Unbay2k4

What is the best line?

Unbay2k4 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:56:00 GMT

OK....A guy raises 3x in 100/50 blinds from the Cutoff...I re-pop 3x to 900 on the button with AKo....guy calls. The flop comes Qd_Jd_2c...He checks I wait...then check. The turn is a 10c...bink....he bet 1/3 the pot (600)....the pot with that bet is 2550...what would be your proper re-raise? He has 5150 after the bet and I'm over 10k. I don't know if I should bet something like 1950...2350....2650 or just shove? I'm leaning toward 2650 or shove? 1950 & 2350 seems like it will induce him to call with implied odds on a flush, str8 or set draw?

Dave

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Unbay2k4 — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:35:00 GMT

The Dean221 made this play?

Unbay2k4 — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:16:00 GMT

Ok...the blinds are 1k-2k in the Sunday Million and i raised to 5k from the cutoff. And this happened...?!?! Anyone?!

PokerStars Game #29113044332: Tournament #167588029, $200+$15 Hold'em No Limit - Level XIII (1000/2000) - 2009/06/07 19:57:13 ET
Table '167588029 484' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: alishik (27625 in chips)
Seat 2: afcm74 (58108 in chips)
Seat 3: GrtWhtHype (45518 in chips)
Seat 4: Jesusfreak (25062 in chips)
Seat 5: graybone (71171 in chips)
Seat 6: georgi337 (114883 in chips)
Seat 7: FlatulentFox (21749 in chips)
Seat 8: PolyBaller22 (73707 in chips)
Seat 9: RipleyCraig (26370 in chips)
alishik: posts the ante 200
afcm74: posts the ante 200
GrtWhtHype: posts the ante 200
Jesusfreak: posts the ante 200
graybone: posts the ante 200
georgi337: posts the ante 200
FlatulentFox: posts the ante 200
PolyBaller22: posts the ante 200
RipleyCraig: posts the ante 200
graybone: posts small blind 1000
georgi337: posts big blind 2000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to GrtWhtHype [Ks Ah]
FlatulentFox: folds
PolyBaller22: folds
RipleyCraig: folds
alishik: folds
afcm74: folds
GrtWhtHype: raises 3000 to 5000
Jesusfreak: folds
graybone: raises 12755 to 17755
georgi337: folds
GrtWhtHype: raises 27563 to 45318 and is all-in
graybone: calls 27563
*** FLOP *** [Ac 2c 3s]
*** TURN *** [Ac 2c 3s] [3c]
*** RIVER *** [Ac 2c 3s 3c] [Kh]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
graybone: shows [Qc Tc] (a flush, Ace high)
GrtWhtHype: shows [Ks Ah] (two pair, Aces and Kings)
graybone collected 94436 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 94436 | Rake 0
Board [Ac 2c 3s 3c Kh]
Seat 1: alishik folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: afcm74 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: GrtWhtHype showed [Ks Ah] and lost with two pair, Aces and Kings
Seat 4: Jesusfreak (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: graybone (small blind) showed [Qc Tc] and won (94436) with a flush, Ace high
Seat 6: georgi337 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 7: FlatulentFox folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: PolyBaller22 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: RipleyCraig folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Upcoming Week's and Prior Weeks

Unbay2k4 — Sun, 10 May 2009 02:16:00 GMT

Hi, Its been awhile since my last blog....I've been really working on my game in the last month and the results have been very positive. Basically I signed up for the top 3 poker training sites...(poker pawnage, pxf, and pokervt) the last of which I believe has given me the most to work with in respect to the most innovative training methods for online poker. Poker VT was started by Daniel and Annette about a year ago and is very Daniel heavy..which is very nice imo.

I signed up for all three on April 3rd of this month and my first score of significance came just 4 days later with an outright win in the Cereus 3pm est. 8k Gtd. Reb. for $2,520. This tournament has been very well to me but I completely dominated the field for the first time...having a huge chip lead for most of the tournament. The next day I signed up for the big 2 wed. tournaments (The Quarter Million, Sniper 80k) Cashing my highest finish in ANY Cereus Sniper Event - 3rd place for $8,200. The next wed. I also cashed in the 80k Sniper event for 14th place- $800...but made a terrible play in the blinds...something I've been really working on.

On that friday I placed 9th in the Nightly Hundred Grand on Stars....the first time I've ever final tabled that event...and imo it is prob. the hardest if not 2nd or 3rd to the FTP 50k and 75k gtd's. It was a huge accomplishment even though I totally donked my way out of that thing I learned alot from the experience. The very next night I thought I'd stay in on a sat. night and good thing I did because I placed 2nd this time in the Hundred Grand for my second highest score of my career..$14,000. (Highest score is 105k sunday warmup win in August).

That sunday was a little brutal for me only cashing in the Cereus 200k for 26th and $880. I took alot of bad beats on the river in FTP...one of which I turned the nut str8 and got it all in only to see the board pair for his set to make a FH, and the other runner runner flush. FTP hates me imo :)

So later the next week I made my deepest run in the FTP 75k event bowing out 16th for $524. The next night I ended up Final Tabling and finishing both the 7pm est. $109 -50k gtd. on stars and the Nightly Hundred Grand (again) in 6th place for $2,295 and $4,532 respectively. I've broken about even since that 3 week stretch from April 7th - April 30th and really hope to have a sucessful sunday tommorow. I'm limiting the amount of games Im playing this Sunday to basically just the Majors skipping the Cereus 100k because its way to pro heavy imo...so I'm playing the warm-up, ftops #8, millions, Sunday 500, Ftops #10 and the 200k) I think this will help with my concentration as I probabaly played about 15 games last weekend and didn't make 1 cent. I was completely burned out by like 5pm est. and was just going through the motions, which is a bankroll killer. I also believe there is a major difference in my ROI from 2 games to 4 games to 6 games...the last of which is my limit for multitabling. After 6 Its just way too confusing to understand you table image and/or how the players are playing themselves.

After this sunday I plan to limit my play to 7pm-9pm nightly games (about 8-9 games a night, all high limit mtts).

May 17th is the start of the 500k Borgata Deep Stack Event...which is a $1500+150 buyin..and is the closest structure to a championship event you'll find. Period. The stacks are 30,000 and 50 min. levels. It is a 3 day event with the prizepool most always exceeding 1 million dollars. I will be playing in that and hopefully be booking my trip to vegas. My personal goal is to cash at least 5k this week in earnings...from this sunday (may 10th to the end of the deep stack event May 20th. If I accomplish this I decided to make the trip out to the WSOP and hopefully cash in some of the preliminary $1k-1.5k events to either sat. in or buyin directly to the Main Event. I'll try to post more often..its good for my game to talk poker. Good Luck all..and remember persistence pays.

The Sunday Warm-up and a little about me

Unbay2k4 — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:37:00 GMT

Hi everyone this will be my first blog:

What I hope to accomplish here is basically to go over some thoughts I have for the day/week about mostly NLHD -MTT's games. I'd like to share some situations that you can give me your input on and vice versus and basically anything poker!!! I've been playing online poker for over 5 years but just recently thought of it as a "job". I always strive to be the best at what I do so I hope this opens my horizon.
I think a huge part of poker is keeping a level head during a tournament. Venting some of your frustrations for those long hours of grinding on a computer screen can be very helpful imo. I hope this blog will help me even more, but I still believe nothing works like a good physical activity....its gets your mind of poker and really releases stress. I had a gym in my house but I just recently moved into my new apartment in Queens village, Philadelphia and will be joining the local gym very soon.

    So basically if your here you know I recently won the "Sunday Warmup" for 1st place and $105,000.   This by far exceeded my previous highest cash of $7,150 on Bodog, $5,500 on UlimateBet, and two 6k scores on Pokerstars. The lastest of those scores being in Pokerstars----April 1st "Daily 50 Grand" ---4th place for $5,100 and July 31st "Daily 80 Grand" --4th place. On the 80k final table i got busted by A8 vs. my 99. In this final table I came into the final as one of the 4 large 6-million or so chip stacks, my plan was to stay tight in the beginning and hopefully run into some big hands versus the smaller stacks and/or just play very conservative, even with the top hands. Well in no time it got down to 5 after a huge upset that knocked out 2 players one with KK and the other ??? But I believe the A9 hit and held.   (this maybe be partially incorrect I'm going on memory). At 5 there was one stack that had about a million or so and after he was knocked out all 4 of the remaining players were at about 8 million. I thought suggesting to look at the numbers would be smart idea, basically to recollect my thoughts from how fast we got to 4 people. We all agreed to see them and then "Jschett" said he did not want to chop..... so we battled on!
    "Mattster24" was the first to to get knocked out suffering a badbeat, one which I don't remember but he wasn't too happy about it, which is understandable. I believe people thought that he was going to take it. Coookay was next to get knocked out after he and Jschnett went all in. Coookay was left with about 2 million chips and was soon gone, he played a good game, very aggressive, he was a monster chip leader earlier with about 600k to the next guys 300k and he most likely far exceeded his expectations.
    Head up vs. Jschnett took a considerable amount of time. I had about a 22-million to 11-million (or 2 to 1) on him heads up. I basically wanted to raise a lot in the SB with medicore cards and see if I could get him to about 3 to 1 and then I could really increase the range of hands I can play. He played solid though, re-raising me when I was weak--- so I bailed on that plan. I then decided to play only top hands (at this point any PP and any Ace or King). This seemed to work for a little bit but it wasn't giving me the desired effect I wanted heads up. I then remembered that when he called in the Small Blind and I quick raised to 3x the amount he was jamming all in.   I did this with AJs and he low and behold he jammed with A3o.....I was very excited to see that hand. The flop came 789....10....I thought oh man I won the "Sunday Warm-up" are you kidding me!!!!! I didn't even notice until we hand another hand that a Jack hit the river for a split pot!!!!!!!!!!!!! ( actually it wasn't that surprising to me, one thing I've became accustom to in my poker career are bad beats! Everyone has the stories, but I always feel I never getting the big hand to hold when I really need it!!!   I know this sound a bit whiney but let me explain that I've had over 15-20....$3,000-$4,000 wins and just couldn't seem like I could crack the big one.   Alright on with the game.   About 3 hands later he once again called in the SB and I insta-reraised again to 3x....he insta-jammed again..... I insta-called and my J_J held vs. A_3o. Stick the cards in the money,
    I hope I was accurate as possible and no hard feelings :) Just thought this would make a great first post :) Good luck Everyone and thank you in advance :) I will be posting from time to time. Thanks

David