Dream Crusher

Won my second BBT 5 poker from the rail tourney and more importantly keep one less competitor from the TOC. Ran good, had one major suckout, but you have to get lucky to win one of these mine fields.

I said I got lucky

I know I am donkey, and I know when to admit that luck is cruel. I absolutely hate the way I played this hand, but in retrospect I was so focussed on Lucko that I just didn't stop and think about what Wheelz78 had. I was probably the 2nd most aggro at the table behind Lucko and I guess I convinced myself that he had floated with air and was doing a stop n go. Either way I will take it.


***** Hand History for Game 20565020948 ***** (Full Tilt)
Tourney Hand NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, May 03, 11:38:44 ET 2010
Table Poker from the Rail Tournament (157326801) Table 1 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: BuddyDank ( $3075.00 USD )
Seat 2: Troublecat ( $2315.00 USD )
Seat 3: Wheelz78 ( $8115.00 USD )
Seat 4: riggstad ( $12370.00 USD )
Seat 5: NewinNov ( $2970.00 USD )
Seat 6: Bone_Daddy84 ( $9762.00 USD )
Seat 7: lucko21 ( $8535.00 USD )
Seat 8: oossuuu754 ( $9230.00 USD )
Seat 9: xkm1245 ( $4760.00 USD )
Troublecat posts small blind [$120.00 USD].
Wheelz78 posts big blind [$240.00 USD].
BuddyDank posts ante of [$25.00 USD].
Troublecat posts ante of [$25.00 USD].
Wheelz78 posts ante of [$25.00 USD].
riggstad posts ante of [$25.00 USD].
NewinNov posts ante of [$25.00 USD].
Bone_Daddy84 posts ante of [$25.00 USD].
lucko21 posts ante of [$25.00 USD].
oossuuu754 posts ante of [$25.00 USD].
xkm1245 posts ante of [$25.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to oossuuu754 [ 6s 6h ]
riggstad folds
NewinNov folds
Bone_Daddy84 folds
lucko21 raises [$555.00 USD]
oossuuu754 raises [$1680.00 USD]
xkm1245 folds
BuddyDank folds
Troublecat folds
Wheelz78 calls [$1440.00 USD]
lucko21 folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ 2c, 9h, 9d ]
Wheelz78 bets [$4260.00 USD]
oossuuu754 raises [$7525.00 USD]
Wheelz78 calls [$2150.00 USD]
oossuuu754 shows [6s, 6h ]
Wheelz78 shows [Ks, Kc ]
oossuuu754 wins $1115.00 USD
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6d ]
** Dealing River ** [ 8d ]
oossuuu754 wins $17080.00 USD from main pot

Anyways thanks for the support and bring on the TOC.

I am such a Jack Ace !!

This was the begining of the end

Dumb Dumb move on my part. Could have, should have but I pushed on a re-steal knowing he enough folding equity that he would have to have a real hand to call. Insta call, and I am now a short stack instead of cruising to at least a 3 way fight for the 2 seats. I think I am going to go throw up.

This was the busto hand, I think I had about 14K, I pooshed. Didnt have but was still steamed at myself. I jumped out of my seat when the K hit the flop and fell to the floor when the 2 outer hit the turn. Re-sucks are the cruelest sucks of them all\

I will try to do a better write up but right now I just dont have it in me. Thanks for the kind words and railers. Hoy sorry about the beat.

TOC n and House Tilt

First of all didn't play in the M00K last night, I just needed a mental break before the big TOC this weekend. Speaking of TOC, I want to wish all my fellow competitors good luck except against me. I will be especially pulling for the fellow Okie Vegas participants surflexus and iam23skidoo and while I am pimping support I will give a shout to cmitch since he is the only other TOC er I have met in person. This will be a tough field and I look forward to seeing who will join me in winning the other seat.


Man I am in house tilt. Wife and I have decided to build a new house and just like everything I else I do I become consumed in it. We will be breaking ground before the end of the month and if every thing goes well we should get to spend Christmas in the new house. What has me on tilt is the fact that since this is new construction and the builder is a friend of ours he wants to do a "one time close" and what this means is we have to close on the new house before construction begins. So no WSOP for me since all funds are tied up until we sell our current house which wont be on the market until next month. Oh well.

I will be publishing the results of my Bank Roll abuse at the end of next week. If you haven't filled out the 4 question survey please do so and also if you could pimp it so we could get a little better statistically survey I would appreciate it.

I leave you with this piece of advice, if you are going to get drunk in a Mexican Border Town don't drive especially when there is a bike race going on.

TOC - Here I come

I took down the Riverchasers tonight for my TOC. Pretty sweet considering how I went out at the M00K final table last night, with my AK vs Lucko's KQ

First off I didn't even take any screenshots until the Final Table. The First Big hand I remember was midway in the 2nd hour. I was dealt AA in the SB and the chip leader made a pot sized bet on the button, I decided to smooth call and hopefully use his aggression against him by check pushing on the flop. I don't usually do this because it invites the BB to come along for ride which he did. The flop came out 10 high and two to a flush but I had now committed myself to going through with plan. Action goes like this, I check BB pushes all in for about 1500 into 2500 pot, Button pushes All In for about 6000, what do you do. I decided to call because I was fairly certain I was ahead of the Button and the side pot would be about 9000. Cards turned over, BB had the flush draw, button had QQ and I scooped the pot when the turn and river blanked. This hand pushed me into the top 3 I basically stayed there until the final table.

Now the Final Table got interesting. This was the first hand that I got involved with I made a standard raise and Loretta8 pushed in over the top which had been his standard play but I called getting 2 to 1 and was not real happy when he flipped AK. This was the only race I think I won all night.

Next interesting hand was shipfaced12 raised in the hijack and I re raised enough to put him all in. He had basically what I thought but I lost as the 60% favorite and he was the first of many that I would double up.

Final Table Hand # 27 me and Shipface tangled again preflop this time it stung a little harder.

The very next hand and the same result for wwonka69

Now this was the turning point for me, I could have tilted but I remained focus and continued to pick my spots. This was just such a spot. I am pretty sure it was folded to me and I made a pot sized raise, pushmonkey72 was the 2nd largest stack compared to me and re raised me about 1/4 of my chips and I called. I was fairly certain that I had the best hand but I wanted to see the texture of the flop before I made my move. I knew when the Ace hit that I would feign weakness with the check and I never thought twice about calling his All In push.

This hand I called shipfaced raise and did backflips when this flop hit

We started heads up I held a 14 to 1 chip lead and proceeded to double VBPro up 3 times in a row with me holding the favorite each time (I had KQ,KQ, A rag) and then he went into push fest. I think he push 6 hands in row and all of sudden I only had a 2:1 lead. It was then that I completely changed my game plan and went into limp fold mode just waiting for my spots. I think this confused him and then he started limping so I pushed him about 3 pots just to rattle him some more. I finally ground him down again to about 20k to my 140K and caught all sorts of flack on Dank Radio for not calling his shove getting 3:1 but I didn't see the need to give him any momentum by me calling All In with any two. Shortly after that I changed gears pushed with a Q7 and doubled him up and caught more flack about why I would call getting 3:1 one but I was more than willing to push, because I wanted to set the trap. We still had a huge amount of play in the stacks and I new eventually I would catch a big hand and he would get caught and here it was

The chips went in pre flop so I was the favorite when the money went in. The flop gave him 13 outs, turn Q took away5 of them thank goodness because he did hit his 5 on the river.

Back to the Future

Ok I am now Back to The Future. I don't know if anyone still checks here or not, but that doesn't matter. The reason I started this blog was for self growth. Growth in poker, job, ect.. While I definitely grew, I regressed even further. Especially in poker. (We can get in the non poker growth/regressions later)

I achieved goals that I never thought I would, I also made the most basic mistakes that signified how little I had learned.

For me poker is a DEMON,

I feel like I can control it and even master it but it pushes me to brink of obsession.

So I start over again and go back to the future. I have set a goal to go back to Vegas for the big one. I want to play like I was playing when I won (at least play online that way) my seat.

I have already registered for several of the Thursday $1K WSOP satellites, and I plan on playing in some the BBT3 events starting tonight with M00KIE.

O'fer

O'fer 3 this week in the BBT events. I must admit Bayne_S is putting on clinic, I am not conceding yet, but man his performance has been impressive. As for me, Mookie and MATH I was pleased with the way I played but the cards didn't go my way. That's Poker!

As for my performance in the Riverchasers, lets just say it is damn near impossible to play in a live tournament and online at the same but I tried last night. Busto in fifteen minutes in the Rivershasers, took 2nd out of 30 in the live $50 tourney.

Wish me luck I am playing in FullTilt's (Bonus Code OSU) 100 seat ME Give Away this weekend since I qualified for it almost 3 months ago and hopefully can snag my 2nd seat. Lord know my BR could use the $12k.

Have a great weekend and to all the dads out there enjoy your day but mostly enjoy your kids.

Would you do it again the same way if you could do it over?

This is the question I ask it to myself when I bust out of a MTT. If I am more inclined to answer yes then I feel I have succeeded. Did I get my money in with the best hand, did I give myself the best chance to win the tourney? Ect.. If the answer is no time to re-evaluate and find the leaks. Why did I push when he had no fold equity, why did I not pick up the warning signs from his betting patterns, ect..?

After last night's MATH I pondered this question over and over, but before we get to my conclusion lets set up the problem. We had 36 runners and my table was you typical Blonkament Table with LAGs to super LAGs. During the first 13 hands I picked up KK early but no action so my stack was just were I started 3K.

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Yesterday I skipped lunch and decided to read a little more of the Full Tilt Tournament Guide, after all it is one of my goals this week. I read the interesting chapter that Quiet Lion wrote about online MTTs and one of the key points he drove home was that in the early stages of MTTs are all about implied odds. In other words the first few levels (specifically the first 3 levels in a deepstack)you can make some questionable calls if you feel that implied odds justify them. Hmmm very interesting stuff.

After Lunch I perused Hoy's archive of the Anatomy of the slowplay 1-3, Hoy states his goal when he slowplays a monster is to get every chip period, and he went into great lengths to explains the various methods how he gets his opponent to commit all their chips to a play where he is the favorite. Hmmm very interesting stuff.
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Hand number 14 started off very interesting, I am in the BB with KdJd and UTG makes it 70 to go, now believe it or not more time than not I will let this hand go, especially in a HU situation with the original UTG raiser. Most time if I am going to play KJ suited I would like a multiway pot. But I read something early today about implied odds... hmmmm....... I think I might just call and see a flop.

Well the flop slapped me right in the face Kc8dJd, top pair decent kicker, 9 outs to the second nut flush and backdoor straight. This a monster, but how can I get all of his chips ....... hmmm... I think I read something earlier today about slowplaying a monster ...... I think I will check and see how much he likes his hand. So cefredmd fires out a little over 1/2 pot, standard Cbet and then re-raise him 2.5 his bet just to keep him interested, when ...................... wham he shoves all in. So should I be happy or mad, happy that I got what I wanted which is an opportunity to stack him or mad that I am probably behind to either AA, KK or AK. My action was made as soon as I saw the flop but lets look at the odds of the 3 hands before we get to the results, for simplicity we will assume that my opponent doesn't have a diamond.

Against AA, I am favorite 51%

Against AK I am 47.27%
And against KK I am 30.91%
So all in all I am not that bad shape and pots odds compel me to call my last $2K for a $6K even if against a set. So we get in and I am somewhat please to see that I am against AhAd but I am disappointed to see he has the Ad

Here a the odds now that I know I am against the AhAd - 45.96%

And here is the board offering no help!


And the Gigli goes to:

Now to answer the question would I do again? Yes, because of few circumstances. It is BBT tourney and I wanted and needed to win the tourney not just slide into the points in order to have a shot at Bayne_s on the leaderboard. I need to book a win or decent showing because of the motivational factor I need going into the WSOP. I actually felt really good about this decision because I made the plan and stuck with it even thought it didn't have the desired outcome.

Weekend Update for 6-9-07/Goals for the Week

Played a little this weekend with no good results. Here are the lowlights.

In $15K Silver Iron Man Freeroll I lost to TPTK, we he open shoved 7x the pot on Jd8c6d flop with 2 diamonds, I had Ad8d and called with what I thought was 14 outs twice but realized I only had 11 outs. Hindsight bad call by me but I stuck with my read and went with it.

Won a MTT satellite into the $50 Super for the $400K. I really like this tourney since it offers a 1 in 4 shot into the $400K. Well no excuses, I blew it. I finished about 100 short of the payday when I probably could have folded my way into. I didn't play for the prize and I should know better then to try to play big stack poker in these push monkey type tourneys. So no $400K for me.

As for my Goals for Last week let recap

• Apologize to Waffles for the Riverchasers Tirade -- CHECK
• Make the Points in Both BBT Tournaments this Week -- CHECK
• Final Table on the BBT Tourney -- CLOSE BUT NOT REALLY SEE MATH RECAP
• Win a BBT Tourney -- HAHA
• Finish Reading FullTilt Tournament Guide -- DIDN'T GET TO READ MUCH THIS WEEK SO 1/2 WAY THERE
• Walk with the Family in the Evenings -- SOME BUT NOT ENOUGH

I give myself about a C on the goals report card. I will try to finish up the uncompleted goals and add a few more.

• Make the Points in all three BBT Tournaments this Week
• Final Table a BBT Tourney
• Win a BBT Tourney
• Finish Reading FullTilt Tournament Guide
• Walk with the Family in the Evening
• Win 2nd Seat on FullTilt in the 100 WSOP ME Giveaway on Sunday

In the words of Curley -- "If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seeds"

See ya tonight at the MATH

M00K recap 6-7-07

I cant say much except made the points and made the best of the hands that I was dealt. With only 1500 starting chips you have to start out early with a bang and that is something I didn't do. I lost over half my chips early when my top pair and pot sized bet (25% of my stack) was called by a gutterball draw that made a bigger top pair on the river.

I was able to chip back up to about average stack when I was dealt my 1st pair rockets and was able to get a shorter stack to commit to his pair after the flop.

So at the end of the first break I was just about par, but unlike the trends of past BBT events the bustouts were happening quickly which meant there were some very big stacks starting to appear around me. Shortly into hour number 2 we hit the points bubble. Now since Bayne_S had busted out early I knew that I was going to gain some ground on the BBT but if I wanted to make the most ground up I was going to need to go really deep so I put on my GAMBOOLin hat. First gamboolin hand was this hand. My 88 against a limped 1010.

That took a big chunk of my chips but shortly after that I picked up the Hammer but I chickened out and oh how Fulltilt mocked my decision.

For my lack of Hammer Faith I was only awarded the blinds with my rockets deux.

With the blinds climbing to 100/200/25, A9 sooted was good enough to make my stand with my last 1300 chips against Elf's allin push preflop, her range was huge and I honestly liked my called given that fact. She was able to hit her set on the turn after I jumped the lead with an Ace in the door and then just for the added humiliation Fulltilt (Bonus Code OSU) slapped with two pair on the river. GG me out in 20th.

The Dookie was just wild. First of all it was a $25 freeroll and secondly it wasn't a Turbo. Jeez it took for ever (1:00 AM) because there were several Ghost playing that just wouldn't die. Schaubs was ghost that survived 2 or 3 allins in the blinds, then Schaubs signed into FTP and got to play one hand before he was eliminated. Lucko even made the final table as Ghost. I had a big chipstack at the final table so did Bayne_s but to be honest with you with on 3 places getting paid and only $12.50 going to the winner it was hard to get excited about although it was fun because the railbirds were going crazy and RadioDank was shooting out some crazy chiat. I double up a couple people with AQ vs AK and Bayne_s deliver the death blow with AK vs my Ax 5 handed.

Overall I cant complain about my performance this week in the BBT, I made the points in both events had the chips to make a final table on the MATH but donkey barfed them away. This weekend I am playing in the IronMan Silver Freeroll were 1/4 the field will get a payday and I want to play a few of the MTTs. Hopefully I can satellite into the 400K and make a score.

Good luck to all the Bloggers in Vegas this weekend I will hoist a shot facing westward your way. Be safe this weekend and my you have many success on the felt.

I suck, therefore I blog! MATH Recap!

My state of the poker address in one paragraph. I am good player with definite dumb azz donkey tendencies. I make some good laydowns and some horrendous calls. I make great bluffs and leave money on the table when I have made hands. At times I feel invincible at times and sometimes I am afriad to play in $5 sng.

That is the range of my emotions right now. I am having a hard time controlling my inner donkey

MATH Recap: I double up withing the first 23 hands of the tournament at the end of the first break I was sitting pretty:

Shortly after the break I was moved to a new table and hit my high water mark of 11,790. But it was there the wheels came off the proverbial buss. At my new table I didn't adjust my play, I hadn't earned the respect of this table and I tried to run over them with my big stack. Now mind you I wasn't raising aimlessly but I was trying to dictate the flow, however several smaller stacks decided that anytime I raised they were willing to gamble. I would raise 2.5 to 3x and get pushed in on for 7-10 times my raise. Frustrating to say the least.

I lost 4K in back to back hands and neither of us played them wrong. First hand I am dealt AK in MP blinds 100/200 I make 600 and cutoff goes all in for about 900 more with QQ and wins his race. Next hand I have Ac10c decide to limp after an EP limper. Flop is 10 high with 2 hearts. Checked to me and with about 1K in the pot I lead out to protect my TPTK one of the blinds pushes for an additional 800 with Kh10h and filled his flush on the river.

So at the end of hour 2 I am mid pack with about 29 or so to go. Shortly after we combined to 3 tables and I didn't adjust for the new big stacks at my table. We were safely in the BBT points when for some reason my inner donkey just took over. Here is how my busto hand played out. (Warning the following hand description contains Graphic Stupidity, please be advised)

I am in the BB 500/250/50 with Ac9c and WilWonka is UTG and raises to 1500 leaving about 4.6K behind, folded to HOP who smooth calls from the CO. Flop comes this

Decent flop for me and I feel like I am ahead but not for certain so for some reason I check.(mistake number one why I didn't lead out a 1/2 pot to gain information only my inner donkey knows for certain) WilWonka checks and HOP leads out a pot sized bet, which I somehow interpret as a mid level pair thanks to the Waffles/HOP war that took place a few weeks ago. (Dam you waffles even in your absence you somehow eff with my game) I push, WilWonka folds and HOP insta calls with AQ

The needless Q on the turn and GG all out in 21st. I was very disappointed with my showing last night. I am starting to doubt my sanity since I am doing the same things over and over again expecting different results. I am still 2nd on the BBT Leaderboard and 3rd in overall money won but I am nowhere near the level I was playing a few weeks back. Gotta get the leaks plugged fast I fly out for ME in 32 days.

Goals for the Week 6-4-07

• Apologize to Waffles for the Riverchasers Tirade
• Make the Points in Both BBT Tournaments this Week
• Final Table on the BBT Tourney
• Win a BBT Tourney
• Finish Reading FullTilt Tournament Guide
• Walk with the Family in the Evenings

So there are my Goals for the week. Lets get one of them accomplished right now. I owe Waffles an apology for my tirade during the Riverchasers Horse Event on Sunday. I told him: FU, I called him a classless douche bag, and I may have called him phucktard, dum azz bastard. I hope I didn't forget any. Anyways I do owe him an apology, I understand his taunting and off the cuff remarks are what make Waffles, Waffles. He is like a car wreck or picture of a decapitated body , you don't want to look but you cant help yourself. Waffles I am sorry.

The others are pretty self explanatory. I hope to catch Bayne_S on the BBT Leaderboard but I must say he is making it mighty tough. Very impressive sir.

See ya at the MATH tonight.

My Poker Mantra and Thats Just Wrong Wednesday

Wippy has asked me to share my poker mantra. They say a picture is worth a 1000 words, so take a look at these thoughts and images and maybe add them to your poker repertoire.

Bluffing
Bluffing is a part of poker but it has to blend in, when you bluff make sure your bluff fits in with the way the hand has played out.


Patience and Enthusiasm

Patience is huge in Poker no one has ever won a MTT on the 1st hand of tourney. Lets face it poker is 95% boredom and 5% excitement. So do get so to excited when you are #1 at the end of the first hand, break, ect... There is a fine line between Confidence and Cockiness.

Be Prepared
Be in the right frame of mind to play, poker is mental and therefore you need to have an edge. Think back to your last poker score and try to recall your mindset. Odds are you were focused and ready to play.

Innovation

Don't be predictable. A good poker player can change gears, a great poker player can change their game.

Risk vs Reward

Poker is all about calculated risks. Always have a reason for taking a risk and make sure you will be rewarded for it.

Consistency

One thing is for certain change is inevitable. The most consistent poker players are the ones who change.

With my mantra out of the way lets have our weekly look at the pictorials of the weird, wacky and just plain wrong.


Speaking of Lesbians

Speaking of Kids and Pets

Speaking of Boobies and a Man's Brain

Dont forget about the M00K tonight.