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.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
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.
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.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
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.
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.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
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.
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.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
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.
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.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
I get fucked over in every big tournament I play in.
Sunday just came and went and once again tournaments were extremely disappointing once again. The only good thing is that I got a big monkey off my back today. I finally cashed in a Sunday major which ends my 0 for streak.
I was able to satellite into the $215 WPT qualifier and the $162 100K guaranteed tournament using my gold chips (FPP points). No matter how hard I tried I couldn't win my way into the $109 50K guarantee tournament so I bought in directly.
The first tourney of the day was the $109 buy-in.
I lasted all of 75 minutes. I should've went out sooner but I play better then most of these morons. This was the big hand that screwed me.
I raise with A A. Get two callers.
Flop Q 2 6 w/ a flush draw.
I bet $800. Villain min-raises to $1600. I don't overplay and just call.
Turn Q. I have him on a flush draw at this point. He bets $1500 and I call.
River 6.
He checks and I check behind since I am only getting called by a hand that beats me.
He shows 2 2 for a full-house. He had me covered but since I didn't shove on the flop I was left with T2300 from my original T5000 starting stack. I busted when I shoved for only the first time on the button with trash and got called by KK in the SB. I was out.
In the second tourney which was the 100K guarantee I got screwed over the whole way through. I built a really nice stack early on and then this gem had to happen.
I have 16K and a guy with 6K shoves with K 3 and I call with A A. The board ends up looking like this. 9 10 2 Q J. This has never happened when I have shoved with crap and gotten called by aces. You owe me poker!
I got dealt no cards after that and for the next 3.5 hours I was subjected to play short-stack poker which is really stressful when you have to do it for that long.
I finally busted in 74/745 which was good for a cash of $200.00 Considering how far I went, it would have been nice to have actually been dealt something so I could have a chance.
Then the tournament that inspired me to write this. The WPT qualifier.
The very first hand of the tournament I lose 2500 off my 10K stack when some asshole calls my raise with A 7 and flops trip 7's. I had an overpair. I would go into the break with exactly 10K. I then managed to double up and gave half of it away when some asshole limped Aces. Moron. Back to my original stack. I then get no cards and the following happens.
I get J J and raise in early position. Same asshole who spiked the 7's on me raises to 10K on the button and I fold and show and he shows K K.
50 players left out of 200. 6 pay. 3 win the seat.
I have T4800. Blinds 800/1600.
I shove 3 straight times and don't get called each time.
Then with a stack of 12K I get all in with a guy who has A K and I have A A. Finally a little justice.
Then with a stack of 22K I get all in on a Q 6 2 flop with 10 10 and double again. he had 6 5.
Just like that I have 45K.
By this point there are 35 left and I have noticed that this is one of the worst tables I have ever played poker on and this piece of crap happened. From the same asshole who got lucky with the 7's and the kings.
Im in the SB in an unraised pot with 3 4. I complete and the flop is 2 5 6 all diamonds. We get all in and of course he flopped a flush. GG me. Out in 35th.
I made 2 more final tables this week brining my count up to 8.
I finished 9th in a $10 rebuy. I did myself in when I called a guy who I thought was bluffing with second pair and he had pocket aces. I raised pre and he just called me so I was shocked when he showed me aces.
I finished 3rd in a $33 freezeout and I got fucked over when we were playing 3 handed.
Chipleader min-raises on the button to 12K. SB and BB both call. I'm small blind. I have K J.
Flop
J x x w/2 hearts.
Check, Check, Chipleader only bets 6K. I only just call because something feels weird. BB also calls.
Turn 8 non heart.
Check, Check, and Chipleader bets 15K. I raise to 55K and the BB just calls. Flush draw. So obvious. Chipleader folds.
River 8 non heart.
I shove and he calls with Q 8 of hearts and I'm out. If the heart peels off on the river he gets no more of my money but the most harmless looking card ever peels off and it costs me $1000. 3rd was good for $900.
I have completely given up on cash games and here is my new plan of action.
I am going to withdraw everything I have on Cake except for $2000. I am going to keep playing in the tournies and use the rest of my gold chips to win satellites.
I am going to leave my UB account alone and mess around with it if I ever feel like playing cash or feel like donking off some money. I have decided to not grind out the cash games. I am just not in the mood to grind obsessively anymore. Especially at NL50.
I am then going to pay back Stars the $592 that I owe them and start playing the big tournies again. I am going to start off with $2000 and play very conservatively within my bankroll. No big tournies unless I satellite in or I make a bunch of money in the prior week. I plan on only playing freezeouts upward of $33 and will play in rebuys that are $5 and under. Since the rebuys are expensive, I will only play those occasionally. I will probably play the occasional sit and go. I am more or less giving myself a second chance on my stars account. I had about $9500 sitting in that account about 2.5 years ago and I really regret not playing it out.
The rest of the money will either go under the mattress or in the bank depending on the method of cashout.
This is where I stand:
Cake: $9538
UB: $700
Money floating in Cyberspace: $3500
I would also like to admit that I have a gambling problem. I don't consider poker gambling since I am far better then most of the people I go up against so poker is not my problem.
I have on the other hand, gotten really carried away with UB blackjack. I am not going to get into the details but I started as low as $550 yesterday and got as low as $100 and got as high as $1500. I ended at exactly $700 and ended there because that was my deposit and I figured there is no harm since I am even for the account. I am keeping the account open because I may need it to transfer money around when I make my withdrawals.
I say I have a gambling problem because I couldn't ever bring myself to stop. And thats a really bad thing. I have sworn off BJ and hopefully I live up to it. I really hate BJ and don't know why I got started in the first place.
As for the money sitting in Cyberspace this where I am at.
I withdrew $1000 using Quicktender and it says it takes 8 business days for it to hit my bank. This coming Wednesday will be 8 days so hopefully it makes it to my bank.
My other pending transaction has me more worried. I withdrew $2500 via E-wallet X-press. When I first initiated the transaction Cake asked me for all this crap to verify my identity. My drivers license, a scan of the debit card I used to fund the account, and a bank statement. There was an issue early on with my license/debit card because they couldn't make out my fax. I sent it back and they have since not gotten back to me. Meanwhile my cash-out is still pending and its been about 4-5 days now. I'm not too worried since that time has spanned the entire weekend. I am still worried though because I always hear it takes about 48 hours to process an E-wallet express transaction. So if in the next couple of days the money doesn't hit my account, I am going to be on pins and needles.
From there thats where UB comes in. Since the merger with Absolute poker I can now use both of them for cashouts.
I am then going to deposit the money on UB or AP and cash out the money via moneygram. That means I will get cold hard cash and won't have to worry about getting my bank involved.
As for the quicktender transaction I am going to send that straight over to pokerstars and get started over there.
I was able to satellite into the $215 WPT qualifier and the $162 100K guaranteed tournament using my gold chips (FPP points). No matter how hard I tried I couldn't win my way into the $109 50K guarantee tournament so I bought in directly.
The first tourney of the day was the $109 buy-in.
I lasted all of 75 minutes. I should've went out sooner but I play better then most of these morons. This was the big hand that screwed me.
I raise with A A. Get two callers.
Flop Q 2 6 w/ a flush draw.
I bet $800. Villain min-raises to $1600. I don't overplay and just call.
Turn Q. I have him on a flush draw at this point. He bets $1500 and I call.
River 6.
He checks and I check behind since I am only getting called by a hand that beats me.
He shows 2 2 for a full-house. He had me covered but since I didn't shove on the flop I was left with T2300 from my original T5000 starting stack. I busted when I shoved for only the first time on the button with trash and got called by KK in the SB. I was out.
In the second tourney which was the 100K guarantee I got screwed over the whole way through. I built a really nice stack early on and then this gem had to happen.
I have 16K and a guy with 6K shoves with K 3 and I call with A A. The board ends up looking like this. 9 10 2 Q J. This has never happened when I have shoved with crap and gotten called by aces. You owe me poker!
I got dealt no cards after that and for the next 3.5 hours I was subjected to play short-stack poker which is really stressful when you have to do it for that long.
I finally busted in 74/745 which was good for a cash of $200.00 Considering how far I went, it would have been nice to have actually been dealt something so I could have a chance.
Then the tournament that inspired me to write this. The WPT qualifier.
The very first hand of the tournament I lose 2500 off my 10K stack when some asshole calls my raise with A 7 and flops trip 7's. I had an overpair. I would go into the break with exactly 10K. I then managed to double up and gave half of it away when some asshole limped Aces. Moron. Back to my original stack. I then get no cards and the following happens.
I get J J and raise in early position. Same asshole who spiked the 7's on me raises to 10K on the button and I fold and show and he shows K K.
50 players left out of 200. 6 pay. 3 win the seat.
I have T4800. Blinds 800/1600.
I shove 3 straight times and don't get called each time.
Then with a stack of 12K I get all in with a guy who has A K and I have A A. Finally a little justice.
Then with a stack of 22K I get all in on a Q 6 2 flop with 10 10 and double again. he had 6 5.
Just like that I have 45K.
By this point there are 35 left and I have noticed that this is one of the worst tables I have ever played poker on and this piece of crap happened. From the same asshole who got lucky with the 7's and the kings.
Im in the SB in an unraised pot with 3 4. I complete and the flop is 2 5 6 all diamonds. We get all in and of course he flopped a flush. GG me. Out in 35th.
I made 2 more final tables this week brining my count up to 8.
I finished 9th in a $10 rebuy. I did myself in when I called a guy who I thought was bluffing with second pair and he had pocket aces. I raised pre and he just called me so I was shocked when he showed me aces.
I finished 3rd in a $33 freezeout and I got fucked over when we were playing 3 handed.
Chipleader min-raises on the button to 12K. SB and BB both call. I'm small blind. I have K J.
Flop
J x x w/2 hearts.
Check, Check, Chipleader only bets 6K. I only just call because something feels weird. BB also calls.
Turn 8 non heart.
Check, Check, and Chipleader bets 15K. I raise to 55K and the BB just calls. Flush draw. So obvious. Chipleader folds.
River 8 non heart.
I shove and he calls with Q 8 of hearts and I'm out. If the heart peels off on the river he gets no more of my money but the most harmless looking card ever peels off and it costs me $1000. 3rd was good for $900.
I have completely given up on cash games and here is my new plan of action.
I am going to withdraw everything I have on Cake except for $2000. I am going to keep playing in the tournies and use the rest of my gold chips to win satellites.
I am going to leave my UB account alone and mess around with it if I ever feel like playing cash or feel like donking off some money. I have decided to not grind out the cash games. I am just not in the mood to grind obsessively anymore. Especially at NL50.
I am then going to pay back Stars the $592 that I owe them and start playing the big tournies again. I am going to start off with $2000 and play very conservatively within my bankroll. No big tournies unless I satellite in or I make a bunch of money in the prior week. I plan on only playing freezeouts upward of $33 and will play in rebuys that are $5 and under. Since the rebuys are expensive, I will only play those occasionally. I will probably play the occasional sit and go. I am more or less giving myself a second chance on my stars account. I had about $9500 sitting in that account about 2.5 years ago and I really regret not playing it out.
The rest of the money will either go under the mattress or in the bank depending on the method of cashout.
This is where I stand:
Cake: $9538
UB: $700
Money floating in Cyberspace: $3500
I would also like to admit that I have a gambling problem. I don't consider poker gambling since I am far better then most of the people I go up against so poker is not my problem.
I have on the other hand, gotten really carried away with UB blackjack. I am not going to get into the details but I started as low as $550 yesterday and got as low as $100 and got as high as $1500. I ended at exactly $700 and ended there because that was my deposit and I figured there is no harm since I am even for the account. I am keeping the account open because I may need it to transfer money around when I make my withdrawals.
I say I have a gambling problem because I couldn't ever bring myself to stop. And thats a really bad thing. I have sworn off BJ and hopefully I live up to it. I really hate BJ and don't know why I got started in the first place.
As for the money sitting in Cyberspace this where I am at.
I withdrew $1000 using Quicktender and it says it takes 8 business days for it to hit my bank. This coming Wednesday will be 8 days so hopefully it makes it to my bank.
My other pending transaction has me more worried. I withdrew $2500 via E-wallet X-press. When I first initiated the transaction Cake asked me for all this crap to verify my identity. My drivers license, a scan of the debit card I used to fund the account, and a bank statement. There was an issue early on with my license/debit card because they couldn't make out my fax. I sent it back and they have since not gotten back to me. Meanwhile my cash-out is still pending and its been about 4-5 days now. I'm not too worried since that time has spanned the entire weekend. I am still worried though because I always hear it takes about 48 hours to process an E-wallet express transaction. So if in the next couple of days the money doesn't hit my account, I am going to be on pins and needles.
From there thats where UB comes in. Since the merger with Absolute poker I can now use both of them for cashouts.
I am then going to deposit the money on UB or AP and cash out the money via moneygram. That means I will get cold hard cash and won't have to worry about getting my bank involved.
As for the quicktender transaction I am going to send that straight over to pokerstars and get started over there.
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Hello, My name is DrBadBeat and I am a gigantic DEGEN and damn proud of it
Well, I have some crazy tales of being a huge degen.
I have more or less decided to call it quits on Cake. I am still going to log on everyday for the promotions and for the tournaments but I am definitely done with cash. The play on Cake was so bad that it was too good to be true. Those players are pretty much gone now and all thats left are sharks who lay in wait. They won't be able to beat each other in the long run and will just pay rake. Only the best of the best will succeed. That's pressure that I don't need.
I made this decision after finding a quick solution.
They are giving away an exorbitant amount of free money on Ultimate Bet. I know all about the scandals but I am willing to take my chances. Plus, they are trying to rebuild their reputation so they probably won't try anything shady.
On the raketracking site that I use they are having a month-long contest for generating rake. 1st place is $2000! Normally when they have the weekly contests, UB is the site that has the weakest numbers. That more or less means that nobody plays there anymore.
Assuming it goes through I will also get a 30% rakeback deal. (If it doesn't go through, then I will quit UB after clearing my bonus.)
I am also getting a 100% deposit bonus on my original deposit.
They also have a promotion that if you collect 10K FPP points in a month, you can redeem that for $1000 cash.
I deposited $700 and am already grinding NL50.
I have learned the following about UB in the last two days.
1. It is the worst fucking site ever.
2. The graphics and interface make me want to puke.
3. You time out after only 5 seconds so multi-tabling is really hard. I can't tell you how many times I get put to a decision and the next thing I know I am sitting out on half of my tables. WTF? That never happens on cake. Ever.
4. They don't display pot amounts and you can never tell how much anybody bets.
5. I have about 50K complaints about how terrible this site is but I don't have the time nor the desire to write it down.
The pros:
All that fucking free money and the fact that the players on here might actually be worse then the ones I was playing on Cake when I first started there.
My degeness: There are 3 different stories.
1. To put money on UB I had to do the following.
I had already withdrawn 1K from Cake but that is sitting in cyberspace and as of right now it is unaccessible.
I just paid the rent so all I had left was a little over $700 so thats how much went into my UB account. I was willing to put in as much as I possibly could but $700 was all I could manage. After making that depsoit I officially had 98% of all the money I have to my name in cyberspace. If something bad happens I am going to be in some trouble. Luckily, my money is spread around somewhat nicely.
2. I discovered UB blackjack and horsed around on there for a minute. No harm, no foul. In fact I made $30.
A friend came over and we started screwing around on the blackjack and things got pretty stupid. I hate blackjack and never play it in Vegas but this was just too much fun.
I started off winning and losing every other hand and then the following happened.
I win a few hands and get up to like $80 and then lose a couple and get back to $48 and am even give or take a couple bucks.
I decide this is the last hand and put it all in.
I get 2 2.
Because I am true degen, I decided to split them against a Jack and had to go into my account to get another $48. For some reason I accidentally hit double down and got dealt a 4 for a total of 8. The dealer somehow busted and I just came up $98.
We kept playing and I finally quit when I hit about $220. I run hot at Blackjack.
3. This particular friend came over cause he wanted to go play live poker which I haven't touched in a really long time.
He ends up having to bribe me with some weed so we go to his house and he smokes me up.
We go to the Bike and we both buy in to the $80NL.
Note: I have no money. None at all. It's all online.
So he had to put me in the game.
It's about 11:30pm when we show up and we got on the same table.
I don't know what it is about me but everyone minus my friend had never played with me before. But that didn't matter because I got an unbelievable amount of action right from the get go. I would raise 7x the BB and still get 6 callers.
Throughout the whole night I played almost every single hand I was dealt because I was so far superior to everyone at the table with the exception to my friend who was the second best player on the table. If it was suited I was playing, if it connected or had a gap I played it, and I raised a lot like a madman.
My stack swung up and down like crazy just the way it does when I multi-table online and the table started to revolve around my action.
Twice, morons limped with A A only for me to make a crazy play and for them to get paid off.
I played the straddle almost every time it was my turn and made the table go crazy. I won some big hands in the straddle with some really bad hands.
In the end I came up about $170 and now have a little cash for the next couple weeks.
I didn't get to play at all today until the end of the night and played for a couple hours on UB.
Ran super super bad because I ran so well at Blackjack. I only dropped about 3 buyins at NL50 even though it felt like I dropped about 6. People were doing THE most retarded shit ever and of course getting lucky. Whatever, I am going to get paid a bunch of free money in about 30 days so these guys can suck out all they want.
Here's the story of my life.
Me and this guy have been going at it for a while and he is a HUGE fish. I'm up $60 off him and we're going back and forth in the chat and this happens.
Villain=SB
Hero=BB
Folds to Villain. He raises to $1.50
Hero raises to $11 with A A.
Villain reraises to $29.
Hero goes all in. Villain calls.
Board all hearts.
Villain has A J with the J of hearts.
I think of the 300K times I have had AK against Aces on Cake and how I have still never won and on the first time on this new site I get fucked. Instead of having a $160 stack I was back to almost even and he was talking about how bad I was, and how we're all bad cause we are playing NL50 and not higher.
This where I stand.
UB: $870
Cake: $11,243
Cyberspace: $1000
So far for August I am up $450 and have played hardly any poker.
I have more or less decided to call it quits on Cake. I am still going to log on everyday for the promotions and for the tournaments but I am definitely done with cash. The play on Cake was so bad that it was too good to be true. Those players are pretty much gone now and all thats left are sharks who lay in wait. They won't be able to beat each other in the long run and will just pay rake. Only the best of the best will succeed. That's pressure that I don't need.
I made this decision after finding a quick solution.
They are giving away an exorbitant amount of free money on Ultimate Bet. I know all about the scandals but I am willing to take my chances. Plus, they are trying to rebuild their reputation so they probably won't try anything shady.
On the raketracking site that I use they are having a month-long contest for generating rake. 1st place is $2000! Normally when they have the weekly contests, UB is the site that has the weakest numbers. That more or less means that nobody plays there anymore.
Assuming it goes through I will also get a 30% rakeback deal. (If it doesn't go through, then I will quit UB after clearing my bonus.)
I am also getting a 100% deposit bonus on my original deposit.
They also have a promotion that if you collect 10K FPP points in a month, you can redeem that for $1000 cash.
I deposited $700 and am already grinding NL50.
I have learned the following about UB in the last two days.
1. It is the worst fucking site ever.
2. The graphics and interface make me want to puke.
3. You time out after only 5 seconds so multi-tabling is really hard. I can't tell you how many times I get put to a decision and the next thing I know I am sitting out on half of my tables. WTF? That never happens on cake. Ever.
4. They don't display pot amounts and you can never tell how much anybody bets.
5. I have about 50K complaints about how terrible this site is but I don't have the time nor the desire to write it down.
The pros:
All that fucking free money and the fact that the players on here might actually be worse then the ones I was playing on Cake when I first started there.
My degeness: There are 3 different stories.
1. To put money on UB I had to do the following.
I had already withdrawn 1K from Cake but that is sitting in cyberspace and as of right now it is unaccessible.
I just paid the rent so all I had left was a little over $700 so thats how much went into my UB account. I was willing to put in as much as I possibly could but $700 was all I could manage. After making that depsoit I officially had 98% of all the money I have to my name in cyberspace. If something bad happens I am going to be in some trouble. Luckily, my money is spread around somewhat nicely.
2. I discovered UB blackjack and horsed around on there for a minute. No harm, no foul. In fact I made $30.
A friend came over and we started screwing around on the blackjack and things got pretty stupid. I hate blackjack and never play it in Vegas but this was just too much fun.
I started off winning and losing every other hand and then the following happened.
I win a few hands and get up to like $80 and then lose a couple and get back to $48 and am even give or take a couple bucks.
I decide this is the last hand and put it all in.
I get 2 2.
Because I am true degen, I decided to split them against a Jack and had to go into my account to get another $48. For some reason I accidentally hit double down and got dealt a 4 for a total of 8. The dealer somehow busted and I just came up $98.
We kept playing and I finally quit when I hit about $220. I run hot at Blackjack.
3. This particular friend came over cause he wanted to go play live poker which I haven't touched in a really long time.
He ends up having to bribe me with some weed so we go to his house and he smokes me up.
We go to the Bike and we both buy in to the $80NL.
Note: I have no money. None at all. It's all online.
So he had to put me in the game.
It's about 11:30pm when we show up and we got on the same table.
I don't know what it is about me but everyone minus my friend had never played with me before. But that didn't matter because I got an unbelievable amount of action right from the get go. I would raise 7x the BB and still get 6 callers.
Throughout the whole night I played almost every single hand I was dealt because I was so far superior to everyone at the table with the exception to my friend who was the second best player on the table. If it was suited I was playing, if it connected or had a gap I played it, and I raised a lot like a madman.
My stack swung up and down like crazy just the way it does when I multi-table online and the table started to revolve around my action.
Twice, morons limped with A A only for me to make a crazy play and for them to get paid off.
I played the straddle almost every time it was my turn and made the table go crazy. I won some big hands in the straddle with some really bad hands.
In the end I came up about $170 and now have a little cash for the next couple weeks.
I didn't get to play at all today until the end of the night and played for a couple hours on UB.
Ran super super bad because I ran so well at Blackjack. I only dropped about 3 buyins at NL50 even though it felt like I dropped about 6. People were doing THE most retarded shit ever and of course getting lucky. Whatever, I am going to get paid a bunch of free money in about 30 days so these guys can suck out all they want.
Here's the story of my life.
Me and this guy have been going at it for a while and he is a HUGE fish. I'm up $60 off him and we're going back and forth in the chat and this happens.
Villain=SB
Hero=BB
Folds to Villain. He raises to $1.50
Hero raises to $11 with A A.
Villain reraises to $29.
Hero goes all in. Villain calls.
Board all hearts.
Villain has A J with the J of hearts.
I think of the 300K times I have had AK against Aces on Cake and how I have still never won and on the first time on this new site I get fucked. Instead of having a $160 stack I was back to almost even and he was talking about how bad I was, and how we're all bad cause we are playing NL50 and not higher.
This where I stand.
UB: $870
Cake: $11,243
Cyberspace: $1000
So far for August I am up $450 and have played hardly any poker.
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