Sunday, August 19, 2007

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!

I'm not sure how entertaining these blogs are, but I'll err on the side of optimistic and assume they're readable.

Here are the tournaments I plan on playing today. I'll edit this post later with the results:

PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up
Full Tilt $75 6-Max
Bodog $40k ($109)
PokerStars $11 [10-Minute] $100k (What a fun tournament)
PokerStars $11 Rebuy
Sunday Million
Bodog $100k (Final table again?)
Ultimate Bet $200k
FTOPS Main Event $535 (One time final table?!?!)
Absolute Poker $70k (I guarantee a cash)
Bodog $40k ($55)

Alright, here's hopin' for a big score.

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Well, I wound up washing out of every single one of those tournaments. I've been on a vicious downswing lately. It's ironic; losing spawns a lack of confidence, which spawns more losing. Thankfully I feel like I played well today.

I don't much like blogs with incessant hand histories, so I opt to avoid posting them as much as possible. This one I cannot help but share. The villan in this hand was a loose, passive, very bad player whose stack I had been eyeing for quite a while. This was the $535 FTOPS Main Event. Note the suits too:

Full Tilt Poker Game #3304201146: FTOPS Main Event (22695133), Table 401 - 100/200 - No Limit Hold'em - 20:31:37 ET - 2007/08/19
Seat 1: RitasBoss (3,545)
Seat 2: Smart Casher (12,17
Seat 3: OrangeBoy (20,394)
Seat 4: flopdisasta (13,485)
Seat 5: PrairieG8 (5,080)
Seat 6: BraveJayhawk (2,570)
Seat 7: DragonDrake (9,660)
Seat 8: theNorfman (2,31
Seat 9: FishhGuts (7,840)
flopdisasta posts the small blind of 100
PrairieG8 posts the big blind of 200
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to OrangeBoy [Tc Ac]
BraveJayhawk folds
DragonDrake folds
theNorfman folds
FishhGuts has 15 seconds left to act
FishhGuts folds
RitasBoss has 15 seconds left to act
RitasBoss folds
Smart Casher calls 200
OrangeBoy raises to 650
flopdisasta folds
PrairieG8 folds
Smart Casher calls 450
*** FLOP *** [Ad Kc 6d]
Smart Casher has 15 seconds left to act
Smart Casher checks
OrangeBoy bets 1,528
Smart Casher calls 1,528
*** TURN *** [Ad Kc 6d] [2c]
Smart Casher has 15 seconds left to act
Smart Casher bets 2,500
OrangeBoy raises to 18,216, and is all in
Smart Casher calls 7,500, and is all in
OrangeBoy shows [Tc Ac]
Smart Casher shows [7s As]
Uncalled bet of 8,216 returned to OrangeBoy
*** RIVER *** [Ad Kc 6d 2c] [7d]
OrangeBoy shows a pair of Aces
Smart Casher shows two pair, Aces and Sevens
Smart Casher wins the pot (24,656) with two pair, Aces and Sevens

That pot was 3x the size of the average stack in the tournament at the time. It would have given me the 8th largest chip stack. I guess I can take solace in the fact that it happened with 2,500 players left instead of 25, but that might be the worst early-in-the-tournament beat I've taken in my entire life.

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