I had decent odds and plenty of chips to call pf.
I checked the turn, he bet 2/3 the pot and I folded. With his call on the flop, I figured he had something pretty good and he wasn't going away. The king opened up too many hands that could have beat me. Though I guess if he had flopped a straight, he would have checked on the turn...
I was actually more afraid of the guy who did the minimum raise than the button. If I had to do it all over again, I probably would have fired on the turn...but thats the crappy thing about playing out of position.

[Edited on May 4, 2008 at 7:34 PM. Reason : 1]

5/4/2008 7:21:03 PM

I think I just got my chat privileges suspended on BoDog. Jeez I don't even remember saying anything that bad today. I have certainly done much worse.

5/4/2008 8:02:06 PM

bodog has really gone downhill

5/4/2008 8:03:17 PM

Anyone else use http://www.officialpokerrankings.com to track their MTT play? I find it very useful. Keeps track of a lot of things. The best part I think is being able to look up you opponents and see their ratings and their cashes etc... Tons of free good info available. Im currently at a 95% rating. Pretty respectable I think considering I have only gotten serious about my MTT play in just the last month and a half or so. Mainly it tracks Stars and FT results. I am sure a lot of other people in this thread know about it, just throwing it out for those who might not.

On a side note, something I mentioned before...there is a huge opportunity in rebuy satellites. As long as you remotely know how to play poker which most of us seem to, its a great way to turn a profit. I know most of you will sit there and say, "But there are tons of morons in rebuys, they are pointless" True, there are tons of morons. Thats the best part. It adds to the prize pool, ESPECIALLY IN REBUYS. I am talking 100% about the sats on Stars. You can sell Stars T$ for around 93% on the dollar, but thats not the point. You can convert the T$ into real $ by playing other non sat tourneys. Either way, I am and consider myself a good poker player, but I know there are a lot better than me in this thread. Check out my stats on OPR and look into the sats, its a great way to help your bankroll. I cashed 3/4 today in the $5r ones. I double buy in and add on at the break for a buy in of $15, and $55 to the top 20%+ which is great. So some of you look into that and get back to me on what you think about it too.

[Edited on May 4, 2008 at 8:57 PM. Reason : .]

5/4/2008 8:55:33 PM

I'm posting this hand just b/c Hish kept insisting I should have called before we saw what they had.

Full Tilt Poker Game #6291542490: The Sunday Mulligan (46345636), Table 28 - 500/1000 Ante 125 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:40:18 ET - 2008/05/04
Seat 1: xTheory (17,758)
Seat 2: o LIMIT 45 o (22,364)
Seat 3: uclabruinz (13,340)
Seat 4: two8off (24,710)
Seat 5: smask (16,674)
Seat 6: mx4ever (79,189)
Seat 8: david0603 (46,497)
Seat 9: thorladen (22,674)
xTheory antes 125
o LIMIT 45 o antes 125
uclabruinz antes 125
two8off antes 125
smask antes 125
mx4ever antes 125
david0603 antes 125
thorladen antes 125
mx4ever posts the small blind of 500
david0603 posts the big blind of 1,000
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to david0603 [9d Ah]
thorladen folds
xTheory raises to 2,599
o LIMIT 45 o folds
uclabruinz folds
two8off folds
smask folds
mx4ever calls 2,099
david0603 folds
*** FLOP *** [Ks Ac 5h]
mx4ever checks
xTheory has 15 seconds left to act
xTheory bets 3,599
mx4ever has 15 seconds left to act
mx4ever calls 3,599
*** TURN *** [Ks Ac 5h] [8c]
mx4ever checks
xTheory bets 11,435, and is all in
mx4ever calls 11,435
xTheory shows [As Jc]
mx4ever shows [5d 5c]
*** RIVER *** [Ks Ac 5h 8c] [4h]
xTheory shows a pair of Aces
mx4ever shows three of a kind, Fives
mx4ever wins the pot (37,266) with three of a kind, Fives
xTheory stands up
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 37,266 | Rake 0
Board: [Ks Ac 5h 8c 4h]
Seat 1: xTheory showed [As Jc] and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 2: o LIMIT 45 o folded before the Flop
Seat 3: uclabruinz folded before the Flop
Seat 4: two8off folded before the Flop
Seat 5: smask (button) folded before the Flop
Seat 6: mx4ever (small blind) showed [5d 5c] and won (37,266) with three of a kind, Fives
Seat 8: david0603 (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 9: thorladen folded before the Flop

5/4/2008 10:42:32 PM

without seeing the result i would likely fold that every time

I'm up to $112.15 btw

[Edited on May 4, 2008 at 11:00 PM. Reason : .]

5/4/2008 11:00:08 PM

i cant figure out how to get the history on Stars but in one of these freerolls i just F'd somebody in the A by flopping quad 8s.

5/4/2008 11:06:47 PM

There's a link in the top left corner.

5/4/2008 11:12:37 PM

yeah im an idiot i see it now

5/4/2008 11:19:21 PM

finished 299th in that freeroll and it's my own fault. K high kept pushing my QJ into the pot and I made every single stupid, stubborn call and even reraised a couple times...

Oh well, back to the drawing board...

5/5/2008 12:37:12 AM

damnit, finished 256. so frustrating to keep almost getting there in these 12000 people free rolls and then getting beat with like 100ish to go. I did it to myself tonight though. Pushed with three suited cards on the turn with KK. She kept betting minimums and calling my raises, so fuck it. Shit happens with a 4,5 suited I guess...



[Edited on May 6, 2008 at 12:58 AM. Reason : k]

5/6/2008 12:55:05 AM

I love short stacking.

Never have to make big laydowns, never go on monkey tilt. I may have found my calling.


More to come later... I am amidst a month-long short stacking experiment. It feels soooo dirty...

5/10/2008 2:50:25 AM

on pocket dueces do you raise pre flop or no. early position.

5/10/2008 2:00:12 PM

uh, no? It's hard to even call with that hand.

at least for me...

unless it's heads up or something.

[Edited on May 10, 2008 at 2:19 PM. Reason : k]

5/10/2008 2:07:48 PM

^^I'm raising any pair utg in my normal 6-max nlhe game, doing so will help balance your range

5/10/2008 3:12:16 PM

OK so there you are, playing at a $.25/.50, 6-handed table and you look down at two bright red queens. Yay for you. So, like any good player, you raise to $1.75. Everyone folds but one guy, who you have covered about $60 to $50. Unfortunately, you have no read on this guy because you've been watching old episodes of Friends. You're such a fag.

Anyway, flop comes 2s 3c 5s.

Not a great flop but hey, you bet anyway because you're not a big pussy. $3.00, or about 3/4 of the pot, and he snap calls. Very interesting.

The turn comes, and bam, the 3s comes for a board of 2s 3c 5s 3s.

Once again, you fire, this time $4.00, and he min raises you to $8.00. Well, you contemplate and decide you really want to find out where you are, and reraise him to $16.00, and after several seconds, he calls.

Well, the river is kind to you and schwing, the Qc spikes on the river. You have about $40 in front of you and he has $30. He checks to you.... what is your play?

And lastly, the most important question of all, what does he have? Did you need the river to win, or were you ahead the whole way?

5/10/2008 11:59:17 PM

How could you lose with that full house?

And anybody's guess would be he's betting a draw?

If you say he's got quad 3s thatd be hilarious.

[Edited on May 11, 2008 at 12:04 AM. Reason : k]

5/11/2008 12:03:07 AM

Nah I am absolutely acknowledging you're ahead after the river, unless by some miracle he has quads or a straight flush.

My question was do you think you needed the river to win?

5/11/2008 12:06:22 AM

Only hand I maybe put him on is A4 or 55

5/11/2008 1:31:40 AM

reraise on turn is weird imo

5/11/2008 1:50:18 AM

agreed

5/11/2008 1:58:20 AM

1/3 game tonight if anyone is interested. Lots of promotional bonuses. PM me.

5/11/2008 4:02:10 PM

hahaha, i was watching this vanessa rousso chick on stars. she has all these fanboys following her around and making comments and shit in the obsever chat.

seriously, nice tits from what I can tell but that's about it. no need to sit there and harass the poor girl.

5/11/2008 4:52:10 PM

Never gets old...

Dealer: BIGTSPORTSoCOM shows [Kd 9s]
Dealer: david0603 shows [2s 2c]
Dealer: BIGTSPORTSoCOM shows a pair of Sevens
Dealer: david0603 shows two pair, Sevens and Twos
Dealer: david0603 wins the pot (1,020) with two pair, Sevens
and Twos
Dealer: BIGTSPORTSoCOM finishes in 544th place
Dealer: Hand #6378439796
BIGTSPORTSoCOM (Observer): unreal
BIGTSPORTSoCOM (Observer): go fak urselvs
BIGTSPORTSoCOM (Observer): i hope you all die miserable
deaths

5/11/2008 8:29:05 PM

you should call him up and let him know how that made you feel

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5/11/2008 9:11:57 PM

One other guy reported him. It's pretty lame when you bitch about a hand where you were behind.

5/11/2008 9:14:39 PM

Cashed out on Stars on the 8th, got my check today.

5/13/2008 4:29:10 PM

Ok...so I have come up with my new plan to get lots of money on FullTilt.
Play the 300 or 400 Fulltilt points SNGs. 9person SNGs that people just don't care about.
If you win...you either get a 26T$, satelite into a sunday major, or something bigger.
Then you just unregister from your tournaments and collect the cash. Easy Game.

Oh by the way...David is the truth. Even though he plays too many hands. LOL

NCSUBODOG

5/14/2008 11:57:51 AM

David is the truth?

5/14/2008 12:28:04 PM

Validating your play....if you will

5/14/2008 12:30:38 PM

Ohhh, ok. I can't remember if you were at my table to begin with. I lost most of my stack with KK vs 710 early on in the tourney.

5/14/2008 12:31:16 PM

Quote :

"Even though he plays too many hands."

Haha. You should have seen me back in the day. It worked out well for this tourney.

5/14/2008 6:11:35 PM

Anyone doing the battle of the planets thingy on stars?

If I stay on the same pace I might dominate the lowest level 100 block....sad but true

5/17/2008 2:06:46 AM

No, I just play on Sundays.

What's that?

5/17/2008 11:52:13 AM

It's essentially the SNG version of their MTT leader board, and at least for the blocks of 100 looks very beatable at the lower levels...

http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/promotions/battle/mercury/

5/17/2008 1:33:29 PM

POKERSTARS GAME #17506396418: HOLD'EM NO LIMIT ($1/$2) - 2008/05/17 - 23:18:38 (ET)
Table 'Ariel IV' 6-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: noidroid ($39 in chips)
Seat 2: gncrash22 ($127.80 in chips)
Seat 3: HRD2REID ($179.45 in chips)
Seat 4: TreDub26 ($261.65 in chips)
Seat 5: Takeover1 ($200 in chips)
Seat 6: wm sanders ($253.65 in chips)
HRD2REID: posts small blind $1
TreDub26: posts big blind $2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to noidroid [8d 8h]
Takeover1: folds
wm sanders: calls $2
noidroid: calls $2
gncrash22: folds
HRD2REID: folds
TreDub26: checks
*** FLOP *** [5c 8c Qs]
TreDub26: bets $8
wm sanders: calls $8
noidroid: raises $14 to $22
TreDub26: calls $14
wm sanders: calls $14
*** TURN *** [5c 8c Qs] [3c]
TreDub26: checks
wm sanders: checks
noidroid: bets $15 and is all-in
TreDub26: calls $15
wm sanders: calls $15
*** RIVER *** [5c 8c Qs 3c] [2c]
TreDub26: bets $72
wm sanders: folds
Uncalled bet ($72) returned to TreDub26
*** SHOW DOWN ***
TreDub26: shows [Qh Kh] (a pair of Queens)
noidroid: shows [8d 8h] (three of a kind, Eights)
noidroid collected $115 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $118 | Rake $3
Board [5c 8c Qs 3c 2c]
Seat 1: noidroid showed [8d 8h] and won ($115) with three of a kind, Eights
Seat 2: gncrash22 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: HRD2REID (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: TreDub26 (big blind) showed [Qh Kh] and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 5: Takeover1 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: wm sanders folded on the River



Nice bet, guy.

5/17/2008 11:38:10 PM

lol

Any particular reason you were sitting w/ $39 at 1/2?

5/18/2008 12:17:53 AM

Quote :

"I'm raising any pair utg in my normal 6-max nlhe game, doing so will help balance your range "

nice raise on the eights noid!!1

5/18/2008 12:29:21 AM

^^ yeah, I'm experimenting with short stacking

^ I was limping behind and this is not my normal 6max game, I will limp-raise all sorts of shit when short stacking - under the gun or otherwise

5/18/2008 12:52:21 AM

Quote :

"noidroid: raises $14 to $22"

Kind of a small bet for a straight + flush draw flop combined with multiple people in the hand...

5/18/2008 11:30:27 AM

I started the hand with $39, so I was just trying to get as much value as possible - not protect my hand.

I make a lot more small bets to keep people in hands when I short stack, I also slow play a lot. It's really not that big of a deal if they catch a card to beat me.


1.5 weeks into the experiment, this is how I've been running:

5/18/2008 1:17:43 PM

Anyone had an issues with memory leaks in FT?

Been going on about a month.

5/18/2008 3:26:33 PM

what fraction do you buy in for?

5/18/2008 4:01:17 PM

I was heads up in a tournament yesterday, I was raised with AK suited and I had pocket Qs. Blinds were 60/120, was raised to 240, reraised to 800, flop comes 5, 4, 8 variable suits. I check raised all in...hey, guess what the turn and river were...3, 2.

I'd rather him had caught a K or A over that shit. I hate poker.

5/18/2008 4:16:40 PM

i won second place in a poker tourney last night (14 people playing total).

i could have won first but i fucked up twice (i'm pretty new at the game)

i had a flush and showed my cards too soon because i thought we were done betting (oops, at least it was the last round, but 3 other players were ready to go all in--dang)

the other time i had an ace and my second ace showed up on the river (we play hold'em) i went out of betting because i didn't want to bet on the last card not knowing what it was. the pot was fucking loaded too. i could have easily won first place if i played those two hands better

oh well, i'll take second

5/18/2008 4:20:23 PM

hahahahaha.

i wanna play with you guys.

5/18/2008 4:21:27 PM

i frequently place in the top finishers when i play because i never bet unless i have either an ace, k, q or a pair in my hand

and when i do bet, i only bet the minimum

i pretty much sandbag until someone decides to throw down a huge bet, and when i match it they don't really expect it and take me as a new player and i ride their ass to the bank

last time we played i finished 4th (top 3 get money)

the best part is i play with a sheet that tells me what all the hands mean and i refer to it as i play. haha i'm that new and i still beat these people.

5/18/2008 4:25:53 PM

5/18/2008 4:35:29 PM

Quote :

"what fraction do you buy in for?"

For that data I bought in for the min, $40. I'd leave the table whenever I got up to $70+ and reload to $40 if I dropped to $25 or less.


I figured that with as much time as I've invested in learning the full stack 6-max game, I could come up with a pretty effective counter strategy - so far so good. There are a ton of very good regulars at 1/2 who adjust horribly to short stackers.

5/18/2008 4:39:43 PM

Have ya'll noticed the recent flux of "Intellipoker" avatars on Stars...think it's some foreign poker jazz..

They all run like 54/6/3 and it's amazing, is this what Party was like?

5/18/2008 8:19:39 PM