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  • 10-handed?

    Incredible. Check this out:

    Party Poker 1/2 Hold’em (10 handed) converter

    Preflop: Hero is UTG+2 with 9d, Kd.
    UTG calls, UTG+1 calls, Hero calls, MP1 calls, MP2 calls, MP3 calls, CO calls, Button calls, SB completes, BB checks.

    Flop: (10 SB) 2s, 7c, Ts (10 players)
    SB checks, BB checks, UTG folds, UTG+1 checks, Hero checks, MP1 checks, MP2 checks, MP3 bets, CO calls, Button calls, SB folds, BB folds, UTG+1 calls, Hero folds, MP1 calls, MP2 calls.

    Turn: (8 BB) 7s (6 players)
    UTG+1 checks, MP1 checks, MP2 checks, MP3 bets, CO folds, Button calls, UTG+1 calls, MP1 calls, MP2 folds.

    River: (12 BB) 5c (4 players)
    UTG+1 checks, MP1 checks, MP3 bets, Button folds, UTG+1 folds, MP1 folds.

    Final Pot: 13 BB
    Main Pot: 12 BB, won by MP3.
    Pot 2: 1 BB, returned to MP3.

    MP3 doesn’t show.
    Outcome: MP3 wins 13 BB.

    It’s rough out there. Yeesh.

  • 50k players

    Wow. I reloaded my account and happened to notice a shitload of players on Multi/Party/Empire:

    Wow. If you’re not playing, you’re not making money.

  • Weekly game results: August 5

    Do I even need to say it?


        This week  Cumulative  Average
    CR    +$5.10      +$7.20    +$1.44
    EM    -$3.40      +$4.00    +$0.67
    ER    +$3.25      +$4.00    +$0.80
    JB    -$6.20      -$9.50    -$1.58
    JC    +$3.55     +$14.50    +$2.42
    Me    -$1.20     -$12.05    -$2.01
    JN    -$1.10      -$3.55    -$1.78

    CR leaped into second place in the stats with a healthy doubling up this week. ER had been big stack for a good while, but lost a monster pot (capped on the river!) when her set lost to a full house.

    I keep losing an average $2 every time I play. In fact, I’ve only had one winning session in the past 6 weeks. By contrast, JC has had only one losing session, and that was the very first one. ER and CR have each had only one losing session, but they missed a week. I think me and JB ought to start a losers club where we skip poker and get wasted instead. At some point, you need to stop blaming the cards (though the best hand I got all night was AKo, and that had to be mucked when the dealer fucked up) and face up to the ugly facts.

    In other news, I came in fifth in the morning freeroll, winning six whole bucks.

  • Weekly game results: July 29

    Another down week. I say again, I don’t even know why I play. 

        This week  Cumulative
CR    +$0.05     +$2.10
EM    +$1.00     +$7.40
ER    -$3.15     +$0.75
JB    +$2.00     -$3.30
JC    +$2.00    +$10.95
Me    -$1.90    -$10.85

    JB started off losing money steadily until a run of good hands put him into the black: a flopped boat, a rivered boat, a flopped straight (I had pocket kings), and more.

    JC had his fourth consecutive positive session. He won one hand against CR when he riverred his boat: CR had made his boat on the turn with king-rag and check-raised on JC, JC called and got an ace on the river, which made his AQ good for aces full of rags. Sucks for CR, but then again, king-rag is a shitty hand to play.

    EM continued her steady play, though she tended to get lucky with her straight draws completing on the turn or river.

  • Bubble Boy

    There’s something particularly humiliating about bouncing out on the bubble, especially when you know you could have post-and-folded into the money. I was one of two or three short stacks in this morning’s freeroll with 21 players left, which was a shame, since I had been one of two or three large stacks when there were 113 players left. Anyway, I had about 2xBB left and decided to limp in with QTo UTG. ?! Flop missed me and I folded. Wow, that was stupid. Next hand I post the BB and with T$5 left I call a raise from the SB with 55. First he makes a higher pair, then he makes a higher flush, and I’m out in 21st. Frustrating.

    So here’s something that I need to figure out: I may have missed out on an opportunity to make even more money early on in the tournament. I flopped a boat, nines full of jacks, with J9. I bet the minimum and got called. Next card is another Jack. I bet half the pot and got called. River’s a rag, and this time I bet a third of the pot and got called. He had the other nine and I swept the pot, leaving him with about 35-40% of his starting chips. So the question is, at what point am I supposed to realize that this guy is with me to the showdown and push?