PLO calling me again

I played two hit and run sessions at micro stakes PLO, once buying in for $10 and the other time for $6 and in less than 20 hands total I won $20, which was really fun.
The odd thing (or not, since it's PLO) is that the two big hands that allowed me to double up were both "eights full".

This was the first hand of my session last night, a crappy hand in the big bling which turned into gold.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3324376

This is the second one that happened this morning.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3322393

I think my hand selection is much better at PLO now and feel confident.
It used to be that I would take too many chances with connectors in the past, and would more often than not just shove on the draw and miss. If I keep improving maybe I'll be able to make a profit at PLO one day ;)

ronee

Cash game on the horizon

Sorry, I haven't updated in a while.
In what turned out to be quite the opposite of what I planned, I actually played less poker on my off days than what I would have hoped.

Now I am back at work for 2 weeks before taking off again and maybe I can get some hands in during lunch time.

Good news is that I have a live cash games lining up sometimes soon on the horizon, like on thursday night ;)
Looks like people are eager to try something more nerve-inducing, or maybe just something different. Of course they are not used to it, and someone even admitted his apprehension to cash games; but it's all good as long as we keep it friendly and the stakes low.

The structure will be a $20 max buy-in with $1 minimum buy-in LOL.
The blinds were supposed to be 10c/20c but I lobbied for them to be lowered to 5c/10c because our smallish stacks would not allow enough room to play I thought.
Thankfully the host agreed with me and we will be playing at 5c/10c.

I still don't know how much I will be buying in for. Should I be short-stacking at $5 or just try to give it a go at the standard $10?
In each case, I will be coming in with $15 on me in case I have to rebuy and try to make it last.
As you all know, I painfully suck at cash games and I've shown it again in the past few weeks.
I will try to sit at the 5c/10c full ring games online and get some practice before the D day.

good luck to all!

ronee

A few MTT hands to go

I entered a $3 donkament with 168 entrants and did better than I expected.
I haven't played a lot in the last few days but the tight/aggressive style worked out ok for me.

Mmmm his comment after the hand was "looool, fucking donks".
I have no idea what to tell those guys after the hand seriously.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3293847

What a great timing for this hand really, sick turn too!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3293948

Back to back hands that just went to waste, sigh...

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3293957
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3293958

No comments needed here.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3293986

bllaaarreerrrrgghhhh
I knew he had something but that really hurt bad.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3294006

That was my last hand, when I finished 24th, when only 18 get paid.
So sick.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3294027

ronee

#$ADFG@%$YFS?DGS%&^

I can't even begin to defend his play heads-up.
Makes me sick to my stomach that I had one of his outs too.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3272024

ronee

A new favorite might have emerged

If you look at the betting odds for the eventual winner of the WSOP ME in November, only two name stand out. The obvious chip leader, Dennis Philips and the solid and only pro David Rheem, who made two other final tables during the 2008 WSOP, and he is also my pick to win it all by the way.

But that was all before the WSOP Europe Main Event, where November Nine member Ivan Demidov just finished 3rd in an incredibly stacked field (heads-up is in place as I type this up).
He could have accomplished a legendary feat by winning both Main Events in the same year, but he'll just settle for a historic one, as he made both final tables, something that probably won't ever be done again.

If people haven't noticed Ivan yet, they have now.
Even with a final table of Negreanu, Juanda, I was rooting for the guy because it takes real skills to beat huge talented fields. Here's to proving he's the real deal in November.

On the side:

- PokerStars just introduced Double or Nothing SNGs, you play a 10-handed table where only half the players double their money and play stops when the money is reached. A good idea to attract fishy players, and lots of pros are bashing the idea on online forums. I don't plan on playing them ever right now, I am not a big fan of folding til the money.

- Looks like I won't deposit on PartyPoker after all. The software is laggy for me and too cluttered (they have so many useless and flashy buttons for their other PartyGaming stuff) that's annoying. But unlike other rooms they offer a lot of freerolls that are not country-restricted, so if I didn't have a dime I'd probably start there first.

ronee

A good $9 night

Well this is gonna get repetitive again, but here's another night that could have been great but it just turned out to be ok.

I didn't have much time at first so I just loaded a Super Turbo donkament on FT and promptly cashed in second place for $9 (+$6 gain).

Then I played 2 SNGs on Stars for $3 each and I busted from the first one in cruel fashion.
Can I complain, since lately KK has been holding up pretty good for me? lol

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3263080

The second SNG was a heartstopper but I deserved that hand there.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3263085

I finished heads-up with this guy and he had a 2 to 1 lead on me and I tried to steal from the SB with Q7.
To my surprised he called with Jack-rag to bust me, bleh.

A +$9 night.

In other news, lots of pros left at the WSOPE ME, most notably Negreanu which is among the top 3 in chips. Ship it to him one time!!!

ronee

Back in the swing of things

Hey there, sorry haven't updated in a while.

I played 2 SNGs last night simulatenously on Stars and it went good....almost very good if not for a late collapse.

The first SNG I picked up KK the first hand and busted a nut-flush drawer when I shoved and got called on the turn to bust him. Then a few hands later I picked up 22 and call a raise and flop trips.
I got it all-in against KK and held. I picked up AA once too I think.
I was up to 4500 very early but bubbled the thing when I tried to bully around the shorties and doubled them a few times. My demise was when I raised AT and got called.
Flop was 477 and I just hoped he had none of it (we were even stacks) so I shoved first and he called with A7. GG.

The second SNG I doubled with KK as well early AIPF vs JJ I think, don't remember.
I ended up second and the heads-up portion was a bore. We were exchanging leads and suckouts because the blinds were so huge so it was a shove fest which went on for a long time.
I finally tried to steal with J4 and he called with a King which held.

Meh, only +1BI for the night when it could have been muuucchh better.
Since I'm on a two weeks vacation I might try to play some tourneys at night we'll see, but if I play SNGs, I will play at least 2-3 to keep busy.

ronee

An all-timer

Meh, too bad I busted on the first hand of heads-up (about even stacks) with AT vs J4 (complete donkey). I flopped a T but he got a Jack too.
But that hand below was definitely the pot of the tournament

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3239626

ronee

On the uptick

PLO is really heart-stopping. Yesterday I lost a $30 pot three-handed with about the same hand which missed. This time I got hit by the deck and get the win. I am not sure what my odds are in this hand but I still like this draw very much.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3239100

Pretty standard here against the short stack. I just realized now I was also holding two of his outs, woot!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3239090

This hand capped a +$22 session which felt really great.
I was really sweating the flush draw but turns out he was drawing only to two outs.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3239078

Other than that I have been playing a few super-turbos on FT the past few days, don't ask me why, I know it's stupid.
Anyways, it's stress free and if I can get lucky maybe I'll score something who knows? :)
Last one I played, I was on the bubble with AT when the CL shoved my BB with QdJd and he flops the flush, good game!

ronee

I should stick to the games I am good at

Running like complete horse shit in PLO. I don't think I have hit better than two pairs during my session today! Which means death especially when you play a game like Omaha.

However, this little NLHE hand kind of made up for it.
The guy was a complete donk on my left, calling two all-ins with QTo and actually winning.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3234333

ronee

PartyPoker spikes my interest once again

My first ever poker room was Poker Room, but that doesn't really count since I only played maybe two play money games and that was about it.

After that I finally settled on PartyPoker (that was 3 years ago) and decided to deposit real money for the first time (ah, the days where VISA would just work!).
I deposited $50, ran it up to maybe $100 grinding micro-stakes SNGs, went on my first downswing and monkey-tilt down to $30. Then stupidly tried cash gaming at $0.25/$0.50 and ran that up to $130 in just a few days. From there, went through another downswing before going busto. Never redeposited again.

I had had enough of the Party software and gave Full Tilt and PokerStars their shot and never looked back. They had so many features that Party could not even touch (auto-centered view please? Customizable skins anyone?).
And tomorrow, everything could change. PartyPoker is set to unveil its new 'ground-breaking' software, and from the looks of it, it seems 'ok' but still a lot better than the crumsy old software.
Of course I will give it a try, but the new look is not the reason why I am thinking of depositing again.

How many times have you been on a US poker forum and heard someone say "I miss Party"?
Well I've seen it many times, and all those US players miss the action and the fish they used to get from Party. Of course those were the old days right around the boom, when most players didn't have a clue about poker in general, so who is to say that Party's crowd didn't get better now just like every other room?

That was my thinking until I read on a blog earlier stating that the country leading in terms of cashes at the WCOOP is the US, and it's not even close. Are Americans really better than Europeans when it comes to poker? And it so happens that Americans are only allowed to play on both sites that I play on, Tilt and Stars.
I might be dreaming here, maybe that statistic is skewed given that the WCOOP is geared towards a certain time zone but I doubt it would stop Europeans from playing in it.

Anyways, if the new Party software convinces me, maybe I will give it a shot again and see where the competition stands. Launch date is tomorrow.

ronee

Live cashing streak is over, but not before one last hurrah

I was invited to another live game saturday night (second live game in a row) and this time had 7 players with a $1 buy-in only.
That made for a relaxed atmosphere and crazy calls really, I just had to adapt.
My friend/host also handed out packs of Carta Mundi cards that his business sells and it was a nice gesture, appreciated it very much.

We had enough time to play two games and I finished 1st and 5th respectively.
Don't remember much of the hands really, I was just fooling around, limping everywhere and trying to get paid off when I did hit:

GAME 1

- I was severely short stacked and limped with A2 suited in a three-handed pot.
I flop a deuce and we all call a bet to the turn which brings another deuce. I call a shover and almost triple up.

- I push from the button with ATo to try to commit the BB who was short. To my surprise the SB calls as well with KJ while the BB had garbage. BB flops a King but I runner-runner the nut flush. Justice!

- Heads-up my opponent is auto-all-in with less than a BB and I only have 46o to his overcards.
He flops a pair but I river a gutshot 8-high straight to win the first game. Not the best way to win but I'll take it anyways.

GAME 2

- First hand I call a raiser with 99 and we see a flop of 9xA. He bets, I raise, he reraises, I reraise, he calls. Turn is another A which would seal my win or break me really. He pushes, I call and he only has KK, I double up the first hand of the game.

- I lose half my stack later when I shove with QQ and get a call by KJ. He flops a King and I am left the shorter stack again.

- Have A7 and we have a four-handed hand. Flop was A7Q.
Don't remember what happened, but I folded on the turn because of a shover and I remember the shover busting with the other two guys both having AQ whew!

- I don't remember my last hand, but I just know it was a bad beat lol. Oh well, who cares?

From then on we tried to play Stud and Omaha just for a change and they all agreed.
They also all agreed that Stud is very hard to play while Omaha generates waaayyy too much action lol. We had so many crazy hands in Omaha we just couldn't stop laughing.
Finally, it was getting late and we all decided to go all-in (in Omaha, yes!) just to decide the winner.
I think I had the second best hand with T9KJ, while the best hand had AKT8 or something.
I turned two pairs and won that last hand, whatever PLO :P

ronee

Still doing good in live games, but I hate 2nd place

I had another live game last night, with 8 players, a $5 buy-in and prizes as followed $20, $15, $5 for the first 3.
I am somewhat happy and disappointed because I finished 2nd in both games we played, but I also know I could/should/would have finished first if I played better and avoided bad beats here and there.
But I still came out the winner, as I was the only person to cash in both games and got the most profit, with a net +$20 in winnings (which also makes the two winners the only other players in the black).
Don't remember much of the action to be honest with you but I am just going to give you a bunch of hands.

FIRST GAME

- Two-handed flop of TTT and one player shoves his short stack and gets called. He showed 99 but caller had a crushing KT, good game.

- Heads-up he has a 2-1 lead on me and I push with (huge blinds) AJ and to my surprise he snaps with 89 and pairs on the flop to bust me.

SECOND GAME

- QJ and three of us see a flop of KJx and it's all checked. The turn is a rag and the short stack shoves and the other folds. I put him on a Jack as well and think for about 1 min. since it was about half my stack (trying to surive at this point). I call and he showed J4, with the river missing him.

- KK in the SB with 4 limpers, I raise 5xBB and they all fold.

- On the bubble I raise A9o UTG and the SB shoves. Now since I know him, he could have anything from A5 to AA in that spot. I call for half my stack and he shows AK, ichk! I double him up and I am short stacked.

- KK again and I shove my minuscule stack and get 2 callers. They checked all the way down to the river which is another K. I triple up with the nuts.

- Not long after I get KK again in the SB and it's folded to me. I decide to trap and simply call, hoping for a raise in position. To my surprise he checks.
Flop is KQT and I check, he bets, I call trying to represent a draw. Turn is the case King and I have a nuclear hold on the hand and check...since I represented a draw, the King would not have helped me.
Of course he bets and I shove for very little more. He agonizes because he now knows I do have something and calls anyway because he could afford it and was committed. I show quads and he had A5.

- Heads-up I doubled him up when I had AJ vs KQ and he paired on the flop.

- After a few more hands I tried to steal with K3 by shoving and he snaps with A3 and I miss.

Well there it is. Like I said, a few bad beats killed me but what can you do. I really need to work on my heads-up game right now and try to avoid spots where I gamble too much.

Meh, still a good night overall. Even though the structure was very very fast, it was more of a push/fold contest, but it's a skill that will come in handy from time to time.

ronee

James Obst

You probably remember my post about Andy McLEOD, real name James Obst, an Australian player who was tearing up online before being banned for being underaged.
He turned 21 in August and promptly took 4th place in the Sunday Million, and won an FTOPs event in Razz.

Just recently he won a freezeout (winner-take-all) $5k SNG for $80k.
Then that sicko scored a WCOOP win in PLO for almost $100k.

Now I just saw that he is the big chip leader in the limit Stud8 WCOOP event.

Truly an amazing, amazing player, all of his 21 years of age.
I can't image what it's like to dominate fields of hundreds of players, and doing it at all the games.
Taking down two WCOOPs would be unprecedented I think.

But for now he can just enjoy the fact that he took down both an FTOPs and WCOOP event during the same year.

ronee

A short cash session, maybe not...

I was planning on playing a short NLHE cash session and it turned into a real grind.
I quickly lost one buy-in when I turned trips and the CL rivered a flush and stacked me off.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3195273

I was down early in my second buy-in and more than doubled up with this hand.
I just could not hit a flop, so I tried to steal/raise from the CO with rags and hope. To my surprise I get all three players left to act to call me (CL's call doesn't surprise me, he's a huge suckout/calling donk).
The poker gods reward me with the flop that I wanted.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3195226

This bitch on my right was shortstacking the whole time and shoved me twice/thrice when I limped UTG or in my big blind (had 22 and JT). I looked at 55 and was sort of hoping she would shove so I could just shut her up and she did. I knew that I'd be in a coin flip at best but I did not care and we both sucked out, which made this play even sweeter.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3195220

I was on my way up until I got this hand....cruel. He called me a "clown" at the end...wtf?

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3195360

I was such on a monkey tilt after that I broke my promise and sat at a $0.25/$0.50 PLO table with a $25 stack.

I think Dannie31 knows even less about PLO than I do, which is frightening really.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3195478

Nice river, too bad he didn't bite. I was really really hoping the had the straight :(
Dannie31 again, I will be looking for your screen name in the future buddy, believe me.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3195450

I left after only 19 hands with a $45 stack, so that covered my NLHE losses! weeeeeeee!
Being pretty much dead even for the day makes me very very very happy.

ronee

EDIT: This was the last hand before I left the table (which I folded) and I caught this gem from Dannie31. OMG man, quit poker now!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3195491

Running good in live games with another first

I was invited to another live game on saturday night, my friend's parents were out of town again for a few weeks and so that meant....POKER baby!!!
I would like to thank my girlfriend for letting me go by the way :D

We had 6 players with a $5 buy-in, and most of them still unexperienced and tweaking their games. By that I mean a LOT of light calling, limping, and hero calls.
We increased the starting stack to 1000 instead of the usual 700 and the game ran better because of it. Although the blind structure is still crappy, since they insist on doubling the blinds everytime there is a bustout so we spent a LOT of time on the first level of 10/20 and ended up at 500/1000 heads-up with only 6k chips in play, you see where I am going with this?

To the fun part, the hands!

- LOTS of limpers because it's cheap and I limp with 46o during the first orbit.
The flop is a magical 235 with one spade. I bet and get one caller. The turn is a freaking 4 of spades and I puke because I might end up chopping the pot. I bet and another player fucking shoves LOL. I think for a few seconds and call, he tabled Js6s for the same straight and the flush draw. Luckily he misses the river and we chop...and he got lucky on the turn too by the way, but I still don't understand why he shoved instead of value-betting.

- I limp with As9s on the button and find a few other limpers. The flop brings two spades and it's checked down to the river which brings another spade and a paired board. I can't believe my luck and bet 100...but the player on my left insta-raises me to 300, ugh!
Obviously I am not laying this down, but my dilemma here is, should I reraise, knowing that he could possibly have a full? I know him pretty well and when he acts like that, he means business! Well I just called and he showed a K-high flush, whew.

- I raise 99 and find a few callers. Flop is low and a continuation bet of 100 is enough to clear it out.

- One player is very short and he shoves on the button with barely more than 2xBB. SB calls and I look at Td3d in the hole, which I am not too happy about. But since the blinds are 100/200 at that point, that's a potential big pot so I take a shot anyways and call. The flop is a GREAT TJ3 and SB bets. I instaraise and he folds after some deliberation. The shorter stack's hand is 99 and I hold to bust him out. I felt sorry because there is just no other way he could have played the hand, except maybe shoving earlier but you can't ask for more when it's folded to you on the button with a pocket pair.

- We are 3-handed with blinds at a huge 200/400. Lots of folding preflop and walks until someone actually has a hand to raise-shove. A short stack shoves for 900 and SB folds, and I am left to look at an horrendous 53o and 400 chips already in. I call for 500 more which leaves me with 2000+ I believe, and everyone looks stunned at my decision. Shover had a marginal hand like K8o and I explain that even though it looks bad, I am not worse than a 3-to-2 dog, but hey, what do I know? I miss and he doubles up anyway, oh well.

- On the small blind folded to me, I look at KK and fake a steal attempt by instashoving the BB (same guy I doubled up) and he snap calls with AQ. Thankfully I flop another K to cripple him.

- Not long after, that same guy is involved with the third player and he unfortunately tried to bluff/shove a rag board with QT but he gets called by KK and the turn is another K....so brutal for him!!! Running into KK twice.

- Heads-up they decided again to bump the blinds at 500/1000 and I have less than 2xBB (well yeah! Only 6k chips in play c'mon!!!). I shove blind two times in a row!!! And win both!!!
One of them was a gem, 84o vs 74o LOL. I won that hand with 8-high.

- The heads-up match lasted longer than we though, because we either shoved/folded and really, we kept exchanging leads all the time. Blinds were at 500/1000 with 6k total in chips, and we had maybe 15 hands heads-up, which is incredible in my opinion.
Finally I get shoved on my BB and I look down at AA!!!!!!
I slam my hand onto the table and he can't believe his eyes! He admitted a steal attempt and showed T8o...The flop brought another Ace and that was that.

I got $20 for my efforts and the runner up got $10.
Overall a good night, good atmosphere and I am happy about my play really.
In my last 4 live games, I have had finishes of 1st/9, 2nd/6, 1st/6, 1st/6.

ronee

It happens to the best of us

I was looking at highstakesdb.com and realized that you could click on a player's name and get a little info on his yearly winnings and the biggest hand they played so far.

It's somewhat comforting (or not!) that even the best players suffer downswings.
So I realized that most of the Cardrunners team has been having a losing year so far, that includes: Taylor Caby, Brian Townsend, Brian Hastings, Cole South, Eric Liu.
To that we can add players like Ziigmund, Mike Matusow.

All of this is startling to me, because I was always under the impression that players such as Hastings, South and Liu were huge winners on the year, especially when you read stories on some of the blogs.

Some of the biggest winners (we're talking a few millions) this year are Tom Dwan, David Benyamine, Phil Ivey and Phil Galfond.

ronee

Running bad in PLO, so going back to NLHE

I have been running awful in PLO. Losing a few buy-ins is expected and is not a big deal, but the stakes I play at make a dent in my bankroll. So I'm going to step away from this swingy game for a while, play Hold'em as much as I can and rebuild.

Running bad @#$^@$%&. Hopefully I was able to come back strong afterwards.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3173073

Running good!!!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3173070

Put him on the Ace and got paid off as much as I could obviously. He said that was a very very nice call afterwards, thought I am not sure he really meant it.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3173340

This hand happened not long after to seal up my NLHE cash session.
I went from $25 to maybe $15 at my lowest and back up to $34 with the hand above.
I was actually thinking of sitting out but got rewarded handsomely with this hand against the same opponent (poor guy). Anyways, a very good +$45 to offset my huge PLO losses.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3173369

ronee

A few hands of SNGs, NLHE and PLO cash.

The good read, wrong result.
I had to go with it because the blinds just went up to 150/300 and had I folded I would have had only 4 BBs left so, here's to Chris Ferguson. Too bad he caught me on the river.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3162905

Loosening up early.
I swear, honest, before the flop I told myself that it's been a long time since I flopped a monster and how cool it would be to have a AQJ flop.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3164401

Sick, sick hand I tell ya.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3164486

Not what I was hoping for but it works. I kind of knew I was beat and somewhat expected him to show AK but I had a bunch of outs to save my ass.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3167700

OH MY F***ING GOD. And I highly doubt that shoving the flop/turn would have made any difference.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3167882

Instant off-tilt from this hand. I jumped into this game just to recoup my losses from a previous NLHE cash game session where I had AK and called every bet on a TTT88 board and he showed 99. I think I played this PLO hand perfect, but don't pay attention to the stupid river bet, I misclicked lol. What's funnier it's that, that was the first hand I was dealt!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3168214

ronee

NLHE cash tryout and back to SNGs (FTW)

Won a buy-in with this hand right there.
I went from the worst feeling in the world to being on top of it. I was putting him on TT+ or AK that completely missed, but he had the guts I guess.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3145919


I also went back to SNGs with a lot of success so far. I played 5 18-mans and had finishes of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, 11th and 18th (ok, ok, we both flopped sets on the first hand...)

This hand closed an amazing run. I went from 250 left four-handed to maybe 7k three-handed, incredible. This included pocket fives holding up against two other players.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3149245

Guess what??? I then WON that SNG outright! I still can't believe I came back with less than a big blind in four-handed play. This was the second hand in the heads-up match, weird call on his part. But considering I raised half my stack on the button on the first hand, he probably thought I was bullying.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3149278

ronee

PS: bankroll going in the right direction since I started playing SNGs again....coincidence? I think nooootttt!

I suck at cash games and should go back to tourneys methinks XD

That hand could have been disaster for me, thank god he raised the flop.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3143037

Bad turn card and I got pwned pretty bad.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3143056


Now to some SNG hands. I got BINK there. I stole/shoved him from my SB a few times and he obviously called light and I found gold.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3145084

The hand of the tournament....but what a call from the chip leader, such an easy laydown for him imo.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3145092

sigh, as standard a bustout as it gets heads-up, what can I say?
Heads-up went back and forth and unfortunately I could not secure my first SNG win in a loooong time.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3145133

On a side note I finally won my first 70 FPP SNG qualifier for the Sunday Hundred Grand (played maybe 8-10 of these in the past) which I am obviously not gonna play because I don't have time. So I unregistered and got the T$11 woot. I am now debating if I should just put them all in a single SNG to try and cash :D

ronee

Escaped PLO session up a little

I entered a $0.25/$0.50 table on Stars and quickly lost most of my buy-in with this hand.
To be fair I completely misplayed my hand and i realize that now.
I don't know what I was afraid of but I didn't bet or didn't bet aggressive enough to get him off his draw.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3141115

I reloaded not long after and was able to double my stack against this donk.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3141100

I escaped not so long after with a slight profit which suits me perfectly fine.

That puts me pretty much even for the day since I played a bunch of SNGs and well and didn't cash, especially the 180s where I ran atrociously. In short NLHE has been completely card dead for me and PLO a little better.

ronee

Building my online roll again

If you read forums on the internet a lot of micro stakes players ask what tourneys they should play to build their rolls, most of them oscillate between $50 and $300 to start with. The most common answer I found is that the $2 Turbo 180 and $4 180 on Stars are very soft and very donkish, thus the best place to start.

So I gave the $2 Turbo 180 a shot this morning even though I hate Turbos because of the shovefest nature of it all. But hopefully you can get lucky, catch some cards and survive long enough to cash, because the final table is where poker is actually played.

To the hands:

You can't teach that! QUACK QUACK!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3135581

I am a huge luckbox on the bubble...But to be fair it was maybe a little worse than a coin flip preflop so, standard.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3135687

There was one instance where i had 77 on the BB with a MP raiser who raised 3xBB to 3k. Too bad I only had like 8k at that time, i would have loved to call, or even push but felt like I could wait some more since we were very very close to the bubble. Unfortunately I didn't get any more hands after that and exited in 13th for a minimal cash....grrrr final table is where the cash starts to go up.

Anyways, it was fun and I will most likely play those again, if I can get lucky maybe I can make a little who knows?

ronee

An offer I could not refuse

I could not quite keep my promise of not playing for the rest of the week.
A friend messaged me and told me about a game at his friend's house for a $5 BI so I immediately said yes! I am so freaking weak.

Anyways it was only the 6 of us and I have never met any of the other guys, so no knowledge of their play whatsoever.
I was happy to learn that all of them (save for my friend) were all pretty new to the game so that gave us an edge from the get go.
The flow of the game was pretty much the same as all the other live games I've played so far. A lot of light limping, calling and pretty much no raising at all, to the point where it felt I was just playing Limit Hold'em. I probably only saw less than 10 raises preflop (except from preflop shoves).

The buy-in was $5 and the prizes were $15, $10, and $5 for the first 3.
We had the not-so-clever idea of doubling the blinds for each 15mins levels, and I knew from the start it would not be a good idea.
Basically we started at 1k/2k with about 400k stacks each (yes the chip numering ranged from 500 to 25k).
We went at it for more than an hour and ended with 128k/256k blinds LOL.
And I am telling you this because I went heads-up with one guy and won. To the hands:

- We have a paired board of A8xxx and the two players in the hand show AA and 88 on the river for two full houses and AA doubles up, sick.

- SS shoves me T4 blind and I wake up with KK to bust him.

- I have T4 in the SB and BB only has 2.5BB left so I push and he calls with Kx and flops a King. He would up doubling up a few times again to challenge me heads-up.

- I have 85 and flop is 448 and I shove, he folds.

- He doesn't have much left and I shove A7 and he calls with 66. Flop comes an amazing 6x7.
I am ready to give him my chips (would have made us even stacks) but the cards come running clubs to put four clubs on board and I show Ac obviously LOL. Victory!

We then played another game and nothing came up really. I won a few big pots to grab the chip lead early and blinded out the rest of the way to go out in 5th.
I shoved Kc5c and got called by AhKh and bricked. Well it was already 6pm by that time and I was UTG at 30k/60k with just 270k left. I swear if it was not that late (had to pick up my girlfriend for dinner) I would have waited for a better spot to push. But I did it anyway and got punished, but good thing AK was my friend and he grabbed the lead with my chips so hopefully he won. ;)

I was also pretty happy with the read I put on my friend in this one play. He raised preflop and got heads-up with some other guy on a J-high board. They both pushed and his opponent showed a weak Jack for top pair. I told my friend "show me your pocket Queens"....and he did lol. Too bad reads aren't worth chips :D.

I am up $5 for the night and I am happy with my play.
Overall I nice group of guys and a very relaxed atmosphere, I am very happy I made the trip there.

ronee

EDIT: Got an update from my friend and it turns out he won the last game pretty handily, congrats to him!

Flipping ain't easy

EDIT: that was a post from thursday but it didn't publish.

Wow

Today has just been awful, cash games, SNGs, whatever.
I couldn't make a hand hold in PLO cash...let's say I bet pot with trips on the flop he always gets his open ender on the turn and I am already committed at that point.

Then I crashed in SNGs on FPT and Stars, the last one being the worse.
I was the chip leader during the first part of the tournament then I run AK vs 88 and miss. After that it's A6 vs Q7 and he flops the Queen.
After that I was all-in with QJ vs A8 and the flop comes AAQ, what gives?
Otherwise I see an idiot with AQ vs 55 and he runner-runners a flush to save his sorry ass.

Right now everything about poker is tilting me like crazy. Either I am getting outplayed or I can't win a damn flip it's so frustrating.

I will stop playing for the week and try to rethink my game a bit.
Lately there have been a few spots where I had the feeling I was good and folded to a bet when I was in fact ahead, I guess my confidence has been shaken quite a bit.

ronee

Bluff put me on tilt

I played one session where I quickly lost one BI with flopped trips vs flopped full house and reloaded. I reloaded and grinded back up from there, then lost half of my stack when the man on my right executed a bluff on the perfect board for him with this hand. I should have reraised him on the flop but let the turn get there. He told me later he missed his flush I proceeded to tilt off the rest of my money.
That's a 2BI loss for today on Full Tilt and I am not too happy about it but expected it somehow after the last few good days right?

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3113471

Sucks when you know you are beat but can't help yourself but making the call anyways.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3113283

I was shocked when part of the pot was pushed to me.
I put him on an overset on the turn and was right but couldn't bring myself to folding my bottom set, and I didn't even notice that the river saved my sorry ass.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3113289

I flopped the ultimate joint but it's just close to impossible to get value out of a hand like this.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3113294

This hand is just WOW

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3113506

ronee

Another day another uptick

I sat at a PLO table and won one buy-in only five hands in with this.
Not sure what else he could have done to be honest since I could represent a flush draw or set at this point. Shows you again the importance of having the nuts in PLO when you have a showdown. Obviously I quit this session after only the 5th hand lol.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3108425

I knew he had an overpair and made the correct read ftw!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3109009

another fucking cooler!!!! I was up and he brought me back down with this lucky turn card sigh.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3109028

I was able to go back to profits when this hand came up and again the Aces don't hold up.
Sorry dude but overpair in PLO are trash, you will learn in time.
Not long after this hand I amassed a little more money and just ran because like I said I am playing with scared money right now.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3109080

Overpairs don't hold up? ORLY?
Another reason why playing with scared money is not a good thing, especially in PLO.
If I did not care about money, I would have reraised him pot preflop ONE HUNDRED PERCENT then I would watch for paint cards on the flop because most raisers preflop have a big pocket pair. I coulda/shoulda/woulda won that hand but I suck at poker.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3109144

The chat that transpired after this hand is just the funniest ever!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3109033

ed halliwell: well played gonzalez
GonzalezD89: i had full house
GonzalezD89: 3 6 and 1 J
GonzalezD89: what was wrong?
GonzalezD89: why i didnt count?
roneewong: only two cards from your hand dude
GonzalezD89: omg
GonzalezD89: oke
roneewong: no more no less
GonzalezD89: lolololol
GonzalezD89: omg
GonzalezD89: then

ronee

If I can make PLO reads like that maybe I could score a $100k win too

I saw Slaktarn getting owned by Benyamine while they were heads-up. DB Made a sick all-in call with second pair on the river (fyi second pair is worse than garbage in PLO!).

But this hand with Phil Galfond (2008 PLO+R bracelet winner this year) takes the cake!
A $100k+ pot and the rail goes crazy. By the way, he even said in the chat he knew he was bluffing.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3105439

Please Full Tilt sign Phil Galfond as a red pro already!

ronee

Some hitting, and a lot of running

Lately I have just been sitting short at the PLO tables and doing the 'hit and run' thing once I doubled my stack.

I had a session on Full Tilt where I flopped a set versus two pairs.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3103702

Then I logged on on Stars and shoved my overpair and nut flush draw on the flop and outdrew two other guys. I realize after the hand I really only had 9 outs brrrrrr.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3103709

I know this is not good poker etiquette and I will stop doing that when I recoup all my PLO losses.
I am up $12 (2 BI) this morning with just about 35 hands which is great.
However I see people accumulate huge stacks at PLO and I am confident I can do that once I get my.....confidence back lol.

This is ironic but as long as I am not even at PLO I will not have the balls to keep building a stack.
I would not have such a big hole to dig out of if I did not buy-in at a higher level before to try and recoup in the first place, silly me. But the last few days have been good and hopefully they keep going.

ronee

Cash game going up and down

I have a really hard time taking off in Omaha cash so far. I am about even across both Stars and Full Tilt in the last few sessions but I am confident I can start to make a profit.
I am usually able to make like 1-2 buy-ins only to lose it not long after.

Best hand won, and I am in fucking shock!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3085900

My hand was so draw-heavy I had to take a shot on the turn. Like he said it was a good value bet on the river because I knew he had the straight and he pretty much had to call.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3095440

Just one of those hands that would have put me in the black for the day but instead I get sucked out on. Maybe I should have pushed preflop to isolate?

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3098284

I definitely could not put GreatWon on 46xx but it's kind of nice to suck out for a change of pace.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3098537

There is absolutely nothing else I could have done in this hand.
The donk just called with a 20% chance of winning the hand and he got there, WTF, that put me back to even for that session.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3099371

PLO is so fucking cruel it's ridiculous

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3099581

JUSTICE!!!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3099599

I had so many outs I can't even count them. I obviously knew I was beat but decided my odds where good enough in that spot.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3099627

ronee

No justice in Omaha!

This hand just sticks a knife into my heart, such a BAD play for this guy it's amazing.
Really? Calling a 3bet/shove from me with one player left to act? ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MIND?
But at least to my credit, my play was perfectly fine. Even though in Omaha there is really no clear favorite preflop I will still make the same play every day of my life with such a monster.
So instead of being up 2BI I lost 2BI today. :(

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3084870

ronee

Return to NLHE......avorted?

Mmmmm my last few Omaha sessions haven't been really successful to say the least lol.
I found a great great forum post on the internet that I think is already fixing a lot of my leaks so I will study it and get back into action.

But before that I jumped into a NLHE SNG and got this little gem for you....I almost thought I had a chance, until PokerStars dashed my hopes by leaving yours truly the only loser....WTF?

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3080113

I mean, I could probably handle it if only one of those suckers won but this split is complete bullshit.
So instead of being the chip leader, I am out.

ronee

Still trying to learn Omaha and break even

Mmmmm I am really negative as far as Omaha cash is coming along.
I still have troubles adjusting to the game right now but at least it never ever gets boring, not like Hold'em.

I got a couple of bad beats here and there and draws that don't hit but that's ok.
my main leak right now is that I tend to call large river bets with 2nd or 3rd best when I absolutely know that the dude is gonna show me the nuts but still can't fold. :(
Btw, I keep reading recommendations on Omaha starting hands and some of the hands those guys show are just awful.....imo.

To the hands...

My gambling side comes out?
I am not sure, but I think this is pretty standard, I had 13 outs when the money went it

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3079582

How ironic is it that I keep missing my draws but this time I get two of them on the turn and river but I am already drawing dead on the flop?

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3079853

Can't say much about this luckbox right there. I just didn't want to see a high card on the last streets to fill his full house (OBV he had the Jack) but the turn did pair the ONLY rag he had, WTF.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3080763

Again this is standard. Nut Draw vs Flopped Straight vs Set vs Donk Garbage.
I got lucky there but I had the best drawing hand and was able to quadruple up BINK.
The only regret I have is that I was gonna rebuy earlier but decided against it.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3080844

ronee

Omaha stories

That hand was brutal.
I kind of knew my hand was no good when the made the turn bet, but I still had the draw to the straight flush to go along with my lower straight. Wasn't really worried about the last guy to act at this point.
I am not sure if this is standard or but, I'll probably post it on some forum to get an idea.
EDIT: I did post it on a forum and they do seem to think I misplayed the hand and should have laid it down. Basically my butt-end of the straight was really no good versus a bunch of higher straights, leaving me drawing for a miracle two-outter. Thanks to the P5 community.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3072807

Making me sweat!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3074514

This one brought a nice turn card for me.
I knew he turned the flush but I didn't want to raise him right there on his bet, because the board paired and I was afraid to scare him off. I still don't know if that would have worked to build up the pot for an even bigger pot-sized river bet.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3074476

he bluffed me out of this pot pretty good.
I still don't know if I should believe what he said, but he told me he had ATTx and no spades, not sure what to make of his words and my laydown to be honest. He just sat at the table and I didn't expect him to put on a move like that.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3075582

THE FOLLOWING THREE HANDS HAPPENED IN SUCCESSION ON POKERSTARS AND I GOT OUT

He called the hand sick and I have to completely agree with him, not much we can both do there.
I had outs and decided to call down.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3075876

Just a little rush, that's it.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3075890

I didn't bet the river because he made quick calls everytime.
Maybe he got the full house I dunno, but as they say, you can only get called by a hand that can beat you. Now that I see his hand, I should have bet. I suck at Omaha.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3075894

What can I say so far.....I am down a lot on Full Tilt and up a decent amount on Stars.
I am note quite sure I am breaking even across the sites since I started playing Omaha cash but I doubt it. Too bad my current version of PokerTracker doesn't include Omaha games.

ronee

It's a love/hate relationship

Why I love Omaha

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3072200

Why I hate Omaha

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3072207

I should have been up $10 for that session, but instead I am breaking even. :P
Now I know why they say Omaha is the swingiest game ever!
Plus I was gonna sit out the very next hand with a profit of $5 and saw a double suited J44K and I thought, "what the hell".

ronee

My first foray into Omaha

Ok I lied, I couldn't stay away from the tables long enough.
In a desperate attempt to recoup my losses I made a stupid decision.

I decided to give Omaha a try at 0.05/0.10 and got out with a full buy-in.
The games were pretty easy, and as expected, a lot of limpers and chasers.
I am defenitely not good at this game, but I don't think the others are any good either to be honest with you. Almost no one raised preflop and all-around checks were the rigor. You just have to make sure that you show down the nuts, or close to it.

Speaking of nuts, here are the hands:

Welcome to the wonderful world of Omaha from Full Tilt.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3070998

Thought he was chasing the flush and I got lucky on the river.
But in my defense, I wouldn't have reraised him all-in with two pairs at the end XD.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3070988

I was wrong about Omaha it's a fun game, just because it creates big pots quickly and if you are careful enough and can control the pot size you can definitely make a profit.
Like I said, I have been losing my patience lately, folding in Hold'em is NOT fun, especially when you are card dead. It's a nice break to have playable hands for a change ;)

ronee

Taking a break

I am so tilted from Poker right now.
I played SNGs this morning and kept running into big hands.

On the buble of an SNG, I shoved QQ and got called by the short stack's AJ which hit an Ace on the flop to cripple me. I than had to push KQ suited and got instacalled by AA!

Very next SNG with a 3000+ stack (good for 2nd) I call a short stack's shove with 66 and he had QQ.

Not long after I push a raiser with JJ and he shows AA.

Then short stacked with QT I commit my chips on a KKT flop and he shows KQ.

Anyway, it's the perfect time for a break right now. I am trying to play tight/solid poker but I either get sucked out on or run into monsters. Bleh.
Bankroll is still very fine, but if things go on like this, this will be a losing month which would really suck XD.
I will take the rest of the week off and refocus, read some articles and study a little.
I am not sure if my game has changed for the worse in the last few weeks but one thing that I am losing for sure is patience and I will try to readjust.

ronee

I just suck at cash games

My last cash game session hasn't been as smooth as the first one to say the least lol.
I think that overall I lost my profit from yesterday and then a little more.
Right now I can't really adjust to cash games because of my tight-aggressive nature and also the fact that I value money so much haha.

I promptly lost one buy-in by gambling on a hand that could have gone either way, but for some reason I liked my draw a lot. If I had won that, I would have been on top of the world but I guess not. I'm probably down like -$12 (which makes me almost even with yesterday), which isn't bad I guess, good thing I went on another table and ended things on a little rush.

This is the hand I was talking about. He reraised me very quick on the flop and I just went with it (overcards and flush draw probably good?) to realize I was actually in worse shape, being 4-to-1 underdog in the hand, ichk.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3070068

That was the ugliest river card ever. I now realize I should have shoved the turn instead of being afraid of a bigger flush. They most likely would have called and so I missed a potentially huge pot.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3070083

This is Full Tilt playing Jedi mind games with me and the other guy.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3070085

Tough call, it was 50/50 he had a better Ace. Obviously he didn't have the 6 either given the action and my slow calls. I was sort of getting exasperated and reluctantly called, I suck at poker.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3070088

ronee

Running a little better in cash I guess

i was so tilted i sat in a $0.10/$0.25 cash game with $15.
The game quickly filled up and we went from 4-handed to full ring in a flash.

A few of the players were aggressive, especially one who ran his initial stack from $25 to $50 quite quickly. He raised a lot preflop and showed down a lot of monsters. It does help when you hit two full houses within your first 6 hands of play doesn't it? I just had to stay out of his way lol.

My table was very tight, just folding on the flop anytime I missed.
I was down to $10 very early, just missing everything and then I called a raise from the guy on my right and flopped a set with TT on a T-high board. He c-bet me and I called, but unfortunately he slowed down afterwards, knowning my tight image represented a monster.

I was at $12 when this decent pot came up.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3064707

My thought process was simple. I was clearly representing a c-bet on the flop, that much was clear.
He simply called and I just did'nt think he had the Ace at that point, with his aggressive nature he would have reraised me most of the time.
We both check the turn. But he did bet the river very aggressively, as planned, he was very LAG. At that point, he either had a monster or garbage, because the only thing that could worry me is that he hit a boat on the river. I still didn't think he had the Ace on the river because he wouldn't bet that much with that board so I just went with it.
Like I said, my flop bet was SO OBVIOUSLY a continuation move and he absolutely knew it. I completed my tight-weak image on the turn by checking and he immediately tried to bluff the river on me. That started tilting him and he shoved AIPF KQ vs someone's AQ turned a King, unfair XD

This hand below will haunt me forever, but not for the reason you think, I did win my biggest pot.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3064806

I am deeply disappointed because I just had the feeling he had an overpair as well!
ZOMG, why didn't I check the river!!!??? I had the perfect tight-weak image and I butchered what could have been $4-5 more. Fuck me I am so stupid.
He called very quickly every street and represented something like TT/JJ and by shoving the river, I obliterated my chance to have him try to resteal the pot on the river bet. He had to lay it down. I mean, even if he had AK, that move on the river was -EV for me, like I said, I am deeply disappointed, because I am just too quick to act and that happens a LOT.

But hey, still a +$11 session and I can't complain.

ronee

Running like complete crap

The last few SNGs have been just terrible.
I went all-in preflop a few times and lost all of my races, and I was favored in all of them, if only so slightly.

The worst was probably AT vs QT and he spiked a Q on the turn, and then I tilted off the rest of my chips (still a good stack but all the raise-calling donks forced that move on me) with 77 and got called light by QJ and he flop two pairs, GG.

Just now, I was browsing Full Tilt not looking to play and I saw a red pro (Biorac, still don't know who that guy is) on the 90-man double stack so I sat in for the fun and busted early with this cooler.
His reraise really light a bulb in my head. But given he didn't reraise the initial bettor there might be a chance he didn't have it. I guess he knew I was drawing and got there, plus it's a $1 SNG!! Still a cooler imo.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3064359

For once I try to get cute with a garbage hand in early position...XD I get there and get this result instead.

On a side not I will be BANISHING Turbo SNGs from my games completely effective today.
Why you may ask? I am just tired of gamling for all my chips after 10mins of play, because that's what has been happening lately.
My last cashes have been in non-Turbos and I don't think that is a coincidence at all.
So I will go home tonight and remove the Turbos from my SNG/Tourney filters once and for all.
It's funny because that's where I used to make a lot of cash , especially on Stars, but since I am running like shit and not winning flips,....well you get the picture!

I am thinking of moving up, to maybe $5/$10 9-man NON-TURBO SNGs, still undecided on that. I do have the bankroll but it still is a tough step to take at this point.
It would only take like a 2-game losing streak to rattle my confidence LOL. And I expect the swings to be crazzzyyyyy.

ronee

James Obst is fucking SICK!

I was about to go to sleep as I said in my earlier post.

But then I caught this post on pocketfives.com that said that Andy McLEOD was at the final table of FTOPS 21, which is Razz.

That guy's real name is James Obst, he's from Australia and plays as "Andy McLEOD" on PokerStars and "TheFatFish" on Full Tilt Poker. He got busted (rather ratted out by a former friend of his) in 2007 for being underage and the poker rooms froze his online accounts (without taking any money).

Well he turned 21 just recently, and the week of his come back, he takes 4th in the Sunday Million for $70k, just a sicko!

I opened the table and he was heads-up with some other dude for a $40k first place prize.
And what do you know, he was down 1 to 2 in chips and goes all-in on the river with a 7-low versus an 8-low to double up. His opponent must have been so pissed because his hand was awesome. Anyways, James took it down not long after....SICK.

ronee

7th, 2nd, 2nd, 1st

My girlfriend wasn't here last night so I four-tabled on PokerStars, it's been a long time since I multi-tabled.

I wasn't really comfortable with it because I haven't been really on my game lately.
I had finishes of 7th, 2nd, 2nd and 1st which I am really really proud about.
Especially since my two losses in heads-ups where due to bad beats....I was favorite when the money went in the middle, but what can you do? Could have easily had 3 first places,....I mean, those weren't coin flips either! I was probably 70-30 in both and got sucked out on.

Still very disappointed because I could have been in the black but I'll settle for being in the "green" :D

To the hands!

Almost busted early in this one. Luckily someone bet big on the turn and the odds weren't good for me anymore. Whew, someone had the nut draw lol.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3053795

three-handed this was the perfect spot to shove with the nut draw.
Usually I wouldn't do this (I'd just call) but I had no other choice here and got paid off very nicely.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3053800

I have no clue what he was trying to pull off here. Maybe he thought I was on top pair and relied on this overcards and gutshot to outdraw me. Too bad for him I flopped a monster. It was good to bust him too, he was talking too much! j/k

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3053807

Cooler for him definitely but to his credit, he made me sweat until the river!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3053813

Damn, that was a stupid river card for me.
But I absolutely do not understand his flat call on the river! I mean, it's true there are a lot of donks at those levels. If he had shoved, I probably would have had no other choice but to call here. I think it's the SNG that I won too,...I guess I can't be too proud about it...

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3053826

That dude got lucky there! That was the oneeeeeeeee!!!!! TILT MODE!!!!!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3053834

The most aggressive player wins in the NLHE!!!
I can't figure out if I am either a huge donk or a genius to be honest with you.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3053839

Too bad I didn't get to show this hand.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3053843

Anyways, it's kind of late right now and I'm probably gonna call it a night.
Good luck to everyone at the tables.

ronee

I kinda LOL'ed

I saw John Duthie pull this bluff just now on PokerStars at 100/200 NL

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3046811

ronee

Very well played Stars

I didn't even know there was a new feature on PokerStars until someone pointed it out on a forum.

Basically the neat thing is this: We have shitty connections in Tahiti and sometimes you could click to register for an SNG, and when you finally click OK, it tells you that the registration is closed because it filled up!
I always hated that shit! Well now you can check a little box that says "Automatically try to register to identical tournament if this one is already full"!



I think this is great!

On my side of things I don't expect playing for the rest of the week.
I have things to do today and next comes the 3-day week-end and my g/f should be getting most of that time ;)

ronee

I'm so getting sick of this shit

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3041623

This reminded me of this hand that happened just yesterday.
Fucking bitch on the flop is the only paint card obviously!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3036637

ronee

PS: Full Tilt Poker is sooooo rigged! :P

2nd in an 18-man SNG on PokersStars

I played this morning and it didn't start well.

I was able to accumulate chips and be the chip leader at my table, however, someone walked in, asking me to fix a printer and that kind of tilted me a little LOL.
The issue was a non-issue and I missed maybe 10 hands. The worst one being AK in position, and I would have turned broadway vs the lower straight....Sad....He shipped it too....Oh....I love the new PokerStars Hand Replayer by the way.


I love having the chip lead. That allows me to call shorter stacks' all-ins without breaking a sweat. This is standard preflop...until the river. You can't teach that!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3036545

I tried to bluff the river by making a bet and he called. Only to shower a weaker Ace.
I guess my CL image played a part there, people don't give me enough credit for a big hand.
But in his defense, his read was 'somewhat' correct, I had nothing so I should be more careful next time. A well-timed reraise from him would have gotten me off the hand ASAP.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3036558

More bad beats. This guy took the lead from me at the final table and never looked back.
Little did I know that I was gonna lose to him heads-up...when I should have busted him right there for the monstruous stack.
Back in the day I would have never had the guts to reraise preflop with AQ (just call) but I feel it is the right thing to do know, be the aggressor preflop, and if he misses the flop, that pot will be mine.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3036563

Standard bustout hand. This was the second heads-up hand and I think he called because I shoved the first hand with AT and he folded. No I wasn't trying to bully, just double up because he had a 2-to-1 lead on me. He obviously gambled with one overcard and got the win.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3036637


By the way, there are soooo many posts online about Full Tilt's crashes/lags because of the FTOPS. It's been a complete nightmare so far and players are asking for refunds out of their tournament buy-ins. I wouldn't want to be deep in a tournament or high-stakes hand right now.
Anyways, it's been down for a few hours now and we still don't know when it will be back, even the Full Tilt website was down for a while.

PokerStars has a lot of experience for himself in large fields. Their network holds up even with the weekly Sunday Million and the titanic WCOOP Main Event.

ronee

This better stop right now

Wow, I should stop posting every time I finish a SNG, but hey, this blog is also an outing for my pain/grief/tilt so there you go.

Feels good to get some stuff off my chest, and then when I see the hands I post, I tend to get mor analytical about them and analyze, which I'd never do otherwise.
Do you seem me going through hand histories in Poker Tracker? Me neither.

This hand was a complete nightmare, and the Vilain a complete DONK.
He is probably a noob who reads too many poker books, saw his weak Ace on the button and thought to himself "hey, this is the perfect spot to steal, so let's do it!"
I reraised instantly with QQ, committing myself and the rest is... well, standard!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3032603

Can't catch a break here! (again)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3032611

ONE FOR ME!!!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3032662

Standard BS. Really though I won there, until the pot was slided to him.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3032706

Maybe moving up will stop all the stupid bad beats I get. I mean, would people call my 3-bets preflop with A-rag as they do in a $1 SNG?

There were maybe 2 other times in 4-handed play where I was the leader and called the shorter stacks' all-ins with better kickers. But this time they didn't pair their kickers, noooooo, both times the board went high and it counterfeited our hands for split pots.

I did finish 2nd in this stupid SNG though.
I haven't played a Turbo on Full Tilt in a long time, and I know remember why I stopped playing them LOL.
It's such a shove fest it's not even funny. That might explain a lot of the hands above.

Btw, is it better to play Turbos on Full Tilt or Stars?
Check out the structures below and let me know what you think:
(The colors represent the same time frame, so, it shows the levels after 15, 30, and 45 mins of play respectively)

ronee

@$%^@$%&@&*^&*$%@

What the FUCK?

Cruising along fine in a SNG on Stars, within two players off the cash with a very good stack.
And those 3 hands happen in the next 5 hands!

- AhKh, SS shoves, I call and he shows TT. I river an Ace, but he already flopped a set. Whatever.

- I push 99 with three limpers, SS shows AJ and Chip "donk" Leader shows rags and flop is Axx.
I survive with the side-pot.

- Chip "donk" Leader limps and I shove K9 from the SB and he calls with J6 and flops a Jack.

This hand also happened to me very early in the tourney which hurt me a lot.
Although I was able to bounce back later, it just stings. My value bet on the turn was good I feel, but somehow, the donkey got there.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3032265

ronee

Standard bust hand

Meh, busted out of a 45-man in 22nd place.
It truly is disappointing since I had a good stack and was looking to make a deep run.

77 UTG I call the BB of 100 with my 2400 stack and find 4 more callers.
Flop is T97 and UTG bets 200 I raise to 400. The player after me calls and every one else folds.
Q on the turn doesn't really concern me since it's unlikely he has KJ or J8. I bet pot (1600) to get him out of any draws and he calls.
River comes Q and at that point I am low on chips and shove my Sevens full.
He showed me TT for Tens full. GG.

ronee

Instant off-tilt, sort off

Made a return to FTP today, registering for a $1 45-man and I got 3rd, good for $7.
I was chip leader for the first half of the tournament, thanks in big part to me gambling on a flush draw and tripling up.

After that, the following hand came up:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3032975

I called with third pair on the flop because I just had the feeling the board completely missed him. He raised preflop OOP which showed a lot of strenght.
However, he paused on the flop and bet only half the pot, so that looked like a continuation bet to me and I made the call. The turn obviously didn't help him at all and I picked up a flush draw to boot with my minuscule pair. He shoved and I called, my read was good as he showed AK.
Would I have called if I didn't get that flush draw? I don't know, because it gave me a blanket just in case my read was wrong, but I didn't need it.

The next hand is my biggest:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3032981

I value bet all the way to the river. The turn was magical to me and insured me a huge pot three-handed.
It was also the first hand back from the first break, good times. He showed 77 to my full house.

This hand was a big blunder on my part. I had top pair and feared I was outkicked.
Because of that I didn't bet the turn and he caught me on the damn river. I'm so stupid.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3032983

Runner-runner bad beats are NEVER fun!:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3032987

The 4-handed and 3-handed parts of the game were complete GRINDS.
Chip leads kept moving around, short stacks kept getting their miracle cards to stay alive (case in point: 53o vs Q5o flop 53x) and I was getting frustrated.
3-handed, the blinds reached 3000-6000 which happens very rarely, given there are only 67500 chips in play! That means the three of us had an M of 3 only!
Finally I shoved A9 vs AQ and (surprise, surprise!) failed to catch my card. Meh, always happens for the others, never to oneself.

Winning is good, but who am i kidding I'm still tilting from yesterday XD.

ronee

Tilting like crazy!

I haven't played (ok, played maybe once) for the last week because I didn't feel like it and today was definitely not the day to start playing again.

I started 6 $3 10-man SNGs and cashed in only one! Just so sick. That caps a -$14 day I think.
I don't think I am playing bad, but it just seems like I can't catch cards or a break at the right time. To give you an example:

KK vs A9 he spikes an Ace on the flop. Which really sucks because he shoved a raiser from his SB and I pushed in the BB.

TT vs QJ, he flops QQJ. God-awful move on his part preflop. I raised, he reraised, I shoved and he called, WTF?

Apart from that, it just feels like everytime we are on the bubble, the short stacks keep shoving mediocre hands and doubling up against the chip leader, which in turn makes yours truly the short stack. God I just hate that.

I know that my bubble game isn't at its best right now, with either a short or big stack I just can't keep up with the blinds/antes to cash. Maybe the answer would be to stop playing turbos. But I have always been profitable in those so I don't see a reason to stop playing them anytime soon.

Is a -4BI considered a downswing? Is it standard? Should I even be on tilt or mad about it?
Anyways, right now seems a good time to quit for today and refresh.
I will start playing again on Full Tilt soon and hopefully I will do better.

ronee

July = meh

July is over and I'm glad with it.
Poker has been really bland lately, haven't really felt the urge to play since I've got a lot of other stuff going on around me right now.
And when I did play I was either spewing chips, being impatient (playing turbo donkaments) and donking off.

Right now I am up on Stars and down a little on Full Tilt (due to me not playing Full Tilt for a while, but that might change soon).

I have come close to a big cash in the very few MTTs I have been playing but alas, it was not to be. I do feel though that my MTT game is better than my SNG game, just because I've been (for some reason) very bad on bubbles and MTT bubbles are much easier to burst.

How many times have I lost a ton of chips on a SNG bubble to barely get ITM? If a few of those cashes had been wins, July would have been great!

Meh, I'm still up, right?

ronee

Friday Night Live Game: Where Running Hot Happens

Wow, this is probably the first time ever that I play live games in consecutive nights.
That same friend from last night called in again and we had a 9-man game this time, great!
There were maybe 3 people that I know by name only, so I didn't know anything about their poker games to be honest.

Like I said last time, my plan was to just stop bluffing and value bet good hands, and it worked out great as I won!
Whew, feels good to say that since I've been in such a funk lately.
Anyways, I made good bets on my big hands and got hit by the deck at the most important moment of the game. People kept busting left and right with marginal hands AIPF or shoving/calling rivers with second pair, just weird.

On to the most interesting part, the hands:

- In the first orbit I pick up AQ UTG and raise big, maybe 10xBB.
I raised this big because blinds were still small, and as usuall people will call you light with anything so I didn't want to chance it. I got maybe 3 callers (as I expected) and we see a flop of AxQ. Great great spot for my hand I bet the flop big and get 2 callers. I then bet a second spade on the turn even more, and they both agonize before making the call.
River is another spade, and I reluctantly check, and it is all checked around.
I show my top two pairs, and just like in a movie, they both roll AK and AJ. Wow. Got really lucky there, I understand why they were so in pain.

- I got another hand against the host of the game that was a pretty big pot. I limped with 3d4d and flopped trip treys for a big pot. Those chips catapulted my far ahead with the chip lead and lots of people were getting short already.

- First big pot I lost was with QQ UTG, not a great spot for that hand. I bet again 10xBB and get 3 callers. Flop is a freaking Axx and I check and have to fold to a bet on the flop. It was too obvious he had an Ace anyways, and the K on turn made me feel better. The bettor later said he had a weak Ace.

- After that people were getting short stacked and busting with a lot of marginal hands. I don't recall any nuts being shown down. Basically as people busted, we moved up the blinds, which really hurt me because I wasn't catching cards or doing any of the busting, so the host started accumulating a lot of chips that way. Before I even knew it, we were 3-handed, with the host having a commanding lead, and me and another girl the short stacks. She goes all-in with an Ace and he calls with a marginal hand. She doubles up as they both blank, but I would have gotten a full-house with my Q9o. That tilted me a little.

- The miracle JJ comes in my BB as the CL limps. I shove and he calls to double me up and give me life.

- Then him and the girl both shoves the river on a KJ8T7 board, and she shows QJ for second pair and he shows A9 for a rivered gutshot. I was happy, since only the first two cashed, and I was ITM with a 2 to 5 chip disadvantage.

- First hands are irrelevant, since they are won preflop or with a simple bet on the flop.
This is when I ran hot like crazy. I pick up AK and shove preflop, he folds.

- Next hand I get 22 and shove praying for a fold and he does.

- Next hand I get AJ and shove, and I guess he got tired and calls with a marginal hand to double me up. I now have a 4 to 1 chip advantage.

- Next and last hand, I get JJ and shove to his Kx and he blanks, I win.

Wow, those last four hands were crazy.
I finally won a live game, first in a long time. I am very very happy with the way I played, and I am especially happy with this stat:

BLUFF COUNT FOR THE NIGHT = 0

Yes, I didn't bluff one single time and it worked out great for me, since most of them are calling stations.
I am glad, I said last time that I was gonna focus and win, and I just did that right there.

ronee

Thursday Night Live Game

I got the surprise to be invited to a live game thursday night at a friend's house, and it was fun.
I didn't even know that he played poker or was interested in the game, but looks like he caught poker-fever as well so he called in 5 other players for a little game.

The buy-in was insignificant, but we just wanted to make sure that people would play at their best regardless.
Basically second would get his buy-in back, while first place would get all the rest.
Now on to the interesting hands:

- During the first orbit, this incredible hand happened. Four of us check to the river which puts a board fo XsXKsX7s. The player on my left fires 300 quickly (blinds 5/10 with 50 in the pot). The player to act bemoans for about 2mins, saying that he could only make this bet with the nut flush and how he would call if there was more in the pot.
Anyways, to our amazement, he folded Qs3s face up for the second nuts!!! What did the other have? 77 for a rivered set... We then proceed to tell him that it was a horrible lay down because, well, it's the second nuts! And the nut flush wouldn't bet that aggressively anyways. That was an opportunity wasted for him to bust a player (300 was half our starting stacks) because I sure know I would have instashoved.

- Player on my right gets short stacked, and I limp from the SB with 77 with 4 other limpers.
The flop is a nice 245 rainbow and I bet. Short player is on the button and calls. At this point he might have anything, since most of them call with paint just to chase until the river. Turn is 6.
Now that sucks a little bit because the straight might have gotten there, but I still have a draw to the nuts and an overpair so I am pretty confident. I ask for a count and have him covered, but if I lost it would hurt me a lot. I shove him and he instacalls UPS!
He shows me 55 for flopped trips and I am left scrambling for my 10 outs. Since he is the dealer, he peels off the river, which is a magical 8 for my straight!
I feel sorry for him, he played the hand perfect, and I too, think that I had the odds and hand to stack off in that spot. I merely wanted to push him off any draws and it didn't work out that way. That's poker, sometimes there are hands you just can't fold and are supposed to die with. I guess I overplayed my hand a bit and got lucky, but I still would make that play any day, live or online.

- One player got short stacked as we were four-handed and the three others, including me, took turns to try and bust him. I went at it first with 49o vs A4o and I doubled him up. Very next hand, the player of my left doubles him up with an inferior hand again. Right after that, the player on my right shoves him A8o vs Q9 but the flop brings a Q for his third double up LOL.
Since he went up to a sizeable stack, we ganged up on the player on my right for a change, and he busted soon after AIPF.

- I soon found myself heads-up and was a 2-1 dog in chips. I was able to take the lead with a few hands (middle pairs mostly) that went to showdown and won. But the last hand was obviously a mistake from me. I limp with 63o and find a flop of 446.
I bet first 3xBB and hope to take it down, and he shoves it. Clearly I could have folded there because I'd still have enough chips to play, but I didn't think much about it and called only for him to show me 47o for flopped trips. I suck.
During the whole night, he only made big bets with nuts and big hands and this time was no exception. I mean, what could I beat there? A 6 beats me, a 4 beats me, in essence, I could only beat a bluff, and most of the time, he isn't bluffing in that spot.
The turn and river come two 5s and I am crippled. I shove J4 vs 89 right after and the board comes x4x89 to bust me.

I have come to realize that I have a hard time transitioning from online play to live. Steals don't work as they do online, and I try to rely too much on reading tells which I clearly suck at right now. IMO, betting patterns are a lot more important than mannerism.
Next live game I am planning on putting my A-game and taking this bitch down XD.

ronee

WSOP 2008 on ESPN

The broadcast of the WSOP 2008 starts tomorrow night on ESPN and I can't wait.
It's been a long time since I've had new poker shows to watch, and this year's series should be one of the best, with many pros taking down bracelets.
The first event is the pot-limit hold'em championship event, which I believe was won by Nenad Medic against a formidable cast of opponents.
That means I will have 700megs to download every week starting tomorrow, until November, pretty much. :D

On the poker side of things I haven't played much lately and I am up for the month of July, just barely. Was going through a little downswing on Stars and turned it around very nicely.
I should resume my workouts today and try a full schedule from now on, no more fooling around. That should cut my poker playing since I'd have to sleep a little earlier every night to be in shape.

ronee

Things the PokerStars and Full Tilt softwares could learn from each other

I like both PS and FT when it comes to playing poker online, but both their softwares aren't perfect yet. Even though all they have to do is look at each other to improve.

PokerStars could learn from Full Tilt Poker:

- Change the names of their Team Members to say their real names. Just like Finddagrind is now Patrik Antonius on Full Tilt, Money800 should be Chris Moneymaker
- Update the prize pools on the fly when people register. Please don't wait for the tournament to start to announce the prizes.
- Update Cashier when logging in, and not when I click on the Cashier button.
- In-game sound effects are horrible.
- Make the SNG and tournament listings cleaner to look at.
- Allow graphical hand histories.
- Generate tournament summaries when busting out (PokerTracker).
- Copy Full Tilt's blind structure, it's just better.

Full Tilt Poker could learn from PokerStars:

- Allow custom avatars (even though it's probably too late to revamp that feature).
- See folded hole cards as pictures, not text.
- Have text hand histories.
- Have an option to call an administrator when at a final table to discuss a chop.
- Do not pop up the SNG lobby when a SNG I registered for fills up, the table is enough.
- Add a "Search Team Full Tilt Pros" option.
- Observer chats should be allowed only to players who have played in a similar stakes once, to limit the haters and beggers.
- The ability to request tournament histories by email.

Lack of interest in the Main Event Final Table

Well, with a few dozen players left I really had high hopes for the final table.
A few well-known players were still alive, including Phil Hellmuth, Mike Matusow, Shawn Sheikhan (best threesome ever!), Tiffany Michele, Brandon Cantu, Kido Pham, and unfortunately they all busted before the final table. Sigh.

Maybe Harrah's postponing of the final table could have been a HUGE success, especially with Hellmuth or Tiffany but looks like that plan backfired? We'll see if the hype builds up in the next four months but so far I am not too optimistic.

I mean, I don't recognize ANY of the sames at the table, how sad is that?
To make matters worse, Harrah's already drew the seat assignments, so the players already know where they will be seating and with who. Isn't that going to make the issue of coaching even worse than it already is?
I just don't understand why they would do this and throw more fuel in the fire.

We'll see what happens. But for now ESPN will start showing prelims next week and I am eager to download those.

ronee

Another live game, another early exit

We played a 7-man live game last night with $10 BI.
However, the pool was only $60 as one girl couldn't afford it 0.o so if she won anything, she could only win $10 max. Good enough I guess.

I ommitted my golden rule again, I tried to bluff a newbie LOL. That was probably the only bad play on my part that night. Basically we were in the blinds and I limpd with A9 and she had A6.
The flop came xx6 and the turn another 6 for her trips. I bet every street and basically got pwned, since I really believed she was weak.

I then proceeded to get outdrawn pretty much every big pot I was in.
At one point I was heads up with 62 on a 6K6 board. I value bet my way to the river only for it to show a King! I was completely disgusted as he bet quick, and my value bets were made on the basis he had made a pair of kings on the flop anyways. Truly sickening.

Then against that same guy, we have AT vs A7 on a AKxT board. I value bet him as much as I can, but the river falls K again which counterfeits my second pair and we both show down AAKKT. I puke.

I then decide to limp with 2d3d to see a flop of 236 rainbow. I bet the pot and only one person calls. Turn is 5 I bet. River check/call and he shows 35o. GG.

After all this I lost pretty much half my stack when I finally pick up AA in the big blind.
I get heads-up with the same guy and on a board of xxQK that I hope he hit I shove and he calls with AK to double me up. Good, since I knew he'd call my shove with anything, including a weak Q.
Too bad another player folded their flush draw, I could have tripled up there.

Then we lost 2 other players and the blinds go up very fast. I just can't catch cards or hit a flop.
I did get AcJc which missed the flop in a 5-way pot. Too bad, should have shoved preflop.
Also got 88 where I also should have pushed but decided to limp. The turn did me in.

After a while I get short stacked and shove a raiser with 88 vs AK and he flops K, good game.

I am a little disappointed with my finish but I think I played very well except for that busted bluff. Till next game...

ronee

Flashback nightmare

Read my previous post and you will understand.

7th in a $3 MTT for $21

Oh man, so close, yet so far.

Played in a 202-entrants MTT and got 7th for about $21.
Extremely disappointing since I played well, stayed patient and got the worst beat to end my day.
After we reach the final table, I was the short stack at one time and this guy on my left "Derek the King" raised. I call from the blinds with 3s7s just to get lucky. The flop magically comes 456 and I check. He bets and I shove. He shows 99 and can't believe it.

After that beat, the proceeds to call me all kinds of names and tell me that I suck. After I shove a raiser with JJ, he pleads him to call him just to bust me.
Well, what an asshole. After I call a shove with KK vs 88......board was a VERY PAINFUL x8xK8.....I mean.....WTF!
Anyways, he calls me a jerkoff and tells me that I suck. Wow. What a loser.
I was out soon after with only 7xbb with with 72 vs QQ.
Such a brutal ending, and that Derek donktard made it even worse. What comforts me is that I just checked his OPR and he is a LOSING player, don't even get me started on his GOD-AWFUL Sharkscope stats hahahahaha.

Well, not such a bad day overall, but to think that the big payday was not far behind, sigh.

Finally a cash

It feels like I haven't cashed in ages, either on Stars or Full Tilt.
I have been running decent, but somehow lost the flips I needed to get a big stack or whatever.
The biggest mitake I made was on the FT 45-man with 7 left where only 6 got paid. Thing is, on Stars, 45-mans get 7 paid. So as you can guess, I got the two mixed up and shoved my 77 on a raise from the leader. Since I've been doing that for a while (well yeah! I thought we were ITM) he probably thought I was bullying and called with A9 to turn the Ace.
Oh how I was disappointed to learn the sad truth.

Then I bubbled a final table on Stars when my QQ vs AJ was beat by the Axx board. Bleh.
Really had a sick feeling at that point.
I then registered for a 27-man SNG where I finally cashed. At one time, this guy on my right raised big with lots of limpers....my AK was perfect for a shove in that spot so I did and he laid it down. Maybe 15 hands later, he raises again, and I wake up with QQ and shove again.
He really got tilted and told me that was the second time, and he was calling next time for sure, also telling me he had 44 and AT. I then told him I had AK then QQ. Don't know if he believed me, but anyways.

Then this moron (I use that term lightly, the guy is negative on Sharkscope) on my left proceeds to raise every pot, win every raise, beat every top pair with two pairs, and when someone would bluff/shove at a pot, he would call with air and beat them with higher kickers. Seriously, it was insane and he run up his stack up to 30k HU.
He was so sick, raising EVERY HAND, and when people would shove back at some point, he would show AA or QQ. What gives?
Anyway, we got heads up and he busted me when I shoved K4 vs 55.

Still a very good cash as my PokerStars BR is at a new all-time high. Even thought I must be close to even overall since I am down a little on Full Tilt for the month.

ronee

PS: here are some pretty hands.

Sickening morning

Well, good thing I didn't register for the daily $2 6-max MTT on Stars this morning.
I was gonna do it but then saw that the number of entrants was gonna easily top 600 so I left. That, plus the fact that I suck at 6-max games.

Then I registered for a 45-man and proceed to be completely card-dead. My suited connectors were reraised or missed the flop, and my pocket pairs kept getting killed by overs.
Finally, as the short stack UTG with 1500 (blinds 75/150) I shoved AsKs and got a lengthy call from KhJh and of course he turns the flush. Sick.

If that wasn't enough, I registered for a 27-man and had to lay down aces.

Seat 1: Clark_rob56 (1480 in chips)
Seat 2: coach687 (1400 in chips)
Seat 3: Dododeco (2220 in chips)
Seat 4: angelallen88 (920 in chips)
Seat 5: pitchinpast (1480 in chips)
Seat 6: pureredd (1480 in chips)
Seat 7: Pimmelzwerg (1600 in chips)
Seat 8: fireandrain0 (1420 in chips)
Seat 9: roneewong (1500 in chips)
pitchinpast: posts small blind 10
pureredd: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to roneewong [As Ad]
Pimmelzwerg: folds
fireandrain0: calls 20
roneewong: raises 40 to 60
Clark_rob56: folds
coach687: calls 60
Dododeco: calls 60
angelallen88: folds
pitchinpast: folds
pureredd: folds
fireandrain0: folds
*** FLOP *** [9d Kh Td]
roneewong: bets 100
coach687: calls 100
Dododeco: calls 100
*** TURN *** [9d Kh Td] [Qh]
roneewong: bets 100
coach687: calls 100
Dododeco: calls 100
*** RIVER *** [9d Kh Td Qh] [6d]
roneewong: checks
coach687: bets 120
Dododeco: raises 220 to 340
roneewong: folds
coach687: folds
Uncalled bet (220) returned to Dododeco
Dododeco collected 1070 from pot
Dododeco: doesn't show hand
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1070 | Rake 0
Board [9d Kh Td Qh 6d]
Seat 1: Clark_rob56 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: coach687 folded on the River
Seat 3: Dododeco collected (1070)
Seat 4: angelallen88 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: pitchinpast (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: pureredd (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 7: Pimmelzwerg folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: fireandrain0 folded before Flop
Seat 9: roneewong folded on the River

It was obviously a good laydown, but it HURTS. And I am not sure that pushing on the flop would have induced folds either on such a draw-heavy board.
What comforts me is that the very next hand, some guy got crippled with Aces, when he couldn't lay them down to a flush shove on the turn.