Sunday, August 31, 2008

So we are back




So i decided to withdraw my roll and start over from nl 100. Was swinging too much, had to be done. Will be playing 1/2 a bit longer and then back to 2/4 it is. Sometimes you just have to retool.

Oh and guys, leave some comments! So many of you guys talk to me at the tables gimme a shoutout here. Maybe ill throw a few bones out or some something cool if we get some community support so we will see.

~Doug

Monday, August 25, 2008

a hiatus

we are on it

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Day 11: And A Total Graph Update

Im going to be honest, I dont understand how i messed the dates up, but somehow i have, anyway here is todays graph.



And Here is total so far



Combined with about 1k worth of line wins, a shitton of fpps and some rakeback, not too shabby but i know i can do better.

~Doug

Saturday, August 23, 2008

Day 8-9: Live on 8 and Online on 9

Day 8: Went to Jackson Rancheria and made about 1k, here is the tr.

Ok so, TR Time. (This is WCG)

So I havent slept all night, and was take a shower and head out to pick up kurtsf and letmelive at liek 11 am. Drop by Bank of America, pick up some money and start heading out. Trying not to fall asleep at the wheel I drive for a few hours and we meet up.

So we all get in the car and drive to Jackson Rancheria. We get there at like 2 pm, hop on the 2/5 waitilst, and start playing some 1/2 while waiting for 1/2 to start.

I had an lol hand where I raised Q9ss from lp, flop was 996, i bet, shorty shoves, random fish overcalls. 7 turn, he check calls. River 5, i shove, he SNAP calls. Im thinking im done, i call and he has KK lol, i more then double through.

Only other hand I had at this table I opened KTdd, flopped a flushdraw with overs, get c/r'd, shove over, and he calls with KK. I turn the flush and hes drawing dead.

So Kurt gets stacked at 1/2 by a slowplaying fish with rockets and the 2/5 game starts up. Seat lineup looks something like.

1)Fish
2) Fish i sucked out on with KTs at 1/2
3) Fairly bad reg
4) Fish
5) Me
6) Kurt
7) Random Older Chick who plays at FTP
8) LetMeLive
9) Fish that Stacked Kurt at 1/2 with slowplayed aces.

So we start playing, and i start to get a little personality going. I start just joking around about how phil helmuth is the best player (And as letmelive said at the table "You cant argue with success"), and I wish I could be that good one day. So im sort of just joking with the table and trying to get a good gamble image on.

So the first major hand happens. I am dealt Q9dd in mp and Fish limps in to my right, I isolate and he calls

Flop: 984ss

He Checks, I bet 35, he calls

Turn 9843

He Checks, I bet 75, he calls

River 9843Q

He checks, I bet 150, he calls, tables A9 and im good.

A couple hands go by and i raise from EP with A8cc.

4 way to the flop, KcJd6c

I check, Check, Woman Fires 60, fold, I make it 160, fold, call.

Turn: KcJd6c3c

I decide to just check and act concerned about the flush ,and she checks behind

River: KcJd6c3c2s

I bet 300, and she says "Sorry sweetie but I have to call".

Apparently afterwards there was some idea that this 50 year old woman had a thing for me but hey ill take the mobnies.

Now Pretty quick here MasterLJ, Brandy's Bitch, and Pat Southern show up. They get on the list and MasterLJ gives me his tiki card protector (its massive), and i go on a heater skeeping a 3 way pot raised to 30 pf with king high, then value town a couple hands, and im sitting on ~1400.

So They all get in the game, and the fun really starts. Ryan is completely decked out in his FTP gear, and im in my stars gear. We enforce a mandatory 10 dollar straddle, and its on.

So now the seat lineup is like this.

1) Random Middle aged guy who apaprently is a lawyer/knows what 2+2 is
2) MasterLJ
3) Pat
4) Fish I sucked out on with Q9
5) Me
6) Kurt
7) Fish that stacked Kurt
8) Justin
9) Random Old dewd fish

So action starts to get crazy. We have an awesome hand when ryan first joins that goes like this.

Ir raise TT from EP to 20 an MasterLJ flats from a blind.

Flop - Ac 8x 3c

He bets 5, i minraise, he reminraises. I call.

Turn - Jd

Check Check

River - Qx

Check Check

He tables KQ and scoops.

So at this point we decide at any point in a hand if you want to call it, you could make it 5/10limit if the hand is just 2+2.

Well we get some pics of me with the tiki and master lj (WHO LOOKS LIKE PHIL HELMUTH BTW) Which we should get up later. We get some friend on friend action where brandy'sbitch and Letmelive end up all in on the flop Js Ts Xs, brandy with tptk and lml with Ks Qx . Letmelive spikes and it holds for ~1k pot.

Kurt gets into a hand with 88

Flop - Ax Jy 8z

fish Checks, Kurt Fires like 40 or 50 or something, Fish calls

Turn - 6s

fish checks, kurt fires 150, fish calls

River - Qx

Fish shoves for 200, kurt calls, and villain tables T9 for the straight and kurt is choo chohoing.

I had a ahand where i was 210 bb deep agianst a fish who was major weak tight, he opens from UTG and i flat 33, he bets a AQ4 and i c/r for 100 mroe and he folds. I really think he only goes broke there with AA/QQ/AQ and he is major scared money. So he folds.

Anyway so The action starts to get totally ridiculous with random short stacks choo chooing, me opening liek 50% of hands, masterlj thinking a squeeze is where someone 3 bets, and doesnt realize there has to be a call for it to be a squeeze. I call this fish's shove with KJ (ha had shoved with 33, and xx twice before) and he has JJ and holds.

I ended up being dealt 0 good hands and hit 0 sets and ended up like +1k.

After we played we all got some food and ecided to cc roulette it. OBV out of the 6 of us, i run the best and get chosen, but its for soo little that id rather run bad here then later.

Apparently there was a TON of guys at someone elses table trash talking us and masterlj + I toyed with the idea of a challenge and splitting some action on it but ultimately decided we didnt want to do it (would of been epic tho).

So after that we headed back. There are tons of little cool stories i missed in here but these are the basic major hands and whatnot, and everyone can just add in what tehy want to.

added by letmelive-

1) After the seating arrangement changed the lawyer was sitting to my right so we started talking it up a bit. Nice guy. He gets in a pot with MasterLJ and asks "are we all two plus two here? everybody got a kick out of that. he said he has an acct here but never posts.

2) One hand i opened 44 to 35 it gets flat called in one or two spots, idk. The lawyer proceeds to strike up a convo with wifey and her friend while he shoves over my open. I fold and so does everyone else. Later as the game is breaking i ask if he minds sharing what he had, he obliges and tells me 66, ni han. I said something like it was a good spot for it bla bla. He says something i don't remember and follows up with "i had their equity" and nudges at teh two females waiting for him. Kurt coined that FBE, fine bitch equity. <3

Day 9:



Running teh goot although i did have some 2nd nut vs nut type hands go down but hey its variance what can i say.

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Day 7: 4600 hands, +$200



Argh

Tomorrow time for live pokeraments, should be g00t.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Day 6: 9300 hands, +$200



Although actually most of those initial losses are on the day before, for some reason it ended up in 2 days. So this is my total graph since getting back.



About even in equity now, and i think ive got my game into a much better place. Hopefully things start to go better.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Officially Going to EPT Barcelona

Just bought my package, pretty excited. Ive solid off about 1/3 my action and will probably sell off some more, if you are interested in buying any pm me on 2+2. Hopefully I take it home = ).

~Doug

Day 5: 4600 hands, -$1000



Wat

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Week 1: August 14th - 17th, 26000 hands -1100




Next week should be better right?

Day 4: 3600 hands, -200, 4k fpps.



I hate poker

Day 3: 4700 hands, -1600, 7kish fpps.




Probably going to be playing 2 tables of hu for a while so my hand amount is probably going to drop significantly. After every Sunday I will have a week in review post.

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Day 2: 14000 hands, -$450 profit, +20k fpps



Not Totally fair as it digs a few of yesterdays hands into it but w/e I need to get the days into 24 hour chunks. Hopefully things go better tomorrow.

Friday, August 15, 2008

Day 1 Back: 8000 hands, $1000 profit, 10,000 fpps


So ive been grinding nl 100 and now nl 200 all day. I plan on playing way more hands a day then this buy i had stuff i had to get done today. I better do more then this tomorow but its a start.

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Im Back

Hello Everyone, I am Back from Europe.

I am currently living in San Jose though, and im going to head out to Barcelona in 4 weeks. I am just trying to save up and buy my own place in las vegas, so thats what im gonna be working on. I also am going to try to grind out a ton of fpps playing a lot of hands at fr, we will see how it goes and ill give you a more official update later.

~Doug