iPod Freeroll

Ash posted this on his blog and I'm always up for a good freeroll so I registered too.

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Home Game Report

It was poker night again last night. We had a couple new players players, but still only about 13 in total. I ended up at the donkey table; no one was raising pre flop and post flop the bets were typically just min bets.

I was having difficulties with my hands holding up. First, I slow play a set to have Jen catch her better set on the river to win a lot of my chips. Then I hit TPGK and bet hard to have Julie (new player to both our home game and to the game of poker), call me all the way to the river. She was calling with A high, but unlucky me the Ace did come. The funny thing, she would call my big bets with A high, but earlier, she had two pair and wanted to fold it when Scott was betting hard into her.

I was finally crippled at the final table when I called Mooney's allin with A4s on a 567 rainbow flop. Mooney is perfectly willing to push with air so I was 90% confident my A high had him beat and I knew if I called other similar hands would fold. When I called Mooney turnd over 79o. I did catch an A on the turn, but another 7 came on the river. I'm left with 25 chips when the blinds are either 75/150 or 100/200 (I'm not sure exactly which). I'm allin the next hand and with lots of betting and calling I know I'm toast. And it's confirmed when Jessie turns over quads.

Jason came in third, Adam came in second. And a surprising first was Jen. She was definitely excited. She knows how to play poker, but she also knows she's not very good at it.

Also, Adam invited Rob and I to a tournament in Strathroy. It's a $30 buy-in and he says usually about 80 people buy-in, so we agreed to go. I've never played in a real live tournament, so this should be fun. I believe it's next week, so I will have to write up a trip report.

Computers Suck

So my computer has been acting a little weird lately. And the other day I got a BSOD (blue screen of death), when I turned my computer back on, all my default settings on firefox had returned and all my saved passwords were gone. As well, every time I opened a program, I'd get a little pop up that a file was corrupt and to run chdsk. I've reloaded my setting for firefox, but everytime I shut down my computer, they disappear again. Rob thinks my hard drive is going so that sucks huge. We weren't really looking to get a new computer anytime soon, but mine might not last much longer. Stupid computers. Plus if my computer does go, I won't be able to play poker until we get a new one.

Poker Night at Rob's

Poker night at our house is next week-end. Anyone we know and lives nearby is invited so feel free to head over to our house. You can get more info here.

I like Talking Poker Tournaments

It was a small turnout, likely since it wasn't a league game, just a spur of the moment game. I started off well. I quickly got my stack up to over 2k. I wasn't chipleader, but I was a strong second. In fact there was a point where it was just studiopet (1st) and myself who had over 1500 chips. Then, I did a good job of doubling Robbie Robb up, made a stupid call on the flop with air. I knew deep down he had hit, but because he was so short at this time, I felt like risking it. And shortly after that, I helped to double Robbr up. I tried to be cute limping UTG with TT (only 5 of us left at this time), when Robbr raised (also quite short by this time) I re-raised, essentially putting him all in. When the cards were flipped, he shows JJ--D'oh.

The shortest I ended up was around 800. I was actually THE short stack for a while. I figured I would end up bubbling. Then Robbr was nice enough to give back my chips back when he raise, and I moved all in with AQo. He called with A7o, and my hand held.

After a ton of hands Bunny and Studio are eliminated and were HU. It was quick. First hand, Robbr folds his SB to me. Second hand, well here it is below:

POKERSTARS GAME #8397933803: TOURNAMENT #42508903, $10+$1 HOLD'EM NO LIMIT - LEVEL IV (50/100) - 2007/02/11 - 22:28:55 (ET)
Table '42508903 1' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 8: Robbr25 (4500 in chips)
Seat 9: N1kita (4500 in chips)
N1kita: posts small blind 50
Robbr25: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to N1kita [6c Ah]
N1kita: raises 200 to 300
Robbr25: raises 600 to 900
N1kita: calls 600
*** FLOP *** [Ac 6d 6h]
Robbr25: bets 900
N1kita: calls 900
*** TURN *** [Ac 6d 6h] [4s]
Robbr25: checks
N1kita: checks
*** RIVER *** [Ac 6d 6h 4s] [7c]
Robbr25: checks
N1kita: bets 2700 and is all-in
Robbr25 said, "well you prob have me beat, but KOD"
Robbr25: calls 2700 and is all-in
N1kita said, "ouch"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
N1kita: shows [6c Ah] (a full house, Sixes full of Aces)
Robbr25: shows [Kd Kh] (two pair, Kings and Sixes)
N1kita said, "yeah i did"
N1kita said, "gg"
N1kita collected 9000 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 9000 | Rake 0
Board [Ac 6d 6h 4s 7c]
Seat 8: Robbr25 (big blind) showed [Kd Kh] and lost with two pair, Kings and Sixes
Seat 9: N1kita (button) (small blind) showed [6c Ah] and won (9000) with a full house, Sixes full of Aces


And as you can see, that was game. YEAH ME!

Oh and here is an amusing screen shot of the table as the game ended. Please note from this picture you can tell exactly how long the tournament lasted (and no, it's not because of the clock in the bottom right hand corner).

Back To Basics

Ok, so I decided not to take a break. I've been playing a little bit, but not much. A few Sngs, a couple of tourneys. I played a $25PL table at Stars the other day. Anyway, I think if I'm going to keep playing, I need to get back to the basics, back to continuously working on my game. I haven't read a poker book in a while and I think I need to start up again. I plan on re-reading Harrington on Hold'em again. There are a few I haven't read yet that I think I should. The "Book of Tells" and "Kill Phil" are on my list. I've been content to stay at the level I'm comfortable at. It's time I get serious about moving up again. I may not do well everytime I take a stab at moving up, but that's normal. And that's where bankroll management comes in. Get rolled for moving up, try it, if need be move back down, if not, build the roll and move up again. It may be a long time before I'm playing $1/$2 since I don't play very many hands, but I should eventually get there.