I was having an issue with my last post at the end having some kind of strange code replacing my text so I'll just put up some thoughts of the last 2 tournaments here:
Now I know I'm playing the cheap tournaments; $50 Sunday, $125 Poker Opens, etc... The one $550 deepstack I played in I don't remember having a beef at all with the way it was run...so maybe it's just the fact that I'm playing in the cheaper tournaments....
However, the more tournaments I'm playing at the Rivers, the more I'm worried I'll be frustrated at the way they are being run. In my last $50 tournament, I don't think we played hand 4 hand at the money/final table bubble(it worked in my favor I guess...I made it?)
My biggest beef would be the blind structure as the blind levels jump at the strangest times, 5K-10K to 10K-20K to 20K-40K(we chopped prior to this level). To me, nothing says, "We don't really care about you and GET THE HELL OUT OF MY POKER ROOM!" like doubling blinds at the end of a tournament. I only hope the more expensive tournaments are be more leveled out. I also remember there was 1 other level jump in the middle of the tournament that seemed unnecessary. At the time I thought maybe they skipped a blind to help move things along, having 50% more entries this last game.
Another issue is that it seems silly to only pay out 8% of the field,10 of 122 entrants got paid in my last tournament. They have the payouts stacked so much toward the 1st 3 spots, and they have the blinds doubling at the end to the point everyone has less than 10 blinds that it would be foolish to not chop... Again, I hope this is just because I'm playing in the cheaper tournaments and I don't remember thinking this when I played the 550 deepstack so I'll just have to decide after playing a few of those...if I still have an issue...
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Thursday, January 30, 2014
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
2014 50% Cash at the Rivers
So I noted in my last post that I have a new proposition, a new years resolution, if you will, to play poker at least once a week. Though I wasn't able to play at the Rivers last weekend due to "life" and the super frigid cold and snow... I played last Sunday(1/19) and Poker League was at Heck's this past Saturday(1/26).
I'm actually starting to think I should take a pad and pen to the poker tables, if I'm going to play every week and give some kind of accurate detailed report of my tournament experiences I probably should write things down during...Maybe I can go all Gus Hansen and take a recorder so I can record a hand after it's played... I'm also going to try to keep track of my bankroll, $ spent, $ earned, etc...
Rivers 35+10+5 tournament(Cheap Bastard Tournament)
There were 122 entries, which probably amounted to about 100 players in the tournament. I'm pretty sure they had 11 tables to start. This was much larger than the week prior, I believe because of the yearly freeroll that was happening that day, there probably was a higher turnout and this probably shouldn't be considered a regular occurance. My table was pretty beautiful. TAG/NITs throughout with 2 to 3 Looser calling-machine players. This didn't help me win many pots, however, in the early goings. Our table didn't break for a long time, so I got to play with a core group of players for almost half the tournament. This allowed me to use really strong reads when I needed them as the blinds got higher. My real turning point hand was around 40 players left, I was sitting a little over 5K in chips, blinds at 300-600 50 ante when I looked down at pocket 2s. There was a raise and a caller prior and I decided to shove. Prior to this I was able to shove preflop and take it down a few times without any callers, as 5K was too much for these guys to risk at this point. I thought this seemed like another good spot to squeeze and even if I get called a little light I'll probably still have a 50/50 shot some of the time I get called. I never know what to do with ducks, so in this case I didn't like folding, and calling seemed wrong, so shoving appeared to be the "most right" thing to do...I dunno... Next guy shoved and 1st raiser called, unfortunately, and I was up against 2 monsters, Js and Ks. The flop was amazing, though, all small and a duck to boot. No J or K on the turn or river and I more than tripled up that hand to about 20K. Ks knocked out the Js. I was able to get my stack to about 30K when I was just about decimated. 500-1000, 100 ante and at this point, it's all-in or fold mode for about half the field, whether they know it or not is what I have to decide. A guy in early position shoves all-in for 14K and I look down at suited AK(spades) I shove all-in myself and it's A-5off vs AKsuited, The door of the flop was a 5, so I knew right away I was in bad shape to KO this guy, but more importantly, reverse all the luck I had with the ducks and the work I'd put in since then... The river pulled out an Ace so I was getting chopped back down myself to near all-in/fold mode...again... This is what's really crazy about this tournament. From this point on to the final table I was sitting on 10-15 bets. I basically weaved my way through every situation and hand and if it was a good spot I shoved, if it wasn't I folded. This went on to the final table...
Final Table:
Wow, I made it to the final table. Payouts were only for the top 10 players(Final Table), this, to me seemed like a really small % of the field to get paid(10/122, 8%??), but I guess that's what I should expect for a $50 tournament? I'd be really peeved if it were one of their poker opens, though. I think they should probably pay out around 12% at least, maybe especially since there were so many buyins... Anyway, I think the final table bubble was pretty nice to me, I decided that I wasn't going to fold my way there and I made a few good shoves to make it and get a "decent" stack to start the final table. A set of 8s helped double me up to near 25 bets, too. Since we would go from 6 players at my table to 10 for the final, I knew that I'd have to tighten up my shove/starting hand ranges if/when I made it, not to mention the time each hand would take would also increase.
So we're at 10 left and the blinds are 4000-8000, 1K ante and I have 75K stack, most certainly one of 3 shorter stacks, though the largest stacks weren't much more than 150K. UTG+1 limps, and she'd been playing really passively at the other table and had a larger stack of about 130K. So I took her limp as pretty weak, at least not something she'd risk her large stack on. Another limps, and I look down at KdQd. This seems like a decent spot in the cutoff so I shove, UTG+1 calls quicker than I thought and other limper folds. She flips over AsJs. When she called that quickly I thought I might be dead, so small victory there. Flop was brutal, and I saw it unfold as if I knew what it was probably going to be, K-Q-10...She flopped the nut-straight...I didn't even realize I had any outs at first as a 5d hit the turn. As the dealer began flipping over the River, I realized a K or Q would be my only savior, I saw the King of Spades. She looked pretty devastated as the realization of what happened settled in and I counted out my chips to near 200K stack. In the few hands after this we lost the woman sitting to my left and that's when murmers of chopping began flying around. At this point, I think we would all get $450, or between 4th and 3rd place money. I would entertain chopping only if everyone else wanted to, so I waited to declare my decision. The woman I just chopped in half didn't want to chop, however, and ended up shoving with K-7, getting called by AJ and she was history. There were 2 stacks larger than mine, blinds were now 10-20K 3K ante(I know, they went from 4-8,5-10 to 10-20, wtf? I had at least hoped there'd be a 8-16 in there) Why play in the tournament for 6 hours to make the final table and then have the payouts be a crapshoot is beyond my comprehension...) I had 180K, most had 120K-ish, chip leader had 260K after his KO. Now we would all get 482, 3rd place money was 498, the next one out gets 187, then 207, 260, 310, 350 and then 398, 670 and 1206 for first. I thought this would be a good spot to chop due to the large amount of risk even for the chip leaders, I mean, every pot preflop was sitting at 50K at this point...It would be a crap-shoot of who would win and I guarantee myself almost $500 at this point. We all decided to chop. We counted out our stacks and took the points for that spot, so I got 8 points for 3rd place. Moneywise, 8 players all took home $482 and after 2 Rivers tournaments in 2014, I've spent 110 and walked out with $482. Adding $150-$55 I've allotted myself for the month, that's a total of $522 for my poker bankroll so far. I don't expect this to keep up, but I'm cashing in half of my tournaments so far in 2014! (Small sample size :-))
I'm actually starting to think I should take a pad and pen to the poker tables, if I'm going to play every week and give some kind of accurate detailed report of my tournament experiences I probably should write things down during...Maybe I can go all Gus Hansen and take a recorder so I can record a hand after it's played... I'm also going to try to keep track of my bankroll, $ spent, $ earned, etc...
Rivers 35+10+5 tournament(Cheap Bastard Tournament)
There were 122 entries, which probably amounted to about 100 players in the tournament. I'm pretty sure they had 11 tables to start. This was much larger than the week prior, I believe because of the yearly freeroll that was happening that day, there probably was a higher turnout and this probably shouldn't be considered a regular occurance. My table was pretty beautiful. TAG/NITs throughout with 2 to 3 Looser calling-machine players. This didn't help me win many pots, however, in the early goings. Our table didn't break for a long time, so I got to play with a core group of players for almost half the tournament. This allowed me to use really strong reads when I needed them as the blinds got higher. My real turning point hand was around 40 players left, I was sitting a little over 5K in chips, blinds at 300-600 50 ante when I looked down at pocket 2s. There was a raise and a caller prior and I decided to shove. Prior to this I was able to shove preflop and take it down a few times without any callers, as 5K was too much for these guys to risk at this point. I thought this seemed like another good spot to squeeze and even if I get called a little light I'll probably still have a 50/50 shot some of the time I get called. I never know what to do with ducks, so in this case I didn't like folding, and calling seemed wrong, so shoving appeared to be the "most right" thing to do...I dunno... Next guy shoved and 1st raiser called, unfortunately, and I was up against 2 monsters, Js and Ks. The flop was amazing, though, all small and a duck to boot. No J or K on the turn or river and I more than tripled up that hand to about 20K. Ks knocked out the Js. I was able to get my stack to about 30K when I was just about decimated. 500-1000, 100 ante and at this point, it's all-in or fold mode for about half the field, whether they know it or not is what I have to decide. A guy in early position shoves all-in for 14K and I look down at suited AK(spades) I shove all-in myself and it's A-5off vs AKsuited, The door of the flop was a 5, so I knew right away I was in bad shape to KO this guy, but more importantly, reverse all the luck I had with the ducks and the work I'd put in since then... The river pulled out an Ace so I was getting chopped back down myself to near all-in/fold mode...again... This is what's really crazy about this tournament. From this point on to the final table I was sitting on 10-15 bets. I basically weaved my way through every situation and hand and if it was a good spot I shoved, if it wasn't I folded. This went on to the final table...
Final Table:
Wow, I made it to the final table. Payouts were only for the top 10 players(Final Table), this, to me seemed like a really small % of the field to get paid(10/122, 8%??), but I guess that's what I should expect for a $50 tournament? I'd be really peeved if it were one of their poker opens, though. I think they should probably pay out around 12% at least, maybe especially since there were so many buyins... Anyway, I think the final table bubble was pretty nice to me, I decided that I wasn't going to fold my way there and I made a few good shoves to make it and get a "decent" stack to start the final table. A set of 8s helped double me up to near 25 bets, too. Since we would go from 6 players at my table to 10 for the final, I knew that I'd have to tighten up my shove/starting hand ranges if/when I made it, not to mention the time each hand would take would also increase.
So we're at 10 left and the blinds are 4000-8000, 1K ante and I have 75K stack, most certainly one of 3 shorter stacks, though the largest stacks weren't much more than 150K. UTG+1 limps, and she'd been playing really passively at the other table and had a larger stack of about 130K. So I took her limp as pretty weak, at least not something she'd risk her large stack on. Another limps, and I look down at KdQd. This seems like a decent spot in the cutoff so I shove, UTG+1 calls quicker than I thought and other limper folds. She flips over AsJs. When she called that quickly I thought I might be dead, so small victory there. Flop was brutal, and I saw it unfold as if I knew what it was probably going to be, K-Q-10...She flopped the nut-straight...I didn't even realize I had any outs at first as a 5d hit the turn. As the dealer began flipping over the River, I realized a K or Q would be my only savior, I saw the King of Spades. She looked pretty devastated as the realization of what happened settled in and I counted out my chips to near 200K stack. In the few hands after this we lost the woman sitting to my left and that's when murmers of chopping began flying around. At this point, I think we would all get $450, or between 4th and 3rd place money. I would entertain chopping only if everyone else wanted to, so I waited to declare my decision. The woman I just chopped in half didn't want to chop, however, and ended up shoving with K-7, getting called by AJ and she was history. There were 2 stacks larger than mine, blinds were now 10-20K 3K ante(I know, they went from 4-8,5-10 to 10-20, wtf? I had at least hoped there'd be a 8-16 in there) Why play in the tournament for 6 hours to make the final table and then have the payouts be a crapshoot is beyond my comprehension...) I had 180K, most had 120K-ish, chip leader had 260K after his KO. Now we would all get 482, 3rd place money was 498, the next one out gets 187, then 207, 260, 310, 350 and then 398, 670 and 1206 for first. I thought this would be a good spot to chop due to the large amount of risk even for the chip leaders, I mean, every pot preflop was sitting at 50K at this point...It would be a crap-shoot of who would win and I guarantee myself almost $500 at this point. We all decided to chop. We counted out our stacks and took the points for that spot, so I got 8 points for 3rd place. Moneywise, 8 players all took home $482 and after 2 Rivers tournaments in 2014, I've spent 110 and walked out with $482. Adding $150-$55 I've allotted myself for the month, that's a total of $522 for my poker bankroll so far. I don't expect this to keep up, but I'm cashing in half of my tournaments so far in 2014! (Small sample size :-))
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
How not to play in a Rivers Tournament...Probably...
I've made it a priority now(New Years Resolution, anyone?) to start playing poker more regularly, at least tournaments for now as my bankroll is pretty nonexistent. My plan for now is to take $150 for this past pay period and start my bankroll from that, if needed refill either next 2 week pay or more likely in pay increments of 2(each month).
I started my quest two Sundays ago when I registered for the 35+10+5 cheap bastard Sunday 2pm tournament at the Rivers. I was slightly late to the tournament so I believe I sat down at the end of level 1, I played my 2nd hand at the table, pocket 9s.
25-50, I raised it up to 225(3 other limpers) in the cutoff with 9s and got 2 callers, flop is A-Q-7 I think 2 diamonds. Checked to me so I bet out 650 hoping to rep the ace and take it down right there. Folds around, guy on my direct right calls.
-People were post-flop betting extremely large amounts a lot,
like a flop with 1500 in the pot was getting a bet of 2500 or 3K for some
reason…my strategy at that point was to play suited nuts and connectors,
set-mine, etc… try to get a large pot with a flopped nuts hand. I
actually looked down at 7-10suited and had a strange feeling but since I lost a
few hands in a row that I played I folded it, low and behold the flop is
6-8-9rainbow and 2 guys betting into it…ugh…
In the end, I still can’t believe I folded Ks for what turns out to be basically
no good reason…that’s as textbook-shove as it gets, right…? Conversely, I
suppose if the guy said he had 10-J I’d feel good about the fold, though…nope, I hate playing badly...it eats my soul...
I started my quest two Sundays ago when I registered for the 35+10+5 cheap bastard Sunday 2pm tournament at the Rivers. I was slightly late to the tournament so I believe I sat down at the end of level 1, I played my 2nd hand at the table, pocket 9s.
25-50, I raised it up to 225(3 other limpers) in the cutoff with 9s and got 2 callers, flop is A-Q-7 I think 2 diamonds. Checked to me so I bet out 650 hoping to rep the ace and take it down right there. Folds around, guy on my direct right calls.
Turn is a Q. He checked, I checked. River was a J
and he bet out 650. That seemed strange like unless he wanted to
check-raise me with the 2nd Queen and didn’t want to risk getting
nothing on the river, however his bet of 650 seemed small if he was trying to
get back lost turn chips and/or get value on the river, it seemed more of a
blocker-type bet, like this is the amount he was comfortable with losing so
instead of checking and allowing me to bet the amount I was comfortable
with. So after some thought, the only way I win this pot is a raise and
if he’s capped at not having a Queen and might actually have only a weak Ace or
not even and my range is much stronger than his, I raised to 1800. He
looked puzzled and thought for a few moments before finally calling. He
looked really puzzled/surprised at my hand/play and I was hoping I could use that against
him later on, even though I lost the hand I felt like I played it pretty good
and put him to a test he might have made a mistake folding on… I think in retrospect the fact that any Ace chops and my small amount of raise was enough for him to speculate, though... The
perfect spot to look spewy landed a few levels later however, I was (to say it really pc) an
F%$#ing idiot…
100-200, 4 limpers(including guy to my right) and I look down at
Ks in the HJ, I have about 7K. I raise it up to 800 and get 3 callers, 1
limper folds. Flop is 10-J-7 rainbow. 1st guy checks, 2nd
guy checks, guy to my right looks really confident. Since my previous hand above, He’s been playing a
lot of connector kinda junky hands. As he reached down to bet I was
already hoping it would be enough that I could shove. He bet out
2500. In retrospect, this is a great amount and afterwards he did bet
“pot” on a lot of flops he hit, however at the time it appeared really strong
and slightly high bet to me. I think it seemed too good to be true so I looked for the thunder in the clear blue sky.... I got a strange feeling like I was about to
get coolered and I started to feel “monsters under the bed” syndrome… 8-9,
10-J, 7s, strangely played 10s…were all I kept thinking he was going to flip
over and so I actually folded my Ks…WTF…right…? It was only afterwards
that I thought, “Dummy, he probably just had A-J or something, that also fits, QJ or
KJ, too…ugh. I couldn’t decide prior to folding what would be more gross,
thinking about how I folded that hand or thinking about how I got coolered and
I finally decided “I’ll find a better spot” (I know...I'm not sure where a better spot can be found...) I never did find a better spot...duh....and soon after I found myself at 4000, 200-400 blinds
and all-in or fold mode. I looked down at A-8 UTG+2 and folded
instead of shoving my 13bet stack. I have a history with A-8 that I don’t
like and so maybe against better strategy I folded…Wow...I'll never win with this style...
After that I won 2 straight hands preflop shoving with 5s, a postflop
shove with A-J after hitting an Ace and then I look down at A-Q, 5900 total in
chips at this point, 3 limpers at 300-600 and I shove, girl to my left(now
this was the 3rd time I saw someone do this) puts in a stack of 1Ks,
like 10K, having like 2K behind. I’m not sure why you’d do this, if someone
actually goes over the top of her, could she decide to fold? And if someone does go
over the top, their range has to be really tight that she’d have to be
crushed, I guess I just don't like calling off my chips as much as shoving them in first…? All folds to her and it’s AQ vs Js and the board ran out low,
low, low,....low and..... low…gone in 60 minutes or less it seemed… I asked the guy what he had
that hand he bet 2500, “Jack with an Ace”…blech…sometimes you just play like
crap, right…?(I really never ever feel this way, but I did actually play like an imbecile...hence, feeling like crap...)
I’ll be thinking about my stupidity all week now till I
play again next Sunday to try to redeem myself…
Some things I really loved about my table that I never got to
utilize:(maybe next time...?)
-Everyone was really passive, nobody was raising preflop, a lot
of limped pots and then as I said, larger postflop bets…
-1 woman was betting 4x-5x preflop that’s always good if she’s a
nit, which she was, call and then bet the flop, she folds…however, later I
3bet-shoved on her 4x raise preflop and she folded so I guess her preflop raise
range was wider than I was giving her credit for, or just her calling range is a lot
tighter than her preflop raise range…which makes the 4x-5x betting patterns that much nicer!
Another hand 100-200 I raised to 600 with QJsuited, 2 callers and
flopped a Q with a gut-shot straight draw(I think needing a 10), 1st
to act, I checked and Girl in seat 1 bets out 6K(she had 12K, the pot was like 1500…wtf…?) I was
seat 9, girls were in seat 6(older lady), seat 10(20-something who ko’d me
later) and 1(30-something) at my table) I folded…what else can I do,
right…? Lots of females in this tournament, which is always good to see (for the game)
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Poker League Season 10 Game #3: Poker Against Humanity
Poker League Season 10, Game #3 is in the books...not the best finish...but I'm ok where I'm at so far...
First of all, I was the bounty. I wasn't sure how this would effect anyone's play against me and it turns out it didn't do all that much as I don't think anyone was playing more or less due to my "disadvantage/advantage" of being worth an extra point upon being Knocked Out. I did find myself with just about a double stack early on, however, I think it was due to some nice hands that were catching and not really due to extra calls that wouldn't have happened if my opponents weren't trying to cooler me. My tournament was going smoothly, Shae was to my left and as Shae usually does, she calls probably way too much and wittles down her stack really early. Then I looked down at Ac-6c and raised it up. tables are split up 5 and 5(missing Jake). I have Shae to my left, then Jaime, Terri, Chivers and then me. Yes, I'm at the girls+Chivers table. Anyway, Ac-6c, 100-200 level and I raise it up to 550, Shae calls, because that's what Shae does, folds all around. Now I notice Shae only has about 4K left over. The flop is pretty awesome, 3-3c-4c, I think and a big part of me hopes that Shae has some small/mid over-pair that she'll like. I bet out 1100 and she raises all-in. This is strange, Shae will have the nuts almost all of the times she does this, however, she previously stated how all her chips were pretty much gone and she'd probably be out soon so I was thinking she just didn't want to be bullied and thought her over-pair was probably best. I like the option of the nut flush draw and possibility Ace would be good, or even a 6 could be good in this spot, though not as likely as the others. I think it was 3500 more to call and so I'm getting 2 to 1 on a call and I'm cool with that plus I have a large stack. She flips over 2-3(off...I think...?) and I Ace the river but my flush doesn't come so she's doubled up and I'm back down from 16K to 11K. Next group of hands I lost a few pocket pairs, one hand with open ended w/2 overs didn't catch and was down to about 8K(starting stack) and Shae was pummelling me, probably had her stack to about 14K. At this point she lost a large pot(5K or so) to Chivers in a 2-pair vs 2 pair struggle and so I was hoping to get them back from Chivers when I looked down at Ks. Chivers, 200-400, raised it up to 1200 UTG, I 3bet him to 2500 and was hoping to get stacks in asap as he actually only had about 7K more and that's more Chivers style. Chivers called and the flop was K-J-7. Chivers bet out 2500 and I shoved, thinking he'd never fold in this situation. He thought for a few moments and then folded, I swear he told me he folded Jacks, but afterwards, I'm thinking he meant 1 Jack and not a set of Jacks...
Oh well, I got a decent stack of 10K moving to the final table when I doubled up Shae again and then Terri, too... I hate it when I just can't seem to knock anybody out and this is what seemed to be happening. I could've had Shae out 3 times, Chivers folded but I could've had him, Terri had the best hand going in, but not by much and out of 5 all-ins I didn't get 1 winning hand... Sometimes poker is just poker! With 7 players left, blinds at 500-1000, Chivers raised to 2500 under the gun, Heck folded and Craig shoved all-in for 2700, I folded small blind. This is one of those interesting spots, if Jon calls, Chivers can't raise because Craig's all-in isn't a complete raise. betting opens if Jon raises, however...Jon only calls the 2700, 1700 more than his blind. Chivers put in the extra 200. I can't remember the flop, but I think Jon bet, Chivers shoved and Jon called. K-9 for Jon ends up being the best hand, Craig had AJ and I think Chivers had KJ, maybe the board was K-high I don't know...but Jon KO'd 2 players in one amazing crappy hand and had a huge stack top 5.
I had to play "survivor" shoving in situational spots because my hands were just not there and my stack was dwindled down... I looked down at 9-4hearts, I was the button with a little over 5K left, Jon is the small blind to my left, Terri next to him as the BB. I had already won a few all-in preflop shoves with no callers and since Jon was stacking his chips, I figured he'd probably fold a really large amount of hands since he was worried about stacking chips and Terri folds a really large range of hands no matter what so when it folded to me I shoved. Jon folded with a hint of thought, but went back to counting/stacking his chips and Terri looked down and looked like she got sick, but blurted, "Alright, I'll call..." in her best impression of Eeyore. I asked her, "Do you have a 9", hoping I'm at least live... I think she thought I asked her that because I had 8s or something and after flipping over pocket 7s kind of irritably, she perked up when she saw it was only 9-high... The board ran pretty dry, not even a heart in sight to give me any kind of hope and I was out 5th...So no "all cash season" for me this year... I will say that I usually suck out on Terri and that's probably the only times I've KOd her so I definately owed her a few double-ups over the years. The only good things that came out of this last game: Dejo was KOd prior to the final table when he was coolered Ks vs K-8suited AIPF, Chris is in great shape to double up, however, Heck used his "ONE TIME" for the season and turned a flush. This was good for me in that I would be able to rack up KO count distance on him, however, as I stated, 5 all-ins and not one win for me, then I couldn't win my own all-in...
Fred Vs Dejo KO Bet Count:
Fred: 7
Dejo: 2
About the time I was KOd, others were starting to play a new game Sean brought called Cards Against Humanity(I had previously played this game with my family over Christmas/New Years and had a blast) and we had a ton of fun with this amazing and horrible game. I think they call it a "Great Game for Horrible People". Aint that the truth. It's like "Apples to Apples" in that a card is read by a player and cards supplied by the other players are compared against that card to answer/complete a sentance and that player picks the best card, giving points to whomever's card is picked...(not my best explanation...):
For example: "The U.S. postal service spent 3 million dollars last year promoting _______"
All of the other players have 5-10 cards that they use to fill in the blank. Each player turns in the card they pick to be their best to fill in the blank and the original reader reads them aloud to much hysteria and picks their favorite/best. The person who's card was picked as the best gets a point. The significant difference/specialty of this game is that it's extremely, ugh...dirty, to say the least...
Turns to be the reader move in a clockwork fashion and we just played until nobody had any cards left. Up until the last round I was leading with 7 points, Dejo had 6 and he won the last card, which for some reason was deemed worth 2 points and so he won. Nobody cares about winning, though, as the game is just too much fun to play and hear all the ridiculousness.
Some were even saying we should play that instead of poker next time, while I don't think that's happening, I know we'll definately be playing both games again next time...
Supplied by Jaime
1st: 55 gallon drum of lube
2nd: HotPockets
3rd: Profit!
| Player | Wk 1 | Wk 2 | Wk 3 | Bnty | Tot Pts | Drp Pts |
| Heck | 12 | 9 | 10 | 31 | 22 | |
| Fred | 9 | 12 | 7 | 28 | 21 | |
| Terri | 7 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 25 | 18 |
| Chris | 10 | 8 | 3 | 21 | 18 | |
| Jon | 8 | 0 | 12 | 20 | 20 | |
| Jaime | 5 | 5 | 8 | 18 | 13 | |
| Jake | 4 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 15 |
| Sean | 6 | 6 | 2 | 14 | 12 | |
| Chivers | 3 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 9 | |
| Shae | 2 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 8 | |
| Craig | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
First of all, I was the bounty. I wasn't sure how this would effect anyone's play against me and it turns out it didn't do all that much as I don't think anyone was playing more or less due to my "disadvantage/advantage" of being worth an extra point upon being Knocked Out. I did find myself with just about a double stack early on, however, I think it was due to some nice hands that were catching and not really due to extra calls that wouldn't have happened if my opponents weren't trying to cooler me. My tournament was going smoothly, Shae was to my left and as Shae usually does, she calls probably way too much and wittles down her stack really early. Then I looked down at Ac-6c and raised it up. tables are split up 5 and 5(missing Jake). I have Shae to my left, then Jaime, Terri, Chivers and then me. Yes, I'm at the girls+Chivers table. Anyway, Ac-6c, 100-200 level and I raise it up to 550, Shae calls, because that's what Shae does, folds all around. Now I notice Shae only has about 4K left over. The flop is pretty awesome, 3-3c-4c, I think and a big part of me hopes that Shae has some small/mid over-pair that she'll like. I bet out 1100 and she raises all-in. This is strange, Shae will have the nuts almost all of the times she does this, however, she previously stated how all her chips were pretty much gone and she'd probably be out soon so I was thinking she just didn't want to be bullied and thought her over-pair was probably best. I like the option of the nut flush draw and possibility Ace would be good, or even a 6 could be good in this spot, though not as likely as the others. I think it was 3500 more to call and so I'm getting 2 to 1 on a call and I'm cool with that plus I have a large stack. She flips over 2-3(off...I think...?) and I Ace the river but my flush doesn't come so she's doubled up and I'm back down from 16K to 11K. Next group of hands I lost a few pocket pairs, one hand with open ended w/2 overs didn't catch and was down to about 8K(starting stack) and Shae was pummelling me, probably had her stack to about 14K. At this point she lost a large pot(5K or so) to Chivers in a 2-pair vs 2 pair struggle and so I was hoping to get them back from Chivers when I looked down at Ks. Chivers, 200-400, raised it up to 1200 UTG, I 3bet him to 2500 and was hoping to get stacks in asap as he actually only had about 7K more and that's more Chivers style. Chivers called and the flop was K-J-7. Chivers bet out 2500 and I shoved, thinking he'd never fold in this situation. He thought for a few moments and then folded, I swear he told me he folded Jacks, but afterwards, I'm thinking he meant 1 Jack and not a set of Jacks...
Oh well, I got a decent stack of 10K moving to the final table when I doubled up Shae again and then Terri, too... I hate it when I just can't seem to knock anybody out and this is what seemed to be happening. I could've had Shae out 3 times, Chivers folded but I could've had him, Terri had the best hand going in, but not by much and out of 5 all-ins I didn't get 1 winning hand... Sometimes poker is just poker! With 7 players left, blinds at 500-1000, Chivers raised to 2500 under the gun, Heck folded and Craig shoved all-in for 2700, I folded small blind. This is one of those interesting spots, if Jon calls, Chivers can't raise because Craig's all-in isn't a complete raise. betting opens if Jon raises, however...Jon only calls the 2700, 1700 more than his blind. Chivers put in the extra 200. I can't remember the flop, but I think Jon bet, Chivers shoved and Jon called. K-9 for Jon ends up being the best hand, Craig had AJ and I think Chivers had KJ, maybe the board was K-high I don't know...but Jon KO'd 2 players in one amazing crappy hand and had a huge stack top 5.
I had to play "survivor" shoving in situational spots because my hands were just not there and my stack was dwindled down... I looked down at 9-4hearts, I was the button with a little over 5K left, Jon is the small blind to my left, Terri next to him as the BB. I had already won a few all-in preflop shoves with no callers and since Jon was stacking his chips, I figured he'd probably fold a really large amount of hands since he was worried about stacking chips and Terri folds a really large range of hands no matter what so when it folded to me I shoved. Jon folded with a hint of thought, but went back to counting/stacking his chips and Terri looked down and looked like she got sick, but blurted, "Alright, I'll call..." in her best impression of Eeyore. I asked her, "Do you have a 9", hoping I'm at least live... I think she thought I asked her that because I had 8s or something and after flipping over pocket 7s kind of irritably, she perked up when she saw it was only 9-high... The board ran pretty dry, not even a heart in sight to give me any kind of hope and I was out 5th...So no "all cash season" for me this year... I will say that I usually suck out on Terri and that's probably the only times I've KOd her so I definately owed her a few double-ups over the years. The only good things that came out of this last game: Dejo was KOd prior to the final table when he was coolered Ks vs K-8suited AIPF, Chris is in great shape to double up, however, Heck used his "ONE TIME" for the season and turned a flush. This was good for me in that I would be able to rack up KO count distance on him, however, as I stated, 5 all-ins and not one win for me, then I couldn't win my own all-in...
Fred Vs Dejo KO Bet Count:
Fred: 7
Dejo: 2
About the time I was KOd, others were starting to play a new game Sean brought called Cards Against Humanity(I had previously played this game with my family over Christmas/New Years and had a blast) and we had a ton of fun with this amazing and horrible game. I think they call it a "Great Game for Horrible People". Aint that the truth. It's like "Apples to Apples" in that a card is read by a player and cards supplied by the other players are compared against that card to answer/complete a sentance and that player picks the best card, giving points to whomever's card is picked...(not my best explanation...):
For example: "The U.S. postal service spent 3 million dollars last year promoting _______"
All of the other players have 5-10 cards that they use to fill in the blank. Each player turns in the card they pick to be their best to fill in the blank and the original reader reads them aloud to much hysteria and picks their favorite/best. The person who's card was picked as the best gets a point. The significant difference/specialty of this game is that it's extremely, ugh...dirty, to say the least...
Turns to be the reader move in a clockwork fashion and we just played until nobody had any cards left. Up until the last round I was leading with 7 points, Dejo had 6 and he won the last card, which for some reason was deemed worth 2 points and so he won. Nobody cares about winning, though, as the game is just too much fun to play and hear all the ridiculousness.
Some were even saying we should play that instead of poker next time, while I don't think that's happening, I know we'll definately be playing both games again next time...
Supplied by Jaime
1st: 55 gallon drum of lube
2nd: HotPockets
3rd: Profit!
Friday, January 3, 2014
Poker League Season 10, Game #2 Results
Edit: This post is late due to me thinking I would get the log for the game and then not getting it...waiting...then finally not getting it and deciding to try to remember everything with no fact-checking available...
Game #2 is in the books and Craig has yet to be seen... Poker League players were in short supply Saturday night due to a large amount(in the North) of snow. We had 8 players, missing Jon and Shae along with Craig's 2nd miss of the season. I really hope Season #8's MVP plays this season, however bleak it might seem...I also have a present for his new son that if Craig's not in the next one his son will probably outgrow... One of the "cool" things about having 3 missed players is that 1st one out still gets like 4 points or something! That's at least what I was telling myself early on when I literally didn't win one hand until right before break. I had gotten a few pocket pairs and I think I played them ok but possibly a little too aggressive early on. I didn't hit a set and it seemed that someone always hit the overcard. Finally, I looked down at KQ and opened it up on the button, got 2 callers, Heck and Jaime in the blinds. (8 handed table) I flopped top pair, something like Kc-8s-4c. Jaime bet out and Heck folded, I thought about raising but I thought the hands she donks with I'm either way ahead or way behind. So instead of taking it down right here most of the time with a raise or losing it right here if she's ahead I thought I could get her to put more chips in on the most times I'm ahead. Turn was an As. Jaime bet again and while I didn't like the A all that much I felt like based on her flop bet and turn bet I didn't feel that she just hit 2 pair, I think she might have taken more time to consider slow-playing it. So she either just hit a naked Ace that she donked with or I was still way ahead. The river was really nice, though, Qd hits and Jaime checks so I bet out about 3/4 pot hoping to look a little bit like that was the only way for me to win the hand, unfortunately she folded and I suppose she was chasing a crappy flush and just whiffed. I won another slightly mid-sized pot against Jaime with KQ later on, flopping a Q. Other than those 2 pots, I believe I lost every other single hand I played. I was even down to 3900 at one point(near the end of 100-200 with 150-300 looming), I shoved uncalled a few times and got myself up to 5K-ish when I beleive that's near when we lost Chivers and then 2 really sweet hands happened in succession.
I can't remember exactly the specifics of the first hand, but Jaime and Chris went at it for stacks. Jaime bet something like 3K on the flop or turn leaving herself like a little over 4K more. I remember checking her stack at this point because of the 3K bet. Chris called the 3K and upon looking at his stack I realized he had pretty close to the same amount left over, but based on him only calling I wasn't sure he exactly realized that they were very close... The river Jaime goes all-in and Chris quickly calls, again, I don't think he knew how close the stacks were... I don't even remember what the hands were, but Jaime lost and was about to seceed her chips to Chris when I said that we should get a count because it's closer than everyone thinks based on looks. I also have a vested interest in the KOs Chris gets based on our seasonal prop bet(this year we're not betting on most wins, but most KOs, Currently Chris:1, Fred:4) Sure enough, Jaime ended up having 150 more than Chris and therefore he didn't get her KO chip just yet, sweet!
Very next hand I looked down at pocket 5s, I believe there were 2 limpers and an open from Jake, this was enough in the pot and I believe I had a small amount of fold equity so I raised all-in, Jaime hated her cards and while I told her it was probably in her best interest to try to win this pot, where she can get a much larger amount of blinds and antes compared to if she folds and would have to win 3 all-in hands to get the equivalent, I think my advice fell on deaf ears. It's also in my best interest to get a KO, too! She folded to try to win the next hand... Heck called really quickly(I think mostly just to KO me), Jake folded. Chris was loving the fact that I might be KOd so early and also get no KOs for this game, or at least not getting Jaime's KO chip. Heck had QJ vs my 5s and I smacked a 5 on the flop and never looked back. I'm now sitting on 10K+ and feeling pretty good, though it would've been nice to get Jaime's KO chip after sort of keeping Chris from getting it. I think Jake ended up KO-ing Jaime next hand, she had a better hand this time than her previous 9-3 when I had 5s, and shoving all-in no matter how much you have left is no fun if you've got 9-3 so I understand... You'd just feel better about yourself after shoving almost any other hand than 9-3. So we've lost Chivers and Jaime, 8 total, 6 left. I believe Sean was next to go, though this is where I usually check out the log file of the game to see who went out when and I can then jog my memory as to the events that transpired to cause said KOs...Sean and Terri both had small stacks and possibly played 5 hands total all night, at this point it looked pretty much like me/Heck/Jake/Dejo would be winning this week. Sean and Terri both were KOd I believe in that order(Terri may have KOd Sean, and then still had a short stack, that's how little I'm talking about...and I think Dejo KO'd Terri...doh!)
Fred: 4
Dejo: 2
and then Chris lost a ton of chips in a hand with Jake that he described as follows:
". I was really bummed about how I played a hand against Jake. It was so stupid… I think blinds were 7/14, I’m the in the BB and it folds around to him in SB. He doubles the blind, and I call with 9-2o. Mostly just to defend since he was raising a lot, but whatever. It was probably stupid right there. So the flop comes 7s-6s-7c and we both check. Turn is a 2h, and he leads out for the minimum. I’m thinking to myself, OK, so there’s a chance he has a 7, but he did raise preflop, so maybe not. Maybe he has 2 overs to the board and wants me out. He can’t put me on a 2 here can he? So what the hell I’ll call. This was stupid mistake #2. Then the worst thing in the world happens, a 9d on the river. He waits a minute and bets 3k. So this bet to me seems like an odd bet considering how he’s played it so far. And in my head, I’m yelling at myself HE HAS 3 SEVENS YOU ASS!! JUST FOLD! But then there’s that little devil on my shoulder saying he can’t put you on a 9 here… you should call! So after a while, I did and of course he has 3 sevens."
I think I told him that playing 9-2 isn't in itself a complete mistake, but I think as tough as it might be at 7/14, raising might be better here than calling, since I don't think 9-2 is ever a hand you'll like hitting a card with, as Chris didn't like his 2 and even at the end, didn't like the 9 either...just tough to play 9-2...probably should either be a fold or raise.
Chris had a cooler of a hand versus Heck AJ vs AQ and wasn't the same after that. He didn't have much when I KO'd him, but it always feels good to knock him out so I'll take the KO+1
KOs:
Fred: 5
Dejo: 2
3 of us played for a decent amount of time(again, I need the log for specifics...doh!) Probably from top 4 or 5, we had "SLAPSHOT" the movie on in the background. Unfortunately or possibly fortunately the TV was to my back so I missed it, however, I did notice that Heck was enjoying it and would very often check his cards early and had a few movements signifying playable or folding hands. This was nice since he was directly to my left. I noticed he looked down at his hand while I was SB, Jake was making his decision but Heck was already looking up at the poker timer, this signified that he either wanted to raise or see how much longer before the blinds changed. I thought this meant either way he wanted to play the hand. I looked down at AKoff and it might be the first and only time I got AK all night come to think of it...I decided to complete the blind hoping Heck to raise. He was also making a slightly larger raise than Jake or I were making, I believe we were making 3800-4000 raises while he'd made a few 5K raises. Sure enough he raises to 5K, I shove all-in and he calls, flipping over QJ. I think I hit trip Ks on the turn and I'm pretty sure that was Heck's last hand, it sent Jake and I to heads up.
KOs
Fred: 6
Dejo: 2
Jake and I went to heads up with 4 to 1 stacks with me being favored. I think it lasted 1 or 2 hands.
I raised to 5K with KJsuited, he shoved, I got a count and called 6 or 7K more
K on the flop and it was pretty unsatisfactory for Jake. Me on the other hand, I went from being possibly the 1st or 2nd one out to top 4, taking out 4th,3rd and 2nd place players to win. It felt pretty nice.
Next game is at my place this weekend, wish me luck!!
Oh yeah, almost forgot:
KOs
Fred: 7
Dejo: 2
FYI: We've decided that your own KO chip doesn't count, so we're strictly counting actual KOs. That's why I don't have 8 :-) I'm hoping to really put some distance this weekend on the bet so I can focus on the decision of Chris' costume :-)
Game #2 is in the books and Craig has yet to be seen... Poker League players were in short supply Saturday night due to a large amount(in the North) of snow. We had 8 players, missing Jon and Shae along with Craig's 2nd miss of the season. I really hope Season #8's MVP plays this season, however bleak it might seem...I also have a present for his new son that if Craig's not in the next one his son will probably outgrow... One of the "cool" things about having 3 missed players is that 1st one out still gets like 4 points or something! That's at least what I was telling myself early on when I literally didn't win one hand until right before break. I had gotten a few pocket pairs and I think I played them ok but possibly a little too aggressive early on. I didn't hit a set and it seemed that someone always hit the overcard. Finally, I looked down at KQ and opened it up on the button, got 2 callers, Heck and Jaime in the blinds. (8 handed table) I flopped top pair, something like Kc-8s-4c. Jaime bet out and Heck folded, I thought about raising but I thought the hands she donks with I'm either way ahead or way behind. So instead of taking it down right here most of the time with a raise or losing it right here if she's ahead I thought I could get her to put more chips in on the most times I'm ahead. Turn was an As. Jaime bet again and while I didn't like the A all that much I felt like based on her flop bet and turn bet I didn't feel that she just hit 2 pair, I think she might have taken more time to consider slow-playing it. So she either just hit a naked Ace that she donked with or I was still way ahead. The river was really nice, though, Qd hits and Jaime checks so I bet out about 3/4 pot hoping to look a little bit like that was the only way for me to win the hand, unfortunately she folded and I suppose she was chasing a crappy flush and just whiffed. I won another slightly mid-sized pot against Jaime with KQ later on, flopping a Q. Other than those 2 pots, I believe I lost every other single hand I played. I was even down to 3900 at one point(near the end of 100-200 with 150-300 looming), I shoved uncalled a few times and got myself up to 5K-ish when I beleive that's near when we lost Chivers and then 2 really sweet hands happened in succession.
I can't remember exactly the specifics of the first hand, but Jaime and Chris went at it for stacks. Jaime bet something like 3K on the flop or turn leaving herself like a little over 4K more. I remember checking her stack at this point because of the 3K bet. Chris called the 3K and upon looking at his stack I realized he had pretty close to the same amount left over, but based on him only calling I wasn't sure he exactly realized that they were very close... The river Jaime goes all-in and Chris quickly calls, again, I don't think he knew how close the stacks were... I don't even remember what the hands were, but Jaime lost and was about to seceed her chips to Chris when I said that we should get a count because it's closer than everyone thinks based on looks. I also have a vested interest in the KOs Chris gets based on our seasonal prop bet(this year we're not betting on most wins, but most KOs, Currently Chris:1, Fred:4) Sure enough, Jaime ended up having 150 more than Chris and therefore he didn't get her KO chip just yet, sweet!
Very next hand I looked down at pocket 5s, I believe there were 2 limpers and an open from Jake, this was enough in the pot and I believe I had a small amount of fold equity so I raised all-in, Jaime hated her cards and while I told her it was probably in her best interest to try to win this pot, where she can get a much larger amount of blinds and antes compared to if she folds and would have to win 3 all-in hands to get the equivalent, I think my advice fell on deaf ears. It's also in my best interest to get a KO, too! She folded to try to win the next hand... Heck called really quickly(I think mostly just to KO me), Jake folded. Chris was loving the fact that I might be KOd so early and also get no KOs for this game, or at least not getting Jaime's KO chip. Heck had QJ vs my 5s and I smacked a 5 on the flop and never looked back. I'm now sitting on 10K+ and feeling pretty good, though it would've been nice to get Jaime's KO chip after sort of keeping Chris from getting it. I think Jake ended up KO-ing Jaime next hand, she had a better hand this time than her previous 9-3 when I had 5s, and shoving all-in no matter how much you have left is no fun if you've got 9-3 so I understand... You'd just feel better about yourself after shoving almost any other hand than 9-3. So we've lost Chivers and Jaime, 8 total, 6 left. I believe Sean was next to go, though this is where I usually check out the log file of the game to see who went out when and I can then jog my memory as to the events that transpired to cause said KOs...Sean and Terri both had small stacks and possibly played 5 hands total all night, at this point it looked pretty much like me/Heck/Jake/Dejo would be winning this week. Sean and Terri both were KOd I believe in that order(Terri may have KOd Sean, and then still had a short stack, that's how little I'm talking about...and I think Dejo KO'd Terri...doh!)
Fred: 4
Dejo: 2
and then Chris lost a ton of chips in a hand with Jake that he described as follows:
". I was really bummed about how I played a hand against Jake. It was so stupid… I think blinds were 7/14, I’m the in the BB and it folds around to him in SB. He doubles the blind, and I call with 9-2o. Mostly just to defend since he was raising a lot, but whatever. It was probably stupid right there. So the flop comes 7s-6s-7c and we both check. Turn is a 2h, and he leads out for the minimum. I’m thinking to myself, OK, so there’s a chance he has a 7, but he did raise preflop, so maybe not. Maybe he has 2 overs to the board and wants me out. He can’t put me on a 2 here can he? So what the hell I’ll call. This was stupid mistake #2. Then the worst thing in the world happens, a 9d on the river. He waits a minute and bets 3k. So this bet to me seems like an odd bet considering how he’s played it so far. And in my head, I’m yelling at myself HE HAS 3 SEVENS YOU ASS!! JUST FOLD! But then there’s that little devil on my shoulder saying he can’t put you on a 9 here… you should call! So after a while, I did and of course he has 3 sevens."
I think I told him that playing 9-2 isn't in itself a complete mistake, but I think as tough as it might be at 7/14, raising might be better here than calling, since I don't think 9-2 is ever a hand you'll like hitting a card with, as Chris didn't like his 2 and even at the end, didn't like the 9 either...just tough to play 9-2...probably should either be a fold or raise.
Chris had a cooler of a hand versus Heck AJ vs AQ and wasn't the same after that. He didn't have much when I KO'd him, but it always feels good to knock him out so I'll take the KO+1
KOs:
Fred: 5
Dejo: 2
3 of us played for a decent amount of time(again, I need the log for specifics...doh!) Probably from top 4 or 5, we had "SLAPSHOT" the movie on in the background. Unfortunately or possibly fortunately the TV was to my back so I missed it, however, I did notice that Heck was enjoying it and would very often check his cards early and had a few movements signifying playable or folding hands. This was nice since he was directly to my left. I noticed he looked down at his hand while I was SB, Jake was making his decision but Heck was already looking up at the poker timer, this signified that he either wanted to raise or see how much longer before the blinds changed. I thought this meant either way he wanted to play the hand. I looked down at AKoff and it might be the first and only time I got AK all night come to think of it...I decided to complete the blind hoping Heck to raise. He was also making a slightly larger raise than Jake or I were making, I believe we were making 3800-4000 raises while he'd made a few 5K raises. Sure enough he raises to 5K, I shove all-in and he calls, flipping over QJ. I think I hit trip Ks on the turn and I'm pretty sure that was Heck's last hand, it sent Jake and I to heads up.
KOs
Fred: 6
Dejo: 2
Jake and I went to heads up with 4 to 1 stacks with me being favored. I think it lasted 1 or 2 hands.
I raised to 5K with KJsuited, he shoved, I got a count and called 6 or 7K more
K on the flop and it was pretty unsatisfactory for Jake. Me on the other hand, I went from being possibly the 1st or 2nd one out to top 4, taking out 4th,3rd and 2nd place players to win. It felt pretty nice.
Next game is at my place this weekend, wish me luck!!
Oh yeah, almost forgot:
KOs
Fred: 7
Dejo: 2
FYI: We've decided that your own KO chip doesn't count, so we're strictly counting actual KOs. That's why I don't have 8 :-) I'm hoping to really put some distance this weekend on the bet so I can focus on the decision of Chris' costume :-)
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