Went deep in the million.

Well, its the end of the year and although I run like total crap all the time, I still had by far and away my most successful year ever in poker. I don't have the numbers on me because looking at them makes me sick but unless something crazy happens before the new year. (yeah right) I am going to finish just shy of $20K in overall profit. As of right now I am down about $300 or so for the month of December.

Overall, I have paid off all my bills and still have twice as much money as the last time I had decent money on me. So to say that I am not extremely proud of myself would be a total lie. I am proud of myself but I still can't stand poker.

Last weekend I had one of my worst weekends ever. I was up about $1200 for the month and in a short 48 hours I was down $700 for the month. Yay go me. I wish I could have upswings like that. Once again, yeah right. That was from playing exclusively cash. NL50 with shots at NL100 which of course was a huge disaster. I literally lost $500 in about 10 minutes because I'm good at poker.

I also lost $300 on the Celtics/Lakers Christmas game. As a result, I plan on making my biggest sports bet ever on the Rose Bowl game. I have to make a couple phone calls to my sports betting experts but there going heavy on USC. So we'll see what they say.

This is pretty much what poker has been like for the last 4 months and why I hate it. Remember I am almost never on the other side of this and don't understand how all this math they claim can be correct.

These are all in situations with the exception to one. I run terrible at all ins.

I have Q Q.

They have A 10

All in Preflop

Flop A 3 7

That happens about 8 out of 10 times. I don't know it off the top of my head but I think I am an 83% favorite. That may be a little high but that can't be right because that's how often I lose there. Like I said, when I have A 10 there, I have won 4 times this month. I lose that way 4 times every day.

I have K Q

They have A J

Flop K x x

I swear to God, every time I flop that the turn is an Ace. Every single time. I never ger to suck out there.

I have A K

They have Q 8

Flop A 8 3. All in on the flop.

Turn: Almost every time: 8 or a Q.

I never suck out here with the 5 outer but it happens well over half the time.

My new favorite. This has been happening a lot in cash games and I don't know why I lose here so often.

I have J J.

I raise preflop.

Flop Q Q 6

I bet. They call.

Turn K

I bet they call again.

River Check Check.

They show K 10 and win. It's unreal how often people call me with nothing with a 3 outer and then suck out and get rewarded. I would be dead in 3 months from the collectors coming after me if I played like that yet people do every day against me and get rewarded for it. This is why I hate poker. Don't get me wrong, I want people to play like that but I only want them to win 13% of the time like there suppose too. Not win the vast majority of the time over 100's of thousands of hands over months and months.

So, as a result of losing my shirt over the weekend I decided to play in the big stars sunday tournies (which I never do well in btw) because maybe once I'll get lucky and it was the last sunday of the year so all the tournaments were juiced.

I had accumulated 20K FPP points from playing cash and tournies on stars and decided to play in the sunday million which had a guaranteed prize pool of 2.5 million. The ticket cost me 13500 points.

I had played in this tourney 3 other times and only made it past the first break once. With over 16K players registered I had very little expectations. It's pretty much a lottery with that many players. The prize pool ended being over $3 million.

Early on I picked up A A and got all in the on the flop against 10 10 and for some reason didn't lose. Must have been a glitch in the system. You start the tournament with 10K chips and right away I had 20K chips with the blinds at 50/100.

I then got nothing for 2 hours and then gave someone a bad beat to double up. Must have been another glitch. I then gave another bad beat. I knew not to get too excited because 1st place in this tournament was $330K. I don't ever expect to win anything like that ever so I never got my hopes up.

Overall, this was by far the most fun I have ever had playing poker. Even more fun then the time I played in the $1000 buy in game at the Bellagio.

We made it to the money and I had about 70K chips with the BB at 2500 so I was in great shape!

But... come on you aren't reading the blog of one of these guys who gets lucky every week and is a millionaire.

This is DrBadBeat.

Like always I lost the biggest pot of the tournament.

I was up to 85K and got all in with A Q against J J.

Couldnt win. That was a 120K chip pot.

Then I get all in a little while later with A 9 against 6 6 and couldn't win again.

I finished in 1501 place which was good for about $350. All profit since I spent points to get in the tournament. I survived for almost 5 hours in the tournament which is surprising even too me. It sucks because if I would have lasted another hour I would have more or less made back my entire dowswing from the last couple days since the money jumps were extreme.

All in all, I am really really happy I played in the tournament and hope to play in it again some day.

My goal for next year is modest. I hope to make $40K playing poker next year. Assuming I don't quit, it will be the first time ever that I will play all 12 months in a year.

As of right now I have no aspirations for playing in the WSOP next year. I don't really see it being worth my time unless good things happen between now and then. I am not counting on it though since I am not good at catching breaks.

November: Yay an upswing.

Hahahaha, yeah right, I wish. This month was just as bad as the rest of them were with the exception to the one cash. I pretty much know how it is at this point and I expect nothing less then to get fucked every time I sit down to play online poker. As I go through the numbers I think I did go through an upswing. It actually would make perfect sense. I more or less run good once every four months for a short period of time and its about that time so I am due, right?

You tell me. These were my big finishes. This is what an upswing looks like for me.

4/3429*
32/1332
19/468
16/1647*
31/5823*
8/1242

I also made final tables in the 180 man tournaments 7 times. Overall I finished 4th twice, 6th, 7th, 8th twice, and 9th. Basically for the 180 man tournaments to be worth your while you have to get top 3. As you can see I didn't get top 3 once. I came into every final table except for one of them as either 8th or 9th in chips.

Also, * means that the tournament had a very large first place. Large enough for me to jump up and down like an idiot had I actually won.

The 6 MTT's that I just told you about are the best I have ever done in a short period of time. Of course my upswing has to be halted by the fact that I have to lose back to back coinflips in one tournament, can't hold up when I have the best hand, and can't suck out when I have the worst hand. That's some upswing.

I seriously have the worst timing ever when it comes to poker.

I pretty much never shove bad hands anymore when I am short because I get snapcalled by some bullshit hand every time as if they know what I have. This even happens if I haven't done anything for 45 minutes. Proves that no one pays any attention. More or less, I have lost every time I have gotten all in with a bad hand. On the flip side, I lose numerous times every day to people shoving with 8 5 and cracking my A K.

When I play a hand out and have a big pocket pair, the Ace almost never comes on the flop. Its really nice.

However, every time I get all in with a big pocket pair and they have A x I lose 9 times out of 10. Which fucking blows because I am getting knocked out of every tournament this way.

Of course when I have A Q against K K, I can't tell you the last time I hit what I needed too.

Every day I play except for the rare days that I actually win, I lose the biggest pot I play. Great timing.

I am also losing to 3 outers at a disgusting rate which proves that the percentages on 3 outer hands is really wrong. I probably lose every other time with good regularity every time I get all in with A K against A 3. And believe me people love calling my all ins with there rag aces. It's almost like they know how the board is going to come out.

My solution? Yes I have one. I'll tell you at the end.

Degen Adventures:

I was going to write about this last week but never got around too it. I had a really degenerative trip to Las Vegas two weekends ago.

I am not going to go detail for detail as I don't want to set any records for longest post ever but I'll sum it up.

1. I started the trip by buying a 1/4 ounce of kush.
2. I then got picked up from work by my "free" ride. Win for me.
3. We got to Vegas and we got to stay in a 2000+ square foot suite for free. Win x3 for me. We stayed at Ballys on the strip.
4. There were 5 guys total. It was ballin.
5. I ran sick hot gambling the first night and at one point was up $800.
6. By the end of the night I was up only $160. Which is okay since its the first time I have ever come up the first night of a Vegas trip.
7. The next day I proceeded to be down as much $760 at one point. I brought $1000 cash with me for the trip.
8. With only $120 left in my pocket and $120 in chips on a poker table (the only time I played poker the entire trip) I proceeded to go on one of the sickest card runs ever and went from $120 to $730 and call it quits for the night. I hit the nuts 4 times on the turn and overbet huge on the river and got called every time because no one ever believes I have anything.
9. I am now only down about $200 and meet up with the rest of the group across the street.
10. They decide to go to a strip club and I decide to not be the only one not to go even though strip clubs are against my religion. (I'm obv not religious.)
11. Without even trying I drop $180 in the strip club and didn't even get off. I paid $30 for the cover and another $20 for 2 drinks. Just walking in I spent $50. I was then attacked by two strippers which turned into an $80 lap dance.
12. I spent by far the least and overall two guys got laid but spent $700+ and another guy got a handjob.
13. My crazy degen gambler friend Kevin woke up at 8:30 the next morning to go place sunday football bets. (We went to bed at 6:00 am)
14. I gave him $300 and tell him to put it all on the Buffalo Bills. He does.
15. I go back to bed.
16. I wake up a few hours later and wake up to find out that I won my bet and go downstairs to collect my winnings. Hell yeah.
17. From 10:00 Friday morning while at work until I got home Sunday night I was either stoned or stoned/drunk. It was awesome.
18. Overall, I went to Las Vegas with $1000 and came home with $880 in my pocket. I was by far the big winner for the trip and it was by far my most successful Vegas trip to date. The room alone would normally be $600-$1000 per night.
19. I never went to bed before 6am the entire trip.

In terms of live poker, I have played 3 times since playing online and have run sick hot each time. Overall, I am now up $1000+ in live poker.

My solution:

Although I am extremely disappointed with my performance on stars, I am still extrememly proud of what I have accomplished since April.

In April, my life was literally in 20 pieces. I had no job, no money, thousands of dollars in debt, no where to live, court fines, and had upset a lot of people.

I now have my own apartment, no debt (except my car payment), courts are all paid up and happy, a job, and the most money I have ever had in my life.

Although I have much less money right now then I initially projected, I still look at December as a complete free-roll as this is the first month where I won't have to make any debt payments so money should start stockpiling even more.

For the month of November I came up a whopping $1400 playing poker. My stars account currently sits at $2529. Oh I forgot to mention that I am on a $1700 online downswing since my 4th in the rebuys. Shocking.

This is my new plan. Stars hates me and I hate them. You can't only play tournaments. I have unfortunately learned this the hard way.

I have redeposited $1000 on Cake. I originally did this too move it over to a sportsbook but saw a sick freeroll and just started playing randomly. I am up $100 on the account and am playing 50NL cash along with a tournament here and there.

I have two laptops. One for Cake and one for Stars. At my peak, I will have 4 games going on the one computer and then will have 6 going for Stars. For Stars, I have started grinding 50NL which surprisingly has a lot of action along with my tournaments. I will start receiving rakeback once again which is huge and will become a bigger player in the Stars FPP program. So long as I don't run bad at every avenue I am trying I expect December to be a very very good month. I am however on the weed wagon and that is my biggest challenge. Today was my first day playing sober and although I was able to do it, it was very difficult.

Since April, I am up over $20K+ in poker which shocks the shit out of me considering how many big pots I lose.

FINALLY!!!! aflidjfdjfdfjlaf. AAAAHHH...For once I am the lucky bastard

For the first 3 days out of the last week I was buying into on average about $180 worth of tournaments. Each of the three days I was cashing for no less then $160. I was basically breaking even but losing small amounts everyday. Then I went on a horrible two day streak. In a two day period I bought into about $500-$600 worth of tournaments and in that time had only two cashes. They were for $30 and $7. After buying into all of Saturdays tournaments I was down to about $700 in my account. That is way too close to $0 for my comfort. It was also pissing me off because it was only about 10 days ago or so that I had $2100 in the account.

To make a long story short I set all kinds of records on Saturday.

The first one was that I cashed in a total of 6 MTT's. Several times prior to that I had 4 cashes in a day.

I ended up making most of my money back from the previous day when I final tabled a $20 180 man tourney and ended up taking 4th for $288. With my other cashes that put me back to $999 in my account.

I was invited to a juicy homegame at 9:00 that night and knew I wasn't going to be playing online all night if I so desired. So the last two tournies that I bought into were at 2:00 and 3:00.

The first one was a $10 freezeout with 3000+ players and the other was the $5 rebuys.

They recently changed the structure of the rebuys tournaments on Stars that has made it much harder for me to be successful. They extended the rebuy portion to 90 minutes, extended the playing time before breaks to 90 minutes, and decreased the blind levels from 15 to 10 minutes. There are added blind levels but the blinds go up way to fast after a while.

I went far in the $10 buyin but busted after about 2.5 hours and out of the money.

I have been doing so much worse in the rebuys as of late that I have considered quitting them altogether even though they are my favorite tournaments.

Not only that but if you have a bad rebuy session then its going to cost you a lot more then it use to. On the flip side, if you have a good rebuy session then you will go into the second part of the tournament stacked really deep.

On this particular day I had a terrible rebuy hour. I ended up spending around $80-$90 on the tournament. Even with that I still took 11K chips into the non-rebuy portion of the tournament.

There were things in this tournament that usually go against me all the time that finally flipped around. Here's the first one.

I recently watched a training video and the guy I was watching was absolutely relentless with raising in late position regardless of his holding so I have experimented here and there with that playing style. It's backfired big time and worked out really well in some spots.

Hand 1: It folds to me in the cutoff (one off the button) and I raise with a Q 7 spades. The guy on the button was calling all my raises because he's an idiot like that.


Flop:

K x x

I completely missed everthing and lead out and of course I get called.

Turn

x

The turn gives me a gutshot straight draw and puts 2 spades out there so I am flushing.

I stick it all in and of course the button calls and shows K 10. Really? It's obviously impossible for me to ever have A K here. The pot is 50K and the river comes:

6 of spades. I hit both the straight and the flush and the button starts bitching and whining about how terrible I am. I love how this shit happens to me all day everyday and once a month when I get lucky like that they have to talk shit everytime. Stop playing trash like K 10 and that won't ever happen to you. From that point on I was one of the big stacks for a good chunk of the tournament.

I got my stack up to 100K when the blinds were at 600/1200.

Unfortuntaley, by the time the blinds reached 2500/5000 I still had 100K. I then dropped to 60K and then got it back the next hand. I then dropped to 60K again and managed to grind my way up to 100K again.

I changed tables and this happened.

Hero 110K
Villain (about the same)

Blinds 4K/8K

Villain in the cutoff minraises. SB calls and I decide to shove with Q 10 of spades hoping that they both fold. Of course the CO calls and the SB folds.

Villain shows K K.

Flop

Q x x

This is the flop I always get but I never ever seem to suck out even though it happens to me constantly.

Turn x

River 10.

HAHA! Finally goddammit. Ship the 250K chip pot. I change tables immediately after.

I chill for a while and then get my stack up to 470K on one hand. I don't recall the hand.

I then change tables and what a table change it was.

Within 10 minutes of my new table change my stack grows from 470K to 930K without even having to make a showdown. I picked up Aces twice and Kings once and there was a lot of action before me and each time I shoved I won the pot uncontested.

At this point, I am top 10 in the tournament with about 150 left.

First is $8500. One time?

I eventually change tables again and there was this idiot to my right who was literally raising every pot. This stupid bastard cost me so many chips. He kept raising crap like K 2 and Q 4 and then calling all ins and winning often enough to never go broke. On multiple occassions I was going to play my hand but got raised off and would have won a big pot.

On this table I ran sick hot but never got to profit off of it. Had I limped or called raises with really trash hands I would have flopped trips about 7 times. Because of the moron on my table I wasn't able to play any hands and started getting dwindled away.

I got down to the last 3 tables and the money jumps were now substantial. During that time I went from 1 million chips to 500K about 3 times, because I would win a big pot and then fold every hand for 3 rounds because of how crazy everyone was playing. I would then get super short and shove with crap and on two separate occassions I was called by 2 2 and won both times!

We got down to the last two tables and I was 18th in chips just barely hanging on. People were playing so crazy I thought I had no chance to make the final table which I so desired. 3 of the top stacks knocked each other out because they all played terribly. I ended up doubling up with about 14 left and then won a few more uncontested pots and suddenly was looking good. The rest all got knocked out and I came into the final table 8/9 in chips. I was so stoked. It was only the second time ever that I have ever made the final table of a jumbo rebuy. This tournament also had the most players ever where I was able to make the final table. It was also the first time ever that I made two final tables in the same day.

Almost every player on the final table was terrible. There was one guy who was calling every all in whether it was preflop or pre-river and this guy was sucking out every time. Quickly we were down to 5. But before that there is one more great suckout.

I think there were 6 or 7 left and I was in last place.

The blinds were 75K/150K and I had about 1.4M in chips.

I shoved on the button with K 10 and the BB who was calling everything and had a 12M chip stack called me with 2 2. Again 2 2!

Flop

x x x I miss everything.

Turn 2 spade

There are now 3 spades and I have the king of spades.

River 10 of spades.

NO FUCKING WAY. I know how it feels to lose there but I never hit that card!

I am pretty sure that is biggest pot I have ever won in a tournament as my stack was over 3 million. I was now second in chips.

Mr 12M donked off 8 million of his chips and at this point I had 4.5M in chips with 4 left.

Super donk raises to 1M which is a stupid raise and I have A 10 in the SB. I shove expecting him to call and for me to win but instead the BB who was playing super tight and was taking all of the donks money overshoves and I knew that I just lost the tournament.

He shows A A and I actually hit my 10 but I can't hit the 2 outer. The worst part about that hand is if the donk calls and the BB doesn't call I would have won since the top pair on the board was a 10.

4/3429 was good for $3267. My second largest cash ever and on the day I made over $3500 which is my second biggest money day ever playing poker. My stars account now sits at $4226.49

If I can now get 10 more like the one you just read about then Stars and I will be even. Until then, I still hate poker and still hate Stars.

Also, the tournament took 8 hours and I ended up showing up to the home game at around 11 but my stupid drunk friends hadn't even started yet. I was there more to drink and get smoked then I was to play poker and I didn't last long. I built up a nice stack and then had JJ run into KK and I was out after a couple hours.

Another classic example of why it sucks to me and play poker

Ladies and gentlemen, it's really close to over now. I have been following the same pattern for 2 and a half months now. (On stars) I run decent throughout the beginning of a lot of tournaments only to take the big bad beat in the most crucial moment. There really is no skill in this game. It doesn't matter how good you are, how knowlegdable you are, or how much "skill" you have. This game is all luck. For the people who win, I want to know how they do it. How do they win the big all ins.

I have learned a lot about this game and I have learned the following. This game is nothing more then a big downswing. I spend most of my time losing and when I run well it is very short lived only to return back to running bad. It seems profitable to put your money in bad because thats what most people do against me and they seem to get lucky against me more often then they should. On the flip side, when I put the money in bad I almost never hit the miracle card. I don't know if I am cursed or what but the way I run on a consistent basis is entirely confusing to me. For every bad beat I give, I take 10. Just for a month I would like that number to flip. I would make an ungodly amount of money. Of course, like most things in my life I am not that lucky and that will never happen.

Anyway, the hand that inspired this.

$25 buyin. 1st place of 7K.

I am down to 4K with the blinds at 300/600. We are right at the bubble. I have been getting dealt dogshit for the last hour and haven't won a hand in that time. During that time I have gone from 25BB to less then 7.

I get dealt A A in the BB. There's a raise to $2400 which is enough to where the villain has no fold equity. My play is obvious but I have not cashed in over 20 straight tournaments and I have been knocked out on the bubble about 12 times over the last week. I already know I am going to lose because stars sets it up that way except for when I am the one with the big stack then I get screwed no matter what.

For some reason I decide to gamble even though I already know the deck is stacked against me. He calls and shows K 8 off.

Flop

5 6 x with two hearts. Of course he has one heart and I have nothing.

He is almost drawing dead at this point and the majority of the cards in the deck should kill his hand on the turn. But we have to remember there are about 30 hearts in the deck so I am major underdog on the flop. Because its me, the greatest card he can hit comes on the turn.

7 of hearts.

He just went from almost drawing dead to 15 outs.

Basically if anyone has 10 outs or more against me then they have a 90% chance of hitting. Of course because its stars and its the site that I have run by far the worst on in my life they decided to deal me a fuck you river.

A of hearts.

What a fucking shock.

I am down to $1200 and some change and if I bust the account which I am sure I will because stars will never let me have a taste of glory I am quitting forever.

The only time I will ever play poker post quitting is live when invited by friends or in homegames. After quitting I will find something else to do with my time. I honestly don't know what I want to have happen at this time. I obviously want to win big but I know its never going to happen. So its either keep struggling until I commit suicide or lose and quit.

As I write this, I just won a big pot in this tournament.

$9 buyin 360 players. 1st place $800.

I am currently 15/36 which is just in the money.

Run good in another small tournament? Just stars way of saying fuck you so that I keep paying rake.

I will obviously make an amendment if something crazy happens. If I don't then I probably got jewed.

FUCK YOU POKERSTARS. I HOPE YOUR HEADQUARTERS FALLS IN THE OCEAN AND ALL THE LUCKY BASTARDS WHO WIN ON YOUR SITE LOSE THERE MONEY.

And congrats to Obama for winning. I didn't vote for him (or McCain for that matter) but I think its amazing that a black guy is the president of the US. Just make sure you watch your back buddy.

This confirms it. I will never win doing this stupid shit.

I have long held a theory that it is impossible for me to win big playing poker. This proves it.

150 left in a 5000 player tournament. All in with KK. I lose.

Build it back up. Then all in with AA. I lose. What a fucking joke. Another minor cash for me.


Then the last one of the night. I knew I had no chance even though I was killing this tournament for the first 3 hours because I always get screwed when it matters most.

$55 buyin tourney with 12K first place.

I have 30K with the blinds at 500/1000. This all happens in 10 minutes.

Call all in from shortstack with A 10. He has K Q. I lose.

Then I raise with A Q. Shortstack goes all in. I call. He has 5 7. I flop 2 pair. I still lose. I never ever win when I that far behind but it happens to me all the time.

What the fuck ever happened to the theory that the shortstacks always lose to speed the tournaments up. Thats a fucking scam because no one gets sucked out more often by shortstacks then I do.

Then with only 13K left because I have so much skill for this game. Theres a raise by a guy who has 21K. I have A K. I shove. He calls with 5's because putting 70% of all your chips on the line with only a pair of 5's is obviously a skill play.

Do you really think I won a coinflip to save my life when there is 12K on the line. Yeah fucking right.

Fuck this stupid bullshit. I will never hit a big score because I never ever hold up when I have the best hand. The more important the pot is the more likely I am to lose it. And I never ever fucking suck out in big crucial spots. I don't think I have ever cracked pocket aces with a bullshit hand when there is a ton of chips on the line. Happens to me every fucking day.

Fuck poker. Fuck this stupid shit. FUCK FUCK FUCK. I don't want to play this stupid shit anymore.

I played in over 20 tournaments today and gave 1 count em 1 fucking bad beat all in preflop. I showed several just in two tournaments and there were 20 other tournaments that I didn't talk about.

Also in my last 24 hours of poker, I have hit 2 fucking flushes. Of course people hit theres on me all fucking day. The numbers don't add up. I will never go 24 fucking hours of continuous play with people only hitting 2 flushes against me. If that actually happened I probably would win the 12K. Oh but wait, that will never happen so why even bother considering that I could go that long with no one hitting a flush even though I can go 1000's hands without hitting a single one.

I really hope poker gets criminalized. Fuck poker stars, its fucking rigged against me. This proves why all the "top" players have multiple accounts. When one of there accounts is getting screwed they just move over to another. Of course my account is always being screwed over and I'm not allowed to have another so I guess I just have to be on a forever downswing because there is so much skill in this stupid ass game.

Fuck this stupid shit. I fucking hate it.

I will never win.

October: Another rigged month.

There is a lot I want to say and I don't know where to start so we'll just see where this goes.

Another month wasted and another month has gone by where by where I am that much closer to just hanging it up for good.

For the month I made a whopping $290. Whooooo. I must be really bad at this game. My stars bankroll to finish the month sits at $1571.11.

I don't know if I have ever run worse. It is all just a blur at this point. I went on legendary downswings playing sit and goes and I think that I am going to give them up. I may play them here and there but theres too much luck in turbo sit and goes and everyone always spikes there 3 outer when they call off most of there chips with A 7 when I have A K. I have been running so bad for the last several months that I am certain that if I was playing 100NL cash I would be down 15K. It's been that bad.

The most disgusting thing about all of this is that I actually won 2 tournaments outright this month. Had you told me that to start the month I would have been really excited. Of course one of the tournaments was a BS tournament and the other was only a moral victory.

On a positive note, I played significantly less poker then I have in prior months. That is a win in my book. I did a lot more things socially, partied quite a bit, met some girls, and had a lot of fun.

These are my numbers for the month in MTT's.

Tournaments played 162 (this number needs to triple next month)
Cashes 31
Final Tables 3
ITM% 19.12 (which is actually really good.)
Winnings $3972.39

As a result to my lack of play I lost my gold star standing however I still managed to finish in the top 1000 in the TLB once again so I'm sure I will get that invite again. Didn't really like playing in it the last time, so I will more then likely skip it which about half the players end up doing.

I have been meaning to write this for the last week or so but just haven't gotten around to it.

I played live poker last weekend and had a legendary degen session at the Commerce.

Last Saturday night a bunch of us got together for UFC 90 and after the fight there was suppose to be a costume party. Someone left for the party and told us that they would call us later for a scouting report/location of the party. Quite a bit of time passed and there was no call so I just went home. I got home at about 11 and started playing online. At around 1:00 I get a call from one of my friends and he says that he and two others were on their way to Commerce and they would pick me up. Of course I accept the offer. They come over and we smoke a copious amount of weed and I am super stoned and ready to make an all nighter of it. We get to Commerce and smoke some more and then go grab some beers. We start playing at about 2 in the morning. My friend Matt and I went to play $200NL and the others went upstairs to play the $40.

I started off a little shaky and couldn't get anything going. I had to do an add on and was in for $300. I don't remember most of the hands but these were the main ones.

I'm down to my last $75 and shove with 10 10. I get called of course. (The reason why I shoved $75 into a $7 pot.)

Board A 10 6 Q A.

The degen Asian who called me starts talking all this shit that he has me and he has the nuts but then I rolled over my boat and his K J straight wasn't shit. Hey I won a coinflip.

I had another hand where I had K 10 of hearts and got all in on the flop and for like the 3rd time this year actually hit a flush on the river. That was against random armo who I will talk about later. That pot was about $300.

Anyway, anyone playing poker at the Commerce at 5 in the morning is a complete degen. Myself included. There was this Armenian fish who had a stack of $2200 at one point. Over the course of about 6 hours, myself, Matt, and two other players took all of his money and he left at 8 in the morning completely cleaned out. It was awesome.

Anyway, this hand was against the Armo degen and was my biggest pot of the night.

I raised J 10 suited and get two callers.

Flop J 10 x suited. Not mine obv.

Armo degen and I get it all in on the flop for a $700 pot. I know he has some sort of draw so I am praying that the poker gods don't realize that DrBadBeat has skipped out of playing online and is hiding at the Commerce. I somehow get lucky and the Armo degen mucks his hand when the turn and river blank off. On the night I came up $480 and that is cold hard cash and not electronic internet moneys.

During the night, we smoked a bunch of weed making multiple trips to the parking lot. At one point I met some random guy and I almost purchased 1.5 ounces from him but decided against it. We played all the way until about 10 in the morning and then left. We all got back to my house and at 11 I started playing online. I ran like dogshit like I always do online and dropped about half of my Commerce profits. I played online until about 5 which was when I went to bed. In total I was up for 34 hours and spent 18 straight hours playing poker.

I will say that I am starting to run better but have very little to show for it.

Last night I took 23/3150 and finished 23rd because I lost two giant coinflips like I always do. But I ran really well to get there.

And earlier today I took 4/180 in a $22 buyin and made a whopping $288. I ran good early on and then went card-dead with about 4 tables left. I won a couple of huge hands right before the final table and came in 5/9. I more or less folded every hand as I wasn't dealt anything and finished 4th.

I also went really deep in a couple others today and made a couple of crucial mistakes. Today was one of the rare times that I got ALOT of chips all in and I wasn't winning. Of course I am not like everyone I play against and I didn't get rewarded for it.

I am up about $250 early in November. Big month? One time? No more getting fucked constantly please.

Sigh...

After yesterdays debacle I was going to type this really long post detailing most of the last couple weeks. Instead I am too stoned and have 4 games going right now so I'm going to run through everything really fast.

As it stands, I have now hit my worst gambling downswing ever. I busted my sportsbook account and in total lost $700. I am taking a break from all that and will come back when I find a game that is a sure thing. Football has been way to unpredictable all season to play the games regularly.

My stars account is taking some wild swings. I hit my high of $2760 on 9/24 and a couple weeks later, I was all the way down to $600. I then went on an upswing that lasted a whole four days. I had a turnaround of $1600 on my sharkscope and took my account all the way up to $1800. Then in only two and a half days of playing, I was right back to $600. Over that time I went about 50 tournaments straight without a single cash. 30 straight SNG's to be exact and approxiamately 20 MTT's.

The very next day I was down to $400.

The next day which was yeterday I bought into a bunch of MTT's and had my account drop to $200 after not cashing in all but the last one.

The last tournament was pretty interesting. It had everything.

The tournament was an $11 buyin with 1086 players.

Early on I picked up a nice stack and then got my greatest fuck you hand ever. All in one hand I took the sickest cooler and simulataneously took the worst bad beat you can take.

Blinds 125/250

UTG raises to 500. Call. I call. Two other callers.

I have 7 7.

Flop A 7 5

Three of us including myself get all in on the flop.

UTG has A A and the other guy has 5 5.

Turn 5

Fuck me. I cannot believe what I just saw.

My stack was all the way down to 1200.

I played shortstack for the next 4 hours.

In that time these two sweet pieces of justices go down.

I get all in short with 6 6. Get called by J J.

Flop 6 x x.

The second hand was the same situation. I get all in short with A J.

Villain shows 10 10.

Flop A J x

As we got down to the last 70 players I was looking at the money breakdown. There was a big prize jump at 27th place. 27-19 was $60 or so. I only had $200-$250 in my account so a $60 cash is substantial. Also prior to my play that day I was considering what to do in the event of going bust. I was debating whether or not I was going to redeposit so I had that mindset when I was playing.

I actually got down to the last 27 and was about 22nd in the tournament so I was stil rocking the short stack. I don't remember many of the hands played at this point but I kept advancing through the tournament as one of the shortest stacks. I badly wanted to make the final table as I hadn't made a FT in almost a month.

Sure enough I actually get there shortstack and all. I came in 6th in chips.

When we got to 8 handed I was 7th in chips and we were on break. Someone suggested that we chop the tounrament 8 ways with each player getting $900. Several players actually agreed. The chipleader wasn't going for it and I sided with chipleader saying that I wasn't going to chop either. The fact that I was refusing to chop is completely assinine on my part since I would be getting 4th place money. I thought I could win and I needed the 2 grand that was on the line.

The first hand back I pick up 4 4 and flop a set in a raised pot with the chipleader. He almost doubles me up and I move into 4th or 5th in chips.

We get down to the last 5 and I am 4th in chips and the player 3rd in chips offers a 5 way chop where we all get $1500. The first two agreed and the chipleader said he was thinking about it but I said no deal and we kept playing. We get down to 4 handed and I double up by actually winning a coinflip. At three handed the sickest hand ever happened.

I have J J in the BB.

Chipleader 2M
Me 700K
Shortstack 600K

Blinds 10K/25K

Chipleader raises my BB from the button like he always does and the SB shoves. I overshove with my Jacks and the CL actually calls!

CL A 10
Me J J
SS 6 6

Lately, I have been in this spot a lot and I have been really good at losing so one time please.

The board blanks off and I win a 2 million chip pot and am heads up. This is also the first time the entire tournament that I hold the chiplead. We play for about 20 minutes or so and I outplay the guy nasty and win when I call his shove with Q 8. He showed 4's and I hit the 8 to win the tournament. 1st was $1,985 and some change and makes for my second biggest tourney score ever. I finally got a good win on stars but am pretty indifferent to it. My bankroll was at $2100 or so and today I have been running like shit. I hope at this point I start making some money because I am in no mood right now to watch my account go all the way back down to almost nothing because everyone hits there 3 outers against me.

No one runs worse at poker then I do.

Oh my God where do I start? I think this might be the worst run I have ever had gambling in my entire life. On 9/24, I final tabled a tournament and made about $900. My Stars bankroll at that point was at $2760. Since then I have run like the stock market. It's not official since I am still playing but right now my bankroll sits at $732 and thats before I buy in to a couple more tournies. Things could not be going worse in the land of football.

I took Tennessee yesterday +11.5 against Georgia which means they couldn't lose the game by more then 12 points. I got in early and the line ended up moving to about 13 or so. Tennessee lost the game by 12 and had I waited a couple days to place the bet I would have won but instead I got in early and lost by a half point. I also took 5-0 Vanderbilt against 1-4 MSU yesterday and not only did Vanderbilt not win the game by 3 points, they didn't even win the game. Right now, Dallas just had a punt blocked in OT and Arizona scored a TD on the same play and I just lost that game as well. I don't even want to look at my account by I am now down about $500 overall since I started betting on sports. That puts my gambling downswing at $2500. My worst downswing ever was $3000 playing live poker but I was risking thousands of dollars on a daily basis so that is to be expected. This is much worse because it is over a longer time period and it is happening much slower so it's a lot more painful.

Fuck poker. I just needed to say that.

If you want to know what its like to be me as a poker player then do the following. Go to www.sharkscope.com and search CUgold61 under PokerStars.

I started playing again recently on Stars at around game 400 right where it flatlines. In the last 3 days I have played about 90 games or so at the last "peak" in the graph. In that time, I haven't won a single SNG and have only gotten 2 seconds. The games that I'm playing are 18 man and 45 man turbos.

I could not be running worse in these stupid ass things. These stupid ass things are the main reason for the most recent part of my slide on Stars.

In those 3 days I have gotten into this situation all in preflop and have lost about 70 times. That is AK vs AQ or worse. I obviously don't have AK every time that I have lost but I have lost in that situation about 70 times in the last 3 days. On the flip side when I have been behind I have won about 12 of them. Remember the numbers do not add up in poker. That, or my account has a Pokerstars inflicted curse. I really wouldn't be surprised if my account was cursed because this is all the same crap I use to go through way back when I played on Stars.

I also had KK vs. AA 15 consecutive times before I had AA vs KK a little while ago today. I have never had a run like that with AA vs KK but of course I can be on the bad end of it. Never once in those 15 did I suck out.

I also am getting really fucking frustrated with the big field MTT's. No one goes farther in these things more often then I do without ever getting a payday. I have only played 42 MTT's this month and have the following results.

28/1962
57/3204
54/3483
30/4995

For the players who win a lot online, I want to know: How do you do it? I always run out of cards, take a bad beat, or get it in with an inferior hand because I am shortstacked and never suck out. It happens every time. I am never big stack when there are 30 players left. I am always one of the shortstacks. The 30/4995 happened earlier today and I ran really well throughout the tournament and really thought I was going to make the final table.

Of course I ran out of cards and shoved 10 8 on the button with 10 big blinds when it was folded to me. It was the first time the entire tournament that I did this and of course the small blind has AQ. He calls and the flop comes J 10 x. I knew not to celebrate because I know who I am and know that I am the king of the suckout followed by the re-suckout. Of course he hit the king on the turn giving him the nuts and I was drawing dead. Hey pokerstars, why don't you let me win one those just once or actually give me a couple of good hands when the blinds get enoromous. Why do my cards alwasy die when the blinds get really big? Please, you have no idea how frustrating it is to go that far so often and too never get a cash. It's fucking bullshit.

Also, I would like to tell everyone how smart I am. Today I played in the Top 1000 TLB tournament. It was awesome, only 600 players showed up so 1st place was a lot bigger then it should have been. This was easily the hardest tournament I have ever played in. It's very boring to play in a tourney when there are no donks. There was no action and no one was giving away any chips. Every time I raised, they folded and if they called or 3 bet I knew I was in trouble. Early in the tournament I folded QQ preflop because some guy who was a supernova shoved all in over my 3 bet. I knew that he had AA KK or AK and I wasn't going to call and find out if I was flipping a coin that I know I am going to lose so I just pitched it.

Anyway, I totally called the way I was going to get knocked out. We were about 1 hour and 45 minutes in and I had about 15 BB and I overshoved with JJ. I got called by QQ and of course theres the cooler that I predicted.

At this point, I am probably not going to go to Las Vegas next summer. What the hell for? I am probably going to run like shit anyway. I can see it now. I'll be in some WSOP event and I'll go all in with AA and get called by some stupid farmer from Nebraska or some idiot from Arkansas who's a plumber and he'll have A 7 off and hit two sevens on the flop. So unless my luck turns around which I don't expect it too then the WSOP can kiss my ass.

Also, I am never paying off my debts ever again with poker money. This is the 3rd time that I have paid off most of my debts and followed that by a vicious downswing. I had about 18K to my name and thought it would be a good idea to erase 5K worth of credit debt/court fines. But of course like every other time I pay debts, I end up losing everything else and go back into debt. So never again am I paying that shit off with poker money. I still have well over 10K to my name and if it weren't for having a job I would probably be close to busto.

If I lose another couple grand, I will probably quit for good and invest the rest of my bankroll in the stock/commodities market after things bottom out. I keep hearing that if Obama wins the presidency that he will spend us into oblivion and the market will tank really hard. People made millions after the last depression so go Obama if I have the chance to make more money.

UPDATE: Unfucking believable. I typed the original message at around 4:00 in the afternoon. Was watching the Sunday Million final table to see how these guys play with monster money on the line. Decided to play in a couple $11 180 man turbo tournaments. This is seriously the story of my life. Got knocked out of the first one right away. Did something stupid. Can't remember what. Ended up taking first in the second one and won $594. Ran sick hot the entire tournament and didn't take a single bad beat. I'm obviously relieved as I have made back a big chunk of my weekend poker losses. But why do I always win in small events? Just one time, I want to win one of the bigger ones like one of the rebuys. Oh well, this only adds more fuel to my fire. Maybe things will turn around. Also, for the last 2 days I'm like 19 for 20 in this situation. 7 7 vs. AK. I have never run that well in those kind of coinflips. However, I am losing most of my coinflips on the other side but thats ok because I am tired of losing 80% of the time when I have the pocket pair. My bankroll now sits at $1288.

Poker can kiss my ass: Thank you for the nice ego-stroke pokerstars.

I have not played any poker since I made my last blog post. That alone should tell you how frustrated I am. This is the longest I have willingly not played since I started playing again in April. The only other time I didn't play in consecutive days sine April was when I went to Las Vegas in June.

Not only that, but I have absolutely no desire to play and that is actually depressing the hell out of me.

I haven't blazed since Saturday as I am attempting to regenerate my black lungs and since I haven't blazed I haven't had the urge to play. I might have to pop some adderrall the next time I play but I do not know when that will happen. It is also pretty sad that I have to take drugs just to play. Thats one of the reasons why I look forward to the days when I don't play anymore.

Since I haven't been playing, that has left with me with a lot of free time so I have had the time to take care of some personal affairs and it is allowing me to be social again. I have been extremely anti-social lately and I decided it would be best if I started seeing the people I care about.

I will need to get back soon as I am on a set time schedule and only have so much time to make a certain amount of money.

Anyway, my reason for writing is follows. I checked my email at work today and I got this email. This definitely put a huge smile on face.

"Hello CUgold61,

Congratulations on your performance in the MTT TLB for September. For finishing in the top 1000, you have earned a ticket for the Monthly TLB Top 1000 $20,000 Freeroll. The event is scheduled for October 12th at 15:00 ET. The tournament will be deployed in the next few days under the Tourney > Special tab.

If you have any questions regarding your prize or the MTT TLB, please let us know."

I defintitely look forward to this as I will be playing for a free shot at $4K. Also I will get to play with all of the best internet players in the world in one tournament. This will defintitely be a measuring stick for me as most the players I usually play with are terrible and constantly get downright lucky against me. Since I am playing against a bunch of good players, I'll probably get knocked out in the first 30 minutes with a giant cooler.

I will probably make my next update after this tournament.

I also decided to crunch some numbers since I haven't done it in a really long time.

Since April 08 I am up $16,097. That's all online with one live session and a little sportsbetting.

Since I turned 21 I am up $15,786 playing live in LA card clubs and Vegas.

Prior to being 21, I made about $12,000 playing online before I really took it seriously.

Prior to that I made another $3,000-$5,000 but none of that was kept track of since I was just dicking around with friends back then.

Since I quit school I have made $31,883. That play is from October 06-present. During that time there are about 7-8 months where I didn't play at all.

September: The month is over as far as I'm concerned. It's not a skill game.

Well everyone, I have now found the most wishy-washy profession on the planet. I have always said that being an actor is the worst profession in the world as all my friends who are aspiring actors/actresses are always out of work and broke. But nope, that's not the worst profession in terms of being unreliable. The worst profession is tournament poker player.

It boils down like this.

In a 30 day month, you are only going to make money between 5-8 days out of the entire month.

The rest of the time you are going to be losing since you will not cash in the majority of your tournaments.

You only make money if you're losing days are small and your winning days are big.

Also which tournaments you cash/final table in will make all the difference.

As usual, I have followed the same formula for the last few years and that is:

1. Play large tournament with small buyin and run really hot. Make final table. Get small payday.

2. Play large tournament with large buyin. Run really bad every time and never cash.

That's the way its always been and I have no reason to see why thats going to change.

For example:

My new favorite tournament in the world. Held every Sunday at noon my time.

$55+$5 $125K guaranteed.

Usually attracts close to 3K players, has a prize pool of close to 200K, and has a 1st place of 25K.

The last two times I have played, the exact same thing has happened.

Week 1:

I have 15K chips. Avg is 10K. I get all in preflop with a guy who has me covered. I have Aces. He has 9's. We all know the story.

Week 2: (Last week)

I have 10K chips. Avg is 8K. I get all in preflop with a guy who has 8K. I have Aces. He has fives. We all know the story. In this one though, I managed to climb all the way back and was within 300 players of the money.

I get A Q. I raise. Fish calls on the button. Flop A x x. Turn x. I get all in. He calls and has AK. Shocking. I'm out. I had an average stack and told myself to do nothing stupid and was folding my AQ to a re-raise. Of course the worst player on the table coolers me and of course I don't see it coming since he flats me preflop.

Here are my overall numbers for the month.

Tournaments played: 242
Cashes: 45
Cash percentage: 18.6%
Final Tables: 6
Winnings: $5678

These were my final tables. These 3 were in a four day period.

$30NL 9/693 $294
$20NL 3/180 $428
$10NL 5/3339 $1502

Then a whole two weeks pass with no Final Table finishes because I run bad. These 3 were also in 4 days.

$15NL 3/513 $769
$8NL 5/2358 $905
$38NL 6/180 $297

That's it. Pretty bad right? Only one cash of over $1000 is extremely disappointing. Only two final tables in 1000+ player tournaments. I don't really know how I feel about that since I had never final tabled one prior to this month. I still think I can expect to do better. Pathetic nonetheless in my mind.

No final tables in prestigious tournaments such as daily re-buys or any Sunday tourneys.

Overall, twice, I got down to the last several tables in the daily $3 rebuy. I ran horrible in $5 rebuys this month and don't really dabble much in the $10 rebuys since I don't really have the bankroll for it. Pathetic again. I should have gotten further in these tournaments more then just twice since these tournaments are the best part of my game and I consider myself an expert in them.

This is what I have deduced from poker. This is definitely not a skill game. Anyone who tells you otherwise is kidding themselves. Anyone who says that everything balances out in the long run is also kidding themselves. Those of us who actually make money consistently only do so because the losers aren't as intellegent as the winners. They don't think things out thoroughly. They don't care. They don't want to be taught. Obviously, there are intellegent people who play the game who are losers but its because they either don't try or don't care.

This game is all timing. If there is any skill in this game, that is the only place it lies. After much experience, a little luck, and being smart enough to realize certain situations you can put your money in at the right time and have the right result.

I have played close to a million hands of poker and I don't see how the numbers add up. Either you need to do simulations for billions of hands to have a large enough sample or the numbers really don't add up.

Over the course of my life I have lost disproportionately in these situations. These are all in preflop situations. I obviously cannot speak for non all in hands since most hands don't make it too showdown.

AK vs. AQ. I probably win half the time if I am lucky.

AA vs. AK. I have now lost 8 times in the last couple months. You are only suppose to lose some 4-5 times out of every 100 but I have lost 8 times in the last 30 or so. An anomaly. Seems to be an anomaly when it only happens to me.

88 vs. AK. The classic coin-flip. I try very hard to not get all in with these types of coinflips. I lose these well over half the time whereas when I have the AK I win more then half the time. It probably balances out that way but you can tell by my logic which types of hands I would rather be all in with. I will take AK any day all in over a PP.

When you make certain calls or certain laydowns will determine whether or not you lose. Holding up once in a million chip pot is not a skill. It's luck.

Example.

The $8 tournament I final tabled had a similar situation happen. Something that has never ever happened to me and will probably never happen again happened.

I won 8 straight all in confrontations with 60/40's and 65/35s.

For those who don't know the numbers: That is K J against A Q and J 10 against A K type of hands.

Whether or not I was favored pre-flop, I won every time. I sucked out when I needed too and I held up when I needed too. Of course that happens in the $8 buy-in. There was one that I would have lost but I had the skill to make the appropriate lay down and let someone else call the all in and lose. Had I called, I would have been the favorite against both players and would have finished with the worst hand.

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I am also going through one of the worst strings of cards I have ever seen.

The following is happening.

I am getting knocked out of every tournament via bad beat or cooler. I have had KK vs AA 7 times in the last two days to end tournaments. Several of which I was doing really well in and getting knocked out came out of nowhere.

I am losing over 80% of my all ins where I am the favorite.

When I suck out on the flop. I am getting re-sucked out on the turn or river about 90% of the time. Right now I am the king of the suckout followed by the re-suckout.

When I get sucked out, I come back about once out of every 20 times.

Half the time I get all in with a coinflip and I actually hit my over... About 30-40% of the time, they are catching there set on the turn or river.

The poker gods then think that because of all the crap I take, that I deserve to give one god-awful bad beat. They assume it makes up for 10 straight tournaments out of the money and a loss as a result of a bad beat.

This happened last night.

Limped pot. BB=400.

I have 6 3 in the SB.

Flop 10 6 3.

All in. All in.

Villain 10 10

Hero 6 3

Turn 3

River 3

That little 15K chip pot obviously makes up for the $300 I dropped in about 12 tournaments prior to that hand.

Oh, but wait. 10 minutes later I was out of the tournament because of AK vs. AQ. I guess not.

Here's the end result.

My stars bankroll was at $300 to start the month.

As of right now I am sitting on $1761. On Saturday I had $2760 and was rolling. After my 20th straight shitty weekend I have lost almost half my stars roll. The weekends are obviously a huge leak in my game. I have only had two winning weekends my entire time playing online since April and the weekends are traditionally when poker players make most of there money. Playing against even more bad players and getting jewed even harder. Skill game? HA!

My sportsbetting account started at $430 and now sits at $530.

Two big recent losses are the reason for the low number in the sportsbook.

I thought taking the #1 college football team in the country against an anemic Oregon State team was a good idea. $200 later, I realized how wrong I was.

Then tonight I bet big on the under in the Monday night football game. The two teams playing literally don't know how to score points. With only 17 minutes left in regulation all I have to do is not have 18 points scored and I win $200. 30+ points randomly get scored to end the game and I lose. Oh well, there's variance in sports too.

Overall, I am up $1560 for the month which is my worst month since I started playing online.

On the one hand, I did achieve gold star status on pokerstars which is very good for me.

I was able to reach gold because I started playing multi-table turbo SNG's which are really fun and kind of keep things a little stable.

At this point, I don't know how much more of this crap I can take. I know I have said this in the past but I can't last much longer if its going to be like this. I need a 5K to 10K score soon to keep the faith. As of right now, I am also doubting my live tournament aspirations since I think it will be a waste of time since I pretty much never ever do well in the tournaments you want to do well in.

Obviously, if something crazy happens tomorrow to end the month then I'll update the numbers. But with the last few KK against AA, I don't think anything is going to change between now and tomorrow.

Oh and lastly, my biggest argument about this not being a skill game.

Unless something changes tomorrow I am going to finish 359th on the pokerstars TLB list which is in the top 2% on all of pokerstars. I was as high as 293 and will finish the month with 3639 points. The guy who finished 100th and gets his name on the list for the world to see has 4321 points.

Basically, if I finish in the top 3 of any tournament tomorrow thats worth playing in.... ie 1st is between 5K-7K then I will crack the list.

I would assume that at least being close to the top 100 puts me among the top players on the site. Yet I find myself losing my shirt most the time and am barely making enough money to make ends meet. (which is why I work a job) Skill game? HA!

OCTOBER? Please one time.

September: Weeks 1 and 2

Let me start off by saying that poker is all luck. I don't know about anyone else, but I seem to get the shitty end of the percentages most of the time I play.

There is only one thing I see going disproportionately in my favor.

That is, getting all in with this type of situation: AQ vs. AK and having the board come out as such: 5 5 3 3 6 for a chop. I have probably had AQ in this spot and managed to chop with AK about 10 times or so in the last few weeks whereas it has probably only happened to me once.

Everything else however, I am getting fucking screwed.

At least 3 times a day right now I am having someone crack my overpair with an underpair AIPF.

I got pocket aces popped again yesterday by A x. This time by A 7. Thats the 6th time in the last few weeks whereas I have probably won in that spot maybe once or twice in my entire poker life.

For the last week or so I have been getting crucified on my coinflips which is pretty standard. Never have I been the crucifier when it comes to coinflips since I have never won more then 3 or 4 in a row but I am usually the one getting stuck on the cross.

I am also getting knocked out of every tournament as a result of a bad beat. Maybe 1 out of 10 right now are ending with me shoving bullshit at the wrong time and running into a bigger hand.

Here are my results

Week 1:

Cashes 11/74 14.86%
Winnings $2477.84
Final Table Tables 3
Largest cash $1502.56

This was actually a really shitty week with the exception to 3 good tournies. 14% cash rate is absolutely terrible. I did however make 3 final tables in 4 days. The first was a 9th place finish in a $30 freezeout with 700+ players.

I got fucked really hard like I always do.

I had 300K chips with 15 players left and the next guy had only 100K. Of course I finished 9th with 1st being 4K. I took 4 bad beats in succession. I don't remember nor care what they were. The last one was only one I remember because the guy snap called 3/4 of his stack with Q J when I shoved all in with a superior hand. Oh yeah, he spiked his 3 outer. Shocking.

I then got 3/180 in a $20 tournament.

And then, the only thing I have done well in during the last few weeks.

I took 5/3339 for $1500. I came in to the final table as the 5th stack and finished there so I have no gripes. I will say though that I made a huge mistake 6 handed and then of course got rewarded by getting busted with a bad beat when I had K K only a couple minutes later. It was also my first ever final table in a 1000+ player tournament. Even crazier was the fact that it was over 3000 players.

Week 2: Not much to talk about.

Cashes 13/42 30.95%
Winnings $620.59
Final Tables 0
Biggest Cash $90.09 WTF?

As you can see I took a big loss in MTT's this week. Ironically enough I cashed in almost 31% of my MTT's which is a ridiculously gaudy number. That will probably never happen again but even with that number I still lost money. I ran well enough/played patiently enough to make the money in a lot of tournaments but I ran bad after getting in the money.

I also started playing a lot more sit n goes this week which is why my games played are down for the week. I did manage to make $900 last week in STT which salvaged the week.

Overall

Cashes 24/116 20.69%
Winnings $3098.43

Overall for the month I am up about $1500 in poker.

I also have started betting on sports regularly. A friend of mine has made a shitload of money handicapping football and he is going to let me ride his coattails.

Overall I am up $300 betting sports since Saturday.

So that puts me up $1800 overall on the month which is way behind schedule.

To make matters worse, I have started smoking weed regularly again and am starting to get back to the point of not being able to play without smoking first. Hopefully that doesn't persist.

I am also sorry for the negativity but I hate poker and I hate the way it makes me feel. I look forward to the day I don't have to play anymore which I hope comes sooner then later.

August

September has already started off nicely. I have made 2 final tables in the last two days and the only thing I need to do is stop running bad in crucial spots and I might win one of these things.

Overall, I am about even for the month.

August, although frustrating most of the time in terms of poker, it was a very good month. Overall, I made about $2700 for the month.

However, a lot of good happened.

I got all my money off of Cake and have a minimal amount still left to play with.

I got everything squared away with stars and am playing there again.

Things are going really well on Stars except I running like shit right now.

My goals for the month.

1. Make $10K
2. Log in 60 cashes in the pokerdb for the month.
3. Make 7-8 final tables.

Another shitty sunday=Adios Cake

Another Sunday has passed me by and once again I have run atrociously bad in the Cake Sunday tournaments.

In the big one, I was all in on a stone cold bluff on only the second hand of the tournament and it worked. Today was absolutely insane. I ended up playing for about 10 hours today and made about 20 plays where I was all in on a stone cold bluff. No pair, no draws, and miraculously I was never called once. Not only that, but I am not the type of player to throw it all in with absolutely nothing. Usually when I'm all in with a weak holding, I at least have a draw of some sort.

I took 3 bad beats and one cooler in the $162 buyin tournament and was out in 90 minutes. I got knocked out by a hand that was a very familiar theme all day. About 20 times, if not more I was all in with a pocket pair and was up against a bigger pocket pair. I managed to suck out once.

I also bought into the $5 rebuys on Cake and took an 18K stack into the break which is the most I have ever had. I was out only 30 mintues later. I made a sick read and like always paid for it with my life.

I got all in with two players for what would have been massive chiplead for the tournament.

I raised in EP with Q Q. A middle stack shoved and the big stack of the table also shoved. I honestly felt that they both had A K so I called. Sure enough, I was right. The first 4 cards were blanks and the last card was a card thats only suppose to get there 8% of the time. Well, 8% has been happening a lot lately.

I then bought into a bunch of tournies on stars and started off pretty lousy in those as well. Fortunately, the day ended a lot better then it started and then ended terribly. Overall, I still managed to make money on the day.

Overall I cashed in the following:

3 table MTT.
Double Shootout satellite to the Sunday Million (some jerk made a stupid play and got lucky and cost me the satellite but I still got paid.)
3 other MTT's.

Even before I started typing this I thought I was going to be sharing a legendary story. I made one of the biggest suckouts I have ever made in my life and thought it was going to propel me to a huge finish.

I played the $5 rebuys on Stars again and heres what happened.

Hero: 250K
Villain 830K

Villain is tournament chip leader and just came to our table. I usually don't give chipleaders any credibility because they are usually giant donks who have gotten lucky.

Hero is dealt 10 10 and blinds are 2500/5000

Hero raises to 15K. Chipleader calls on the button and the SB also calls.

Flop J x x with two diamonds.

SB checks, Hero checks. Button bets 30K. I checked because I wanted to see where these guys were at. SB calls and I decide to take a turn.

Turn x no diamond.

Check, Check, Button goes all in. ????

SB folds and I decide that the button has at best a flush draw. I call.

Button shows A J of diamonds.

Fuck.

River 10

Holy Fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That shit never ever happens to me.

I actually sucked out in a 500K chip pot and am now 4th in the tournament. From that point on that same guy was out for my blood. He played every hand that I played and was one of those idiots who has to try and outplay you ever hand. I fucking hate people like that. I am here to make money. I really can care less who the best/most macho player is. Apparently the villain from that hand has to now outplay me every hand for the rest of the tournament.

I eventually get moved from that table. Thank god.

Then this happens.

Hero 600K
Villain 250K

We get all in preflop and he has K K and I have A K. I turn broadway and bust villain and become tournament chip leader with about 70 players left with 8K on the line for first place.

The last hand.

I got screwed because that same guy got moved to my table and was conveniently placed to my direct left. I knew that this guy was going to screw me over somehow and just like before he is playing all the same pots with me.

I pick up A J which is a hand that I wish I could never be dealt because it costs me the most money. In fact, I just open fold it a lot unless I think I can just win the blinds. I raise to 42K with A J diamonds and of course douchebag calls.

Flop

9 4 2 two diamonds.

Bingo.

I have pretty much decided at this point that I am going to go all the way with this hand. I wasn't sure if I should check raise or if I should just bet it out. I decided that if I bet it out that the douche bag would raise me right then and there because he has to outplay me and then I would be able to go all in and he would have to fold his trash.

I bet 80K and he just calls. (Looking back, I wish I would have underbet it because that would have prompted a raise for sure.)

Turn 3 no diamond.

I bet 250K. He raises to 500K. Can this guy be more full of shit?

I obviously go all in and I cannot believe what I see when he shows his cards.

A 3. Are you fucking kidding me? You called me with just a gutshot for 80K and caught 3rd pair on the turn and you think its good.

An A hits the river but it doesn't make a difference since he sucked out on the turn with a fucking 2 outer and I am out in 37th.

I am quite proud of myself because I finished in top 100 in two more tournaments today that had 3000+ runners. I am definitely going to make a bunch of money. It is no longer a matter of how anymore but a matter of when.

I am unofficially done with Cake. I have withdrawn all but $500. I am going to use the remainder of the money to play a tourney here and there whenever there is nothing going on stars. I am almost out of gold chips and don't feel like wasting my time on those satellites anymore since I always get jewed so hard in the sunday tournies.

My stars bankroll started at $364.00 and right now I am sitting at $567.00.

In total I have withdrawn about $14760 from Cake.

A new beginning: A huge change that will be for the better. (Hopefully)

Well, I have finally gotten what I wanted. I have graduated back to Pokerstars. On Thursday I got my $1000 Quicktender to finally go through and I went to the bank and picked it up. From there, I went to a Western Union and had to initiate a transfer. The transfer cost $60! That alone makes me hope that I don't bust my Stars bankroll. After paying back Stars what I owed them I only had $364 in my account. It's not much to work with but its better then nothing. It's been only two days since I have been playing I and I have already made a bunch of noise.

These are my cashes so far. All cashes can be seen at the thepokerdb.com s/n=CUgold61

NL$20 7/180
NL$8 115/1209
NL$5+Rebuys 19/3042
NL$3+Rebuys 53/3591

The two rebuys were being played simultaneously and had 1st places of 7K and 5K so the fact that I got super deep in both of them was easily one of the most exciting things that has ever happened to me in terms of poker.

After returning to Stars I can already see how much my game has improved from the last time I played on Stars. My play at Commerce taught me patience and my play at Cake gave me a better understanding of strategy. And now I am ready to start making some serious money.

There were a lot of key hands played in both rebuys but here are a few of the main ones I remember.

$5 rebuys:

Hand 1:

Hero 140K
Villain 1 110K
Villain 2 20K
I hadn't done anything in a while but I was still well ahead of the average so I was just sitting tight. I picked up K K and the villain with 110K shoved all in.

I obviously call and a shortstack throws it in.

Hands

Me K K
Villain 1 10 10
Villain 2 A x


Flop Q 10 Q. Fucking figures.

I win a few pots and get back to 80K and then this happens.

I think the blinds were 4K/8K and I shoved with K 3 in late position trying to steal blinds. Lately, I have been getting called almost every time I have been making those shoves. And I have been getting called after not doing anything for a really long time. And most the time I have been called, I have been called by hands that are beating me because I usually have trash but they have trash hands too. I don't understand why these people call me sometimes. Anyway, I get called by J J and the flop comes all clubs and I double up. I deserved that after that chicken shit hand with Kings against tens.

This is the hand that did me in.

19 players left. Blinds 10K/20K

Hand 3

Hero 700K
Villain 530K

We are 6 handed and I am in the BB. UTG who has been playing tight raises to 50K or 60K. Normally I would fold to this guy but I noticed we were 6 handed and wasn't throwing away an A J suited. I came pretty close because I hate A J especially OOP but I didn't want to be a total nit so I called.

Flop

A x x

Villain bets 120K and I call.

Turn x spade giving me the nut flush draw.

I check and villain goes all-in. If it wasn't for the flush draw I am folding but I have way too many options and am possibly ahead of a lot of his potential range so I call.

He shows A Q.

I never hit when I have A x suited with nut flush draw when I am behind and this was no different. He dodged the river and I was crippled. I got knocked out about 10 minutes later in 19th. I think 19th paid something stupid like $120.


$3 rebuys

This tournament started 2 hours later and since I was doing so well in the other one I paid very little attention to it. It also didn't help that I was card dead for literally the entire tournament.

At one point I was down to 1100 chips and the BB was 2K. There was this idiot at my table who was doubling everyone up and he doubled me up twice and got me up to 11K. I grinded from there and before I knew it I was up to 80K and second in chips on the table. I don't remember the hand that propelled me from 35K to 80K. Edit: Just remember. It was set over set. It was fucking awesome.

Hand 1

Villain 1.1M
Hero 100K

Villain just got to the table and is chipleader of the tournament. There are about 130 players left. Villain is UTG and shoves all in. BB in the hand has only 23K in chips so its obvious that he is stealing. In the other tournament, someone did the exact same thing and when called he showed K K.

I was sitting on 9 9 on the button and had been waiting on a hand for a while. I was already out of the other tournament and was in kind of a sour mood so I thought I would gamble if thats what it came down to and I called. He showed K 4o and I doubled up to 200K.

Hand 2 (My huge mental error.)

This is the hand I went out on. I was so card-dead this entire tournament it was ridiculous. At one point I didn't raise a single pot for 2 hours. I kept up with the blinds by winning a few nice pots in the blinds where I flopped huge and picked up a couple of bets.

UTG limps 12K and I raise to 36K with Q 9 suited. It wasn't until after I had raised that I noticed that UTG had limped. I thought UTG was BB and wasn't really paying attention.

Had I known that UTG had limped I would have either just pitched it or I would have raised to 48K. Looking back, I am pretty sure I would have just folded because I hate playing with UTG limpers especially in deep stack situations where they might be limping aces.

Flop

10 7 7. I bet 80K which leaves me with 75K. Of course UTG shoves all-in. I look at my stack, look at the blinds and decide that this is probably my best chance. I put him on a smaller pocket pair and decide that my Q and 9 are both live and have a back-door flush draw. I call his all-in and he shows A 10. What a fucking moron! Only an idiot plays A 10 like that in that position. I know I fucked the hand up but still, I am folding A 10 UTG every time late in a tournament. I miss and I'm out in 53rd. I think it paid something stupid like $66.

There really is no excuse for what happened there. I had a genuine opportunity to make 5K. These rebuy tournaments are really hard and take a really really long time since there are so many players. It's only the 4th time that I have gotten this far and I do not know when I will get back to that point. I assume it will be much sooner then later since I am a superior player now then when I played on Stars in the past.

I had been playing for 12 straight hours when that last hand went down and I obviously had a mind fuck because I really thought that UTG was BB.

I'm not going to lie it was close to 1:00 AM here and I saw that I could literally play good tournaments all through the night and play into the next day and go right into the stars Sunday tournies. I was going to take an adderall to stay up all night, but then I remembered that I have a job and a schedule to maintain so I have to be responsible for now. Hopefully in the future I can spend a whole weekend and do a 36 hour bender.

Sunday should be really exciting.

I satellited into the two main Sunday tournies on Cake and will be playing in those. Plus, I have a full slate of Sunday tournies for Stars.

This is the story of my goddamn motherfucking stupid life: The worst bad beat I have ever taken

This is the closest I have ever come to throwing my laptop out the window.
This is the closest I have ever come to punching a hole in the wall.
This is the closest I have ever come to taking a baseball bat to my TV.
This is most I have ever wanted to kill someone or something.

This is story of my stupid fucking life playing poker. This is why I have never done well in a big tournament. This is precisely the reason why I will never do well in a big tournament. I swear to god, I want to quit this stupid fucking game forever right now. This game is total bullshit and what I am about to tell you can only happen to me not once, not twice, but fucking three times. And of course it had to happen in one of the most important situations in my poker life.

Remember this post: I am going to direct everyone back to this when I play in my first WSOP or big live event and I get jewed really hard.

I am already running bad to begin with as I have cashed in 1 tournament over the last 3 days. I really could care less though because this was going to more then make up for it.

Here's the setting:

Satellite for the Cake 100K guaranteed tournament for 100 players. First place in that tournament is 25K and everyone gets paid.

The entry in this tournament is the Queen of Spades gold card which is the 9th rarest card in the gold card promotion. I have only two pictures cards out of 16 and I just happen to have this one. I already know coming in that this is going to be by far my best opportunity to get in this tournament as the number of entrants is going to be very limited.

Sure enough only 41 enter and top 4 are going to get in the big dance.

I ran hot early and put together a stack. Surprisingly the tournament was full of bad players which really surprised me because only the high limit players have the highest gold cards.

We get down to the final table and we are 9 handed. I have 11K in chips and I am in 6th place. We are all pretty bunched up at the top so I am not too worried. I have been folding more hands then I would like but I finally get what I have been looking for.

I pick up A A. And of course over the last few days I am like 2 for my last 12 with pocket aces all in pre flop. And I am literally 0 for my last 80 against Aces in the same situation. I haven't cracked aces all in pre flop in over a month. And as usual I take way more then my share of bad beats. Thats why I call myself DrBadBeat. It's because I know so much about them that I could have PhD in the science.

UTG is a shortstack and shoves all-in for 5K.

I obviously throw it all in myself and everyone else folds.

Hero A A
Villain A Q

Now remember I have been in this situation probably several hundred times in the last few months and never once have I won when I have had Ax. I have lost thousands of dollars because of this cooler. Of course I have only had A A in this spot only a few times and I have already lost several times over the last few days.

The way this hand went down was the exact same way it happened in the Sunday tournament and the exact same way it went down last night. Can I actually win one of these for a change? Please?

No I can't.

Only I can lose after this flop.

A x x two hearts and villain has the queen of hearts.

I don't need to tell you what the turn and river were because I knew what it was going to be before it was even dealt.

This is what I will say.

I am a 96.6% favorite on the flop.

3 times since Sunday I have seen this exact flop. 3 times I have lost.

I have finally figured this game out.

You have to be one of the chosen few who actually win.

The rest are all losers.

I am not one of the chosen ones.

I am up over 45K in the last 2.5 years playing this game but I have been playing for 7 years. There are kids who have only been playing a couple years who are betting 45K on every hand. They are the chosen ones. I am not.

Never will I hit 30K in one tournament or 100K or whatever else.

I will keep getting my little 1.2K scores which are nice but I am fucking greedy. I am really fucking greedy.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life working for the man waking up ass early every day.

I want to own houses and travel the world. I will never get to do those things if I don't play poker as a result of my background. That is why I will keep playing this stupid fucking game that I hate until I am no longer allowed to play.

That is all.

I have had enough and I am sure you have too.

Quit this game now before you become me. Way past the point of no return. I can't give up for the sole reason that I have dedicated too much time and resources and quitting now would only be a waste.

Best week yet.

I have to go way back into the archives to find out when I have had a better week playing poker then I have had this week. The only two weeks that come to mind are the week I made $5K in a week playing $400 NL at Commerce and when I made back to back final tables on Stars in a $100 freezeout and in the $10 rebuys which I chopped for a bunch of money.

This week shows that quitting the cash games was one of the best decisions I have made in a long time.

These were my 3 big finishes for the week. Two more final tables in MTT's bringing my total up to 10. I have also finished in the top 5 eight times and have finished in the top 3 five times.

2/47 $517.00
1/409 $1320.77
4/283 $375.00

The 2/47 was a $55 freeze-out and I should have taken the whole thing down but this guy (mac636) made a huge suck-out in the HU portion of the match. I turned the nut straight and he led out for 12K. I put him all in hoping he had the top pair and he called all in with 4 5 high and a flush draw with one card to come. It came and I was crippled. He beat me a few hands later and that bad beat cost me $300. On the other hand, I won two all-ins when I was completely dominated when there were only 5 players left. A 7>A K and A 10>A J. I don't think I have ever won two hands like that back to back. Those bad beats made me $500. So what comes around goes around. I called out the guy who beat me because his sharkscope is a complete trainwreck. It's a straight line all the way to down to -$20000. It's pretty hilarious.

The tournament that I did win was in the $5 rebuy which was my second win in that tournament in the last 3 weeks. I'm the shit. I almost back to backed it as I finished in 16th place the very next time I played it, and I think I could have won but I somehow found myself all-in with J 2. That was obviously my fault.

The last tournament was definitely the most interesting one. Once a week on Cake they have the $5000 for gold chips tournament which has a buyin of 5 gold chips and is a rebuy. For the first time since I have been on this site the tournament was an Omaha 8 tournament. I almost didn't play in it because I am running low on gold chips but I was a little tilted from running really bad in sit and goes so I decided to blow some steam off. I have only played in one other Omaha 8 tournament and have probably played 2000 hands of Omaha 8 cash. In other words I have very little experience in this game.

I ran pretty good in the middle portion of the tournament and found myself with a lot of chips with about 75 players left. I learned quite a bit about strategy from this tournament which will be valuable in the future if I am ever in another one of these.

I have to say though, this game is all luck. I probably gave and took 20 bad beats throughout the course of the tournament.

The end of the tournament was absolutely ridiculous. Every single player in the tournament was stalling and at one point there were 30 players and only 5 of those had more then 10 BB.

We were 7 handed on the final table and I was chipleader and 1st was $1000. I was really excited about getting my second MTT win for the week and my first ever win in a non-holdem game when this hand went down.

I am dealt A J 9 2 which is a pretty decent hand. I raise 3x BB and get one caller.

Flop: J 9 8

This guy leads into me for full pot. I am hoping that he hasn't already flopped the straight and put him all-in. He snap calls and I have him crushed. He has the best hand I could have gone up against. Q Q 2 3. He is drawing to only 5 outs which is nothing in Omaha 8.

Sure enough a Queen comes on the turn and now I am shortstacked. I busted out a little while later in 4th which was still nice because I came up $175 on the day after running terribly in my normal games.

Sunday tournaments:

These went the way the always do. I ran like crap, never had a chance and was shortstacked the entire time.

In the 100+9 I bought in directly and got Aces cracked right away by AK all in preflop. I was really pissed because thats like the 4th or 5th time in the last couple of weeks I have had that happen even though I have never won once with AK there and am down probably $5000 on cake in that situation. Fucking bullshit. I went on to survive for a whole hour and a half and took 4 bad beats in the process and gave one.

The $150+$12 wasn't much better. I lasted all of two hours and won only a couple hands the whole tournament. I was never dealt anything and never had a chance. I shoved all in on the button when it folded to me with K 6 just hoping to win the blinds and antes. I had been folding every hand the entire tournament and this asshole calls me with A 8. Really?

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Well it's official, I had my worst day yet in tournaments. I ran as bad as I possibly could. Haven't cashed in a single tournament in two days now with the exception to that Omaha tournament which doesn't really count since I mainly play Hold'em.

I typed this before my second sit-down and have gotten screwed in every possible way. I never ever crack Aces unless I have a pocket pair and that happens as much as it happens to me so it's a wash. However, I have been getting Aces cracked about 3 times a day for the last few days.

I just busted out of a $20 rebuy tournament. I don't usually play in those because first place isn't big enough. I decided to give it a shot and ended up spending $120 on the tournament and finished 20 out of the money when 10 10< 8 8. All in pre-flop, 8 on the river obviously. I have one last tourney going right now. It's a $30 freezeout. With the way things have gone today I do not expect to come back on here later to update the numbers.

Update: Well, it only took 10 minutes. Out in the $30 freezeout. Q Q<10 10. All in preflop. Back to back 2 outers. Feels like playing on Stars all over again which is why I can't wait to get back on.

For the day I am down about $400 which is my worst day since starting tournaments.

This is where I stand overall.

Cake: $8661.16
UB: $2463.64
EWX: $3500
Quicktender: $1000

$15624.80

I have also taken another major bad beat in my quest to cashing out. Quicktender made me wait 10 business days for my transaction to tell me that I have to update my information with them. It probably means I am going to have to start all over again and wait another fucking 8 business days to get my cashout. Fuck you Quicktender.

Also, moneygram as of right now is no more so no easy cashouts there and it makes my account at UB obsolete. EWX is also obsolete because I refuse to pay 10% VIG on all cashouts. That leaves me with only Quicktender and cashout via personal check. I don't trust checks and don't want to wait a month+ so I guess that means I have to put up with QT's crap until another cashout method is developed.

Fuck the US government and their hypocritical laws. I will know that my life has gone well if one day I do not live in America.

BIG UPDATE: Quicktender just got back to me and said my cashout will be processed in the next couple of days. If they actually live up to their word then I should be back on Stars in no time and I should have the majority of my money in my hands within a few weeks.

Sick Sick Sick day. Huge brags all around.

Although the day isn't over since I haven't decided whether or not to keep playing, I have had what I consider to be my best day since returning to online poker.

I started off by winning my second satellite for the $162 Sunday tournament. I am 2 for 2 this week in those satellites.

I then received confirmation that my cashout was cleared with E-wallet Xpress. I then sent $1500 over to Ultimate Bet and when allowed will be withdrawing using Moneygram and for the first time will have actual money on hand from Cake.

I then bought into the $5 rebuys and won it outright for the second time. It was my 5th final table in that event and my 5th top 5 finish. 1st was good for $1320.

I ran sick hot during the whole tournament and got paid huge on a lot of hands. These were the key hands that propelled me to victory.

SB to BB confrontation.

Hero BB 45K in chips
Villain SB 115K in chips.

Average at this point was about 32K

Hero is dealt A 5.

There is no raise and I see it for free.

Flop

J 5 5

Villain bets pot and I call

Turn 3

Villain bets pot again and I call.

River 8

Villain puts me all in and I call and he shows J 2.


Hand 2

Hero 110K
Villain 100K

Average around 50K

I raise to 9K with 8 9 suited. One caller.

Flop A 5 3 all spades. I flopped a flush.

I bet 1/2 pot hoping that villain had an Ace. He shoves all-in and I call and he shows A Q of clubs. I hold and become overwhelming chip-leader for the tournament.

Hand 3:
On the final table 8 handed.

Hero 250K
Villain 350K
Villain 600K

I get 7 7 in the SB. Villain (350K) raises to 17K. I call in the SB and BB calls.

Flop A 7 3

Check Check. Villain bets 35K.

Call. Fold.

Turn x.

Check Villain bets 75K. Hero goes all-in for 175K. Villian calls and shows A J. Drawing dead. I win a 500K chip pot and am now second in chips.

Hand 4 The hand that more or less sealed the deal.

SB to BB confrontation

Hero 475K
Villain 745K

Hero is dealt 10 10 and raises to 24K. Villain raises to 100K

Normally, I would fold to a lot of players but this guy is a huge fish and I figure that I have him dominated. I also know that if I hit my 10 that I am going to double up cause this guy loves overshoving the flop whether or not he has it.

Flop

10 7 3

Hero checks, Villain goes all-in. Hero calls.

Villain shows A K

Turn Q Come on!!!! Why!!!!

River x

On that hand my stack shot up to 975K and we were 5 handed. The second biggest stack was under 300K and they were all fish.

I got heads up with an especially bad player and started HU play with a 3:1 chip advantage. He never once gained ground on me and offered to chop several times. Yeah right.

I am absolutely killing tournaments right now. I don't know what I was doing griding cash for so long. Here is where I stand. Check my sharkscope: DrBadBeat

Cake $8403
UB $2452 (Just transferred $1500 via EWX)
EwalletXpress $1000
Pending Cake cashout: $2500
Money in Cyberspace: $1000

Total: $15355

For some reason my Quicktender transaction has not gone through yet. It should hit my bank anytime.

Things could not be going better right now. This is by far the most success I have ever had playing poker and hopefully it continues. For the month I am up $2700 and have played much less then I have in prior months and the month is less then half over.