Ok so sorry for not posting for so long but I´m back now. I won´t go into all the details of whats been going on for the last few weeks but I´m going to do a summary with a few highlights of the good and bad. For the first week of November I ran pretty sick (bad) getting outdrawn on what seemed like every flop, with only a few small cashes and lots of sick beats when I was deep. I only had a few decent cashes, coming 3/143 in the $3rb on VC for $122, and 3/122 in the $6rb on VC for $210. I was also watching a 1/2 cash game on VC one night and saw an absolute nutter at the table , he called a $200 all in on a KK8 flop with 45 off, obv the other guy had the King and when the nutter reloaded I decided to sit down. Over the next half an hour I played tight and waited for a few hands, I saw the nutter shove with rags on several flops, some of which he got called and lost and reloaded and some of which his opponent folded and he showed rags or bottom pair etc. So when I saw AK suited in the hole, I was hoping for some action, the nutter didn´t dissapoint me open shoving and with me last to act I felt it was a pretty safe call with AKs as I was well ahead of his range, unfortunately (or fortunately) at this point I was down to just over $140 from my initial buy in. So I made the call and guess what? This time the nutter had a hand, KK, my heart sinks but then the flop comes J98 all hearts giving me the nuts. Wow I think, I suck out one time, but it was not to be as the turn came 8 and then the river came 8 too giving him a full house. Bah! I leave the table in disgust and go to bed downhearted at the sight of the measley sum in my account. Not a good night. Nothing was happening for me on Full Tilt either, I´d finished the last month on around $750 from my initial investment of $50 and with a few small cashes I finished the week at the same ammount. I felt like I was going nowhere on FT and only down on VC. I didn´t adjust well after cashing out and still played the bigger buy in tourneys even though I didn´t really have the roll for them and payed the price. I finished the week even on FT and down $400 on VC, with only $600 left in my VC account I knew I had to drop back down and grind the smaller tourneys again, so I did.
Here are a few of the dirty hands:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1641801
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1649995
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1657719
Some of them aren´t that bad really and some of the calls from the other guys are fair enough because in some I am so short. Most of the really bad ones were on VC but I can´t post the hands for those because of their hand history facility. But needless to say you know you´re running bad when you flop top set and get it in against middle pair and the guy hits runner runner straight on you.
What did cheer me up was when I saw I wasn´t the only one getting frustrated, this German guy takes a tough beat and types in chat "KOHLEundREIBACH: TITAN POKER LECK MEIN SCHWANZ" which put a smile on my face.
Another hand of note was when I was watching the 24k gt´d on tilt and saw this on the final table 4 handed http://www.pokerhand.org/?1658164 I guess he deserves it for min raising AA, but it´s still a sick river.
The second week of November has been much better, on the 7th I came 6/256 in the $7rb on VC for $212 and managed a 6th out of 405 in the $4.5k gt on FT reshoving ATs from the BB into the habitual button raiser on the final table, obv this time he has AK but I´m not unhappy as I was well ahead of his range and take $245 for 6th. A few of the earier hands of note in the tourney are: http://www.pokerhand.org/?1680067 Slightly worried about QJ here. Also, I have a pretty sick suckout deep, but after raising really have to make the call: http://www.pokerhand.org/?1680403
On the same night I manage 4/107 in the $3rb on VC for $75, 14/542 in 6k gt on FT for $63 and 2/152 in the $6rb on VC for $450. heads up we´re 3 hands in and have the same amount of chips each, roughly 300k, when I raise ATo on the button 3x to 30k (5/10k blinds), he makes the call and we see an A95 rainbow flop. I bet out 30k and he min raises to 60k, I shove for 240k more and he almost times out and makes the call with 89 of clubs (1 club on the flop) Obviously the turn and river both come clubs for me to lose to runner runner flush, bah! Still a good night with an overall profit of about $800.
I take the weekend off after that and come back on Sunday for an almost full schedule (missed some of the early rebuys on VC) A small cash on VC in the $5rb and a few bubbles and harsh exits later and I´m left in just one tourney, the $6k gt on full tilt but I´m pretty deep, so I´m hoping for a score. Around 50 left and I have this rollercoaster of a hand, a whole range of emotions here, but obviously I go mental when the turn hits and then when the river hits but for two very different reasons: http://www.pokerhand.org/?1688951
With about 30 left I have this hand: http://www.pokerhand.org/?1688971 Needless to say I was pretty happy with the outcome, I felt I was ahead and me and this guy had been having a bit of a tussle, but don´t ask me how I hold and Moorman types on msn MBN (must be nice) LOL. After this there were a few notable hands but I was so busy concentrating on getting to the final table I didn´t have time to record them. One big one though was 4 handed on the final table, I have QQ and utg limps, he limped before when he was a short stack and I put him all in w QJ suited and he turns over AA and doubles through me. So I was a bit worried here but obviously wasn´t folding QQ four handed. This time we both have about 900k stacks (actually all 4 had about 900k stacks at this point) I make the call and he has AKo, my comp lags and I miss the whole hand but when it catches up I see that I have won the (huge) race and I´m sitting pretty in 1/3 with 1,800,000 chips and a 900k chip lead over the other two, Moorman types MBN in chat again, lol. We get HU and I have about a 500k chip lead, he limps with A8 (awful) and I check BB w 36o, flop comes 66x and I take a nice pot from him after he calls me to the river with A high. A few hands later he raises big and I reshove with TT and he folds and now I have a nice, slightly over 2-1 chip lead. I raise otb for several hands in a row and he folds, I can feel he´s getting frustrated and hope to get some action when I button raise w AJo, he shoves and I´m chanting "Please hold!" He turns over A4 clubs and the flop comes Jxx no clubs, turn comes 4 and I think I´ll be sick if he rivers another but it doesn´t come. Weeeeee, my biggest win on full Tilt so far, a nice $1241.05 and a healthy (for me) 80 plb points.
Here are a few of the dirty hands:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1641801
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1649995
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1657719
Some of them aren´t that bad really and some of the calls from the other guys are fair enough because in some I am so short. Most of the really bad ones were on VC but I can´t post the hands for those because of their hand history facility. But needless to say you know you´re running bad when you flop top set and get it in against middle pair and the guy hits runner runner straight on you.
What did cheer me up was when I saw I wasn´t the only one getting frustrated, this German guy takes a tough beat and types in chat "KOHLEundREIBACH: TITAN POKER LECK MEIN SCHWANZ" which put a smile on my face.
Another hand of note was when I was watching the 24k gt´d on tilt and saw this on the final table 4 handed http://www.pokerhand.org/?1658164 I guess he deserves it for min raising AA, but it´s still a sick river.
The second week of November has been much better, on the 7th I came 6/256 in the $7rb on VC for $212 and managed a 6th out of 405 in the $4.5k gt on FT reshoving ATs from the BB into the habitual button raiser on the final table, obv this time he has AK but I´m not unhappy as I was well ahead of his range and take $245 for 6th. A few of the earier hands of note in the tourney are: http://www.pokerhand.org/?1680067 Slightly worried about QJ here. Also, I have a pretty sick suckout deep, but after raising really have to make the call: http://www.pokerhand.org/?1680403
On the same night I manage 4/107 in the $3rb on VC for $75, 14/542 in 6k gt on FT for $63 and 2/152 in the $6rb on VC for $450. heads up we´re 3 hands in and have the same amount of chips each, roughly 300k, when I raise ATo on the button 3x to 30k (5/10k blinds), he makes the call and we see an A95 rainbow flop. I bet out 30k and he min raises to 60k, I shove for 240k more and he almost times out and makes the call with 89 of clubs (1 club on the flop) Obviously the turn and river both come clubs for me to lose to runner runner flush, bah! Still a good night with an overall profit of about $800.
I take the weekend off after that and come back on Sunday for an almost full schedule (missed some of the early rebuys on VC) A small cash on VC in the $5rb and a few bubbles and harsh exits later and I´m left in just one tourney, the $6k gt on full tilt but I´m pretty deep, so I´m hoping for a score. Around 50 left and I have this rollercoaster of a hand, a whole range of emotions here, but obviously I go mental when the turn hits and then when the river hits but for two very different reasons: http://www.pokerhand.org/?1688951
With about 30 left I have this hand: http://www.pokerhand.org/?1688971 Needless to say I was pretty happy with the outcome, I felt I was ahead and me and this guy had been having a bit of a tussle, but don´t ask me how I hold and Moorman types on msn MBN (must be nice) LOL. After this there were a few notable hands but I was so busy concentrating on getting to the final table I didn´t have time to record them. One big one though was 4 handed on the final table, I have QQ and utg limps, he limped before when he was a short stack and I put him all in w QJ suited and he turns over AA and doubles through me. So I was a bit worried here but obviously wasn´t folding QQ four handed. This time we both have about 900k stacks (actually all 4 had about 900k stacks at this point) I make the call and he has AKo, my comp lags and I miss the whole hand but when it catches up I see that I have won the (huge) race and I´m sitting pretty in 1/3 with 1,800,000 chips and a 900k chip lead over the other two, Moorman types MBN in chat again, lol. We get HU and I have about a 500k chip lead, he limps with A8 (awful) and I check BB w 36o, flop comes 66x and I take a nice pot from him after he calls me to the river with A high. A few hands later he raises big and I reshove with TT and he folds and now I have a nice, slightly over 2-1 chip lead. I raise otb for several hands in a row and he folds, I can feel he´s getting frustrated and hope to get some action when I button raise w AJo, he shoves and I´m chanting "Please hold!" He turns over A4 clubs and the flop comes Jxx no clubs, turn comes 4 and I think I´ll be sick if he rivers another but it doesn´t come. Weeeeee, my biggest win on full Tilt so far, a nice $1241.05 and a healthy (for me) 80 plb points.
Yesterday back to a full schedule and I manage 9/98 in $3rb on VC for a small cash. I go deep in the $6k gt again but button shove w KTo and get called by sb w QQ and go out 56/582 for $22, lol. Prob a bit of a donkey move but....
I get donked out of my other tourneys and I´m only left in the 1k gt on VC and when we get to the final table i´m 2/10 so looking pretty good. The final table was nuts, people going mental, so I just sat back and watched them knock each other out. We get 3 way and the funniest thing happens, 1 guy has 200k, me and the other guy have about 60k each, he limps BoB i shove A9o, he calls w KK and hits a K, im down to 8k bb is 6k. Next hand im all in w JTo, 2 other guys are all in on a K high 2 heart flop 1 has AK other flush draw, i river the straight, flush draw guy gets knocked out and I come 2nd, so me and the guy are left i have 16k he has 350k LOL and im in bb for 6k. What a tard, all he had to do was wait 2 hands and I would have been out, instead he loses and I pick up $255 for 2nd instead of $135 for 3rd :)
So all in all it´s been a pretty sick (good) week for me, $2.25k up :) Also I picked up a good deal of PLB points and I´m now getting close to a top 30 spot in Spain.
Ok, this has been a monstrously huge blog post, I´ll be back bloggin every day again now so they should be short and plentiful, until next time thanks and good luck.
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wkd entry lots of hands to look at which i like. Good week mate keep it up!!
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