so was it 6th, 7th or 8th place?

After taking the 3rd or 4th BS beat and beat out at the final table I really wasnt in any condition, thanks to being pissed off frustrated, to notice the exact place and exact amount of the cash.

If you really want to know the exact place and exact amount mark, I will go check the HH or the email results notice that minted poker will give me for the tourney

I have played in about 17 to 20 tourneys and have played about $20 to $25 worth of tourneys and have about $37 in gross profit, and about $13 to $17 in net profit

Bankroll is at about $87. for more exact accounting can someone who has a sharkscope membership, please log on to sharkscope and sharkscope MikelDH1

Doing a OPR search for MikelDH1 wont work because OPR doesnt cover the everleaf network skins.

Sharkscope however does cover minted poker on everleaf netwrok

I'm sure your staker will be thrilled to hear that.
If he gave you $100 and you now have $87 how does that give you "$13 to $17 in net profit?"

Also, shouldn't YOU be responsible for "exact accounting" on this staking arrangement?

Mark when I started this stake, me and probably many others assumed that OPR would probably work for the minted poker skin on the everleaf network, and that one wouldnt have to pay for a sharkscope subscription, just to check any results older then the last 5 to 7 days etc.

Also the minted poker site emails results whenever you cash, to you. And most of the time I get the right whatever $ buy in, whatever name of tourney the GTD amount and the right place finished, and the right amount, all reported here in the thread.

On the rare few times I dont get the exact place finish and cash amount, I am pretty close to what its about to give me and the staker and anybody else a extrmeely close about of how the stake is going.

And when its needed, between sharkscope, the results emails I get, and HH's, and what I have posted in here, the bankroll cashier's summary in minted poker, the exact information on whats going on and how everything is doing can and will be derived.

Also altho its a $100 stake, if you read the stake terms, dwiele the staker stakes me $50, then after that first $50 is played, if he is satisfied, then he will send me the 2nd $50. so its a $100 stake broken down into 2 $50 parts.

the initial starting bankroll was,is $50, and now its up to about $87. Then lets say I got bankroll to $100 after playing the first $50 worth of tourneys. At that point,he can send me the 2nd $50

So when I said about $13 to $17 net profit, thats pretty dam accurate mark

and between me and my backer staker Dwiele and Sharkscope,emails,this thread,skype, the cashier summaries,HH's etc. we will get it all figured out EXACTLY.

Also mark usually its up to both the stakee and the staker to figure out exactly whats going on, as both have a vested interest in doing so.

and like I said mark, I wasnt counting on OPR, not being able to track minted poker, and sharkscope requiring a subscription to check nlong term results

Also mark the way minted poker mis with MTT's filling up and starting last second, its hard to give advanced notice of what I will be playing, and when I am done playing a tourney, I a lot of times dont have time to sit down write info out exactlly and then go post it here, because another MTT tourney is staring up last second, a split second after I am done playing in a tourney.

If I sit down and write out exact results and post them here after each tourney I play in mark, I will miss the chance to play in some to a lot of tourneys.

And I can't afford to miss some to a lot of tourneys mark, because there are only 400 to 1600 players online, so there is not a large volume of tourneys that I can play each day. so when a $10 cent to $2 tourney fills up mark, I need to play in that tourney, even if thats a split second after the tourney I finished, and I dont have time mto sit down and record exact results.

If I dont do it that way mark, it will take FOREVER to finish the stake. And I dont think my backer,staker, and I both, want that to happen.

Mike is my favourite person, human, man, in the world

for you mark:

Username Games Played Av. Profit Av. Stake Av. ROI Total Profit Form Ability /100 Network Filter
MikelDH1 22 $2 $1 79% $35 - 72 Everleaf x

only problem is that you cant see advanced details on the 22 games played, and can only see the advanced details on those games played out of the 22 games played, that were played within the last 3 to 7 days

so if I play in 3 to 7 games in 3 to 7 days, I could see the advanced details for those 3 to 7 games.

also you cant see what the buy in and profit for each game played.

The only way to see all the details for all the games player for everything, is to have a paid sharkscope subscription.


Also another problem about the emails I get from minted poker, is that they only send a results email every time you cash, not every time you play in a tourney.

it would be nice if they would send a email of every tourney played in and what the buy in was and what the result was.

Some sick good stats even with the insane number of BS beats like 14 to 17 BS beats in 1 tourney and the crazy good play and luck that has doing so well depsite all the crazy bad luck

Small sample size at 22 games, but still sick good;



Miscellaneous Data
Total Cashes First Game (PDT) Last Game (PDT) Total Rake Total ROI (?) ITM (?) Av. Entrants Turbo Ratio (?) Av. % of field beaten
$69 25-Aug-11 31-Aug-11 $2 102.3% 59.09% 52.77 0.0% 63.82%

102% ROI and 59% ITM and 63% of the tourney field beaten.

I never thought OPR tracked Everleaf tournaments. Mostly they never have.
do they give you estimates of your finish? something like "Congratulations MikelDH1, you have come in 6-8th place and have been awarded $2-3. Thanks for playing."
I'm starting to think you don't know what "rare" means.
try reading the things you type out loud before hitting "submit" and see if you can't maybe make your posts a little more concise. Just a suggestion.
no, I hadn't read the entire stake terms. thanks for clearing that up, Mike!
sounds great, buddy.
well done!
ever hear of a notebook?
of course - dwiele needs to make sure you don't cheat him.
yes, you did say something along those lines.
we don't need advanced notice. you can just report results.
writing down the tourney info (buy-in, type, field, etc) should take about 10 seconds, noting the results should take about the same amount of time. Also, you know you can register for another tournament while you're playing, right?
somehow you find time to post these results here.
I think everyone on 2+2 would love for your endeavor to take FOREVER.

Don't ever leave us again, big guy!

played the $1 PLO kept on getting great hands screwed by the flop. Out in 17th place

then played the $1 $100 GTD, with a max of 1 rebuy or add on. I added on to start with 3000 chips instead of 1500. DONK villain had also done the same. But despite the villain not being able to rebuy anymore, villain was picking some to a lot of spots to DONK shove 3 to 4 times within the first 7 to 9 hands.

So I had A9 on the button, and everyone folds to me. I had been playing tight. And so I raised A9 to 85 with the blinds 10/20 preflop. Then the idiot villain decides to shove yet again. And even though villain had TT last time vs another player the last hand before this hand. I knew the villain was probably shoving A2+ KT+ QJ 22+ a wide range, and that my A9 fared well vs his range.

also I just dont think villain has a hand like TT or better 2 hands in a row there.

So I called, and villain shows his stupid QJ suited, which of course rivers a straight.

can someone give mike a custome tilte "the murphy of poker"?

I'll see what I can do.

done!


(Mike, if you really don't like it, just PM me and I'll have it removed in short order.)

so brilliant, please keep it mike

havent played in any tournaments yet today, because I have been busy today doing other really important things. I will try to play some tourneys later today tho.

As to the murphy of poker titl thing. I am oki with it, because its kind of funny. And if I find it funny, I bet everyone else finds it funny too.

Some of the time, I really do think I am the murphy of poker. And I have taken some extrmely consistent extrmely bad luck in the past, and in the present.

But I also have been lucky some as well(altho my good luck, doesnt even come close to equalling or exceeding all the bad luck I have had playing poker)

All that said, I am also halfway joking when I say I am murphy of poker, as I know there are many poker players who are more of a murphy of poker then I am, who truly experience more what can go wrong, will go wrong, and bad luck, more then most others.

Like can you imagine being chris ferguson who couldnt win a freeroll for like 3 to 7 months at FTP in his 0 to $10k thing? Can you imagine being Mike matusow and losing like 1 to 3 million in 1 years time?

thats why altho I am serious some of the time when I say I am the murphy of poker, I am also joking and kidding some of the time, and know that really I am probably not the murphy of poker, altho it really seems like it and feels like I am at times.

(Note Mark if you giving me the title of murphy of poker causes me to get unlucky and lose a lot, its all your fault)

Mike DH

I will take the weight. However, I predict it will bring great fortune!

(will post HH later)
knocked out of the $1 $25 GTD. i had a 1700 stack( i had been donk bad beat by a donk once and then had to split a pot with a donk who mcalled my 5 x BB QQ raise with Q 9, then postflop, I cbet, made a straight on the turn, bet pot, Q9 calls on gutshot, and makes the same straight as me on the river, split pot)

the blinds were 30/60 I had been playing pretty tight, and hadnt bluffed, and had shown down the goods 3 times. Villain had been playing loose at times, and tight at times, and mixed up his game well, and shifted gears well and had played ok up tilt this hand. He had fed off all the other donks to balloon his stack up to 10k

So I was on the button with 55 and raised to 185 preflop. Villain stupidly reraises me from the blinds with A9 up to 700. which is eactly the kinbd of hand I was putting him on. I thought villain was fish donkiishly trying to bully me with a very wide rangte.( hello mc fly nduh I wonder what tight ass is duh raise with preflop?? could it be something like 66 to AA, A8 suited to AK, KQ suited, etc. Now does A9 beat that range?? no then why are you reraising me with A9?? Also george i have a 30 x BB stack size. if your reraise me up to 700 1/3 my stack and I shove on you, are you gona have a hard time borderline calling/folding? YES so shouldnt you either flat call me preflop, or if you have to reraise preflop reraising me to 425 preflop instead of to like 700? yes. Also isnt folding A9 preflop a option, since you could easily be dominated by a better Ace? Yes)

So villains stupid ass play, put me in a tough position. I couldnt call 700 chips 1/3 my stack, because that would be spewiy with my 55. and I cant fold because I was pretty sure that my 55 was the best hand, And reraising all in isnt that great, because I have little chance to force a fold. So its like villain has me on 88 or less and is trying coinflip/fold bully me,

So I decided to make a stand and reraise all in, and either make him fold(not likely) or take the flip, because if I call or fold, unless I get lucky its open season on me for big stack to bully the living hell out of me.

So I lost the flip and out I went, fish donked out again by a fish donk

Here is the HH:

Everleaf Gaming Game #302844609
***** Hand history for game #302844609 *****
Blinds 30/60 NL Hold'em - 2011/09/02 - 12:36:27
Table 3
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players: 5
Seat 1: frafrefri ( 2000 Chips )
Seat 2: MARCANE_1 ( 3960 Chips )
Seat 4: royal_voyt ( 1445 Chips )
Seat 5: MikelDH1 ( 1782 Chips )
Seat 7: Lexus ( 9973 Chips )
Lexus: posts big blind [ 60 Chips]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to MikelDH1 [ 5h, 5d ]
frafrefri folds
MARCANE_1 folds
royal_voyt folds
MikelDH1 raises [ 185 Chips]
Lexus raises [ 670 Chips]
MikelDH1 raises [ 1,597 Chips]
Lexus calls [ 1,052 Chips]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8s, 7s, Qh ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ks ]
** Dealing River ** [ Kd ]
MikelDH1 shows [ 5h, 5d ] two pairs, kings and fives
Lexus shows [ 9s, As ] a flush, ace high
Lexus wins 3564 chips from main pot with a flush, ace high [ As, Ks, 9s, 8s, 7s ]

This George McFly guy sounds quite stupid! He ought to have known a tight player like you would never open 55 there, even less 4bet shove it.

Oh wait

well I am not a ultimate tight ass. Its more I play like a ultimate tight ass early tourney, and open up later on in the tourney.

Also I was semi card dead, more then anything.

But he doesnt know that. If I was the other guy, observing me play, I would think that I was a tight nit ass, that only raised good hands.

And based on that observation, I sure as hell would NOT reraise up to 670. I would have flat called me. I probably would fold if I didnt have such a big stack. And if I reraised, it would be to about 435 preflop.

As played by villain, I would probably call my reraise all in, but only because of pot odds and being borderline pot committed, with his stack size vs my stack size

Only way villain would know I am opening with 55 from the button, or 4 bet reraising all in from the button with as low as 55, would be if he has seen me play in a lot of other tourneys, and has notes on me.

otherwise based on this tourney before this hand, he should be thinking, that I am a tight nit ass, who might probably have the goods here.

I know thats what I would think, of me, if I was the other guy, and if I didnt have other knowledge of me from other tourneys

Also normally I dont 4 bet shove 55. this was a extremely rare heavily read dependent play. If my read on the situation is wrong, then I am in a lot of trouble.

I'm confused as to what range you thought he was 3betting with, especially as you figure he ought to perceive you as tight. You seem to be saying that you knew he was stupid enough to get it in with A9os here, but in the same breath you're expecting him to consider your range. It all seems quite illogical, either your opponent is an intelligent thinker or he isn't, and in $1 mtts the best default assumption is that any opponent is stupid until proven otherwise. There's no point representing anything, or even considering what your opponent perceives you to be doing, if all he's actually doing is looking at his own cards and thinking LOL I HAVE AN ACE, I MAKE BET.

based on the fish donks previous smart, good thinking play, he should be perceiving I am tight, and be playing me accordingly.

The problem with that is that even average players fish donks, who are playing smart thinking good poker, when they get a GIANT STACK, let it goto their heads, and stop thinking, and stop playing good.

There is a difference between what a player should do and what they will or are doing. Villain there, was a 67 to 83% chance that villain was bullying me with a wide range.

Yes it seems like villain should have a much tighter range in that situation. But you hit it on the head when you said its a $1 MTT, and even average players will let a big stack goto their heads in a $1 MTT and bully somebody they shouldnt be bullying.

Now if the stakes had been higher say $5 at extreme mininum, then its a borderline call fold with 55, and definately not a 4 bet reraise all in with 55, because then the villain would probably have a better chance of being a thinking player.

But you nailed it on the head when you said he was a micro big stack fish donk, who is thinking " I have A2 off +, RERAISE/ BET, hecause I have DUH NUTS, and have a GIANT assed stack"

Now if he had a smaller stack say 3k, instead of 9k, I dont think he plays like that, and will play more like a semi thinking average player, and would at least consider my likely range at least a little tiny bit.

But when he is a big stack, he is gona forget all that.

out early in the $2 super dep stack $100 GTD. Lifesonsrv crippled beat me down again. He had raised 4.5 x BB under gun, and I flat called with AQ, had a Q hit the flop and over the course of the whole hand, lost the mininum to get knocked down to 4k from 10k, by his KK. Thats the 3rd time Lifesonsrv has beat me. So now I am going to keep notes on him.


After that I had AK suited on the button, and UTG +1 22 DONK decides to shove his 10k 650 x BB stack with 22 crap preflop.(I would fold 22 preflop in UTG +1 position, shoving it, is crazy.) I call, lose the flip and out I went.

Lifesonsrv is in first place in the tourney with 53k in chips. he has been to many final tables with me, and has cashed many times and won, and or finished 2nd in 1 or 2 of those $2 super deep stack $100 GTD's

Dont know why he hasnt moved up stakes yet. he probably has a bankroll of like $300 to $550. So he should be at the $3 to $5 maybe even $7 stakes by now.

So I am definately going to play this player a lot differently then all the others at the micro's level