Saturday 30 May 2009

Punked

I am quietly simmering with rage. It takes more than 3 hours to get to this point in a 4/180.

PokerStars Game #28750560513: Tournament #167531169, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level XIII (600/1200) - 2009/05/29 10:18:05 ET
Table '167531169 15' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: Gummihahn (45626 in chips)
Seat 2: Chuguev11 (138893 in chips)
Seat 3: bigboyyy22 (33030 in chips)
Seat 4: FR Vessant (31473 in chips)

Has been playing really fucking well and is going to win a 180 for the first time.

Seat 8: Breckam111 (20978 in chips)
Gummihahn: posts the ante 125
Chuguev11: posts the ante 125
bigboyyy22: posts the ante 125
FR Vessant: posts the ante 125
Breckam111: posts the ante 125
Gummihahn: posts small blind 600
Chuguev11: posts big blind 1200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Qs Ks]
bigboyyy22: folds
FR Vessant: raises 2400 to 3600

Standard raise. The big blind will call though. He's a terrible fish.

Breckam111: folds
Gummihahn: folds
Chuguev11: calls 2400

See?

*** FLOP *** [Jc Kh 4d]

So I have top pair. Nice.

Chuguev11: checks
FR Vessant: bets 3600
Chuguev11: calls 3600

He probably has nothing much. Maybe a worse king.

*** TURN *** [Jc Kh 4d] [3c]
Chuguev11: checks
FR Vessant: bets 24148 and is all-in

Easy shove. I have the best hand like always.

Chuguev11: calls 24148

He has A4o. I mean, let's not even go there. It's not even bad. To call here, he has to either believe it really is a good bet to try to suck out to his ace, or that I don't have a J or K. As if!

So he has five outs.

*** RIVER *** [Jc Kh 4d 3c] [4c]

O. M. F. G.

*** SHOW DOWN ***
Chuguev11: shows [As 4h] (three of a kind, Fours)

NH sir.

FR Vessant: shows [Qs Ks] (two pair, Kings and Fours)

Well, how can you expect that trash to be good at the final table of a tourney, huh?

Monday 18 May 2009

shwong

Dr Zen, your upswing is now finished. We thank you for your custom:

PokerStars Game #28320329441: Tournament #164576059, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2009/05/17 21:36:17 ET
Table '164576059 1' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: hankaram35 (815 in chips)
Seat 2: Knockout305 (1880 in chips)
Seat 3: grannyc1912 (1255 in chips)
Seat 4: FR Vessant (1575 in chips)
Seat 5: FANUEVO (1485 in chips)
Seat 6: boomerou247 (1655 in chips)
Seat 7: Sucho11 (1795 in chips)
Seat 9: keith11309 (3040 in chips)
Knockout305: posts small blind 50
grannyc1912: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Ad Ah]
FR Vessant: raises 145 to 245
FANUEVO: calls 245

Horrible fish.

boomerou247: folds
Sucho11: folds
keith11309: folds
hankaram35: folds
Knockout305: folds
grannyc1912: folds
*** FLOP *** [Qd Ac Ks]

Not bad. Only behind to JT.

FR Vessant: bets 400
FANUEVO: raises 840 to 1240 and is all-in
FR Vessant: calls 840
FANUEVO: shows [Jd Td]

Oh.

Sunday 17 May 2009

Two AA hands

Here are two hands that illustrate what STTs, and poker, is all about.

PokerStars Game #28281049444: Tournament #164301479, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2009/05/16 21:16:33 ET
Table '164301479 1' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: smallss (1460 in chips)
Seat 2: FR Vessant (1540 in chips)
Seat 3: G-Man965 (1440 in chips)
Seat 4: 333PW (1180 in chips)
Seat 5: Shangai2 (1460 in chips)
Seat 6: Evil17 (1470 in chips)
Seat 7: carolann79 (1650 in chips)
Seat 8: ashley lance (2200 in chips)
Seat 9: doctorbling (1100 in chips)
G-Man965: posts small blind 10
333PW: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Ac Ad]
Shangai2: calls 20
Evil17: folds
carolann79: calls 20
ashley lance: folds
doctorbling: calls 20
smallss: folds
FR Vessant: raises 80 to 100

A bit less than standard, but I want a caller.

G-Man965: folds
333PW: calls 80
Shangai2: calls 80
carolann79: calls 80
doctorbling: calls 80

Maybe not four though.

*** FLOP *** [5s 2h Jd]

Pretty safe flop.

333PW: checks
Shangai2: bets 260

Despite what people think, the donks do lead top pair into you and I'd say that his most likely hand is Jx. The donks routinely slowplay sets, so I'm not expecting to be beat.

carolann79: calls 260
doctorbling: folds
FR Vessant: raises 1180 to 1440 and is all-in

Easy shove.

333PW: folds
Shangai2: calls 1100 and is all-in

He has JT. What does he imagine he's ahead of here? I don't know that he even thinks that deeply. He just goes "I has top pair, call the shove."

carolann79: folds

Not sure what you can call 360 chips off with and then just fold, but I'm not her.

Uncalled bet (80) returned to FR Vessant
*** TURN *** [5s 2h Jd] [9c]
*** RIVER *** [5s 2h Jd 9c] [3s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Shangai2: shows [Ts Jh] (a pair of Jacks)
FR Vessant: shows [Ac Ad] (a pair of Aces)
FR Vessant collected 3490 from pot

So my hand holds up and I TID.

It's a bit annoying that after this good start, I had a super weird ITM, where a winning player and a fish contrived to trade chips to each other hand after hand, as I watched mostly without getting involved. Sadly, the fish snapped off a 10BB shove at t400 with 33 and my AK didn't improve.

So the next AA hand:


PokerStars Game #28283516323: Tournament #164315536, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level III (25/50) - 2009/05/16 22:47:21 ET
Table '164315536 1' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: gretzky7 (1570 in chips)
Seat 3: Maus99 (1175 in chips)
Seat 4: Ac/Dc (1565 in chips)
Seat 5: FR Vessant (1170 in chips)
Seat 6: Black2008 (1125 in chips)
Seat 7: olly_e (2230 in chips)
Seat 8: mayor72 (3410 in chips)
Seat 9: CincyNick (1255 in chips)
Maus99: posts small blind 25
Ac/Dc: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [As Ah]
FR Vessant: raises 100 to 150

Standard raise. I don't limp/reraise aces but I have folded out the table a couple of times recently, so maybe I should consider it.

Black2008: folds
olly_e: folds
mayor72: folds
CincyNick: folds
gretzky7: calls 150

Complete fish. Could have anything.

Maus99: folds
Ac/Dc: folds
*** FLOP *** [4s Kc Td]

This is a good flop because the fish can easily have hit it. He can have KT of course, but he has too much in his range to worry about that.

FR Vessant: bets 200
gretzky7: calls 200

So he has Kx/Tx/QJ, maybe Q9 and you couldn't count out A4 and pocket pairs.

*** TURN *** [4s Kc Td] [8d]
FR Vessant: bets 820 and is all-in

I just shove because the pot's a bit less than my stack.

gretzky7: calls 820

He has KJ. Again it's hard to imagine what he could think he's ahead of. He has to put me on the bluff because I just can't have a worse hand than KJ here. He doesn't know me, and probably hasn't noticed that I'm playing tight, but I was under the gun, so it's a stretch to imagine that I could have K9 there.

But the fish do not fold top pair ever. And again I have to dodge six outs.

*** RIVER *** [4s Kc Td 8d] [Kd]

And that's poker. Everything I had control over, I did right, and I still lost. Everything he had control over, he did wrong (terrible call preflop, should raise flop if he's going to continue and he's beating nothing at all on the turn so he has to fold) and won.

If you are playing soundly, and know you are, you can be relaxed about things like this. You know that you have a downswing when they hit their six outs a few times in a row, which they will, and an upswing when they don't.

Thursday 14 May 2009

May I invite you gentlemen to call?

The $3 90-man knockouts are a bundle of fun. Here's the first hand of today's iteration:

Full Tilt Poker Game #12207338630: $3 + $0.30 KO Sit & Go (91255595), Table 10 - 15/30 - No Limit Hold'em - 23:44:35 ET - 2009/05/13
Seat 1: basatagirl (3,000)
Seat 2: MACtech123 (3,000)
Seat 3: str82myhouse00 (3,000)
Seat 4: Dupree11 (3,000)
Seat 5: stgo_tuner (3,000)
Seat 6: DaGambler_007 (3,000)
Seat 7: Tovar76 (3,000)
Seat 8: Hibsgreen (3,000)
Seat 9: boodwa (3,000)
basatagirl posts the small blind of 15
MACtech123 posts the big blind of 30
The button is in seat #9
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to basatagirl [Ac As]

Me likey!

str82myhouse00 folds
Dupree11 calls 30
stgo_tuner folds
DaGambler_007 calls 30
Tovar76 folds
Hibsgreen calls 30
boodwa calls 30
basatagirl raises to 150

Question now is, will anyone fold?

MACtech123 calls 120
Dupree11 calls 120
DaGambler_007 folds

Not living up to his name.


Hibsgreen calls 120
boodwa calls 120

Four callers!

*** FLOP *** [5c Qc 4s]

Now. The standard play is to make a potsized bet or thereabouts and a/ make secondbest hands pay and b/ charge draws.

Fuck that. Someone must have a queen and if I shove, they'll never fold.

basatagirl bets 2,850, and is all in

Boom!

MACtech123 has 15 seconds left to act
MACtech123 calls 2,850, and is all in

Nice one.

Dupree11 folds
Hibsgreen folds
boodwa calls 2,850, and is all in

Ooooooo.

basatagirl shows [Ac As]
MACtech123 shows [5s 3s]

Nice call sir. You beat bottom pair and have a backdoor draw. Fine poker.

boodwa shows [Qh 8c]

Put me on AK.

*** TURN *** [5c Qc 4s] [6s]
*** RIVER *** [5c Qc 4s 6s] [Th]
basatagirl shows a pair of Aces
MACtech123 shows a pair of Fives
boodwa shows a pair of Queens
basatagirl wins the pot (9,330) with a pair of Aces

9K after one hand is how all my tourneys should start.

Wednesday 13 May 2009

Okay, have the feckin bounty

Here's why a 3/90 knockout is so hard to win. Why am I playing them? I am just doing some nobrain poker because I enjoy it and there's no stress about results.

Full Tilt Poker Game #12188129467: $3 + $0.30 KO Sit & Go (91122751), Table 10 - 100/200 - No Limit Hold'em - 23:28:43 ET - 2009/05/12
Seat 1: Unpossible109 (7,270)
Seat 2: M-I-B--R-O-X (9,168)
Seat 3: basatagirl (5,395)
Seat 4: ELDUDEARENO28 (7,490)
Seat 5: Sal T Huevos (5,790)
Seat 6: 1snl333 (3,345), is sitting out
Seat 7: Smoke_Quack (2,175)
Seat 8: alejandruso (31,415)
Seat 9: DuallyDave (9,540)
1snl333 posts the small blind of 100
Smoke_Quack posts the big blind of 200
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to basatagirl [Kd Qc]
alejandruso folds
DuallyDave folds
Unpossible109 folds
M-I-B--R-O-X calls 200

A total fish who is playing tons of hands and limping often.
basatagirl raises to 800

I raise to isolate him. The players behind are not so loose and I've shown a couple of strong hands so I doubt I will get calls behind often.

ELDUDEARENO28 folds
Sal T Huevos folds
1snl333 folds
Smoke_Quack folds
M-I-B--R-O-X calls 600

The fish obv. calls.

*** FLOP *** [Jh 7c Qd]

Top pair. It's value time.

M-I-B--R-O-X bets 200

He could have anything. If I'm really lucky, QT. But a vast range of hands is possible. Qx Jx draws, who the fuck knows?

Or cares. I hit the flop I wanted and now I'm going to make him pay for limp/calling his weak range.

basatagirl raises to 2,200

I'm hoping to get shoved on by QT and obv. hoping he doesn't have QJ.

Or J7s, which he is bad enough to have limpcalled.

If he calls, I shove any turn, obv.

M-I-B--R-O-X calls 2,000

There is obv. no hand it would be correct to call with here.

*** TURN *** [Jh 7c Qd] [6d]
M-I-B--R-O-X checks
basatagirl bets 2,395, and is all in

Shove for value.

M-I-B--R-O-X calls 2,395
basatagirl shows [Kd Qc]
M-I-B--R-O-X shows [Tc Ad]

Erm, what?

Well, I'm a huge fav--
*** RIVER *** [Jh 7c Qd 6d] [As]

Oh.

If you're a beginner and you want to learn how to play poker, not like that guy is the answer. Limp/calling AT is atrocious. Leading the flop is okay, but you have to make your lead bigger because I will obv. not fold anything for 200 chips. You have to fold to the raise on the flop. You could shove over if you had fold equity, but you don't. I'm committed to the pot. You might as well shove if you're continuing though, because you are also committed to it. On the turn, well, what can you do? You made your big mistake on the flop. Now you might as well take this terrible bet and hope to get lucky.

***

It's not all bad, of course. They often just miss:

Full Tilt Poker Game #12188195874: $6 + $0.50 KO Sit & Go (91122235), Table 1 - 120/240 Ante 25 - No Limit Hold'em - 23:32:27 ET - 2009/05/12
Seat 2: Subman II (3,980)
Seat 3: budman61 (1,600)
Seat 4: basatagirl (11,705)
Seat 5: tgoodwater2002 (6,200)
Seat 6: Thorrrrr (8,540)
Seat 7: francozeff (15,010)
Seat 8: fish6582 (5,330)
Seat 9: rtrorkt (11,573)
Subman II antes 25
budman61 antes 25
basatagirl antes 25
tgoodwater2002 antes 25
Thorrrrr antes 25
francozeff antes 25
fish6582 antes 25
rtrorkt antes 25
budman61 posts the small blind of 120
basatagirl posts the big blind of 240
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to basatagirl [Ac 2c]
tgoodwater2002 folds
Thorrrrr folds
francozeff folds
fish6582 folds
rtrorkt folds
Subman II folds
budman61 calls 120

Had only recently moved to table so not sure what he'd been playing like. My guess is bad though, just because 99% of players in this tourney will be awful.

basatagirl checks

I wasn't paying attention because I should shove over. He's only rarely trapping.

*** FLOP *** [As 2d 5h]

Hello. I has two pair.

budman61 bets 1,335, and is all in
basatagirl calls 1,335

Yeah, okay.
Say I had K5. Would I have folded?

Well no. His bet says, please fold. If he wanted me to call or shove over, he'd bet smaller. If he had an ace, he'd look to checkraise. Sometimes this metric doesn't work but you won't lose much money if you assume that they're not shoving an ace in this spot. The shove wants a fold here and no, I would not fold K5.

budman61 shows [3s Qs]

And I'd be right not to. Maybe I'd even call worse. Dunno. Never folding a pair though.

***

Here's a spot I missed, but I'm not too cut up about it.

Full Tilt Poker Game #12188399897: $6 + $0.50 KO Sit & Go (91122235), Table 1 - 200/400 Ante 50 - No Limit Hold'em - 23:43:52 ET - 2009/05/12
Seat 1: seba03 (19,490)
Seat 2: Subman II (2,015)
Seat 4: basatagirl (13,295)
Seat 5: tgoodwater2002 (4,415)
Seat 6: Thorrrrr (8,735)
Seat 7: francozeff (19,580)
Seat 8: fish6582 (4,510)
Seat 9: rtrorkt (11,558)
seba03 antes 50
Subman II antes 50
basatagirl antes 50
tgoodwater2002 antes 50
Thorrrrr antes 50
francozeff antes 50
fish6582 antes 50
rtrorkt antes 50
fish6582 posts the small blind of 200
rtrorkt posts the big blind of 400
The button is in seat #7
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to basatagirl [8d 8h]
seba03 raises to 1,600

I only have ten hands on this guy, and he's raised twice. He hasn't limped.

So 88 is probably ahead of his range, but he has a big stack. I could make a thinnish call to setmine.

Subman II raises to 1,965, and is all in

I'm thinking about it, but this guy complicates matters. Now I'm thinking I want to shove over and isolate him. But will the first guy fold?

Maybe not, and I'm not necessarily happy against his range. He's under the gun, and even though these fish don't necessarily respect position, he raised 4x and may be trying to get value. Dunno.

Thing is, I have a decent stack and I will get clearer, better spots. This might be thin +EV but it didn't appeal at the time.

basatagirl folds
tgoodwater2002 folds
Thorrrrr folds
francozeff folds
fish6582 has 15 seconds left to act
fish6582 folds
rtrorkt calls 1,565

Awful player who could have anything.

seba03 calls 365
*** FLOP *** [9h Qh 6c]
rtrorkt bets 2,000

With his hand, this bet is terrible. You think he has to have at least a Q here.

seba03 folds
rtrorkt shows [7c 7h]

WTF. I mean, I understand that he is stopngoing to get it HU with the allin guy but I don't like it much.

Subman II shows [Ah Kh]

He's probably quite happy to be allin as a favourite. Me, I wish I had shoved pre and been called by fishtard. If I had called though, I would have had a really tough spot on the flop and I'd now be on monkey tilt if I'd folded.

Uncalled bet of 2,000 returned to rtrorkt
*** TURN *** [9h Qh 6c] [9c]
*** RIVER *** [9h Qh 6c 9c] [4c]

Would have been nice to be allin with fishtard, but tbh, these tourneys present so many clearcut spots that taking a marginal +EV spot isn't necessary. I doubled up in this game on a 7xx flop where I had 99 and had raised pre and some guy got it in with me with 88. That was the top of his range too. He'd happily have done it with a 7 or overcards.

Sunday 10 May 2009

lol

So I had a couple of bowls but I fancied a bit of teh pokahs anyway, and I'm playing a couple of 90-player KOs. This hand is LOL 2 the max:

Full Tilt Poker Game #12134944657: $6 + $0.50 KO Sit & Go (90777535), Table 5 - 15/30 - No Limit Hold'em - 8:55:01 ET - 2009/05/10
Seat 1: Eldar44 (2,985)
Seat 3: ivan vuk (3,000)
Seat 4: jsd12 (3,000)
Seat 5: Chrisdorf (3,000)
Seat 6: Okay Alright (2,835)
Seat 7: smarchan11 (2,835)
Seat 8: basatagirl (3,000)
Seat 9: I_wash_and_dry (6,345)
ivan vuk posts the big blind of 30
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to basatagirl [Kd Ks]
jsd12 folds
Chrisdorf calls 30
Okay Alright calls 30
smarchan11 calls 30
basatagirl has 15 seconds left to act
basatagirl raises to 180

Standard obv.

I_wash_and_dry folds
Eldar44 folds
ivan vuk folds
Chrisdorf folds
Okay Alright calls 150
smarchan11 calls 150

Two gamblers ready for action.

*** FLOP *** [2c 8d 2d]

A good flop for me.

Okay Alright checks
smarchan11 checks
basatagirl bets 390
Okay Alright calls 390

I'm just guessing this is not a good call.

smarchan11 raises to 2,655, and is all in

He probably has a pair bigger than 88. If he has 88 or AA, that's poker.

basatagirl raises to 2,820, and is all in

We're not folding.

Okay Alright has 15 seconds left to act
Okay Alright folds
basatagirl shows [Kd Ks]
smarchan11 shows [Kh Kc]

LOL.

But wait. We have the same hand but I'm a slight favourite. Did you see that? I have a backdoor draw in diamonds, which will come in something like one in 20 times.

Uncalled bet of 165 returned to basatagirl
*** TURN *** [2c 8d 2d] [Ad]

Diamond.

*** RIVER *** [2c 8d 2d Ad] [Jd]

Diamond. So sick.

But you know what I smelled? Justice. Sweet justice. The tard played his hand horribly and for once, he did not get away with it. Of course, all the money's going in on this hand, no matter how he plays it, but still.

****

Wait though, there's more:

Full Tilt Poker Game #12135125039: $3 + $0.30 KO Sit & Go (90777904), Table 2 - 40/80 - No Limit Hold'em - 9:14:57 ET - 2009/05/10
Seat 1: Weini86 (6,520)
Seat 2: otown51 (5,985)
Seat 3: kohle74 (4,225)
Seat 4: Paid4-Anbieter (4,315)
Seat 5: Traveling-Dave (6,550)
Seat 6: pokergal2469 (9,105)
Seat 7: basatagirl (2,600)
Seat 8: basch68 (3,047)
Seat 9: DerStein80 (3,760)
kohle74 posts the small blind of 40
Paid4-Anbieter posts the big blind of 80
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to basatagirl [Qs Qd]

The beeyatches. So it's likely the end of my tourney about now.

Traveling-Dave calls 80
pokergal2469 folds
basatagirl raises to 320

Standard raise.


basch68 folds
DerStein80 folds
Weini86 folds
otown51 folds
kohle74 raises to 1,120

That looks unpleasant.

Paid4-Anbieter calls 1,040

Wat

Well, there are two explanations for that call. Either this guy has AA and doesn't want to scare me off. Or he's a retard.

This is a 3.30 so I'm going to look on the bright side and say, retard.

Traveling-Dave folds
basatagirl raises to 2,600, and is all in

So I'm smashing it in.

Look, if I had to put them on hands, I'm saying the first guy has AK and the second guy something absolutely ridiculous like KJs or 66 and he is playing for implied stupid, erm, sorry, I mean "odds".

kohle74 calls 1,480
Paid4-Anbieter calls 1,480

We're a merry crew, are we not?

*** FLOP *** [Kd 5h 2c]

Oh dear.

kohle74 checks
Paid4-Anbieter bets 1,715, and is all in

Seems bad for me.

kohle74 folds
Paid4-Anbieter shows [4h 4s]

What. The. Fuck.

I mean yeah, okay, the first guy doesn't have anything, so if I have an unpaired hand, this works. But how are you even in the hand with that?

basatagirl shows [Qs Qd]
Uncalled bet of 1,715 returned to Paid4-Anbieter
*** TURN *** [Kd 5h 2c] [Ac]
*** RIVER *** [Kd 5h 2c Ac] [Ks]

Not that I care. Just do call off your stack with 44 and I'll love you long time.

Friday 8 May 2009

Hot

I am running crazy hot at the moment. I thought the best of it was sucking out with AJ vs AA, but check this out:

PokerStars Game #27949769998: Tournament #161926897, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2009/05/08 2:09:09 ET
Table '161926897 1' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: i have nuts (1725 in chips)
Seat 2: RaidX (2360 in chips)
Seat 5: jjgfrance (4295 in chips)
Seat 6: FR Vessant (1460 in chips)
Seat 7: 8GT8 (1095 in chips)
Seat 9: kaptec (2565 in chips)
8GT8: posts small blind 50
kaptec: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Ks Kc]

I have basically played two hands all tourney so this is welcome.

i have nuts: calls 100
RaidX: folds
jjgfrance: calls 100

Nice! I like having limpers when I have a monster.

FR Vessant: raises 400 to 500

I could shove but I am aiming at making value with this hand.

8GT8: folds
kaptec: folds
i have nuts: folds
jjgfrance: calls 400

Hmmm. When you see his hand, you'll be thinking that this is a seriously bad call. He should just push or fold.


*** FLOP *** [5c 5d Jc]

Nice. When I shove it's going to look a lot like I have nowt.

jjgfrance: checks
FR Vessant: bets 960 and is all-in

boom

jjgfrance: calls 960

WTF. He has JJ.

FR Vessant said, "chit"

You are not wrong.

*** TURN *** [5c 5d Jc] [Ah]
*** RIVER *** [5c 5d Jc Ah] [Kh]

WHAM! Don't fuck with him though. Just don't fuck with him because he burns, he's that hot.

Thursday 7 May 2009

bing bang bong

Okay, so I call a shove with AQs, the other guy has A4 and the board double pairs, which sucks when you have 1K chips, then this:


PokerStars Game #27917306776: Tournament #161697126, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level V (75/150) - 2009/05/07 7:40:17 ET
Table '161697126 1' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: greatwhite88 (1200 in chips)
Seat 2: Ottoe (870 in chips)
Seat 3: elmar69 (1168 in chips)
Seat 5: FR Vessant (1237 in chips)
Seat 6: keyser70 (2030 in chips)
Seat 7: Pokeroli1984 (3075 in chips)
Seat 9: des6044 (3920 in chips)
elmar69: posts small blind 75
FR Vessant: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Qs Qc]
keyser70: calls 150

This is very suspicious. This guy is playing 33/18, so certainly he could be limping a low pair or some other shit, but I'd expect him to raise his whole range.

But whatever. I have the beeyatches and cannot fold.

Pokeroli1984: folds
des6044: folds
greatwhite88: folds
Ottoe: folds
elmar69: folds
FR Vessant said, "I ****ing hope you don't have AA"

You're laughing now, bro.

FR Vessant: raises 1087 to 1237 and is all-in
keyser70: calls 1087

He has AA, of course.

*** FLOP *** [5h 4c 6c]
FR Vessant said, "LOL"
FR Vessant said, "****ing queens"
*** TURN *** [5h 4c 6c] [7s]
FR Vessant said, "I hate them"
*** RIVER *** [5h 4c 6c 7s] [8d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
FR Vessant: shows [Qs Qc] (a straight, Four to Eight)
keyser70: shows [Ah Ac] (a straight, Four to Eight)
FR Vessant collected 1275 from pot
keyser70 collected 1274 from pot
FR Vessant said, "LOLOLOLOLOL"

All's well etc.

Then:

PokerStars Game #27917360939: Tournament #161697126, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level V (75/150) - 2009/05/07 7:43:20 ET
Table '161697126 1' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: greatwhite88 (1050 in chips)
Seat 2: Ottoe (1965 in chips)
Seat 3: elmar69 (223 in chips)
Seat 5: FR Vessant (1425 in chips)
Seat 6: keyser70 (1842 in chips)
Seat 7: Pokeroli1984 (3075 in chips)
Seat 9: des6044 (3920 in chips)
greatwhite88: posts small blind 75
Ottoe: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Ah Jh]

Nice.

elmar69: raises 73 to 223 and is all-in

Sweet. Shortstack overlay!

FR Vessant: raises 1202 to 1425 and is all-in
keyser70: folds
Pokeroli1984: folds
des6044: folds
greatwhite88: folds
Ottoe: folds
Uncalled bet (1202) returned to FR Vessant

He has KK!! Can you credit it?

*** FLOP *** [7s 2c 6s]
*** TURN *** [7s 2c 6s] [8h]
*** RIVER *** [7s 2c 6s 8h] [Tc]

So three great hands, and I net 0 chips from them. I know, I should be grateful at the huge suckout with QQ, but fml eh?

Update: Just so's I'm not always whining, I should note that I actually ended up second, thanks to villains so bad I felt I should write them thankyou notes.

Running well? Better tilt then!

I'm playing pretty well atm but that doesn't mean I won't tilt!

NL Holdem $30(BB) Poker Stars Game#27916760117

Chri$tus ($1,420)
de hoevens ($1,075)
FR Vessant ($1,380)
Pokeroli1984 ($2,300)
widgel ($2,395)
CloveNistiC ($1,175)
greatwhite88 ($1,315)
da ItchY 84 ($1,425)
ammiehind ($1,015)

Chri$tus posts (SB) $15
de hoevens posts (BB) $30

Dealt to FR Vessant Ks As
FR Vessant raises to $90
fold, fold, fold, fold, fold,
ammiehind calls $90

Fish has been in a lot of hands, calling several raises.

fold, fold,

FLOP ($225) Kd 8d Ad

That's sort of good and bad for me. I never assume they have a flush, so I'm not scared.

Here's the thing though. I would normally pot this, to at least make the single diamond pay to try to get lucky, but I was just reading something that said something about betting less and getting more value, so I don't do the right thing, which is to bet big, and if he folds he folds, but I bet small enough to entice calls from the kind of shit I expect him to have.

FR Vessant bets $120
ammiehind calls $120

So that doesn't mean anything. He can have absolutely anything.

TURN ($465) Kd 8d Ad 5d

Shit.

check, check,

Now I tilt a bit. I read his check as "I called the flop with an ace or king" and not "I called the flop with a diamond".

RIVER ($465) Kd 8d Ad 5d 3h

So of course the right thing to do is to check the river, and call a small bet. If he bets huge, I will fold. But I don't. And the reason is that I've been ducking a lot of rivers, not taking clear value spots, because I've been a bit gunshy all in all.

Well, okay, but this is not a good value spot.

FR Vessant bets $210
ammiehind raises to $805 (AI)

I have completely convinced myself that he has to have A5 or A3, something like that.

FR Vessant calls $595

So I call. Terrible. I cost myself a fair few chips because obv. he has a diamond (the J; he called my raise with JJ).

Oh well. I probably couldn't have played the hand much worse. I got preflop right, and the turn, but the other two streets I took the cleaver to!

There's no real lesson to be learnt. This post is just for me, if I happen to look back (which is not all that likely), to remind me that when your great hand gets cracked, you just have to suck it up, not try to convince yourself that you are still somehow good.

Actually, the end hurt more:

PokerStars Game #27917050479: Tournament #161695866, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2009/05/07 7:26:09 ET
Table '161695866 1' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: FR Vessant (365 in chips)
Seat 2: Pokeroli1984 (1540 in chips)
Seat 3: widgel (890 in chips)
Seat 4: CloveNistiC (1360 in chips)
Seat 5: greatwhite88 (1915 in chips)
Seat 6: da ItchY 84 (1825 in chips)
Seat 7: ammiehind (1910 in chips)
Seat 8: Chri$tus (1955 in chips)
Seat 9: de hoevens (1740 in chips)
da ItchY 84: posts small blind 50
ammiehind: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Ac 9s]
Chri$tus: folds
de hoevens: calls 100

Playing 42/3.

FR Vessant: raises 265 to 365 and is all-in

Good spot to get it in imo.

Pokeroli1984: folds
widgel: folds
CloveNistiC: folds
greatwhite88: folds
da ItchY 84: folds
ammiehind: folds
de hoevens: calls 265

Has AJs.

I hate that! Not just that I ran into the top end of his range, which sucks, but that these fish will call off 400 chips but it never occurs to them to raise the fucking thing in the first place. I know. I shouldn't be angry that my opponents suck. They're doing me a huge favour by not bothering to learn even the rudiments.

Genius in action

This is hilarious. Hellmuth explains that limping in UTG with KQs and 10 blinds is an advanced play. Us beginners should not try it, because we don't have the skillz. Apparently, we want to sucker our opponents into making a weak raise, which we will then call because we will read our opponent as weak.

The best is this:
Option number two is to make a standard raise of three times the big blind. This option is not a good one, but it does give you the chance to fold your hand when you're reraised, thus giving you a chance to save your last 4,600. But realistically, how often are you going to fold your K Q for 4,600 more when the pot already has roughly 8,500 in it? I would not recommend making this fold to an amateur player or an intermediate player.

But an advanced player will fold getting 2 to 1? GTFO you clown. That this guy has made a living from poker makes me want to stab him, me or both of us in the eye.

Wednesday 6 May 2009

On tilt at Tilt

I hate Full Tilt. I totally have the doomswitch there.

So I build a stack with nice play:


Full Tilt Poker Game #12058870169: $10 + $1 Sit & Go (90271822), Table 1 - 30/60 - No Limit Hold'em - 7:01:36 ET - 2009/05/06
Seat 2: cptwingrave (2,310)
Seat 3: williw1971 (1,230)
Seat 4: Ruftenkind (1,240)
Seat 5: Antwany (1,920)
Seat 7: Facial Freddy (3,235)
Seat 8: basatagirl (2,140)
Seat 9: JTAced (1,425)
williw1971 posts the small blind of 30
Ruftenkind posts the big blind of 60
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to basatagirl [Ad As]
Antwany has 15 seconds left to act
Antwany folds
Facial Freddy raises to 180

A bad player who has been raising quite a lot. I think he will get out of the way of a threebet though, so I'm going to make it enticing.

basatagirl raises to 360
JTAced folds
cptwingrave folds
williw1971 folds
Ruftenkind folds
Facial Freddy calls 180

Nice.

*** FLOP *** [3s Ac 8h]

Gin.

Facial Freddy checks
basatagirl checks

"I am scared of that ace."

*** TURN *** [3s Ac 8h] [Jd]
Facial Freddy bets 410

He is repping the jack? I am thinking maybe he has TT, something like that, but KJ is not impossible.

basatagirl calls 410

I have the nuts, so no need to scare him off.


*** RIVER *** [3s Ac 8h Jd] [Js]

Please let him have a jack.

Facial Freddy checks
basatagirl has 15 seconds left to act
basatagirl bets 780

Hmmm. I bet a suspiciously small amount. I'd like to double, but I figure if I shove, he's going to fold some of his range. I'm not sure what he can actually have that he can call with. I'm trying to get a call on suspicion.

Facial Freddy has 15 seconds left to act
Facial Freddy has requested TIME
Facial Freddy calls 780

He has AQ. Meh. Well, he may still have folded that to a shove.

Anyway, he is on two tables, and on the other one he's shoving like a lunatic. On this one, he's raising a bit too much: 17%.

Full Tilt Poker Game #12059021871: $10 + $1 Sit & Go (90271822), Table 1 - 80/160 - No Limit Hold'em - 7:22:02 ET - 2009/05/06
Seat 2: cptwingrave (3,780)
Seat 3: williw1971 (770)
Seat 5: Antwany (1,070)
Seat 7: Facial Freddy (1,415)
Seat 8: basatagirl (2,750)

My stack has dwindled because I've had a couple of decent hands in the small blind, raised and the fish in the big blind has called both times and outflopped me.

Seat 9: JTAced (3,715)

Which is part of the reason he has this big stack.

williw1971 posts the small blind of 80
Antwany posts the big blind of 160
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to basatagirl [Js Jc]
Facial Freddy has 15 seconds left to act
Facial Freddy raises to 400

So his range is pretty wide imo.

basatagirl raises to 2,750, and is all in

Probably should just 3bet but let's face it, I'm not going to fold if one of the bigger stacks comes over the top.

JTAced folds
cptwingrave folds
williw1971 folds
Antwany folds
Facial Freddy calls 1,015, and is all in
basatagirl shows [Js Jc]
Facial Freddy shows [Ac Ah]

Fuck that. Yet again JJ runs into a bigger pair. Should I have been suspicious because he raised, rather than shoving? Well maybe but what am I going to do, even if I am suspicious?


Uncalled bet of 1,335 returned to basatagirl
*** FLOP *** [Qc Kc 4h]
*** TURN *** [Qc Kc 4h] [2h]
*** RIVER *** [Qc Kc 4h 2h] [6c]
basatagirl shows a pair of Jacks
Facial Freddy shows a pair of Aces
Facial Freddy wins the pot (3,070) with a pair of Aces


So that sucked. I dunno. What else could I do? These fucking idiots raise their whole range, so it's not like if he shoves, he has AT, but if he raises, beware. It's just really unlucky that yet again, JJ has been dogshit.

Two hands later:

Full Tilt Poker Game #12059033985: $10 + $1 Sit & Go (90271822), Table 1 - 80/160 - No Limit Hold'em - 7:23:41 ET - 2009/05/06
Seat 2: cptwingrave (3,780)
Seat 3: williw1971 (690)
Seat 5: Antwany (1,070)
Seat 7: Facial Freddy (2,830)
Seat 8: basatagirl (1,175)
Seat 9: JTAced (3,955)
basatagirl posts the small blind of 80
JTAced posts the big blind of 160
The button is in seat #7
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to basatagirl [5s 4d]
cptwingrave folds
williw1971 folds
Antwany has 15 seconds left to act
Antwany folds
Facial Freddy has 15 seconds left to act
Facial Freddy has timed out
Facial Freddy folds
Facial Freddy is sitting out
basatagirl raises to 1,175, and is all in

Standard ATC shove. Even though the guy's a fish, I expect him to call tight.

JTAced calls 1,015
basatagirl shows [5s 4d]
JTAced shows [8d 8s]

That's ridiculous though. Fucking doomswitch, I tell you.

I don't play much on Tilt. I don't like the interface or something. Well, truth is, it always sucks. I play a few games, tear it up, and then have like 12 games out of the money. I'm actually losing money at the $10s at Tilt, which are even softer than Stars, but I have only played about 30 (usually play 12s and only played $10s because Stars had two winning players each signed up to like 10 games and no one regging at all). I have rakeback and all that, but I just have nagging doubts about Tilt. Dunno why. Just something shady about the site. And I like Stars.

mawhwhwhwhwhwha

It can be really hard to win sometimes. Here both my opponents are, to be charitable, idiots. rareform1 has specialised in doubling up other players by calling shoves with draws and bottom pair.

PokerStars Game #27870175414: Tournament #161356919, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level V (75/150) - 2009/05/05 22:51:25 ET
Table '161356919 1' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 3: Sexytim (5335 in chips)
Seat 8: rareform1 (4822 in chips)
Seat 9: FR Vessant (3343 in chips)
FR Vessant: posts small blind 75
Sexytim: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [9c 9s]
rareform1: raises 300 to 450

Has been raising a ton.

FR Vessant: raises 750 to 1200

Hope to get it in at some point.

Sexytim: folds
rareform1: calls 750
*** FLOP *** [4d 3d 2c]

Nice.

FR Vessant: bets 2143 and is all-in
rareform1: calls 2143

He has QJ. Obviously his call of my reraise pre was awful and so is this one.

*** TURN *** [4d 3d 2c] [6s]

OMG. Please don't let a 5 come on the river.

*** RIVER *** [4d 3d 2c 6s] [5c]

Shit.

Literally the next hand:

PokerStars Game #27870190456: Tournament #161356919, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level V (75/150) - 2009/05/05 22:51:58 ET
Table '161356919 1' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 3: Sexytim (5185 in chips)
Seat 8: rareform1 (4897 in chips)
Seat 9: FR Vessant (3418 in chips)
Sexytim: posts small blind 75
rareform1: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [As Kc]
FR Vessant: raises 300 to 450

Standard raise.


Sexytim: folds
rareform1: raises 4447 to 4897 and is all-in

He probably has a hand, but there's no way I'm folding.

FR Vessant: calls 2968 and is all-in

He has 66.
Uncalled bet (1479) returned to rareform1
*** FLOP *** [Qs 6h 4h]
*** TURN *** [Qs 6h 4h] [2s]
FR Vessant said, "sigh"
*** RIVER *** [Qs 6h 4h 2s] [6s]

Yes, quite.

Anyway, next tourney.

PokerStars Game #27870561326: Tournament #161356976, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level VI (100/200) - 2009/05/05 23:06:13 ET
Table '161356976 1' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 4: FR Vessant (3228 in chips)
Seat 5: Popeye3407 (10272 in chips)

Has been terrible all game but the poker gods have showered their love on him at every opportunity.

Popeye3407: posts small blind 100
FR Vessant: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Kc Ac]
Popeye3407: raises 400 to 600
FR Vessant: raises 2628 to 3228 and is all-in

No point fucking around.

Popeye3407: calls 2628

He has QJ. (Note that it's QJ again!) Obviously his call is atrocious. He cannot think he's ahead: I've been playing pretty tight all game.


*** FLOP *** [9s Jd As]

Nice. Bit worried about his hitting a pair though, because he can now suck out to two pair.

*** TURN *** [9s Jd As] [Kh]

OMG. I'm not liking the possibility of the straight though...

*** RIVER *** [9s Jd As Kh] [Tc]

You have to keep telling yourself you want to be called by worse hands and that this does make you money, but the evidence sometimes seems scarce. Last night I was playing a $10 MTT. It hadn't been going all that well, but I was still in there. I picked up AQ in the cut off. Three players limped. This is at t250 and I had 4K. So I shoved to try to pick up a nice chunk to add to my stack.

The SB tanks. I'm sweating. Is he agonising over calling with a pair of tens or something? Well, he calls, and it's K7s. What. The. Fuck. One of the limpers also calls. He has decided that AJ is going to be ahead of a shove and a call.

In a just world, I win the pot obviously, but in this one, there's a K on the flop and a 7 on the river.

Saturday 2 May 2009

Ten of the best?

Man, that set of 10 sucked.
1. I shoved JJ for 13BB, was snapcalled by A5 and the inevitable happened.
2. I shoved over a guy who had been raising 20% of his hands with AJ and this time he had KK.
3. Some retard limpcalled for 1.5K with T6s and beat my AK, and then in the same game, having fought back, 44 < KJs obv.
4. Some guy who had started raising every hand at two tables raised, I shoved over with AK, and lucky me, he had KK. No ace obv.
5. I donked off a good second spot and ended up third when I rivered a straight and the other guy rivered a boat -- probably could have folded, but this guy was betting everything.
6. Called a shorty's desperation shove with 77, his A6 hit an A on the flop obv. Yes, you're right, this is yet another 70/30.
7. I outplayed a fishy tard heads up, called him down with top pair when he yet again bluffed off his chips, and watched in horror as he rivered a straight. Then he sucked out on me when he eventually called a shove.
8. I doubled up and then blinded down to 1.7K and when I finally picked up something I could shove, A9, the tight small blind woke up with KK. Obv. I don't crack big pairs, so no A for me.
9. With TT on a 744 flop, I shoved over a guy's donkbet, and another guy called. With 77.
10. I repopped a fish's raise with KK, and he called. Flop was all rags. I set him in. He was delighted to show me AA. (This is the hand I posted just now.) Luckily, I had 2.6K left and won the tourney.

Oh well. I played fucking well today and overall I was a big winner (I say big, but we're only playing $10ers with a couple of $20s thrown in because I'm moving up the scaredycat's way). It would have been nice to have won one of those 70/30s though. Never mind. The main thing is to play well. I played horribly in April and I'm still a bit gunshy, but I felt good about it today and being slightly timid is not as bad in a regular speed as it is in a turbo AFAIK. I'm feeling it's best for me to keep playing regular speeds. I don't have time to study ICM (or poker) to feel confident playing 16s and I hate playing on Tilt because every time I win a few bucks, I immediately have a terrible downswong. I have ups and downs in the regulars but I'm certain I beat the $10s and pretty sure I beat the $20s, which play about the same -- maybe a few less complete fools, but mostly bad players all the same. I have a bit of calling sickness though, and need to put that straight. It's one thing to call down with a marginal hand when the board is not too threatening, or even to snap off a bluff when the flush card comes (usually because villain just doesn't bet enough to convince -- if you're the kind of guy who would pot it or shove when you flush, betting small just screams that you don't have it), quite another to call when the other guy has gone small-small-big. If you always interpreted that line as bluffing-bluffing-got lucky, you probably wouldn't go far wrong.

wtf to the power of wtf

I mean, wtf though. Three or four hands after some complete fucking clown busted me by calling off 13 blinds with A5 to crack my JJ:

PokerStars Game #27725350557: Tournament #160347613, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2009/05/02 3:41:28 ET
Table '160347613 1' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: Paodie2k9 (1875 in chips)
Seat 2: theereelmcoy (1205 in chips)
Seat 3: SevinJS (3055 in chips)
Seat 4: BOZZ rk (1865 in chips)
Seat 6: Ripler65 (1820 in chips)
Seat 8: tau837 (1515 in chips)
Seat 9: FR Vessant (2165 in chips)
FR Vessant: posts small blind 50
Paodie2k9: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Ah Ks]
theereelmcoy: folds
SevinJS: folds
BOZZ rk: folds
Ripler65: folds
tau837: calls 100
FR Vessant: raises 2065 to 2165 and is all-in

EZ shove. No point in raising less than all.

Paodie2k9: folds
tau837: calls 1415 and is all-in

He has T6s.
Uncalled bet (650) returned to FR Vessant
*** FLOP *** [5s 3h 5d]
*** TURN *** [5s 3h 5d] [Td]

nh sir.

Could be worse:

PokerStars Game #27725460714: Tournament #160347635, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level V (75/150) - 2009/05/02 3:49:02 ET
Table '160347635 1' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: kenkenuck (1520 in chips)
Seat 3: FR Vessant (4510 in chips)
Seat 6: CoolSaV (3120 in chips)
Seat 7: elric 31 (2460 in chips)
Seat 9: Hoggsnake (1890 in chips)
FR Vessant: posts small blind 75
CoolSaV: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Kc Kh]
elric 31: folds
Hoggsnake: raises 300 to 450
kenkenuck: folds
FR Vessant: raises 600 to 1050
CoolSaV: folds
Hoggsnake: calls 600
*** FLOP *** [6s Jd 4c]
FR Vessant: bets 840
Hoggsnake: calls 840 and is all-in
FR Vessant said, "wow"
*** TURN *** [6s Jd 4c] [As]
FR Vessant said, "what a cooler"
*** RIVER *** [6s Jd 4c As] [Ts]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
FR Vessant: shows [Kc Kh] (a pair of Kings)
Hoggsnake: shows [Ac Ad] (three of a kind, Aces)
Hoggsnake collected 3930 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3930 | Rake 0
Board [6s Jd 4c As Ts]
Seat 1: kenkenuck (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: FR Vessant (small blind) showed [Kc Kh] and lost with a pair of Kings
Seat 6: CoolSaV (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 7: elric 31 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: Hoggsnake showed [Ac Ad] and won (3930) with three of a kind, Aces

I should just openfold KK as well.

Friday 1 May 2009

He has WHAT?

This is as bad as it gets.


PokerStars Game #27686249844: Tournament #160081371, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2009/05/01 1:23:58 ET
Table '160081371 1' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: FR Vessant (1658 in chips)
Seat 2: 1stRyo (2040 in chips)
Seat 4: hogfan005 (1140 in chips)
Seat 6: ryan1111 (2302 in chips)
Seat 8: LSA2199 (6360 in chips)
LSA2199: posts small blind 50
FR Vessant: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [5d 4h]
1stRyo: folds
hogfan005: calls 100
ryan1111: folds
LSA2199: calls 50
FR Vessant: checks
*** FLOP *** [3h 7c 6h]

I flop the straight so I'm obviously delighted.

LSA2199: checks
FR Vessant: bets 200

Bet out to build pot.


hogfan005: calls 200
LSA2199: calls 200
*** TURN *** [3h 7c 6h] [As]
LSA2199: checks
FR Vessant: bets 700
hogfan005: folds
LSA2199: calls 700

Bet near pot this time.

*** RIVER *** [3h 7c 6h As] [4d]

Not great if he had a 5.

LSA2199: checks
FR Vessant: bets 658 and is all-in
LSA2199: calls 658
*** SHOW DOWN ***
FR Vessant: shows [5d 4h] (a straight, Three to Seven)
LSA2199: shows [5s 8c] (a straight, Four to Eight)

OMG.

Makes the other bad beats seem somehow standard.

***


Well, almost:

PokerStars Game #27686457964: Tournament #160079417, $20+$2 Hold'em No Limit - Level VI (100/200) - 2009/05/01 1:35:07 ET
Table '160079417 1' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: FR Vessant (2010 in chips)
Seat 4: Onenonlymush (5565 in chips)
Seat 6: dickkemp (2665 in chips)
Seat 9: Drock1360 (3260 in chips)
FR Vessant: posts small blind 100
Onenonlymush: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Ad 9d]
dickkemp: folds
Drock1360: folds
FR Vessant: raises 1810 to 2010 and is all-in
Onenonlymush: calls 1810

He has A2, hooray!

*** FLOP *** [2c 2s 5h]

Oh.

PokerStars Game #27686409731: Tournament #160081495, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level V (75/150) - 2009/05/01 1:32:27 ET
Table '160081495 1' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Chico117 (2900 in chips)
Seat 7: FR Vessant (2005 in chips)
Seat 8: postpokerman (3000 in chips)
Seat 9: 1stRyo (5595 in chips)
FR Vessant: posts small blind 75
postpokerman: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Kh Jd]
1stRyo: folds
Chico117: folds
FR Vessant: raises 1855 to 2005 and is all-in
postpokerman: calls 1855

He has AA.

Same guy:

PokerStars Game #27686636362: Tournament #160081527, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level VI (100/200) - 2009/05/01 1:45:13 ET
Table '160081527 1' 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 2: postpokerman (3565 in chips)
Seat 3: jYoungin30 (4180 in chips)
Seat 5: FR Vessant (2780 in chips)
Seat 6: Mage Vivi (2975 in chips)
FR Vessant: posts small blind 100
Mage Vivi: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Kd Kc]
postpokerman: raises 400 to 600
jYoungin30: folds
FR Vessant: raises 2180 to 2780 and is all-in

Yay!

Mage Vivi: folds
postpokerman: calls 2180

He has QsTd.

*** FLOP *** [Ks 2s Ad]

I have a set!

*** TURN *** [Ks 2s Ad] [4s]
*** RIVER *** [Ks 2s Ad 4s] [6s]

There's his flush!

Blind versus blind mojo not working:

PokerStars Game #27686615887: Tournament #160081567, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level V (75/150) - 2009/05/01 1:44:02 ET
Table '160081567 1' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: hh1313 (3015 in chips)
Seat 4: ErkkiMetsola (6403 in chips)
Seat 5: FR Vessant (2290 in chips)
Seat 6: bigbb111 (1792 in chips)
FR Vessant: posts small blind 75
bigbb111: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [8s Kh]
hh1313: folds
ErkkiMetsola: folds
FR Vessant: raises 2140 to 2290 and is all-in
bigbb111: calls 1642 and is all-in

He has AT.
Uncalled bet (498) returned to FR Vessant
*** FLOP *** [5c 2d 7s]
*** TURN *** [5c 2d 7s] [3s]
*** RIVER *** [5c 2d 7s 3s] [4s]

I miss everything obviously and he even gets a straight for good measure.

*** SHOW DOWN ***
FR Vessant: shows [8s Kh] (high card King)
bigbb111: shows [Td Ac] (a straight, Ace to Five)
bigbb111 collected 3584 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3584 | Rake 0
Board [5c 2d 7s 3s 4s]
Seat 1: hh1313 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: ErkkiMetsola (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: FR Vessant (small blind) showed [8s Kh] and lost with high card King
Seat 6: bigbb111 (big blind) showed [Td Ac] and won (3584) with a straight, Ace to Five



PokerStars Game #27686631451: Tournament #160081567, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level VI (100/200) - 2009/05/01 1:44:55 ET
Table '160081567 1' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: hh1313 (2815 in chips)
Seat 4: ErkkiMetsola (6403 in chips)
Seat 5: FR Vessant (498 in chips)
Seat 6: bigbb111 (3784 in chips)
hh1313: posts small blind 100
ErkkiMetsola: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [9s 9d]
FR Vessant: raises 298 to 498 and is all-in
bigbb111: calls 498
hh1313: folds
ErkkiMetsola: folds

He has AT again.
*** FLOP *** [2s Qh Qc]
*** TURN *** [2s Qh Qc] [Kh]
*** RIVER *** [2s Qh Qc Kh] [Ts]

So that's nice.

PokerStars Game #27686631921: Tournament #160080802, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level VII (100/200) - 2009/05/01 1:44:57 ET
Table '160080802 1' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 7: outlawdog81 (5730 in chips)
Seat 8: FR Vessant (7770 in chips)
outlawdog81: posts the ante 25
FR Vessant: posts the ante 25
outlawdog81: posts small blind 100
FR Vessant: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Ad Tc]
outlawdog81: raises 200 to 400

Has been minraising a lot.

FR Vessant: raises 600 to 1000

So I 3bet.

outlawdog81: raises 600 to 1600

The min4bet is repping a big hand, but I don't believe him.

FR Vessant: raises 6145 to 7745 and is all-in
outlawdog81: calls 4105 and is all-in

He has QJ and obviously should have folded at either opportunity.

Uncalled bet (2040) returned to FR Vessant
*** FLOP *** [Kh Ah Td]

FUCK. MY. LUCK.

Obviously I don't hit my outs.

Hard hands

Here's a tough spot. I'm never sure what to do here.

PokerStars Game #27681257571: Tournament #160049003, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level III (25/50) - 2009/04/30 21:54:37 ET
Table '160049003 1' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 2: Paodie2k9 (2245 in chips)
Seat 3: Chefurchill (3335 in chips)
Seat 4: hooks200 (2055 in chips)
Seat 5: LukeSimpson (1335 in chips)
Seat 6: AAPokerTech (1660 in chips)
Seat 7: MAFFIP (1525 in chips)
Seat 8: FR Vessant (1345 in chips)
MAFFIP: posts small blind 25
FR Vessant: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Kc Ah]
Paodie2k9: folds
Chefurchill: folds
hooks200: raises 200 to 250

This guy has been semiloose but has only raised 4%. This is an odd raise. It's way too big.

So what range do we put him on? The 4% is only over 29 hands, but it implies he is not raising very wide. The odd raise size implies the bottom end of his range (doesn't want a call): this is common for a fish.

Thing is though, I can't be sure he has AQ/AJ in his range. I assume that if he does, he will call with both, which is great for me. But I think he might be tight enough to fold at least AJ. Say he's raising 99+/AQ, I'm not in great shape, and if he doesn't have AQo in there, I'm crushed.

I don't want to flatcall. It's a big chunk of my stack and I'll miss most flops. In position, it might be better. OOP, it's going to be grim too often.

LukeSimpson: folds
AAPokerTech: folds
MAFFIP: folds
FR Vessant: raises 1095 to 1345 and is all-in

So I shove. I dunno though. Looking back at it, I think I can find a fold against this player.

hooks200: calls 1095

I'm not going to say what he had or what happened. None of that changes my analysis.


***

Compare it with this hand:

PokerStars Game #27681860811: Tournament #160049336, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level V (75/150) - 2009/04/30 22:15:49 ET
Table '160049336 1' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: STYLING-ACES (2230 in chips)
Seat 2: chiptacor (3435 in chips)
Seat 4: Vsemenov (6245 in chips)
Seat 8: FR Vessant (1590 in chips)
Vsemenov: posts small blind 75
FR Vessant: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Ah Jh]
STYLING-ACES: folds
chiptacor: raises 300 to 450

This guy has been quite active. My stats have just switched to fourhanded, so I don't know what he played earlier but I seem to recall he was loose. Not raising too much. So I think he has a wider range than the other guy, but still fairly tight because this kind of fish limps a lot of middling hands rather than pop them up.

I also have a worse hand. However, this is a good shove. I have 10BB and I'm playing against guys I can expect to call loose. Styling-Aces is a dreadful fish who I know will call shoves way too wide. I'm fourth. I need to find spots to put my stack in. I'd prefer to be openshoving this, but I figure that I should have the best hand a lot of the time, and I'm not too shabby vs most pairs. I do not think folding is an option here, even though I doubt I have any fold equity. That's a good thing though, because AT/A9 at least, and KQ/KJ are going to be in his range here.

Vsemenov has timed out while disconnected
Vsemenov: folds
FR Vessant: raises 1140 to 1590 and is all-in
chiptacor: calls 1140

Again, it doesn't matter what he had. Both players had hands that were within the ranges I expected for them, but that doesn't tell me anything much.