The Poker Thread

I knew you could do it, Rich.

$100?

Also T-Bag, get your other video uploaded.

Rex McGee wrote:

***** Hand History for Game 1671648201 ***** (IPoker)
$20.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Saturday, June 13, 07:43:00 ET 2009
Table Wolfe (No DP Heads Up) (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Seat 3: ooooTHEBOSSoooo ( $42.04 USD )
Seat 8: sniffdonkey ( $37.48 USD )
ooooTHEBOSSoooo posts small blind [$0.10 USD].
sniffdonkey posts big blind [$0.20 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to sniffdonkey [ Ks Ac ]
ooooTHEBOSSoooo raises [$0.50 USD]
sniffdonkey raises [$1.60 USD]
ooooTHEBOSSoooo calls [$1.20 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9c, As, Tc ]
sniffdonkey bets [$2.40 USD]
ooooTHEBOSSoooo calls [$2.40 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 5d ]
sniffdonkey bets [$5.00 USD]
ooooTHEBOSSoooo calls [$5.00 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ Kd ]
sniffdonkey ???

The boss guy seems ok. Certainly not playing too many hands and on the better side of players at this level. I doubled him up once already though was more from retarded play by me with 74 than him playing his KK to perfection if you get me. >_> Anyway pot is $18 by river. What do I do?

I guess he could have JQ and be chasing the open-ended straight.
If he had a set he probably would have re-raised you on the flop or turn, so it doesn't look like a set to me.
If he was on a flush draw then he missed and isn't likely to call a river bet, but if you check he might try a bluff.

I think just check the river and call if he makes a bet.

Drumstick wrote:I knew you could do it, Rich.

$100?

Also T-Bag, get your other video uploaded.

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Rex McGee wrote:WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW. Couple of years variance ahoy. Winning a 2k runner tourney is pretty sweet! I assume that money is pretty much insta withdraw! Get it in the first post IMO. Well done! Also lol @ being up at like nearly 6am. I suppose you'd do it again though. xD

I want to leave about $1750 in or something, but yeah, pretty much taking it all out!

And that hand, I don't mind a check there. Does he tend to bet really big? Was he aggressive, or did he let you take control? Check-call works against solid tight opponents there, but it's very difficult not to pay off a reasonably sized bet, IMO.

Right, let me get the old thoughts together, and I'll write something about the tourney.

I was just about to post that we hadn't seen you in here in a while.

Congrats.

Nova wrote:.......

Don't let me down bro.

http://news.bluffmagazine.com/wsop-phil ... 2009-5103/

If there was any question Phil Ivey is the best poker player alive, it may have just been answered.

Ivey won his second bracelet of the 2009 World Series of Poker — seventh overall — winning the $2,500 Omaha 8-or-better/Seven-card Stud 8-or-better (Event 25) bracelet on Saturday night at a feature table that drew crowds three- and four-deep all day from the floor and elevated platform overlooking both final table areas of the Amazon Room in the Rio Hotel.

He had an overwhelming chip lead over Ming Lee going into heads-up play with 2.2 million to 675,000, and beat him to win the tournament, the first in the history of the WSOP that switched between the two Hi/Lo games every eight hands, when Ivey’s wired-queens made a set with the case-queen on the river for his second title in as many weeks and $220,538. Lee won $136,292 as the runner up.

“It feels good, this is the second time I’ve won multiple bracelets in the same year. It’s a good feeling,” he said. “I’ve worked hard for this.”

Rendering vid now then will upload.

In the hand I checked. I didn't think he would have a set like satriales said. It made no sense as he would raise the flop bet due to so many draws etc (and if he has a set he might think I have an ace anyway). I felt the only thing beating me was QJ but even then I don't think he calls both bets with that as he knows he has to hit to win really. Perhaps if he had QJc Anyway I decided he probably had two pair, maybe even flopped it or just a weaker ace so I check called. He bet like $7 and had AJ so I won.

To be honest I think you may be missing some value there. I would bet and then fold to a re-raise.

Anyway, I have 500 FPPs in my account, what should I do with them? Buy the instant $8 cash thing?

PsychicSykes wrote:I was just about to post that we hadn't seen you in here in a while.

Congrats.

Yeah, well I was running about -$300 in cash games or something and was slowing down for a bit, to be honest

Right. Ok.

It was a 5% 2R1A, where you could rebuy any time you were under 1million chips, so obviously the chip average was going to be hugely inflated. I wasn't going to rebuy, but I found that in the first hour before the break I couldn't hit a hand, or even get one really. So I buckled and rebought twice and then added on at the break, thinking I could get quite deep for some reason. The break came and went, I still wasn't really hitting, but decided to keep paying attention, purely for the huge value in the tourney. Sat in 900 of 1700 after the first break, purely on the back of rebuys and addons.

I decided, as the blinds rose, to start opening up to stay alive. I stole in late position with marginal hands but still tried to play purely the percentage plays whilst the pack was still so big. A big hand came with TT. I raise, someone goes all in and someone else calls. It's not much more, so I call, and the flop comes 6T9, and I take down the all in and the other guy, who has AT.

I can't remember everything, but I started playing more tricky as I began to stay at the same tables for longer. I knew people's playing styles, and adapted according, playing some real quality poker and taking a lot of pots without showdown, whilst also folding in dangerous positions. As the last 100 approached, I believe I was i 40th or something, having taken a couple of hits with hands like QQ vs AA etc.

I'd played very solid poker to get to where I was, but got a sick run of hands going towards the last 40 or so, putting me in the chip lead. I had plenty of chances to donk away the chips, but I'm really proud of how disciplined and solidly I was playing. I'd stop leaking chips like I had earlier in the tourney (when Drummy was speccing).

Then there were two tables, and I got a bit lucky. I called an all in with 33 (pot committed after raise), against short stack with AQ. Flop is rag-ace-rag, turn is 3 . Then I pick up 89 suited, and call a raise on the button. Flop comes 668. I bet, raiser shoves it in with A9 and I call, and push my stack further. There was a hilarious guy called Klink or something. Here's the hand he gets really angry about, let me know what you think.



I saw no problem calling with high suited cards on the button, and wasn't too worried about the flop. I was getting just about 3:1 (implied odds helped that a bit), and then the turn gave me a gutshot and then a free card, which just so happened to help me out. He went mad (DICK BY NAME, DICK BY NATURE - line of the tournament ), but I felt those sort of hands win big tournies like this and I just played the odds statistically, so it was pretty auto for me, personally.

Anyway, I pretty much dominated the final tourney, 3 betting everywhere and playing powerfully on the flop. Everyone wanted the next cash stage, so whilst I initially wanted a chop, I found myself with a healthy chip lead and decided against it. HU didn't last long, he had 2m to my 12m by the time the chips went in - I called off a flush draw to finish him off

As far as I'm concerned, you certainly need a run of cards to win big tournaments like these, but it's the precise value bets, steals and reads that really make the difference in how much you win. I kept right on it throughout and felt I thoroughly deserved the result I got. I'd gotten deep in 4000+ tournies recently but then run into bad luck, so I knew I was capable. But after that 33 hand, I knew it was probably just destined to be

Incidentally, I'd made quite a few friends, and about 8 of them specced me after they went out One sent me a dollar too

Sparky wrote:To be honest I think you may be missing some value there. I would bet and then fold to a re-raise.

Anyway, I have 500 FPPs in my account, what should I do with them? Buy the instant $8 cash thing?

I'm pretty sure he is going to raise his AJ there and I fold the best hand? If you think there is value then check raise is surely a better option?

Good stuff Nova. Of course you have to run good to win a tournament but I am sure you played fine too. I assume 4000+ is an exaggeration! I gave up trying to understand the HH due to the chip values. If you wanna divide them all by like 10k I might be able to cope.

Video still rendering.

Playing some HU ipoker atm if anyone wants to watch. ALSO. The prop poker guy is talking to me tonight on msn so he says in the email.

Rex McGee wrote:

Sparky wrote:To be honest I think you may be missing some value there. I would bet and then fold to a re-raise.

Anyway, I have 500 FPPs in my account, what should I do with them? Buy the instant $8 cash thing?

I'm pretty sure he is going to raise his AJ there and I fold the best hand? If you think there is value then check raise is surely a better option?

Would he really call the flop and turn and then raise the river when a king hits with just top pair? You said he was a decent player so it doesn't make much sense to me. I just think he may check behind some hands that he would call with (which we beat). I dunno, I could be talking rubbish

And Nova: that's just awesome. Any plans for the money?

Sparky wrote:And Nova: that's just awesome. Any plans for the money?

Drugs and hookers.

How much did you win Nova?

PokerStars Tournament #169968704, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $5.00/$0.50
2070 players
Total Prize Pool: $28320.00
Tournament started 2009/06/13 21:35:00 WET [2009/06/13 16:35:00 ET]

Dear RichardNova,

You finished the tournament in 1st place. A $4,644.49 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

Drumstick wrote:

PokerStars Tournament #169968704, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $5.00/$0.50
2070 players
Total Prize Pool: $28320.00
Tournament started 2009/06/13 21:35:00 WET [2009/06/13 16:35:00 ET]

Dear RichardNova,

You finished the tournament in 1st place. A $4,644.49 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

wow well done im jealous

Wow, congratulations Nova

How do you sign up to iPoker Rex so we can watch you play?

You don't need to sign up, you can just download the software he linked to on the last page, which is actually better because we can see his hole cards 100% of the time as opposed to only seeing hands which go to a showdown.

Sparky wrote:And Nova: that's just awesome. Any plans for the money?

Aside from all the drugs and hookers, I'm gonna bump the roll to $2100 and cash out the rest, use it for a couple of holidays I'm having this summer.

Drumstick wrote:You don't need to sign up, you can just download the software he linked to on the last page, which is actually better because we can see his hole cards 100% of the time as opposed to only seeing hands which go to a showdown.

Really? That's really good, I'll get that downloaded now.

Drumstick wrote:You don't need to sign up, you can just download the software he linked to on the last page, which is actually better because we can see his hole cards 100% of the time as opposed to only seeing hands which go to a showdown.

Cool, done that now. Thanks!

It's really good. You'll need to add him and vice-versa but after a few quick clicks it's pretty easy to get working. Not entirely smooth at time but good enough for poker.