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.
Monday, September 29, 2008
Monday, September 15, 2008
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.
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.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
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.
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.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
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.
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.
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.
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