Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Six Kentucky Congressmen Support Pushing UIGEA Deadline Back One Year
The Poker Players Alliance's petition to delay the fast-approaching compliance date for the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act received a boost Monday when all six Kentucky congressmen submitted a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to support pushing the Dec. 1 deadline back a year. (full story)
Monday, November 23, 2009
Patrik Antonius and Isildur1 Play Largest-Ever Online Pot at $1.3 Million
For the second time in less than five days, Patrik Antonius and "Isildur1" broke the record for the largest pot in online poker history. see full story at pokernews
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
TRIP REPORT @ TRI-STATE RACETRACK AND CASINO (CROSS LANES, WV)
I made it to the casino about 5:30pm or so and was pleasantly surprised the place was all non-smoking. The poker room was huge. Only half was used this night. I was going to play $1-2 NL until the 7pm tournament started. I went ahead and registered for the tournament and bought $150 in chips for cash games.
Fairly uneventful first session of cash games (-$1.00) for alittle over an hour of play. No real exciting hands or players. Boring...
The tournament started at 7pm and was $65 buy-in + optional $10 add-on for dealers fee. I took the option and started with a $4k stack. The blinds were 20 minutes and it was about the equivalent to a turbo online tournament and the play equaled a $4.40 180-man on Stars. Terrible players!!! 124 players started and paid 12 places. I had a good first hour getting my stack to 7850 at break #1 with 87 people left. Hour #2 sucked for me as I never could get past the 12k chip mark, but I stayed out of big pots and made it to break #2 with 47 left. Hour #3 was my hour as I stacked up to almost 60k in a series of about 10-12 hands. I won 6 pots in a row with KK, QQ, flopped straight, flush, big bluff and set of J's. I was sitting with a top 5 stack and the field narrowed to 20 people at the end of hour #3. Only 8 more to go before the money and I am sitting about 5/20. I raise fold a couple of times early which hurt because the blinds were pretty high relative to the stacks. I look down a KK and raise UTG 3x the BB. I get min. raised by a guy in mid-late position I decide to just call and shove any no ace flop. Flop comes 734 rainbow and I shove my KK. The guy instacalls with Ac8c and has me covered. The turn is a club and the river is a club to give him runner-runner flush to bust me. No reason at all for him to call there except he was an idiot. Good game me in 17th place only getting a $5 restaurant voucher which I gave away later.
I walked around for a bit to get over my bad beat in the tournament and then headed back to the cash games. Once again, I played $1-2 NL and bought in for $149.00. I sat at a full table with 9 players and the largest stack had about $500-600 in front of him. I never dipped below $100 the whole time and finally won a decent pot to get to $300+. There was only myself and 2 others whom I could tell were pretty good players. The others were terrible or wasted. I won another big pot when I had 1010 and the flop 1088 and a guy bet into me on every street and called my big river raise w/ AK. Finally, the lay down of the year for me…I had about $450+ stack at the time and I get 33 in the SB. Early position player raises to $12 and get 3 callers to me in the SB. I elect to squeeze here and make it $36 to play. Two others call me and we’re 3 handed to the flop. The flop is great coming 392 rainbow. I obviously check here to hopefully check raise someone. The next guy makes it $75 and other guy instantly shoves in $200-250. It was a Phil Hellmuth type shove where he knocked chips over and so on. I am sitting here with middle set and two guys putting money in the pot like crazy. I sit there annoyingly for about 3-5 minutes thinking through hand and somehow I decide to fold my set of 3’s. The first guy calls and they both showed there cards and it was AA and 99 with the set of 9’s winning the big pot. I think if this had happen a 100 times that I am folding hardly ever, but something told me I was beat and laid the hand down. After that lay down, I felt like Phil Ivey or Durrrr and was so confident in my game. I ended up quitting about 1:30am and cashed out $563 for $410 profit – tournament buy-in.
Overall, the poker room is nice, the action was good and I would and will go back soon.
-Sean
Fairly uneventful first session of cash games (-$1.00) for alittle over an hour of play. No real exciting hands or players. Boring...
The tournament started at 7pm and was $65 buy-in + optional $10 add-on for dealers fee. I took the option and started with a $4k stack. The blinds were 20 minutes and it was about the equivalent to a turbo online tournament and the play equaled a $4.40 180-man on Stars. Terrible players!!! 124 players started and paid 12 places. I had a good first hour getting my stack to 7850 at break #1 with 87 people left. Hour #2 sucked for me as I never could get past the 12k chip mark, but I stayed out of big pots and made it to break #2 with 47 left. Hour #3 was my hour as I stacked up to almost 60k in a series of about 10-12 hands. I won 6 pots in a row with KK, QQ, flopped straight, flush, big bluff and set of J's. I was sitting with a top 5 stack and the field narrowed to 20 people at the end of hour #3. Only 8 more to go before the money and I am sitting about 5/20. I raise fold a couple of times early which hurt because the blinds were pretty high relative to the stacks. I look down a KK and raise UTG 3x the BB. I get min. raised by a guy in mid-late position I decide to just call and shove any no ace flop. Flop comes 734 rainbow and I shove my KK. The guy instacalls with Ac8c and has me covered. The turn is a club and the river is a club to give him runner-runner flush to bust me. No reason at all for him to call there except he was an idiot. Good game me in 17th place only getting a $5 restaurant voucher which I gave away later.
I walked around for a bit to get over my bad beat in the tournament and then headed back to the cash games. Once again, I played $1-2 NL and bought in for $149.00. I sat at a full table with 9 players and the largest stack had about $500-600 in front of him. I never dipped below $100 the whole time and finally won a decent pot to get to $300+. There was only myself and 2 others whom I could tell were pretty good players. The others were terrible or wasted. I won another big pot when I had 1010 and the flop 1088 and a guy bet into me on every street and called my big river raise w/ AK. Finally, the lay down of the year for me…I had about $450+ stack at the time and I get 33 in the SB. Early position player raises to $12 and get 3 callers to me in the SB. I elect to squeeze here and make it $36 to play. Two others call me and we’re 3 handed to the flop. The flop is great coming 392 rainbow. I obviously check here to hopefully check raise someone. The next guy makes it $75 and other guy instantly shoves in $200-250. It was a Phil Hellmuth type shove where he knocked chips over and so on. I am sitting here with middle set and two guys putting money in the pot like crazy. I sit there annoyingly for about 3-5 minutes thinking through hand and somehow I decide to fold my set of 3’s. The first guy calls and they both showed there cards and it was AA and 99 with the set of 9’s winning the big pot. I think if this had happen a 100 times that I am folding hardly ever, but something told me I was beat and laid the hand down. After that lay down, I felt like Phil Ivey or Durrrr and was so confident in my game. I ended up quitting about 1:30am and cashed out $563 for $410 profit – tournament buy-in.
Overall, the poker room is nice, the action was good and I would and will go back soon.
-Sean
Saturday, October 24, 2009
October Tournament Results
October Event started with 12 players on two tables. Many regulars were missing due to schedule conflicts, but we had three to four new players to pick up the slack. When it got down to five players and everyone not wanting to bubble Mitch made a move against the massive chip leader, Daniel, only to end up the bubble boy. Now in the money Daniel held over half the chips in play with Brian, Sean and Trinity close in chip count. Trinity made two aggressive all in moves, one worked and the other was called by Daniel. Trinity bust 4th with JKs vs Daniel's 96o. Play continues until Brian's AQ is busted by Daniel. As Heads up begins Sean has approx 2-3 big blinds remaining. Sean goes on a tear and manages to continue to win races against the massive CL Daniel. Daniel finally busted Sean for the win. gg.
Trinity maintained the POY points lead, while Sean moved within range to make it interesting.
Look for emails as to when the November game will be scheduled as well as scheduling the makeup for the missed August game. See you on the felt.
Champion - Daniel
2nd - Sean
3rd - Brian
4th - Trinity
Trinity maintained the POY points lead, while Sean moved within range to make it interesting.
Look for emails as to when the November game will be scheduled as well as scheduling the makeup for the missed August game. See you on the felt.
Champion - Daniel
2nd - Sean
3rd - Brian
4th - Trinity
Thursday, October 8, 2009
October Poker Tournament Scheduled for Oct 22nd
It's been awhile since we played, so we wanted to let you know that we will be playing our October event on Thursday, October 22nd at 7pm. Please let Trinity or Sean know if you'll be attending.
With only two more months of play before the December Main Event you still have two chances to secure your seat in the Tournament of Champions Freeroll for a Main Event Seat... See you on the felt.
With only two more months of play before the December Main Event you still have two chances to secure your seat in the Tournament of Champions Freeroll for a Main Event Seat... See you on the felt.
Monday, July 27, 2009
Training Sites, Mult-tabling and Grinding
After getting frustrated with the direction my game has been going lately, I signed up for a membership at deucescracked.com. They are one of the only training sites that does not have a sign up fee and they have a seven day trial. I took full advantage of the trial and watched a number of videos, particularly a SNG series (Real Life Micro SNG Grinder) by Vandweller. Hearing Vandweller coach a player that I consider in the same situation as myself was very enlightening. I picked up so much good information that I was able to put to use rather quickly. It all seemed to just click. It helped me understand why I was unable to multitable with any real success. I was over thinking my hands in the early rounds. The most tables I have ever played was three and maybe four but I was only comfortable with two. After watching a few videos in the series I tried four then six. I have to say I can now comfortably six table. My ROI in the first six table session was 87.5% (not too shabby). While I have always been one to read the latest in poker lit, I have found the training site videos to be a useful tool in extended my poker knowledge. I am now also experimenting with Holdem Manager to see how this software can help me find and close leaks in my game. I have finally come to the conclusion that while I have been playing seriously for a long time I was really only a casual player online, NOW I am making the change to being a grinder. As a casual player I will never be profitable to the degree that I have money to spend. My goal is to be profitable and have money to spend. After I absorb all that I have learned fully, I plan to continue my use of DC and the great videos they offer.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Online Poker... Keep It Legal
Let your Congress and Senate know where you stand.
Dear Members of the Congress and the Senate,
I want to register my strong disapproval and disagreement with the recently enacted bill concerning the prevention and/or regulation of Internet Poker/Gambling. The bill was initially introduced by Representative Bob Goodlatte in the House of Representatives and was attached to "must pass" legislation in the Senate by Senator Bill Frist.
I strongly believe that the government should not attempt to ban online poker by adults as poker is a game of skill and not of chance. I support the legalization, regulation and taxation of online poker by the government of the United States of America.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)