First Hand of a 2-table SNG.
Full Tilt Poker Game #4092778524: $2 + $0.25 Sit & Go (31096988), Table 2 - 15/30 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:27:01 ET - 2007/11/06
Jhartness posts the small blind of 15
mikeyrolls posts the big blind of 30
The button is in seat #9
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Jhartness [Qh Qs]
hill8331 has 15 seconds left to act
hill8331 folds
dannybnyc folds
bigdog1426 folds
freakc0nnect folds
buffrph folds
jimihoppa raises to 180
Edco91 calls 180
Jhartness raises to 750
mikeyrolls has 15 seconds left to act
mikeyrolls raises to 1,500, and is all in
jimihoppa calls 1,320, and is all in
Edco91: hmmm
Edco91 calls 1,320, and is all in
Jhartness calls 750, and is all in
mikeyrolls shows [Td Th]
jimihoppa shows [4s 4h]
Edco91 shows [Ac As]
Jhartness shows [Qh Qs]
*** FLOP *** [4d Qd 5c]
*** TURN *** [4d Qd 5c] [Ts]
*** RIVER *** [4d Qd 5c Ts] [6s]
mikeyrolls shows three of a kind, Tens
jimihoppa shows three of a kind, Fours
Edco91 shows a pair of Aces
Jhartness shows three of a kind, Queens
Jhartness wins the pot (6,000) with three of a kind, Queens
Edco91: lol
Edco91 stands up
jimihoppa stands up
mikeyrolls stands up
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 6,000 | Rake 0
Board: [4d Qd 5c Ts 6s]
Seat 1: Jhartness (small blind) showed [Qh Qs] and won (6,000) with three of a kind, Queens
Seat 2: mikeyrolls (big blind) showed [Td Th] and lost with three of a kind, Tens
Seat 3: hill8331 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: dannybnyc didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: bigdog1426 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 6: freakc0nnect didn't bet (folded)
Seat 7: buffrph didn't bet (folded)
Seat 8: jimihoppa showed [4s 4h] and lost with three of a kind, Fours
Seat 9: Edco91 (button) showed [Ac As] and lost with a pair of Aces
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Well, that was unexpected...
So this is tech week for Suzy for the show she's costuming, which typically for me means a lot of sitting at home catching up on my DVR'd episodes of Heroes and trying my new yoga DVD.
Yes, I said I have a yoga DVD. It's way harder than it looks. Yes, I'm a big redneck hippy now. Move along, nothing to see here.
Anyway, as I was planning my week of nigh-bachelorhood yesterday, Suzy calls.
"Hey, what's up?"
"Guess what?" There is nothing good that can come of a 'What's up?' during tech week. It invariably means that something catastrophic has happened.
"What?"
"[Actors in the show]'s grandmother died last night."
"Wow, that's a bummer."
"He's leaving town to deal with family stuff."
"Wow, that really sucks."
"We don't know if he'll be back for this weekend's performances."
"Wow, that really, really sucks. What are you going to do?"
"I don't know, I guess [director] is going to do the part for rehearsals and hopefully he comes back this weekend."
"Well," as I open my mouth and insert foot all the way to the kneecap "you know I don't have anything going on this week. I could come stand in for rehearsals."
"Wowthat'sgreatI'llaskthedirectorkthanxbai!"
I think I may have just been played.
So I'll be performing this weekend in a show I've never seen or read. Fortunately I have very few lines. Like seven. Basically I wander in at random moments stoned outta my gourd and fall down a lot.
This could be a stretch.
It's a funny show, and I spend one entire scene with my face planted in an actress's cleavage, so there are some fringe benefits. Last night I went into rehearsal, got my blocking and learned my lines. Tonight I'll have most of a costume.
And I'll be DVR'ing House.
If you're a local, and get a chance, come out and see Dearly Beloved at CPCC this weekend. I'm only in the show for two performances, so hurry up!
Yes, I said I have a yoga DVD. It's way harder than it looks. Yes, I'm a big redneck hippy now. Move along, nothing to see here.
Anyway, as I was planning my week of nigh-bachelorhood yesterday, Suzy calls.
"Hey, what's up?"
"Guess what?" There is nothing good that can come of a 'What's up?' during tech week. It invariably means that something catastrophic has happened.
"What?"
"[Actors in the show]'s grandmother died last night."
"Wow, that's a bummer."
"He's leaving town to deal with family stuff."
"Wow, that really sucks."
"We don't know if he'll be back for this weekend's performances."
"Wow, that really, really sucks. What are you going to do?"
"I don't know, I guess [director] is going to do the part for rehearsals and hopefully he comes back this weekend."
"Well," as I open my mouth and insert foot all the way to the kneecap "you know I don't have anything going on this week. I could come stand in for rehearsals."
"Wowthat'sgreatI'llaskthedirectorkthanxbai!"
I think I may have just been played.
So I'll be performing this weekend in a show I've never seen or read. Fortunately I have very few lines. Like seven. Basically I wander in at random moments stoned outta my gourd and fall down a lot.
This could be a stretch.
It's a funny show, and I spend one entire scene with my face planted in an actress's cleavage, so there are some fringe benefits. Last night I went into rehearsal, got my blocking and learned my lines. Tonight I'll have most of a costume.
And I'll be DVR'ing House.
If you're a local, and get a chance, come out and see Dearly Beloved at CPCC this weekend. I'm only in the show for two performances, so hurry up!
Monday, November 05, 2007
You Decide - Conclusion
Let's start by my saying that I think this is the best-played hand by Jim all night.
As I was thinking about the call ($68 to me, about $105 in the pot already) I looked back at the board and thought about what he could have. Board was Ah-6d-7d.
Best Case: A-J, A-10, A-9
Worst Case: 6-6, 7-7, A-7, 6-7 suited
Most Likely - Ad-Xd, Kd-Xd, 8x-9x, 4x-5x, two random diamonds
Least Likely - Ace-rag, A-6 (one of these is very bad, one of these is very good for me, but both are exceedingly unlikely)
So I thought about the hands he could have and figured that I was probably ahead of 60% of his possible holdings. Note that I never for a minute put him on Aces or A-K, or any pocket pair 9-9 or higher for that matter. If Jim had any of those holdings he wouldn't have limped in late position in a straddled hand with a million other people limping already, so I figured it was about 99% unlikely that he had any of those hands.
So since I figured I was ahead of around 2/3 of the hands he could possibly hold, I made the call.
He tabled 8d-9d for the open-ended straight flush draw, and I was drawing dead after the 5s on the turn. The 5d on the river was just the icing on the cake.
I really do think this was an excellent play on both our parts. As Special K said, "you got your money in ahead. You weren't the favorite, but you were ahead." And if I'm not going to be willing to put my money in ahead, I shouldn't be playing. Jim made the best possible move, ensuring that he was going to get the greatest possible value for his hand, because if he just check-calls the flop there, I'm done if another diamond hits, and might not invest much more if a 5 or 10 hits. I'm not sure I have that flop bet in my arsenal, but it's a good move.
I still think it wouldn't have been a huge mistake for me to make the laydown there, but I made a read, stuck with it, and was correct. The next two cards sucked out loud, but that's poker.
As I was thinking about the call ($68 to me, about $105 in the pot already) I looked back at the board and thought about what he could have. Board was Ah-6d-7d.
Best Case: A-J, A-10, A-9
Worst Case: 6-6, 7-7, A-7, 6-7 suited
Most Likely - Ad-Xd, Kd-Xd, 8x-9x, 4x-5x, two random diamonds
Least Likely - Ace-rag, A-6 (one of these is very bad, one of these is very good for me, but both are exceedingly unlikely)
So I thought about the hands he could have and figured that I was probably ahead of 60% of his possible holdings. Note that I never for a minute put him on Aces or A-K, or any pocket pair 9-9 or higher for that matter. If Jim had any of those holdings he wouldn't have limped in late position in a straddled hand with a million other people limping already, so I figured it was about 99% unlikely that he had any of those hands.
So since I figured I was ahead of around 2/3 of the hands he could possibly hold, I made the call.
He tabled 8d-9d for the open-ended straight flush draw, and I was drawing dead after the 5s on the turn. The 5d on the river was just the icing on the cake.
I really do think this was an excellent play on both our parts. As Special K said, "you got your money in ahead. You weren't the favorite, but you were ahead." And if I'm not going to be willing to put my money in ahead, I shouldn't be playing. Jim made the best possible move, ensuring that he was going to get the greatest possible value for his hand, because if he just check-calls the flop there, I'm done if another diamond hits, and might not invest much more if a 5 or 10 hits. I'm not sure I have that flop bet in my arsenal, but it's a good move.
I still think it wouldn't have been a huge mistake for me to make the laydown there, but I made a read, stuck with it, and was correct. The next two cards sucked out loud, but that's poker.
Saturday, November 03, 2007
You Decide
With apologies to Jordan, here's my very own episode of You Decide. I know how this hand went down, and want to know how you would have played it. It's friendly home game with $.25/.50 blinds. You're about $100 into the game, and there's probably $600 on the table. Some folks have bought in for $50 once, some for $50 - 60 several times. You've built your stack up to a respectable amount, probably around $160 when you're dealt Ac-Qc in the straddle. You have straddled, because that's what you do. Every. Orbit. You have a loose table image, to say the least, but you've played fairly tight so far tonight. Player in Middle Position limps in, as do a couple of the others, and you raise the $1 straddle to $6. Middle Position limper calls, as does the Big Blind.
Your read on MP limp/caller is pretty straightforward player, but you haven't really played much with him. He's not used to playing for this much money, but plays fairly good ABC poker. Big Blind is aggressive, and sees about as many flops as you do, so his calling range preflop is pretty massive. He didn't re-raise, so the Hammer is not in play.
Flop comes down Ah-6d-7d, and Big Blind leads out for $15. You think for a second and decide to find out where you are - you raise to $45. MP limper folds, and BB goes all in almost immediately for another $68.
What does he have, what do you do, and what do you think I did right or wrong in the hand up to this point? I'll post the real life results on Monday.
UPDATE - I initially posted the flop incorrectly as having the Qs. I later remembered that it was the Ah. It's been updated. This is what happens when I don't take notes.
Your read on MP limp/caller is pretty straightforward player, but you haven't really played much with him. He's not used to playing for this much money, but plays fairly good ABC poker. Big Blind is aggressive, and sees about as many flops as you do, so his calling range preflop is pretty massive. He didn't re-raise, so the Hammer is not in play.
Flop comes down Ah-6d-7d, and Big Blind leads out for $15. You think for a second and decide to find out where you are - you raise to $45. MP limper folds, and BB goes all in almost immediately for another $68.
What does he have, what do you do, and what do you think I did right or wrong in the hand up to this point? I'll post the real life results on Monday.
UPDATE - I initially posted the flop incorrectly as having the Qs. I later remembered that it was the Ah. It's been updated. This is what happens when I don't take notes.
Friday, November 02, 2007
Less than important update
Why did the background change color?
Oh, that's what happens when you make a final table? I'd forgotten!
No, I didn't FT any of the BBTwo events. I didn't have the money on Full Tilt Poker last night to actually buy in to one. So I settled in to piss away the last $8 of my online bankroll, and signed up for a 9-person $1 turbo, a 45-person $1 SNG, and a $3 Turbo MTT, with something like 620 people in it.
I spent most of my time focusing on the 9-handed turbo, since I managed to re-suck out on a guy who flopped a set to with 99 to crack my aces, but I rivered an Ace to crack his suckout to take the chip lead early. I didn't really play it very much like a turbo, playing generally pretty tight until we got to the money. The main difference is, if I raised preflop, I just pushed, since any reasonable raise was going to pot-commit me anyway. I picked up a bunch of orphaned blinds that way, and finally managed to take the whole thing down, adding a much-needed $4.50 to my FTP account. That in itself didn't mean much, except to set me freerolling for the rest of the night.
At that point I realized that I was the chip leader in the 45-person SNG, but managed to make a couple of unfortunate decisions to kill that buzz. Unfortunate like taking a look at too many flops with marginal hands and calling off too much of my chip stack on mediocre draws rather than being patient and waiting for better spots. So I busted there in 9th, respectable but out of the money, so in the end - useless.
When I finally turned my attention to the MTT, there were about 300 people left, 99 would cash, and I was hanging around average in chips. I picked up pocket Kings, pushed, picked up the blinds. Picked up AK on the next hand, pushed, picked up the blinds. Picked up AQ on the next hand, pushed from the button over top of the cutoff's raise, and was less than thrilled to see his AK. I liked the Queen on the flop, though. Faded the King and I was off to the races.
Basically, I didn't employ a whole lot of strategy, just wait for big cards and jam a shitload of chips in the middle. I figured that there weren't very many people there who could fold an ace or a pair, so if I raised preflop and an Ace came on the board, I was done. I picked up the chip lead when we got down to three tables, and re-took it when we condensed to two tables. That was the end of my chip leader days, as I lost a couple of significant pots when I called with ATC defending my blinds against a short stack.
As the big stack at the table (nearly 200K in chips with the blinds at 1,000/2,000 - my nearest chaser had 150K in chips) I felt like it was the right move to call an all in from a shorty when it cost me less than 15% of my stack. It might not have been the exact right move, but I was willing to take a couple chances to eliminate another player late in the event.
Other chances I was happy to take were coinflips late. When we got down to 2 tables, I re-raised a MP raiser with As-Js. Action folded around to the raiser, who shoved. She had me covered, but I figured anything from 77 all the way up to AK was possible, but I eliminated Aces and Kings, thinking that she may have flat-called with a real monster. So I thought for a second about the hands I thought she may have, decided that I was at worst a coin flip, and that late in the tourney I was going to have to win a couple of coin flips to survive, so I made the call.
She turned up 99, I hit a Jack on the turn, and I doubled through her. I think it was the right move given the escalating blinds and the fact that it was a turbo. I probably lay that down in a live event with longer levels, and I definitely lay it down early in the tournament, but at that point, I think it was the right call.
The only hands that stand out to me as misplayed are the AQ hand where I ran into AK, because I read him for a steal and was very wrong, but got my lucky suckout, and my last hand. I was in the BB with KJs, and the SB made a 3xBB raise. I thought he might be stealing, as he had been at or near the top of the chip counts for most of the later rounds, so he was decent. I decided to go against my first instinct and just smooth called. My gut had said SHOVE, but I didn't, and in retrospect that likely cost me my tournament. The flop came down 10-high, which missed the range of hands I put his on, all of which including either two face cards or an Ace-paint. I thought briefly about him holding AT when he led out on the flop, but decided he was making a standard C-bet, and shoved all in.
In retrospect, it was a shitty move on my part. The only thing that calls me in that spot is a hand that beats me, so I should have let it go. I think for the most part, I played well in this event except for those two hands. There were a couple other suckouts I made and a couple I took, but I'm not one of those people who thinks you can win a large tournament without sucking out, or at the very least winning multiple coin flips. So I picked up $50 for my 7th-place finish, and may give a few more MTTs a shot here and there in the near future.
No, I didn't FT any of the BBTwo events. I didn't have the money on Full Tilt Poker last night to actually buy in to one. So I settled in to piss away the last $8 of my online bankroll, and signed up for a 9-person $1 turbo, a 45-person $1 SNG, and a $3 Turbo MTT, with something like 620 people in it.
I spent most of my time focusing on the 9-handed turbo, since I managed to re-suck out on a guy who flopped a set to with 99 to crack my aces, but I rivered an Ace to crack his suckout to take the chip lead early. I didn't really play it very much like a turbo, playing generally pretty tight until we got to the money. The main difference is, if I raised preflop, I just pushed, since any reasonable raise was going to pot-commit me anyway. I picked up a bunch of orphaned blinds that way, and finally managed to take the whole thing down, adding a much-needed $4.50 to my FTP account. That in itself didn't mean much, except to set me freerolling for the rest of the night.
At that point I realized that I was the chip leader in the 45-person SNG, but managed to make a couple of unfortunate decisions to kill that buzz. Unfortunate like taking a look at too many flops with marginal hands and calling off too much of my chip stack on mediocre draws rather than being patient and waiting for better spots. So I busted there in 9th, respectable but out of the money, so in the end - useless.
When I finally turned my attention to the MTT, there were about 300 people left, 99 would cash, and I was hanging around average in chips. I picked up pocket Kings, pushed, picked up the blinds. Picked up AK on the next hand, pushed, picked up the blinds. Picked up AQ on the next hand, pushed from the button over top of the cutoff's raise, and was less than thrilled to see his AK. I liked the Queen on the flop, though. Faded the King and I was off to the races.
Basically, I didn't employ a whole lot of strategy, just wait for big cards and jam a shitload of chips in the middle. I figured that there weren't very many people there who could fold an ace or a pair, so if I raised preflop and an Ace came on the board, I was done. I picked up the chip lead when we got down to three tables, and re-took it when we condensed to two tables. That was the end of my chip leader days, as I lost a couple of significant pots when I called with ATC defending my blinds against a short stack.
As the big stack at the table (nearly 200K in chips with the blinds at 1,000/2,000 - my nearest chaser had 150K in chips) I felt like it was the right move to call an all in from a shorty when it cost me less than 15% of my stack. It might not have been the exact right move, but I was willing to take a couple chances to eliminate another player late in the event.
Other chances I was happy to take were coinflips late. When we got down to 2 tables, I re-raised a MP raiser with As-Js. Action folded around to the raiser, who shoved. She had me covered, but I figured anything from 77 all the way up to AK was possible, but I eliminated Aces and Kings, thinking that she may have flat-called with a real monster. So I thought for a second about the hands I thought she may have, decided that I was at worst a coin flip, and that late in the tourney I was going to have to win a couple of coin flips to survive, so I made the call.
She turned up 99, I hit a Jack on the turn, and I doubled through her. I think it was the right move given the escalating blinds and the fact that it was a turbo. I probably lay that down in a live event with longer levels, and I definitely lay it down early in the tournament, but at that point, I think it was the right call.
The only hands that stand out to me as misplayed are the AQ hand where I ran into AK, because I read him for a steal and was very wrong, but got my lucky suckout, and my last hand. I was in the BB with KJs, and the SB made a 3xBB raise. I thought he might be stealing, as he had been at or near the top of the chip counts for most of the later rounds, so he was decent. I decided to go against my first instinct and just smooth called. My gut had said SHOVE, but I didn't, and in retrospect that likely cost me my tournament. The flop came down 10-high, which missed the range of hands I put his on, all of which including either two face cards or an Ace-paint. I thought briefly about him holding AT when he led out on the flop, but decided he was making a standard C-bet, and shoved all in.
In retrospect, it was a shitty move on my part. The only thing that calls me in that spot is a hand that beats me, so I should have let it go. I think for the most part, I played well in this event except for those two hands. There were a couple other suckouts I made and a couple I took, but I'm not one of those people who thinks you can win a large tournament without sucking out, or at the very least winning multiple coin flips. So I picked up $50 for my 7th-place finish, and may give a few more MTTs a shot here and there in the near future.
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Alright, Aussie, I'm in
So I decided to give the NaNoWriMo thing a try. And I'll be posting my scribbles out there for public consumption, on this site. Why not, right? If you guys will read the drivel I post here, then there's obviously an audience for pretty much any damn thing somebody could write.
So there it is. It's out there, it's begun. I have only the barest idea of what the story is about, but I think it might be a road trip story. Or it might not. It might also be aborted in a few short days, but it might not. Like most everything in my life, we'll keep doing it 'til something better comes along. That's what I told my boss when I started at Barbizon. Next week marks my 12th anniversary with the company.
So there it is. It's out there, it's begun. I have only the barest idea of what the story is about, but I think it might be a road trip story. Or it might not. It might also be aborted in a few short days, but it might not. Like most everything in my life, we'll keep doing it 'til something better comes along. That's what I told my boss when I started at Barbizon. Next week marks my 12th anniversary with the company.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Is this right?
While I don't want anybody's babies getting fucked with on Halloween, this seems a little Orwellian for me. From CNN.com
Ummmm...maybe I'm a dumbass, but if these parole and probationed sex offenders pose a threat to society on any night, not just Halloween night, why were they paroled or probationed in the first place?
Or is this just so you don't have to deal with the dry cleaning when all those clown suits need to be cleaned up?
C'mon kids, let's play name that serial killer!
"At 5 p.m., we are going to require all of our probation/parole/pardon sex offenders to report to the office and they'll remain here from 5 to 10:30 p.m," agent Gerald Black, with the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon, told CNN affiliate WYFF.
Authorities in Roanoke, Virginia, will do the same. "You have a safer public. We have all the offenders in this area that are on probation or parole in one location. We know where they are," Randy Phillips with the Department of Corrections told CNN affiliate WSLS.
Ummmm...maybe I'm a dumbass, but if these parole and probationed sex offenders pose a threat to society on any night, not just Halloween night, why were they paroled or probationed in the first place?
Or is this just so you don't have to deal with the dry cleaning when all those clown suits need to be cleaned up?
C'mon kids, let's play name that serial killer!
A Scary Proposition, to be sure
So since StB can't handle the studliness of my kilt & mimosa combo, he asked what it would cost for me NOT to wear the kilt to the WPBT tourney.
Always willing to listen to reason (and the cha-ching), I hereby propose an auction.
Bid whatever you think I'll be interested in (money counts, obviously, but you can be more creative than that, I'm sure), and the best bid gets to determine whether or not I wear the kilt in Vegas in December.
Please note that you can bid for me TO wear the kilt (Kat) or you can bid for NOT to wear the Kilt (StB).
If you're really, really brave, you can also put in a bid for me to play the tourney in my bike gear, complete with helmet.
But that had better be a helluva bid.
Always willing to listen to reason (and the cha-ching), I hereby propose an auction.
Bid whatever you think I'll be interested in (money counts, obviously, but you can be more creative than that, I'm sure), and the best bid gets to determine whether or not I wear the kilt in Vegas in December.
Please note that you can bid for me TO wear the kilt (Kat) or you can bid for NOT to wear the Kilt (StB).
If you're really, really brave, you can also put in a bid for me to play the tourney in my bike gear, complete with helmet.
But that had better be a helluva bid.
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