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Dunno

Date: Sat, Sep 6, 2008 Internet

Can't win a fucking hand at the moment. Maybe not playing well, maybe don't know how to play at all.

I call a raise on the button with AQs, flop it Q high, the other guy has AA. I call a minraise with TT in position, lead a 9 high flop, third guy gets it in, he has a set.

Last night, I played a home game. I didn't play particularly well, a bit looser than I'm comfortable with, but I was doing okay. Some guy limps UTG. He's a retarded bad player who limps an extremely wide range. A couple of other limps, I check with Q9s. I can't remember what the flop was, but I called a bet legitimately and by the turn I had a gutshot and a flush draw. The other guy shoved. The pot offered me a fair bit better than 2.5 to 1. I had 13 sure outs and because this guy is completely fucked in the head, I figured I might have four more. Sure enough he had paired his kicker. His holding: Q8. I missed all 17 outs. Still, I had a stack, and used it to shove several times. Some horrible loosetard, who had earlier called a raise with 96 in the small blind ffs goes, you don't have any skill, don't you know any other moves, play flops blah blah. And I said, stfu, this is skill, which didn't satisfy him. So I shove AT, and retard, who has pissed his stack down to a couple of K, calls with J9. Obviously he rivers a 9.

So I chisel it back up to about 7K and this other guy, who has been pretending to have a clue, making a big show of going over hands when he has to make a call, limps. I have J9 in the SB, and I consider pushing, but I've pushed a fair bit over limps, so I figure he may be trying a trap, and instead of folding, my more usual play, I complete and BB checks. The flop is all spades, which is meh, but it checks round. The turn makes me a straight and I bet out. Mr Hollywood shoves and I snapcall. Basically, yes, he can have the made flush, but he can have lots and lots of other hands: Asx with or without a pair, two pair, air, whatever. I can't fold a straight and I betted enough to make it very hard for me to fold, so that I could get value from the calltard and one-card. Well, he had the flush. He had limped with J2s. WTF?

See, that right there is what makes poker hard to bear sometimes. I was fifth in this tourney. The remaining players were W, a weak player who basically donates online; the calltard, who is a complete fish, only still in the game because he sucked out on me twice; the fish who called my raise with 96 and basically hit every flop every hand, and played nearly every hand at that; and a guy who thinks that J2s is a decent hand to limp fivehanded just because you have a big stack. Not making any money in that company is rubbish.

But how come I wasn't better situated? How come I didn't have a bigger stack? Wouldn't a decent player have won there? I dunno. I just dunno.

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2K but no celebration

Date: Wed, Sep 3, 2008 Internet

I was excited about switching sites, and I started really well in the Tilt 12s. I think I'm easily good enough to win in them, but my good start has evaporated. I am currently on a 12 buyin downswing. It's not huge, but it's disheartening.

Am I playing badly? Here are today's games:

1. Card dead for the whole tourney, I shove TT, get called by QQ.
2. First playable hand is AK. I shove. < TT
3. 88 < AQ
4. I snap off a shove by a regular with AK. He has less than 8BB so he can have a wide range but this time he has 88. That cripples my stack and the same guy makes a looseish call a few hands later to bust me.
5. I win.
6. I shove over a very loose minraiser with AQ. She calls with AT. Niiiice.
7. I come 3rd when AJ < K7s.
8. I come 2nd. The other guy is shoving ATC HU and I snap him off with QJ. He has AT. Nice.
9. I raise pre with JJ. Flop is Q high. Some guy shoves, I snapcall. He has 77. He rivers another 7.
10. A9 < AJ. I wouldn't have been shoving A9 if I had at any point in the tourney picked up a stronger hand.
11. I shove 63s BvB and the other guy calls with K9. No love for that from the poker gods. I probably should have folded because the other guy was a reg and he'd probably realised I was shoving ATC.
12. A guy limped my blind UTG at t240 with JT, which is just horrible, and I shoved when I hit top pair. Sadly, he had hit a straight.
13. This:

Full Tilt Poker Game #7916342761: $11 + $1 Sit & Go (Turbo) (60192943), Table 1 - 20/40 - No Limit Hold'em - 6:48:11 ET - 2008/09/03
Seat 1: BonzenBros (1,470)
Seat 2: noggie17 (1,515)
Seat 3: LENA19 (1,605)
Seat 4: basatagirl (1,420)
Seat 5: MancWank (1,580)
Seat 6: angelinababy (1,500)
Seat 7: GROUILLE (1,440)
Seat 8: it4lianjob (1,500)
Seat 9: geckogordon (1,470)
MancWank posts the small blind of 20
angelinababy posts the big blind of 40
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to basatagirl [Ad As]

NICE.

GROUILLE has 15 seconds left to act
GROUILLE calls 40
it4lianjob folds
geckogordon raises to 120

NICE. I'll get some action.


BonzenBros folds
noggie17 folds
LENA19 folds
basatagirl raises to 460

Rather lazily, I use the raise pot button. But never mind, that's a decent enough raise.

MancWank folds
angelinababy folds
GROUILLE has 15 seconds left to act
GROUILLE calls 420

Limpcalling 40/420 is not good play.

geckogordon calls 340

He definitely should have folded the holding he had.

*** FLOP *** [3c Qc 9h]
GROUILLE bets 980, and is all in

wat

geckogordon calls 980
basatagirl calls 960, and is all in

Easy call.

GROUILLE shows [Jc Kd]

WTF? I mean, jeezus. Limping preflop is just awful. Calling the raise is inexplicably bad. Shoving the flop is insane. I suppose it was meant to be a bluff, but he needs us both to have missed completely and not to have started with a pair. He has a gutshot draw, so he is only a 5/1 dog.

geckogordon shows [Ah Qs]

That's a reasonable call of the other guy's shove but he should have folded preflop.

basatagirl shows [Ad As]

YAY. I win so long as I don't see a Q or a T.

*** TURN *** [3c Qc 9h] [4s]
*** RIVER *** [3c Qc 9h 4s] [Td]

Oh.

14. I shove AQs with about 10BB, which is a nobrainer and that's < JJ. I then shove 64 with 3BB and get iso'd by AT. It could be worse. My cards are live.

Well, so what? He flops a T anyway.

***

So anyway, I've finally played more than 2K games.

1014 $5 regulars at 35.4%
315 $6.5s at 24%
569 $10 regulars at 19.7%
5 $10 turbos at -9%
25 $12s at -14%
65 16s at -28.6%

I've also played quite a few $1 games on PokerRoom when stoned. I didn't keep my record of them, but I was running about 40% ROI over maybe 50. I've also played a few turbos on PokerRoom, all $5, and I was almost exactly breakeven (0.3%, something like that). And maybe a dozen Double or Nothing $5 games on PR at about 27%. I don't think that's sustainable though and they're no fun at all to play.

I know it looks like I suck at turbos, but I don't think I do. I ran so badly over a couple of nights at the 16s that I haven't gone back to them, and I think I will be very +EV in the Tilt 12s. The players in them are largely awful and I think I played well without much luck. The JJ hand was just incredible and the AA hand would make a lesser man cry. At neutral luck just for today, I'd be running in the positives, and probably around 15%. I think I'll probably make 10% in them and maybe better. There were quite a lot of regs in my games too, although few of them seemed actually to be any good.

My knowledge of ICM is fairly weak, but you don't need to have it down pat to be profitable in these games. I'll be working on it this month. I'm not going to get downheartened by a bad night. I've had them before, and I'll have worse. I only played 20 games today. I need to play 200 and run as badly in a day before I start getting all weepy. I feel that I played well and that's all that counts. Looking over my games in Wiz, I don't see bad plays (or where I do, I understand why I took -EV spots and I don't feel they were bad).

Overall, I've run at 22.6% over 2K games. That's obviously skewed by the many $5 games I've played. I don't have any illusions that I'm anywhere near good yet. I doubt I'll make it.

But I will keep trying. I hope to have a happy report in 1K games from now. I also hope it's later this year, because I intend to play a lot more. I'm going to keep Kelly bankrolling Tilt. I'm not in danger of having to move down because I played a couple of $10s because the number of regs in the 12s had got ridiculous (why these guys sign up to games that already have four tight regular players in them, I don't know, but when you've already lost a few bucks, it's better to steer clear, so I did) and moneyed in both.

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August results

Date: Sat, Aug 30, 2008 Internet

I'm not likely to play more STTs before the end of this month because of work, so I guess the month is done for me.

I knew I wouldn't get much volume in, but 57 games was pathetic.

I played 9 5ers on PokerRoom for 1%, which sucked. I also played a bunch of Double or nothing tourneys and made a few bucks, but I don't think you can get a decent ROI in them.

I played 37 6.5s on Tilt for 43.7% and 12 12s for 20%. I'm using a Kelly bankroll on Tilt so I moved up after running hot for a few games. The 12s haven't seemed very tough to me. As usual in turbos, I feel underequipped because my knowledge of ICM is poor (it's not such an issue in regulars because you don't have to rely on it so heavily). I will stay in the 12s unless I drop ten buyins or gain about 30 buyins, which I hope is more likely.

So overall I averaged 31% for my 57 games. I know what you're thinking: if you ran that hot for 57, why not play 570? Well yeah, but when you run at 30% for a stretch, you know you'll be running at -10% for a stretch too, so...

Wrong thinking, obv. The point of playing a Kelly BR was to get away from caring about losing so much (by yo-yoing between levels, which puts less at stake psychologically, and allows the possibility of a hot month boosting me up a couple of levels and my maybe finding out that I'm good enough to play higher).

So in September, I do aim to play more. I'm aiming at 500 games and a lot of study. We'll see how close I get.

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Bingo

Date: Wed, Aug 27, 2008 Internet

wat


PokerStars Game #19934083906: Tournament #104598784, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2008/08/27 - 07:32:59 (ET)
Table '104598784 4' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: GeorgeKing (1840 in chips)
Seat 2: le_boss_1975 (6770 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 3: CarstenM777 (3940 in chips)
Seat 4: oldjacek (805 in chips)
Seat 5: cocko87 (2385 in chips)
Seat 6: nofoldb4riva (3075 in chips)
Seat 7: FR Vessant (922 in chips)
Seat 8: jamesm34 (1900 in chips)
Seat 9: narucy (1135 in chips)
GeorgeKing: posts small blind 50
le_boss_1975: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Qh Qd]

I'm shortstacked because of the retard calling an allin with A3 and sucking out to his backdoor straight, but I've been fighting, biting and scratching to stay alive, and now I have a hand.

CarstenM777: folds
oldjacek: folds
cocko87: folds
nofoldb4riva: calls 100
FR Vessant: raises 300 to 400

I clearly have a monster and you'd need to be retarded to call this.

jamesm34: folds
narucy: folds
GeorgeKing: calls 350

Here's my retard. There is no hand, none at all, that should call here. He should either shove or fold. Mostly fold because I am transparently trying to get a customer with a monster.

le_boss_1975: folds
nofoldb4riva: calls 300
*** FLOP *** [2s 4d 4h]
GeorgeKing: checks
nofoldb4riva: checks
FR Vessant: bets 522 and is all-in
GeorgeKing: calls 522


He has AQ.

So I double up, right? After all, he only has three outs to beat me. And he would have three outs against my entire range in this spot. Seven at the outside, but nearly always three.

If he was a thinking player, or even capable of thought, he'd know that most likely I'm going and going with a pair, and nearly always a big pair.


nofoldb4riva: folds
*** TURN *** [2s 4d 4h] [Ad]

Oh.

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Back in the saddle

Date: Wed, Aug 27, 2008 Internet

Nice to know my luck hasn't deserted me.

This is a 4/180.


PokerStars Game #19933703696: Tournament #104598784, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2008/08/27 - 06:54:03 (ET)
Table '104598784 19' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: FR Vessant (1820 in chips)
Seat 2: chip2xxx (1530 in chips)
Seat 3: fullastilt (470 in chips)
Seat 4: KillaKiwi863 (1280 in chips)
Seat 5: aceguff (1220 in chips)
Seat 6: LIAM116 (1430 in chips)
Seat 7: Doomfaring (4390 in chips)
Seat 8: mark hood (1220 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 9: Haagenti (1420 in chips)
FR Vessant: posts small blind 10
chip2xxx: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Kc Kd]
mark hood is connected
fullastilt: folds
mark hood has returned
KillaKiwi863: raises 80 to 100
aceguff: folds
LIAM116: folds
Doomfaring: folds
mark hood: calls 100
Haagenti: folds
FR Vessant: raises 420 to 520

Big raise hoping to get one caller.


chip2xxx: folds
KillaKiwi863: calls 420
mark hood: calls 420

I don't mind that too much so long as I don't flop an ace.

*** FLOP *** [5h Ks 6d]

Beautiful. I'm miles ahead of anything they can even conceivably have.

FR Vessant: checks
KillaKiwi863: bets 760 and is all-in

YES!

mark hood: calls 700 and is all-in

YES!

They have AT and A3s. WTF? Okay, AT thinks he's stealing but WTF at A3s?! He has nothing whatsoever, just an overcard and a backdoor straight draw.

FR Vessant: calls 760


*** TURN *** [5h Ks 6d] [4d]

Backdoor.

*** RIVER *** [5h Ks 6d 4d] [2d]

Straight draw.

*** SHOW DOWN ***
FR Vessant: shows [Kc Kd] (three of a kind, Kings)
KillaKiwi863: shows [Ts Ah] (high card Ace)
FR Vessant collected 120 from side pot
mark hood: shows [3s As] (a straight, Deuce to Six)
mark hood collected 3680 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3800 Main pot 3680. Side pot 120. | Rake 0
Board [5h Ks 6d 4d 2d]
Seat 1: FR Vessant (small blind) showed [Kc Kd] and won (120) with three of a kind, Kings
Seat 2: chip2xxx (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: fullastilt folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: KillaKiwi863 showed [Ts Ah] and lost with high card Ace
Seat 5: aceguff folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: LIAM116 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: Doomfaring folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: mark hood showed [3s As] and won (3680) with a straight, Deuce to Six
Seat 9: Haagenti (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)


Oh well, at least I'm still in.

At another table, just a $2 qualifier.

PokerStars Game #19933743368: Tournament #103657904, $2.00+$0.20 Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2008/08/27 - 06:57:45 (ET)
Table '103657904 9' 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: FR Vessant (2730 in chips)
Seat 2: FHain1981 (2065 in chips)
Seat 3: dgkp (2510 in chips)
Seat 4: sarahdan1 (2535 in chips)
Seat 5: poker4788 (1195 in chips)
Seat 6: Betprince (2270 in chips)
Seat 7: fatman497000 (3070 in chips)
Seat 8: cokehan (3080 in chips)
Seat 9: wallbreaker0 (3140 in chips)
sarahdan1: posts small blind 50
poker4788: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [9c Ah]
Betprince: folds
fatman497000: folds
cokehan: folds
wallbreaker0: folds
FR Vessant: raises 200 to 300

Steal the blinds.

FHain1981: folds
dgkp: folds
sarahdan1: folds
poker4788: raises 895 to 1195 and is all-in

This guy's loose and a bit retarded, so I think I'm probably ahead.

FR Vessant: calls 895

so call that.

He has A6. So bad.

*** FLOP *** [2d 6h Jd]

Oh dear.

*** TURN *** [2d 6h Jd] [2s]
*** RIVER *** [2d 6h Jd 2s] [Qd]
FR Vessant said, "sigh"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
poker4788: shows [As 6d] (two pair, Sixes and Deuces)
FR Vessant: shows [9c Ah] (a pair of Deuces)
poker4788 collected 2440 from pot
FR Vessant said, "absolutely terrible"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2440 | Rake 0
Board [2d 6h Jd 2s Qd]
Seat 1: FR Vessant showed [9c Ah] and lost with a pair of Deuces
Seat 2: FHain1981 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: dgkp (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: sarahdan1 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: poker4788 (big blind) showed [As 6d] and won (2440) with two pair, Sixes and Deuces
Seat 6: Betprince folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: fatman497000 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: cokehan folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: wallbreaker0 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

A few hands later, I shove over a couple of limpers with KQ. One calls with 55. Terrible obviously but his hand holds up because the poker gods still hate me.

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On the up

Date: Mon, Aug 11, 2008 Internet

I love to win at a new level. It's a sign that you've arrived. Well okay, it's possible you could luckbox a win at any level but it still feels good. Winning my first $5 game felt fantastic (it was the first tourney of any sort that I'd won), and winning my first $10er confirmed that I could move up and could win higher.

I've recently being playing on Full Tilt, using a Kelly bankroll. So after running like God in the 6.5s to grind up my roll, I moved up to the 12s. If the few games I've played are anyhow representative, they are plenty soft enough that I needn't fear playing on a Kelly roll.

So I loved this:

Full Tilt Poker Game #7600545543: $11 + $1 Sit & Go (Turbo) (57814201), Table 1 - 300/600 - No Limit Hold'em - 2:15:13 ET - 2008/08/11
Seat 2: basatagirl (6,750)
Seat 6: TheDebster (6,750)
TheDebster posts the small blind of 300
basatagirl posts the big blind of 600
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to basatagirl [Kc Kh]
TheDebster raises to 6,750, and is all in
basatagirl calls 6,150, and is all in
TheDebster shows [Qh Ad]
basatagirl shows [Kc Kh]
*** FLOP *** [3s 6d 3c]
*** TURN *** [3s 6d 3c] [Th]
*** RIVER *** [3s 6d 3c Th] [6h]
TheDebster shows two pair, Sixes and Threes
basatagirl shows two pair, Kings and Sixes
basatagirl wins the pot (13,500) with two pair, Kings and Sixes

I deserved it. I am in really good form at the moment, imo, playing as well as I ever have. With reasonable luck, I will soon be winning at another new level, the 24s. Well, fingers crossed that the Kelly idea will allow me to move up a lot more quickly than I would have otherwise, even if I crash and burn when I get there.

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How not to fit or fold

Date: Sun, Aug 10, 2008 Internet

Here's a hand that demonstrates one of the rare occasions you should not play fit or fold after the flop. I think folding this flop would be a mistake. It's questionable whether raising or calling is the right play, but this is how I generally play mid pairs that I've decided are good. My play preflop is also questionable. I'd normally fold--I don't usually get all loose because I have a big stack (I was doubled up with AK on an A high flop by a guy with AQ. Given that the flop was AJx, I think his play sucks, but it was early, so he probably wasn't clear how tight I am. Villain has played three of ten hands, raising two.


Full Tilt Poker Game #7597807180: $6 + $0.50 Sit & Go (Turbo) (57795428), Table 1 - 30/60 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:15:38 ET - 2008/08/10
Seat 1: willebones (1,355)
Seat 3: Wingnut77 (915)
Seat 4: mike5910 (1,740)
Seat 5: preno51 (2,310)
Seat 6: mike7050 (1,095)
Seat 7: basatagirl (3,060)
Seat 8: blankchocolate (1,435)
Seat 9: tibblewinks (1,590)
preno51 posts the small blind of 30
mike7050 posts the big blind of 60
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to basatagirl [7c 7h]
basatagirl calls 60

Bit dangerous to limp this because the table's been a bit aggro but

blankchocolate folds
tibblewinks raises to 180

Meh.

willebones folds
Wingnut77 folds
mike5910 folds
preno51 folds
mike7050 has 15 seconds left to act
mike7050 folds
basatagirl calls 120

It's a thin call and I'll be OOP for the whole hand, so I've made the textbook bad play that you try to avoid by folding small pairs UTG! But I have it heads up with a hand that could easily be best. Also, his raise size is bad, so I can probably put his early looseness down to being bad, rather than getting good cards.

*** FLOP *** [4h Kd 6d]

I may well be good on this flop though. Here I'll look at what he bets and go from there. There's 330 in the pot.

basatagirl checks
tibblewinks has 15 seconds left to act
tibblewinks bets 180

I don't think he has a king. With the flush draw out there, most players would bet more. This is basically half the pot, because with Full Tilt's new bet slider, this is two clicks of the mouse.

basatagirl calls 180
*** TURN *** [4h Kd 6d] [3h]
basatagirl checks
tibblewinks checks

Now I know I'm ahead. I could have donked the turn but it's safe so I prefer to let him bet at it again. When he doesn't, I know I am ahead.

You could bet the turn, but if called, you may be in a tough spot on the river. You won't really want to bet a lot of rivers, but if you don't, you can be faced with a bet you're really not keen on calling. So I keep the pot small. I don't mind if he tries to steal again. I'll call another small bet.

*** RIVER *** [4h Kd 6d 3h] [9s]

That 9 is not likely to have hit him, so I'm pretty likely to have the best hand. I could bet, but there are two reasons not to. Even though this board is safe for me, I won't want to call a big bluffraise, and with a hand that's missed the board completely, which is by far his most likely hand, he'll be sorely tempted to make one. I guess it depends whether he puts me on a pair or a K. The other reason is that he won't pay me off with a worse hand here. He's just not all that likely to have anything he'll call a bet with.

So I'm going to check and call a bet. If he does something insane like shoving, I'm in a very tough spot. But mostly he won't. If he bluffs, he'll want to get away cheaply against a king, which would call a shove.

basatagirl checks
tibblewinks has 15 seconds left to act
tibblewinks bets 360
basatagirl calls 360

Easy call.

*** SHOW DOWN ***
tibblewinks shows [Tc Js] King Jack high

Raising with JT is superbad obv.

basatagirl shows [7c 7h] a pair of Sevens
basatagirl wins the pot (1,530) with a pair of Sevens

Nice.

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Chip and a chair

Date: Sat, Aug 9, 2008 Internet

People say ICM overvalues small stacks. But here it clearly undervalues mine.

On a tough bubble, I've watched the bigstacks walk Ef the Champ maybe a dozen times. I've had to scrap and claw to stay in it.

After this hand, I'm down and out:

Full Tilt Poker Game #7572645119: $6 + $0.50 Sit & Go (Turbo) (57607417), Table 1 - 300/600 - No Limit Hold'em - 4:35:08 ET - 2008/08/09
Seat 3: Ef The Champ (3,110)
Seat 4: basatagirl (2,610)
Seat 6: Sluggapint (2,550)
Seat 9: puzzyliquer (5,230)
puzzyliquer posts the small blind of 300
Ef The Champ posts the big blind of 600
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to basatagirl [Kd Jd]
basatagirl raises to 2,610, and is all in
Sluggapint calls 2,550, and is all in
puzzyliquer folds
Ef The Champ has 15 seconds left to act
Ef The Champ folds
basatagirl shows [Kd Jd]
Sluggapint shows [9s 9d]
Uncalled bet of 60 returned to basatagirl
*** FLOP *** [Qc Ad 4h]
*** TURN *** [Qc Ad 4h] [2d]
*** RIVER *** [Qc Ad 4h 2d] [8h]
basatagirl shows Ace King high
Sluggapint shows a pair of Nines
Sluggapint wins the pot (6,000) with a pair of Nines
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 6,000 | Rake 0
Board: [Qc Ad 4h 2d 8h]
Seat 3: Ef The Champ (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 4: basatagirl showed [Kd Jd] and lost with Ace King high
Seat 6: Sluggapint (button) showed [9s 9d] and won (6,000) with a pair of Nines
Seat 9: puzzyliquer (small blind) folded before the Flop

60 chips and I'm about to pay my blinds. So I'm gone right?

Well, when the SB turned over QQ against my 74, it sure looked like it, but check out the board that ran out:

[Th 9d 4s 8c] [4d]

Then I double up again and again and again, until:

Full Tilt Poker Game #7572671035: $6 + $0.50 Sit & Go (Turbo) (57607417), Table 1 - 400/800 - No Limit Hold'em - 4:39:40 ET - 2008/08/09
Seat 3: Ef The Champ (4,370)
Seat 4: basatagirl (3,280)
Seat 6: Sluggapint (3,280)
Seat 9: puzzyliquer (2,570)
Sluggapint posts the small blind of 400
puzzyliquer posts the big blind of 800
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to basatagirl [3c Qs]
Ef The Champ folds
basatagirl folds
Sluggapint has 15 seconds left to act
Sluggapint raises to 3,280, and is all in
puzzyliquer calls 1,770, and is all in
Sluggapint shows [Kh Jh]
puzzyliquer shows [9c Tc]
Uncalled bet of 710 returned to Sluggapint
*** FLOP *** [8d 8c Ac]
*** TURN *** [8d 8c Ac] [Jc]
*** RIVER *** [8d 8c Ac Jc] [3s]
Sluggapint shows two pair, Jacks and Eights
puzzyliquer shows a flush, Ace high
puzzyliquer wins the pot (5,140) with a flush, Ace high
The blinds are now 500/1,000
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 5,140 | Rake 0
Board: [8d 8c Ac Jc 3s]
Seat 3: Ef The Champ didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: basatagirl (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 6: Sluggapint (small blind) showed [Kh Jh] and lost with two pair, Jacks and Eights
Seat 9: puzzyliquer (big blind) showed [9c Tc] and won (5,140) with a flush, Ace high

I make the money.

And from there, obviously only one result was possible:

Full Tilt Poker Game #7572694797: $6 + $0.50 Sit & Go (Turbo) (57607417), Table 1 - 600/1200 - No Limit Hold'em - 4:43:55 ET - 2008/08/09
Seat 3: Ef The Champ (80)

Just pissed his stack away calling a shove with T7.

Seat 4: basatagirl (13,420)
Ef The Champ posts the small blind of 80, and is all in
basatagirl posts the big blind of 1,200
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to basatagirl [Ah 7c]
basatagirl shows [Ah 7c]
Ef The Champ shows [4s Jd]
Uncalled bet of 1,120 returned to basatagirl
*** FLOP *** [8s 3c 2d]
*** TURN *** [8s 3c 2d] [Qd]
*** RIVER *** [8s 3c 2d Qd] [Kc]
basatagirl shows Ace King high
Ef The Champ shows King Queen high
basatagirl wins the pot (160) with Ace King high
Ef The Champ stands up
basatagirl stands up
basatagirl (Observer): gg
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 160 | Rake 0
Board: [8s 3c 2d Qd Kc]
Seat 3: Ef The Champ (small blind) showed [4s Jd] and lost with King Queen high
Seat 4: basatagirl (big blind) showed [Ah 7c] and won (160) with Ace King high

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Do not bluff fish

Date: Thu, Aug 7, 2008 Internet

I forget not to bluff the fish, but this is very wtf.

TEXAS_HOLDEM, NO_LIMIT, T4-73792947-41
played at "Chiang Mai" for USD TC from 2008-08-07 22:32 until 2008-08-07 22:33
Seat 1: donkdude ($3,245 in chips)
Seat 2: akhenaton38 ($1,785 in chips)
Seat 3: acato1 ($8,155 in chips)
Seat 4: tucan513 ($6,520 in chips)
Seat 5: cebelica ($2,410 in chips)
Seat 6: calaman ($3,480 in chips)
Seat 8: TeddysBear81 ($2,380 in chips)
Seat 9: Dr Zen ($4,485 in chips)
Seat 10: vato24 ($2,315 in chips)
ANTES/BLINDS
acato1 posts blind ($50), tucan513 posts blind ($100).

I have 9d8d.

PRE-FLOP
cebelica folds, calaman folds, TeddysBear81 folds, Dr Zen bets $250

It's not a strong hand for a raise but worth trying to steal with when folded to me.

, vato24 folds, donkdude folds, akhenaton38 folds, acato1 folds, tucan513 calls $150.

FLOP [board cards: QS 5D KC ]
tucan513 checks, Dr Zen bets $400, tucan513 calls $400.

That board may have hit him but more importantly it hits most raising ranges so I'm going to put a bet in. I hate being called.


TURN [board cards: QS 5D KC QD ]
tucan513 checks, Dr Zen checks.

I pick up a flush draw so I don't bluff off my equity.

RIVER [board cards: QS 5D KC QD KH ]
tucan513 checks, Dr Zen bets $1,350

But it's worth a bluff here. I put in a full pot bet, which strongly reps a K. Unless he has a K, he can't call. It's unlikely he does, but he may just call with a Q.


, tucan513 calls $1,350.

Oh dear. K or Q, right?

tucan513 shows [ AS 5S ]

WAT

I hate playing these idiots. His play is plain awful. He should fold preflop. Calling with easily dominated hands is a mistake, and the suitedness makes no real difference. His call on the flop is terrible with bottom pair. You have to put me on the bluff, and why would you? But even worse is the river. He is calling with A high. He can only be good against AJ/AT, something like that, or a counterfeited pair. But if I had a pair on the flop, his call with a pair of 5s is awful.

Now, I know that my bet on the river is going to look a bit like A high if I bet small. But a PSB says "I have a king that was scared of the Q on the turn". Even the drunk, stupid fish on PokerRoom understand that kind of talk. Or maybe not.

I am jack of PokerRoom now. I still have the doomswitch there. I played a few 5ers but I barely broke even. That's a waste of my time.

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yourFish

Date: Thu, Aug 7, 2008 Internet

Here's some of the worst poker I've ever seen. I know yourDa of old. He used to play limit, and was one of the biggest fish ever to (dis)grace the .25/.50 game. Like me, he moved over to STTs, but unlike me, he never bothered learning how not to suck.

This is new from him though. His MO used to be to limp into every pot. Now he's discovered the raise button.

TEXAS_HOLDEM, NO_LIMIT, T4-73726634-7
played at "Jaipur" for USD TC from 2008-08-07 03:24 until 2008-08-07 03:24
Seat 1: takecare99 ($3,530 in chips)
Seat 2: yourDa ($2,950 in chips)
Seat 3: Winshester ($1,470 in chips)
Seat 4: Bawghert77 ($1,320 in chips)
Seat 5: zac26atak ($1,390 in chips)
Seat 6: Dr Zen ($1,480 in chips)
Seat 9: Pokernix1 ($1,480 in chips)
Seat 10: tamasscg ($1,380 in chips)
ANTES/BLINDS
Dr Zen posts blind ($10), Pokernix1 posts blind ($20).

PRE-FLOP
tamasscg folds, takecare99 folds, yourDa bets $250

WTF? 11BB raise!

Winshester folds, Bawghert77 folds, zac26atak folds, Dr Zen folds, Pokernix1 calls $230.


Double WTF!!

There is no hand you want to call with here but not ship it in except maybe AA.

FLOP [board cards: 5C KD 3S ]
Pokernix1 checks, yourDa bets $2,700 and is all-in

Just a slight overbet.

Now have a guess what he has. You're thinking he must have AK, right? Maybe a set of kings, AA, set of 3s or 5s. All will be revealed.

Pokernix1 calls $1,230 and is all-in.

Well, this guy must have some sort of king, right? At the least a king?

TURN [board cards: 5C KD 3S 8C ]


RIVER [board cards: 5C KD 3S 8C KC ]


SHOWDOWN
yourDa shows [ TD TH ]

wat

Pokernix1 shows [ AC 2S ]

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

***

His new style is amusing at least.


TEXAS_HOLDEM, NO_LIMIT, T4-73726634-16
played at "Jaipur" for USD TC from 2008-08-07 03:28 until 2008-08-07 03:29
Seat 1: takecare99 ($3,455 in chips)
Seat 2: yourDa ($4,570 in chips)
Seat 3: Winshester ($1,425 in chips)
Seat 4: Bawghert77 ($1,320 in chips)
Seat 5: zac26atak ($1,515 in chips)
Seat 6: Dr Zen ($1,425 in chips)
Seat 10: tamasscg ($1,290 in chips)
ANTES/BLINDS
tamasscg posts blind ($15), takecare99 posts blind ($30).

PRE-FLOP
yourDa calls $30, Winshester folds, Bawghert77 folds, zac26atak folds, Dr Zen calls $30


I have QTs. It's a bit loose to call with, but yourDa will pay me handsomely if I flop big.

tamasscg calls $15, takecare99 checks.

FLOP [board cards: 7H JC 2H ]

That's an okay flop. I have a flush draw and an over. I will call a small bet, I suppose.

tamasscg checks, takecare99 checks, yourDa bets $210

wat

In case you're not clear why this is bad: consider what yourDa might have here and what others might have. If yourDa has a strong hand, like AJ or 22, he will fold out everything weaker that might have paid him. If he has a weak hand, he's asking to be called or shoved over by stronger hands.

Dr Zen folds, tamasscg folds, takecare99 folds.

But no one had one.

***

This is more like vintage yourDa:

TEXAS_HOLDEM, NO_LIMIT, T4-73726634-18
played at "Jaipur" for USD TC from 2008-08-07 03:29 until 2008-08-07 03:30
Seat 1: takecare99 ($3,410 in chips)
Seat 2: yourDa ($4,630 in chips)
Seat 3: Winshester ($1,425 in chips)
Seat 4: Bawghert77 ($1,320 in chips)
Seat 5: zac26atak ($1,515 in chips)
Seat 6: Dr Zen ($1,395 in chips)
Seat 10: tamasscg ($1,305 in chips)
ANTES/BLINDS
yourDa posts blind ($15), Winshester posts blind ($30).

PRE-FLOP
Bawghert77 bets $120, zac26atak folds, Dr Zen folds, tamasscg folds, takecare99 folds, yourDa calls $105


I'm going to tell you now, yourDa has A3. This is typically awful poker. He should fold that shit superfast.

Winshester folds.

FLOP [board cards: AC 8S 8D ]
yourDa checks, Bawghert77 bets $180, yourDa calls $180.

I HAS PURRRRRRRRRR.

TURN [board cards: AC 8S 8D 2H ]
yourDa checks, Bawghert77 bets $375, yourDa calls $375.

At this point, anyone not drunk, stoned or demented knows he's beat. Your opponent raised pre, bet the flop and turn decently and you still think your TPNK is ahead? Think again, Mr Retardofish. He cannot even win if he pairs his 3 because the board has paired. He is dead to an 8 if villain's kicker is bigger than an 8, and a 7 or 2 if it isn't.


RIVER [board cards: AC 8S 8D 2H 7H ]
yourDa checks, Bawghert77 bets $645 and is all-in, yourDa calls $645.

SHOWDOWN
Bawghert77 shows [ KS AS ]

The only person surprised by that was yourDa.

Did he once call someone down and they showed a bluff in this kind of spot?

yourDa shows [ 3D AD ]

but it was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooted.

yourDa comes from Brisbane. WAINS?

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July results

Date: Thu, Jul 31, 2008 Internet

So July has not treated me particularly well. I didn't get in the volume I hoped for and obviously if you don't play much a downswing is really going to hurt.



I played 185 10ers at 6.6%, which is some way below what I'd like to achieve. But over that few tourneys, variance is a killer. Taking the past two months together, it looks a lot better (21%, which is very decent, but still only a small sample size). I felt I played okay but it didn't really run for me.

In August, I plan to go back to turbos mostly. I plan to play on Stars and Tilt. On both I'll play 6.5s, and look to move up soonish. My knowledge of ICM is really not at the point where I feel I can take on the 16s on Stars, but when will it ever be if I don't study? On Tilt, I'm going to use a Kelly bankroll. That basically means I will avoid going bust rather than be a bankroll nit. I'll be moving up when I meet the Kelly criterion for each level, and moving down if I lose enough to drop down to the previous level's Kelly bankroll.

I won't go into how you figure out Kelly (you can google it if you GAF) but I currently have 300 bucks or so on Tilt, and will move up when I'm up to 390, which is what you need for Kelly at the 12s if your ROI is 5%. If my ROI isn't 5%, I need to give up STTs. That doesn't mean I will necessarily run at that next month. It means that that should be attainable in the long term.

Playing with this sort of bankroll management means you risk yoyoing between levels, but I don't mind that so much. I am giving myself a decent chance to play at higher levels by doing this, rather than inching up all the time.

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Lesson: poker principles

Date: Mon, Jul 28, 2008 Internet

Some things about poker are so obvious that once you know them, it seems you always knew them, but they are actually products of experience, so you didn't know them when you started. I'm going to talk about a few in the hope it will be slightly enlightening.

The nature of poker

At first glance, poker seems like chess with a bit of randomness, or bridge, or even backgammon, but it is not. In chess, both players have complete information (can see other guy's pieces and his moves can clearly be interpreted; in bridge, all the luck is at the start, in the deal, and can be easily overcome by skill, so that skill is the predominant factor (indeed, the point of bridge is that the deal simply sets the initial conditions for the game and from that point, luck doesn't enter into it); backgammon has a random element but also has complete information--it involves short-term luck but not so much that skill doesn't quickly prevail.

But poker is different. It's a game of luck that you use skill to navigate. You don't just learn how to play and win every time you meet weaker opponents, as you can in chess or even in bridge. Your skill is simply a way to make luck work for you. (By "luck", we mean simply "random events that favour you" in this instance.) I liken skill to the air in a lifejacket, which you wear while tossed by the seas of luck.

One problem players have as they learn--and I suffer from this--is that they mistake what they are learning to do. You are learning to inflate your lifejacket, not to smooth the waves. You are still going to be rising and falling with the waves of luck. And sometimes when you're in the trough, you'll be looking up at guys with barely any air in their lifejackets, who are nonetheless enjoying the peaks.

I find that hard to bear, because one thing I have always liked in games is that they reward skill promptly. You bother to learn them and they repay you. They have an internal justice. But poker doesn't, at least not in the short term.

Most learning in poker is learning about losing.

I'll briefly touch on this because it's important to realise that most of what you learn in poker is not how to win, how to overcome villains or how to make the max, although some of it is. No, you mostly learn how not to lose. One of the first things you learn is to fold a lot. You do this because not folding loses you money. You might then learn not to call. Partly, this is because calling can't make anyone fold, removing an avenue of winning, but mostly it's because calling so often loses money. And the question you are often asking yourself is not "will I win if I call here?" but "will I lose?"

You do not know whether what you will do will make you win.

In chess, you can figure out your opponent's moves in advance, and think up countermoves. You can work out strategies that you can be sure--be you skilled enough--will win.

In poker, you can't. You can't see the other guy's cards. This has the curious outcome that even though all spots you are in have outcomes that either favour you or don't, because you do not know what he has, you must find another means of deciding on your strategy.

Good players realise this, and instead of "putting him on a hand", they "put him on a range". It sounds more complicated than it is. If a guy raises 10% of his hands and he has raised in this hand, you can assume he will have a top 10% hand. This may not be super accurate, because he might raise all the top 8% and some bits and pieces for deception, but it's as good as you're likely to get.

The flop comes and now you do not know whether it hit him or what he has. But you can figure out what he would have for each of the hands in his range, and then average it out to see how you stand. Of course, we don't do that at the table. We just think "did that flop likely hit his range?" most of the time. But sometimes--often--we consider our hand, which we know, with his range, which we can figure out, so that our play will be correct against the range, if not the hand he actually holds.

This is the best you can do in poker. The principle is that you will be in the same or similar spots many times, and the best you can do across those spots is to make the play that maximises your outcome on average.

So the guy raises, the flop comes 853 and you hold 99, so you think you may be ahead of him. His range has more unpaired overcards than pairs (I'll explain how you know this another time), so on average you are winning. He bets, you raise and...

Well, obviously, if he has AK or AQ, he folds. Nice. But if he has KK, oh dear. One outcome is wonderful; one horrible, and you can ever know which you are going to get. You will wish you had known when he shows KK!

It gets worse. Say you are considering pushing a hand, say AQ. You think the other guy will call with 20% of his hands and you are taking it that he will call the top 20%. This is an approximation, of course, because most players do not know what the top 20% does or doesn't include.

So sometimes you will get it wrong because he'll call with J7 (not top 20%), making your shove bad, and sometimes you will get it right because he'll call with AK, but oh shit, that's towards the top end of his range, and your play, good against the range, is horrible against AK.

It's almost never worth chasing.

"Chasing" is calling bets trying to hit a draw. It's not to be confused with betting a draw. In most forms of poker, particularly in cash games, you can call bets when you have the odds to do so.

What? Well, remember, we are trying to make the plays that have positive EV. If you are offered 3 to 1 by the pot and your hand is 2 to 1 to make, you will make money by calling the bet. Two out of three times you will miss your draw, but the other time you will hit and win enough money to make up for the times you miss.

No limit complicates matters because you can often get higher "implied odds" (IOW, the pot may offer you 3 to 1, but that's not all you hope to win because there will be further betting, which you hope to have the best of).

But two things should be kept firmly in mind. Effective odds--the odds you can get now--are fixed and can be counted on. Implied odds--even the improvement in your odds brought by a call from someone you are certain will call--cannot be counted on. Sometimes the other guy just doesn't pay off your set or your flush.

Setmining is the key example of a spot where you hope to have implied odds. It's t20 and some guy raises to 60. You hold a pair and call. You will hit your set about one in nine times, so you are definitely not getting the odds for your call. But you hope to be "paid off" enough the times you do to make up for all the times you don't.

If the other guy is tight though, you may not. Most raising ranges have more unpaired than paired cards, and most times the other guy has nothing after the flop. So he might cbet, and you can take that, but a tight player just won't keep throwing money your way, particularly if he realises you are also tight.

So you have to be realistic about implied odds. And on the whole that means, particulary in STTs, that you shouldn't chase draws. You'll end up regretting it, particularly because hitting doesn't improve your position as much as you hoped all that often.

This can be the one time.

Fish chase all the time. We don't mind that they do. (We only mind their hitting!) We offer them bad odds and let them try to beat us. They like to chase because they remember the time they stacked some guy with a flush, and don't remember all the missed draws (see "Salience is your enemy" below).

But when they are 4 to 1 to hit a draw, you should not forget that this can be the one. And it hurts when it is. You forget all the times they didn't get there (largely because you do not know for sure that they were calling with a draw until they hit it). But each time, this can be the one time.

Remembering this really helps you stop tilting when you lose longshot bets. It does all work out but that means that you have to lose some. A 70/30 seems like a really strong shot for you: KK vs AJ for instance. But you have to lose the 30 to win the 70, and that's a lot of losses.

Salience is your enemy.

Say you have a boyfriend. You see him every day and you get on well most of the time. Most days you meet up, have dinner and fuck, and it's all cool. But every now and then, you have a big row.

Sometimes people split up because of the big row. They forget all the cool nights and remember only the fight. That's salience. In general terms, change is salient for humans.

In poker, the times you win are not very salient, because you expect to win if you are a good player. What sticks are the times you lose horribly. For bad players, it's pretty much the other way round. They remember how great it was to have a flush, so they call bets with their sooooooted cards and chase their flushes every time.

Either way, salience is your enemy. You need to learn to play hand by hand. I remember a great post by Gigabet in which he stressed this approach, and it's only recently I've realised what he meant by it. Abandon expectations and play the hand as it is.

Actually, this is great advice for the whole of poker, and I wish I could follow it: abandon expectations and just play. You have to trust yourself to do the right thing and let the results take care of themselves.

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I.h8.poker

Date: Tue, Jul 22, 2008 Internet

I am beginning to lose the will to live. I mean, wtf. Here I'm on the bubble with a guy sitting out.

PokerStars Game #19008054802: Tournament #97205515, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level VI (100/200) - 2008/07/22 - 04:12:24 (ET)
Table '97205515 1' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: FR Vessant (2790 in chips)
Seat 7: nolimitaa (7690 in chips)
Seat 8: Grizzly68 (2030 in chips)
Seat 9: 1382oracle (990 in chips) is sitting out
Grizzly68: posts small blind 100
1382oracle: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [As Kh]
FR Vessant: raises 400 to 600
nolimitaa: folds
Grizzly68: calls 500

Wow, he must have a very decent hand, right? Because he only needs to sit out three orbits and he makes the money.

1382oracle: folds
*** FLOP *** [6h Tc 7d]
Grizzly68: checks
FR Vessant: checks

I am not cbetting in this spot.

*** TURN *** [6h Tc 7d] [Kc]

There's my king.

Grizzly68: bets 200
FR Vessant: calls 200

Keep the pot small, just in case he has KT or a set.

*** RIVER *** [6h Tc 7d Kc] [5h]
Grizzly68: bets 600
FR Vessant: calls 600

Nothing to do but call that.

*** SHOW DOWN ***
Grizzly68: shows [Ks 7s] (two pair, Kings and Sevens)

WTF? How can you even consider calling pre with that? To be OOP with it for the whole hand? And of course he not only hits but so do I, so I can't even get away from it.

Here is a genuinely tough decision though, two hands later:

PokerStars Game #19008062829: Tournament #97205515, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level VI (100/200) - 2008/07/22 - 04:13:16 (ET)
Table '97205515 1' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: FR Vessant (1190 in chips)
Seat 7: nolimitaa (7990 in chips)
Seat 8: Grizzly68 (3630 in chips)
Seat 9: 1382oracle (690 in chips) is sitting out
FR Vessant: posts small blind 100
nolimitaa: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Ks Kh]

That's a very very strong hand. But I can just wait out the small stack. Believe me, this is the weakest hand I play here.

Grizzly68: folds
1382oracle: folds
FR Vessant: raises 990 to 1190 and is all-in
nolimitaa: calls 990

Oh noes. He has Ah2h though. So I have him crushed, 70/30. Come on one time!

*** FLOP *** [Jh 4c 5c]

OMG. He picks up draw, so he now has 7 outs.

*** TURN *** [Jh 4c 5c] [8h]

My heart is in my shoes. Now he has the FD. I know a heart is coming.

*** RIVER *** [Jh 4c 5c 8h] [7h]

I FUCKING HATE POKER.

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wat

Date: Mon, Jul 21, 2008 Internet

Here we go again. These are consecutive hands.

I don't know how you stand this. I really don't. It's becoming so bad that I can't endure it. Just beat after beat after beat. I played this tourney pretty well. I missed a couple of shoves, but I am running scared BvB, so I can forgive myself for that. But this isn't right. It is hurting so much that this happens ALL THE TIME.

PokerStars Game #19002532203: Tournament #97152768, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level VII (100/200) - 2008/07/21 - 22:14:58 (ET)
Table '97152768 1' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 3: FR Vessant (3105 in chips)
Seat 4: goofysmith (2165 in chips)
Seat 6: steve j oz (6280 in chips)
Seat 7: SeVeN.aU (1950 in chips)
FR Vessant: posts the ante 25
goofysmith: posts the ante 25
steve j oz: posts the ante 25
SeVeN.aU: posts the ante 25
SeVeN.aU: posts small blind 100
FR Vessant: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Ah Kd]
goofysmith: folds
steve j oz: folds
SeVeN.aU: raises 1725 to 1925 and is all-in
FR Vessant: calls 1725
*** FLOP *** [5h 3s Qc]
*** TURN *** [5h 3s Qc] [Qd]
*** RIVER *** [5h 3s Qc Qd] [Jd]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
SeVeN.aU: shows [Jh Ad] (two pair, Queens and Jacks)
FR Vessant: shows [Ah Kd] (a pair of Queens)
SeVeN.aU collected 3950 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3950 | Rake 0
Board [5h 3s Qc Qd Jd]
Seat 3: FR Vessant (big blind) showed [Ah Kd] and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 4: goofysmith folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: steve j oz (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: SeVeN.aU (small blind) showed [Jh Ad] and won (3950) with two pair, Queens and Jacks

***

PokerStars Game #19002543931: Tournament #97152768, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level VII (100/200) - 2008/07/21 - 22:15:29 (ET)
Table '97152768 1' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 3: FR Vessant (1155 in chips)
Seat 4: goofysmith (2140 in chips)
Seat 6: steve j oz (6255 in chips)
Seat 7: SeVeN.aU (3950 in chips)
FR Vessant: posts the ante 25
goofysmith: posts the ante 25
steve j oz: posts the ante 25
SeVeN.aU: posts the ante 25
FR Vessant: posts small blind 100
goofysmith: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Qh Qc]
FR Vessant said, "jeezus"
steve j oz: calls 200
SeVeN.aU: folds
FR Vessant: raises 930 to 1130 and is all-in
goofysmith: calls 930
steve j oz: folds
*** FLOP *** [Js 9s 5s]
*** TURN *** [Js 9s 5s] [3c]
*** RIVER *** [Js 9s 5s 3c] [As]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
FR Vessant: shows [Qh Qc] (a pair of Queens)
goofysmith: shows [Kd Kh] (a pair of Kings)
goofysmith collected 2560 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2560 | Rake 0
Board [Js 9s 5s 3c As]
Seat 3: FR Vessant (small blind) showed [Qh Qc] and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 4: goofysmith (big blind) showed [Kd Kh] and won (2560) with a pair of Kings
Seat 6: steve j oz folded before Flop
Seat 7: SeVeN.aU (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)

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