Full Tilt Poker, $5/$10 NL Hold’em Cash Game, 5 PlayersLeggoPoker.com – Hand History Converter Hero (BTN): $1,000SB: $1,083BB: $1,300UTG: $230.20CO: $866.90 Pre-Flop: Q A dealt to Hero (BTN)2 folds, CO calls $10, Hero raises to $50, SB folds, CO calls … Read more…
Here’s a series of hands I played with a pretty big fish in a recent 3/6 NL game on UB. By the end, we were both 500 BB’s deep, and I ran a huge bluff on him that culminated in … Read more…
Stud/8 is one of my favorite poker games, and Ted Forrest’s Stud Eight-or-Better chapter in the Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide: Tournament Edition highlights many of the game’s most interesting, and potentially profitable, facets. Stud/8 is a complex game, with … Read more…
I saw The Mouth sitting with a full stack at a 25/50 NLHE table along with a guy from my buddy list. The waiting list was 7 deep, but I hopped on anyway. I’ve never played with Mike Matusow myself, … Read more…
Free hand converter brought to you by CardRunners Seat 0: berg5528 ($2465) – Seat 1: maxEmus125 ($3546.50) – Seat 2: Lent53 ($5583.50) – Seat 3: _BeWater_ ($2660)Seat 4: urbandb888 ($3215.70)Seat 5: keep00 ($1929.50) PRE-FLOP: maxEmus125 posts small blind $10Lent53 posts … Read more…
Although I’m running pretty low on cash on Poker Stars of late, I did have some $W sitting around, and since I don’t actually have a conflict with the European Poker Tour Dortmund event at the end of January, I … Read more…
After two days off, I came back to the UBOC with a bang last night, final tabling the $200 PLO8 event. There were nearly 400 runners, which surprised me, because in general even UB’s NLHE events don’t get that many … Read more…
This was an amazingly deep tournament, and I’m really disappointed not to have gone further in it. It was a $100 rebuy where $100 buys 2500 chips, and with blinds starting at 5/10, were sometimes 500BB+ deep when we started. … Read more…
The Ultimate Bet Online Championship commenced last night with a $200 6-max tournament. The great structure and the 6-max format meant there was a lot of room for post-flop maneuvering, and I felt I played very well for most of … Read more…
I played this for a few hours last night, thinking the games would be softer than usual because of the current Five Diamond series they are running. Wrong. Almost everyone in the game was a regular, and although I was … Read more…
The $500 NLHE Main Event was yet another in a long series “close but no cigar” FTOPS finishes for me. We started with quite deep stacks, and so I came out of the gate swinging: Full Tilt Poker, NL Hold’em … Read more…
I almost didn’t play the $500 HORSE FTOPS event last night because I was pretty tired, but generally the quality of play in these things is so bad, and the opportunity to play large-field, mixed-game tournaments so rare, that I … Read more…
Last night was the $300 rebuy with 6-handed tables, which is the FTOPS event in which I felt my edge would be largest. Though my finish wasn’t anything spectacular, I was quite happy with how I played. Here’s one kind … Read more…
Full Tilt Poker, $5/$10 NL Hold’em Cash Game, 2 PlayersLeggoPoker Hand History Converter SB: $1,408.50Hero (BB): $1,525 Pre-Flop: 4 4 dealt to Hero (BB)SB raises to $30, Hero calls $20 Flop: ($60) J 7 7 (2 Players)Hero checks, SB bets … Read more…
This was a $200 PLO8 tournament, and needless to say there was some extraordinarily bad play to be seen. I ended up bubbling it, but you don’t care about that. Let’s look at some hands. Coming Through the Back Door … Read more…
These hands were all against StorkDelaMork. He’s a regular in the mid- to high stakes on FTP, pretty tight but also smart and capable of tricky play. I Don’t Fold Sets Full Tilt Poker, $10/$20 NL Hold’em Cash Game, 6 … Read more…
Full Tilt Poker, $10/$20 NL Hold’em Cash Game, 5 Players LeggoPoker Hand History Converter Hero (BTN): $3,400.50 SB: $2,154 BB: $2,077 UTG: $3,869.50 CO: $3,701 Pre-Flop: A T dealt to Hero (BTN) UTG folds, CO calls $20, Hero raises to … Read more…
Since I was away over the weekend, this was only the second FTOPS event I played. It was a $1000 NLHE tournament, and although I lasted about three hours, I really didn’t have any interesting hands come up. I ended … Read more…
Nothing exciting to report. It was a $200 tournament with 6 players to a table. My starting table was pretty soft but I never got anything going, despite a run of big starting hands. In the first hour I had … Read more…
During the early stages of my Sunday tournaments, I was also playing a few cash tables, and ended up getting into a very interesting heads up match. The other guy was a decent player, reasonably aggressive, and in it for … Read more…
Full Tilt PokerPot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo Ring gameBlinds: $3/$67 playersConverter Stack sizes:UTG: $588UTG+1: $1034.10Hero: $531CO: $276.10Button: $405SB: $193.50BB: $770.30 Pre-flop: (7 players) Hero is MP1 with :ad :7s :4s :jdUTG folds, UTG+1 calls, Hero calls $6 (pot was $15), 2 … Read more…
For those who don’t know, LAGtard refers to a player who is loose and aggressive to a fault. He’s often a reasonably smart and tricky opponent who just gets too fancy and ends up making some fundamental mistakes such as … Read more…
This kind of thing happens in Stud/8 sometimes: the pot goes multiway, and the players leading for each half of the pot keep jamming small edges but everyone else is priced in to keep calling along. The guy showing the … Read more…
Hand #128861866267 Card Stud *High-Low* ($5/$10), Ante $0.50 *3rd Street* – (0.80 SB) JRod34: xx xx 5d___foldsfoucault82: Jc Jd 3c360CF: xx xx 8d___callsKoolAidKills: xx xx 6h___foldsjcards911: xx xx 6s___callspanther44: xx xx 4d___callsMR WHOOOPS: xx xx Qd___foldslajollan: xx xx Jh___folds *4th … Read more…
Full Tilt Poker, $5/$10 NL Hold’em Cash Game, 4 PlayersLegoPoker Hand History Converter Hero (BB): $1,142UTG: $1,241BTN: $3,029.05SB: $1,411 Pre-Flop: A Q dealt to Hero (BB)UTG folds, BTN raises to $30, SB folds, Hero raises to $102, BTN calls $72 … Read more…
Heads up against a decent player. He’s not great by any means, but generally when I’m playing heads up I look for softer competition. Full Tilt Poker, $5/$10 NL Hold’em Cash Game, 2 PlayersLegoPoker Hand History Converter BB: $1,000Hero (SB): … Read more…
So I was playing at a random 5/10 table the other day and had been at the table for only a few dozen hands when this happened: Full Tilt Poker No-Limit Hold’em, $10 BB (6 handed) Hand History converter Courtesy … Read more…
When last we left him, our hero had gotten off to a great start in the $300 WCOOP Second Chance Stud/8 event, only to blow most of his chips on an ill-conceived bluff. When we pick up with him again, … Read more…
Out in 1189th. I was on a roller coaster the whole time, doubled up with set versus top pair that turned a flush draw, then lost half my stack when I raise AQ from middle position and BB calls. Flop … Read more…
Today is the third annual World Championship of Online Poker on Poker Stars. We’re just shy of 3000 runners, and the $7.5 million prize pool makes it the largest internet tournament history. The first hour was a roller coaster for … Read more…
As many of you know already, I final tabled the WCOOP Stud/8 Second Chance event. This isn’t really that impressive, since there were only 64 entrants, but I haven’t made a final table in a while and was really looking … Read more…
From the $530 WCOOP: 7 Card Stud High-Low ($40/$80), Ante $8 50outs (Seat 1): $2,650 sunrise100 (Seat 2): $2,395 foucault82 (Seat 3): $3,426 BabyGrand (Seat 4): $3,605 lock (Seat 5): $1,333 Siren (Seat 6): $3,538 bjbwc (Seat 7): $3,972 Islandrob1 … Read more…
From the $530 WCOOP event: 7 Card Stud High-Low ($20/$40), Ante $4 50outs (Seat 1): $2,782 sunrise100 (Seat 2): $2,611 foucault82 (Seat 3): $3,260 BabyGrand (Seat 4): $3,078 lock (Seat 5): $2,624 Siren (Seat 6): $2,884 bjbwc (Seat 7): $4,041 … Read more…
This is from the $200 6-max WCOOP second chance event. The Villain is a moron, he’s shown up with stuff like KJ after making calls like this out of his SB. I had a feeling he was going to bluff … Read more…
That was quick. Today was the $320 6-max, not the $500 Stud/8, which is actually tomorrow. Mkind was the only named I recognized at the table. Hand 1 I flopped a set of 7’s on 678 flop, raised some dude’s … Read more…
I played the $320 PLO8 today and finished like 180 out of about 1200, good enough for a shallow cash, less than double my money. I was pretty happy with how i played, towards the end it was maybe a … Read more…
Turns out today’s WCOOP was regular 7-Stud, not Hi/Lo, so I sat it out. But tomorrow is PLO8, which is a game I enjoy a lot, so I’m probably going to play. In anticipation, I played a few tables of … Read more…
I played yesterday’s $200 rebuy with disappointing results. It was a sweet structure, with blinds starting at 10/20 and 3000 chips available for $200. Unfortunately, towards the end of the rebuy period, I took a bad beat that left me … Read more…
Meh. Played the $215 Fixed Limit Hold ‘Em WCOOP event today. Full ring limit hold ’em is a boring and stupid game. I was running pretty well the first few hours, which in limit hold ’em just means your AK … Read more…
Unfortunately, Poker Stars’ World Championship of Online Poker is timing out badly relative to my travel schedule: I was in Chicago much of this past weekend, missing the first few events, and I’ll be in New York this coming weekend … Read more…
I’m not exaggerating, I really can not think of another hand that I’ve seen played as badly as this guy played his JJ. The only other contender is when people in tournaments post like half their stack in the BB … Read more…
This was from a full ring table, where the game plays very differently than at a 6-max table. There are more fish, in general, but you get fewer opportunities to play hands with them. There are also some real nits … Read more…
I was really happy with the way I was playing yesterday. The aggressive style that wins money at shorthanded 5/10 NL has been getting me into trouble in tournament play lately, but yesterday I didn’t do anything dumb: no hopeless … Read more…
I skipped Tuesday’s $200 O/8 event, but played the $300 rebuy 6-max last night. I started to the left of kwob20, who was playing like a complete monkey during the rebuy period, just shipping his stack in really bad spots. … Read more…
I literally felt physically ill after busting out of this tournament. That was probably in no small part due to the fact that I’d slept badly the night before, spent the whole day teaching and running around doing other things … Read more…
Once again, got off to a good start. Eventually, this happened: Full Tilt PokerNo Limit Holdem Ring gameBlinds: $100/$2009 playersConverter Stack sizes:UTG: $13505UTG+1: $15869MP1: $1845MP2: $7740MP3: $10452Foucault: $7435Button: $2686SB: $10085BB: $6027 Pre-flop: (9 players) Foucault is CO with :qd :ad3 … Read more…
aklghdghahd;jafjdashfklashgldasjgasjlgkdhasfafjasf Skipped Event 4, which was the $500 PLO 6-max. Chief (for those of you who know him) IM’ed me for a quick primer in the game cuz he satellited in. My first piece of advice was not to play … Read more…
$200 Pot Limit Hold ‘Em. I built up from 3000 to 5000 early on when my KK flopped KJJ and the clown who called me out of position with Q9o bluffed his gutshot into me. That should have taught me … Read more…
Last night was the $200 HORSE event. I made it about three hours in, ran well in the first couple levels against some clueless donks, then got nothing playable for like an hour, got outdrawn by another donkey at Razz, … Read more…
Since I was already planning on playing the Stars $300 and FTP $200 last night, and I’m going to be playing more tournaments because of FTOPS, I decided just to play all tournaments last night and no cash. That’s probably … Read more…
The fifth Full Tilt Online Poker Series started with a $200+9 NLHE tournament last night. It got a huge field, well over 4000 players, and featured the usual generous FTOPS structure. There were no antes, for example, until two hours … Read more…
Now that the WSOP is over, I really want to scale back my tournament play and focus on improving at 6-max no limit ring games. My recent winnings have given me enough of a roll that I want to dive … Read more…
Here’s a good tibit from Conor Tate, who will be at my table today. Apparently he’s a pro with some British coaching site, but I found his blog from his first day’s play both interesting and informative. Two highlights: “I … Read more…
Went out to the Rio last night, primarily to meet Nate from 2+2. Traffic was atrocious, so it took me like twice as long to get there as it should have, but I still had about two hours to play. … Read more…
After the $5K yesterday, I played a $512+13 ten-handed satellite. It was winner take all in tournament lammers, but since this was live poker, my understanding was that deals were almost always made. The play was predictably bad. Tons of … Read more…
I played a bunch of tournaments yesterday and some cash tables as well, including a substantial amout of 5/10 NL. I’ll get my tournament whining out of the way early. Most of what I played went badly, though I came … Read more…
I almost always fold to raises like this, because even though my hand is under-repped, I feel like these low- to mid-stakes players are almost universally incapable of taking advantage of that. From time to time, I talk myself into … Read more…
Most of the Razz hands I’ve posted here lately have been against this same fish. He’s mostly just way too loose aggressive, hates to let go of a hand even when he’s been caught bluffing. That can make him tough … Read more…
Even though we’d technically had our last game a few weeks ago, Logan invited some regulars over for $.50/$1 NLHE game on Wednesday with a $150 buy-in. I played really poorly and got kind of tilty towards the end, which … Read more…
I’ve been trying to play some higher stakes Razz games recently to feel them out, get some practice, and decide whether it’s worth trying to play the $1500 WSOP Razz event. It hasn’t been going great, but I don’t feel … Read more…
I was doing some research yesterday when Joe from my old home game sent me an IM to tell me he was at a really juicy 2/4 PLHE game but had to leave. Thankfully there was no waiting list, so … Read more…
Wowowow were there ever some donkeys out last night. I had a great session at 2/4 and 3/6 NL. I felt like I was doing quite a lot of things right: good table selection, applying a lot of pressure in … Read more…
A few weeks ago, Logan IM’ed me to say that there was a giant fish playing a 15/30 NL deep stack table. I watched for a few orbits of three-handed play and agreed that the guy was awful. He wasn’t … Read more…
I mentioned a few days ago that I was happy with a recent trend in my river play, which is that I tend to be the aggressor. I’m much more likely to make a thin value bet or a bold … Read more…
Edit: The converter screwed up the results on two of these, showing me as the winner when in fact I got stacked. I’m fixing this now, sorry for the confusion. For whatever reason, I decided during last night’s session that … Read more…
I’m posting here every pot for a two-hour session yesterday in which I either lost or won more than $100 and in which I either bet or raised the river. I think it’s a good sign that even when I … Read more…