Archive for June, 2005

Super fun!
Party Poker 5/10 Hold’em (6 max, 6 handed) converter
Preflop: Hero is UTG with Jc, Kd.
Hero raises, MP calls, 2 folds, SB calls, BB calls.
Flop: (8 SB) Qc, Td, As (4 players)
SB checks, BB checks, Hero checks, MP bets, SB raises, BB folds, Hero calls, MP calls.
Turn: (7 BB) 2h (3 players)
SB bets, Hero raises, [...]

Geez, with a blog contributed to by four different poker players/gamboolers, you would think we could have more freaking content. Stupid donkeys need to learn to type with their stupid hooves!
Here are some things that I swear you will find interesting. Really.
- Chris Moneymaker is hawking liquor at Winn-Dixie instead of playing at the WSoP.
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By posting this, I am probably just sending my poker karma hurtling toward bolivian…but I had a nice weekend. I think I need to enjoy this while it lasts, because I am pretty sure the bottom will fall out any day now…
Friday – Sunday
hands: 1545
vpip: 34.4 (lots of the tables I was on went [...]

While I still have not righted my poker ship, I did manage to do well at some casinos, which was VERY much needed. I hit Monaco Gold for a $200 bonus, and have a $432 profit and I’m still waiting for my $50 extra bonus that they offered me via email. I then hit Wallsteet [...]

…in sweet, sweet, Carolina Blue, don’t you think?
I never did thank Simms for adding this UNC theme
In other news, daily chat between Subby and Quiksand on 5/10 6m suckered me back in. After a terrible, terrible starting run(down 100BB in my first 5 sessions 2-tabling), I have started to recover a little [...]

Most professional poker players have seriously lame, self-aggrandizing web sites. Few updates, mostly fluff, old pictures. I stumbled across a cool one today though. Bary Greenstein has the usual information, but also has a page where he rates many of the top poker players. A regular in the big game and in tourneys, Greenstein has [...]

Can’t really say I’m unhappy with anything right now…
5/10 6 max since June 1
hands: 9128
vpip: 27
pfr: 18
wtsd: 37
w$sd: 51
fold BB to steal: 60
fold sb to steal: 76
att to steal: 36
BB won: 367
winrate: 4.0BB/100
Still working on BB defense…

Multiple hands here:
Hand 1: How’s my overall play. Too aggressive on the river?
Party Poker 2/4 Hold’em (9 handed) converter
Preflop: Hero is MP2 with Kh, Qh.
3 folds, Hero raises, MP3 calls, 1 fold, Button calls, 1 fold, BB calls.
Flop: (8.50 SB) 4c, 5s, Jh (4 players)
BB checks, Hero checks, MP3 checks, Button checks.
Turn: (4.25 BB) 3h [...]

What’s my move after getting 3 bet on this turn? No read on CO. BB was loose and very aggressive pre-flop (PT has him at 27% PFR over 85 hands and a VP$IP over 40%), less so post flop. Please note that I clearly misread Ed Miller’s starting hand chart. I’m going strictly by that [...]

One part of my game that I am pretty confident in now is probably the easiest to square away – non-blind preflop play.