I'm glad this weekend is over, I struggled to keep what i had i swear. Sat down at one table, had 66. went 3xbb, had one caller. flop hits A69.... he min bets, I bet the pot... he thinks a sec I put him on an Ace he raises me all in. So I call. He has A10. Turn is a 10, river is an A. Sucks...lol. go to another table. Sit down, get first hand JJ. Raise 4xBB on the button get one caller. Flop J72 with one club. he goes all in, i call, he has Q6 clubs. Of course runner, runner flush. Been like that the whole weekend.


Full tilt was $46 now $39.50
Bodog was $75.19 now $66.87

Played 6 45 man SnGs yesterday. Didn't cash in any of them. My on the bubble play was atrocious! So I went back to the cash games and did well. I was up about $6 in about 1 hour. Cashed out and went to another table was up about $3 there until I donked off my profit and buyin! ARGH! (where the hell did that fold button go?!)

Ah well, today is another day.

Decided to make a move up to $10 after the tourney cash yesterday.

4 tabled ended up taking 2nd twice and 1st twice

BR up to $1,341.84

Grats on the tourney bruzer! Sorta similar to how my BR was built, used to play just lowest micros and smallest SNGs and got couple decent 4/180 cashs and played overrolled for nl10/25, 5-10$ sngs, tiny MTTs ect, then later won a sat seat to an FTOPS event and cashed in it which gave me a good enough roll to play higher cash which I now play for the past few months. Just remember to not move up to fast even if you are overolled, with big/decent MTT scores its easy to let your BR grow faster then you skill, better to play overolled then play above your head.

Here we go again. 116/1067 left in the Early Double - B I'm about average in stack.

Edit: Cut shorter than expected 77th, TT in BB to a minraise he had Aces.

gogogo Cruzer! 2k bankroll gogogo!

nice Gina.
Want to start up a beginner game?
Also you have AIM or MSN so I don't have to post here to see if you want to play

cee- gonna be making dinner in a few- but i could join in later

gina

i dunno how ppl play the 45 man turbos... soooooooo frustrating.. this is what happens nearly everytime i'm on the bubble. This was literally the first decent hand I was dealt all sng

PokerStars Game #17739641303: Tournament #89950346, $3.00+$0.25 Hold'em No Limit - Level XI (600/1200) - 2008/05/27 - 21:28:09 (ET)
Table '89950346 4' 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: Frederico23 (4020 in chips)
Seat 2: aussiedan69 (6465 in chips)
Seat 3: Monica174 (14715 in chips)
Seat 4: brook20 (10440 in chips)
Seat 5: Rakim82 (7545 in chips)
Seat 6: Dolseur (4950 in chips)
Seat 7: Boomstar (3765 in chips)
Seat 8: nono0512 (11205 in chips)
Seat 9: khutch18 (4395 in chips)
Frederico23: posts the ante 75
aussiedan69: posts the ante 75
Monica174: posts the ante 75
brook20: posts the ante 75
Rakim82: posts the ante 75
Dolseur: posts the ante 75
Boomstar: posts the ante 75
nono0512: posts the ante 75
khutch18: posts the ante 75
brook20: posts small blind 600
Rakim82: posts big blind 1200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to khutch18 [Kh Kc]
Dolseur: folds
Boomstar: folds
nono0512: raises 2400 to 3600
khutch18: raises 720 to 4320 and is all-in
Frederico23: calls 3945 and is all-in
aussiedan69: folds
Monica174: folds
brook20: raises 6045 to 10365 and is all-in
Rakim82: folds
nono0512: folds
Uncalled bet (6045) returned to brook20
*** FLOP *** [2s Jc 3s]
*** TURN *** [2s Jc 3s] [9s]
*** RIVER *** [2s Jc 3s 9s] [Ts]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
brook20: shows [Ac Ks] (a flush, King high)
khutch18: shows [Kh Kc] (a pair of Kings)
brook20 collected 750 from side pot
Frederico23: shows [6d Kd] (high card King)
Frederico23 is sitting out
brook20 collected 17310 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 18060 Main pot 17310. Side pot 750. | Rake 0
Board [2s Jc 3s 9s Ts]
Seat 1: Frederico23 showed [6d Kd] and lost with high card King
Seat 2: aussiedan69 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: Monica174 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: brook20 (small blind) showed [Ac Ks] and won (18060) with a flush, King high
Seat 5: Rakim82 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: Dolseur folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: Boomstar folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: nono0512 folded before Flop
Seat 9: khutch18 showed [Kh Kc] and lost with a pair of Kings

Sorry to hear that Icewolf, I'm sure you'll get out of the rut you're in.

thx.. despite all my bitching lately.. i've pretty much been break even in the past 2 weeks.. seems like i'll play and play and play.. get down 20-25.. then make it up in my last game of the night. Last night I was down like 15.. played an 16 man 3.40 razz sng..took 2nd..finished the night basically even. I've got 4 4.40s left from my friends stake, no luck so far with those. 1 cash.. only once in 6 i've played have i gotten to the first break with more than 1.8k in chips, so hopefully I can get a decent finish in a few of those so that I can be comfortably rolled for 2c5c in the next 2 weeks, maybe even 5c10c so i can start my run at 20k hands in about 10 days. Maybe then i'll be able to convince myself that I should stick to cash games and the occasional mtt.. and forget most sngs.

You guys are inspirational. Due to being a broke ass degen I decided to give this a try.

I deposited $10 on Stars a couple of days ago and am now 20 tabling the 1c/2c games. I decided to make a blog to keep track of my progress. Check it out!

GL everyone.

currently crushing 2nl at 17ptbb/100 over 8k hands

we'll see if i can keep it up

edit: charley i just did the same thing, except i deposted 20. gonna try to run this up to a few hundo then just go into 10 and 25nl and continue from there.

1st session today i was down 40$ from 530ish to 490

2nd session up 100$ from 490 to 590... variance is huge and I notice a trend.. almost everyday I have a losing session followed by a winning session. either it gets easier at night or I play better at night.

will be nice to hit $1K and switch to 25NL... hopefully i dont take too many bad beats then cause the jump from losing 10 bucks at a time to losing 25 will be pretty big. a 200$ downswing would drive me insane.

i am winning at a good clip but just bleeding in non-showdown pots. is that normal?

To evaluate your non-SD pots, set pt or hm to show your winnings in pots where you voluntarily put money in the pot and look at those, and then look at how you do when you don't voluntarily put money in the pot and don't go to showdown.

You're going to lose a lot of the time when you're in the BB with a crap hand and fold after the flop. Don't beat yourself up over that. Look instead at where you voluntarily enter the pot and don't go to SD.

I can't win one of those damn things for the life of me.
in fact- busted out of one with KK last night.
fold KK preflop in 45s, obv

Not running good at all in the last sngs =/ KK<AJ and QQ<67

Still in two more but roll is back down to $1,253.04

Well i went onto Stars today and noticed I had FFP's on there, so i went looking for a tourney to use them on. Found a NL turbo with a 10fp buy in and joined it. Won 0.35 cents...lol so got a bankroll on stars now. looks like the only thing I can use it on is a limit table, not much to play with but hey it was free.


Full tilt: $39.50
Bodog: $66.87
Poker Stars: 0.35

I love when the other person does all of the work.

Poker Stars, $0.01/$0.02 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 6 Players
Hand History Converter by Stoxpoker

MP: $2.74 (137 bb)
CO: $1.37 (68.5 bb)
BTN: $1.05 (52.5 bb)
SB: $4.90 (245 bb)
BB: $2 (100 bb)
Hero (UTG): $1.72 (86 bb)

Pre-Flop: Hero is UTG with T J
Hero calls $0.02, MP calls $0.02, CO folds, BTN calls $0.02, SB completes, BB checks

Flop: ($0.10) 9 T T (5 players)
SB checks, BB bets $0.15, Hero calls $0.15, MP folds, BTN folds, SB folds

Turn: ($0.40) 5 (2 players)
BB bets $0.35, Hero calls $0.35

River: ($1.10) 6 (2 players)
BB bets $1.20, Hero calls $1.20 and is all-in

Results: $3.50 pot ($0.15 rake)
BB showed J 7 (a pair of Tens) and lost (-$1.72 net)
Hero showed T J (three of a kind, Tens) and won $3.35 ($1.63 net)

Finished 1st and 3rd in my other SnGs thankfully. Hit a little rough patch for a very small bit but am back on the horse.

BR for the day:
$1,316.04

NICE!!

Def bet this flop and turn, there's too many draws out there.

if your not gin a please go elsewhere......lol

I just called because this guy was betting and raising with junk all night. I felt by the way that he was betting that he didn't have much. A calculated risk on my part but I was pretty comfortable with it. But, I get what you're saying.