Archive for April, 2010

A third of the year is officially behind us. Am I 1/3 of the way to achieving my Yearly Resolutions?

Like the $100 rebuy, this one ran with an overlay. I was only in for $900, so I had like $240 in overlay.

It went down basically the way I expected it to: got some fish to clown off their stacks to me early, then had to play poker with decent players. Two of my tables had at least one high-stakes cash player on my left who is definitively better than I am, which sucks especially in a 6-max format.

This one is vs. Shannon Shorr, it actually got me to post a hand on 2+2 for the first time on months:

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold’em Tournament, 170/340 Blinds 25 Ante (6 handed) – Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

MP (t16747)

CO (t21129)

Button (t11791)

Hero (SB) (t28986)

BB (t20843)

UTG (t6894)

Hero’s M: 43.92

Preflop: Hero is SB with 10, 10

1 fold, MP bets t810, 2 folds, Hero calls t640, 1 fold

Flop: (t2110) 9, 5, 4 (2 players)

Hero checks, MP checks

Turn: (t2110) 2 (2 players)

Hero bets t1356, MP calls t1356

River: (t4822) 6 (2 players)

Hero bets t3333, MP raises to t14556 (All-In), Hero folds

Total pot: t11488

Results:

MP didn’t show

Outcome: MP won t11488  Read the complete post...

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold’em, $10.00 BB (2 handed) – Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Hero (SB) ($2014.50)
BB ($1000)

Preflop: Hero is SB with 7, 4
Hero bets $20, BB calls $10

Flop: ($40) 6, 5, 10 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $28, BB calls $28

Turn: ($96) K (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $66, BB calls $66

River: ($228) J (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $166, BB raises to $654, Hero raises to $1142, 1 fold
Total pot: $1536 | Rake: $0.50

Results:
Hero didn’t show 7, 4 (nothing).
Outcome: Hero won $1535.50

Note that Villain folds for his last $232.

I think Villain is bluffing a lot to get me off of like a pair of Kings, possibly even turning small pairs into bluffs. Even if he is going for value, it’s thin value: he doesn’t have a straight, and I’d be pretty surprised even to see a set from him. Since I can’t even beat his bluffs, there’s only one thing to do…

I’ve had some deep runs lately in the Saturday $300 6-max, so I was looking forward to this event. Unfortunately, it didn’t really go my way. I lost a big pot (though not my stack) with AJ vs. AQ on a AJ7Q9 board in a 3-bet pot. My bust-out hand requires a little explaining. The guy who open limps had been doing that a fair bit, I think he was playing like 32/15. I’d just shoved over his limp the hand before.

The guy who shoves had been pretty shove-happy in general. I think he’d even open shoved like 30-some BB’s once. I recognized his name, so I don’t think he was a maniac, just a tourney donk who understood unexploitable shoving and was more comfortable playing that way.

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold’em Tournament, 100/200 Blinds (6 handed) – Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Button (t3372)
Hero (SB) (t4393)
BB (t13870)
UTG (t10287)
MP (t11968)
CO (t11704)

Hero’s M: 14.64

Preflop: Hero is SB with K, Q
2 folds, CO calls t200, Button bets t3372 (All-In), Hero raises to t4393 (All-In), 1 fold, CO calls t4193

Flop: (t12358) 5, Q, A (3 players, 2 all-in)

Turn: (t12358) 2 (3 players, 2 all-in)

River: (t12358) 8 (3 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: t12358  Read the complete post...

OK I did play it . It didn’t end up taking up much time at all.

I’m still not sure about this fold. He certainly ought to have more than AA to do this, but you never know with these clowns. Then again if he does have AA2 (or any A2, really), I’m smoked.

Full Tilt Pot-Limit Omaha Tournament, 15/30 Blinds (9 handed) – Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

MP3 (t5000)
Hero (CO) (t4940)
Button (t4955)
SB (t4970)
BB (t4940)
UTG (t6260)
UTG+1 (t5000)
MP1 (t5000)
MP2 (t3935)

Hero’s M: 109.78

Preflop: Hero is CO with 5, 4, A, 3
2 folds, MP1 calls t30, 2 folds, Hero bets t135, Button raises to t480, 3 folds, Hero calls t345

Flop: (t1035) 3, 7, 8 (2 players)
Hero checks, Button bets t750, Hero folds

Total pot: t1035

Results:
Button didn’t show
Outcome: Button won t1035

Here’s the one that cost me most of my chips. When I saw the flop, I had every intention of folding, but once everyone in between folded, I decided to go with it.

Full Tilt Pot-Limit Omaha Tournament, 20/40 Blinds (9 handed) – Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

MP2 (t5113)
Hero (MP3) (t4350)
CO (t5250)
Button (t5045)
SB (t3476)
BB (t7096)
UTG (t6703)
UTG+1 (t4833)
MP1 (t3134)

Hero’s M: 72.50  Read the complete post...

I finished 12th in this, out of 1024, meaning I made it to the Sweet 16. I’m not going to go into a lot of detail about hands here because I’ll probably make a video of this for Poker Savvy Plus. But here’s the quick rundown:

Round 1- Guy was awful, I don’t remember much beyond that. He started making some massive pre-flop shoves, probably because he knew he was getting outplayed, so I had to gamble with him a bit. I actually got it in bad pre-flop to a cooler but sucked out to stay alive, and I finished him off eventually.

Round 2- Pretty similar to the first, if I recall correctly.

Round 3- I drew Yuvee04, winner of an unprecedented 4 FTOPS tournaments. Apparently he’s mostly a high-limit Stud/Razz/HORSE player, though I think he won PLO and NLHE tournaments as well. He was probably my toughest opponent and had a quite unique style that was clearly influenced by playing in fixed limit games. He was a little on the passive side but made good reads and did some weird stuff like min-raising turns and rivers. Here’s a good example of him snapping me off with K-high:

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold’em Tournament, 15/30 Blinds (2 handed) – Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com  Read the complete post...

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold’em, $20.00 BB (5 handed) – Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

SB ($2000)
Hero (BB) ($2108)
UTG ($2060)
MP ($3164)
Button ($2916)

Preflop: Hero is BB with A, 5
2 folds, Button bets $60, 1 fold, Hero raises to $210, Button calls $150

Flop: ($430) Q, Q, 4 (2 players)
Hero checks, Button bets $280, Hero calls $280

Turn: ($990) K (2 players)
Hero checks, Button bets $480, Hero calls $480

River: ($1950) 3 (2 players)
Hero checks, Button bets $1946 (All-In), Hero calls $1138 (All-In)

Total pot: $4226 | Rake: $3

Results:
Button had 6, 6 (two pair, Queens and sixes).
Hero had A, 5 (flush, Ace high).
Outcome: Hero won $4223

Well this is embarrassing. A few days ago I made a post about the new card mod I was using for FTP. I suggested downloading the image files from RapidShare, which as several commenters pointed out is needlessly risky. I did use that link myself and I don’t have any reason to think it contained anything malicious, but it was still irresponsible of me to present it when there are safer options available (in my defense, I didn’t know about them, but I suppose it wouldn’t have killed me to look into it).

Thanks to Todd and Chris for bringing Tiltbuster to my attention. They’ve got a lot of cool mods for a variety of poker sites, and in fact the FTP Phattylivers are available from them for free.