October game..

I got seasick of all the comments, so I am posting a new one :)

In principle I should not treat anyone differently by changing the date. However, an upcoming holiday, the fact that MrSmith has a chance to win overall and the fact that he has suffered more from the dates then the other two leaders have convinced me to change the date to the 10th. Hope everyone can make it. Given that we have played 9 out 11 games - I think we should keep the games as they have been so far. Thus I suggest to stick to 5$, and encourage anyone to present ideas on how the games for 2011 should be organized. I am open to good ideas incl 10$ games.

So, if everyone are pleased - I will suggest the 10th of October. Password stays. Gl everyone!

September Leaderboard

Thanks for an exciting game yesterday and congratulations once again to MrEMC2! I'm glad you acknowledge that I was ahead when you called my all in on the last hand, but never apologize for winning. Presumably that is exactly what you wanted to do. Luck is an inherent part of the game as we all know all to well. Besides I seem to recall rivering you once or twice during our Drangedal trips. Perhaps we are even now :)

Here is the updated leaderboard at any rate. Our positions are unchanged except for Barbapaps whose itm finish moved him up the ladder. Good game Barbapaps! MrE has retained his top spot, but I doubt that he leads by enough points to feel too comfortable...

Klokkhammer is in charge of our October game. Let me know the details and I can set it up at Pokerstars.

Thanks for the quick posting of your hh MrE. I'll be studying it carefully :)

Roland GTX

Hand history private game September 2010

Here's the hh for the private game. I had a bad start, tons of crap cards, and seebreeze calling or raising all my steal attempts. On the other hand, you do need the good cards at the end of the game, not early :-)
Poker gods were smiling at me this time, and I was lucky to hit the right cards at the right time.
I'm really sorry for the last hand, Roland, but I think you would have called your AI as well, wouldn't you?
As I said, I do know by far too well how it feels to get rivered :-(

I checked the blogg as well, and it's klokks turn to schedule the next game.
Just to add my 0.02$, I'm fine with 10:30pm, especially on wednesday and thursday nights.

Next private tourny

Is scheduled for Wednesday this week (22nd) at 22.30 CET. Alarmclock required for Benko. I upped the stakes to $10,-. Registration is available in the lobby. Password is "suitedgapper".

Next private game.......September

Since I am arranging, I would like input from Benko and Seabreeze on what timezones they are located in + times during weekdays (Note; only weekdays, FRI-SUN = banned this time) they are able to play.

Final Table - Finally!

Sorry for not posting lately. I've been quite busy turning a string of bad luck into an even worse string of tilting losses - LOL! Hopefully, my mindset is improving and I can put all that behind me now. In fact, last night I achieved a small milestone. I made my first final table of an MTT. 180 man sngs, freerolls and FPP tourneys don't count :) It wasn't the big payout we all dream of, but just getting there felt pretty good.


The tourney was a  €2.00 buyin, 10 minute blind MTT with 512 players. I played my standard TAG mtt game. I tripled up fairly early with KK for once which allowed me to play all the Axs, sc and small pp hands. Unfortunately, nearly every time I raised preflop with a premium hand, everyone folded. All my big pots came from flopping flopping sets or better as well as pretty aggressive blinds play. My stack size was hovering around the average for most of the mid and late game.


When we got down to the final two tables, nearly all the stacks were equal. The chipleader changed every time someone got knocked out. Unfortunately, I didn't manage to double up at this point. When we got to the final table I was in 5th place with about 150K and the top two had just under 350K chips. All of the players at the ft were passive. Some were tight passive while others were loose passive calling stations. The guy to my right and the guy to my left were huge calling stations. This made stealing difficult, but value betting was profitable. Both had larger stacks than me.


We were down to 8 players when I picked up AA in the small blind. The hand folded around to me and I made a standard 2.5x preflop raise. The bb called and the flop was a K92 rainbow which seemed decent enough for me. I made a pot sized bet on the flop committing me to the hand and the bb called again. The turn  was a J and the pot was now slightly larger than my stack. I knew he would call a shove if he had any pair or a drawing hand as well. I shoved and he called turning over Q10 for the straight - ouch! 


Out in 8th place, but not much I could have done differently given the situation and villian's style. I won a whopping € 23, but as I said, it felt good to finally make a final table.


Roland GTX


Edited a whole bunch of typos including the flop on final hand.

Light at the end of the tunnel...

My 10 match losing streak finally came to an end with this $6.60 6-max, the longest 6-max I've ever played (180 hands, ending at Level VIII) due to the lengthy bubble which starts at Hand 66. I didn't screen this one and Player 5 turned out to be a very strong multi-tabler. It ended well but I have a nagging feeling that my 3-handed high blind play is still not aggressive enough....

SharkScope

I only recently noticed that the Tournament Selector feature on SharkScope is free for tourneys with a buy-in of less than $10. Those searches don't even count against your 5 free searches per day. So I can use SharkScope to screen all the $6.60 6-max SNGs. I used a few of my free daily searches to take a look at the $13 and $25 6-max SNGs -- there are so many strong multi-tablers earning a living at those levels that it's not unusual for SNGs to have a 4-or-5 shark rating. Needless to say, the difference between that and a 1-or-2 fishbowl rating is several magnitudes of positive expectation so I think I'm going to have to start paying more attention to game selection than I have so far.

Rivering quad

Sometimes the poker gods aren't easy to understand. Roland had some of those recently, and I also had the pleasure a couple of weeks ago. Same thing happened again in a $15/18 Turbo this week :-(
Not easy to get away from those kind of hands. I could have raised a bet after the flop to secure the pot, but when you flop a full house, you want to get the most out of it, lol.

At the end of the day, I managed to recover from that one, even if I had to play short stacked for a long period. Made the 4th place which gives $27.