Monday, September 25, 2006

Trying some new things.

So I joined pokerxfactor.com about a month ago and it hasn't exactly changed my game too much, but I had a chance to watch a video that sheets made. He has done very well online and I liked his video. So getting through 50% of the MTT field is no problem for me even when I get a bad beat I can usually build my stack back up. My issue is later in a tourney. I am trapped between two styles. The first style is what I used to get the big cashes that I have posted here. I basically play very tight, make smart reads, and wait for my spots. This style gets me into trouble by getting very shortstacked and if I can't get any decent hands then I get blinded down. I will go all the way down to 3XBB. The other style that is played by most good MTT players is to start pushing with mostly any two cards when you are less than say 15XBB. I have played like this recently and I see one advantage. You can build a nice stack and I got pretty high in chips on several tourneys. The problem is that you can get knocked out sooner and you need more luck since if you are called you are rarely more then 50:50 to win. So on one side you need to win some races and get some luck and the other style you need to get the luck in getting decen hole cards that you feel comfortable moving all in with. When I play the tight style it works great when you get decent cards since so many people are pushers. I love raising or calling them with AA or KK.

I think from now on I will mix it up a bit and play the pushing game if I am at the cash bubble and short stacked, but I will play my tight style when there are less than 20 people left.

I got pretty far in the $55K g. $11R on Stars and I was 3rd or 4th in chips with less than 60 people left. I busted at 30 something with AQ vs 99. The pushing style didn't work, but if I won that race I would have been near the chip leader again.

I got 12th in a $30 rebuy on Party.

So I figured out how to play the rebuys and I have done well in Limit tourneys so I need a nice win soon to get my cash reserves built up again. I still have $45K cashed out so I am doing well!

In two weeks my wife and son are going out of town so I plan on using my Party Monster $100K ticket and to play the Stars and Part million tourneys. That weekend will be an insane poker weekend. I plan on playing basically all day and night!

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

I Guess I Can't Retire!

So I played the $530 WCOOP NLHE on Poker Stars and I couldn't get much going. I eventually lost with AK and an Ace high flop. The other person riased and I went all in. They beat me with two pair AA99X. Pathetic play on my part, but I wanted to build chips since it is easy to get short stacked in these tourneys.

I also played the Party million. I lost with KK vs QQ - more crap luck for me!

Friday, September 15, 2006

A few things...

So I am playing the $530 NLHE WCOOP event this Sunday on Poker Stars. I am trying to sat into it, but if I don't I am playing no matter what. I will also play the Part Poker Million at the same time. I am lfunk11 on Poker Stars

I was really tired last night and I still played. I cashed in the $33 NLHE on Party for a small amount. I went out on the first hand of the Super Thursday with JJ. One caller to my raise. I had a feeling he had a bigger PP, but the flop was 994 and he called my bet. Then a 4 and I thought he might have AK and he went all in. We started with 5000 chips and we each had about 4000 left. It was a complete overbet and even though I thought he had a higher PP pre-flop the overbet seemed funny. Why go all in there? Anyways I called and he flipped QQ. I lost and I normally don't overplay JJ like that, but I hit the same situation the other night but I had KK with a similar two pair board and the guy went all in - I called and he flipped AK. Oh well I was tired and it was stupid.

I played the $10K rebuy on AP and there were about 110 people to start. With about 50 left I was 9th in chips with about 16000. I then went all the way down to 4500 getting blinded down and calling a small bet here and there with suited connectors in the SB or BB. I had nothing to work with and eventually pushed with KJ and AQ beat me with about 27 left. I noticed that I do not get great cards on AP and Stars - now I just might play so much on Party that I forget the MTTs that I am card dead.

Tonight should be better - I got 5 hours of sleep last night (good for me) so I will be trying to sat into the Party Million playing $11 turbo sng (I am 2 for 2 in these in the past) and the $12 double shootous on Stars for the WCOOP.

Thursday, September 14, 2006

Another Great Finish!

I messed up the heads up action mainly since it took 117 hands of heads up!!!!! I was so tired and he caught a few hands on me. After a point my hand hurt so bad and I just loss concentration. I am still mad about not getting first!

Oh well this was a limit tourney and I am doing very well in these recently.








Monday, September 11, 2006


Another Win!

Played a $30 rebuy on Party Poker. I was playing on massive Tilt through the rebuy period and I think I put in $210 total after the add-on. Not great play on my part!







I was doing well and then lost this hand with AA.

***** Hand History for Game 5132936841 ***** NL Texas Hold'em Trny:28482132 Level:10 Blinds-Antes(800/1600-50) - Saturday, September 09, 02:50:38 ET 2006 Table Rebuy(822558) Table #2 (Real Money)
Seat 9 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 3: player8701 ( 28940 )
Seat 4: Stumbly ( 122715 )
Seat 5: oceanexp ( 43586 )
Seat 8: ETandT ( 87940 )
Seat 9: ratmonster ( 49843 )
Seat 10: dapfunkera ( 55134 )
Seat 7: cane3418 ( 39850 )
Seat 1: CONDOG417 ( 80679 )
Seat 2: dr_nowhere ( 67318 )
Trny:28482132
Level:10 Blinds-Antes(800/1600-50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to dapfunkera [ Ac Ad ]
dr_nowhere folds.
player8701 folds.
Stumbly folds.
oceanexp folds.
cane3418 folds.
ETandT folds.
ratmonster raises [4800].
dapfunkera calls [4000].
CONDOG417 folds.
** Dealing Flop ** [ 2s, 4d, Tc ]
dapfunkera checks.
ratmonster checks.
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3s ]
dapfunkera bets [6500].
ratmonster raises [20000].
dapfunkera calls [13500].
** Dealing River ** [ 9h ]
dapfunkera bets [24993].
ratmonster is all-In [24993]
dapfunkera shows [ Ac, Ad ] a pair of aces.
ratmonster shows [ 4h, 3h ] two pairs, fours and threes.
ratmonster wins 101636 chips

I have been having trouble playing AA correctly. I raise - they fold, I slow play and they catch. So I was down to around 5000 chips and the blinds were at 800/1600. I play great short stacked and got AA on the next hand - I doubled up. I then got to the FT and I had about 220000 chips and the CL had 1250000. Everyone else was around me or lower. I played really tight and just picked my spots. A few people got knocked out and then I started making my move. I had QQ and AA against the CL and min-raised each time when he was the BB. He went all-in each time. I doubled up twice through him! He was very predictable. I went on to win my second MTT and the nice payout.

Thursday, September 07, 2006

So I am playing very well right now making some nice moves and great reads, but I have had trouble getting cards. I played the following last night

$150NL - Stars - I have never done well in this, I never get anything to play with and every time I raise - I get re-raised. Had QQ one time and tripled up with it getting lucky, but beyond that my best hand was 99.

$90K g - $30 R&A on Paradise Poker. This is becoming one of my favorite tourneys. I was about 50/150 in chips late, but made a move and lost 1/3 of my stack and then couldn't recover. Still a fun tourney with >$20K 1st prize. It only costs me $90 each time since I usually double up early through someone else's greed. I finished around ~120?

$13K g -- $30 R&A on AP. Another fav tourney right no of mine - I placed 25th with it costing me $120 (double add-on). There is slightly more than 100 people playing this so getting the money is realistic. My problem was dead cards - so over about 150 hands I had the following
AK - onceA10 - once99 & JJ- once

I never had AQ, AJ, AA, KK, QQ, 1010. I rarely had suited connectors and I folded 47 times in a row at one point. I has 8th in chips with about 75 people and dropped to 25th with 25 left when I went in with 44 - lost to 66. I still like this tourney and I will win this soon - the play isn't as good as I have seen on other sites.

$10 r&a - on AP. I finished 12th. It paid top 9 - I think there was about 80 - 100 people to start? I did well, but had some trouble with cards.

$150 Super Sed. LIMIT on Party. - I am not a good limit player, but I played my best in this tourney. I finished around 65 and in the money. I made a stand in the BB that was dumb to lose - it is too hard to bluff in limit and I just messed up, but beyond than I played well - I folded many times and played super tight.

$20 - 180 sng. Short stacked throughout. I think I finished 20th. One of the CL kept raising every time and I made a move with A9 figuring he was weak - he called with 77 and won the race. I made the right read - just didn't work though.

$20K g on Party - got knocked out early. Raised to 175 with the blinds at 20/40 and was called with 55. Flop was 445. I lost all but 160 of my chips thinking I had the best hand.

So I played a bunch of tourneys, but with my cash in the Super Wed I didn't lose too much and if a few hands went my way I would have hit a FT or two. All in all a good night

I played about 1hr of $2/$4 NL on two tables - won $300 - on AP.

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Cards Not Going My Way

So since my run of FTs I have not been doing very well. I had the chance to play in the Sunday million on Stars and Party Poker. I won my seat on Party through a $24 sat. so that worked out well. I came in 527/5084 and won $406. I made it about halfway in the Stars one. I played well in both and just didnt get too much to work with. I got knocked out of the Party when I raised to 9000 preflop with Aj looking to steal the blinds and got one caller. The flop came out Axx and I bet another 9000 - the caller raised my last 10000 chips and I called. He had AK - nothing I could do. The blinds were at 1500/3000.

I came in 18th in a $30 rebuy on Absolute Poker, 48/1170 in a $30 rebuy on Paradise Poker.

15/380 in a $40 MTT on Party for $152

Went out on this hand - I would have tripled up and most likely made the FT - ugh

Seat 4: dapfunkera ( $19094 )
Seat 7: helpme01 ( $89460 )
Seat 5: pokerpro341 ( $95104 )
Seat 10: cbz21044 ( $100072 )
Seat 9: pattydan ( $80623 )
Seat 6: atrophy7attr ( $96510 )
Seat 8: BrontoBeat ( $48237 )
Seat 1: MattGuff ( $77360 )
Trny:28221176
Level:14 Blinds-Antes(3000/6000-100)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to dapfunkera [ Ad Jh ]
helpme01 folds.
BrontoBeat folds.
pattydan folds.
cbz21044 folds.
MattGuff folds.
dapfunkera is all-In [18994]
pokerpro341 calls [15994].
atrophy7attr calls [12994].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 5s, As, Tc ]
pokerpro341 checks.
atrophy7attr checks.
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3s ]
pokerpro341 checks.
atrophy7attr checks.
** Dealing River ** [ 2h ]
pokerpro341 checks.
atrophy7attr checks.
pokerpro341 shows [ 2d, 2s ] three of a kind, twos.
atrophy7attr doesn't show [ 7c, Kc ] high card ace.
dapfunkera doesn't show [ Ad, Jh ] a pair of aces.
pokerpro341 wins 57782 chips from the main pot with three of a kind, twos.
Player dapfunkera finished in 15 place and received $152

191/2652 in the $20K on Party for $31

This is how I went out - he was 0.1% to win after the flop!

Seat 1: INICII ( $9604 )
Seat 2: non_entity ( $105046 )
Seat 3: jlumper ( $53310 )
Seat 4: CashewLaLa ( $74075 )
Seat 5: woropay ( $33068 )
Seat 6: Cicci888 ( $94267 )
Seat 7: NsideStrait ( $30140 )
Seat 8: voltren ( $30755 )
Seat 9: dapfunkera ( $22391 )
Seat 10: Brian2774 ( $27535 )
Trny:28260394
Level:12 Blinds-Antes(1500/3000-75)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to dapfunkera [ Ac Ah ]
CashewLaLa folds.
woropay folds.
Cicci888 calls [3000].
NsideStrait calls [3000].
voltren folds.
dapfunkera raises [9200].
Brian2774 folds.
INICII folds. non_entity folds.
jlumper folds.
Cicci888 raises [82437].
NsideStrait is all-In [27065]
dapfunkera is all-In [13116]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4h, 3s, As ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Js ]
** Dealing River ** [ Jc ]
Cicci888 shows [ 9h, 9s ]
two pairs, jacks and nines.
NsideStrait shows [ Jd, Jh ] four of a kind, jacks.
dapfunkera shows [ Ac, Ah ] a full house, Aces full of jacks.
Cicci888 wins 55372 chips from side pot #2 with two pairs, jacks and nines.
NsideStrait wins 15498 chips from side pot #1 with four of a kind, jacks.
NsideStrait wins 72198 chips from the main pot with four of a kind, jacks.
Player dapfunkera finished in 192 place and received $31.81

Some more bad beats - these are both pathetic plays - they had low pair and gutshot draw

Seat 2: TLT45 ( 4195 )
Seat 4: dapfunkera ( 8465 )
Seat 5: AABowDownAA ( 8923 )
Seat 6: Prettyboy33 ( 21460 )
Seat 7: heatmaker31 ( 32333 )
Seat 8: davidole ( 8603 )
Seat 10: limoguys ( 7838 )
Seat 9: kjpokster ( 13638 )
Seat 1: karbiz ( 5468 )
Seat 3: RJSilver ( 1330 )
Level:5 Blinds(150/300)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to dapfunkera [ Ad Kc ]
limoguys folds. karbiz folds.
TLT45 folds. RJSilver folds.
dapfunkera raises [1000].
AABowDownAA folds.
Prettyboy33 folds.
heatmaker31 calls [1000].
davidole calls [850].
kjpokster calls [700].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9d, Kd, Ts ]
davidole checks.
kjpokster checks.
dapfunkera bets [3000].
heatmaker31 folds.
davidole is all-In [7603]
kjpokster folds.
dapfunkera is all-In [4465]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6d ]
** Dealing River ** [ Js ]
dapfunkera shows [ Ad, Kc ] a pair of kings.
davidole shows [ 9s, Qc ] a straight, nine to king.
davidole wins 138 chips from side pot #1 with a straight, nine to king.
davidole wins 18930 chips from the main pot with a straight, nine to king.
Player dapfunkera finished in 138 place

9 Seat 1: barelyweems ( $4100 )
Seat 2: orsteve ( $6817 )
Seat 3: dapfunkera ( $4493 )
Seat 4: goldenjade19 ( $16732 )
Seat 5: athlete2258 ( $4031 )
Seat 6: SevenJ5 ( $6502 )
Seat 7: sjhamm ( $1930 )
Seat 9: see3poh ( $5938 )
Seat 10: ctuck70 ( $8778 )
Trny:28175042
Level:4 Blinds(100/200)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to dapfunkera [ As Qh ]
sjhamm folds.
see3poh folds.
ctuck70 folds.
barelyweems folds.
orsteve calls [200].
dapfunkera raises [625].
goldenjade19 folds.
athlete2258 folds.
SevenJ5 folds.
orsteve calls [425].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6s, Qs, 9h ]
orsteve is all-In [6192]
dapfunkera is all-In [3868]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Jc ]
** Dealing River ** [ Kh ]
orsteve shows [ 9s, Th ] a straight, nine to king.
dapfunkera shows [ As, Qh ] a pair of queens.
orsteve wins 2324 chips from side pot #1 with a straight, nine to king.
orsteve wins 9286 chips from the main pot with a straight, nine to king.
Player dapfunkera finished in 199 place

So I have had some cashes, but I am down a bit. I hope to score something the rest of the week. I can't keep being this unlucky.

Friday, September 01, 2006

My 15 seconds

Party Poker contacted me about writing up a small bio to appear on their "recent winners" website and to include a picture. They said I would be an "inspiration to others". LOL

Nothing is up there yet, but it will be pretty cool if they do put it up there!

another 2nd Place

I have been busy so these are a few days old.

$20NLHE on Poker Stars. 180 people sng

5 FT in August - $44,626.05 in winnings in those final tables!

A first place win!

I got lucky on one hand 10 10 vs QQ, but after that I dominated the FT and cleared it in about 30 minutes. Everyone wanted a deal and the wanted to see the deal making window. They saw it for about 2 minutes and then I closed it. I was way better than them and steamrolled them for first place!