*** Official October Chat Thread: The Purple Goose ***

[CalledDownLight]

You suck at hitting flushes which are clearly the only way to win?

[GT30]

early xmas gift to me, I guess he knew he would hit the river:

Poker Stars, $0.50/$1 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 8 Players
LegoPoker Hand History Converter

UTG+1: $41
MP1: $166.15
MP2: $106.85
CO: $44.60
Hero (BTN): $135.20
SB: $225.80
BB: $96.90
UTG: $88.90

Pre-Flop: Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] dealt to Hero (BTN)
4 folds, <font color="red">MP2 raises to $2</font>, CO folds, <font color="red">Hero raises to $8</font>, SB folds, MP2 calls $6

Flop: ($17) 2[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] T[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 2[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (2 Players)
<font color="red">MP2 bets $10</font>, <font color="red">Hero raises to $35</font>, MP2 calls $25

Turn: ($87) 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (2 Players)
<font color="red">MP2 bets $25</font>, <font color="red">Hero raises to $65</font>, MP2 calls $38.85 and is All-In

River: ($214.70) 5[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (2 Players - 1 is All-In)

Results: $214.70 Pot ($3 Rake)
MP2 showed 5[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] (two pair, Fives and Deuces) and LOST (-$106.85 NET)
Hero showed Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] (two pair, Queens and Deuces) and WON $212.20 (+$105.35 NET)

[nation]

prodigy,

care to give a little background on your poker?

[ASPoker8]

Nation, I assume you are SN on stars, right?

Just curious as to why you play on FTP nowadays

[Split Suit]

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Nation, I assume you are SN on stars, right?

Just curious as to why you play on FTP nowadays

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AS...u played in the Fall MTTs at Turning Stone right? i heard u were at my table in the first 300 event (probably around 50 left from the money, and u kept stealing, then got caught). sat in seat 1, kinda quiet.

that u?

(i heard i believe from Deeb that it was u...but wasnt sure)

(i asked this like 20pages back...but didnt see an answer)

[nation]

no, i'm not SN. I haven't played very much this year. Basically have lived off my roll for the past 6 months (2kish, sometimes more/month ugh). So I dropped below 10k a few weeks ago all the way down to 8k and realized I didn't want to go busto and go back to school and get a crappy real world job. So i started grinding full ring again. I just went to ftp because I can datamine, I think the games are softer, and rb. Stars rb is only really worth it if you're supernova and going for milestones, i took so much time off i'd rather just get rb at a softer site.

[the_main]

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prodigy,

care to give a little background on your poker?

[/ QUOTE ]

because i am the biggest prodigy fanboy:

[ QUOTE ]
Although I claim to have played only a year, it has actually been longer. Around 2 years ago my sister introduced me to a friend of hers, a guy by the name of Jeff Blankenship. He used to play 5/10+ and had a crapload of money at the time(he has since left the game of poker). Anyways he taught me a couple things, we were going to do a staking deal and couldn't come to a good conclusion, and after only a couple meetings with him we split our diff ways. At this time I had $3.28 in a Pacific Poker account from a $25 deposit that I made a month before. I remembered I had this on a trip to Myrtle Beach when I was 16. I logged onto Pacific, and ran it up to $700 within the week of vacation playing an hour at night. I ran that up to $1500 or so once I got home and cashed out $600 before I lost a good amount of it. That was when I realized I couldn't beat the game by myself and I was too lazy to learn to beat it either. So for the next 2 years I bonuswhored when I needed money, probably playing an average of 5 hours a month just to clear a bonus or something.
Anyways, so January of 2007 I decided to teach myself how to play. I started at $25nl with $300 in my Pokerstars account. From there I never moved up with 30 buy-ins and was very risk-averse. I have been playing a crapload this year, and probably have averaged 80k hands per month for the first 9 months of my first year of poker. I have had huge ups and downs in this first year and am learning rapdidly about the game. I am properly rolled for 5/10 with all my poker winnings, and properly rolled for 3/6 with the money actually in my account, but am only playing 1/2. The best player there is probably the_main. I am a huge pansy [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img].


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[skydancing8]

Poker Stars, $3/$6 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 9 Players
LegoPoker Hand History Converter

mrc0883 (UTG): $580.75
EPiPeN11 (UTG+1): $996
eBo226 (UTG+2): $600
Hero (MP1): $771
klapo (MP2): $412.40
Dantes_11 (CO): $342.20
DaMadPotter (BTN): $600
INewton (SB): $451
Grimstarr (BB): $590

Pre-Flop: A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] dealt to Hero (MP1)
mrc0883 calls $6, 2 folds, <font color="red">Hero raises to $30</font>, klapo folds, <font color="red">Dantes_11 raises to $342.20 and is All-In</font>, 2 folds, Grimstarr calls $336.20, mrc0883 folds, <font color="red">Hero raises to $771 and is All-In</font>, Grimstarr calls $247.80 and is All-In

Flop: ($1,531.20) 6[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] 5[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (3 Players - 1 is All-In)

Turn: ($1,531.20) 5[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (3 Players - 1 is All-In)

River: ($1,531.20) 2[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] (3 Players - 1 is All-In)

Results: $1,531.20 Pot ($3 Rake)
Hero showed A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (two pair, Aces and Fives) and WON $1,528.20 (+$938.20 NET)
Dantes_11 mucked K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] and LOST (-$342.20 NET)
Grimstarr showed Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (two pair, Queens and Fives) and LOST (-$590 NET)

[bottomset]

poor grimstarr

[Flups]

So, I flopped a set of tens and stacked him with his KK.
So, I flopped a set of tens and he won it back 2-outering me with his KK
And so I 1-outered him [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Stack sizes:
UTG: $22.75
UTG+1: $56.60
UTG+2: $5.10
MP1: $28.30
MP2: $24.25
MP3: $22.50
CO: $4.00
Button: $23.00
SB: $63.70
Hero: $41.45

Pre-flop: (10 players) Hero is BB with J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]
UTG folds, UTG+1 calls, UTG+2 calls, 2 folds, MP3 calls, 2 folds, SB checks, <font color="#cc0000">Hero raises to $1</font>, UTG+1 calls, 3 folds.

Flop: 5[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 9[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 9[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] ($2.75, 2 players)
<font color="#cc0000">Hero bets $2.1</font>, <font color="#cc0000">UTG+1 raises to $5</font>, Hero calls.

Turn: J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] ($12.75, 2 players)
Hero checks, <font color="#cc0000">UTG+1 bets $5</font>, <font color="#cc0000">Hero raises to $15</font>, <font color="#cc0000">UTG+1 raises to $40</font>, <font color="#cc0000">Hero calls all-in $20.2</font>.
Uncalled bets: $4.8 returned to UTG+1.

River: A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] ($83.15, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: $83.15)


Results:
Final pot: $83.15
UTG+1 shows 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] J[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]
Hero shows J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]