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Great First Day of Month

Just as the title suggests, I couldn't have started the month off on a better note. I played a little 25NL during the day as I didn't want to play any 50NL until I had my coaching with Brendan. I hopped in a few mtt's and actually almost binked a $10 HA tourney. I came in 2nd for $225. I had a few other tourney's running so I had about $200 in profit. I'll take it.

I had my coaching with Brendan and he saw a few things in HEM where I could be improving. We then loaded up some tables and he was sweating me for the rest of the session. Overall I was happy the way I played and was explaining my thought processes pretty well. There were a few spots where I didn't take an optimal line and Brendan didn't just tell me what to do in that spot, he told my why I should do it a different way and what would result of it. He said I was looking pretty solid. I'm gonna try and get a lot of hands in and do a HH review on Thursday. As for results, I made $154.42 over 1018 hands for a 31.8 bb/100. Definitely not sustainable, but getting 23% of my $ goal for this month in the first day is uplifting.

Doing OK on the Insurace simulations. I got passed the Life one, now I have to tackle Accident and Health. I want to pass this stupid test the first time so I dont have to pay for it.

College Football starts tomorrow night so I'm pretty amped for that. This weekend I'm going up to my gf's cabin in the poconos which should be tons of fun. I'm going to get on the tables in a few and see if I can make some more money. Have a good day all.

September Goals

Ok, so I'm gonna start posting frequently again. I'm a little bit bitter as I write this since FTP processor is having troubles and my withdrawal just got denied. They said it was going to be put back in my account, and I've yet to receive it. alk;sdjf;lkasjd;fklajsd;lfkajsldfjalsdjf. Anyway onto the goals.

1) Pass my Insurance test
2) Lose 10lbs
3) Play 50k hands
4) Win $1500
5) Maintain a 3 or 4 bi stop loss(set amount tbd)

Right now, #1 is the most important thing to get accomplished. Once I do that poker will become much more easy. I want to get back on track with my life and start making some doe.

I've been getting a little flabby being out of work and sitting on my ass all day. I want to get a regular cardio exercise in and then eventually join a gym and start to get cut again.

My 3rd goal should be reasonable enough. I logged 40k hands this past month only putting in about 2.5 weeks of playing. I really need to spend more time on the tables.

I really want to get back in the swing of things and start winning again. I had a losing month in August and don't want to see it again. It tore me up inside how bad I played. I'm starting the month off getting coaching again. Brendan K will be coaching me and hopefully h'll get me on the right track.

There were a few times last month where I saw myself spew off so much money for no apparent reason what so ever. This has never been a problem for me(br mamagement) but for some reason I kept playing when I was down extreme amounts of money. I don't know wether I want to use a 3 or 4 bi stop loss. Maybe I'll use a combination of the two.

That's all for now, I'll update tomorrow probably after coaching.

September Goals

I completely sucked in August, and I'm setting myself a few goals for September. Before that I'm going to play basketball. I will have the goals up around midnight ish and get the blog back going

Cash going really well

I will make a post by the end of this month and get this going again i promise!

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$8 Donkament Win!

We're on a roll, post to come tomorrow, its too late tonight.

Heads Up is Easy?

Just decided to play a little bit of heads up. It's tough to keep other donks off the table when you're playing on a 6 max table. I would love to play 25NL, but had to play 50NL. I'm gonna guess and say that it was a good move.

Total Hands: 10
Time Played: 5 minutes
People Felted: 3
Profit: $109

FullTiltPoker Game #6122529819: Table Band (heads up) - $0.25/$0.50 - No Limit Hold'em - 14:52:34 ET - 2008/04/21
Seat 1: trixter23 ($51.35)
Seat 2: conwayc ($9.90)
conwayc posts the small blind of $0.25
trixter23 posts the big blind of $0.50
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to trixter23 [9c Jd]
conwayc calls $0.25
trixter23 checks
*** FLOP *** [9s Tc Jc]
trixter23 bets $1
conwayc calls $1
*** TURN *** [9s Tc Jc] [2s]
trixter23 checks
conwayc bets $0.50
trixter23 raises to $3.50
conwayc raises to $6.50
trixter23 raises to $49.85, and is all in
conwayc calls $1.90, and is all in
trixter23 shows [9c Jd]
conwayc shows [9h Th]
Uncalled bet of $41.45 returned to trixter23
*** RIVER *** [9s Tc Jc 2s] [7h]
trixter23 shows two pair, Jacks and Nines
conwayc shows two pair, Tens and Nines
trixter23 wins the pot ($19.30) with two pair, Jacks and Nines
conwayc is sitting out
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $19.80 | Rake $0.50
Board: [9s Tc Jc 2s 7h]
Seat 1: trixter23 (big blind) showed [9c Jd] and won ($19.30) with two pair, Jacks and Nines
Seat 2: conwayc (small blind) showed [9h Th] and lost with two pair, Tens and Nines

FullTiltPoker Game #6122547057: Table Band (heads up) - $0.25/$0.50 - No Limit Hold'em - 14:54:11 ET - 2008/04/21
Seat 1: trixter23 ($59.50)
Seat 2: unofamilia ($21.25)
trixter23 posts the small blind of $0.25
unofamilia posts the big blind of $0.50
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to trixter23 [2s Ts]
trixter23 calls $0.25
unofamilia checks
*** FLOP *** [Qs 8c 6h]
unofamilia checks
trixter23 checks
*** TURN *** [Qs 8c 6h] [Ks]
unofamilia checks
trixter23 bets $0.50
unofamilia raises to $2.50
trixter23 calls $2
*** RIVER *** [Qs 8c 6h Ks] [As]
unofamilia bets $18.25, and is all in
trixter23 calls $18.25
*** SHOW DOWN ***
unofamilia shows [Kd Th] a pair of Kings
trixter23 shows [2s Ts] a flush, Ace high
trixter23 wins the pot ($42) with a flush, Ace high
unofamilia is sitting out
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $42.50 | Rake $0.50
Board: [Qs 8c 6h Ks As]
Seat 1: trixter23 (small blind) showed [2s Ts] and won ($42) with a flush, Ace high
Seat 2: unofamilia (big blind) showed [Kd Th] and lost with a pair of Kings

FullTiltPoker Game #6122562585: Table Band (heads up) - $0.25/$0.50 - No Limit Hold'em - 14:55:40 ET - 2008/04/21
Seat 1: trixter23 ($69.90)
Seat 2: mutjinsekkhi ($59.85)
mutjinsekkhi posts the small blind of $0.25
trixter23 posts the big blind of $0.50
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to trixter23 [5c Ah]
mutjinsekkhi raises to $1.50
trixter23 calls $1
*** FLOP *** [As 5h 6h]
trixter23 checks
mutjinsekkhi checks
*** TURN *** [As 5h 6h] [Qd]
trixter23 bets $3
mutjinsekkhi raises to $12
trixter23 has 15 seconds left to act
trixter23 has requested TIME
trixter23 raises to $68.40, and is all in
mutjinsekkhi calls $46.35, and is all in
trixter23 shows [5c Ah]
mutjinsekkhi shows [Ac Kd]
Uncalled bet of $10.05 returned to trixter23
*** RIVER *** [As 5h 6h Qd] [7d]
trixter23 shows two pair, Aces and Fives
mutjinsekkhi shows a pair of Aces
trixter23 wins the pot ($119.20) with two pair, Aces and Fives
mutjinsekkhi is sitting out
mutjinsekkhi stands up
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $119.70 | Rake $0.50
Board: [As 5h 6h Qd 7d]
Seat 1: trixter23 (big blind) showed [5c Ah] and won ($119.20) with two pair, Aces and Fives
Seat 2: mutjinsekkhi (small blind) showed [Ac Kd] and lost with a pair of Aces

and a couple of smaller pots after that.

$2 Donkament Win!

I've felt like my MTT game has been pretty good as of late. It's been the same old story, getting deep and losing a key race and that being that. Tonight I played pretty well and got lucky in some spots. Which you always have to do win. I got off to a real fast start jumping into the top 5 in chips pretty early. I really didn't have any trouble building my stack.

From 18 on down to the final table my setup was great. I had the 2 absolute tightest players on my left and the chip leader at the time was folding every hand so I was able to steal pretty much whenever I wanted. Towards the last couple of times before the bubble burst they either picked up hands or saw what I was doing and decided to play back and I dropped a little bit. We made it to the Final Table and found ourselves in the middle of the pack or so.



I would say about 4 hands later when I was on the button I made a pretty marginal call.

AT vs QQ

I thought I would be ahead of his range there even though it was for a lot of my stack. Plus the money didn't really make a difference to me. I wanted to accumulate so I could make a run at first. With 9 bb's I think this was an OK call. My stack was now at 62k, good for 2nd in chips at the time. 2 hands later came the big hand of the night for me which gave me a huge stack. The chip leader at the time who was a very tight player, raised utg and I had AK. We were definitely too deep for a flat out shove so I cold called. I'd be able to get away easy if I missed and be able to play a pot in position. I got a gem of a flop. He insta shoves and I probably beat him into the pot and river a flush. So now we're sitting REALLY good.

Huge Pot



A few hands later I pop it up with KQhh. Banini flat calls in the sb. I hit the flop hard(tehe) so we just give him the pile. I thought he was trying to get more money with the other shorties. If he had shoved pre I would have folded. He gets unlucky and we go to 4 handed play.



2 hands later pokrprodgy shoves and I wake up with QQ in the bb, he hits the ole Ace on the river. Which is ok considering how lucky I've gotten.

QQ vs A9

I think I made a pretty tight lay down in a hand a few orbits later. I was raising almost every hand and no one was playing back until pokrprodgy starting shoving on me. I was probably ahead on this hand, but I felt like I had real control over the table and I didn't really need to race for chips.

Tight laydown

I was rewarded the very next hand after this and got it in very good. Notice I raised and left him 1 chippy.

JJ vs TT

2 hands again after that I got it all in with skeez since he had no chips. Won that race to..obv

Another race won weeee

So we entered heads up with about a 225-110 chip lead. I was playing small pots and pretty much outplaying the guy through the first 10-15 hands or so. It was pretty much like this for a while. He started to get angry at me and was open shoving on the button and what not. I let him trap himself after a few times of that and won the tournament here. You know it wasn't a great tournament monetarily, but I think it gives me the boost I need to just get over that hump of running bad. Hopefully I can transition this into some bigger scores in the coming weeks. For those who don't know, you can click the blue links to be directed to the hand history.

Rant

I've been playing a lot of sngs the last few days and my results are just disgusting. I'm pretty sure this is one of the worst runs I've had in a long time. I really don't like to play cash games with such a weak bankroll because my swings in cash are too big. I'd do anything to have my old bankroll back, things would be so much easier. I just wanted to post some hands on how ridiculous this has been. I mean some of them are really bad, others are just the standard 2-3 outers. Still, it sucks when they all come at the same time.

This first one was how i went out of the $3r tonight. The pf raise was a little excessive, but the way the table was playing, I really just wanted to take it down pf. Then this genius goes and does this..

FullTiltPoker Game #5911405031: $6,000 Guarantee (Rebuy) (44311686), Table 25 - 200/400 Ante 50 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:42:29 ET - 2008/04/04
Seat 1: trixter23 (11,885)
Seat 3: Esoderek (17,245)
Seat 4: hounddog455 (18,640)
Seat 5: Snock Man (9,220)
Seat 6: Dyandin (38,195)
Seat 7: thebaz9 (30,850)
Seat 8: stuNehTevaHI (15,780)
Seat 9: DFSDA (9,012)
trixter23 antes 50
Esoderek antes 50
hounddog455 antes 50
Snock Man antes 50
Dyandin antes 50
thebaz9 antes 50
stuNehTevaHI antes 50
DFSDA antes 50
Esoderek posts the small blind of 200
hounddog455 posts the big blind of 400
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to trixter23 [As Kd]
Snock Man folds
Dyandin folds
thebaz9 folds
stuNehTevaHI has 15 seconds left to act
stuNehTevaHI calls 400
DFSDA calls 400
trixter23 raises to 2,600
Esoderek has 15 seconds left to act
Esoderek folds
indychris sits down
indychris adds 22,170
hounddog455 folds
stuNehTevaHI raises to 15,730, and is all in
DFSDA folds
trixter23 calls 9,235, and is all in
stuNehTevaHI shows [Ah Jc]
trixter23 shows [As Kd]
Uncalled bet of 3,895 returned to stuNehTevaHI
*** FLOP *** [7d 2d 8s]
*** TURN *** [7d 2d 8s] [Jd]
*** RIVER *** [7d 2d 8s Jd] [7h]
stuNehTevaHI shows two pair, Jacks and Sevens
trixter23 shows a pair of Sevens
stuNehTevaHI wins the pot (25,070) with two pair, Jacks and Sevens
trixter23 stands up

These next 2 happened literally 3 seconds apart.

FullTiltPoker Game #5908997297: $6 + $0.50 Madness (Turbo) (44984102), Table 1 - 120/240 - No Limit Hold'em - 19:31:45 ET - 2008/04/04
Seat 3: MAMURA (620)
Seat 4: Tepen69 (4,910)
Seat 5: StringerBell420 (2,630)
Seat 7: Gomizzou1 (3,640)
Seat 8: trixter23 (1,700)
Gomizzou1 posts the small blind of 120
trixter23 posts the big blind of 240
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to trixter23 [Ah Ac]
MAMURA folds
Tepen69 raises to 720
StringerBell420 calls 720
Gomizzou1 folds
trixter23 raises to 1,700, and is all in
Tepen69 raises to 4,910, and is all in
StringerBell420 folds
Tepen69 shows [Ts As]
trixter23 shows [Ah Ac]
Uncalled bet of 3,210 returned to Tepen69
*** FLOP *** [Th 2c Td]
*** TURN *** [Th 2c Td] [6h]
*** RIVER *** [Th 2c Td 6h] [7d]
Tepen69 shows three of a kind, Tens
trixter23 shows two pair, Aces and Tens
Tepen69 wins the pot (4,240) with three of a kind, Tens
trixter23 stands up

FullTiltPoker Game #5908998207: $6 + $0.50 Madness (Turbo) (44984208), Table 1 - 120/240 - No Limit Hold'em - 19:31:49 ET - 2008/04/04
Seat 1: trixter23 (1,630)
Seat 2: cynait (6,730)
Seat 6: MAMURA (5,140)
MAMURA posts the small blind of 120
trixter23 posts the big blind of 240
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to trixter23 [Ad Kc]
cynait folds
MAMURA calls 120
trixter23 raises to 1,630, and is all in
MAMURA calls 1,390
trixter23 shows [Ad Kc]
MAMURA shows [Qs Jc]
*** FLOP *** [Th As Ks]
*** TURN *** [Th As Ks] [2d]
*** RIVER *** [Th As Ks 2d] [5d]
trixter23 shows two pair, Aces and Kings
MAMURA shows a straight, Ace high
MAMURA wins the pot (3,260) with a straight, Ace high
trixter23 stands up
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3,260 | Rake 0
Board: [Th As Ks 2d 5d]
Seat 1: trixter23 (big blind) showed [Ad Kc] and lost with two pair, Aces and Kings
Seat 2: cynait (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 6: MAMURA (small blind) showed [Qs Jc] and won (3,260) with a straight, Ace high

this one was good.

** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to trixter23 [2c 2s]
paison15 folds
trixter23 calls 30
Loves2Spooge2 has 15 seconds left to act
Loves2Spooge2 folds
80sed has 15 seconds left to act
80sed calls 30
JohnnyBH calls 30
auntiec calls 30
Samurai Chkn folds
Conny1017 has 15 seconds left to act
Conny1017 calls 15
krusty2 checks
*** FLOP *** [Ad 2h 8h]
Conny1017 checks
krusty2 checks
trixter23 bets 140
80sed folds
JohnnyBH calls 140
auntiec calls 140
Conny1017 folds
krusty2 folds
*** TURN *** [Ad 2h 8h] [Js]
trixter23 checks
JohnnyBH bets 240
auntiec calls 240
trixter23 raises to 1,330, and is all in
Loves2Spooge2 has been disconnected
JohnnyBH has 15 seconds left to act
Loves2Spooge2 has reconnected
JohnnyBH folds
auntiec calls 1,090, and is all in
trixter23 shows [2c 2s]
auntiec shows [Th 7h]
*** RIVER *** [Ad 2h 8h Js] [5h]
trixter23 shows three of a kind, Twos
auntiec shows a flush, Ten high
auntiec wins the pot (3,500) with a flush, Ten high
trixter23 stands up

Hope everyone is running better than i am. Next post will probably be Sunday.

/rant

SNG stats so far

I'm trying to see what level sng i can start producing at. I really haven't had a hard time playing them. Heres some shots from sharkscope.






Next post will probably be on Thursday, maybe I'll actually start doing topics?

For the boys

6:00 pm....




9:00 pm....

Off Day

Had to work all day today, so I didn't play at all. I get done a little early tomorrow, so I'll probably be playing before the college ball games go on.

Lets Get it Started

First off, I'd just like to remind everyone that my New York Football Giants won the Super Bowl this year. I had to rub that in a little bit. Well where to begin? As most of you guys know my bankroll was depleted due to being used to pay bills. I have a new job now and everything is good. I have a nice stable income so I'm able to build my roll once again. I put $50 back on FT around 3.5 weeks ago and I've run it up to $440. I've been playing within my bankroll and actually playing all three types of poker online(cash, sngs, mtt). I started playing $2 turbos and doubled my roll pretty quickly. Then I switched over to playing a bunch of PLO Cash. I've been doing extremely well there. Nothing really spectacular considering I don't have a big sample yet.

My MTT game is starting to come into shape. I've been getting deep in a lot of tournaments and making a final table here and there. I did have a nice showing last night in one of the Knockout Sit-n-Go's. I took 2nd in a 10+1 for $140.40 and I had 5 knockouts which bumped it up to $150.40. That was a nice bankroll booster. Anyway I'm excited to start posting again and talkin to the rest of the bloggers. Hopefully I'll be able to jump in some of those tournaments that they run also.

Happy Easter

Ahh, its good to be back. Hope everyone has a great Sunday, and I'll have a post up later today

Blog on Hiatus until January 1st

If i didn't find time in October and November to post, no chance I get to in December. The blog will re-launch in January. A new league will be forming in the home game that I'll be keeping track off. For now everyone have a safe and happy holiday season.

Lack of Updates

Yea I havent been posting much. My new job started and I just haven't found the time. Hopefully a nice update this weekend.

Nice Little Update

If I remember everything that went on the last few days, we're going to have a nice little long update here. Included in this update will be how cash is going, a couple of deep finishes in tournaments, football (obv), absolute poker scandal, and maybe some more football.

I'm over half way done with the 20k cash hand goal for the month. With the half way point in October coming up in the next few days, I'm happy where I am. What's been helping me get my hands in this month; has been the Iron Man program on FT. I haven't decided what is better to do yet, the Freeroll, or the medals--but for now I chose the medals. I'm on pace to get Gold status through 100 points a day.

One of the biggest losing plays for me has been playing the short stacks too much. I havent figured out a real good way to play hands like AK against them. Take this hand for instance...

Seat 3: Villain ($10.70)
Seat 1: trixter23 ($26.95)

Dealt to trixter23 [Ah Kh]

Villain raises to $0.85

Villain is in 2nd position here. He has less than a half stack. So whats your play with AK here?

trixter23 raises to $2.95

I decided to make a healthy 3 bet.

Villain calls $2.10

*** FLOP *** [Jd 6h Ts]

Ok well now what. We completely missed the flop, but have a gutshot, 2 overs, and backdoor flush draw. Are we going to miss value by not 3 betting pre flop? I think you are. If you cold call, check/fold the flop, I think thats just too weak. Back to the flop. We're in kind of a pickel. There is a chance we bet this flop and take it down there. What if we get raised all in? There is 6 bucks in the pot, combined with our c-bet; there will be too much money in the pot to fold. What do you do here?

trixter23 bets $3
Villain raises to $7.75, and is all-in
trixter23 calls $4.75

Villain shows [9s 9h]
trixter23 shows [Ah Kh]

So as you can see, we put the c-bet out there and had to call his all-in. Granted a competent player is probably folding 9's here, remember we're playing 25NL against someone who doesnt buy in for the max; less half a stack.

*** TURN *** [Jd 6h Ts] [Th]
*** RIVER *** [Jd 6h Ts Th] [5d]

As you can see, we had a substantial amount of outs and didnt hit. I'm a firm believer in aggression in poker, and I stick with it. I try not to be results oriented, but after this happens numerous times, you start to 2nd guess yourself. Especially considering when you look at my stats for AK. So far this month I've had AKs 28 times for a 60% win ratio and -$37.70 overall. I'm not sure whether this is a leak or what. I'm interested to see how others play these types of hands, not just AK.


While cash hasn't been going great this month, I've been able to stay afloat thanks to tournaments. I haven't been playing that many but have been getting some good results. I played the daily double on Saturday Night. In the A tournament I went out 263rd, with 216 cashing, but in the B tournament I made it deep for 15th and a $135 dollar cash. Today on PokerStars they had the WBCOOP(World Bloggers Championship of Online Poker). I decided to look at the structure expecting to see the standard $1500 chip 15 min level tournament. Surprisingly it was the Sunday Million structure with 10k in chips.




There were some really good prizes being offered. First being a PCA package worth $12k, 2nd being a 50" plasma tv and so on. You can see the other prizes through the link above. I was running pretty good while not getting dealt too much. My puff on PXF for the tourney was 26. It wasn't too tough to accumulate chips as players were playing with their cards face up for the most part. Here's a shot of me getting my squeeze on late in the tournament.




I misplayed a hand quite bad and found myself with 92k at 5k/10k level. It was our favorite time in the tournament, that being push/fold poker. I shoved KJ from the hijack and got insta called by AT and I didnt get there. The tournament paid out through the 81st spot and I did get paid. Unfortunately it was the worst payout. I'll be receiving the Elusive PokerStars duffle bag and Plastic Cards(Which I'm sure the home game nuts will be happy about). I couldn't hold off another 9 spots to get an Ipod though could I Lee?




College Football this week was of course another Upset Saturday. Both #1 and #2 teams losing for the first time in a while. I'd love to see everytime lose and leave us with about 10 teams all with 1 loss so the BCS fails miserably. In a clash of unbeatens in the NFL, New England stuck it to the Cowboys. The Patriots just play freakishly well. If they beat the Colts, I wouldnt be surprised if they 1) stayed healthy and 2) didnt rest people at the end of the season. The GGGGGGGGGGG-Men play tomorrow night in the Dirty Dirty aka Atlanta. I'm tired of people saying this is a trap game for the Giants. Ok, for one you have to be a good team to have trap games. While I believe we are a decent team, we aren't 5-1. Also you have to have a big game coming up. Considering we play the 49ers next week, we don't have that going for us. Now if we run the table and go 6-2 going into the bye week, we'll be in good shape.



The last thing I wanted to speak about is the supposed Absolute Poker Scandal that is being talked about on Pocket 5's and 2+2. To save yourselves some time. For a while it was thought that a certain group of players could see everyone's hole cards. TheWacoKidd(Jared Hamby) got a hold of the HH from the tournament which AP gave him. It was a full excell file with ip's and ALL whole cards exposed. Some pretty solid and concrete evidence has been brought forth proving what everyone has thought all along. I strongly urge everyone to read one of those threads and immediately withdraw all your funds from there.

I think thats about it for now, see ya at the tables.

WBCOOP

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!

This Online Poker Tournament is a No Limit Texas Holdem event exclusive to Bloggers.

Registration code: 2824834