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Friday, November 23, 2007 

The ups and downs

Thanks guys for the comments. The variance just kills me sometimes. Especially when I'm crushing $25 NL and I can't seem to get above water at $50NL.

My Full Tilt bankroll hit a low of $340 but I'm back up to around $575 now. It should be even more but of course I lost a huge pot with a straight to a rivered full house. Board Q9983. I have TJ and bet the flop and turn against someone who called out of the small blind. Said person was a loose passive who only bet pot or shoved river, no in between. Earlier saw this person overbet shove river with 82o on a 52JAK board only to get called by AJ. So here is the hand history fun:

FullTiltPoker Game #4261671712: Table Holmes (6 max) - $0.25/$0.50 - No Limit Hold'em - 15:23:14 ET - 2007/11/22
Seat 1: scottwire ($66.60)
Seat 2: cali_king_805 ($99.35)
Seat 6: olibof ($40.40)
cali_king_805 posts the small blind of $0.25
olibof posts the big blind of $0.50
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to scottwire [Jh Tc]
scottwire raises to $1.75
cali_king_805 calls $1.50
olibof folds
*** FLOP *** [8d 9s 9d]
cali_king_805 checks
scottwire bets $3
cali_king_805 has 15 seconds left to act
cali_king_805 calls $3
*** TURN *** [8d 9s 9d] [Qs]
cali_king_805 checks
scottwire bets $8
cali_king_805 calls $8
*** RIVER *** [8d 9s 9d Qs] [3h]
cali_king_805 bets $86.60, and is all in
scottwire calls $53.85, and is all in
Uncalled bet of $32.75 returned to cali_king_805
*** SHOW DOWN ***
cali_king_805 shows [9c 3c] a full house, Nines full of Threes
scottwire mucks
cali_king_805 wins the pot ($132.70) with a full house, Nines full of Threes
scottwire is sitting out
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $133.70 | Rake $1
Board: [8d 9s 9d Qs 3h]
Seat 1: scottwire (button) mucked [Jh Tc] - a straight, Queen high
Seat 2: cali_king_805 (small blind) showed [9c 3c] and won ($132.70) with a full house, Nines full of Threes
Seat 6: olibof (big blind) folded before the Flop

So sick. I was down $130 in this thanksgiving session but managed to get 80 of it back thankfully.


Anyway, on the other side I've been doing really well in tournaments lately. I've finished first and second in the last two weekly chiptalk tourneys plus a 3rd place finish in the HORSE monday night tourney of champions.

Last night I went deep in the $11 rebuy on stars and finished 40th for $192 (Net 160 after one rebuy and the add on). So annoying though to play 5 hours and then get knocked out with AQ vs KQ with all the money going in preflop and the board comes 288KT :( One of these days I'll get that big tourney win dammit.

That's about it for now. Good luck at the tables


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Wednesday, November 14, 2007 

Moving up not going well

So I'm down 5 buy ins at $50 NL now.

My $700 bankroll is now around $400 after some tourneys as well.

I've been getting money in bad for the most part along with a KK vs AK all in preflop that an ace hit and a couple of coin flips not going my way.

I still feel like I can beat $50NL, I'm just overvaluing my one pair hands on the flop. I should fold to most raises at this level instead of reraising with TPTK and losing my stack to sets and flopped straights against tight players :( I need to get the "but they could be bluffing me" cry out of my head and just realize that YES YOU ARE GOING TO GET BLUFFED. It is part of the game and risk losing 100 big blinds when you only have maybe 10 invested in the pot is not usually a good idea unless you have a lot of information on a player to tell you otherwise.


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Friday, November 09, 2007 

Chiptalk.net tourney win

This Thursday I was a man on a mission. A win in this week's chiptalk.net tourney would put me into the Quarterly tournament of champions. Second place meant a week off. Who wants that?

So I played to win and that I did. When it got to heads up we chopped the money with even stacks but played out for the points. $96 and 1st place woo! It was nice after bubbling last week.

So far at the cash tables this month I've played 4400 hands and I'm up $120.95 which is 5.45bb/100 at $25 NL. Hopefully I can get that win rate even higher.

Away from the tables I'm halfway through medium on Guitar Hero 3 for the Wii! This game rocks




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  • NL = No Limit Holdem
  • PLO = Pot Limit Omaha
  • CP = Crazy Pineapple
  • TD = Triple Draw
  • UTG = Under the Gun (first to act)
  • MP = Middle Position
  • LP = Late Position
  • CO = CutOff (one before the button)

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