I had another good week and moved up in the standings to 40th overall (from ~75th) in the main game after Saturday. With three pitchers going today, I'm hoping to get up to 30th by the end of the week. I wound up buying Wolf last week and dropped Harden. It proved to be worthless as Wolf got creamed in his first start and the bullpen blew the lead in his start today.
With Mauer and Piazza injured, I'm going to have to pick up a new catcher, most likely Martin.
I dropped to 4th in my $ Yahoo league thanks to my poor pitching. I'm near the bottom in wins and strikeouts and really can't do anything about it because the waiver wire has no talent and I can't afford to trade any hitters yet.
Sunday, May 6, 2007
Good News/Bad News
First the bad news. I dropped another $200 in 5 hours yesterday at Omaha. I credit most of my loses to flopping top set four times and not winning a single one of those hands.
It's pretty clear that I've been bad as of late. My last 20 hours show a net loss of $500. Being broke doesn't help, as I don't have much of a bankroll to continue playing until I get a job. I finally hit 100 hours of play since I've turned 21 and currently show a depressing profit of $1000. I was at 80 hours/+$1500 at one point.
The funniest hand was one that I wasn't involved in. It was a kill hand, and a guy raises pre-flop AKTT. First of all, that's a terrible hand to raise with, but whatever. The flop comes TKT. The turn was a J, and at that point it was heads-up. It goes, bet, raise, re-raise, re-raise. The river is a blank, and it goes bet, raise, re-raise, re-raise, re-raise, re-raise and then the jew-bag who obviously didn't have quads looks down at his hand in total confusion and says, 'what is going on here?. Re-raise'. So, after 12 total bets of $12 a piece, jew-bag shows KK for top fullhouse, and the pre-flop raiser shows his quad tens. The funniest part was after the hand, jew-bag says, it wasn't until the last raise that he thought the other guy had quads. It took $100 of raises for him to figure that out?
For the good news, Foxwoods has completely changed their tournament schedule. Previously it was strictly NL Holdem games running 2-3 times per day. Now they have added $100 7-Card Stud, 7-Card Stud hi/lo, and Omaha hi/lo tourneys running on Monday and Wednesdays. They also announced their Fall World Poker Tour schedule.
THURSDAY OCTOBER 25, 10AM - OMAHA HI/LO $600 BUY-IN TOURNAMENT.
There is nothing that's going to stop me from being there.
It's pretty clear that I've been bad as of late. My last 20 hours show a net loss of $500. Being broke doesn't help, as I don't have much of a bankroll to continue playing until I get a job. I finally hit 100 hours of play since I've turned 21 and currently show a depressing profit of $1000. I was at 80 hours/+$1500 at one point.
The funniest hand was one that I wasn't involved in. It was a kill hand, and a guy raises pre-flop AKTT. First of all, that's a terrible hand to raise with, but whatever. The flop comes TKT. The turn was a J, and at that point it was heads-up. It goes, bet, raise, re-raise, re-raise. The river is a blank, and it goes bet, raise, re-raise, re-raise, re-raise, re-raise and then the jew-bag who obviously didn't have quads looks down at his hand in total confusion and says, 'what is going on here?. Re-raise'. So, after 12 total bets of $12 a piece, jew-bag shows KK for top fullhouse, and the pre-flop raiser shows his quad tens. The funniest part was after the hand, jew-bag says, it wasn't until the last raise that he thought the other guy had quads. It took $100 of raises for him to figure that out?
For the good news, Foxwoods has completely changed their tournament schedule. Previously it was strictly NL Holdem games running 2-3 times per day. Now they have added $100 7-Card Stud, 7-Card Stud hi/lo, and Omaha hi/lo tourneys running on Monday and Wednesdays. They also announced their Fall World Poker Tour schedule.
THURSDAY OCTOBER 25, 10AM - OMAHA HI/LO $600 BUY-IN TOURNAMENT.
There is nothing that's going to stop me from being there.
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Baseball Update
With three weeks in the books, the real players are starting to break away from the pack and put up some sizable leads. Fortunately, I am one of them. My teams have been on absolute fire. My highest point was 18th overall in the main game with a $15,000 grand prize. Since then I have taken a few steps back in the standings due to a lack of saves this week.
Throughout the year, you are only allowed 14 player purchases, where you drop a player from either your starting lineup or bench, and pick up a new one. I made my first buy last week, dropping a struggling Olsen for Maine who has two starts (vs. COL, @ WAS). This week, my bench starters include Harden (DL), Hernandex (DL), Sheets (hurt groin in last start). As of today, Sheets is still scheduled to start on Tuesday, but this could change over the weekend.
My outfield is falling apart as well. I have Soriano with zero HRs and one RBI, Taveras who's done nothing so far, and Baldelli and Swisher who are nursing injuries. I'm going to hold off on dropping anyone though because there's no one I really want to buy.
My buy candidates include:
Peavy (expensive) - nasty in last start with 16 Ks in 7 IP.
Wolf (dirt cheap) - 31 Ks in 30 IP with 3 wins.
Sabathia (moderately expensive) - great start, but he's still a fat fuck.
Remember, ERA and WHIP don't matter, just Ks, IPs, and wins.
I'll post an update next Monday with my changes.
Throughout the year, you are only allowed 14 player purchases, where you drop a player from either your starting lineup or bench, and pick up a new one. I made my first buy last week, dropping a struggling Olsen for Maine who has two starts (vs. COL, @ WAS). This week, my bench starters include Harden (DL), Hernandex (DL), Sheets (hurt groin in last start). As of today, Sheets is still scheduled to start on Tuesday, but this could change over the weekend.
My outfield is falling apart as well. I have Soriano with zero HRs and one RBI, Taveras who's done nothing so far, and Baldelli and Swisher who are nursing injuries. I'm going to hold off on dropping anyone though because there's no one I really want to buy.
My buy candidates include:
Peavy (expensive) - nasty in last start with 16 Ks in 7 IP.
Wolf (dirt cheap) - 31 Ks in 30 IP with 3 wins.
Sabathia (moderately expensive) - great start, but he's still a fat fuck.
Remember, ERA and WHIP don't matter, just Ks, IPs, and wins.
I'll post an update next Monday with my changes.
Live Omaha, Online Cash Games Update
I took a pretty big hit at Foxwoods last Friday to the tune of -$250 in 4 hours. I started out in a must move game that was short handed. Basically I opened up my starting hand selection and was seeing approximately 75% of flops. I missed every draw imaginable and was quickly down $100. When I got moved into the main game, there were plenty of regulars playing, but a few guys were donating chips. Again, I was missing draws left and right.
When I was down to my last chips, a donk raises preflop on a kill. I was in the big blind, so I called, along with about six others. The flop came QQJ. With 6 players in the hand, its very unlikely for someone to not have a Q. The raiser bet the flop, a few folded and I called. Note that since it was a kill, on the flop I had to call $6 into a roughly $70 pot. The turn brought a 7, and I lead out with my xx77. It was now down to me and the preflop raiser. I was fairly certain I had the lead at this point. If he did have a queen, I would be afraid of a low card, such as a 2, or an ace. I was putting him on a A2Qx type hand, or even better, AA2x. The river brought a king. Since I was down to my final $20 in chips, I bet, got raised, and the prick shows me KQJ5. Unbelievable. Great raise pre-flop guy.
Even if the table looks good, I like to cut my loses at a certain point. In the long run, this is pointless, but there's a psychological disadvantage to playing when you know you're down a decent chunk of change.
After next Friday, I should have a 100 hour update at the tables since I've turned 21. I want to play some $5-$10 Stud though. First of all, I' m starting to get burnt out from playing some much Omaha. Secondly, my goal is to eventually play in the $10-$20 Stud game. There shouldn't be a real difference in the playing ability going from the $1-$5 to the $10-$20 table, just people willing to gamble for more money.
When I was down to my last chips, a donk raises preflop on a kill. I was in the big blind, so I called, along with about six others. The flop came QQJ. With 6 players in the hand, its very unlikely for someone to not have a Q. The raiser bet the flop, a few folded and I called. Note that since it was a kill, on the flop I had to call $6 into a roughly $70 pot. The turn brought a 7, and I lead out with my xx77. It was now down to me and the preflop raiser. I was fairly certain I had the lead at this point. If he did have a queen, I would be afraid of a low card, such as a 2, or an ace. I was putting him on a A2Qx type hand, or even better, AA2x. The river brought a king. Since I was down to my final $20 in chips, I bet, got raised, and the prick shows me KQJ5. Unbelievable. Great raise pre-flop guy.
Even if the table looks good, I like to cut my loses at a certain point. In the long run, this is pointless, but there's a psychological disadvantage to playing when you know you're down a decent chunk of change.
After next Friday, I should have a 100 hour update at the tables since I've turned 21. I want to play some $5-$10 Stud though. First of all, I' m starting to get burnt out from playing some much Omaha. Secondly, my goal is to eventually play in the $10-$20 Stud game. There shouldn't be a real difference in the playing ability going from the $1-$5 to the $10-$20 table, just people willing to gamble for more money.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Potential Gold Mine
I stumbled upon my longed ignored Absolute Poker account today to find that there were four $2/$4 Omaha hi/lo games running during the day. First of all, I was shocked. Second of all, I was very shocked. Not only were there a decent amount of games, but they were not the usual super-tight players from as recent as six months ago. In years past, Absolute was known to be one of the tightest and hardest to beat sites because they offered unlimited bonus reloads. Many people would nut-peddle and play to clear bonus dollars instead of playing for fun.
I found out that by signing up for a service called Add-Funds, I can essentially purchase long-distance calling cards and then transfer the 'calling card money' over to the poker site. It sounds like a completely insane way to move money around, but I was willing to risk a couple hundred of dollars for the opportunity to play online. I wound up getting the entire thing setup in 15 minutes and had a $200 balance sitting in my Absolute poker account.
It's still unknown if I'll ever see this money again. There have been some reports that Citizens Bank stopped accepting PokerStars checks, but I don't really know the severity of what's going on. Technically there should be no problems with banks accepting money from gambling sites, it's just that the process of getting money to the sites that was affected.
I opened up two Omaha tables and they were $$$. I've never seen such poor play since Party Poker left the US market. I made an easy $60 in under an hour and very much look forward to playing as much as I can. It seems like the highest traffic will be during the day, since most of the players should be Europeans playing during their evening, but I really don't know yet.
I found out that by signing up for a service called Add-Funds, I can essentially purchase long-distance calling cards and then transfer the 'calling card money' over to the poker site. It sounds like a completely insane way to move money around, but I was willing to risk a couple hundred of dollars for the opportunity to play online. I wound up getting the entire thing setup in 15 minutes and had a $200 balance sitting in my Absolute poker account.
It's still unknown if I'll ever see this money again. There have been some reports that Citizens Bank stopped accepting PokerStars checks, but I don't really know the severity of what's going on. Technically there should be no problems with banks accepting money from gambling sites, it's just that the process of getting money to the sites that was affected.
I opened up two Omaha tables and they were $$$. I've never seen such poor play since Party Poker left the US market. I made an easy $60 in under an hour and very much look forward to playing as much as I can. It seems like the highest traffic will be during the day, since most of the players should be Europeans playing during their evening, but I really don't know yet.
Monday, April 16, 2007
Bad variance kicks in
There's a trail of blood along I-395 northbound to I-90 east towards Boston (See map below) . It's the result of the leakage coming from the massive raping I took river after river after river after river today.
I final experienced the ugly side of variance. It's been long awaited. The two most shocking hands, within 30 minutes of each other, in which I had incredible equity after the first four cards are as follows:
My hand - ATKJ
Flop - KQJ
I flopped the nut high and had a draw to a fullhouse. I bet, then there's a raise, then a guy cold calls. The turn is a 7 and there are no flushes possible. I bet, call, call. The river is a fucking piece of shit Q. My straight is no good, the guy that originally raised showed a 10,9 for a king-high straight, and the other moron shows KQ for a fullhouse.
My hand - 34Q10
Flop - A2K
A perfect flop for a hand with a 3,4 in it. The turn was a beautiful J, giving me the nut high with a nut low draw. Being a rainbow board, I was pretty much golden. But the river had something else in store for me, another J. Some shithead takes down the pot with AJ, fullhouse. Two minutes needed to lift my jaw off the table.
I had various other suckouts throughout the day while being card dead during a very juicy table. After 8 hours I was down $200. Regardless, I was having a great time. The guys on the table had me laughing my ass off the entire time.
Ready to go home, I raise preflop with QQ45 to get my final $15 or so in the pot. Eight callers, so I'm basically praying for a Q. By some miracle of the poker god, the flop comes 559. Not bad, but certainly not good. A queen would be perfect, but I'd need to fill up with a 4 in order to win this hand. The turn brings a K. There's a bet and then a raise, meaning I'm through. Not quite. A five comes on the river. The raiser wins the side pot with KKK55 and I take down the main pot with quads. I survived the all-in and wasn't feeling completely bent of shape.
I'm now on my 9th straight hour and almost ready to go. It's just hard to leave when you're playing against nine other clueless people, but aren't getting dealt cards. Then, my luck changed a bit with these few hands:
A267. The flop came 347. The turn was a 5 and the river an A. With five people in to the river, there was definitely some sharing of the pot. It turned out there were two people sharing for low and three for high. Luckily I had a piece of each, giving me an unheard of 7/12 of the pot.
A379. I flopped really nice. Improved to the nut low on the turn and got a straight on the river. I bet out, got raised, and I re-raised because there was no way I'd be splitting both high and low. Sure enough, I scooped a nice pot.
A234. I raised on the button and a had a family of callers. I nearly busted a load when the flop came 232. There was a bet and a call in front of me, so I just called. The turn brought me the nut low and the river was painless. I took down 3/4 of the pot.
After getting crushed all day, I'm all of a sudden up $20, and ten hours is enough.
It's good to see that there was a lot of action on a Monday. I hope it stays that way during the summer.
My hand - ATKJ
Flop - KQJ
I flopped the nut high and had a draw to a fullhouse. I bet, then there's a raise, then a guy cold calls. The turn is a 7 and there are no flushes possible. I bet, call, call. The river is a fucking piece of shit Q. My straight is no good, the guy that originally raised showed a 10,9 for a king-high straight, and the other moron shows KQ for a fullhouse.
My hand - 34Q10
Flop - A2K
A perfect flop for a hand with a 3,4 in it. The turn was a beautiful J, giving me the nut high with a nut low draw. Being a rainbow board, I was pretty much golden. But the river had something else in store for me, another J. Some shithead takes down the pot with AJ, fullhouse. Two minutes needed to lift my jaw off the table.
I had various other suckouts throughout the day while being card dead during a very juicy table. After 8 hours I was down $200. Regardless, I was having a great time. The guys on the table had me laughing my ass off the entire time.
Ready to go home, I raise preflop with QQ45 to get my final $15 or so in the pot. Eight callers, so I'm basically praying for a Q. By some miracle of the poker god, the flop comes 559. Not bad, but certainly not good. A queen would be perfect, but I'd need to fill up with a 4 in order to win this hand. The turn brings a K. There's a bet and then a raise, meaning I'm through. Not quite. A five comes on the river. The raiser wins the side pot with KKK55 and I take down the main pot with quads. I survived the all-in and wasn't feeling completely bent of shape.
I'm now on my 9th straight hour and almost ready to go. It's just hard to leave when you're playing against nine other clueless people, but aren't getting dealt cards. Then, my luck changed a bit with these few hands:
A267. The flop came 347. The turn was a 5 and the river an A. With five people in to the river, there was definitely some sharing of the pot. It turned out there were two people sharing for low and three for high. Luckily I had a piece of each, giving me an unheard of 7/12 of the pot.
A379. I flopped really nice. Improved to the nut low on the turn and got a straight on the river. I bet out, got raised, and I re-raised because there was no way I'd be splitting both high and low. Sure enough, I scooped a nice pot.
A234. I raised on the button and a had a family of callers. I nearly busted a load when the flop came 232. There was a bet and a call in front of me, so I just called. The turn brought me the nut low and the river was painless. I took down 3/4 of the pot.
After getting crushed all day, I'm all of a sudden up $20, and ten hours is enough.
It's good to see that there was a lot of action on a Monday. I hope it stays that way during the summer.
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Great Opportunity, but Couldn't Capitalize
The first hand I saw when I sat down at the Omaha table today had me drooling. There was the usual small blind for $2 and big blind for $4. The next guy posted a live-straddle of $8. Basically, he now gets the right to act last after all the cards are dealt, but it's a sucker move because he is forced to put in two bets before even looking at his cards. THEN, the next guy posts another straddle for $12. So before the cards are even dealt, there's $26 in the pot.
The best thing about idiots posting straddles and raising blind is that it makes everyone at the table loosen up and play like donkeys. Today was no exception. There were so many chips flying around and money to be made; guys capping bets on the flop and kill pots every other hand. Of all the days, of ALL the days, I am completely card dead. Nothing. I think I had maybe three legitimate playable hands in the four and a half hours I played. I had the chance to cash in huge, but couldn't take advantage of it.
I was going to head home early, being just about break-even when I was dealt a K652. At this point the table was playing passive and some of the earlier donks had already left. I thought my hand was suited, but when I re-looked at it, I realized I played a pretty crappy starting hand and probably wasted $8. The flop was nice. 922 with two spades. It's rare for someone to be holding a 9 and a 2, so the only hand that could beat me on the flop was an A2, which some could surely have, or pocket 9's, very unlikely. I bet out and was called six(!) times. A typical scenario in which at least four people are wasting their money. The turn was great, a 5. So I had what I felt was the best hand, and the turn brought a reason for people to stay in and continue to draw out. Another five or so people called $8 a piece and the river was a nonthreatening 10. With so many people in the hand, I wound up with a nice $120 profit. A good way to end the day.
Final results:
Omaha - 4.5 hours - +$150
Stud - 30 minutes - +$55
Total - +$205 in 5 hours.
The best thing about idiots posting straddles and raising blind is that it makes everyone at the table loosen up and play like donkeys. Today was no exception. There were so many chips flying around and money to be made; guys capping bets on the flop and kill pots every other hand. Of all the days, of ALL the days, I am completely card dead. Nothing. I think I had maybe three legitimate playable hands in the four and a half hours I played. I had the chance to cash in huge, but couldn't take advantage of it.
I was going to head home early, being just about break-even when I was dealt a K652. At this point the table was playing passive and some of the earlier donks had already left. I thought my hand was suited, but when I re-looked at it, I realized I played a pretty crappy starting hand and probably wasted $8. The flop was nice. 922 with two spades. It's rare for someone to be holding a 9 and a 2, so the only hand that could beat me on the flop was an A2, which some could surely have, or pocket 9's, very unlikely. I bet out and was called six(!) times. A typical scenario in which at least four people are wasting their money. The turn was great, a 5. So I had what I felt was the best hand, and the turn brought a reason for people to stay in and continue to draw out. Another five or so people called $8 a piece and the river was a nonthreatening 10. With so many people in the hand, I wound up with a nice $120 profit. A good way to end the day.
Final results:
Omaha - 4.5 hours - +$150
Stud - 30 minutes - +$55
Total - +$205 in 5 hours.
Friday, April 13, 2007
Another Day, Another Dollar
I got to Foxwoods around 11am today. In the elevator I hear some lady mention what the date was. Friday, the 13th. I figured that they'd be less of a crowd, and sure enough there was. The poker room was approximately 25% less crowded than it was last Friday.
The day started off pretty slow. There was only one Omaha game going and bunch of tight players in it. I spent the first three hours floating around even. Eventually a $8/$16 game got started, but I didn't have enough cash on me to switch over. You have to sit down for at least $400 to not get killed by the variance.
After the new game opened, a bunch of fish sat down and I took a very nice $300 jump.
Ended the day after 8 hours and up $195.
It's been really hit or miss with the games on Fridays. If I get to the casino too early, I have to sit through a boring morning of tight playing and small pots. But if I arrive too late, I'd have to wait around for hours to get on a table. I'm going to head back early on Saturday regardless because I think the games will be good all day and then I can just head home early.
My results on the Omaha table recently have been staggering. I've made $1145 over 24 hours for a $48/hour profit. I'm still anticipating a big correction, but it's been good while it lasts.
The day started off pretty slow. There was only one Omaha game going and bunch of tight players in it. I spent the first three hours floating around even. Eventually a $8/$16 game got started, but I didn't have enough cash on me to switch over. You have to sit down for at least $400 to not get killed by the variance.
After the new game opened, a bunch of fish sat down and I took a very nice $300 jump.
Ended the day after 8 hours and up $195.
It's been really hit or miss with the games on Fridays. If I get to the casino too early, I have to sit through a boring morning of tight playing and small pots. But if I arrive too late, I'd have to wait around for hours to get on a table. I'm going to head back early on Saturday regardless because I think the games will be good all day and then I can just head home early.
My results on the Omaha table recently have been staggering. I've made $1145 over 24 hours for a $48/hour profit. I'm still anticipating a big correction, but it's been good while it lasts.
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Massive HORSE Tournament
I entered a tourney on PokerStars to kill some time while watching baseball. Somehow I outlasted over 5100 players and made it to the next round. It was only a freeroll, so it shows hardly any level of skill, but it's pretty cool that I lasted that long <-- "that's what she said". Since I have no means of transferring money to any online poker sites, and have over $600 locked indefinitely in my Neteller account, I'm shooting to win a whopping $10 through freerolls and build it up to millions (or at least enough to fool around with).
Long Weekend
With Patriot's Day on Monday, I'll have four days off from class. That means Foxwoods x 3. At least I hope. I expect a slow day on Friday at the tables. The Omaha game was pretty tight up until about 4pm last Friday when it became more tourist-y. Saturday's are usually goldmines but I have missed the past few and would like to check out the action. And, I am definitely going on Sunday. So this weekend looks to be either two or three trips to gambool. Looking forward to it. Results to come...
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