Did not get any poker in last night - too busy with football and crashing highschool parties. Every make sure to cheer on Italy, their game starts up in about 50 minutes.
Friday, June 30, 2006
World Cup
Did not get any poker in last night - too busy with football and crashing highschool parties. Every make sure to cheer on Italy, their game starts up in about 50 minutes.
Thursday, June 29, 2006
WNP and WSOP
Left football practice a little early to race over to what is simply called "Wednesday Night Poker" or WNP - a weekly game where some of the best poker players in Ottawa perfect their skills in a $30, two table, freezeout tournament. I arrived a little late but thankfully the game started a little late, I think I may have missed one hand.
I sit down to a table of people I have never played with except for Joe (Joe and Marco are friends of mine who were also making their debut at WNP) - I look down to presto, 55 - No preflop raise, 3 players, flop comes 2,5,8 all clubs - someone raises, I reraise and take it. To be honest, there werent very many great hands to post - before i was knocked out, I only ever showed down one hand and it was checked down.
I was playing well, I had a really good table image, every time I raised or reraise - it would get folded to me. I used that to my advantage a couple of times, reraising preflop when I though there was weakness with any tho cards. Funny thing about poker, you can be playing great but make one mistake and your busted - and thats what happend.
I limped in on the cutoff, the small blind raised 3BB, the big blind folded and I called with Ac/10c - what a monster of a mistake, especially considering the player who raised was fairly tight, I guess for some reason I though he was stealing, in which case I should have raised, anyway never call with a weak ace... -Flop came, Jc, Jd, 10h - small blind raised 3/5 of the pot, I pushed in for about a double what he raises - I really figured he had either A/K, A/Q or a PP less than 10 - he finally called and showed K/K. I didn’t improve and he took it down. Good call, I was certain that he didnt have a jack and doubtful that he was that strong. Would I do it again, probably - will I ever call with Ac/10c in that position again? No way.
I have alot of things to do tonight so im not sure if im gonna have time to play any poker. Gym, Football and then im going to see Superman - If I get some hands in, Ill let you guys know.
Here some updates from the WSOP, Ill probably post you guys a small update every day.
WSOP Event #2 - $1500 No Limit Hold'em
Jennifer Harman was eliminated in 11th place with $51,155
David Ulliott was eliminated in 25th place with $13,641
Phil Gordon was eliminated in 46th $9094
Erik Seidel was eliminated in 49th place with $9094
Greg Raymer was eliminated in 63rd place with $7,578
Phil Hellmuth went home in 67th place with $7,578.
Final Table:
Lee Padilla - 753,000
Mark Ly - 516,000
Mark Swartz - 359,000
Brent Roberts - 260,000
Carlos Mortensen - 337,000
Brandon Cantu - 753,000
Ron Stanley - 283,000
Drew Rubin - 573,000
Don Zewin - 342,000
I sit down to a table of people I have never played with except for Joe (Joe and Marco are friends of mine who were also making their debut at WNP) - I look down to presto, 55 - No preflop raise, 3 players, flop comes 2,5,8 all clubs - someone raises, I reraise and take it. To be honest, there werent very many great hands to post - before i was knocked out, I only ever showed down one hand and it was checked down.
I was playing well, I had a really good table image, every time I raised or reraise - it would get folded to me. I used that to my advantage a couple of times, reraising preflop when I though there was weakness with any tho cards. Funny thing about poker, you can be playing great but make one mistake and your busted - and thats what happend.
I limped in on the cutoff, the small blind raised 3BB, the big blind folded and I called with Ac/10c - what a monster of a mistake, especially considering the player who raised was fairly tight, I guess for some reason I though he was stealing, in which case I should have raised, anyway never call with a weak ace... -Flop came, Jc, Jd, 10h - small blind raised 3/5 of the pot, I pushed in for about a double what he raises - I really figured he had either A/K, A/Q or a PP less than 10 - he finally called and showed K/K. I didn’t improve and he took it down. Good call, I was certain that he didnt have a jack and doubtful that he was that strong. Would I do it again, probably - will I ever call with Ac/10c in that position again? No way.
I have alot of things to do tonight so im not sure if im gonna have time to play any poker. Gym, Football and then im going to see Superman - If I get some hands in, Ill let you guys know.
Here some updates from the WSOP, Ill probably post you guys a small update every day.
WSOP Event #2 - $1500 No Limit Hold'em
Jennifer Harman was eliminated in 11th place with $51,155
David Ulliott was eliminated in 25th place with $13,641
Phil Gordon was eliminated in 46th $9094
Erik Seidel was eliminated in 49th place with $9094
Greg Raymer was eliminated in 63rd place with $7,578
Phil Hellmuth went home in 67th place with $7,578.
Final Table:
Lee Padilla - 753,000
Mark Ly - 516,000
Mark Swartz - 359,000
Brent Roberts - 260,000
Carlos Mortensen - 337,000
Brandon Cantu - 753,000
Ron Stanley - 283,000
Drew Rubin - 573,000
Don Zewin - 342,000
WSOP Event #3 - $1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em
Chip Leaders after day 1:
Randy Jensen - 59,500
Chan Hua - 55,000
Rocky Encisol - 48,000
John Juanda - 44,500
Annand Ramdin - 44,000
Gavin Phillips - 42,500
Allan Gilbert - 42,000
Marcello Cabrera - 40,000
Tri Tran - 36,400
Greg Mascio - 32,000
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Queens, queens, oh my god, queens...
I had been dreaming and talking about poker all day so when 8:30 finally rolled around, I was thrilled to race home and get some multitable action. I did not get off on the right foot, to say the least - after 1 hour of play I was down about $20, which was great considering at one point I think i was down $40 which is horrible. How did I find myself in such a hole you ask? Queens. I played my queens like a donkey.
About 10 hands in, im dealt the ladies on the button - UTG raises me to $1, I reraise to $2 - fold or call, fold or call - UTG raises to $5 - damnit, shit, fuck - I call (mistake number one) - Flop comes A shit, shit, shit , 10, 4 rainbow - He checks hmm, its really hard to put this guy on a hand, I mean ive only played 10 hands with him and I wasent really paying attention to this table the whole time - Fuck it, I have $8 invested, hes afraid of the ace, im going to steal it - raise $5, fold, fold, fold, please fold - ALL IN for $10 more - im bad - fold.
What fealt like 5 seconds later, I hit another pair of queens at another table. This time, im under the gun, I open for my usual 0.60 raise, I get 3 callers - not what I was looking for. No ace, no king, no ace, no king - Flop comes 10d, 9d, 8d - wow - Big blind checks, I raise $1.50, Call, Call, Call - wow - Turn, 6c - sigh - Check, Check, Check, Check - What the fuck... is someone slow playing a flush? Are the straits afraid of the flush? hmmm - River, Qd - such a tease... such a tease... - check, - fuck it - Raise $3, Call, Call, All-in $23 - Yeah, im an idiot. - fold, fold, fold...
Im not even gonna bother going over what was wrong with the way I played those hands, if you dont know then let me know and we can play some heads up as I explain it to you.
After the first hour I took a break to watch a few episodes of scrubs I downloaded, good show. I was then put to a decision, go to bed, or play 2 hours of poker... I wasent tired so... two hours later im up $50 on the night and get to go to bed happy.
Tonight im playing in a little house tournament run every wednesday night, from what I hear the players are top notch, im sure you will be hearing about it tomorow.
About 10 hands in, im dealt the ladies on the button - UTG raises me to $1, I reraise to $2 - fold or call, fold or call - UTG raises to $5 - damnit, shit, fuck - I call (mistake number one) - Flop comes A shit, shit, shit , 10, 4 rainbow - He checks hmm, its really hard to put this guy on a hand, I mean ive only played 10 hands with him and I wasent really paying attention to this table the whole time - Fuck it, I have $8 invested, hes afraid of the ace, im going to steal it - raise $5, fold, fold, fold, please fold - ALL IN for $10 more - im bad - fold.
What fealt like 5 seconds later, I hit another pair of queens at another table. This time, im under the gun, I open for my usual 0.60 raise, I get 3 callers - not what I was looking for. No ace, no king, no ace, no king - Flop comes 10d, 9d, 8d - wow - Big blind checks, I raise $1.50, Call, Call, Call - wow - Turn, 6c - sigh - Check, Check, Check, Check - What the fuck... is someone slow playing a flush? Are the straits afraid of the flush? hmmm - River, Qd - such a tease... such a tease... - check, - fuck it - Raise $3, Call, Call, All-in $23 - Yeah, im an idiot. - fold, fold, fold...
Im not even gonna bother going over what was wrong with the way I played those hands, if you dont know then let me know and we can play some heads up as I explain it to you.
After the first hour I took a break to watch a few episodes of scrubs I downloaded, good show. I was then put to a decision, go to bed, or play 2 hours of poker... I wasent tired so... two hours later im up $50 on the night and get to go to bed happy.
Tonight im playing in a little house tournament run every wednesday night, from what I hear the players are top notch, im sure you will be hearing about it tomorow.
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Multi-Table Domination
Im always hearing about these proffesional internet players who play 12 tables at a time, 12 hours a day and make huge ammounts of money. Ive been telling myself for awhile now that when you get a few free hours, give it a run. Well, yesterday, the time had come. I sat down around 5:30, spread out 8 0.10/0.20 tables on my two 19'' Samsung LCDs. After about 30 minutes, I was up about $2 at all my tables. I though to myself $32/hour, pretty sweet - more than im usually making at the $1/$2 tables. I have to admit that I was still a little skeptical, I had been running pretty good.
Four hours later, there was no doubt in my mind, this the way to make money with online poker. After about five hours of play I was up almost $180 - $36/hour. I was starting to get tired and have learned the hard way, do not play poker when you are tired, its worst than being on tilt. So I shut it down for the night, watched the end of "Lord of War" and called it a night. Im not so naive as to believe that I can consistently make $35+/h at 0.10/0.20 but im very optimistic that I can push about $20/h into my bankroll - which is a push in the right direction.
Im going to play a few more hours tonight, Ill let you know how it goes. Ill also start posting some of my more interesting hands. Seeing as I was not aware that I was going to have this blog yesterday, you can understand why I dont have any for you.
Bruno
Four hours later, there was no doubt in my mind, this the way to make money with online poker. After about five hours of play I was up almost $180 - $36/hour. I was starting to get tired and have learned the hard way, do not play poker when you are tired, its worst than being on tilt. So I shut it down for the night, watched the end of "Lord of War" and called it a night. Im not so naive as to believe that I can consistently make $35+/h at 0.10/0.20 but im very optimistic that I can push about $20/h into my bankroll - which is a push in the right direction.
Im going to play a few more hours tonight, Ill let you know how it goes. Ill also start posting some of my more interesting hands. Seeing as I was not aware that I was going to have this blog yesterday, you can understand why I dont have any for you.
Bruno
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