Won just a bit over 3 buy-ins at NL10 on Full Tilt

+$32.05 for a much needed pad to my bankroll at Full Tilt.

Full Tilt Bankroll: $63

I also won't be playing much for the remainder of the week because I'm swamped with shit to do for work. Its been a good past few days though.

Birds n Bees finishes 1/123 in UB $2000 Guaranteed for $664.20

FINALLY! I TOOK ONE OF THEM DOWN!!!!!

Birds n Bees finishes 17/317 in UB $1500 Guaranteed for $11.88

Birds n Bees finishes 2/185 in UB $1500 Guaranteed for $296

I'm so terrible HU. I really thought I had this tournament but eventually it came down to me not having the balls to call immense 3-bets. The guy who took this down played phenomenally and it would've been quite the feat to have taken him down. Kudos to him.

I played very well this tournament, but was pretty reluctant to get involved in hands. I'd attempt steals and have to lay them down to reraises. I've got to get over that because I'm confident the tournament would've been mine had I called a few of those times.

I'll take $300 though.

Show da Scrilla finishes 27th/496 in FT $3 for $9.65

Overexcerting myself. Not getting anything done.

I don't know why I always load up too many MTTs to keep up with. My skill just goes to shit if I'm multi-tabling too many.

Birds n Bees finishes 6th/256 in UB $1 Rebuy $1000 Guaranteed for $59.51

I final tabled the UB $1 Rebuy $1k Guaranteed for the 5th or 6th time in my career, this time finishing 6th for nearly $60. I played pretty well and made a few questionable calls when I small pocket pair, had raised pre-flop and was faced with an over-the-top shove. All in all though, I think I played pretty well. It being the 5th time I've made this final table is pretty amazing.

I got really lucky on the last hand before the rebuy period ended. The pot was huge already, with a raiser and various callers, so I just pushed in 4500 with wired 9s. Everyone called and this massive 21k+ pot was created. The board came all clubs and I was the only one in the hand with a club. I turned the nuts and shipped a sick pot, that pretty much gave me easy coasting throughout the entire tournament.

Show da Scrilla finishes 34th/987 in FT $1 $500 Guaranteed "The Ferguson" for $4.14

Played pretty well but eventually (I don't remember how) got too shortstacked and pushed 6BBs with J7 into KQ and AA. Sucks to play for so long and not get a bigger score.

Birds n Bees finishes 43rd/793 in UB $2 Bounty for $2.77

I also had 5 KO's good for $5 in bounty money.

I couldn't play as much as I would've liked to play today because I got called into work. I'll play my ass off tomorrow, hopefully. No work tomorrow for sure.

I'm playing really good poker right now and running deep in everything. There were a few cases of gross suckouts JJ < TT and TT < 99 happened twice today, ughhh, that were for huge pots. Unfortunately I couldn't hold.

I may or may not play more tonight. Depends on what happens with friends. If I do play however, I'll obviously post.

Also, I'm back on Full Tilt.

uBet: $92
FT: $47

Back from Thanksgiving Break.

uBet bankroll is around $102 right now and I'm back from Thanksgiving Break. I hope everyone had a fantastic break.

I've been itching to play poker and will be doing so on UltimateBet all day today, so rail me if you get the chance. I'm 0/2 in tournaments thus far with TT<99 style="font-weight: bold;">

+$30, NL10 6max 5-tabling

Finally, a productive night multi-tabling. Its a complete grind, but after 700+ hands I finished up $30. Its been so long since I've had a successful session multi-tabling and I'm glad I finally was able to get a winning one going.

Bankroll is a bit under $100. Roller coasterin' son of a bitch.

Birds n Bees finishes 26th/440 in UB Bounty $1500 Guaranteed for $12

I played great but eventually blinded down to <10BBs and pushed A9 in MP. SB pushed and BB auto-called. SB had JJ and BB showed AA. Completely wrong time to shove. x9x flop gave me hope and 9 on turn had me up out of my chair. It was short-lived however as the river brought a J to give the SB Jacks Full and end my tournament run. I made $12 for 26th place as well as $6 in bounties, which I gave to my friend since I gave him a bad beat (ish) earlier today.

My MTT game is becoming pretty sick. I'll explain some of the changes I've made to my game in an upcoming post.

$3/$6: -$240

Got spanked. They can play up there, let me tell you.

Birds n Bees finishes 2nd/67 in UB $5 for $67

After the first hour of play, I had 1475 chips from a starting stack of 1500. Pretty horrible. I was patient and played well however, and finally persistence paid off. I made the final table 1st in chips, and with 7 left had 2x what 2nd place had. I was nearly x3 above average.

Unfortunately I had to leave to have lunch with my girlfriend. My good friend BigSlick took over when I was 4th/4 and had 1/2 the chip average. He worked his magic and ended up taking 2nd place for me. Appreciate it man.

Lucky day.

Don't really remember what happened, haha. Days are running together. After the previous post, I lost close to my entire bankroll the next day. I've managed to salvage it, however, and its currently at $300. I'm being ballsy and buying in for the minimum and playing until I can afford to play at higher stakes. I bought in for $30 at $0.50/$1 and got it up to $42ish. I then bought into a $1/$2 game and ran that up to about $84 I think. I'm now sitting at a $2/$4 table with $300. When I hit $120 (minimum buy-in for $3/$6), I looked for $3/$6 tables but there were none open. After tomorrow, I won't be able to play for an entire week, so I'm trying to get in what I can before Thanksgiving Break.

I watched the FTOPS religiously this past week and have learned so much from these players. There are a ton of brilliant online players and my respect goes out to each and every one of them. They're truly masters of the game. I feel that my MTT game has improved immensely through watching them, and I hope that it translates to some deep runs in the next few months.

I'm also planning on reading some poker books over break, which I haven't done, ever. I want to read Full Tilt's MTT book, so hopefully I'll be able to read a few chapters of that.

- Saeid

FT'd the same $10+1; qualified for Sat. majors

Decided to play MTTs today and had a really solid day. I cashed for the Saturday $2.5k Guarantee ($5.50 worth) as well as the Saturday $10k Guarantee ($22worth, I think). I spend $6.60 on entires for those so in total I saved about $20-something.

I ran deep in a lot of tournaments as well. I got 12th in a Turbo $1r which was good for $20ish, I believe. I'll PokerDB all this tomorrow to double check. I also final tabled the same $10+1 MTT for the second time. This makes back-to-back FT appearances for this tourney. I played well and got 5th place, good for $110.

Bankroll looks nice, considering it was nothing 2 days ago.

uBet Bankroll: $340.

Back.

Wow, its been a while hasn't it? Sorry for the hiatus, but things didn't run well when I jumped to NL25 and I no longer felt the desire to blog. Negative posts are no fun and writing about going busto is tough. I did go bust though, all $375ish of it, and only had 22 Tournament Dollars in my account.

I didn't play poker for over a month and focused on school and work. I'm opening my own business soon, burnthiscity designs. Its a visual media design/band management company, and I'm very excited about getting it started.

I finally decided to play poker about 2 nights ago. I bought into a $10+1 MTT using TDs, which was not very smart since it was 50% of my TDs. I made my way through the 156 player field and took 2nd place, good for ~$249. It was great to play so well. I remember a lot of hands for a ton of chips where I'd just straight shove-bluff to take it down. I didn't really have a process of deciding when to shove but things worked out. Just the pressure of being put all-in was enough to push my opponents of their hands.

Something really odd happened at the tournament, which I wrote about at 2+2 here:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=12942018&an=0&page=0#Post12942018

So, I'm back to playing cards. I'm not really sure if I'll be grinding MTTs or cash, but I'll try to post results nightly.

Wednesdays Notes

Tuesday's Notes (Late). I didn't post cause not a whole lot happened. I believe I played close to 1300 hands and made something like $10.

Wednesday's NL10 Session. I played very well today and had one of my nicest days of NL10, finishing up a very welcome $50.85. I played nearly 1900 hands and have surpassed my goal of 10,000 hands at NL10.

The 2+2 post. This never happened. After trying to navigate the forum and find out where to post stats/graphs/results/whatever and being unsuccessful, I decided to forget about it. I don't really need anyones expert opinion on how I'm doing and whether or not I should move up to NL25.

NL25 6-max. Yeah, I think it's time for me to move up to $0.10/$0.25. My bankroll is where I think it needs to be: at 15 BI's for NL25, aka $375+. Starting tomorrow, I'll begin my journey at NL25. Here are some really simple goals, however:

• Play no more than 5 tables at a time.
• Try to play 1000 hands/day unless running horrible/tilting. If doing really well, continue playing for as long as I'd like.
• Play 10,000 hands total of NL25.
• If bankroll falls to below $300, move back down to NL10. Grind up to $375.
  
• Can't move up to $0.25/$0.50 until I have $50 x 20 BI's = $1000.

NL10 running results. Here it is, the results of 10 days of really hard work and dedication. I present to you my results at NL10:



I finished up a delicious $187.15, making something like $9.13/hour.

I've also quickly taken a look at my PokerTracker stats. Everything is just solid. I play comfortable at 22/16/2.5 (VP$IP/PFR/AF). I steal the blinds frequently, at 32%. I have a 60% showdown win percentage, which is decent IMO. I get tighter the further away from the button I am. The only thing of concern, IMO, is that I lose money from the BB. Although this number is small (-$2.49) I still don't like having leaks in my game. I'm currently writing it off as variance yet keeping it in my head that maybe I need to protect my blinds and 3-bet from the BB a little bit more. Its just really scary for me to call a bet OOP but I assume I need to overcome that ridiculous fear. Especially if the raises are coming from the Button where they can be pretty much holding ATC. I should just look at the opponents Attempt to Steal percentage and if its 30% I can call wide and if its 12% I can call tight.

Anyways, I'm off to bed. Exhausting day, for some reason.

uBet Bankroll: $376.86

Monday's Notes

1288/1000 hands played. I'm really tired so I'm just going to post today's results and the NL10 running total. Today was a really up and down day and here is the graph. I did my best to avoid getting stacked if I didn't have to but I think that KK v AA on a QJx board, AQ v 22 on a A2KQ board, and KK v Q9 on a Qxx board that finished out Q9, are all legitimate ways to get stacked. I'm fine with them all.



NL10 running total. 7,705 hands played, 2,295 to go.


Should play the remaining hands in ~2 days. The plan is still to post my PokerTracker stats on 2+2 and see what they say, however, if I don't have a $400-$500 bankroll by 10k hands, I'll be grinding $NL10 for just a little bit longer. I really do want to be adequately stacked for each level.

uBet Bankroll: $349.07

Sunday's Notes

No MTTs Played. For the first time in a long time, I didn't play any MTTs today. I'm completely confident in my NL10 6-max game and don't want to stop.

1923/1000 hands played today. Dirtey.



6.4k hands down, 4.6k to go. Here is a look at my running total at NL10 6-max. I began last Monday.


Lay Down of the day.
Hand #45623292-59098 at Rocky Mount (No Limit Hold'em)
Started at 30/Sep/07 19:00:49

h0rny is at seat 0 with $9.82.
onegreenchip is at seat 1 with $16.13.
Birds n Bees is at seat 3 with $10.41.
skybox43 is at seat 4 with $7.24.
arnet75 is at seat 5 with $10.42.
The button is at seat 3.

skybox43 posts the small blind of $.05.
arnet75 posts the big blind of $.10.

h0rny: -- --
onegreenchip: -- --
Birds n Bees: Qh Kc
skybox43: -- --
arnet75: -- --

Pre-flop:
h0rny calls. onegreenchip folds. Birds n Bees
raises to $.45. skybox43 calls. arnet75 folds.
h0rny calls.

Flop (board: Td Jh Ks):
skybox43 checks. h0rny checks. Birds n Bees bets
$.50. skybox43 raises to $2. h0rny folds. Birds n
Bees folds. skybox43 is returned $1.50 (uncalled).

skybox43 opts to show Ac Qs.
skybox43 has Ac Qs Td Jh Ks: straight, ace high.

Hand #45623292-59098 Summary:
$.12 is raked from a pot of $2.45.
skybox43 wins $2.33.
----------------------------------------------------------------

Bad Beat of the day.
Hand #45622894-64495 at Tallahassee (No Limit Hold'em)
Started at 30/Sep/07 15:08:08

coolchris21 is at seat 0 with $9.55.
jl815 is at seat 1 with $12.38.
Chillbaer is at seat 2 with $9.98.
unome2 is at seat 3 with $2.50 (sitting out).
BLASTARD25 is at seat 4 with $9.19.
Birds n Bees is at seat 5 with $19.92.
The button is at seat 5.

coolchris21 posts the small blind of $.05.
jl815 posts the big blind of $.10.

coolchris21: -- --
jl815: -- --
Chillbaer: -- --
BLASTARD25: -- --
Birds n Bees: Ks Kh

Pre-flop:
Chillbaer folds. BLASTARD25 raises to $.35. Birds n
Bees calls. coolchris21 folds. jl815 re-raises to
$2.60. BLASTARD25 goes all-in for $9.19. Birds n
Bees goes all-in for $19.92. jl815 folds. Birds n
Bees is returned $10.73 (uncalled).

Preflop Commentary: I only called BLASTARD25's raise because "jl815" was in the blinds and he always 3-bets. Although I was planning on BLASTARD25 folding and then me pushing over the top of "jl815," this still played out perfectly.

Flop (board: 7s 7h 6h):
(no action in this round)

Turn (board: 7s 7h 6h 4h):
(no action in this round)

River (board: 7s 7h 6h 4h Td):
(no action in this round)

Showdown:
Birds n Bees shows Ks Kh.
Birds n Bees has Ks Kh 7s 7h Td: two pair, kings and sevens.
BLASTARD25 shows 6c 6d.
BLASTARD25 has 6c 6d 7s 7h 6h: full house, sixes full of sevens.

Well... almost perfectly.

Hand #45622894-64495 Summary:
$1.05 is raked from a pot of $21.03.
BLASTARD25 wins $19.98 with full house, sixes full of sevens.
----------------------------------------------------------------

Feel Good hand of the day.
Hand #45622882-70489 at St Johns (No Limit Hold'em)
Started at 30/Sep/07 13:55:32

Birds n Bees is at seat 0 with $13.09.
mass4040 is at seat 1 with $16.67.
MAG992003 is at seat 2 with $9.90.
nonameFF is at seat 4 with $9.93.
The button is at seat 4.

Birds n Bees posts the small blind of $.05.
mass4040 posts the big blind of $.10.

Birds n Bees: Ah As
mass4040: -- --
MAG992003: -- --
nonameFF: -- --

Pre-flop:
MAG992003 folds. nonameFF folds. Birds n Bees
raises to $.30. mass4040 calls.

Flop (board: 2d 6s Ad):
Birds n Bees bets $.45. mass4040 calls.

Flop Commentary: I don't care that I flopped a set of aces, there are still two diamonds out there. Just like I would lead out with AK, 22, and 66 here, I'm leading out with AA. All these hands are still vulnerable to a diamond. Also, with him calling, he almost certainly has AK or a diamond draw, more than likely a diamond draw since he didn't raise.

Turn (board: 2d 6s Ad 6h):
Birds n Bees checks. mass4040 checks.

OK, now a diamond can hit.

River (board: 2d 6s Ad 6h 5d):
Birds n Bees checks. mass4040 bets $8.50. Birds n
Bees goes all-in for $12.34. mass4040 calls.

This couldn't have played out any better.

Showdown:
Birds n Bees shows Ah As.
Birds n Bees has Ah As 6s Ad 6h: full house, aces full of sixes.
mass4040 mucks cards.
(mass4040 has Kd 8d.)

Hand #45622882-70489 Summary:
$1.30 is raked from a pot of $26.18.
Birds n Bees wins $24.88 with full house, aces full of sixes.
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Moving up to NL25 6-max? I will more than likely be making the move up to $0.10/$0.25 within the next week or so. Here is what I would like to do before then:

• Play a total of 10k hands @ NL10 6-max.
• Post 10k results/stats from PokerTracker at 2+2 for feedback.
• Have a bankroll between $400-$500.

uPoints. For every raked hand I'm involved in, I get a certain amount of uPoints. Accumulate enough and you can transfer in these uPoints for cash.

• 750-999 points, 3 cents per point
• 750 points, $22.50
• 999 points, $29.97
  
• 1000-1999 points, 5 cents per point
• 1000 points, $50.00
• 1999 points, $99.95
  
• 2000 or more points, 7.5 cents per point
• 2000 points, $150

I've got 216 points now and I've got until Thursday to get at least 750. Eek. That is a lot of poker. It'd be nice to get this bonus but we'll just have to see if I can make it happen. Ultimately, I'm fine with the way things are going. It'd just be nice.

uBet Bankroll: $334.38