Friday, October 31, 2008

5-10 NL 6 Max Session

Playing 5-10 all night, more than 1200 hands, pretty good session.

These are the hands I won and lost the most this session:

PokerStars Game #21642703777: Hold'em No Limit ($5/$10) - 2008/10/31 10:27:53 ET
Table 'Terradas' 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: PiS.ToTo ($1500 in chips)
Seat 2: Gomtv ($4591 in chips)
Seat 3: sirio11 ($4343 in chips)
Seat 4: sloppinu28 ($1018 in chips)
Seat 5: adtina22 ($1047 in chips)
Gomtv: posts small blind $5
sirio11: posts big blind $10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to sirio11 [Qd Qs]
sloppinu28: raises $20 to $30
adtina22: folds
PiS.ToTo: raises $80 to $110
Gomtv: folds
sirio11: raises $300 to $410
sloppinu28: folds
PiS.ToTo: raises $1090 to $1500 and is all-in
sirio11: calls $1090
*** FLOP *** [9d Ts 2c]
*** TURN *** [9d Ts 2c] [6c]
*** RIVER *** [9d Ts 2c 6c] [Ks]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
sirio11: shows [Qd Qs] (a pair of Queens)
PiS.ToTo: shows [Ad As] (a pair of Aces)
PiS.ToTo collected $3033 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $3035 | Rake $2
Board [9d Ts 2c 6c Ks]
Seat 1: PiS.ToTo (button) showed [Ad As] and won ($3033) with a pair of Aces
Seat 2: Gomtv (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: sirio11 (big blind) showed [Qd Qs] and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 4: sloppinu28 folded before Flop
Seat 5: adtina22 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

I think I played bad QQ here and it was a costly mistake.

And now the "good" hand:

PokerStars Game #21643513146: Hold'em No Limit ($5/$10) - 2008/10/31 11:14:03 ET
Table 'Terradas' 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: foxfox1 ($1045 in chips)
Seat 2: Gomtv ($4487 in chips)
Seat 3: sirio11 ($3180 in chips)
Seat 4: sloppinu28 ($971 in chips)
Seat 5: adtina22 ($1165 in chips)
Seat 6: Deldar182 ($2293 in chips)
Gomtv: posts small blind $5
sirio11: posts big blind $10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to sirio11 [8s 8c]
sloppinu28: raises $20 to $30
adtina22: folds
Deldar182: raises $70 to $100
foxfox1: folds
Gomtv: folds
sirio11: calls $90
sloppinu28: calls $70
*** FLOP *** [9d 8h 4d]
sirio11: bets $120
sloppinu28: folds
Deldar182: raises $230 to $350
sirio11: raises $2730 to $3080 and is all-in
Deldar182: calls $1843 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($887) returned to sirio11
*** TURN *** [9d 8h 4d] [Jh]
*** RIVER *** [9d 8h 4d Jh] [3h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
sirio11: shows [8s 8c] (three of a kind, Eights)
Deldar182: mucks hand
sirio11 collected $4688 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $4691 | Rake $3
Board [9d 8h 4d Jh 3h]
Seat 1: foxfox1 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: Gomtv (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: sirio11 (big blind) showed [8s 8c] and won ($4688) with three of a kind, Eights
Seat 4: sloppinu28 folded on the Flop
Seat 5: adtina22 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: Deldar182 mucked [Ah As]

Probably against another player, I play the hand differently, but against him at that moment in time, I think this was exactly the way to play it to make him commit all his stack.

I played 3 tables for about 5 hours straight. I stopped because Stars server went down.

I'm doing good playing cash games, tournaments are not fun these days, so for now I'll keep playing cash.

The election is almost here, don't forget to vote, GO OBAMA !!!!!

Friday, October 17, 2008

Long session

I'm playing more these days, and I just finished an all-nighter (and all morning). I just wanted to play, I played 10-20 NL 6-Max, 15-30 Limit, 30-60 Limit, 5-10 Razz, even 5-10 Stud Hi/low. I lost on Razz (How the hell can you lose playing that stupid game), won on stud H/L, lost playing limit and won playing 10-20 NL; it was a very nice session. I think I played well despite the long hours and this time I played a lot just because I wanted and not because I was stuck.

The hand I won the most money is the following (not necessarily the one I played the best, I think my best hands were on limit despite losing a lot there, I played nice a lot of 2nd monsters). Well, this is the hand:

PokerStars Game #21272979665: Hold'em No Limit ($10/$20) - 2008/10/17 15:55:35 ET
Table 'Dares' 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: DeanoSupremo ($1964 in chips)
Seat 2: ADZ124 ($2000 in chips)
Seat 3: tiltphanatic ($4101 in chips)
Seat 4: sirio11 ($2631 in chips)
Seat 5: ibback ($4898 in chips)
Seat 6: Killer_ooooo ($4609 in chips)
DeanoSupremo: posts small blind $10
ADZ124: posts big blind $20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to sirio11 [Kc Ks]
tiltphanatic: raises $40 to $60
sirio11: raises $160 to $220
ibback: calls $220
Killer_ooooo: folds
DeanoSupremo: folds
ADZ124: folds
tiltphanatic: folds
*** FLOP *** [9s 4d 4c]
sirio11: bets $460
ibback: calls $460
*** TURN *** [9s 4d 4c] [Kh]
sirio11: checks
ibback: bets $560
sirio11: raises $580 to $1140
ibback: calls $580
*** RIVER *** [9s 4d 4c Kh] [Td]
sirio11: bets $811 and is all-in
ibback: calls $811
*** SHOW DOWN ***
sirio11: shows [Kc Ks] (a full house, Kings full of Fours)
ibback: mucks hand
sirio11 collected $5349 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $5352 | Rake $3
Board [9s 4d 4c Kh Td]
Seat 1: DeanoSupremo (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: ADZ124 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: tiltphanatic folded before Flop
Seat 4: sirio11 showed [Kc Ks] and won ($5349) with a full house, Kings full of Fours
Seat 5: ibback mucked [Kd Ac]
Seat 6: Killer_ooooo (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)

The thing I liked the most on this hand (besides winning it of course) were my timing tells, but those are not in the hand history obviously. I think I'm getting better at my timing bets, calls, checks. They are pretty important tells when you play online and you need to be difficult to read based on how many seconds you take to make a decision.

Well, now to sleep a little, I'll play some volleyball at night and tomorrow I'll coach my Olympiad Students, We already have the State Team (Chihuahua) and I feel pretty good about the team to bring some gold medals from the National Math Olympiad next November.