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Re: ***uNL Microbrew Thread*** NOV 2007 (ot)

i have a feeling when i start to lose alot at HU its going to hurt :<

Re: ***uNL Microbrew Thread*** NOV 2007 (ot)

lol...im wayyyy to parnoid...plus I have a fat DB for ftp now.

Re: ***uNL Microbrew Thread*** NOV 2007 (ot)

is anyone else playing the 24+2 6.5k gtd on ftp right now?

Re: ***uNL Microbrew Thread*** NOV 2007 (ot)

A pat on the back to anyone who can guess what he had

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (2 handed) Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver Cards)

Button ($46.15)
Hero ($115.10)

Preflop: Hero is BB with http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/.../smiles/9s.gif, http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/.../smiles/8c.gif.
[color=#CC3333]Button raises to $2, Hero calls $1.50.

Flop: ($4) http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/.../smiles/9c.gif, http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/.../smiles/3d.gif, http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/.../smiles/7s.gif [color=#0000FF](2 players)
Hero checks, [color=#CC3333]Button bets $2.5, [color=#CC3333]Hero raises to $6.75, Button calls $4.25.

Turn: ($17.50) http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/.../smiles/5s.gif [color=#0000FF](2 players)
Hero checks, [color=#CC3333]Button bets $13, [color=#CC3333]Hero raises to $41.25, Button calls $24.40 (All-In).

River: ($92.30) http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/.../smiles/8s.gif [color=#0000FF](2 players, 1 all-in)

Final Pot: $92.30

Re: ***uNL Microbrew Thread*** NOV 2007 (ot)

Well today HU im running at 30ptbb over 1100 hands for $317 profit. Ship ship

Re: ***uNL Microbrew Thread*** NOV 2007 (ot)

100NL last 3500 hands, thanks Pokerstars. Also thanks for all the 2nd best hands and coolers. You really helped my confidence while moving up.

http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/9182/dibujobz4.jpg

Re: ***uNL Microbrew Thread*** NOV 2007 (ot)

45 man non-turboes are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo sick soft

Got 4 handed with 60k, next highest had 4k

Re: ***uNL Microbrew Thread*** NOV 2007 (ot)

bazooka, can you sign on msn once in a while?

Re: ***uNL Microbrew Thread*** NOV 2007 (ot)

So,

Went to my weekly uni poker tourney yesterday, turns out that this was the one which was sponsored by the UPL (university poker league), it was £5 buy in and the UPL doubled the prize pool and first 2 won a seat in the 4 nations final in February. 1500 starting stacks, 20 minute levels.

Prize structure:
1st: £210 + seat in the 4 nations final
2nd: £140 + seat in the 4 nations final
3rd: £75
4th: £50
5th: £25
6th: £10
7th: Bad beat hoodie

I start off fairly well, play nice and tight for the first hour and manage to double my chip stack through a few shortstacks, ending up with about 3000 chips after the first hour. Then I go really card dead and don't play a hand for 2 hours (not one!) but luckily people are busting out so fast that the tables keep on breaking up and I didn't have to post a blind for and hour and a half because I kept on getting moved to a different table.

After 3 hours we are down to the last 30 (51 players to start) and I have 3.5BBs so its push/fold mode. I get dealt 99, AQ and 55 in a row and manage to steal the blinds with all of them giving me about 7BBs, I then get it AI with a shortie Ak vs A5 and now have about 10BBs.

Down to the final 2 tables and I am back to playing mega tight, the 2 players to my left have about the same in chips as me but are very unpredictable so I am not stealing the blinds unless I have a hand.

Blinds are getting really high now and about half the players have less than 4BBs and are dropping pretty fast, and after about 40 mins we are on the final table.

I draw button for the first hand of the final table, the blinds are 500/1000 and I have about 12BBs. I play very tight and dont get involved in many hands, a shortie goes out 9th and its now down to 8 players. A few hands later the big stack gets it AI on the flop vs 2 shorties with a flopped set of aces and bang, we are in the money!

Keep on playing tight as now people are in the money they don't seem to bothered about busting out and I start to think that I might actually have a shot at winning this, so keep my head, play my good hands and the big stack at the table manages to bust a couple more players.

We get down to 3 players, the blinds are 1000/2000, I have about 8BBs, the player to my left has about 6BBs and the 3rd player has about 20BBs, this was the most difficult part to play, 3 handed, I was very tight from the SB as the player to my left was really unpredictable and was looking for a spot to get it AI, so I was looking for high card value to get it AI vs him. I managed to steal the blinds with JT, and a couple of hands later I shove from the SB with QJ and the BB calls with A9 and I hit a Q.

Down to heads up and the blind levels are now 10 mins as we are running out of time, my opponent has me covered, its about 15BBs to 20BBs. He has been the big stack for a long time but I don't rate him as a very good player and I am confident that I can outplay him. He often limped when he was the SB and I would raise the BB with any high cards making him fold. I get dealt AT, AJ, AQ and each time he folds to my raise or re-raise, but he is clearly loosing respect for my raises. The only flop we see is where he flat calls my KT raise from the BB with K7 and its checked down to the river.

I am now ahead of him in chips, get K9 in the SB/BTN make it 3BBs to go, he shoves over the top and I decide to fold, putting him about 2BBs ahead in chips.

It is announced that there are only 3 hands to go as we are out of time and that after that the prize would be split, this was annoying for me because I felt I had a good edge here, but there was nothing I could do about it.

Very next hand, I am in the SB/BTN with AhKh, make it 3BBs to go praying he will shove over me. I know he was not really respecting my raises and knew that I would fold a lot of hands to a shove. He thinks for ages and shoves with As5c, I call (obviously).

WOW, not sure what he put me on but I am 75% ahead here, we both stand up, about 20 people in the room all crowding round.... flop is x5x and I cant hit a K on the turn or the river and he takes 1st place. SICK!

Feeling a bit like someone just stamped on my head, really gutted that I couldn't take first place as it would have been my first MTT win ever, but luckily the difference between 1st and 2nd was only £70 and we both got seats into the 4 nations final.

So next February I will be off to Nottingham to play in the 4 nations final which has a $50,000 guaranteed prize pool and top 2 get full packages into the EPT. Looks like I am going to have to learn how to play MTTs properly...

Thanks for listening

Oh, and also, they filmed the whole thing and interviewed me at the end. Will post the link when it is up.

Edit: tl;dr ---- Went to uni weekly tourney, sponsored by UPL, double prize + 2 seats to 4 nations final, play well, get heads up, loose AK to A5 AI preflop, want to cry, going to Nottingham in Feb to play in 4 nations.

Re: ***uNL Microbrew Thread*** NOV 2007 (ot)

wow very nice
maybe you make it to the EPT [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
although i think you played too tight [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
but i guess it worked for you

Re: ***uNL Microbrew Thread*** NOV 2007 (ot)

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bazooka, can you sign on msn once in a while?

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I've had to format my laptop 3 times in the past week and haven't gotten around to downloading again, doing so now

Re: ***uNL Microbrew Thread*** NOV 2007 (ot)

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wow very nice
maybe you make it to the EPT [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
although i think you played too tight [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
but i guess it worked for you

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I think I did play too tight, I just don't have the MTT knowledge or experience. But I hope to get some coaching....

Re: ***uNL Microbrew Thread*** NOV 2007 (ot)

I have a feeling that I'm playing better than evar ... yet I'm in the worst DS of my life

Go figure ??? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Re: ***uNL Microbrew Thread*** NOV 2007 (ot)

cleaner did you get that coach?

Re: ***uNL Microbrew Thread*** NOV 2007 (ot)

nice work mr wooster. Pity my uni's so [censored] at poker

Re: ***uNL Microbrew Thread*** NOV 2007 (ot)

omg i suck
lost like 2 buyins already and played only 30 hands or sth

AK < AA on KQx flop in 4bet pot
AsKx < KJ on Jxx all spade flop, Tx turn

Re: ***uNL Microbrew Thread*** NOV 2007 (ot)

Whats the easiest way to set an alarm on my computer?

Re: ***uNL Microbrew Thread*** NOV 2007 (ot)

lol...why get fancy at 10nl

Re: ***uNL Microbrew Thread*** NOV 2007 (ot)

because it's easy to make monies that way [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

the guy was crazy had a read

Re: ***uNL Microbrew Thread*** NOV 2007 (ot)

lol, abc is far easier to make money.

why bluff the crazy guy?

Re: ***uNL Microbrew Thread*** NOV 2007 (ot)

it works more often than not

why not bet if you think he's weak?

Re: ***uNL Microbrew Thread*** NOV 2007 (ot)

I just took my first shot at 25NL with my $480 BR.

I was friggin' carddead. And the 2 times I hit TPTK I ran into Kings, sigh. Pots weren't too big, but big enough.

Then my aces get owned by KQ who hits 2p on the river (ai on the flop)

-$50. Back to 10NL, I guess. Sjeez.

Re: ***uNL Microbrew Thread*** NOV 2007 (ot)

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I have a feeling that I'm playing better than evar ... yet I'm in the worst DS of my life

Go figure ??? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Whats going on?? Lagging it up again??

oh and ShipIt, now when I start a session, i always open new tables and do some HU before it fills up, man HU, people try to bluff like 90% of the time.

Re: ***uNL Microbrew Thread*** NOV 2007 (ot)

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I have a feeling that I'm playing better than evar ... yet I'm in the worst DS of my life

Go figure ??? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Whats going on?? Lagging it up again??

oh and ShipIt, now when I start a session, i always open new tables and do some HU before it fills up, man HU, people try to bluff like 90% of the time.

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Nah ... I'm not really lagging it up, except that I played a few 40/30 sessions a few days ago to recalibrate my game from übernit to a fluid tag (23/19 or so)

Trouble is, when everybody keeps hitting their outs or just flopping sets, there is not much you can do ... [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Re: ***uNL Microbrew Thread*** NOV 2007 (ot)

today was fun day at 50nl, -5 buyins.

2 set over sets. My sets kept getting [censored] today. some of the beats are in bbv if anyone wants to feel sorry for me

Re: ***uNL Microbrew Thread*** NOV 2007 (ot)

Poker sucks

Poker Stars, $0.05/$0.10 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 6 Players
LeggoPoker Hand History Converter

SB: $9.90
BB: $3.35
Hero (UTG): $12.95
MP: $6.60
CO: $9.65
BTN: $3.15

Pre-Flop: J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] J[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] dealt to Hero (UTG)
Hero raises to $0.40, MP calls $0.40, CO folds, BTN calls $0.40, SB calls $0.35, BB calls $0.30

Flop: ($2) 2[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (5 Players)
SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets $1, 4 folds

Results: $2 Pot ($0.10 Rake)
Hero mucked J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] J[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] and WON $1.90 (+$1.50 NET)

Re: ***uNL Microbrew Thread*** NOV 2007 (ot)

well after waxing the best part of 2k$ on taking the gf to paris as an anniversary gift its back to nl25 for me!
ship the first balla purchases though - a nice hotel and flights and ive now decked out my room with neon lights and light ropes and it looks awesome.
i love poker.

Re: ***uNL Microbrew Thread*** NOV 2007 (ot)

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well after waxing the best part of 2k$ on taking the gf to paris as an anniversary gift its back to nl25 for me!
ship the first balla purchases though - a nice hotel and flights and ive now decked out my room with neon lights and light ropes and it looks awesome.
i love poker.

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I just did the same thing, except we are going to Rome [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Re: ***uNL Microbrew Thread*** NOV 2007 (ot)

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well after waxing the best part of 2k$ on taking the gf to paris as an anniversary gift its back to nl25 for me!
ship the first balla purchases though - a nice hotel and flights and ive now decked out my room with neon lights and light ropes and it looks awesome.
i love poker.

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I just did the same thing, except we are going to Rome [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Im just paying the house mortage instead. No balla gifts to GF.

Re: ***uNL Microbrew Thread*** NOV 2007 (ot)

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I have a feeling that I'm playing better than evar ... yet I'm in the worst DS of my life

Go figure ??? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Whats going on?? Lagging it up again??

oh and ShipIt, now when I start a session, i always open new tables and do some HU before it fills up, man HU, people try to bluff like 90% of the time.

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Nah ... I'm not really lagging it up, except that I played a few 40/30 sessions a few days ago to recalibrate my game from übernit to a fluid tag (23/19 or so)

Trouble is, when everybody keeps hitting their outs or just flopping sets, there is not much you can do ... [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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Now I understand your response in starting hands thread [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Re: ***uNL Microbrew Thread*** NOV 2007 (ot)

WTF!!!! This is why I hate tourneys!!!!

Poker Stars, $1 + $0.20 NL Hold'em Tournament, 25/50 Blinds, 8 Players
LeggoPoker Hand History Converter

BB: 2,420
UTG: 1,405
UTG+1: 2,355
MP1: 710
MP2: 745
CO: 3,725
Hero (BTN): 2,540
SB: 2,380

Pre-Flop: (75) J[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] dealt to Hero (BTN)
5 folds, Hero raises to 150, SB folds, BB calls 100

Flop: (325) A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 8[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (2 Players)
BB checks, Hero bets 250, BB calls 250

Turn: (825) 4[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (2 Players)
BB checks, Hero bets 500, BB calls 500

River: (1,825) 3[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (2 Players)
BB checks, Hero bets 500, BB raises to 1,520 and is All-In, Hero calls 1,020

Results: 4,865 Pot
BB showed A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 3[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] (two pair, Aces and Threes) and WON 4,865 (+2,445 NET)
Hero showed J[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] (a pair of Aces) and LOST (-2,420 NET)

Re: ***uNL Microbrew Thread*** NOV 2007 (ot)

Is there any good literature online about playing HU poker? I've never actually played straight HU poker in cash games mainly because I'm scared I'll be easily exploitable somehow. Did anyone write any good articles on 2p2 for HU play?

Re: ***uNL Microbrew Thread*** NOV 2007 (ot)

agression, and the ability to quickly adjust are key to HU

Re: ***uNL Microbrew Thread*** NOV 2007 (ot)

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Is there any good literature online about playing HU poker? I've never actually played straight HU poker in cash games mainly because I'm scared I'll be easily exploitable somehow. Did anyone write any good articles on 2p2 for HU play?

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The Bryce vids are pretty awesome for minbet hu .. for unlimited hu most seem meh and non existing. (and lets not forget that at smaller stakes, the rake is brutal)