Getting better...but only through discipline.

Just really working on 2 things. On about a 180 heater due to:

a) Making more value type bets when I think I am ahead, instead of checking marginal wins down, to get more profit per win.
b) Believing when I am beat and stopping to make dumb ass calls.

I really think with this focus things could stay better...but watch the big bad run that I know is coming crush my confidence. I do really believe though that what I read about Chris Ferguson and his only changing the size of his opening bets due to position, but otherwise keeping them the same regardless of cards has really increased my profit and forced me to play more aggressive with those hands that I would normally limp with. I mean hey, if it is good enough to play...then play. That has been the hardest part so far.

Felter 2 - Slurpee Dude 0.

So Felter and I have started a heads up match. $5 a game on HP.
I want to do this as I want to refine my heads up game, and he is a good one to play. Should make for some interesting times. I want to play with a level of aggression that I am slightly uncomfortable with, and this is a safe forum to try so.

We played the first 2 games of the series tonight. In the major hands of each match I got my money in good, but once was only 60-40sh, the other 2 pair to a open ended straight. Good on him though. Well plaid and looking forward to this.

This guy was fun to play with...

There was a guy at a .50NL short handed table who was treating the bets like they were pennies. But he was catching. As you can see here he ran himself up to 600 dollars. Felter was steamin a little and called and said I had to come and sit at this table.

So I did and WOW did this guy like to bet. For a while we have 117 average pot. LMAO. That was nuts. Anyhow, so speaking of nuts that was all I played, and was as high as quadroupled up, and ended up tripled up as it was getting late and I was happy to bank that. Should have left earlier but I do have a bonus I need to finish this week. Anyhow, against a guy like that who you would not see that often, I guess that is what you do. He was over 90 percent hands played with 120 hands in poker tracker and was not slowing down. His opening bet was anywhere from 10-30 dollars to 100-600 dollars. Problem was...he would not loose. 3-5 against KK would turn into a straight. 4-9 would 2 pair someone. J 4 would hit JJ on the flop. It was funny to watch. Anyways, finished up 200 tonight playing bingo and it was ok.

Another nice Tourny Run

It was the Canadian Poker Night on Hollywood. A nice number of people (90 I think).
I Cruised to the final table, and was doing pretty good. Went out in 8th when I trapped a large stack with QQ vs his JJ, and he spiked it on the flop. Oh well. Money was in good.

And then there are those hands you are SURE you are winning...

Texas Hold'em $0.50-$0.50 NL (Real Money), #453,743,815
Table Mount Vernon, 12 Jun 2007 10:51 PM ET
Seat 1: fffreezing ($4.10 in chips)
Seat 2: guslondon ($69.85 in chips)
Seat 3: daytona.. ($46.90 in chips)
Seat 4: Grinding Up ($45.75 in chips)
Seat 5: xkillaqueenx ($35.65 in chips)
Seat 6: iblis2k ($63.05 in chips)
Seat 7: HarryKings ($4.25 in chips)
Seat 8: erika1414 ($55.15 in chips)
Seat 9: vicver ($44.85 in chips)
Seat 10: Tangfastics ($50 in chips)

ANTES/BLINDS
guslondon posts blind ($0.25), daytona.. posts blind ($0.50), Tangfastics posts blind ($0.50).PRE-FLOPGrinding Up calls $0.50, xkillaqueenx folds, iblis2k bets $1, HarryKings folds, erika1414 calls $1, vicver folds, Tangfastics folds, fffreezing folds, guslondon calls $0.75, daytona.. calls $0.50, Grinding Up calls $0.50.

FLOP [board cards 4H,KH,9C ]
guslondon checks, daytona.. checks, Grinding Up bets $3.50, iblis2k bets $7, erika1414 folds, guslondon folds, daytona.. folds, Grinding Up bets $30, iblis2k calls $26.50.

TURN [board cards 4H,KH,9C,9H ]
Grinding Up bets $11.25 and is all-in, iblis2k calls $11.25.

RIVER [board cards 4H,KH,9C,9H,9S ]

SHOWDOWNGrinding Up shows [ 4D,4S ]iblis2k shows [ KC,JC ]iblis2k wins $93.50.

BECAUSE REMEMBER, YOU SHOULD ALWAYS WORRY ABOUT THE RUNNER RUNNER 2 OUTTERS!!

Sometimes poker confuses me...

This hand confuses me. I was sure I was beat....then I wasn't. So I pushed...and one. Not sure what to make of it.

Hand History:
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Texas Hold'em $1-$1 NL (Real Money), #453,710,051
Table Mombasa, 12 Jun 2007 10:28 PM ET
Seat 1: ender470 ($99 in chips)
Seat 2: HotLemon ($112.30 in chips)
Seat 3: rockoya ($45.50 in chips)
Seat 4: DonFerrum ($75.40 in chips)
Seat 5: Grinding Up ($113 in chips)
Seat 6: DR.MUZL ($118.20 in chips)
Seat 7: LucCaptan ($81.95 in chips)
Seat 8: HarryKings ($11 in chips)
Seat 9: John88888 ($117.90 in chips)
Seat 10: Jeremy-1986 ($143.35 in chips)
ANTES/BLINDSLucCaptan posts blind ($0.50), HarryKings posts blind ($1).PRE-FLOPJohn88888 folds, Jeremy-1986 folds, ender470 folds, HotLemon folds, rockoya calls $1, DonFerrum calls $1, Grinding Up bets $3.50, DR.MUZL folds, LucCaptan folds, HarryKings folds, rockoya calls $2.50, DonFerrum calls $2.50.

FLOP [board cards 7C,8D,3S ]rockoya checks, DonFerrum bets $6, Grinding Up bets $12, rockoya folds, DonFerrum bets $19, Grinding Up calls $13.

TURN [board cards 7C,8D,3S,2C ]DonFerrum bets $32, Grinding Up bets $84.50 and is all-in, DonFerrum calls $14.90 and is all-in.

RIVER [board cards 7C,8D,3S,2C,8S ]

SHOWDOWNGrinding Up shows [ QC,QH ]DonFerrum shows [ 9H,KH ]Grinding Up wins $37.60, Grinding Up wins $152.80.

Peg City online tourny

Played pretty good....but not for long enough :)

Good news: I "think" I outplayed some of the better players in the city on a couple of hands, and stacked one of the best.

Bad news: I have my chips to Felter which was really dumb, but I did not see the straight coming. Guess I could have turned it into a Full House on the river. But Bad Bad call on my part. Enjoy the $20 Felter!

Wow, what a bad week for local poker

For a couple of reasons, the first of course being...that I have not had much time to play. Thats right, until recently poker has been sort of on the backburner...but after enough pressure from Felter I am back on the saddle...just finished an hour session and more on that later.

But beyond that there is the fact that all the local poker clubs here in 'peg city were raised last thursday. 63 Police were involved in operation "Waste of tax payers money". It is a sad sad day when poker is the most pressing issue in the car theft/violent crime captical of Canada. If it were not for Ballhockey Felter and I would have been there last Thursday and would have gotten our court summons along with the rest of the people.

Now it is alleged that the poker rooms were taking a small rake (although officially it was donations only). Now would I say that a "couple of chips" might have made it into the box on occasion, maybe. But more than 95 percent of them would have had to have been DONATIONS, so the spirit of the law, at least at the Barca club, would never have been questioned. I have taken money out of the pots at our home game to buy pizza....(with agreement from player)....should I expect a raid?? Wait...is someoen at the door??

In regards to the session tonight it was what I am coming to expect. Once again I seem to avoid the wild swings that Felter has (even playing short handed) but never really down. Had 2 full handed $1 NL tables and a 5 person .50 NL table, and finished up probably around $60 total. I ama going to try and more enough now to take advantage of this rakeback program as with a stable game, it really and truly is free money. And how knows how long this cash cow will be around.

No real hands to post and did not win or lose any real large pots. Tables were so timid that if I did get a monster did not get paid much. But did manage to amp up the aggression and grind out a nice profit for the work I put it. We will see if this is a start of a trend...(Bet the next post starts with OHHH NOO!)