S1ndr0me has got the go ahead for some private tournaments on PokerStars. We figured that if we invite all the people who read our blogs regularly into a private game, we’ll get some nice social poker going on.
Wednesday evening (GMT) seems like a good time, and the game will be a $5+0.50 regular tournament (ie 1500 starting chips and 15 minute rounds).
If you’re interested post a comment here or over on S1ndr0me’s site, and hopefully we’ll get something good going…
This week’s really dragging! All yesterday I thought it was Thursday, only to realise that’s today’s Thursday, and I’m going to have to go through it all over again and it’s still another day to the weekend!
Still, my copy of Kill Everyone arrived. I’m about a quarter through it and so far it’s been excellent. I was able to play a few SNG’s tonight, but I can’t say that I put anything I had read into practice. I need to sit down and figure out a way of charting my push/calling ranges, and practice working out my M value easily. I’ve only just got comfortable with the starting hands chart I created over xmas, and now I’m looking at changing it plus creating more ‘range’ charts. I guess it all becomes second nature after a while…
So I played 9 $1 STT SNGs (9 man), and got 3 first places and one second, which meant profit of $5.40 – actually it’s way more fun to quote the total amount won which was $16.20! But I guess that’s not fooling anyone…
The games I lost I didn’t feel too bad about, although I can’t remember any bad beats particularly. I haven’t figured yet how to analyse my tournament sessions on PT – have to put some thought into that. I downloaded the trial version of SNG Wizard, so I’ll run the games through them to see what it thinks of me.
Anyway, one more day and then the weekend at last! Looks like Saturday it’s going to be rainy, so I guess that means plenty of poker…
Miniupdate: I managed to configure PokerTracker to look for emails with tournament results – and it works brilliantly! It not only sets what my placings were, but also everyone elses. Ten times easier than entering them by hand too…
Miniupdate II: I’ve arrived – I’m on SharkScope now!
So far it looks like this;
How exciting 
Ah, not so good today. I went through 6 MTT’s of various types (some 18s, 27s and nothing more than 45 players). Lost them all.
Switched to single table SNGs, and while I held a reasonable lead initially, I crashed out before getting in the money.
So figured that’ll do for now. $10 loss overall – annoying but I guess I should expect the variance.
Stacks:
Hero (UTG) (1500)
UTG+1 (1500)
MP1 (1500)
MP2 (1500)
MP3 (1500)
CO (1500)
BTN (1500)
SB (1500)
BB (1500)
Blinds: 10/20
Pre-flop: (30, 9 players) Hero is UTG A
A
Hero raises to 60, 3 folds, MP3 calls 60, 1 fold, BTN calls 60, 2 folds
Flop: Q
4 Q (210, 3 players)
Hero checks, MP3 bets 60, BTN calls 60, Hero raises to 220, MP3 folds, BTN calls 160
Turn: K (710, 2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets 20, Hero calls 20
River: 2 (750, 2 players)
Hero bets 520, BTN calls 520
Final Pot: 1,790
BTN shows: Q
4
Hero shows: A A
BTN wins 1,790 ( won +970 )
Hero lost -820
MP3 lost -120
Stacks:
UTG (2675)
UTG+1 (1090)
MP1 (2130)
MP2 (1310)
CO (1455)
BTN (1435)
Hero (SB) (575)
BB (2830)
Blinds: 15/30
Pre-flop: (45, 8 players) Hero is SB 6 A
1 fold, UTG+1 calls 30, 1 fold, MP2 calls 30, BTN says “pitty”, 1 fold, BTN calls 30, Hero raises to 90, BB calls 60, UTG+1 calls 60, MP2 calls 60, BTN calls 60
Flop: T A 9 (450, 5 players)
Hero goes all-in 485, 3 folds, BTN calls 485
Turn: 2 (1,420, 2 players)
River: 5 (1,420, 2 players)
Final Pot: 1,420
BTN shows: 8 T
Hero shows: 6 A
BTN wins 1,420 ( won +845 )
Hero lost -575
BB lost -90
UTG+1 lost -90
MP2 lost -90
Stacks:
UTG (3005)
Hero (CO) (3950)
BTN (1070)
SB (3655)
BB (1820)
Blinds: 75/150
Pre-flop: (225, 5 players) Hero is CO J T
UTG raises to 400, Hero calls 400, 3 folds
Flop: 2 3 T (1,025, 2 players)
UTG bets 1,000, Hero goes all-in 3,550, UTG goes all-in 1,605
Turn: 8 (7,180, 2 players)
River: 8 (7,180, 2 players)
Final Pot: 6,235
UTG shows: Q Q
Hero shows: J T
UTG wins 6,235 ( won +3,230 )
Hero wins 945 ( lost -3,005 )
Stacks:
UTG (2860)
CO (920)
BTN (5935)
Hero (SB) (2415)
BB (1370)
Blinds: 75/150
Pre-flop: (225, 5 players) Hero is SB K A
UTG raises to 450, 1 fold, BTN raises to 1,500, Hero goes all-in 2,415, 1 fold, UTG folds, BTN calls 915
Flop: 6 2 J (5,430, 2 players)
Turn: Q (5,430, 2 players)
River: 6 (5,430, 2 players)
Final Pot: 5,430
BTN shows: Q Q
Hero shows: K A
BTN wins 5,430 ( won +3,015 )
UTG lost -450
Hero lost -2,415
Just for a laugh, here’s a spot where I missed my draw and felt compelled to bluff on the river. I suppose in hindsight if I’d check/folded the river then remaining in the game with 900 chips wouldn’t have been that bad. However I think my line represents a strong hand, but it shows how players at this level with stubbornly stick with things to the bitter end.
Stacks:
UTG (1595)
UTG+1 (780)
CO (1345)
BTN (755)
SB (7635)
Hero (BB) (1390)
Blinds: 25/50
Pre-flop: (75, 6 players) Hero is BB 4 3
UTG calls 50, 1 fold, CO calls 50, BTN calls 50, SB calls 25, Hero checks
Flop: 6 5 5 (250, 5 players)
SB checks, Hero checks, UTG checks, CO bets 100, 1 fold, SB folds, Hero calls 100, UTG folds
Turn: 9 (450, 2 players)
Hero bets 350, CO calls 350
River: K (1,150, 2 players)
Hero goes all-in 890, CO goes all-in 845
Final Pot: 2,840
CO shows: K 8
Hero shows: 4 3
CO wins 2,840 ( won +1,495 )
Hero wins 45 ( lost -1,345 )
BTN lost -50
SB lost -50
UTG lost -50
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