Wow. I have never run that bad ever. -50%, but +29% adjusted.
I lost 180 Sklansky bucks in two and a half hours.
Oh well, the upside is that you simply cannot run that bad forever. The downside is that that probably means I'll run that bad for a couple of weeks and then kill myself.
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
FML
OMG. I didn't think it could get worse. But it did.
QQ < AK, obv. JJ < AK. I shoved A3s over a guy who was raising half his hands; this time he had JJ. I tilted and shoved AJs on a Q66x turn with two of my suit when the horrible fish had bet the flop; he had Q2 and his hand held up. I got blinded down and ran AJ on the button into KK in the BB. Snapcalled a 5BB shove at t200 blinds with 88, he had JJ and just to make it nice he flopped a set. I get it all in heads up with ATs vs A4, flop a pair and he rivers a straight. Got it in with 66 vs AT, flopped a set and he rivered the straight. Got it in with AT vs KQ, flopped an ace, turned a ten, rivered a J. Ran KQ into AK, hit my Q, he rivered a straight. Had 99 and TT cracked by single overcards. Three times, I'm not kidding, a shorty minraised my big blind when I had AJ, each time the other guy had KK. IN ONE SET.
To cap it off, in two hands at t600 on the bubble, I ran JT into AQ and KJ into AJ to bubble a 6K stack.
That's a set of 12. Nice. I was running great until today, playing really well and getting the reward. The reward's the only thing that changed.
QQ < AK, obv. JJ < AK. I shoved A3s over a guy who was raising half his hands; this time he had JJ. I tilted and shoved AJs on a Q66x turn with two of my suit when the horrible fish had bet the flop; he had Q2 and his hand held up. I got blinded down and ran AJ on the button into KK in the BB. Snapcalled a 5BB shove at t200 blinds with 88, he had JJ and just to make it nice he flopped a set. I get it all in heads up with ATs vs A4, flop a pair and he rivers a straight. Got it in with 66 vs AT, flopped a set and he rivered the straight. Got it in with AT vs KQ, flopped an ace, turned a ten, rivered a J. Ran KQ into AK, hit my Q, he rivered a straight. Had 99 and TT cracked by single overcards. Three times, I'm not kidding, a shorty minraised my big blind when I had AJ, each time the other guy had KK. IN ONE SET.
To cap it off, in two hands at t600 on the bubble, I ran JT into AQ and KJ into AJ to bubble a 6K stack.
That's a set of 12. Nice. I was running great until today, playing really well and getting the reward. The reward's the only thing that changed.
Month ends well.
This is the worst set of ten ever. First I got it all in with a straight against two pair on the turn and he hit his boat.
I had QQ and JJ cracked by AK.
99 beaten by A4s. Then another 99 beaten by A6. A8 beaten by A5s. 88 beaten by KTs, which a retard raisecalled for just about his whole stack (and all of mine).
Well, that's fucked my good month.
And this capped it:
PokerStars Game #29928769601: Tournament #175668943, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level VIII (200/400) - 2009/06/29 21:42:06 ET
Table '175668943 1' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 2: plaon (2470 in chips)
Seat 6: FR Vessant (3535 in chips)
Seat 7: balla,the769 (7495 in chips)
plaon: posts the ante 25
FR Vessant: posts the ante 25
balla,the769: posts the ante 25
balla,the769: posts small blind 200
plaon: posts big blind 400
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Tc Kd]
FR Vessant: raises 3110 to 3510 and is all-in
balla,the769: folds
plaon: calls 2045 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (1065) returned to FR Vessant
*** FLOP *** [8h Td Kh]
Yaaaaaaay!
*** TURN *** [8h Td Kh] [8s]
OMG, the board paired.
Please don't let him river his threeouter.
*** RIVER *** [8h Td Kh 8s] [As]
FUCK MY LIFE.
Only a 9/1 favourite on flop though! Why complain?
I had QQ and JJ cracked by AK.
99 beaten by A4s. Then another 99 beaten by A6. A8 beaten by A5s. 88 beaten by KTs, which a retard raisecalled for just about his whole stack (and all of mine).
Well, that's fucked my good month.
And this capped it:
PokerStars Game #29928769601: Tournament #175668943, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level VIII (200/400) - 2009/06/29 21:42:06 ET
Table '175668943 1' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 2: plaon (2470 in chips)
Seat 6: FR Vessant (3535 in chips)
Seat 7: balla,the769 (7495 in chips)
plaon: posts the ante 25
FR Vessant: posts the ante 25
balla,the769: posts the ante 25
balla,the769: posts small blind 200
plaon: posts big blind 400
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Tc Kd]
FR Vessant: raises 3110 to 3510 and is all-in
balla,the769: folds
plaon: calls 2045 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (1065) returned to FR Vessant
*** FLOP *** [8h Td Kh]
Yaaaaaaay!
*** TURN *** [8h Td Kh] [8s]
OMG, the board paired.
Please don't let him river his threeouter.
*** RIVER *** [8h Td Kh 8s] [As]
FUCK MY LIFE.
Only a 9/1 favourite on flop though! Why complain?
Friday, 26 June 2009
wham bam thank you ma'am
If you want to know the most infuriating thing in an STT, it is not the allin suckout, which you come to expect. It is this:
PokerStars Game #29788410103: Tournament #174709378, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2009/06/25 23:22:43 ET
Table '174709378 1' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: Sucho11 (1460 in chips)
Seat 3: harry580 (3040 in chips)
Seat 4: push2shock (1440 in chips)
Seat 5: BigSlick1972 (1680 in chips)
Seat 6: swinger92 (1500 in chips)
Seat 7: FR Vessant (1380 in chips)
Seat 8: olly_e (1500 in chips)
Seat 9: SCRAAPNBY (1500 in chips)
FR Vessant: posts small blind 10
olly_e: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [4c 3c]
SCRAAPNBY: folds
Sucho11: folds
harry580: folds
push2shock: folds
BigSlick1972: folds
swinger92: folds
FR Vessant: calls 10
I actually misclicked but it's okay. I don't mind playing that.
olly_e: checks
*** FLOP *** [Qh 8s 3d]
FR Vessant: checks
olly_e: checks
I could bet my bottom pair, but olly_e is fairly passive so I'm content to check it down.
*** TURN *** [Qh 8s 3d] [4h]
FR Vessant: bets 40
olly_e: calls 40
Well now I have two pair, so I won't be checking anything. I bet pot but I'm not supposing he'll call. When he does, I figure he must have a 4 or maybe an 8.
*** RIVER *** [Qh 8s 3d 4h] [Jd]
FR Vessant: bets 60
So I bet for value.
olly_e: raises 120 to 180
WTF. Could he have JT? Jhxh? A queen that he's slowplayed? I think these are all likely so I can't fold.
FR Vessant: calls 120
*** SHOW DOWN ***
olly_e: shows [8h Js] (two pair, Jacks and Eights)
That's nice.
Anyway, I won it all back when we got it in with QQ and KK.
***
In the same tourney, this hand came up. This is a bit more interesting. I'm not sure that I didn't play this badly on every street! But it seemed right at the time.
Earlier on, we had had a hand where I had A8s in the BB and called a minraise. The flop had come 8 high but I checked it to him. (It was earlier in the tourney, so I wasn't aware that he was playing 79/46.) He checked it back and the turn paired 5s. I bet and he called. The river was a 9 and I checked it to him. He overbet the pot pretty big, so I folded. That was a poorly played hand in retrospect. I like to check and call the flop, but bet/folding the river is better than checkfolding. Although he is loose and aggressive, not many people will bluff when there's a pair on the board and you're in the big blind, and few villains in the $11s will bluff with hands that have showdown value, so I'd figure to be against a better hand often if he raised.
Anyway:
PokerStars Game #29788677115: Tournament #174709378, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level II (15/30) - 2009/06/25 23:34:46 ET
Table '174709378 1' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: Sucho11 (1385 in chips)
Seat 3: harry580 (3660 in chips)
Seat 4: push2shock (1595 in chips)
Seat 6: swinger92 (2445 in chips)
Seat 7: FR Vessant (2235 in chips)
Seat 8: olly_e (590 in chips)
Seat 9: SCRAAPNBY (1590 in chips)
FR Vessant: posts small blind 15
olly_e: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Td Tc]
SCRAAPNBY: folds
Sucho11: folds
harry580: raises 30 to 60
push2shock: folds
swinger92: folds
FR Vessant: calls 45
I could and probably should threebet. Because I'm not watching the game closely, I hadn't realised who had raised.
I generally flat midpairs OOP though, and you could definitely argue against threebetting here because it allows the tard to shove over and make you fold.
olly_e: folds
*** FLOP *** [7d 4h 6d]
FR Vessant: bets 120
I lead out because I am not going to risk him taking the free card.
harry580: calls 120
He doesn't have to have much here. His range is still very wide, although it's quite likely only strong hands and air, because he'd play more moderate hands faster (play everything faster bar monsters).
*** TURN *** [7d 4h 6d] [Jh]
FR Vessant: checks
I check to induce a bluff. I'm not keen on giving a free card here, but I'm pretty sure he will bet.
harry580: checks
Whoops.
*** RIVER *** [7d 4h 6d Jh] [9d]
Well, that's not a great river to say the least. Several draws got there. But I am quite doubtful he had a flush draw. If he did
FR Vessant: checks
harry580: bets 330
Well, I induced the bluff so I have to call, right?
FR Vessant: calls 330
*** SHOW DOWN ***
harry580: shows [9s Kh] (a pair of Nines)
Nice.
Later in this game I stacked off with KQs on a K high flop against a nitty sort of guy who had also paired his kicker. That left me with 300 chips. But here's the thing. I didn't give in. I kept shoving, taking risks, mad risks. And they paid. I won it. It's easy to hate poker. It's a rubbish game. You do the right thing and get burnt. But sometimes it's just brilliant.
PokerStars Game #29788410103: Tournament #174709378, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2009/06/25 23:22:43 ET
Table '174709378 1' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: Sucho11 (1460 in chips)
Seat 3: harry580 (3040 in chips)
Seat 4: push2shock (1440 in chips)
Seat 5: BigSlick1972 (1680 in chips)
Seat 6: swinger92 (1500 in chips)
Seat 7: FR Vessant (1380 in chips)
Seat 8: olly_e (1500 in chips)
Seat 9: SCRAAPNBY (1500 in chips)
FR Vessant: posts small blind 10
olly_e: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [4c 3c]
SCRAAPNBY: folds
Sucho11: folds
harry580: folds
push2shock: folds
BigSlick1972: folds
swinger92: folds
FR Vessant: calls 10
I actually misclicked but it's okay. I don't mind playing that.
olly_e: checks
*** FLOP *** [Qh 8s 3d]
FR Vessant: checks
olly_e: checks
I could bet my bottom pair, but olly_e is fairly passive so I'm content to check it down.
*** TURN *** [Qh 8s 3d] [4h]
FR Vessant: bets 40
olly_e: calls 40
Well now I have two pair, so I won't be checking anything. I bet pot but I'm not supposing he'll call. When he does, I figure he must have a 4 or maybe an 8.
*** RIVER *** [Qh 8s 3d 4h] [Jd]
FR Vessant: bets 60
So I bet for value.
olly_e: raises 120 to 180
WTF. Could he have JT? Jhxh? A queen that he's slowplayed? I think these are all likely so I can't fold.
FR Vessant: calls 120
*** SHOW DOWN ***
olly_e: shows [8h Js] (two pair, Jacks and Eights)
That's nice.
Anyway, I won it all back when we got it in with QQ and KK.
***
In the same tourney, this hand came up. This is a bit more interesting. I'm not sure that I didn't play this badly on every street! But it seemed right at the time.
Earlier on, we had had a hand where I had A8s in the BB and called a minraise. The flop had come 8 high but I checked it to him. (It was earlier in the tourney, so I wasn't aware that he was playing 79/46.) He checked it back and the turn paired 5s. I bet and he called. The river was a 9 and I checked it to him. He overbet the pot pretty big, so I folded. That was a poorly played hand in retrospect. I like to check and call the flop, but bet/folding the river is better than checkfolding. Although he is loose and aggressive, not many people will bluff when there's a pair on the board and you're in the big blind, and few villains in the $11s will bluff with hands that have showdown value, so I'd figure to be against a better hand often if he raised.
Anyway:
PokerStars Game #29788677115: Tournament #174709378, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level II (15/30) - 2009/06/25 23:34:46 ET
Table '174709378 1' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: Sucho11 (1385 in chips)
Seat 3: harry580 (3660 in chips)
Seat 4: push2shock (1595 in chips)
Seat 6: swinger92 (2445 in chips)
Seat 7: FR Vessant (2235 in chips)
Seat 8: olly_e (590 in chips)
Seat 9: SCRAAPNBY (1590 in chips)
FR Vessant: posts small blind 15
olly_e: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Td Tc]
SCRAAPNBY: folds
Sucho11: folds
harry580: raises 30 to 60
push2shock: folds
swinger92: folds
FR Vessant: calls 45
I could and probably should threebet. Because I'm not watching the game closely, I hadn't realised who had raised.
I generally flat midpairs OOP though, and you could definitely argue against threebetting here because it allows the tard to shove over and make you fold.
olly_e: folds
*** FLOP *** [7d 4h 6d]
FR Vessant: bets 120
I lead out because I am not going to risk him taking the free card.
harry580: calls 120
He doesn't have to have much here. His range is still very wide, although it's quite likely only strong hands and air, because he'd play more moderate hands faster (play everything faster bar monsters).
*** TURN *** [7d 4h 6d] [Jh]
FR Vessant: checks
I check to induce a bluff. I'm not keen on giving a free card here, but I'm pretty sure he will bet.
harry580: checks
Whoops.
*** RIVER *** [7d 4h 6d Jh] [9d]
Well, that's not a great river to say the least. Several draws got there. But I am quite doubtful he had a flush draw. If he did
FR Vessant: checks
harry580: bets 330
Well, I induced the bluff so I have to call, right?
FR Vessant: calls 330
*** SHOW DOWN ***
harry580: shows [9s Kh] (a pair of Nines)
Nice.
Later in this game I stacked off with KQs on a K high flop against a nitty sort of guy who had also paired his kicker. That left me with 300 chips. But here's the thing. I didn't give in. I kept shoving, taking risks, mad risks. And they paid. I won it. It's easy to hate poker. It's a rubbish game. You do the right thing and get burnt. But sometimes it's just brilliant.
Monday, 8 June 2009
I fucking hate you fish
If one hand encapsulates why I fucking hate poker, here it is:
PokerStars Game #29121169513: Tournament #170120836, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2009/06/08 1:47:10 ET
Table '170120836 1' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: kegstandcox (2200 in chips)
Seat 3: FR Vessant (1330 in chips)
Seat 5: AFaces (8030 in chips)
Has knocked out five players by simply calling with whatever shit he had and beating them.
Seat 9: FOCALSAN (1940 in chips)
FOCALSAN: posts small blind 50
kegstandcox: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Td Ac]
Horrible. I have 13BB so I don't want to raise (fish will call very wide) and my hand's too strong to fold.
FR Vessant: raises 1230 to 1330 and is all-in
AFaces: calls 1330
He has KT.
I mean, wtf. It just goes without saying that I can't possibly be shoving anything he actually beats.
Anyway, another hand where I'm miles in front, so that's nice.
FOCALSAN: folds
kegstandcox: folds
*** FLOP *** [7c 7s 5d]
*** TURN *** [7c 7s 5d] [Kh]
Buyin by buyin, poker just crushes your soul.
PokerStars Game #29121169513: Tournament #170120836, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2009/06/08 1:47:10 ET
Table '170120836 1' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: kegstandcox (2200 in chips)
Seat 3: FR Vessant (1330 in chips)
Seat 5: AFaces (8030 in chips)
Has knocked out five players by simply calling with whatever shit he had and beating them.
Seat 9: FOCALSAN (1940 in chips)
FOCALSAN: posts small blind 50
kegstandcox: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Td Ac]
Horrible. I have 13BB so I don't want to raise (fish will call very wide) and my hand's too strong to fold.
FR Vessant: raises 1230 to 1330 and is all-in
AFaces: calls 1330
He has KT.
I mean, wtf. It just goes without saying that I can't possibly be shoving anything he actually beats.
Anyway, another hand where I'm miles in front, so that's nice.
FOCALSAN: folds
kegstandcox: folds
*** FLOP *** [7c 7s 5d]
*** TURN *** [7c 7s 5d] [Kh]
Buyin by buyin, poker just crushes your soul.
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