I are backz!

Haaaaaaaaah! Finally decided to update this instead of doing something worthwhile with my life!

Didn't play much over the summer...played at the casino maybe 4 times and cashed 2 of them. Not anything massive, around £150 overall. The only memorable hand is one on the final table where I had 56s in the BB and someone who'd been a total arsewipe all night raised into me, so I called to hopefully knock him out. This was on the final table and I was reasonably deepstacked and him reasonably short. I can't remember any numbers....because let's face it, I suck at life, not just at poker. Anyway flop comes xxA all hearts. He flat pushes I call - he turns over AA and berates me for the next 20 mins from behind the rope marking off the final table. -_-

Since coming back I've been playing on FullTilt with a piddly bankroll just messing around. I expected to lose it all and didn't much care. I think I've lost about $20 of it, but I had a lot of fun whilst doing it.

Now that my loan's in I've signed up to RedKings to get PT free. Of course RedKings doesn't take my card, so I have to fuck around with about 900 payment options (I broke my keyboard in a tantrum halfway through....) before finally (reluctantly) using Netteller who charged me about $150 to deposit $200. The fun continues as we discover that RedKings has the WORST interface in the known galaxy. I've seen plague victims that look better. You can't change your table position, so you have to search around every time for yourself if you're multitabling. You can't resize the tables (wtf?!) and half the options have to be done through the webpage (Cashier, search player...etc).

It does however have a few redeeming features -

1. Free PT after a certain number of points.
2. A really cool thing (for fish like me) that shows you your % chance of winning when 2 people are all in. Like you get on TV, but only when people are racing.
3. Obscenely easy $5 10 man Double or Nothing SnGs.

The third point is really nice. I've played 15 $5.50 ones today and yesterday and cashed in 12 of them. I got knocked out of the others on hands like AA vs A7 (me on AA) taking a drumming.
The other "players" (if I can call them that....donators would be more accurate) fold every hand until they get an inexplicable urge to push Q7 off and get knocked out by someone in the BB with KK. Once it gets down to about 7 men the entire table tightens up to be playing about Gambon's range. They fold themselves down to about half a BB and then get blinded out alltogether. It's even better if you have a competant big stack who can raise all the time because he'll never ever get called.

I'm interested as to what people think about these - i.e are they profitable in the long run. I worked out that I have to win roughly 3/5 of them to be making slow profit, but that doesn't seem to be too difficult so far.

Been playing cash games as well recently (live) and urinating money to everybody almost at random. Good fun though! :-D

Full house time!

Had a morning where Full Houses haven't treated me too kindly.....Since I got PT I've been playing a lot better and steadily winning...but then I get battered for most of my buy-in like here.

I'd appreciate people who are better than me's feedback on these hands to see if I did something wrong in them and if I should have played them differently.

PokerStars Game #18149747243: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2008/06/15 - 08:26:57 (ET)
Table 'Fringilla III' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: schliere ($7.10 in chips)
Seat 2: bockd ($3.65 in chips)
Seat 3: chaoslordtom ($10.20 in chips)
Seat 4: gong4da ($12.55 in chips)
Seat 5: Akeem78 ($11.80 in chips)
Seat 6: R@nTAnpl@N ($15.95 in chips)
Seat 7: Impulse85 ($2 in chips)
Seat 8: rudi71 ($10.90 in chips)
Seat 9: Schulle1971 ($12.15 in chips)
R@nTAnpl@N: posts small blind $0.05
Impulse85: posts big blind $0.10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to chaoslordtom [2h 2d]
rudi71: calls $0.10
Schulle1971: folds
schliere: folds
bockd: folds
chaoslordtom: calls $0.10
gong4da: folds
Schulle1971 leaves the table
Akeem78: folds
R@nTAnpl@N: folds
Impulse85: raises $0.30 to $0.40
rudi71: calls $0.30
chaoslordtom: calls $0.30
*** FLOP *** [5c Th 6d]
matzew23 joins the table at seat #9
Impulse85: checks
rudi71: checks
chaoslordtom: checks
*** TURN *** [5c Th 6d] [2s]
Impulse85: checks
rudi71: bets $0.40
chaoslordtom: calls $0.40
Impulse85: folds
*** RIVER *** [5c Th 6d 2s] [6c]
rudi71: bets $1
chaoslordtom: raises $2.10 to $3.10
rudi71: raises $7 to $10.10 and is all-in
chaoslordtom: calls $6.30 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($0.70) returned to rudi71
*** SHOW DOWN ***
rudi71: shows [Td Tc] (a full house, Tens full of Sixes)
chaoslordtom: mucks hand
rudi71 collected $19.85 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $20.85 | Rake $1
Board [5c Th 6d 2s 6c]
Seat 1: schliere folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: bockd folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: chaoslordtom mucked [2h 2d]
Seat 4: gong4da folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Akeem78 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: R@nTAnpl@N (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 7: Impulse85 (big blind) folded on the Turn
Seat 8: rudi71 showed [Td Tc] and won ($19.85) with a full house, Tens full of Sixes
Seat 9: Schulle1971 folded before Flop (didn't bet)



PokerStars Game #18150424639: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2008/06/15 - 09:15:35 (ET)
Table 'Fringilla III' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: backy68 ($12.15 in chips)
Seat 2: Abzocker83 ($2 in chips)
Seat 3: chaoslordtom ($10.50 in chips)
Seat 4: Snuffi05 ($4.90 in chips)
Seat 5: M.Ramda ($9.45 in chips)
Seat 6: thcfugii ($2 in chips)
Seat 7: Toyman ($13 in chips)
Seat 8: rudi71 ($17.30 in chips)
chaoslordtom: posts small blind $0.05
Snuffi05: posts big blind $0.10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to chaoslordtom [9h 9s]
M.Ramda: folds
thcfugii: folds
Toyman: folds
rudi71: folds
backy68: folds
Abzocker83: folds
chaoslordtom: raises $0.20 to $0.30
Snuffi05: raises $0.20 to $0.50
chaoslordtom: calls $0.20
*** FLOP *** [9d Ac Ad]
chaoslordtom: checks
Snuffi05: bets $1
chaoslordtom: calls $1
*** TURN *** [9d Ac Ad] [Td]
chaoslordtom: checks
Snuffi05: bets $3.40 and is all-in
chaoslordtom: calls $3.40
*** RIVER *** [9d Ac Ad Td] [Ts]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
chaoslordtom: shows [9h 9s] (a full house, Nines full of Aces)
Snuffi05: shows [Ah Jd] (a full house, Aces full of Tens)
Snuffi05 collected $9.35 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $9.80 | Rake $0.45
Board [9d Ac Ad Td Ts]
Seat 1: backy68 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: Abzocker83 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: chaoslordtom (small blind) showed [9h 9s] and lost with a full house, Nines full of Aces
Seat 4: Snuffi05 (big blind) showed [Ah Jd] and won ($9.35) with a full house, Aces full of Tens
Seat 5: M.Ramda folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: thcfugii folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: Toyman folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: rudi71 folded before Flop (didn't bet)


PokerStars Game #18150452770: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2008/06/15 - 09:17:31 (ET)
Table 'Pleione' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: galker ($13.30 in chips)
Seat 3: Duzzface ($13.80 in chips)
Seat 4: BiediAA ($10 in chips)
Seat 5: JimmyDisco ($4.30 in chips)
Seat 6: chaoslordtom ($9.10 in chips)
Seat 7: wetware0 ($5.80 in chips)
Seat 8: MiL1eR ($7.15 in chips)
Seat 9: gijsinmaker ($14.60 in chips)
wetware0: posts small blind $0.05
MiL1eR: posts big blind $0.10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to chaoslordtom [Qd Ks]
gijsinmaker: folds
galker: raises $0.10 to $0.20
Duzzface: folds
BiediAA: folds
JimmyDisco: folds
chaoslordtom: calls $0.20
wetware0: folds
MiL1eR: folds
*** FLOP *** [3d 8c Kc]
wetware0 leaves the table
galker: bets $0.50
chaoslordtom: calls $0.50
*** TURN *** [3d 8c Kc] [Kh]
prettydevil joins the table at seat #7
galker: checks
chaoslordtom: bets $0.90
galker: raises $0.90 to $1.80
chaoslordtom: calls $0.90
*** RIVER *** [3d 8c Kc Kh] [8d]
galker: checks
chaoslordtom: bets $2.50
galker: raises $8.30 to $10.80 and is all-in
chaoslordtom: calls $4.10 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($4.20) returned to galker
*** SHOW DOWN ***
galker: shows [6c Kd] (a full house, Kings full of Eights)
chaoslordtom: shows [Qd Ks] (a full house, Kings full of Eights)
galker collected $8.75 from pot
chaoslordtom collected $8.70 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $18.35 | Rake $0.90
Board [3d 8c Kc Kh 8d]
Seat 1: galker showed [6c Kd] and won ($8.75) with a full house, Kings full of Eights
Seat 3: Duzzface folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: BiediAA folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: JimmyDisco folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: chaoslordtom (button) showed [Qd Ks] and won ($8.70) with a full house, Kings full of Eights
Seat 7: wetware0 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 8: MiL1eR (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 9: gijsinmaker folded before Flop (didn't bet)

I'm playing a lot better overall though I feel...instead of playing 30-40% of hands I'm tending to play between 15% and 20%....which I assume is a better thing! :-D

Another fun one for you

PokerStars Game #18116683181: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2008/06/13 - 19:16:44 (ET)
Table 'McVittie III' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 3: Fat Ace Hole ($1.20 in chips)
Seat 4: sandboy21 ($13.95 in chips)
Seat 5: Clubberer80 ($9.30 in chips)
Seat 6: Chieflan ($11.15 in chips)
Seat 7: chaoslordtom ($10.05 in chips)
Seat 8: Pökerfu ($9.90 in chips)
Seat 9: AcDo ($2.75 in chips)
Pökerfu: posts small blind $0.05
AcDo: posts big blind $0.10
DreamKai: sits out
3ddl: sits out
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to chaoslordtom [9d Kh]
Fat Ace Hole: folds
sandboy21: folds
Clubberer80: calls $0.10
Chieflan: folds
chaoslordtom: raises $0.30 to $0.40
Pökerfu: folds
AcDo: calls $0.30
Clubberer80: calls $0.30
*** FLOP *** [Kd 5d 8h]
AcDo: checks
Clubberer80: checks
chaoslordtom: bets $0.80
AcDo: calls $0.80
Clubberer80: folds
*** TURN *** [Kd 5d 8h] [Kc]
AcDo: checks
chaoslordtom: bets $1.30
AcDo: calls $1.30
*** RIVER *** [Kd 5d 8h Kc] [3d]
AcDo: bets $0.25 and is all-in
chaoslordtom: calls $0.25
*** SHOW DOWN ***
AcDo: shows [Qd 6d] (a flush, King high)
chaoslordtom: mucks hand
AcDo collected $5.70 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $5.95 | Rake $0.25
Board [Kd 5d 8h Kc 3d]
Seat 3: Fat Ace Hole folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: sandboy21 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Clubberer80 folded on the Flop
Seat 6: Chieflan folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: chaoslordtom (button) mucked [9d Kh]
Seat 8: Pökerfu (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 9: AcDo (big blind) showed [Qd 6d] and won ($5.70) with a flush, King high

Severly Bored of Being Owned

For the last perhaps month and a half I've been playing what I think is well....and as far as I'm aware Tony agrees that it's good play....and I'm getting continually owned.....I made a list about 2 weeks ago of the beats I had over a 2 week period....just to whine at myself about how mad it was really....I've subsequently deleted it..but it involved AA being beaten about 6 times....33 hitting quads 44 hitting a 4 card straight......that variety of madness.......KK about the same....I remember flopping 2 sets and being outdrawn by runner runner full houses and runner runner straights....it's just been insane.

I've run pretty poorly before but this is just mental....The amount of times my money has gone in ahead and I've been shafted is mad....I'm sure it'll stop eventually, but the current pattern is that I run appallingly for about 5 hours.....then amazingly for 20 mins and make most of it back....I'd rather run reasonably for the whole time and make profit through my skill (which is still debatable).

I got poker tracker (finally) today and it's really good....the HUD is especially useful....I haven't quite worked out all the knobs and buttons, but it's one of the best pieces of software I've ever found for anything. I've learnt a bit about what I'm doing wrong....but need someone elses to compare it to. I'm going to ask Isaac's or Gambon's advice on what they think of my stats (shit as they are) or compare them to Tony's once he downloads it.

A couple of wonderful ownage hands (for others) from today that I copy/pasted while I was writing this....the others I've lost in the sea of ownage:


PokerStars Game #18115718400: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2008/06/13 - 18:26:49 (ET)
Table 'Fiducia' 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: moelmer ($12.30 in chips)
Seat 2: scv12u ($5.70 in chips)
Seat 3: $SHARKYLOW$ ($3.45 in chips)
Seat 4: chaoslordtom ($13.10 in chips)
Seat 5: Allfreed ($7.65 in chips)
Seat 6: Mapin10 ($9.30 in chips)
Seat 7: Antho_26PS ($27.70 in chips)
Seat 8: Tiger_14G ($1.30 in chips)
Seat 9: astrodaan ($8.50 in chips)
chaoslordtom: posts small blind $0.05
Allfreed: posts big blind $0.10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to chaoslordtom [3c Ac]
Mapin10: folds
Antho_26PS: folds
Tiger_14G: calls $0.10
astrodaan: calls $0.10
moelmer: folds
scv12u: folds
$SHARKYLOW$: folds
chaoslordtom: calls $0.05
Allfreed: raises $0.50 to $0.60
Tiger_14G: calls $0.50
astrodaan: calls $0.50
chaoslordtom: calls $0.50
*** FLOP *** [Kc 6c 8c]
chaoslordtom: checks
Allfreed: checks
Tiger_14G: checks
astrodaan: bets $0.50
chaoslordtom: calls $0.50
Allfreed: calls $0.50
Tiger_14G: folds
*** TURN *** [Kc 6c 8c] [Ks]
chaoslordtom: checks
Allfreed: checks
astrodaan: bets $0.90
chaoslordtom: raises $2.10 to $3
Allfreed: folds
astrodaan: raises $4.40 to $7.40 and is all-in
chaoslordtom: calls $4.40
*** RIVER *** [Kc 6c 8c Ks] [Qh]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
chaoslordtom: shows [3c Ac] (a flush, Ace high)
astrodaan: shows [6d 6h] (a full house, Sixes full of Kings)
astrodaan collected $17.80 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $18.70 | Rake $0.90
Board [Kc 6c 8c Ks Qh]
Seat 1: moelmer folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: scv12u folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: $SHARKYLOW$ (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: chaoslordtom (small blind) showed [3c Ac] and lost with a flush, Ace high
Seat 5: Allfreed (big blind) folded on the Turn
Seat 6: Mapin10 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: Antho_26PS folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: Tiger_14G folded on the Flop
Seat 9: astrodaan showed [6d 6h] and won ($17.80) with a full house, Sixes full of Kings


PokerStars Game #18116124574: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2008/06/13 - 18:47:29 (ET)
Table 'Jabbah' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: ShakaZuluf ($9.35 in chips)
Seat 2: bigaldog21 ($5.30 in chips)
Seat 3: tonypsta ($1.95 in chips)
Seat 4: sandboy21 ($9.95 in chips)
Seat 5: w4444x ($10.45 in chips)
Seat 6: chaoslordtom ($14 in chips)
Seat 7: theruso ($21.10 in chips)
Seat 8: naristun ($21.70 in chips)
Seat 9: chuckyd52 ($10.80 in chips)
tonypsta: posts small blind $0.05
sandboy21: posts big blind $0.10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to chaoslordtom [Ks Kc]
w4444x: folds
chaoslordtom: raises $0.20 to $0.30
theruso: folds
naristun: folds
chuckyd52: folds
ShakaZuluf: folds
bigaldog21: calls $0.30
tonypsta: folds
sandboy21: folds
*** FLOP *** [Ts Td 4c]
chaoslordtom: bets $0.40
bigaldog21: calls $0.40
*** TURN *** [Ts Td 4c] [2s]
chaoslordtom: bets $0.60
bigaldog21: raises $0.60 to $1.20
chaoslordtom: calls $0.60
*** RIVER *** [Ts Td 4c 2s] [9s]
chaoslordtom: checks
bigaldog21: bets $1.10
chaoslordtom: folds
Uncalled bet ($1.10) returned to bigaldog21
bigaldog21 collected $3.80 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $3.95 | Rake $0.15
Board [Ts Td 4c 2s 9s]
Seat 1: ShakaZuluf folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: bigaldog21 (button) collected ($3.80)
Seat 3: tonypsta (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: sandboy21 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: w4444x folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: chaoslordtom folded on the River
Seat 7: theruso folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: naristun folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: chuckyd52 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Things can only get better! :-)

A fish is born

Ok......bored of breaking even on Pokerstars I've decided to create a blog to alleviate the bordom and to try and figure out what I'm doing wrong.

I've been running pretty horrendously recently....losing to runner runner full houses when I have sets and having AA outdrawn about 20 (actually that many) by stuff like AQ, 33 and K10....It's quite amuzing in a way because instead of outdrawing me with a set, low pocket pairs tend to hit full houses or even quads to make it even funnier....

Buuuuuuut, I'm clearly doing something wrong to not be gaining money....but as far as I can surmise I'm playing in exactly the same way as Tony who is generally on a steady incline.

I'm playing $3.00 10 man sngs at the moment....the quality of play is pretty dire, but I still only win enough to stay even.

So let's hope that posting here somehow aids me in seeing what's going wrong.....