Christmas always seems to come and go so fast. When I was younger it was worse! These days the whole year just slips by. It has been very exciting though, and I hope 2006 is just as fun, and profitable! I remember when I would wake up and open all of my gifts and then call my friends to see what cool toys santa brought them...it's still the same, just different "toys". All of my friends got pretty cool gifts, but my friend Chris got an extra special one!! He and his wife are going to have a baby!! So that's pretty cool...
I haven't really played much poker the past couple days, mostly because it has been so hectic trying to get everything situated for Xmas. But I did get to play a quick SnG last night (which I got second in) and also spent about an hour on a $2/$4 Triple Draw table (left the table +$40). It was so late when I was finishing up my SnG that I just donked off all of my chips. I just HAD to go to bed. It was a little frustrating because I had my opponent out-chipped about 5-1!! I just kept going all-in when it got down to heads-up and he ended up getting all the right cards. An interesting note is that the "Kill Phil" style of play online says to do just that - go all-in every hand...
I have been studying "Kill Phil" quite a bit recently and am putting its concepts to use, but I haven't really tried it out in a mtt. I am looking forward to the new year to do just that.
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
Saturday, December 17, 2005
Cardplayer Tournament of Champions...
I am a little jealous of all you +1'rs that made it to the TOC. I should have been there...hell, I could've been there if I didn't go brain numb and put all of my stack in w/ a nut flush draw! Oh well, I will be rooting for everyone today. I just watched poor Necco get an all-in called where he held KK and the other guy had AJ of clubs...he hit an A on the flop and Necco was crippled. He went out in 85th. Right now I am watching Snadly do his thing though. He had a nice hand against JRLoomis and got him to put all of his stack in with a pair of Q's...Snad had a set and it held up. Then I go away for a bit and he's lost a bit of his stack, and now JRLoomis has him covered. This tourney is filled with P1MP's!! Anyway, Good Luck to all of you!! Take it down for +1!!
I played a $10 SnG earlier and won it! It was a battle at the end, but with my new "Kill Phil" stategy that I have been working on, I never felt like I would be out of the money! Oh yeah, I also got my first straight flush!! Here's how it went down. I am on the button w/ A6o. I have about 2400 in chips with 5 left. UTG min. raises to 300 and I call. The UTG player had really switched gears in the last 5-10 hands and built his chips up to about 3K. The flop was A45 (4 and 5 were diamonds). I had an A w/ a 6 kicker and a weak backdoor flush draw. UTG bet about 50% of the flop and I thought about jamming, but hated my kicker, although his post-flop bet felt weak, it also could've been a trap. I didn't want to fold so I made the call. The turn brought beautiful 8 of diamonds. A good card, but also a bad card for me. If he had the flush already I was drawing to one card only. This time UTG bet about 1/4th the pot...there was no way i was folding so I called. River was a pristine 7 of diamonds. The pot was about 1500 and I was going to get it, but how much of his stack? He bet 500, I raised to 1000, he thought and thought then pushed...he had the A of diamonds too! Sick feeling to win/lose that hand, as I can now say I have been on both ends! Once it got down to 3 players I started to really "JAM" and just put people to the test. One guy took the other out, and I proceeded to just go all-in with every hand. One time I showed my opponent a weak hand that I had pushed with it was something like J7 or something. He had raised pre-flop and I came over the top of him...he had A2. The very next hand he did the same thing raising pre-flop and I came over the top again, but this time I had AK...he called very quickly w/ AQ and he got no help on the flop. I wasn't thinking that showing my bluff would end up working out on the very next hand, but i'll take it!
Tonight my Mom, Dad, and Sister are all coming over for a pre-Xmas dinner. I need to clean up a bit since Mo is out getting some last minute shopping done with her brother. This year has gone so fast!!
I played a $10 SnG earlier and won it! It was a battle at the end, but with my new "Kill Phil" stategy that I have been working on, I never felt like I would be out of the money! Oh yeah, I also got my first straight flush!! Here's how it went down. I am on the button w/ A6o. I have about 2400 in chips with 5 left. UTG min. raises to 300 and I call. The UTG player had really switched gears in the last 5-10 hands and built his chips up to about 3K. The flop was A45 (4 and 5 were diamonds). I had an A w/ a 6 kicker and a weak backdoor flush draw. UTG bet about 50% of the flop and I thought about jamming, but hated my kicker, although his post-flop bet felt weak, it also could've been a trap. I didn't want to fold so I made the call. The turn brought beautiful 8 of diamonds. A good card, but also a bad card for me. If he had the flush already I was drawing to one card only. This time UTG bet about 1/4th the pot...there was no way i was folding so I called. River was a pristine 7 of diamonds. The pot was about 1500 and I was going to get it, but how much of his stack? He bet 500, I raised to 1000, he thought and thought then pushed...he had the A of diamonds too! Sick feeling to win/lose that hand, as I can now say I have been on both ends! Once it got down to 3 players I started to really "JAM" and just put people to the test. One guy took the other out, and I proceeded to just go all-in with every hand. One time I showed my opponent a weak hand that I had pushed with it was something like J7 or something. He had raised pre-flop and I came over the top of him...he had A2. The very next hand he did the same thing raising pre-flop and I came over the top again, but this time I had AK...he called very quickly w/ AQ and he got no help on the flop. I wasn't thinking that showing my bluff would end up working out on the very next hand, but i'll take it!
Tonight my Mom, Dad, and Sister are all coming over for a pre-Xmas dinner. I need to clean up a bit since Mo is out getting some last minute shopping done with her brother. This year has gone so fast!!
Friday, December 16, 2005
Triple Draw $1/2
I lose $ everytime I play this level! I win when I play $2/4 and .50/1, but this level is killing me. Honestly, last night, the guy sitting to my right got lucky and hit perfect cards on me beating me for $50. It was scary...he was up $100 from the time I sat down to the time I left, which was about 45mins.
So last night I lost $90 on UB. I played TD 1/2 for a while, lost the $50 and then played two $20 SnG's and in both I made SILLY plays. Once, w/ KK where I was slowplaying in a sb vs bb situation where I just let the guy make his set on the turn...he then trapped the trapper. The other time I can't exactly remember the hand, but I believe I had no business making the play sitting in third place w/ four left and making a play at the chip leader...NO BUSINESS!!
Like I said in my previous post, I am going to really try to play some smaller tourneys and try out this "Kill Phil" strategy. It is really cool, and at the very least I want to incorporate it into my own style of play. I don't really believe that anyone should necessarily copy a specific strategy.
In my next update I want to seriously examine my goals and more specifically why I am playing online poker in the first place!
So last night I lost $90 on UB. I played TD 1/2 for a while, lost the $50 and then played two $20 SnG's and in both I made SILLY plays. Once, w/ KK where I was slowplaying in a sb vs bb situation where I just let the guy make his set on the turn...he then trapped the trapper. The other time I can't exactly remember the hand, but I believe I had no business making the play sitting in third place w/ four left and making a play at the chip leader...NO BUSINESS!!
Like I said in my previous post, I am going to really try to play some smaller tourneys and try out this "Kill Phil" strategy. It is really cool, and at the very least I want to incorporate it into my own style of play. I don't really believe that anyone should necessarily copy a specific strategy.
In my next update I want to seriously examine my goals and more specifically why I am playing online poker in the first place!
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Compulsive, Degenerate?
Why didn't I do what I said I was going to do!??!! I said I was NOT going to play blackjack anymore, and they sucked me back in...good thing I withdrew most of my $$! Anyway, after losing a couple hundo, I took what was left out and have deleted Party Poker for now. I have a couple reasons for this, and they don't all have to do with their blackjack button... 1. I just do not like their interface. After playing on Ultimate Bet since 2003-2004 (I started w/ play money of course :) ), and then switching to the PP tables, it really is a step down. I know, I know, but all the little fishies you say...EFF it...I must be one of them. I have to admit I have seen some pretty BUNK plays on there, but it's been about 2 months and I can't figure it out. 2. There Sit-N-Go structure is absolutely HORRIBLE. I just don't understand why they can't use a structure like UB's or 'Stars? Actually, I know, they don't want games to go longer than 45-60 mins, because they are only getting their one time rake for these tourneys. Because I absolutely LOVE SnG's and I feel I am a better than average SnG player (at least w/ good structures), why should I play on the site? 3. No Triple Draw games. I know that is really asking alot, but I am a better than average player in that game and I want to have my $$ somewhere where I can play it.
But, god bless PP and the business they are getting...40-60K players at anytime during the day?? That's absolutely SICK! So, maybe one day in the future I will put some more $$ on PP and try it again, hell, I'm sure they will be offering me something in the future...they'll probably just put $30 in my account. Right now, I'm sticking with Ultimate Bet...and here's why...Multi-table Tourney's have an excellent structure, Sit N Go's also have a great structure, Triple Draw is offered (although hardly ever any 2/4 games anymore :( ), and all of my friends play on their as well as the P1MP's.
I am going to be focusing on tournaments for a while now. I will still play Triple Draw as much as possible because I am so intrigued by this game. But I really want to build up the 'roll even more and go for some WSOP satelites. I think it is just stupid of me to use any of my online bankroll to buy-in to any of these events, not even the $1500 event. I will probably try out Pokerstars or another site at some point in the future, but that is going to go back on the long-term goals for now. It's just not that big of a deal to me. But Pokerstars is probably going to be the one I go to next.
I have been browsing through the new book by Blair Rodman and Lee Nelson called "Kill Phil". This is the newest book on Tournaments, and I REALLY like it alot! I want to put their strategies into use right now! So my plan is to play $5 and $10 MTT's and really go for the Kill Phil approach. Once I actually get the book and read it a couple times I will see if it is a strategy that is right for me. I really don't believe that any one strategy is correct, but having a couple different ideas in your mind certainly will help. We'll see what happens!
But, god bless PP and the business they are getting...40-60K players at anytime during the day?? That's absolutely SICK! So, maybe one day in the future I will put some more $$ on PP and try it again, hell, I'm sure they will be offering me something in the future...they'll probably just put $30 in my account. Right now, I'm sticking with Ultimate Bet...and here's why...Multi-table Tourney's have an excellent structure, Sit N Go's also have a great structure, Triple Draw is offered (although hardly ever any 2/4 games anymore :( ), and all of my friends play on their as well as the P1MP's.
I am going to be focusing on tournaments for a while now. I will still play Triple Draw as much as possible because I am so intrigued by this game. But I really want to build up the 'roll even more and go for some WSOP satelites. I think it is just stupid of me to use any of my online bankroll to buy-in to any of these events, not even the $1500 event. I will probably try out Pokerstars or another site at some point in the future, but that is going to go back on the long-term goals for now. It's just not that big of a deal to me. But Pokerstars is probably going to be the one I go to next.
I have been browsing through the new book by Blair Rodman and Lee Nelson called "Kill Phil". This is the newest book on Tournaments, and I REALLY like it alot! I want to put their strategies into use right now! So my plan is to play $5 and $10 MTT's and really go for the Kill Phil approach. Once I actually get the book and read it a couple times I will see if it is a strategy that is right for me. I really don't believe that any one strategy is correct, but having a couple different ideas in your mind certainly will help. We'll see what happens!
Friday, December 09, 2005
The Goose is Getting PHAT!
And so is the bankroll!! Thank god for Necco telling me to play the $2/$4 Triple Draw on Ultimate Bet!! Until last night I had not had a losing session in about two weeks. Of course, the gambler in me had to try out the $3/$6 game for the second night in a row and lost $150, although I won about $50 the night before. But I really played pretty bad, and those guys were a little better than I expected. I think I could definitely play that high, it's just my 'roll on UB just doesn't support it. I would think to play perfect (ie not scared to lose the cash) I would need about 2-3K. I don't like buying into the 3/6 game with anything under $300, but I could buy-in for 1/2. My buy-in might seem kind of pointless, but because the game is played 6-seated (and it is not always full on UB), the blinds go by much faster and I think you get tied to hands a lot. The swings can be pretty enormous in this game and the suckouts can be horrendous...but I love it!!
I did something the other day that I should never have done, and I feel sick about it to this day! Party Poker has BLACKJACK on their site now. They actually have had it on there for a couple months, and it was too enticing to have it on there so I figured out how to delete the files. I went for a couple months, and then I had to re-install Party Poker because I was having some trouble with my laptop. Well, when I re-installed it, up pops the blackjack files. It's funny, because whenever I go to a Brick & Mortar Casino, I cringe at the thought of playing blackjack. But, I have it on Party and I HAVE TO PLAY. So Tuesday night, I fall asleep on the couch after work. I wake up after my 1 1/2 hour cat-nap and log on to PP. Mo isn't going to be home until 9pm so I'm thinking i'll play some .50/1 shorthanded or maybe the $25NL. But as soon as I see that "BLACKJACK" on the left hand corner of the screen I click on it...deposit $10...and go to work. Needless to say about 3 1/2 hours later I'm up 2K!!! I logged off and just felt entirely sick and embarrased. I've never won that much money ever, and I don't want to tell anybody, and I feel almost BAD about it...LOL!! So now the bankroll is pretty hefty...the funniest thing about the whole situation was that as soon as I logged off I had two immediate thoughts; 1. SWEET, Now I can buy-in to the $1500 NL WSOP event. 2. SWEET, Now I can afford more WSOP Satelites!! What a degenerate! I actually came to my senses...I could really use the money for things other than my online bankroll, so I withdrew a good portion of it.
We got or new computer last night! My in-laws got it for us as an early Xmas gift, and it really is nice. Not top of the line, but perfect for what we use our home computer for. I really want to fix up our office a little better, and I am considering getting a new desk. The one we have is "OK", but I think we need to get a little more organized. Maybe my parents will hook us up. I know Mo doesn't want to get something big because we will hopefully be moving sometime soon, but I think we need it anyway.
Tonight, I will probably play some tournaments on Ultimate Bet and some Triple Draw...(but only if I get busted out early!).
I also plan on DELETING ALL FILES THAT CONTAIN THE WORD "BLACKJACK"!!
I did something the other day that I should never have done, and I feel sick about it to this day! Party Poker has BLACKJACK on their site now. They actually have had it on there for a couple months, and it was too enticing to have it on there so I figured out how to delete the files. I went for a couple months, and then I had to re-install Party Poker because I was having some trouble with my laptop. Well, when I re-installed it, up pops the blackjack files. It's funny, because whenever I go to a Brick & Mortar Casino, I cringe at the thought of playing blackjack. But, I have it on Party and I HAVE TO PLAY. So Tuesday night, I fall asleep on the couch after work. I wake up after my 1 1/2 hour cat-nap and log on to PP. Mo isn't going to be home until 9pm so I'm thinking i'll play some .50/1 shorthanded or maybe the $25NL. But as soon as I see that "BLACKJACK" on the left hand corner of the screen I click on it...deposit $10...and go to work. Needless to say about 3 1/2 hours later I'm up 2K!!! I logged off and just felt entirely sick and embarrased. I've never won that much money ever, and I don't want to tell anybody, and I feel almost BAD about it...LOL!! So now the bankroll is pretty hefty...the funniest thing about the whole situation was that as soon as I logged off I had two immediate thoughts; 1. SWEET, Now I can buy-in to the $1500 NL WSOP event. 2. SWEET, Now I can afford more WSOP Satelites!! What a degenerate! I actually came to my senses...I could really use the money for things other than my online bankroll, so I withdrew a good portion of it.
We got or new computer last night! My in-laws got it for us as an early Xmas gift, and it really is nice. Not top of the line, but perfect for what we use our home computer for. I really want to fix up our office a little better, and I am considering getting a new desk. The one we have is "OK", but I think we need to get a little more organized. Maybe my parents will hook us up. I know Mo doesn't want to get something big because we will hopefully be moving sometime soon, but I think we need it anyway.
Tonight, I will probably play some tournaments on Ultimate Bet and some Triple Draw...(but only if I get busted out early!).
I also plan on DELETING ALL FILES THAT CONTAIN THE WORD "BLACKJACK"!!
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