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August 2008 - Posts

• Busy Day and Breaking The Rules...

  By Cre8ive - Aug 27 2008, 11:40 PM

  Okay. I said I was going to play today and post on pocketfives hands throughout the day and everything, but things didn't go as planned. I woke up early at about 10am and hung out and watched TV in bed for about 30 minutes. I was going to work out but then realized I had to wait for a package to come be delivered to the house. I waited til about 12:30 until the UPS guy finally showed up and then I was off to the gym. Before the gym, I stopped at the mall to get fitted for a tuxedo for my sisters wedding next month. After that I got to the gym, worked out, and picked up some lunch. My dad needed a ride to the airport in the afternoon so that kind of killed my plan of playing poker, so I laid out by the pool for about an hour and then took my dad to the airport. The rest of my night was pretty boring and I played absolutely no poker. I am sweating Stu right now who is down to like 15 left in the 100r 6max on FTP, so hopefully he wins it. Okay, lets get down to business. I'm pretty fed up with all these people who cheat in online poker. Cheat as in play multiple accounts, or play on DIFFERENT accounts other than their name they usually play on. I bring this up because Brian 'SBRugby' Townsend just posted a blog yesterday about how he played on a different account that nobody knew about because he didn't want people to see him playing lower stakes (25-50 and 50-100.) First off, this is cheating. He has an unfair advantage to be an unknown player in a game where everybody almost knows everybody. Yes, after a number of hands any good player can tell a player is good and adjust accordingly, but this is STILL AN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE. He should know better! He is a cardrunners owner (I believe) and is a rep Pro for Full Tilt Poker. There is ABSOLUTELY no reason why he should of done this and he definitely knew better. There is nothing he can say that will make what he did acceptable. I think he should lose his Red Pro Status on Full Tilt for good. Anyone who is supposed to be a model in the online poker community knows better about playing on different/unknown accounts and multi accounting. If other players have done this they should all be punished as well. Not just Brian. I also hate the fact that I have seen players who are known play on different names (or their buddies name -- people switch names) and nothing is done about it. I mean I am sure there is more cheating than what I know about in online poker and I cant stand it when there are big events like the WCOOP or FTOPS because the cheaters just put in 2-3 accounts all no name players and go deep or end up winning the tournament. Its so stupid to sit there and play in a $2500 tournament online against all unknown names who have no databases and their highest previous buyin was $24 dollars and all of a sudden they are playing every FTOPS event. Something definitely needs to be done to prove identity while playing online poker. I WISH I WAS ABLE TO PLAY ON UNKNOWN NAMES EVERYDAY. But I never would do that. I just wish I could have anonymity for every tournament I played and nobody ever recognized my name. I don't care what anyone says, there is a huge edge in playing on a name nobody recognizes or nobody has seen before. I have never done this and I never plan on doing it but it just bothers me that people can do this and get away with it. It hurts me, it hurts the poker world, and I want them to hurt for doing it. I don't know what else to say on the issue. Those that cheat. FUCK YOU. I really don't know any other way to put it without using vulgar language. I try not to cuss in this blog and be professional about it but seriously there is no light way to express my hate for the cheaters in the online poker world. I really hate you. If you cheat I hope you get thrown in jail one day and are chemically castrated, and if you are a cheating-online-poker-playing-female I hope your uterus is removed so you can never reproduce. I mean honestly, have a conscience and live life the right way and stop abusing rules and taking advantage of other people. Karma please step in whenever you like. I wish I could spill some gossip on here but it's really not my place but If I feel at some time the need to spill some of the information I know I will post it to the blog, but as of now I am just keeping it to myself as its not really relevant now, as it was in the past, but still... Yeah, I'm frustrated. I'm not a big fan of all these pictures with captions and all, but this one seems appropriate. I wish this could happen for online poker. Maybe one day I can operate the machine that destroys the cheaters. No Comments on this post. Click here to post a comment.




• Half Grind...

  By Cre8ive - Aug 27 2008, 01:33 AM

  Today I half grinded. I woke up a little late before the 2pm tournaments, but not early enough to make it to the gym to workout before I started playing. There was a really bad storm outside and I registered for a couple 2pm tournaments and then my Internet went out. It went out til about 3 or so and then I played from there on. I skipped the nightly tournaments. It's really hard to sit in a room and stare at two computer monitors all day with no breaks, no food, nothing. I have nobody to bring me food and I hate missing hands but I run to the bathroom every now and then when the important tournaments are on break. I'm thinking about just setting up a bucket next to my desk and then stockpiling like 3 meals in my room somehow lol. If anyone has any ideas let me know. I also just hate sitting there in front of the computer. I feel like I'm just killing my body, but that's tournament poker. Sometimes when I play live poker (like during the WSOP) I will do pushups and sit-ups and stretch to get my blood flowing and energy going (I'm sure some people saw me this summer and were like "what the hell is that kid doing!?") When you have 8 tables of poker up its hard to jump on the floor for a minute and get some pushups in or sit-ups. I think I'm going to start doing this more when I'm grinding because it's really not good to just sit there for 10 hours at a time. I need blood flowing in my body and especially need motion for my knee that is still healing from torn ACL surgery. Anyway, tomorrow I will grind again from 2 on. I'm not sure how the night tournaments will go again but I will be playing them. Maybe I can get Stu to come over or something and keep me company. I will probably take Thursday and Friday off (night at least) because there aren't many good night tournaments and also I have some people coming into town this weekend. This weekend should be pretty fun. I still have not had a drink in about 25-28 days. I have 4 more days to go for it to be 4 weeks/a month of no drinking! I went out the other night with my buddies and they got smashed and I resisted peer pressure for 4 hours and didn't drink. I was pretty proud of myself although I wanted to drink really badly. I might drink this weekend before time is up but I'm not really sure. It's nice having streaks and keeping them going. My dad is on a 400+ day streak of walking 4 miles and biking 16 miles everyday. That's pretty damn impressive! Tomorrow I will wake up, work out, and get to the grind. I came close in a 55NL today on stars. Came like 20th place out of 1100 or something. I'm making fewer mistakes and seeing the game differently. Hopefully I can keep lowering the amount of mistakes I make and start playing absolutely perfect on every table and maximize my abilities and take down a bunch of tournaments. HEATER HEATER HEATER!!!! Okay...Goodnight guys. There's some other stuff I'm working on in the mix of things but I cant bring it up yet. I will let you guys know everything when I can. And anything else I can think of to tell you guys I will. Tomorrow I will actually do the "day in the life" on pocketfives and post my important hands so head over to pocketfives and look for the thread if you guys want to take part in that. Night.   No Comments on this post. Click here to post a comment.




• He's Heating Up...

  By Cre8ive - Aug 25 2008, 10:12 PM

  Fuck that. I'm flaming hot. (Those lyrics [He's heating up. Fuck that, I'm flaming hot]) are lyrics from a Jurassic 5 song about basketball I used to listen to back in the day, years ago. [goto http://tristancre8ive.blogspot.com to see video] But anyways, THE HEATER IS STARTING. Today I GRINDED. Grinded like I NEVER HAVE EVER BEFORE IN MY EXISTENCE. I woke up, went to the gym for about an hour, got home, made some lunch, and sat down at my computer at about 2:15pm and played just about every tournament on Full Tilt and Pokerstars that had a decent prize pool up until the 9pm big tournaments. I played both 100rs (night and afternoon), 55r, 50 nls, 100nl, 50 cubed, 100 cubed, 22r, the big $1k on full tilt, both 162/163, EVERYTHING. I finished about 45 minutes ago when I tilted off the Pokerstars 162 because I was pissed off about a final table I bubbled. In the Pokerstars 50 cubed I got heads up vs gutshotallin and we chopped it up cause we both had a bunch of tables going and didn't want to play a long HU match (we both had about 80bbs or so) so I took 4400 and he took 4600 (first was like 5300 no chop.) So that was good to take down a tournament although we just moved in and of course I got 2nd on my database like what always happens when I chop. Next I came in 10th in the 11r that I played for 8 damn hours. I was like 6/10 in chips and this guy was being aggressive hand for hand raising 4x and he raised 4x on the button to 200k at 25/50k and he had been really active lately, he had 950k total. I had 800k and I shoved 89ss from the small blind. I had been very tight recently and hadn't been in any hands. So I figured I would get a ton of folds and didn't think his 4x raise was strong. Well he tanked it for about 15 seconds and decided his QJo was good for his tournament life, and called leaving himself with 140k chips if he lost. And his QJ held up and I fucking bubbled that tournament which was 12k to first. It was a rough 8 hours. Oh well. Then I got deep in a couple other tournaments and just got screwed in some and got lucky in some others. I guess that's just how poker goes. I might make a thread on pocketfives tomorrow about all the big hands I'm involved in during the day to let off steam/bring up discussion about hands since people seem to enjoy that. I would post them here but I don't want to fill my blog with a million hand histories. I'm pretty tired and pooped out. I played about ten and 1/2 hours and I don't think I've ever grinded like this before unless it was a Sunday. I had about 6-8 tables up all day until the end and at one point 9 tables (although I can really only fit 8 comfortably.) Stu came by around 7:30 and watched me chop the 50 cubed and then watched me bubble the 11r. He stayed til around 11:30 then left after I got 10th. Thanks for the support Stu. So I guess I'm starting to play better, and look at different poker situations differently. I'm still trying to figure out the best plays in some instances but I guess you can never know the right play because any given situation can always have a different outcome. I feel like things are starting to come together and If I keep putting time into becoming a better player then I am bound to see great results. Thanks everyone for the support and lets keep the heater chants going and everything else going because I KNOW ITS COMING. ITS LIKE A BALL OF FIRE SHOT FROM THE SUN ITSELF. IT IS A GREAT BALL OF FIRE LIKE A METEORITE SHOT FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE SUN AT A MILLION DEGREES FAHRENHEIT AND YOU CANT STOP IT YOU JUST HAVE TO ACCEPT YOUR FATE OF RUNNING INTO THE BALL OF FIRE AND BURNING TO DEATH. SO BURN TO DEATH!!!! BURN!!!!! Okay, 11 hour sessions make me crazy. No Comments on this post. Click here to post a comment.




• Sunday Shots...

  By Cre8ive - Aug 25 2008, 04:11 AM

  Alright. I messed up today. It was a typical Sunday. I started at 2pm with the 100r and Knockout tournament on Full Tilt Poker. I played $55 No Limit Freezeouts, $109 NL Freezeouts, Sunday Million, 55r, FTP Main Event, $530 NL, $100 6max cubed, $215 Heads up, and probably some other tournaments but thats the gist of it right now. I cashed in either 4 or 5 of them I believe. I came like 40th in the $530 NL (for 1250), then I got screwed deep in the $109 Freezeout in like 20th place (Shoved QQ for 38k UTG at 3/6k and the BB called with 72o in the bb and it ran out A8972 ... horrible) and then I BLEW THE 6max 100 CUBED ON FULL TILT POKER. I came in 4th place in that for 6600. I absolutely blew this tournament. I was in control the whole time since 1 hour into the tournament I was chip leader the whole way and I was 2nd in chips at the final table with 6 people and I played a 100bb pot vs a donkeyish player and I played it horribly and I just played very bad and got 4th which I deserved. I would continue on and talk about my poor final table performance but I made a mistake, and I'm learning and moving on. So today was a decent sunday given the fact I had a couple chances at 20k scores and a 90k score. I have been tweaking my game and its definitely helping. I did get lucky at some points in some of these tournaments for the most part too. The $530 No limit I got deep in I dont think I got lucky in that. I am pretty sure I got it in great everytime. I lost a couple big pots where I was a favorite deep that would of changed the outcome in that tournament but whatever. The big one is coming soon. Or at least hopefully all the little ones will start coming. I'll take a 15k score every day, no problem =) I'm starting to play more and put in the volume and see results, so hopefully I can get sick hot like Johnny Storm and just completely destroy some people in the next couple weeks/months. LETS GET HOT!!!!!!!!!!!               How could I not add a picture of myself? =)   Thanks to my buddy Hans for some ideas on things that are hot!!! He got 7th in the 6max I got 4th in, congrats to him too. I tried to bust him one hand since he raises so small preflop but he coolered me but he was shortstack. Then he bubbled the final table with TT vs QQ 4 handed, rough. I'll keep you guys updated on everything. Everyone think... HEATER....          To see the rest of the blog goto http://tristancre8ive.blogspot.com -- p5s doesnt allow everything... Okay, thats enough lol... Enjoy!!! No Comments on this post. Click here to post a comment.