I haven’t played a single hand for a week and a half, so I don’t have anything to report. However I wouldn’t mind discussing a hand that appeared on the forum in a little more detail, specifically my opinion. The forum received plenty of comments but for different reasons. As I expected, I was the only person who thought the way I did. Everyone else said the exact opposite. This is the hand;

Seat 1: Plochman ($28)
Seat 2: noseeds ($6.10), is sitting out
Seat 3: Cdn Chris ($34.80)
Seat 4: kibbles n bits ($46.80)
Seat 5: ICanJamThePot ($52.60)
Seat 6: Big Kahuna Dude ($28.05)
Seat 7: warcoug ($67)
Seat 8: RedFury0o7 ($57.75), is sitting out
Seat 9: Krukmakargatan2 ($25)
Cdn Chris posts the small blind of $0.10
kibbles n bits posts the big blind of $0.25
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Plochman [Qc Jc]
ICanJamThePot calls $0.25
Big Kahuna Dude has 15 seconds left to act
Big Kahuna Dude raises to $0.85
warcoug folds
Plochman calls $0.85
Cdn Chr...

[ Continued ]

going on almost 2 hours tonight, but doing some laundry and stuff while playing. Won a SNG and busted out in eigth in another. Running incredibly well at 3/6 right this week.

Ever wonder how when you are taking down a ton of pots and showing winners your bluffs work almost every time? Things tend to snowball in both directions. I guess the moral is, dont bluff if you are losing.

I thought the streak would be broken tonight, dropped 1/2 my buy in right away, then bounced right back and am up over 25 big bets, plus the SNG money.

Check out these stats:

Statistics for 193 Hands

Street Saw Saw/Total
Flop 66 34%
Turn 43 22%
River 31 16%
Showdown 27 14%

Street Won Won/Saw Won/Total
Pre-flop 6 3% 3%
Flop 7 11% 4%
Turn 3 7% 2%
River 2 6% 1%
Showdown 16 59% 8%


Crazy huh? 8 handed and winning...

[ Continued ]

playing a 5$ 90 person sng on FTP.

guy was on tilt, pure donkey tilt


Full Tilt Poker Game #3040471411: $5 + $0.50 Sit & Go (23211756), Table 4 - 100/200 - No Limit Hold'em - 23:26:14 ET - 2007/07/23
Seat 1: EdwardTeller (2,756)
Seat 2: rebies (2,959)
Seat 3: Boosted B14 (4,719)
Seat 4: Jmguyer (5,330)
Seat 5: CityBear (3,960)
Seat 6: quadg (10,304)
Seat 8: tomrash420 (5,764)
Seat 9: GoeSow (5,790)
GoeSow posts the small blind of 100
EdwardTeller posts the big blind of 200
The button is in seat #8
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to tomrash420 [7h Th]
rebies folds
Boosted B14 folds
Jmguyer folds
CityBear folds
quadg folds
tomrash420 raises to 502
GoeSow folds
EdwardTeller raises to 2,756, and is all in
tomrash420 calls 2,254
EdwardTeller shows [2h 6d]
tomrash420 shows [7h Th]
*** FLOP *** [As Qh Ah]
*** TURN *** [As Qh Ah] [Qc]
*** RIVER *** [As Qh Ah Qc] [9h]
EdwardTeller shows two pair, Aces and Queens
tomrash420 shows a flush, Ace high
tomrash420 wins...

[ Continued ]

I'm not ready to give up on Poker. Despite the running bad, the fact that I feel my game has taken a down-turn, the fact that I've been barely better than break-even this year, and my general disillusionment with the whole "Poker is going to make me rich and famous" vision, I still think about Poker. A lot. I love thinking about it, watching it, discussing it, and when I'm in the right mood, playing it.

I think that in many ways, I've been playing for the wrong reasons, or playing with bad habits for my immediate goals. My whole "grand plan" a few months ago was to conquer the Poker world by "beating" a level of games, moving up, and repeating, just hacking through with blunt force, taking no concern of what time I played, what game I was playing, or what I might have been sacrificing by playing.

So new idea: Poker is a fun way to potentially make a few extra bucks as supplemental income. I am currently unemployed, but my living expenses are paid until September. So I'm searching...

[ Continued ]

Coming back to play again, trying to get my money in before the UIGEA becomes official. It's been 3 months or so since I played NLHE so it should be an interesting ride. $300 will be coming into ePassporte on the 27th so I'll be playing then (unless somebody loans me the money first =D ).

I turned 21 a few days ago, which means I'll be able to go to Vegas eventually, thinking about doing that over Winter Break this semester. I have two uncles (that live together ... yeah thats right ...) who have a guest house that I can stay in so that'd be nice. We'll see how well I play back at pokerstars =)