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PostRe: ***Offical Poker Thread*** by **Rex McGee** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 10:40 pm

Currently in the $20k GTD on stars as I said earlier today. 71 left out of 4700 field. Money is at $28 for busto right now and going up slowly. Come rail me! rexmcpwn.

PostRe: ***Offical Poker Thread*** by **Nova** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 1:13 am

Rex McGee wrote:Currently in the $20k GTD on stars as I said earlier today. 71 left out of 4700 field. Money is at $28 for busto right now and going up slowly. Come rail me! rexmcpwn.

How did it go Rex?

PostRe: ***Offical Poker Thread*** by **Drumstick** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 1:33 am

Sykes has asked me to post this up because he thinks I made the wrong decision.

Deliberate away.

Also Nova, on Stars, you should play these 90-man $2 tourneys. The blinds are quite slow and it favours patient players. I would have walked to the final table if I didn't suffer like four bad beats just now. Cashed though. Top twelve make the money.

PostRe: ***Offical Poker Thread*** by **Drumstick** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 1:41 am

Nova wrote:
Rex McGee wrote:Currently in the $20k GTD on stars as I said earlier today. 71 left out of 4700 field. Money is at $28 for busto right now and going up slowly. Come rail me! rexmcpwn.

How did it go Rex?

He made like $32, finishing around 45th.

PostRe: ***Offical Poker Thread*** by **satriales** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 3:52 am

Drumstick wrote:Sykes has asked me to post this up because he thinks I made the wrong decision.
PokerStars Game #24243435140: Tournament #136206131, $2.00+$0.20 Hold'em No Limit - Level XII (150/300) - 2009/01/25 1:21:36 GMT [2009/01/24 20:21:36 ET]
Table '136206131 10' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 2: mscany42 (1410 in chips)
Seat 3: a2kat (7045 in chips)
Seat 4: Proper Zing (9165 in chips)
Seat 6: J.Cathalina (5950 in chips)
Seat 7: Rogeriogq (7210 in chips)
Seat 8: am the best1 (15295 in chips)
Seat 9: bsoret (2125 in chips)
mscany42: posts the ante 40
a2kat: posts the ante 40
Proper Zing: posts the ante 40
J.Cathalina: posts the ante 40
Rogeriogq: posts the ante 40
am the best1: posts the ante 40
bsoret: posts the ante 40
a2kat: posts small blind 150
Proper Zing: posts big blind 300
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Proper Zing [Ac Qs]
J.Cathalina: calls 300
Rogeriogq: folds
am the best1: folds
bsoret: folds
mscany42: folds
a2kat: calls 150
Proper Zing: raises 900 to 1200
am the best1 said, "stay tite kids moneys on its way"
J.Cathalina: raises 4710 to 5910 and is all-in
a2kat: folds
Proper Zing: calls 4710
*** FLOP *** [9c 7h 9s]
*** TURN *** [9c 7h 9s] [9h]
*** RIVER *** [9c 7h 9s 9h] [3c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Proper Zing: shows [Ac Qs] (three of a kind, Nines)
J.Cathalina: shows [Kd Kh] (a full house, Nines full of Kings)
J.Cathalina collected 12400 from pot
am the best1 said, "nh"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 12400 | Rake 0
Board [9c 7h 9s 9h 3c]
Seat 2: mscany42 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: a2kat (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: Proper Zing (big blind) showed [Ac Qs] and lost with three of a kind, Nines
Seat 6: J.Cathalina showed [Kd Kh] and won (12400) with a full house, Nines full of Kings
Seat 7: Rogeriogq folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: am the best1 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: bsoret folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Deliberate away.

I probably would have done the same. You see people go all-in with much less in $2 tournaments and it's not for all of your chips.

I only had $7 in my account so I played some cash games earlier and managed to increase that to $15. I was then playing across 2 tables and this happened on one of them:

That hand really annoyed me so I left the other table and put that money on this one, so I could get my revenge (plus the fact there were a couple of other really bad players on this table).
Eventually I got my revenge with this hand:

I should have bet more on the river but I didn't think he had anything and I didn't want him to fold.
Not long after that I lost it all with a semi-bluff against someone that was playing 80% of hands. The one time I bluff him he has aces

I'm gonna stick to sit n go tourneys for now I think. I should be able to make the GR matrix game tonight too

PostRe: ***Offical Poker Thread*** by **Drumstick** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 4:00 am

satriales wrote:I'm gonna stick to sit n go tourneys for now I think. I should be able to make the GR matrix game tonight too

Have you ever tried your hand at the 90-man tournaments on Full Tilt with the KO bonus? At the $3 level I was regularly making the final table and making the cash.

PostRe: ***Offical Poker Thread*** by **satriales** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 4:15 am

Drumstick wrote:
satriales wrote:I'm gonna stick to sit n go tourneys for now I think. I should be able to make the GR matrix game tonight too

Have you ever tried your hand at the 90-man tournaments on Full Tilt with the KO bonus? At the $3 level I was regularly making the final table and making the cash.

Yeah I have played quite a few of those, and usually do alright. Cash games are my weak point (I do make money overall but very slowly), I was only playing them today because I had hardly any money in my account but I've put $70 in there now and can go back to playing some tournaments 8-)

PostRe: ***Offical Poker Thread*** by **Drumstick** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 5:13 am

Good stuff. Keep us updated with how you get on.

In an effort to get into practice for tomorrow I played a Matrix.

PostRe: ***Offical Poker Thread*** by **Nova** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 11:05 am

Drumstick wrote:Sykes has asked me to post this up because he thinks I made the wrong decision.
PokerStars Game #24243435140: Tournament #136206131, $2.00+$0.20 Hold'em No Limit - Level XII (150/300) - 2009/01/25 1:21:36 GMT [2009/01/24 20:21:36 ET]
Table '136206131 10' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 2: mscany42 (1410 in chips)
Seat 3: a2kat (7045 in chips)
Seat 4: Proper Zing (9165 in chips)
Seat 6: J.Cathalina (5950 in chips)
Seat 7: Rogeriogq (7210 in chips)
Seat 8: am the best1 (15295 in chips)
Seat 9: bsoret (2125 in chips)
mscany42: posts the ante 40
a2kat: posts the ante 40
Proper Zing: posts the ante 40
J.Cathalina: posts the ante 40
Rogeriogq: posts the ante 40
am the best1: posts the ante 40
bsoret: posts the ante 40
a2kat: posts small blind 150
Proper Zing: posts big blind 300
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Proper Zing [Ac Qs]
J.Cathalina: calls 300
Rogeriogq: folds
am the best1: folds
bsoret: folds
mscany42: folds
a2kat: calls 150
Proper Zing: raises 900 to 1200
am the best1 said, "stay tite kids moneys on its way"
J.Cathalina: raises 4710 to 5910 and is all-in
a2kat: folds
Proper Zing: calls 4710
*** FLOP *** [9c 7h 9s]
*** TURN *** [9c 7h 9s] [9h]
*** RIVER *** [9c 7h 9s 9h] [3c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Proper Zing: shows [Ac Qs] (three of a kind, Nines)
J.Cathalina: shows [Kd Kh] (a full house, Nines full of Kings)
J.Cathalina collected 12400 from pot
am the best1 said, "nh"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 12400 | Rake 0
Board [9c 7h 9s 9h 3c]
Seat 2: mscany42 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: a2kat (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: Proper Zing (big blind) showed [Ac Qs] and lost with three of a kind, Nines
Seat 6: J.Cathalina showed [Kd Kh] and won (12400) with a full house, Nines full of Kings
Seat 7: Rogeriogq folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: am the best1 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: bsoret folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Deliberate away.

Also Nova, on Stars, you should play these 90-man $2 tourneys. The blinds are quite slow and it favours patient players. I would have walked to the final table if I didn't suffer like four bad beats just now. Cashed though. Top twelve make the money.

Mate, don't talk to me about bad beats! I went all in (on short stack) 5 handed with TT, the guy called with 99. Great odds for me, right? He might make a set, but worth the risk.

Nope, there's a 586 on the flop, a 7 on the turn

PostRe: ***Offical Poker Thread*** by **Rex McGee** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 11:54 am

satriales, yeah you can get more value on the river probably but I don't think it's that bad. If you expect him to fold keep it small. Sometimes if it is so small they may try and bluff rather than make a call with air as well.

Nice Matrix Zinger, we will see what happens tonight yeah

Oh and everyone make sure they come a bit earlier than 7 so we can get 2k chips to whoever needs them.

Yeah I came 43rd/4750. Top 1% so cannot complain! It was FPP buyin as well so $32 is fine but it would have been nice to survive a bit longer. Most of my stack went when I shoved from cut off with A6 to steal blinds and BB called with QJ and hits. Went out with 3BB shove in the BB with K7. 3 way pot, K7 vs JJ vs AT. Was so happy to see K66 on the flop but then turn was an A. -_-

Still good experience though. Is anyone going to play the $200,000 GTD tonight with me then? I have offered staking to Zing, PS and Slayerx @ 75/25. If they don't take it I can perhaps make deals elsewhere but I don't want to spend much more than this. You also need to be prepared to stay up late! Starts at half 8 and runs until the small hours if you do well! First place ~$25,000.

Also just a note I played 3 x 9man SnG yesterday. Came 1st, 2nd and 3rd. So played 4 tournaments and cashed in everything yesterday! Pretty good. I am thinking maybe I can beat these SnG easily. I may try and do a fruit and veg style "5 a day". Also if anyone wants to split a sharkscope sub and play lots of SnG I am still looking for a partner because I don't want to pay the whole lot and won't use it all. I think it will work out at $16 per month ($8 each) and we get 150 searches per day. Basically allows us to fully research 10 SnG tables a day (9 seater).

PostRe: ***Offical Poker Thread*** by **Nova** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 1:04 pm

Hey mate, this staking lark, would you be willing to stake me?

What percentage could I get? I'm up for doing something like that tonight

PostRe: ***Offical Poker Thread*** by **Slayerx** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 1:13 pm

Rex i would be up for tonights tourney had I any cash in my account I had to withdraw it due to lack of funds due to my job situtation.

Anyway im off soon to my LPPL match going to need a win 8-)

PostRe: ***Offical Poker Thread*** by **Nova** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 1:23 pm

Slayerx wrote:Rex i would be up for tonights tourney had I any cash in my account I had to withdraw it due to lack of funds due to my job situtation.

Anyway im off soon to my LPPL match going to need a win

Good luck mate! I'm concentrating a lot more today, head back in the game. Won a double or nothing a minute ago and now in a 2$ 90 man tourney, currently running 14 out of 28. Called a guy all in with AK on the flop of A87, he called with AT and hit the ten on the turn :fp:

PostRe: ***Offical Poker Thread*** by **Nova** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 1:27 pm

What the hell

This guy was betting big with 99 I was calling with AA and just lost 5k to a 9 on the river. Who bets like that?

EDIT - And just like that I'm back. I have KJo and limp in. Flop is JJ8, I call a bet of 150. Turn is a Jack ( :shock:

) and I call another bet, knowing I have the nuts. River is a 9, I make a value bet of 1k (right amount?) and two people call it

Check out the hand:

PostRe: ***Offical Poker Thread*** by **Rex McGee** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 1:42 pm

Slayer I can send them money direct to your account. Nova I am probably looking at staking two people. It depends what the others do since they have a bit more experience I naturally will stake them first. If a spot comes though we can sort a deal 75/25 though I'd probably be wanting to speak to you during the tournament if that is ok.

PostRe: ***Offical Poker Thread*** by **Nova** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 1:44 pm

Rex McGee wrote:Slayer I can send them money direct to your account. Nova I am probably looking at staking two people. It depends what the others do since they have a bit more experience I naturally will stake them first. If a spot comes though we can sort a deal 75/25 though I'd probably be wanting to speak to you during the tournament if that is ok.

Yep ok that's fine either way. Let me know in good time and I can sort out teamspeak or something if necessary.

PostRe: ***Offical Poker Thread*** by **Psychic** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 3:51 pm

Drumstick wrote:Sykes has asked me to post this up because he thinks I made the wrong decision.
PokerStars Game #24243435140: Tournament #136206131, $2.00+$0.20 Hold'em No Limit - Level XII (150/300) - 2009/01/25 1:21:36 GMT [2009/01/24 20:21:36 ET]
Table '136206131 10' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 2: mscany42 (1410 in chips)
Seat 3: a2kat (7045 in chips)
Seat 4: Proper Zing (9165 in chips)
Seat 6: J.Cathalina (5950 in chips)
Seat 7: Rogeriogq (7210 in chips)
Seat 8: am the best1 (15295 in chips)
Seat 9: bsoret (2125 in chips)
mscany42: posts the ante 40
a2kat: posts the ante 40
Proper Zing: posts the ante 40
J.Cathalina: posts the ante 40
Rogeriogq: posts the ante 40
am the best1: posts the ante 40
bsoret: posts the ante 40
a2kat: posts small blind 150
Proper Zing: posts big blind 300
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Proper Zing [Ac Qs]
J.Cathalina: calls 300
Rogeriogq: folds
am the best1: folds
bsoret: folds
mscany42: folds
a2kat: calls 150
Proper Zing: raises 900 to 1200
am the best1 said, "stay tite kids moneys on its way"
J.Cathalina: raises 4710 to 5910 and is all-in
a2kat: folds
Proper Zing: calls 4710
*** FLOP *** [9c 7h 9s]
*** TURN *** [9c 7h 9s] [9h]
*** RIVER *** [9c 7h 9s 9h] [3c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Proper Zing: shows [Ac Qs] (three of a kind, Nines)
J.Cathalina: shows [Kd Kh] (a full house, Nines full of Kings)
J.Cathalina collected 12400 from pot
am the best1 said, "nh"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 12400 | Rake 0
Board [9c 7h 9s 9h 3c]
Seat 2: mscany42 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: a2kat (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: Proper Zing (big blind) showed [Ac Qs] and lost with three of a kind, Nines
Seat 6: J.Cathalina showed [Kd Kh] and won (12400) with a full house, Nines full of Kings
Seat 7: Rogeriogq folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: am the best1 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: bsoret folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Deliberate away.

The reason I didn't like it is because of the limp UTG. The limp reraise is one of the first moves learned by donks who don't back themselves to play properly postflop and want value for a big hand. The raise is fine but when he comes over the top I'd let it go, as you're just hoping he has a hand you can race with. That said, aside from that hand and one other in which I would have taken a different line for value (But you got paid anyway so no biggie), you played some good stuff.

Which tourney are you stakees entering and at what time? I might be able to rail you.

PostRe: ***Offical Poker Thread*** by **Rex McGee** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 4:29 pm

The 8:30 $200,000 GTD on stars. $11 buyin. I am staking myself, Drumstick and probably one more. Will sort it out after the matrix probably.

PostRe: ***Offical Poker Thread*** by **Nova** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 4:33 pm

Rex, do you know who you're staking? I'm not in any rush, but I've been invited to a small game tonight and so I'm easy either way.

I'd love to be considered for staking some other time though, I think it's a great idea.

PostRe: ***Offical Poker Thread*** by **Rex McGee** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 4:54 pm

Well it is out of slayer, yourself and PS. The other two don't seem to be online though we will probably sort it out whilst playing the matrix @ 7pm.

I've selected this tourney because it should be rather easy to make the cash. If it goes well I can certainly start taking more staking on or you can do next week etc.

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