update

i know i haven't blogged in some time. just haven't felt like it. it honestly is much easier to do when i am home most of the time. which hasn't been the case for the most part. i have played a bunch of local trnys and cash games. with mixed success. when i have played trnys i am reaching the final tables. granted they are only 2,3,4 tables. i was most excited to play the deep stack trny we had last saturday. i never caught a hand better than JJ which i folded on a flop of TTx after i was check raised early on. yes i was bluffed SHE had 99. w/e. i pretty much just stole chips thru squeeze plays & blind steals. would have been nice to make some sort of hand. so i went out in 10th place out of like 35 players i belive. only paid the top 4 i think.

i have played some cash games. i started to belive that my cold streak had come to and end but it isn't so. i am getting pretty dam upset about constantly making these good folds. example... i played wed night in WEBSTER i limp the SB. it is a 7 way pot. i have 6/8 flop is 884 i check raise the flop. get 1 caller. Ace on the turn. so i pot the turn. he calls. river brings a 2. i bet 1/2 pot. guy moves in for about $140. i get i sick feeling i am out kicked or that he hit a set on the river. which is insane. he must have a boat. of course. 22. i fold. disgusting and he shows me. he thought i was bluffing he says. ??? the folds i made were probly the best i have ever made for such a short span of time. and they were all good folds. they love to show hands at that game.

i feel as though my NL cash game is the best it has ever been. i am classifing players and reading hands as well as i ever have. i do need to be calling these river bluffs that have been made vs me though. i just don't get why they cal,call,call. then go for the big bluff. i would never do that. i just need to think those hands thru more and see that they can almost never have the hand they are trying to represent.

life wise. work is fine. the lil girl is in MD for another few weeks. miss her alot. marriage wise things are problematic at best. i won't go into it.

i am looking forward to football season. 2 weeks away!!!! can't wait for summer to end. the new MADDEN game comes out in a few weeks also. i got the new NCAA10. ehhh. just about seems the same with a tweak here and there.

WOLVERINE

what a major disappointment. but expected. of the comic book movies released over the past 10 years this might be the worst yet. how do you screw up one of the most intriguing characters around? well i guess you make this schlock.

the problems:

1) PG-13 i understand you need a commercially viable movie. but look how they made DARK KNIGHT. the movie is too glossy. where was the blood? severed limbs? the one time i did see blood they flash back and IT wasn't even real.
2) script. all ya need to do is adapt his origin to the big screen. but they went and hollywoodized it instead. really i mean how difficult would this have been. they started off fine. SHOW how he got his training.
3) nationality. he's American?? since when? c'mon.
4) special effects. might be some of the worst looking i have seen in a major summer release type movie in years.
5) level boss ending. for christ sake!! ridiculous.

i might not know all about WOLVERINE but i do know that after waiting 23 years for a movie about him. this was awful.

poker?

poker what is that? i haven't really played in close to a month. i had to cash out my STARS account for some personal expenses. honestly though, i doubt i would even have played. guess that would be part of playing positive EV hours. i do have a plan for when i get the urge to play again. i have FPP's on stars i plan to use then to play satellites and use those to build up from ZERO. i just need the motivation to do this.

so what have i been doing? well following baseball. playing the new MLB'09 game. which is the NUTS btw. getting back into fantasy baseball. catching up on t.v. shows i had DVR'd. spending time with my daughter. and just been plain old tired after working.

i am really getting pretty psyched about baseball this season. now that the home run outburst is gone. adios steroid!! pitching and fielding matters again. i miss the days of baseball during the 80's. and i think they are back.

global warming!!

OTTAWA (AFP) – A group of stranded British explorers fighting to survive at the North Pole received vital supplies of food, fuel and equipment Wednesday after a mission hampered by bad weather finally reached them, organizers of the aid effort said.

An airplane laden with supplies flew from the remote Inuit hamlet of Resolute on Cornwallis Island in northern Canada and reached the team at 2115 GMT.

The group -- Pen Hadow, Martin Hartley and Ann Daniels -- set off on an 85-day hike to the North Pole on February 28 to measure the thickness of sea ice, but bad weather has hampered supply flights.

They were down to half-rations and battling desperate sub-zero weather conditions, waiting for a break in the weather for a plane to reach them.

Hadow, speaking after the pilot made a safe landing, recounted how it has been a "pretty grim time waiting for the weather to lift."

The North Pole, he said, is "no place to just hang around" when temperatures drop below minus 40 degrees Celsius -- equivalent to minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.

"The team could not afford to move without our essential kit, food, fuel and batteries for our survey and communications gear," he said.

"All of us are just wanting to get going quickly and have a high calorie meal to fuel ourselves up."

The resupply flight was to return with scientific data collected by the team as part of an effort to capture data on floating ice in the Arctic Ocean.

The team aims to gather data to complement satellite and submarine observations to measure the sea ice and plot how fast it is disappearing during their 850-kilometer (530-mile) trek.

Global warming is believed to be the main culprit in the rapidly melting north polar ice cap that is freeing up new sea routes and untapped mineral resources on the ocean bottom.

"It's a relief to have finally get the plane down. The longer we were forced to delay by the weather the worse we knew it would get for the team," Simon Harris-Ward said Wednesday in a statement from the London headquarters of the Catlin Arctic Survey.

The expedition now expects to arrive at the North Pole in late May.

Three earlier flight to drop food supplies to the team had to turn back because of bad weather.

In an earlier statement, Hadow described the team's desperate plight.

"We're hungry, the cold is relentless, our sleeping bags are full of ice and because we're not moving, the colder we get," he said.

REALLY??

street kings review / MLB 09'

very under rated movie. decent amount of star power. James Ellroy wrote it. good story. i liked Keanu Reeves character. seemed to be more complex & conflicted than i thought it would be. i didn't have high expectations for this movie. i think that's why i liked it. i always enjoy movies more when i hear nothing about them and expect very little.

i bought the new MLB 09' last week. last years version was very good. this years is even better. it is almost a simulation game. that's how good it is.

graphics 10
sound 10
gameplay 10
replay value 10

tons of things you can do in the game. i am looking forward tototally geek out and download the song "WILD THING" put it in the game for when my closer comes to the mound. the amount of things you can customize is cool. franchise mode is unreal they have the rule 5 draft in it!! if ya like video games and baseball get this game. this is a consloe seller type of game.

frustration & elation

well i played the league tonight. nothing to really speak of. went out 1st. had 2 decent hands and lost. oh well. so i decided to play some PLO SNG tonight. i kept getting disconnected. yes. right on the bubble. so i decided i wasn't gonna deal with the disconnect. i was gonna play some 6-max cash. so i loaded up hold em manager. screeech. except it won't load up. i go to the H.M. site. seems the newest VISTA update has fucked up H.M. i saw they figure it out but i don't know how to do that stuff. so i need the wife to fix it or have them TEAMVIEWER it up for me.

i did play PLO 6 max real quick earlier today though. and this happened.



Dear themerk08,

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well maybe i will go play something other than 6-max.

past week and other ramblings...

it has been a very unpoker like week. guess that is due to vacation. haven't played online since tuesday night donkfest league. took 2nd in that. my buddy from MD came up and stayed with me since tuesday night. we played the new MLB '09. WOW! talk about realistic. we pretty much played that for like 4 days straight. that and the occassional game of MADDEN. and drank lots o' BUUUUUUUR, and girly drinks for him.

we did happen to find time to make it out to play a live 3/6 H.O.R.S.E. game and 3/6H.O. that was cool since i haven't played a "live cash" game since ooooo. October!! probly the longest strech since i started playing poker. i was on fire in the HORSE up over $200 playing 6 handed. then that table broke and we played H.O. 10 handed. lost a good chunk i was as flop dead as you could get. still left up $65. and had a blast playing poker with my old poker spouse. (Greg) :)

i still have off till the 17th. i plan on finally watching all those episodes of 24 from this season that i havent seen yet still. going to see THE WATCHMEN Friday with my jeff and josh. that should be totally comic book geekiness/drunkeness.

i would like to grind online at some point this week. i am sooo close to clearing that $150 STARS bonus. i would like to try and keep my silver star status. doubt it will happen though. don't feel like it all right now. and i said one of my goals was to play +EV hours. which means playing when my head is really into it.

looking forward to going totall MLB '09 geek. i reallized how out of touch i am with MLB nowadays. i used to be a total baseball nerd. then i got married and had our daughter and it became all football. baseball just sort of fadded out of my life. but with this game and a fantasy baseball draft waiting in the wings i really would like to back into it. whats funny is during the "steriod"era i lost intrest. i loved the 2b that would hit .250 hit 10HR and field like a god on turf. i loved the closer that would get K's like they were going out of style. my favs back in my day were Mitch Williams, Rob Dibble and the nasty boys Calvin Schiraldi. i loved my red sox form the late 80's. baseball was just so pure and awesome back then.

i remember playing purse the pennant with Ruben. we would spend hours playing that game. talk about 2 baseball nerds. while other high schoolers were going out meeting chicks, drinking & doing what "normal" kids would do we would play that game at his kitchen table ALL WEEKEND LONG. wouldn't trade those days away for anything.

wow is this getting long. lol

lastly i joined facebook this past week. so my 3 readers now have company as i probly picked up a 4th reader. and for all of you that haven't heard or seen me since high school,military,maryland or whatever else.

hey.

yup i am a poker geek.

grinding 10nl

well i got in the mood to play 6-max 10nl today/tonight. did very well. i went back to playing my style as opposed to the style i have seen in the vids. i do incorporate elements of the styles i have seen. i also don't rely on the HUD as much. i try not to just "get it all in" and did well. i played almost 1000 hands. only 4 tabled. like i said before i know playing more than 4 and i go to shit.

i only got it in bad i time and i drew out(fruuush). i guess it is better to try to play all the streets and go with my gut. i do feel like i got pushed off a few hands but they weren't very strong i was just up against a few maniacs. and i didn't realize it till after i checked my HUD. thats fine though. i put their names in my search so i will look for them next time. i am getting quit the list of names so that will help.

i watched the 1st episode of high stakes poker tonight also. love that show. great mix of players in the game. only wish they would muck BENZA & KAPLAN. so anoying. possibly worse than Norman Chad.

well heres my graph for tonight. wOOOOT!

retract that

just looked at my stars account today. lol i am still a silver star! they must have applied the new standards to this past month. cool. i didn't play at all yesterday. but i plan on playing some tonight later. that's it.

good bye silver star

well this being the shortest month of the year and all i missed keeping my silver star by less than 200fpp's. :( oh well. the good news is that stars lowered the level for it now you only need 1200fpp's as opposed to the 1500. cool. i haven't played alot this past week. mostly SNG's. started off good then went down hill back to even. tonight(Saturday) i played the DON(double or nothings) played. 14 $10.40 started off great! 6/7 then went 9/14 total. then i played 3 $20.80 1/3 got KK cracked on the river real late by A/J/os. i actually like playing them mindless till the very end. i watched a few deuces cracked videos about ICM this week. so i started thinking about that much more and when i should be folding and pushing. it amazes me how many players still limp with less than 10BB. knowing what i know now makes me see thing much differently. i really enjoy the bubble play on these and the reg SNG's.

i am probly gonna download the free trail version of SNG WIZARD Sunday afternoon. and i think i might try playing a few trnys and satellites.

i fully realize that i can't stay playing the same game constantly. especially when i start to lose. i know this is hurting me in learning the games better but if i am going to be hating it i just can;t see trying to keep grinding away. i was very excited to try playing tonight.

oh yeah, i am on vacation for the next 16 days. so all i plan to do is grind online, watch 24, play some video games (new MLB '09), go see the WATCHMEN movie, and go play a couple of live cash games. one of buddies from MD is coming up this week so that will be cool to have someone to shoot the shit with about poker and such.

cash on sundays

i am officially done trying to play cash games on Sundays. i either don't adjust well to the players or i am just str8 up unlucky. i decided to cut down the amount of tables i play back to 2-4. i was trying to multi table 12 full ring tables i just can't do it. i do much better focusing on a few tables. i also decided to search for players that i have been winning against or that just plain old play badly.

this is what i mean.

***** Hand History for Game 25233722467 *****
$25.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, February 22, 02:22:29 ET 2009
Table Retsina II (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Seat 1: fpso ( $25.00 USD )
Seat 2: BA32106 ( $28.95 USD )
Seat 3: d.sastar ( $33.95 USD )
Seat 4: Whitecaps2 ( $17.25 USD )
Seat 5: themerk08 ( $24.70 USD )
Seat 6: Belhalhar ( $25.60 USD )
Whitecaps2 posts small blind [$0.10 USD].
themerk08 posts big blind [$0.25 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to themerk08 [ Jd Jc ]
Belhalhar folds
fpso raises [$1.00 USD]
BA32106 folds
d.sastar folds
Whitecaps2 folds
themerk08 raises [$2.25 USD]
fpso calls [$1.50 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Js, 8h, Td ]
themerk08 bets [$3.25 USD]
fpso raises [$8.25 USD]
themerk08 raises [$18.95 USD]
fpso calls [$13.95 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 9c ]
** Dealing River ** [ 3c ]
themerk08 shows [Jd, Jc ]
fpso shows [Ad, Qs ]
fpso wins $47.05 USD from main pot

and this.

***** Hand History for Game 25236304303 *****
$25.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, February 22, 03:22:45 ET 2009
Table Alstede (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Seat 1: StnBuddha ( $25.35 USD )
Seat 2: themerk08 ( $37.90 USD )
Seat 3: xXBambi82Xx ( $15.00 USD )
Seat 4: El Patron49 ( $25.55 USD )
Seat 5: iceman74713 ( $20.95 USD )
Seat 6: Mareccc ( $35.45 USD )
iceman74713 posts small blind [$0.10 USD].
Mareccc posts big blind [$0.25 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to themerk08 [ Qc Ac ]
StnBuddha folds
themerk08 raises [$1.00 USD]
xXBambi82Xx folds
El Patron49 folds
iceman74713 calls [$0.90 USD]
Mareccc calls [$0.75 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Jd, 5d, Qs ]
iceman74713 checks
Mareccc bets [$2.00 USD]
themerk08 raises [$5.75 USD]
iceman74713 folds
Mareccc calls [$3.75 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 7c ]
Mareccc checks
themerk08 bets [$12.50 USD]
Mareccc calls [$12.50 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ Ks ]
Mareccc checks
themerk08 checks
Mareccc shows [9d, Kd ]
Mareccc wins $37.60 USD from main pot
themerk08 doesn't show [Qc, Ac ]

and i ran bad. (coolers) ran AK/s and AQ/s into AA 2x flopping the case ACE each time.

i don't want sundays to affect me mentally and then stsrt playing badly due to it so i will maybe play trnys or SNG's on sunday's. i did do well last night. but lost almost 4 buy-ins today.

got another vacation coming up the first 2 weeks of march. i don't however think i am going to make silver star this month. i just haven't been able to put in the hours and with it being a shorter month that hurts. almost have my bonus unlocked so that is good.

deep stack

well i played the deep stack trny today on stars. i actually went to bed early so i could get my lazy ass out of bed to play this. i have played this 3 times before. but, it has been like 2 years since i have played it. i believe i final tabled 2 of those 3 times. i feel as thought this was my best outing and perhaps the best trny i have ever played. it is a delicate balance of aggression and Patience. i did draw out a few times. but in my defense i was betting and they were calling. i had 2 critical hands late. one of them would have propelled me to 145k in chips when only 1 player had 100k all in on flop my KK v AQ no AQ on flop or draw. i trapped him perfectly. until he wriggled away on the rivered ACE. UGH!!!!! well this is how it turned out for me.

PokerStars Tournament #14048777 1, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $20.00/$2.00
243 players
Total Prize Pool: $4860.00
Tournament started 2009/02/16 8:15:00 ET


Dear themerk08,

You finished the tournament in 12th place. A $85.05 award has been credited to your Real Money account.


very disappointing. i fully expected to win this.




well i played a little cash game action. i watched a D.C. video today that got me to be more aggro. it felt odd.like i was playing on the verge of insanity. this ****** though played 95/20 !! and i have not encountered a player quite like him. i searched him on more tables but he is on block search. :( gonna look for him though from now on.


PokerStars Game #25030667751: Hold'em No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2009/02/16 22:25:32 ET
Table 'Stavropolis' 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Raph222 ($42.75 in chips)
Seat 2: PIERTAM ($58 in chips)
Seat 3: krupnugz ($24.65 in chips)
Seat 4: shindoe ($37.50 in chips)
Seat 5: themerk08 ($44.25 in chips)
PIERTAM: posts small blind $0.10
krupnugz: posts big blind $0.25
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to themerk08 [Qc Ac]
shindoe: folds
themerk08: raises $0.50 to $0.75
Raph222: folds
PIERTAM: calls $0.65
krupnugz: folds
*** FLOP *** [5s Qs 6h]
PIERTAM: bets $0.25
themerk08: raises $1.75 to $2
PIERTAM: calls $1.75
*** TURN *** [5s Qs 6h] [8s]
PIERTAM: bets $7
elTriberium is connected
themerk08: raises $10 to $17
PIERTAM: calls $10
*** RIVER *** [5s Qs 6h 8s] [Qd]
PIERTAM: bets $38.25 and is all-in
themerk08: calls $24.50 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($13.75) returned to PIERTAM
*** SHOW DOWN ***
PIERTAM: shows [2c 4s] (a pair of Queens)
themerk08: shows [Qc Ac] (three of a kind, Queens)
themerk08 collected $86.75 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $88.75 | Rake $2
Board [5s Qs 6h 8s Qd]
Seat 1: Raph222 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: PIERTAM (small blind) showed [2c 4s] and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 3: krupnugz (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: shindoe folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: themerk08 showed [Qc Ac] and won ($86.75) with three of a kind, Queens

motivation

i need motivation. i just have been tired from work or when i start to play i just don't "feel it" i have played about 5k hands this past week. but probly 1/2 have been +EV hours. my bankroll is still sitting around the $750 mark.

i have tried to play some other games to get me wanting to play. but, i still just don't feel it. i have been doing this for about 2 months straight. so far if it wasn't for my trny wins. trading in my FPP's and winning trny tickets and winning 2x or nothings. i would be down more. not sure what i should do.

i have been watching D.C. videos, looking at my sessions afterwards. i have been playing full ring tables this past week. i think maybe if i play tighter i will win. looking at my graph i DO grind up some wins then i get it all in and lose. when i hit sets i don't get paid off. when others hit sets i have big hands(AA,KK,QQ) and can't get away.

the office cpr

i found it. no idea how long it will stay active for. funniest scene ever.



www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecbjo2J5auM

up and down

i played Sunday. did awful in the 210FPP satellites. i actually went o fer 6. very disappointing. played 25nl. more of me getting beat. i did play the full ring though.

decided to just play sng's. and quickly changed my mind. i just can't see sitting and having an upside roi of 10% or less for the time i play. so i played full ring 10nl. 10 tables at a time. i was up 3 buy ins in 1k hands then started taking some sick beats. the big drop on the graph is just an insane hand. when i lost the player started to berate me. i wish i kept the whole HH. you can see the start of it though. he lost all the $$$ about 20 hands later playing just as badly.

and check out the thin all-in EV line. or as it should be called the BAD BEAT LINE. lol



PokerStars Game #24778660238: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2009/02/10 0:49:43 ET
Table 'Memnon V' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: mikekelley13 ($18.25 in chips)
Seat 3: alacranco ($6 in chips)
Seat 5: guate71 ($19.80 in chips)
Seat 7: yeeaah135 ($21.90 in chips)
Seat 8: themerk08 ($21.70 in chips)
Seat 9: PoBoy321 ($8.35 in chips)
themerk08: posts small blind $0.05
PoBoy321: posts big blind $0.10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to themerk08 [As Ah]
mikekelley13: folds
alacranco: folds
guate71: calls $0.10
yeeaah135: calls $0.10
themerk08: raises $0.50 to $0.60
PoBoy321: calls $0.50
guate71: calls $0.50
yeeaah135: folds
*** FLOP *** [Tc 3d 4d]
themerk08: bets $1.40
PoBoy321: raises $2.10 to $3.50
guate71: folds
themerk08: raises $17.60 to $21.10 and is all-in
PoBoy321: calls $4.25 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($13.35) returned to themerk08
*** TURN *** [Tc 3d 4d] [7h]
*** RIVER *** [Tc 3d 4d 7h] [5s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
themerk08: shows [As Ah] (a pair of Aces)
PoBoy321: shows [6h Th] (a straight, Three to Seven)
Travis63703 joins the table at seat #4
PoBoy321 said,

"eat a ****"

PoBoy321 collected $16.55 from pot
PoBoy321 is sitting out
sarah45 joins the table at seat #6
PoBoy321 has returned
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $17.40 | Rake $0.85
Board [Tc 3d 4d 7h 5s]
Seat 1: mikekelley13 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: alacranco folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: guate71 folded on the Flop
Seat 7: yeeaah135 (button) folded before Flop
Seat 8: themerk08 (small blind) showed [As Ah] and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 9: PoBoy321 (big blind) showed [6h Th] and won ($16.55) with a straight, Three to Seven

quick update

Been busting my ass at work the past week haven't had the time or ENERGY to even play. but tonight i finally tried playing the 2x or nothing trnys with my trny tickets that i earned with my FPP's. the results you ask well.....


PokerStars Tournament #139309335, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $5.00/$0.40
10 players
Total Prize Pool: $50.00
Tournament started 2009/02/08 1:12:06 ET


Dear themerk08,

You finished the tournament in 1st place. A $10.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.


Congratulations!

Thank you for participating.

i played 8 of them and cashed in 6 of them!!!! so that is $60!! nice considering i was gonna use 5000 fpp's for $50 instead i have used like 2000. i also used a few trny tickets for my league and some other trnys. for $0. :(

i have a hand hist. i want to post of the awfull play in these maybe i will post it later. it's laughable really. no. it's not a bad beat on me. just theplay of these players with 6 left and 1 player sitting out has like 200 left and sitting out and players are going crazy playing vs each other!! lol

2x or nothing

well today i thought of a brilliant idea of a better way to cash in on my FPP's that i won trny$$ with. play the 2x or nothings!! less variance than a trny. less variance than a SNG. and i pay zippy to enter so it is all profit. i would need to do the math. but it might actually be more profitable than doing rake back on full tilt poker. but i hate math.

so i use 210FPP'S on the 20k satellites. which equals=$11 when i win and i am cashing on those so far at a pretty decent clip. use that to enter a 2x or nothing. so i could actually get $20 for 210fpp's. instead of $50 for 50000fpp's. i will give this a go wed. night.

went back to work today. that sucked. but.... i am off of work for 16 days starting March 1. yeah that's right 2 more weeks off. i carried over a week and a half of vacation time from last year. so i am taking 6 weeks+ off this year. niiiiice. :)

oh, the razzzz league trny. blah. went out in 9th place i believe. such a stupid/sick game. oh well. that's fine for the points. i was free rolling in it anyhow. FPP's baby. wOOOOOt.

last night i played the 4-handed PLO trny. 88 players. top 12 cash. went out in 16th. i am going deep in it almost everytime. ever since that 1st time though. i get shit for hands to play. you can check out my trny progress at this link.

http://www.officialpokerrankings.com/pokerstars/themerk08/poker/results/E952358EFC14478DAB96CBC9F727E95A.html?t=2

i have JUST missed cashing in it 4 other times. it's not that i get low on chips i just get decent hands and by that point 1 of the top 4 in chips is usually at my table and they bust me. anyhow like i have said it is a very soft field. i will keep plugging away at it.

i am trying to take a little time off from cash games. that 8 buy in down swing yesterday really got me bitter. lol $74 and i am bitter. that's how serious i am about being a winning player online.

razzzzzz!

tonight is league night tonight. and the format is razz. you can join our league if ya want. just click on the link to the blog MD Donk Fest Poker League over on the left.

hi variance!!

this is how it looks after i played a brutal 10nl session.
hands-577
-$42.70

i really just feel like i would be making a mistake to fold over pairs vs these players. but i am starting to see if the player has stats like...

vpip- (10-18)
pre.flp raise-(5-18)

they are usually so tight that they have at least 2pr or better.


i played this one well. still it sukssss!

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Seat 2: Villain 2 ($12.10)
Seat 3: Villain 3 ($2.60)
Seat 4: Villain 4 ($27.30) -
Seat 5: Hero ($22.35) -
Seat 6: Villain 5 ($19.55) -


PRE-FLOP:

Hero posts small blind $0.05
Villain 5 posts BIG blind $0.10
Dealt To: Hero


FOLD Villain 1
FOLD Villain 2
CALL Villain 3 ($0.10)
CALL Villain 4 ($0.10)
RAISE Hero ($0.60)
FOLD Villain 5
CALL Villain 3 ($0.50)
CALL Villain 4 ($0.50)


FLOP:

Pot: $1.95
   

BET Hero ($1.50)
RAISE Villain 3 ($2)
RAISE Villain 4 ($4)
FOLD Hero


TURN:

Pot: $9.45
     



RIVER:

Pot: $9.45
      



SHOWDOWN:
Villain 3:

Villain 4:


Villain 4 collected $7.05 from main pot

SUMMARY:
Total pot: $7 Rake: $0.35

Final Board:
     

Seat 1: Villain 1 folded before Flop didnt bet - Net Gain/Loss: ($0)
Seat 2: Villain 2 folded before Flop didnt bet - Net Gain/Loss: ($0)
Seat 3: Villain 3 showed [9c Kd] and lost with three of a kind, Kings - Net Gain/Loss: ($-2)
  
Seat 4: Villain 4 button showed [Js Kc] and won 7.05 with three of a kind, Kings - Net Gain/Loss: ($5.05)
  
Seat 5: Hero small blind folded on the Flop - Net Gain/Loss: ($-2.05)
Seat 6: Villain 5 big blind folded before Flop - Net Gain/Loss: ($-0.1)


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i wasn't playing crazy enough for him to think he was gOOt enough to get it in but he did anyhow.

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Seat 1: Villain 1 ($9.35)
Seat 2: Villain 2 ($12.10)
Seat 3: Villain 3 ($14.10) -
Seat 4: Villain 4 ($27.80) -
Seat 5: Hero ($11.50) -
Seat 6: Villain 5 ($19.55)


PRE-FLOP:

Villain 4 posts small blind $0.05
Hero posts BIG blind $0.10
Dealt To: Hero


FOLD Villain 5
FOLD Villain 1
FOLD Villain 2
CALL Villain 3 ($0.10)
CALL Villain 4 ($0.05)
RAISE Hero ($0.50)
CALL Villain 3 ($0.40)
CALL Villain 4 ($0.40)


FLOP:

Pot: $1.6
   

CHECK Villain 4
BET Hero ($1.30)
RAISE Villain 3 ($2.60)
FOLD Villain 4
RAISE Hero ($6.20)
RAISE Villain 3 ($9.80)
RAISE Hero ($11)
CALL Villain 3 ($1.20)


TURN:

Pot: $33.7
     



RIVER:

Pot: $33.7
      



SHOWDOWN:
Hero:

MUCK Villain 3

Hero collected $22.35 from main pot

SUMMARY:
Total pot: $23 Rake: $1.15

Final Board:
     

Seat 1: Villain 1 folded before Flop didnt bet - Net Gain/Loss: ($0)
Seat 2: Villain 2 folded before Flop didnt bet - Net Gain/Loss: ($0)
Seat 3: Villain 3 button mucked [Ah 9s] - Net Gain/Loss: ($-9.8)
  
Seat 4: Villain 4 small blind folded on the Flop - Net Gain/Loss: ($-0.05)
Seat 5: Hero big blind showed [Jh Jc] and won 22.35 with two pair, Jacks and Deuces - Net Gain/Loss: ($14.45)
Seat 6: Villain 5 folded before Flop didnt bet - Net Gain/Loss: ($0)


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one of my bad beats. i try not to post them. but as this was running out i was saying to myself i lost. :(

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Seat 1: Villain 1 ($9.45)
Seat 2: Villain 2 ($11.80) -
Seat 3: Villain 3 ($9.75) -
Seat 4: Villain 4 ($32.40) -
Seat 5: Hero ($20)
Seat 6: Villain 5 ($19.50)


PRE-FLOP:

Villain 3 posts small blind $0.05
Villain 4 posts BIG blind $0.10
Dealt To: Hero


RAISE Hero ($0.40)
FOLD Villain 5
CALL Villain 1 ($0.40)
RAISE Villain 2 ($1.60)
FOLD Villain 3
CALL Villain 4 ($1.50)
RAISE Hero ($6)
FOLD Villain 1
RAISE Villain 2 ($11.80)
FOLD Villain 4
CALL Hero ($5.80)


FLOP:

Pot: $27.65
   



TURN:

Pot: $27.65
     



RIVER:

Pot: $27.65
      



SHOWDOWN:
Hero:

Villain 2:


Villain 2 collected $24.4 from main pot

SUMMARY:
Total pot: $25 Rake: $1.25

Final Board:
     

Seat 1: Villain 1 folded before Flop - Net Gain/Loss: ($0)
Seat 2: Villain 2 button showed [Kd Kc] and won 24.40 with a full house, Kings full of Threes - Net Gain/Loss: ($17)
  
Seat 3: Villain 3 small blind folded before Flop - Net Gain/Loss: ($-0.05)
Seat 4: Villain 4 big blind folded before Flop - Net Gain/Loss: ($-0.1)
Seat 5: Hero showed [Ad Ah] and lost with two pair, Aces and Threes - Net Gain/Loss: ($-6)
Seat 6: Villain 5 folded before Flop didnt bet - Net Gain/Loss: ($0)


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at least i hope i am not posting many bad beats. i am going to try and get in 1 more session before i have to go back to work. if i do i will update it here.