Since my last score in the micro limit, I’ve scored a few more but still just out of the good $, but now I have a new thought on all of it. It’s not a dark, down in the dumps thought about it, just a thought that I want to fiddle with as I play the game.
I had to chuckle over this hand:
Transcript for your last 1 games requested by PokerWorks ([email protected])
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PokerStars Game #25607713416: Tournament #144057446, $5.00+$0.50 Hold’em No Limit – Level IV (25/50) – 2009/03/04 18:39:50 ET
Table ‘144057446 126’ 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: SVW1904 (3500 in chips)
Seat 2: Illini213 (6870 in chips)
Seat 3: UnReaL GeaR (5155 in chips)
Seat 4: jmaze111 (475 in chips)
Seat 5: Sykemeldt (4520 in chips)
Seat 6: maddmental (2850 in chips)
Seat 7: dumdum214 (4225 in chips)
Seat 8: PokerWorks (1680 in chips)
Seat 9: btrain76 (4315 in chips)
SVW1904: posts small blind 25
Illini213: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PokerWorks [Kh As] Note the raising that goes on here
UnReaL GeaR: raises 400 to 450
jmaze111: raises 25 to 475 and is all-in
Sykemeldt: calls 475
maddmental: calls 475
dumdum214: calls 475
PokerWorks: raises 1205 to 1680 and is all-in
UnReaL GeaR: raises 3475 to 5155 and is all-in
PokerWorks is disconnected (as soon as I got all my chips in the pot I was disconnected, came back in time to see that I lost)
maddmental: calls 2375 and is all-in
dumdum214: calls 3750 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (930) returned to UnReaL GeaR
*** FLOP *** [Kd Jc 9d]
*** TURN *** [Kd Jc 9d] [3s]
*** RIVER *** [Kd Jc 9d 3s] [Kc]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
UnReaL GeaR: shows [6c 6s] (two pair, Kings and Sixes) *He ended up getting $ back from all the betting that went on*
dumdum214: shows [9c 5c] (two pair, Kings and Nines)
dumdum214 collected 2750 from side pot-3
maddmental: shows [Ks Js] (a full house, Kings full of Jacks)
PokerWorks: shows [Kh As] (three of a kind, Kings)
maddmental collected 3510 from side pot-2
maddmental collected 4820 from side pot-1
maddmental collected 2925 from main pot
That was short and sweet. Painless really.
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In the following tournament (a re-buy), I went all-in with K-K. In the same hand with me was A-A and J-J. The jacks won the hand, four spades came on the board. I did the re-buy thang. This hand wasn’t any fun, but to my credit, I didn’t curse or storm.
PokerStars Game #25643752736: Tournament #144057398, $10+$1 Hold’em No Limit – Level XV (250/500) – 2009/03/05 18:37:02 ET
Table ‘144057398 43’ 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: kevinn1 (11530 in chips)
Seat 2: Dimancho (8407 in chips)
Seat 3: PokerWorks (39543 in chips)
Seat 5: neotech30 (30585 in chips)
Seat 6: gs08bjohnson (15225 in chips)
Seat 7: jokero122 (27563 in chips)
Seat 8: ZinvisibleZ (17870 in chips)
Seat 9: tac6062 (4530 in chips)
kevinn1: posts the ante 60
Dimancho: posts the ante 60
PokerWorks: posts the ante 60
neotech30: posts the ante 60
gs08bjohnson: posts the ante 60
jokero122: posts the ante 60
ZinvisibleZ: posts the ante 60
tac6062: posts the ante 60
kevinn1: posts small blind 250
Dimancho: posts big blind 500
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PokerWorks [As Ad]
PokerWorks: raises 1500 to 2000
ZinvisibleZ: calls 2000
kevinn1: calls 1750
Dimancho: raises 6347 to 8347 and is all-in
PokerWorks: raises 15153 to 23500
ZinvisibleZ: folds
kevinn1: calls 9470 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (12030) returned to PokerWorks
*** FLOP *** [Ks 5s 7d]
*** TURN *** [Ks 5s 7d] [2h]
*** RIVER *** [Ks 5s 7d 2h] [Qs]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
kevinn1: shows [6c 6h] (a pair of Sixes)
PokerWorks: shows [As Ad] (a pair of Aces)
PokerWorks collected 6246 from side pot
Dimancho: shows [Qd Qh] (three of a kind, Queens)
Dimancho collected 27521 from main pot
That last card was painful…damn Queen…Card Fairy is a queen, right?
I managed to kick along for quite awhile and when my chip stack was seriously in jeopardy and the cards had been totally hideous for quite some time, I chunked 35,205 all-in with j-9 off. The antes were 750, the blinds were 3,000-6,000. I was begging everyone to fold. lawrie_bcfc had 142,006 in chips and was the 6K blind. He called with K-J. UGH! I did the major suck out and caught a 9 on the river.
It was pure pitching hell. When I was up to my nose in quicksand and no cards and no chips, I picked up A-K, went all-in and won the pot. Oh yeah, I had made the $ by now too. The next hand was Q-Q, all-in and won the pot. I really thought the tide had turned. My next hand was A-K. I had 114K in chips and wasn’t even going to slow down. The antes were 875, blinds were 3,500-7,000 and I was the BB. One player raised it to 21,000, another called and I went all-in. Everyone had me covered and my raise got raised and called all-in. The original raiser had Q-Q and it held for a very nice pot.
I took 78th place out of 2169 players for $114.82 and also had taken the add-on, a profit of $83.82. Final table in this baby would have brought a gigantic smile to my face…
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I’m scurrying to put all of my tax records together so I can meet the wizardette that will take care of things for me on Monday.
On the PokerWorks H.O.R.S.E. tourney – that will be held on the 8th of March, I do hope everyone will show because I won’t. This will be the first time I’ve missed it since we started. It’s my baby boy’s birthday and I’ll be heading into Vegas for a family dinner.