I've been having a lot of days like today. I play for a little while, win some money, decide to stop. jump back on, play for another little while, stop. Jump on again, win again, stop. In about 100 minutes of play, I'm up 290 marracas today. That's how I've been running: Goot, very goot. I'm really not supposed to stop, but I often do. Superstition or something. The fact is, when I am better than the other guys, I'm supposed to stick around until they are broke or I am asleep. It's easier for me to do in a casino than at home. When you leave a casino, you are done. At home, I can jump on whenever I feel like it. I've been going with that this year, and so far, it's worked out OK.
Here's a few fun hands from the evening:
***** Hand History for Game 5068345237 *****
$5/$10 Texas Hold'em - Thursday, August 31, 00:17:32 ET 2006
Table Table 109554 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 2: vanbasten9 ( $89.50 )
Seat 4: kiwiz ( $438.75 )
Seat 5: scrange ( $152 )
Seat 6: home_run_man ( $0 )
Seat 1: thejlev111 ( $331 )
thejlev111 posts small blind [$2].
vanbasten9 posts big blind [$5].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to thejlev111 [ Ad As ]
home_run_man has left the table.
kiwiz folds.
scrange raises [$10].
thejlev111 raises [$13].
vanbasten9 calls [$10].
scrange calls [$5].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3h, 9h, 7s ]
thejlev111 bets [$5].
vanbasten9 calls [$5].
scrange calls [$5].
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ac ]
thejlev111 bets [$10].
vanbasten9 calls [$10].
scrange folds.
** Dealing River ** [ Kd ]
thejlev111 bets [$10].
vanbasten9 calls [$10].
thejlev111 shows [ Ad, As ] three of a kind, aces.
vanbasten9 doesn't show [ 9c, Th ] a pair of nines.
thejlev111 wins $98 from the main pot with three of a kind, aces.
Ok, that was played terribly. If you want to call 2 bets cold with 910o fine, you'll never win money playing poker, but fine (you do play on Party poker after all) , but at least check raise me on the flop. Or go away on the turn when the ace hits. Cause now you can only beat pocket eights and QJ suited and are losing to every other possible holding I might have.
Here's a fun one too:
***** Hand History for Game 5068319327 *****
$5/$10 Texas Hold'em - Thursday, August 31, 00:13:41 ET 2006
Table Monster #1293670 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 1: MOONRIDER217 ( $303.75 )
Seat 6: skuzzy ( $738.62 )
Seat 2: thejlev111 ( $260.34 )
Seat 3: Realtor96 ( $188.25 )
Seat 4: stockwalker5 ( $209 )
MOONRIDER217 posts small blind [$2].
thejlev111 posts big blind [$5].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to thejlev111 [ 7d 7c ]
Realtor96 folds.
stockwalker5 raises [$10].
form357 has joined the table.
skuzzy folds.
MOONRIDER217 folds.
thejlev111 calls [$5].
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ah, 7h, Qh ]
thejlev111 checks.
stockwalker5 bets [$5].
thejlev111 raises [$10].
stockwalker5 calls [$5].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 5d ]
thejlev111 bets [$10].
stockwalker5 calls [$10].
** Dealing River ** [ 3c ]
thejlev111 bets [$10].
stockwalker5 raises [$20].
thejlev111 calls [$10].
stockwalker5 shows [ As, 3s ] two pairs, aces and threes.
thejlev111 shows [ 7d, 7c ] three of a kind, sevens.
The time at which hand ended:Aug 31 2006 00:13 ET
thejlev111 wins $99.50 from the main pot with three of a kind, sevens.
Ok, I missed a river raise there. I got confused: was he slowplaying a flush? Did he make a straight? I play my sets a little too conservatively when I get re-raised with them. It's a leak because I miss bets sometimes... certainly more than I save on the occasional time I am beat.
***** Hand History for Game 5068248344 *****
$5/$10 Texas Hold'em - Thursday, August 31, 00:03:19 ET 2006
Table Monster #1293670 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: MOONRIDER217 ( $377.25 )
Seat 3: Timmy0801 ( $18.34 )
Seat 5: CountDoncula ( $412.25 )
Seat 6: skuzzy ( $853.62 )
Seat 2: thejlev111 ( $244 )
Seat 4: SloppyWaffle ( $227 )
skuzzy posts small blind [$2].
MOONRIDER217 posts big blind [$5].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to thejlev111 [ Qd Ac ]
thejlev111 raises [$10].
Timmy0801 folds.
SloppyWaffle folds.
CountDoncula folds.
skuzzy raises [$13].
MOONRIDER217 folds.
thejlev111 calls [$5].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9d, Qh, 7h ]
skuzzy bets [$5].
thejlev111 raises [$10].
skuzzy raises [$10].
thejlev111 calls [$5].
** Dealing Turn ** [ Tc ]
skuzzy bets [$10].
thejlev111 calls [$10].
** Dealing River ** [ 7d ]
skuzzy bets [$10].
thejlev111 calls [$10].
skuzzy shows [ 8h, 8d ] two pairs, eights and sevens.
thejlev111 shows [ Qd, Ac ] two pairs, queens and sevens.
The time at which hand ended:Aug 31 2006 00:03 ET
thejlev111 wins $101.50 from the main pot with two pairs, queens and sevens.
How do you like the 3 bet on the flop with 2 overs and no draw? Shouldn't he at least check/call the river? Cause now he can't beat anything on the board. I guess he didn't take game theory.
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
why I don't slowplay on PP.
Most people lose bets here. Not the redmanjew. Today I was down about 550 bucks before coming back and ending up slightly up for the day.
Here's a hand that helped me come back... it's kinda fun. and it was the perfect turn card, no doubt.
$5/$10
Table Table 109563 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 4: tnc101 ( $250 )
Seat 2: thejlev111 ( $169 )
Seat 5: mendelholdem ( $300.50 )
Seat 3: Bluefish ( $131.50 )
Seat 6: djintonic ( $477.76 )
Seat 1: black05C6 ( $241 )
mendelholdem posts small blind [$2].
djintonic posts big blind [$5].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to thejlev111 [ 8h 8d ] So I have pocket 8's.
black05C6 calls [$5].
thejlev111 raises [$10].
Bluefish calls [$10].
tnc101 calls [$10].
mendelholdem folds.
djintonic calls [$5].
black05C6 calls [$5].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8c, Jc, 8s ] Now that's what we call flopping quads.
djintonic checks.
black05C6 checks.
thejlev111 bets [$5]. See what I do? I bet. why? it's Party poker. they love to call on party poker.
Bluefish calls [$5].
tnc101 calls [$5].
djintonic folds.
black05C6 calls [$5].
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ks ]
black05C6 checks.
thejlev111 bets [$10]. See what I do? I bet again. Why? Because they love to call on party Poker.
Bluefish raises [$20]. He raised! happy day.
tnc101 calls [$20].
black05C6 folds.
thejlev111 raises [$20]. we don't slowplay on party very often.
Bluefish calls [$10].
tnc101 calls [$10].
**
thejlev111 bets [$10].
Bluefish calls [$10].
tnc101 calls [$10].
thejlev111 shows [ 8h, 8d ] four of a kind, eights.
Bluefish doesn't show [ Js, Kc ] two pairs, kings and jacks.
tnc101 doesn't show [ Kh, Ah ] two pairs, kings and eights.
thejlev111 wins $189 from the main pot with four of a kind, eights.
If I had check raised the flop, I may have lost TNC101 (the AK). Also, i may not have gotten raised on the turn. If I had checked and just called on the flop, I would have most likely gotten 2 bets out of each guy on the turn, instead of three.
Love that turn!!!!!
High level excitement at the WSOP!
Here's a photo of me looking at my hole cards during the WSOP main event.
And here's me folding those same cards.
Here's me on day 2. I'm all geared up because I felt one guy had a read on me a little bit. I am never playing a big time tourney again without the gear! it's like being in armor.
And here's me folding those same cards.
Here's me on day 2. I'm all geared up because I felt one guy had a read on me a little bit. I am never playing a big time tourney again without the gear! it's like being in armor.
Glossary for the people
My mother (and others) have mentioned they don't understand all the poker terms... so here's a brief glossary:
SNG: sit and go. it's a tournament that starts as soon as the required numnber of players register for it. There are nine person SNGs on many sites alll the time. It's sort of an on-demand mini-tournament.
NL HE: no limit texas hold em, where a bet can be any amount.
L HE: Limit texas hold em, where there is a prescribed amount for each bet.
Shorthanded (SH): a game where there are six or less people playing.
5/10: the amounts of the bets. So, in a limit game, each bet and raise must be $5 before the flop and on the flop, and must be $10 on the turn and river.
High / Low: A game where players are trying to make both the best and worst hands, and each is worth half of the pot.
Draw: A hand where you need to improve to win. i.e., I was drawing to my flush.
Runner runner: a hand where someone needs both the turn and the river to go correctly for them to win. example: "I flopped three nines, but he went runner runner to make a flush and beat me. "
PT: Poker tracker, software used to create statistics on me and my opponents.
BB/100: Big bets per hundred hands. a measurement. Big bets is the bigger bet in the game (in 5/10, it would be 10), and how many of those I am winning or losing per 100 hands played. so 1.3 BB/100 hands means I am winning $13 / per hundred hands played.
BR: Bankroll.
WSOP: World series of poker.
Set: three of a kind
top pair, top kicker: when you have the highest pair on the board and the best possible kicker card: example: The flop was K 10 4, and I had and AK in my hand, so I had a pair of kings with an ace kciker , or top pair top kicker.
Nut flush draw: When you are drawing to the best possible flush.
SNG: sit and go. it's a tournament that starts as soon as the required numnber of players register for it. There are nine person SNGs on many sites alll the time. It's sort of an on-demand mini-tournament.
NL HE: no limit texas hold em, where a bet can be any amount.
L HE: Limit texas hold em, where there is a prescribed amount for each bet.
Shorthanded (SH): a game where there are six or less people playing.
5/10: the amounts of the bets. So, in a limit game, each bet and raise must be $5 before the flop and on the flop, and must be $10 on the turn and river.
High / Low: A game where players are trying to make both the best and worst hands, and each is worth half of the pot.
Draw: A hand where you need to improve to win. i.e., I was drawing to my flush.
Runner runner: a hand where someone needs both the turn and the river to go correctly for them to win. example: "I flopped three nines, but he went runner runner to make a flush and beat me. "
PT: Poker tracker, software used to create statistics on me and my opponents.
BB/100: Big bets per hundred hands. a measurement. Big bets is the bigger bet in the game (in 5/10, it would be 10), and how many of those I am winning or losing per 100 hands played. so 1.3 BB/100 hands means I am winning $13 / per hundred hands played.
BR: Bankroll.
WSOP: World series of poker.
Set: three of a kind
top pair, top kicker: when you have the highest pair on the board and the best possible kicker card: example: The flop was K 10 4, and I had and AK in my hand, so I had a pair of kings with an ace kciker , or top pair top kicker.
Nut flush draw: When you are drawing to the best possible flush.
Monday, August 28, 2006
Goals.
Well, the Main event had very few runners (17), so I won the overall SOP points in a walk.
My dad suggested to me that I set a goal of winning 1000 maraccas per week. I really haven't had any goals, short of getting to a major live tourney this year (missions accomplished) and win more than I did last year.
But a thou a week? Sounds both scary and completely do-able. Course we all feel like this when we're running good.
I'm definitely going to try to win my way into some more of the bigger online tourneys over the next few months... my weekends are pretty packed for the next six weeks or so, but hopefully that will change in mid-october and I'll be raring to go.
Also, I may play more SNGs. I generally play 3 at a time, and the total buy in is about 120 bucks. I am thinking about playing one at a time at a higher buy in and seeing how that goes.
I'm thinking it'll be wildly successful or some serious crash and burn.
My dad suggested to me that I set a goal of winning 1000 maraccas per week. I really haven't had any goals, short of getting to a major live tourney this year (missions accomplished) and win more than I did last year.
But a thou a week? Sounds both scary and completely do-able. Course we all feel like this when we're running good.
I'm definitely going to try to win my way into some more of the bigger online tourneys over the next few months... my weekends are pretty packed for the next six weeks or so, but hopefully that will change in mid-october and I'll be raring to go.
Also, I may play more SNGs. I generally play 3 at a time, and the total buy in is about 120 bucks. I am thinking about playing one at a time at a higher buy in and seeing how that goes.
I'm thinking it'll be wildly successful or some serious crash and burn.
Sunday, August 27, 2006
your current points leader
There was a death in the family and so I am in Dayton Ohio. This prevents me from playing in today's wptfan series of poker (SOP) Main Event.
There were 15 events in the series, and Jacksup (matt matros) and Peter Feldman (Nordberg) have played in most of the events, along with some other good players... I have played in seven events, cashed 5 times total, and won three of them. For whatever reason, I've dominated the series. I played in the seven card stud high/low event on wednesday night and, despite only have played the game for about 40 minutes on pokerstars once, won the event.
The fact that I am not playing is notable only because I am the SOP current points leader (by a lot, I have 450 pts and the #2 guy has less than 300) and cashing the main event (which I would have had a fairly good chance of doing, better than average, anyway) would have locked up the overall points lead, which is worth a few hundred bucks.
I've learned that knowing how to play and win tournaments is a very valuable skill, and is certainly why I won the stud event. All I know about that game is what are good starting hands, and if you have a board lock, raise like the dickens. Everything else was tournament strategy.
When we got to heads up play, I had 30k in chips to the other guy's 11K. His strategy was to play every hand to showdown and see if luck would be with him. It worked very well, and quickly i was down to 1.5k in chips to his 40K. I got lucky a few times, got back to 8K, and then I was able to sit back and crush. It was over pretty quickly. Because he played nearly every hand out, when ever I had a good hand, I could extract a lot of value for it.
Anyway, there's maybe one or two guys who can catch me if they win the main event today, otherwise first place money is mine. (Mine! I tell you, mine!)
It's not so much about winning the money, cause it's not enough to really notice, but more about the prestige of winning the series (even more so having played in less than half the events).
We'll know by the end of the day. As long as I finish in the top three, I make some money. I am a near lock to finish in the top 2 (I think the current #3 would have to win it and the #2 would have to finish in 2nd) for me to finish 3rd. It also depends on how many people end up playing. if there is a smaller turnout, less than 50 people, I might already have 1st won.)
There were 15 events in the series, and Jacksup (matt matros) and Peter Feldman (Nordberg) have played in most of the events, along with some other good players... I have played in seven events, cashed 5 times total, and won three of them. For whatever reason, I've dominated the series. I played in the seven card stud high/low event on wednesday night and, despite only have played the game for about 40 minutes on pokerstars once, won the event.
The fact that I am not playing is notable only because I am the SOP current points leader (by a lot, I have 450 pts and the #2 guy has less than 300) and cashing the main event (which I would have had a fairly good chance of doing, better than average, anyway) would have locked up the overall points lead, which is worth a few hundred bucks.
I've learned that knowing how to play and win tournaments is a very valuable skill, and is certainly why I won the stud event. All I know about that game is what are good starting hands, and if you have a board lock, raise like the dickens. Everything else was tournament strategy.
When we got to heads up play, I had 30k in chips to the other guy's 11K. His strategy was to play every hand to showdown and see if luck would be with him. It worked very well, and quickly i was down to 1.5k in chips to his 40K. I got lucky a few times, got back to 8K, and then I was able to sit back and crush. It was over pretty quickly. Because he played nearly every hand out, when ever I had a good hand, I could extract a lot of value for it.
Anyway, there's maybe one or two guys who can catch me if they win the main event today, otherwise first place money is mine. (Mine! I tell you, mine!)
It's not so much about winning the money, cause it's not enough to really notice, but more about the prestige of winning the series (even more so having played in less than half the events).
We'll know by the end of the day. As long as I finish in the top three, I make some money. I am a near lock to finish in the top 2 (I think the current #3 would have to win it and the #2 would have to finish in 2nd) for me to finish 3rd. It also depends on how many people end up playing. if there is a smaller turnout, less than 50 people, I might already have 1st won.)
Friday, August 25, 2006
crushing and getting crushed
So, after the WSOP, I was super confident about my game. I decided it was time to move up in stakes. I had been playing 5/10 shorthanded limit holdem sucessfully. I moved on up to 10/20 SH LHE.
And. Got. Crushed.
Basically, everything bad thing that could have happened did. My big pairs weren't holding up (to runner runner straights, etc) My draws never got there. Everyone elses draws got there WAY too often. And everyone was super agressive (usually I am one of the most agressive guys at the table). I like playing with super agressive players normally, but when everybody is highly agressive, it's an adjustment. I don't think I adjusted as well as I could have. I found myself calling down players with middle pair and losing.
After two days of getting creamed (-2600), I decided to drop back down. I think I ran really badly, and played a little weak too.
Dropping back down to 5/10 has been great though. I am killing the tables. PT tells me that in the last 15 hours i've played 5/10 (which is a VERY small sample size, but how much 5/10 I've played since I got back from the wsop) I'm winning 6.54 BB/100 hands. which is a fuckload. (That translates to 132.9 marracas per hour in real cash).
I know I can't keep running this good at 5/10, but man, it sure is nice to ride the wave a bit. I plan on playing 5/10 for a while longer, and then taking another shot at 10/20 when I've built the BR up a bit more.
Whenever I read poker blogs, there seems to be a superstition that if you write about how good you are doing, then you immediately go into a losing streak. Luckily, I don't believe in superstitions. (That sentence, taken by itself, is almost funny.)
Oh, and the players are abjectly awful.
So I got that going for me.
And. Got. Crushed.
Basically, everything bad thing that could have happened did. My big pairs weren't holding up (to runner runner straights, etc) My draws never got there. Everyone elses draws got there WAY too often. And everyone was super agressive (usually I am one of the most agressive guys at the table). I like playing with super agressive players normally, but when everybody is highly agressive, it's an adjustment. I don't think I adjusted as well as I could have. I found myself calling down players with middle pair and losing.
After two days of getting creamed (-2600), I decided to drop back down. I think I ran really badly, and played a little weak too.
Dropping back down to 5/10 has been great though. I am killing the tables. PT tells me that in the last 15 hours i've played 5/10 (which is a VERY small sample size, but how much 5/10 I've played since I got back from the wsop) I'm winning 6.54 BB/100 hands. which is a fuckload. (That translates to 132.9 marracas per hour in real cash).
I know I can't keep running this good at 5/10, but man, it sure is nice to ride the wave a bit. I plan on playing 5/10 for a while longer, and then taking another shot at 10/20 when I've built the BR up a bit more.
Whenever I read poker blogs, there seems to be a superstition that if you write about how good you are doing, then you immediately go into a losing streak. Luckily, I don't believe in superstitions. (That sentence, taken by itself, is almost funny.)
Oh, and the players are abjectly awful.
So I got that going for me.
Thursday, August 24, 2006
first one out
well, it's time I guess that I joined the other online poker guys and got me-self a blog. Here she is.
She's sexy, I will say that.
So, who am I again?
I am redmanjew. I play a lot of online poker. It's slowly transitioning into my actual job. The money is good and it's still fun and so here I am.
I played in the WSOP for the first time this year... I played in event 37 ($1500 NL hold em), whish I satellited into for $26 and finished 254th of 2800 players, winning $2296. It was my 2nd most profitable day evah.
Then, I played the Main event at the world series and made it to day two with an average chipstack (22,300.) I was all-in for the first time when, as the first break was just about to begin, I flopped top pair, top kicker and the nut flush draw. Turns out I was up against a set, and though I made my flush, he made the boat and sent me to the rail.
In case if you are wondering, it sucks to get knocked out of the world series.
I did get to play with Rafe Furst, minh Nygnn (sic!) and Berry Johnston, with the last two sitting to my immediate left for several hours.
I actually held my own against them, which was cool. Though rafe was at the other end of the table and we never mixed it up.
More to come... it's the first entry and all... so I gotta keep it short and boring.
She's sexy, I will say that.
So, who am I again?
I am redmanjew. I play a lot of online poker. It's slowly transitioning into my actual job. The money is good and it's still fun and so here I am.
I played in the WSOP for the first time this year... I played in event 37 ($1500 NL hold em), whish I satellited into for $26 and finished 254th of 2800 players, winning $2296. It was my 2nd most profitable day evah.
Then, I played the Main event at the world series and made it to day two with an average chipstack (22,300.) I was all-in for the first time when, as the first break was just about to begin, I flopped top pair, top kicker and the nut flush draw. Turns out I was up against a set, and though I made my flush, he made the boat and sent me to the rail.
In case if you are wondering, it sucks to get knocked out of the world series.
I did get to play with Rafe Furst, minh Nygnn (sic!) and Berry Johnston, with the last two sitting to my immediate left for several hours.
I actually held my own against them, which was cool. Though rafe was at the other end of the table and we never mixed it up.
More to come... it's the first entry and all... so I gotta keep it short and boring.
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