This hand just tops off my worst month playing poker.

Let me set it up for you...I have a maniac to my right (Marco), which is a good thing. He got lucky a couple of times…once busting a guys AA vs. his K8o allin preflop where he hit a boat 8’s over K’s. He overbet most pots pushing like $30-$50 into a $7 pot or going allin once every 6 hands or so into $10 pots. I’m card dead and just waiting to pick up a hand.

Finally AA… here's my chance. I pushed after the flop because I thought there was a good chance he (Marco) would call with anything, like he had the previous 45 minutes. But it wasn’t him who called, it was a moron to my left.

Hollywood Poker 200NL

Seat 1: creme2 ($75.80 in chips)
Seat 6: marco...007 ($483.90 in chips)
Seat 7: BGold999 ($178.60 in chips)
Seat 8: GreatOne3164 ($369 in chips)
ANTES/BLINDS
marco...007 posts blind ($1), BGold999 posts blind ($2).

PRE-FLOP
GreatOne3164 calls $2, creme2 calls $2, marco...007 bets $3, BGold999 bets $15, GreatOne3164 calls $15, creme2 folds, marco...007 calls $13. (they call my large raise?)
FLOP [board cards: 6C,4D,KD ]
marco...007 checks, BGold999 bets $161.60 and is all-in, GreatOne3164 calls $161.60, marco...007 folds.
TURN [board cards: 6C,4D,KD,4C ] (4C, great a Q won’t help him now)
RIVER [board cards: 6C,4D,KD,4C,KS ] (hits a two outer…fk)
SHOWDOWN
BGold999 shows [ AD,AC ]
GreatOne3164 shows [ QS,KH ] (Q kicker?…how could he not think I have a least AK when I pushed after the flop?)GreatOne3164 wins $374.20.

SUMMARY
Dealer: creme2
Pot: $376.20, (including rake: $2)
creme2, loses $2
marco...007, loses $17
BGold999, loses $178.60
GreatOne3164, bets $178.60, collects $374.20, net $195.60


This is how my month has gone. My big hands haven’t held up at all, just very unlucky.

I’m going to post my February review tomorrow as I won’t be playing any poker tonight or tomorrow night. It’s not going to be pretty):

Free $10 x 2

Every so often UB & Absolute put $10 in my inactive accounts. The other day I received $10 from both of them. Normally I just donk it away, but this time I’ve decided to see if I can build them up to at least $100/per site and/or I might try a few MTT’s with the $. Granted going down to $10NL is a big drop for me but after getting beat like a RENTED MULE on Cake (LOL) this is kind of refreshing. (At least I’m not depleting my bankroll.)

So far I have the UB $10 up to $64 and the AP $10 up to $15. We’ll see how far I get with this little experiment.

$%#*&^ quads again

At least I cleared my last 100pts for the PSO promo

Seat 1: Gold999 (172.15 in chips)
Seat 2: rsa1919 (180.90 in chips)
Seat 3: MB1417 (1063.10 in chips)
Seat 4: TOTOI (122.30 in chips)
Seat 5: flightdogg2 (397.50 in chips)
Seat 6: GooseFrabbaa (400.00 in chips)
Seat 7: magicdragon1 (394.00 in chips)
Seat 8: TheDude2Beat (699.20 in chips)
Seat 9: ShameOfGlory (369.40 in chips)
Seat 10: jonniy (271.70 in chips)
flightdogg2: posts small blind $2
GooseFrabbaa: posts big blind $4
Dealt to Gold999 [ Qd As ]
magicdragon1: folds
TheDude2Beat: folds
ShameOfGlory: folds
jonniy: folds
Gold999: raises to $8
rsa1919: folds
MB1417: folds
TOTOI: calls
flightdogg2: folds
GooseFrabbaa: folds
*** FLOP *** [ 3s 4s 4d ]
Gold999: checks
TOTOI: checks
*** TURN *** [ 9s ]
Gold999: checks
TOTOI: checks
*** RIVER *** [ 8s ]
Gold999: bets $11
TOTOI: raises to $45
Gold999: calls
*** SHOW DOWN ***
TOTOI: shows [ 4h 4c ] (Four of a Kind, Fours )
Gold999: mucks
TOTOI wins $109 with Four of a Kind, Fours

I normally don’t post hand histories but……

I thought I’d share this one with you after my horrendous weekend on Cake (see previous post).

Let me set it up for you. After losing over $600 on the weekend and only needing about 100pts. to clear my PSO promo I decided to sit down at a $50NL table with my last $35. I didn’t feel like reloading as I was only planning on playing for about ½ hr and just want to clear a few more pts. This was the first pot I got involved in, which was the 10th hand I was dealt.

Seat 2: Giarc (74.30 in chips)
Seat 3: fedelta (15.00 in chips)
Seat 4: bluffer08 (48.85 in chips)
Seat 5: IronLung (48.50 in chips)
Seat 6: Elbros (11.20 in chips)
Seat 7: Gold999 (34.70 in chips)
Seat 8: hooksettcat (28.45 in chips)
Seat 9: koolclyde61 (37.87 in chips)
Seat 10: WVWVWVVWVWVW (63.70 in chips)
Gold999: posts small blind $0.25
hooksettcat: posts big blind $0.50
Dealt to Gold999 [ Th 6d ]
koolclyde61: folds
WVWVWVVWVWVW: calls
Giarc: folds
fedelta: calls
bluffer08: folds
IronLung: calls
Elbros: calls
Gold999: calls
hooksettcat: checks
*** FLOP *** [ 7d 9s 8h ]
Gold999: bets $3
hooksettcat: folds
WVWVWVVWVWVW: raises to $12
fedelta: folds
IronLung: folds
Elbros: folds
Gold999: is all in
WVWVWVVWVWVW: calls
*** TURN *** [ 5c ]
*** RIVER *** [ 8d ]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
WVWVWVVWVWVW wins $68.40 with Four of a Kind, Eights

I know this hand won’t always hold up, it’s just that I was beat by QUADS AGAIN. I actually laughed about it.

Cake Poker review

I decided to do the Cake promo through PSO. Here’s a review of the site after 10 days of playing on it. I’ve been playing a mix of $100NL & $200NL only 2 tables at a time.

First the positives:
I really like the software, it’s easy to use and the filters are very good. It tracks your bonus really well. They have a couple of gimmicky things; gold coins and gold cards, which I think are good.

Now for the negatives:
You can’t resize the tables.
Players are getting MONSTER hands…I’ll explain

What a rollercoaster ride I’ve been on. After the first 5 days I was up around $250; mainly because my hands were holding up. The last five days have been terrible and I’m now down $400 of my $. I’ve been sucked out and taken so many bad beats it’s sickening. Players tend to push allin a lot on the site and here's few of mine where players pushed on me.

Here’s a few examples of having my $ allin preflop.
QQ vs. 99 (9 on flop) LOSE
AA vs. 77 (77 on flop) LOSE
AK vs KJ (KXX on Flop, I push him allin, J on river) LOSE
Many more like this as well.

These are just a few examples and there were PLENTY of post flop allin’s where the guy hit his miracle river card while we had all our $ in after the flop and/or turn.

This weekend, in about 500 hands, I saw 7 players get quads. (4 of them within ½ hr) I can’t remember ever seeing this many quads on other sites this frequently. I witnessed multiple player’s allin preflop with AA vs. KK. (which isn’t that uncommon) but it seemed to happen very very often here. Or even better AA or KK vs. middle pair and the guy hitting his middle pair set to win. I could almost call it every time.

I’m not sure if sites can set the randomness of the cards coming out, but I’ve seen some HUGE hands on this site.

Thoughts from anyone on this?

Finally

I finally got my first MTT win on Saturday! It was in the PSO winter league event on PokerStars. I played ok, I made a couple of errors early on, but I was lucky enough to win most of the races I needed to. I was more excited about winning than the actual $ won.

I guess I’m going to have to try to play in more of these events now to see if I can come close in the overall standings. So far I have a 1st and a 7th place finish. I think it will take 5 top 5 finishes to finish in the top 3 overall.

Not sure if I should count this as part of my 2008 goal(s) of winning an MTT, as I wanted it to be a tournament with over 100 players (this had 44 players). But considering it was against some really good PSO’ers I might count it.