walks out really happy. I leave at the same time stuck five grand. “On any given day, any amateur can beat any pro, no matter how much better one plays than the other.” (paraphrased) Poker is such a sick game.
I won $7k getting 3rd in a $10 rebuy, so I won all of it back later in the same week. Shrugs, as long as I’m in the black at the end of the month right? I’m pretty good about not letting a single bad day get to me.
Jeff has been playing me heads up and is running super hot against me. He also plays good and possibly better than I do, which isn’t making it any easier. To make it worse, he even runs good against me in games where I KNOW I have an edge, like when I host three card poker as the house versus him. At least I’m losing it to a friend. He’ll give me a chance to win it back too.
I’m playing 100nl online right now, even though I’m rolled for higher. I’m thinking about playing 400nl by the time January rolls around. We’ll see. I’ll talk to John and see what he thinks. Speaking of John, his 21st is coming up. I can’t wait, cause the whole group is going to Vegas. It’s gonna be awesome. John says he plans to spend ten grand. LOL WTF, that’s so ridiculous. It’s gonna be a blast. I feel like I’ve gotten a lot better lately too, so I hope I have a solid takedown while I’m out there. I might be the only one playing poker, but whatever.
I had wanted to write a strategy post as a kind of Christmas present, but it’s not happening. Maybe later.
I’ll see you across the felt.
Bryce
I guess I’ll start with the Vegas trip. I headed out with Matt, although we didn’t time our trip very well. We headed out during all the huge fires in California, but we got pretty lucky. We didn’t have to detour at all on the way there or back, although some of the freeways we used got shutdown while we were there. I have to admit, sometimes I run good at life.
We ended up staying at the New Orleans, since we had a comped room there. They didn’t have any good sized games there, so I didn’t play much the first night. The next day, I headed out to the strip to hit up the bigger casinos there. I started with the Venetian, but didn’t end up going anywhere else
I played a tournament at the Venetian and busted out relatively early when I lost a lot of my stack against a player who I didn’t realize was quite good. He made an extremely good call on an interesting hand.
The blinds are 50/100, and he has about 25k in chips. I cover with almost 33k.
I open UTG+1 to 275, and I get called in the small blind by the good player.
The flop is Ad Kc Th. He checks, I bet 350, he raises to 900, and I call.
The turn is a 2d, he bets 1200, I raise to 3000 and he calls again.
The river is an Ah. He checks, and I bet 5000.
He calls me with KT.
I was very surprised. I didn’t think he was good enough to call with a counterfeited two pair there, but I hadn’t been playing with him for very long. He wasn’t a calling station at all. He was just good. I thought about for hours, figured out his thought process and then decided I probably shouldn’t have bluffed against this guy.
I never have three aces there. It’s a straight, full house or nothing. I should’ve thought about it longer myself, but I was pretty sure the river card bricked him/was a bad card given his physical reaction to it. However that doesn’t mean he can’t still call.
Can’t see why? After all it’s only a pair of kings. I’ll go into a detailed process of what I think his thought process is.
When I raise preflop in early position, I personally don’t think his call with KTo out of position is very good, but it’s not terrible either. It really depends on how good your opponent is, and he doesn’t really have any reason to assume I’m a good player, other than I have a big stack.
When the flop comes out AKT rainbow, your first thought should be how to maximize value vs. AQ, while not getting stacked by AK. That’s a harder task than it first appears, because it can be very hard to distinguish which hand I have on the early streets, and by the later streets, you might be pot committed with two pair, to look up a large, but not huge bet compared to the pot size. This final bet could be a significant percentage of your chip stack, and it could cripple your chances of being a big stack for the length of the tournament.
Anyways, he flops bottom two pair and goes for the check raise. That’s standard, as it obtains solid value out of most hands while protecting your still vulnerable hand. Bottom two is up against 5 out draws from top pair immediately, and also has to dodge running board pairs. Regardless it’s quite strong, so check raising is a good way to get value. When I call, his hand range for me should be most aces, probably with a gutshot draw, and maybe two pairs, sets and the broadway straight. I might float with two random cards here, but that would be pretty rare. It’s what I did though lol. Gutshot straight draw + backdoor flush draw FTL!
So when the deuce of diamonds hits the turn, it’s a pretty big brick. Only a backdoor flush draw improved. (I had clubs, not diamonds.) So when he bets, and I raise, I’m repping a HUGE hand now. Two pair at least. I never have just AQ or AJ here. Why would I raise with huge stacks into a hand that he is clearly saying is a strong holding? I’ll never get called by worse. So I basically have to have AT, AK, KT, QJ, AA, KK, or TT. That’s not too many hands and since he has KT, I’m basically saying I have AA or QJ, as all the other combinations are somewhat discounted by his own cards. His call here is still somewhat questionable versus an unknown player as most unknown simply aren’t capable of making a move this advanced, but he may call just to see if I give up and showdown a bluff or if I am some terrible player who raises just a bare ace here.
When the board pairs the Ace, my first thought was great, now I can legitimately give a ton of hands a huge scare card. However, in retrospect, the only change is that a straight now loses to a set, and I don’t think a straight would fold the river for a 5k bet, even though it is now only a bluff catcher, or maybe owning someone who value bets three aces her.
This is the important part for him. When I bet 5000, he has about 3.5:1 odds to see if I’m bluffing. On the river, I can’t have just three aces unless I’m terrible and would raise the turn with AK AJ. I could have AT, AK, or maybe even A2, all of which would probably play similarly. I could have TT, or KK, but those hands might’ve 3balled (3bet) the flop, which somewhat discounts them here. However, if I had a bluff… I would probably play it exactly the same way.
And that’s all he needs to know. He makes the call and I show down J8c. Nice hand sir.
I make all of my money back and then some playing the 2/5 game at the Venetian. At 6PM, Matt and I went to the new show called The Real Deal at the Venetian. The only poker based show on the strip you can actually play with the live pros which is sick. It’s pretty neat, although from the perspective of a poker mindset, the game setup is basically just a crapshoot on who gets luckiest. But whatever, it’s still cool. I watched Jen Harman suck out on Eli Elezra’s AA with the 95c. Definitely seems like a role reversal lol.
I bought a Gucci wallet at the Forum in Caesar’s Palace. $250? Wow, I am so good at lighting money on fire. But I really needed a new wallet, and I had money burning a hole in my pocket. To be fair I don’t do stuff like that often.
Back in L.A. I’m back to my usual stuff. Play poker live, online, at home games and so on. Usual swings, with some interesting occurrences.
I got invited to a home game in Cypress by Gianni, one of my friends from LMU. I brought Mike along, just to find out two interesting things.
First, they play dealers choice. I didn’t know that, and Mike only knows how to play No Limit Hold’Em and Stud.
Second, apparently Omaha Hi, is also played No Limit, in some circles, despite the popularity of Pot Limit Omaha.
I cleaned up the game because I’m a much stronger Omaha player than most of the players in the games. I also won a big hand vs Gianni where I made a straight with 76s vs his JJ. It wasn’t all good, since I also made a HUGE laydown in Omaha, which was wrong. =/ My reads are usually right though.
One night, I was playing at the Hollywood Park big game, which is $5/$10 blind, $500 minimum buyin with no cap buyin. I was up about $500-800, when the game started to break. We were 4 handed and I was about to leave, when a mega fish sat down. He didn’t actually say this, but I’m guessing he is worth tens of millions if not hundreds of millions of dollars. Gino had his own posse, seemed extremely self confidant, (but not arrogant) and seemed brand new to poker. I think he was being entirely honest when he said he just lost $100,000 in blackjack and wanted to try his hand at poker for the first time.
Gino bought in for $2,000 after asking the guy on his right how much he bought in for. I knew he was either the most amazing hustler or he was just a huge fish, when on the 4th hand, he decided to open shove $2k into a $40 pot with 3 opponents. With bottom pair. It was at that time, I decided I had better stick around for a while.
A bit later I get QQ, he limped in, I raised to $100 and he calls me. Normally a 10 big blind raise is a very big raise, but I know he doesn’t know that, and I want to play heads up with position on him. He calls and we take the flop heads up. It comes out J62 rainbow, and he checks to me. I bet $400 and he calls. The turn is another 6. He checks again, and I bet $800 this time, and he moves all in on me. I hate it, but I have to call with my overpair as there is so much money in the pot I have to call because sometimes he’ll have Jx, or some random bluff. He turns over A6 for trips and wins a $4k pot. =/ On the other hand, this hand practically proved to me that he is simply a bad player, for no hustler would ever commit so much money in a spot they are clearly beat. While most hustlers aren’t very good, that’s the kind of mistake only true beginners make. They don’t connect the size of the bet with the strength of the hand, and in doing so find themselves constantly winning small pots and losing big ones. Gino is a smart man though, and he gets a lot better throughout the session, although by the end he is still terrible and severely outclassed.
I’m sitting on his direct left, and I notice when he holds his cards, sometimes he flashes them to me. There are two schools of thought on this. The first is that revealing that you can see their cards is an ethically good move and having a reputation that you won’t take advantage of this kind of stuff will help you get action in the future from people who know you play straight up. There is also the value of simply making the most ethical move.
On the other hand you are sacrificing immediate gain for future earnings. If you never play with these people again, your choice to take the high way will cost you money. Normally I tell people that I can see their cards, but if my opponent is going to make me make decisions for thousands of dollars on nearly every hand, I want to get every edge I can.
Funny how life works sometimes. Maybe it’s karma, but that information ends up costing me. A bit later, he looks at his cards and I see the three of diamonds. I have AQ myself, and he limps in. I limp behind trying to keep him in and see if I can get him to make a big shove somewhere. The flop comes out K Q 7 two spades and he checks. I check it back. The turn is a 8, and now he open shoves. It’s $1800 to me and now I have to decide whether he has a King as his second hole card. I think about it for a long time, and decide there is a good chance he could be bluffing again, and I call.
He has K3. I just got owned.
Gino gets me again when he flops a full house and I turn a straight. =/
He ends up winning nearly $10,000, and walks out really happy. I leave at the same time stuck five grand. “On any given day, any amateur can beat any pro, no matter how much better one plays than the other.” (paraphrased) Poker is such a sick game.
I won $7k getting 3rd in a $10 rebuy, so I won all of it back later in the same week. Shrugs, as long as I’m in the black at the end of the month right? I’m pretty good about not letting a single bad day get to me.
Jeff has been playing me heads up and is running super hot against me. He also plays good and possibly better than I do, which isn’t making it any easier. To make it worse, he even runs good against me in games where I KNOW I have an edge, like when I host three card poker as the house versus him. At least I’m losing it to a friend. He’ll give me a chance to win it back too.
I’m playing 100nl online right now, even though I’m rolled for higher. I’m thinking about playing 400nl by the time January rolls around. We’ll see. I’ll talk to John and see what he thinks. Speaking of John, his 21st is coming up. I can’t wait, cause the whole group is going to Vegas. It’s gonna be awesome. John says he plans to spend ten grand. LOL WTF, that’s so ridiculous. It’s gonna be a blast. I feel like I’ve gotten a lot better lately too, so I hope I have a solid takedown while I’m out there. I might be the only one playing poker, but whatever.
I had wanted to write a strategy post as a kind of Christmas present, but it’s not happening. Maybe later.
I’ll see you across the felt.
Bryce
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