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Hard Rock/Free Coaching/Vote!...

By: Cre8ive
Published: Dec 20th, 2009
Friday I played the $1100 buyin Hard Rock $175k guaranteed. They have two day 1's where if you bust out the first day you can buy in on Saturday again. All the survivors from Friday and Saturday return on Sunday to fight for the prize money. I played on Friday and didn't survive. I logged a bunch of my hands but I don't know if I should write about them. I had a couple interesting hands but the day didn't go my way and I lost about an hour and a half before play was over for the night. I decided to play again today. I had an even worse day.

I basically just hovered around the 20k starting stack until we got to 400/800/100a. It was the 7th level and the levels lasted one hour. We had just finished dinner break and the antes finally kicked in. I had about 14k. I shoved a couple hands and my stack was up to 16k. My table had one player who literally limped every hand and lots of people would limp behind him. He limped in 2nd position and another player limped in middle position. I had 33 on the button and moved all in. The first limper folded and the second limper snap called me. I thought I was in rough shape vs 88 or 99. He turned over ATo and won the race. It would of been nice to win that pot because I really couldn't get anything going today. I battled though and I cant complain. I didn't have many spots to accumulate chips today. I whiffed every flop and always had the second best hand. That's just how it goes some days.

I guess I am destined to win a huge tournament online tomorrow. I had two chances to miss some online poker tournaments tomorrow. Since I didn't make day 2 (which probably happens 10% of the time with two shots) I know I am supposed to play online tomorrow. Why else wouldn't I make it to day 2? :-)

That's just my wishful thinking. I haven't played online since I had that sick day Monday. I was in Orlando for some business and to celebrate my birthday with my girlfriend and friends. I'll talk more about all that later on in the week.

I am planning on doing some free coaching before Christmas if I can. I figure I will load up Ustream, Skype, etc. and give a free couple hours of coaching to whoever is available to watch. I guess it's just my way to give back a little bit for the Holidays. I am currently looking into a website I could use so that I could have as many users as possible. Once I find out some more information I will update the blog and let everyone know when this will take place. If anyone has any site suggestions that would be good for this let me know. I want to share my screen so I could go through a hand history from one of my tournaments but I don't think Skype conference calls allow for that and I'm not sure how many people I could get in one conference call. I don't want anyone left out. I think if I do it through Ustream you would only be able to see me and not my screen. I will try to figure it out but if anyone has any ideas let me know ASAP.

Also one last thing. Vote for my good buddy "Tim0thee" for TableRatings.com Mid-Stakes Cash Game player of the year! He has absolutely crushed the games on Full Tilt this year! He is currently second in votes. You can vote for him by going to TableRatings.com website for their player of the year. Here is the link. VOTE FOR Tim0thee for Mid-Stakes player of the year!!! He is a great guy and a great player and definitely deserves some recognition. I know the money he has won speaks for himself but I'm sure this is something he would like to win. Best of luck to him in the voting.

I'll update again soon. Lot's more to talk about!

    Comments

    1. WSOP Legendoffline

      Montreal
      Canada

      Posts: 372
      Joined: May, 08

      (12/21/2009 12:10am)

      coach me!!!!
    2. abakus73offline

      Hamburg
      Germany

      Posts: 180
      Joined: Aug, 09

      (12/21/2009 2:21am)

      can't await to get a sneak of your coaching dude

      pls let me know when and where it starts :-)
    3. BigRolandooffline

      Fort Lauderdale, FL
      United States

      Posts: 122
      Joined: Dec, 09

      (12/21/2009 1:01pm)

      Probably just run Ustream or Justin.tv off another laptop. Just point it at your screen?
    4. Cre8iveoffline

      Boynton Beach, FL
      United States

      Posts: 669
      Joined: Jan, 07

      (12/21/2009 2:02pm)

      Yeah maybe I will have to do that. I was thinking Ustream but yeah maybe I will set up another laptop so you can watch the hand history replay and listen to me talk, and just mute one of the computers microphones.
       1
    5. siolaoffline

      Posts: 423
      Joined: May, 07

      (12/22/2009 10:50am)

      teamviewer?
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    6. conch88foffline

      Hatboro, PA
      United States

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      Joined: Jan, 09

      (12/22/2009 12:46pm)

      let me know too
    7. d7o1d1s0offline

      United Kingdom

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      Joined: Feb, 09

      (12/22/2009 2:56pm)

      super-interested
    8. Cre8iveoffline

      Boynton Beach, FL
      United States

      Posts: 669
      Joined: Jan, 07

      (12/22/2009 3:12pm)

      I'll look into how many people teamviewer can hold.
       1
    9. SyphonSouloffline

      Posts: 5641
      Joined: Aug, 07

      (12/22/2009 7:25pm)

      That's real cool of you to offer free training. Def against the norm right now in poker. Happy holidays....GL.
       
    10. Automatic Loseroffline

      Phillipsburg, NJ
      United States

      Posts: 146
      Joined: May, 09

      (12/23/2009 12:59pm)

      Damn, I'm late. Can you let me know the next time you're offering this? Sounds really cool.
    11. Cre8iveoffline

      Boynton Beach, FL
      United States

      Posts: 669
      Joined: Jan, 07

      (12/23/2009 2:07pm)

      It hasn't happened yet. I will probably do it Saturday night if all works out.
       1
    12. dolphin21offline

      Chevy Chase, MD
      United States

      Posts: 5
      Joined: Jul, 07

      (12/23/2009 5:12pm)

      very interested also
    13. Stacked121offline

      Des Plaines, IL
      United States

      Posts: 9
      Joined: Nov, 09

      (12/23/2009 5:36pm)

      Hey Tristian, do you want to do your coaching live... or do you want to record it and then just play it on a site and have people watch it at their convenience. I own an online video production company and would like to help you out with this. Send me a private message and we can work it out.
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    14. Cre8iveoffline

      Boynton Beach, FL
      United States

      Posts: 669
      Joined: Jan, 07

      (12/24/2009 4:33pm)

      Saturday might not work for me because I am going to play a live tournament then. I will keep everyone updated when I am going to do it on the blog. So keep following it. I will try to get it done before the new year.
       1
    15. surferbum99offline

      United States

      Posts: 377
      Joined: Aug, 08

      (12/25/2009 2:16am)

      Hey Cre8tive, really enjoy your blog so keep up the good work!!! also i recommend that if you want to do some free coaching it would be awesome (and quite possibly easier) to just make a vid and post a link to the content here. regardless i think it is great that you are willing to do this for free! good luck in the pokerz!!!
    16. gettin deepoffline

      Palm Beach Gardens, FL
      United States

      Posts: 69
      Joined: Jun, 07

      (12/26/2009 9:00am)

      sounds like you need some coaching on where not to play live:) Florida is the nut worst state for live pokers. Hard Rock, Isle, deep stack or not they skip mad levels and are always trying to rush to finish the mtt. The rake off each mtt is abs ridic also, youre 13241242x better off grinding online. Dont even get me going on fl cash games...pca, lapc, mad other places to get in some live birds. plz dont coach mad fish how to get better tho, its pretty str8 how it is. thanks gl.
       
    17. gettin deepoffline

      Palm Beach Gardens, FL
      United States

      Posts: 69
      Joined: Jun, 07

      (12/26/2009 10:17am)

      def nay on the free coaching. let these whales learn by trial and error, just as i did and all of my successful friends. i fckin hate all these poker coaching sites, why make the game, variance, and deep situations even more difficult? i mean if you owned and ran a site, cool, great business venture, etc...but free coaching? come on bud. give back to the real community for holiday time, feed the homeless, pick up trash in boynton. dont help these pittsters get even decent at pokers.
       
    18. moneyinbagoffline

      Posts: 465
      Joined: Sep, 06

      (12/26/2009 5:02pm)

      your too nice cre8ive. agree with gettin deep tho. i dont know about you but most people i know play the game to make $ and givin out free lessons doesnt really support that.
    19. blizairoffline

      CT
      United States

      Posts: 427
      Joined: Feb, 06

      (12/26/2009 11:56pm)

      agree wtih gettin deep... showing ppl this stuff free isnt gonna help anybody. poker isn't some charity type nice holiday game... it's a bloodbath and nothings free. u also will just expose yourself and your game which is a bad move for you for obvious reasons.
      923 1
    20. Cre8iveoffline

      Boynton Beach, FL
      United States

      Posts: 669
      Joined: Jan, 07

      (12/27/2009 12:33am)

      I agree with you guys as well. But saying that I have already thought about this situation. I don't want to give out too much information on what I'm doing. Especially things I feel like I am doing differently than others.

      I was planning on doing something that would be informative but nothing mind blowing. So how about some suggestions instead of just completely killing the idea?

      I thought maybe some Super Turbo strategy or something along those lines... But yes I do agree with you guys completely. Thanks for being honest and bringing your opinions to my attention. I still think there is a way to give back to the poker community though.
       1
     
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