sometimes i wonder

how people make the calls they do in tourneys. We are just inside the money in the nightly 100K and I just bluffed off a lot of chips, so I'm in shoving mode and this guy tanks and then calls. sigh....

PokerStars Game #23423290553: Tournament #129730963, $150+$12 Hold'em No Limit - Level XIII (600/1200) - 2008/12/31 0:18:37 ET
Table '129730963 102' 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: sofa king AK (15096 in chips)
Seat 2: NDGrinder59 (51189 in chips)
Seat 3: triggathree (84210 in chips)
Seat 4: Anbessa9 (37160 in chips)
Seat 5: Abxsoxlut (44371 in chips)
Seat 6: Hustlernyc (10796 in chips)
Seat 7: SEEZMOMENT (16352 in chips)
Seat 8: J9Off_is_$$ (48642 in chips)
Seat 9: OMGSHIPIT (7661 in chips)
sofa king AK: posts the ante 125
NDGrinder59: posts the ante 125
triggathree: posts the ante 125
Anbessa9: posts the ante 125
Abxsoxlut: posts the ante 125
Hustlernyc: posts the ante 125
SEEZMOMENT: posts the ante 125
J9Off_is_$$: posts the ante 125
OMGSHIPIT: posts the ante 125
Anbessa9: posts small blind 600
Abxsoxlut: posts big blind 1200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to OMGSHIPIT [Jh Kc]
Hustlernyc: folds
SEEZMOMENT: folds
J9Off_is_$$: folds
OMGSHIPIT: raises 6336 to 7536 and is all-in
sofa king AK: folds
NDGrinder59: folds
triggathree: folds
Anbessa9: folds
Abxsoxlut: calls 6336
*** FLOP *** [Qc 6c 7s]
*** TURN *** [Qc 6c 7s] [6d]
*** RIVER *** [Qc 6c 7s 6d] [8d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Abxsoxlut: shows [8h Ks] (two pair, Eights and Sixes)
OMGSHIPIT: shows [Jh Kc] (a pair of Sixes)
Abxsoxlut collected 16797 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 16797 | Rake 0
Board [Qc 6c 7s 6d 8d]
Seat 1: sofa king AK folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: NDGrinder59 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: triggathree (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: Anbessa9 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: Abxsoxlut (big blind) showed [8h Ks] and won (16797) with two pair, Eights and Sixes
Seat 6: Hustlernyc folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: SEEZMOMENT folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: J9Off_is_$$ folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: OMGSHIPIT showed [Jh Kc] and lost with a pair of Sixes

I had a good day today though. We'll it would have been a great day, but the deck hit me awesome mode early and I was up over 5K in the morning, but then gave it all back, took a break came back then was up 3.5K, went to dinner with the wife, came back and made another 800 or so. Overall a nice day though. Wishin everyone a safe and happy new years. Not sure what I have in store for resolutions. Quit smoking, get in shape, the normal ones, etc... Win seats to big events and actually cash in them... that would be nice...

Hopefully the housing market turns around in '09, but I doubt it will. We are actually thinking about buying another house while it's dirt cheap, but it's super high risk. We'll see what the future brings. Until then, good luck at the tables and in life. Good bye 2008!

Mover

swingin large

After my 30K score, I decided to move up to 5/10 HU and play some. It started out great and I ran awesome and won 4K real quick, took a break, came back and gave some guy 5K. lol Heads up is so swingy, it's sickening at times. I was sweating my friend Derek at 5/10 and 10/20 on FT and I watched him get stuck like 10K and then grind it all back + more by the end of the session. It was just gross to watch. I found a fish today though and when it was all over, I took 6600.00 from him. Here was the biggest hand from the match.

preflop is meh, but it worked out.

PokerStars Game #23311167224: Hold'em No Limit ($5/$10) - 2008/12/27 17:04:23 ET
Table 'T #257798420' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: OMGSHIPIT ($4078 in chips)
Seat 2: Villian ($2255 in chips)
OMGSHIPIT: posts small blind $5
Villian: posts big blind $10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to OMGSHIPIT [7d Qd]
OMGSHIPIT: raises $20 to $30
Villian: raises $80 to $110
OMGSHIPIT: calls $80
*** FLOP *** [7c Jd 7h]
Villian: bets $140
OMGSHIPIT: calls $140
*** TURN *** [7c Jd 7h] [Th]
Villian: checks
OMGSHIPIT: bets $355
Villian: raises $535 to $890
OMGSHIPIT: raises $2938 to $3828 and is all-in
Villian: calls $1115 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($1823) returned to OMGSHIPIT
*** RIVER *** [7c Jd 7h Th] [Js]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Villian: shows [Ah Ac] (two pair, Aces and Jacks)
OMGSHIPIT: shows [7d Qd] (a full house, Sevens full of Jacks)
OMGSHIPIT collected $4509.50 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $4510 | Rake $0.50
Board [7c Jd 7h Th Js]
Seat 1: OMGSHIPIT (button) (small blind) showed [7d Qd] and won ($4509.50) with a full house, Sevens full of Jacks
Seat 2: Villian (big blind) showed [Ah Ac] and lost with two pair, Aces and Jacks

so when it doubt just suck out on aces for a big pot. After the match he was super polite and said gg play again sometime be back later. I certainly can't wait for that! In the meantime, I'm still basically breaking even on UB and Full Tilt which is super frustrating... Hopefully tomorrow we'll score another huge donkament cash though!

finally a yey! post

I told myself I hate tourneys and they are a waste of money on Sunday, so I have been playing less and less of them. My friend looked up my ROI on FT the other day and he's like, yo mover, you have 144K in cashes this year and I'm like SWEET and then he says and 140K in buyins for 4K profit. What a waste of time haha. So I entered the Brawl on FT and Sunday Warmup on Stars. The brawl was okay until I shoved 77 on a 10 8 4 flop into aces. nice imo. but I ran really really well in the 3847 person field Sunday Warm up that all put up 215.00 to enter. I had aces and kings a lot and they held a lot too. I was chip leader with like 5 million chips with 42 to go and made a semi bad call blind vs blind when a nit shoved on me and I called with A9 and he had AK and held. Anyway, I float around to the final table and end up finishing 5th for 30.6K, my biggest score ever. Of course it feels nice, but I really wanted that 100K for first and I think I'm really good at closing tourneys. Oh well, still a great day and a good recovery for the bankroll that has been pretty stagnant for a while. Ok, just wanted to post that and brag a little.

I have the flu or something dumb + my insurance went up to over 500.00 a month for this dumb cobra plan. bad beat imo.

gl all.

Mover

back to recovering and then vegas

I was running really good at the end of November +20K, so i took some 5/10 and 10/20 shots and got crushed for 18K :o( It really sucked bad and I couldn't walk away. booo, so it's back to the grind again to recover my shot taking. Probably take me a month or so maybe more to get that money back. I played a few tourneys, but bubbled them, 100r, 216 turbo, etc... I honestly feel like a have a big edge in tourneys, but it's as if i'm just lighting money on fire. Oh well.

On a better note, I'm going to Vegas on Tuesday with my friend Zack who won the ftops omaha event. I'm pretty excited about that and hope to make some cash out there. I guess that's all for now.