On the Scottwire

All $16 turbos still.

51 SNGs

Profit: $196.50

ROI: 24.1%

ITM: 41% (21/51)

1st: 8
2nd: 9
3rd: 4
4th: 8
5th: 6
6th: 4
7th: 8
8th: 2
9th: 2

Makes me wish I had the drive to play 8 tables at a time for 6 hours a day but I'm not nuts :)

Chipper did a SNG challenge and I was getting frustrated playing NL cash games so I thought to myself "ok it's my turn".

I have played 29 so far and boy has it been streaky for me.

All 29 have been $15+$1 turbos on Pokerstars

The numbers:
ROI: 36.7%
ITM: 41% (12/29)

Streaky:
4,8,4,2,6,2,9,5,2,4,3,2,1,7,1,1,5,9,7,5,4,8,4,5,2,1,4,1,1

Yes that is a crappy 8 in a row without a cash followed by 3 wins in 5
ROI and ITM are pretty good so far. Still a ways to go to see if I'll be a long term winner but generally a good player at this level can make 20-25% ROI.

1st: 6
2nd: 5
3rd: 1
4th: 6
5th: 4
6th: 1
7th: 2
8th: 2
9th: 2

This is pretty much what I was hoping for as a distribution. The style is to keep a decent sized stack and push for 1st place. This means bubbling a lot, but winning more than sneaking into the money. 2 of my 2nds were caused by horrible bad beats but that's poker and in the long run that will happen. Hopefully the next 29 go just as well if not better :)

On a whim I decided to jump in a $26 satellite for Event #1 in the Full Tilt Online Poker Series and managed to win a seat into the $216 event.

The satellite was beautiful as people just decided to give me their chips in the beginning. I doubled up the second hand and then a few hands later took someone else's stack too. I was chip leader for a while and in the top 10 most of the way. got shortstacked with around 20 left but doubled up at key times and managed to finish in the top 8 for a seat :)

The tournament itself started out well and got my starting stack of 3000 quickly up to 3900. And then everything went to hell. Two orbits in a row I raise from the cutoff and the button calls. First time I have 88. I forget how it exactly went down but it was like a KJT63 board by the end and I folded to a river bet. Next orbit I raise with KJ and button calls again. Flop J85. Turns out button has set of 5s and my stack is now down to about 2400.

Hover around there a while as blinds go up to 50/100. I get JJ UTG+1. CO and BB call. Flop QT9. BB checks, I decide I'm making a stand bet the pot, CO raises, BB folds, I call the rest of my stack off. CO shows AQ and it holds up. I really don't know how to play that one. Ranges of the other players are large and if I play it weak I won't know where I stand or get bullied. Do I just push in and hope AQ folds? Don't think he's going to fold since he had twice my stack. Oh well I finished around 1200 out of almost 1900 players so there was a ways to go.

I'll do better next time. I haven't played the $11 rebuy in a couple nights but Wednesday night I did finish like 99th and cashed for $106.

I also finished off the Chiptalk Quarter strongly with a 5th place finish as well as our challenge team had 5 players at the final table and we won the 3 team challenge :)

Hopefully I'll play the $11 rebuy tomorrow. I probably won't try any of the other FTOPS tourneys.

PokerStars Tournament #42106565, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $10.00/$1.00
1613 players
Total Prize Pool: $66570.00
Tournament started - 2007/02/06 - 22:00:00 (ET)

Dear scottwire,

You finished the tournament in 19th place.
A $286.26 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

Dammit I got close but couldn't win my last race. Should I have pushed?

18th place paid $386 so if I wait I may get into that payout

I was really playing for the win

Wildman was super table captain raising every hand so we know he most likely doesn't have a premium. If I'm in a coin flip I have tons of pot equity with the extra money in. Blinds are coming fast...yada yada yada...too tired to open Pokerstove...you make the call...

PokerStars Game #8320362239: Tournament #42106565, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level XXI (15000/30000) - 2007/02/07 - 03:47:27 (ET)
Table '42106565 179' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: scottwire (178131 in chips)
Seat 2: advi (488294 in chips)
Seat 3: Cooper671 (195222 in chips)
Seat 5: JaspudUF (1070246 in chips)
Seat 6: WiLDmAn75 (748392 in chips)
Seat 8: Tstrick4 (195228 in chips)
scottwire: posts the ante 1500
advi: posts the ante 1500
Cooper671: posts the ante 1500
JaspudUF: posts the ante 1500
WiLDmAn75: posts the ante 1500
Tstrick4: posts the ante 1500
Cooper671: posts small blind 15000
JaspudUF: posts big blind 30000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to scottwire [As Kc]
JaspudUF said, "i folded A5 on that hand advi lol"
WiLDmAn75 said, "q5 off suit esp good pre flop"
JaspudUF said, "that would have been ugly"
WiLDmAn75: raises 35000 to 65000
Tstrick4: raises 55000 to 120000
scottwire: raises 56631 to 176631 and is all-in
advi: folds
Cooper671: folds
JaspudUF: folds
WiLDmAn75: folds
Tstrick4: calls 56631
*** FLOP *** [5h 9d 7d]
*** TURN *** [5h 9d 7d] [9s]
*** RIVER *** [5h 9d 7d 9s] [2s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Tstrick4: shows [Th Td] (two pair, Tens and Nines)
scottwire: shows [As Kc] (a pair of Nines)
JaspudUF said, "gg"
Tstrick4 collected 472262 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 472262 | Rake 0
Board [5h 9d 7d 9s 2s]
Seat 1: scottwire showed [As Kc] and lost with a pair of Nines
Seat 2: advi (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: Cooper671 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: JaspudUF (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: WiLDmAn75 folded before Flop
Seat 8: Tstrick4 showed [Th Td] and won (472262) with two pair, Tens and Nines

PokerStars Tournament #41630066, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $10.00/$1.00
1708 players
Total Prize Pool: $71340.00
Tournament started - 2007/02/02 - 22:00:00 (ET)

Dear scottwire,

You finished the tournament in 55th place.
A $164.09 award has been credited to your Real Money account.


I did 1 rebuy and the add-on so I was about +133. Made about $30 on the cash tables too so not a bad day.

I felt really good today and thought I played really well. Made the good plays when I needed to, some timely resteals and won the races I needed to.

Thought I was done around 170 when I was in the BB with AJ. I had about 29k at 2k/4k and smaller stack with about 20k pushed all in. I called, he showed AT and hit the T on the river.

SB I get junk and fold to a raise up front so I have about 8500 chips and luckily on the button I get AKs against 2 hands which turn out to be 99 and 77 and boom a K hits the flop. Back in business with about 33k.

Built my stack up to about 140k at 4k/8k, went card dead a while and finally got QQ in the SB at 6k/12k. Huge stack with 500k kept raising to 30k, he raised with any ace and had a decent sized range. I push all in to 98k and he calls with A9. Of course the ace hits and I'm done in 55th.

My deepest finish yet in the $11 rebuy. Its nice but I really felt like I could have made it to the final table. STUPID ACE. I'll just have to get there tomorrow night!