Here's a fun hand I played in a few nights ago on Full Tilt when for a stretch of time I was playing in three $200/400 and a $100/200 all at once on the site (and then also a $300/600 where I got lucky enough to run red hot and win back my losses and then some in the aforementioned games):

Mark Vos posts the small blind of $100
buck99 posts the big blind of $200
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Mike Schneider [Kh As]
stewtastic calls $200
Niki Jedlicka raises to $400
Nizot Skizared calls $400
Mike Schneider raises to $600
Mark Vos folds
buck99 folds
stewtastic calls $400
Niki Jedlicka calls $200
Nizot Skizared calls $200
*** FLOP *** [6d 8s 2d]
stewtastic checks
Niki Jedlicka checks
Nizot Skizared checks
Mike Schneider bets $200
stewtastic calls $200
Niki Jedlicka calls $200
Nizot Skizared calls $200
*** TURN *** [6d 8s 2d] [5d]
stewtastic checks
Niki Jedlicka checks
Nizot Skizared checks
Mike Schneider checks
*** RIVER *** [6d 8s 2d 5d] [6s]
stewtastic bets $400
Niki Jedlicka folds
Nizot Skizared has 15 seconds left to act
Nizot Skizared calls $400
Mike Schneider folds
*** SHOW DOWN ***
stewtastic shows [5c 6c] a full house, Sixes full of Fives
Nizot Skizared mucks
stewtastic wins the pot ($4,297) with a full house, Sixes full of Fives
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $4,300 | Rake $3
Board: [6d 8s 2d 5d 6s]
Seat 1: Nizot Skizared mucked [Qd 9d] - a flush, Queen high



A lot going on in it, and I think a whole lot of leveling back and forth between several of my opponents. I think if this hand was played on Earth, stewtastic would checkraise the flop, Joe Cassidy would check-3bet his Qd9d, and then the rest of the hand would become a crazy big old mess. I'm a little surprised Joe didn't checkraise the flop for value, but I guess it helps disguise his hand because nobody would probably put him on a flush draw in a million years when he didn't. Then on the turn I guess both stew and Joe figured I'd bet virtually all my range on the turn since nobody got active on the flop (that or they maybe think that a lot of my range is in fact over pairs there), so both of them decided to go for checkraises. And then based on how my table image was at the time I made the choice to check behind because I was too fearful someone was laying in the woods waiting to checkraise something. Then we get to the river and Joe makes an inhuman call with a queen high flush after nearly letting his timer run out (I am wondering if he did that to try to get me to overcall with AK, or if because he really weighted the possibility stew had 22 or 66 since why else would he merely call on the flop with 2 people to act behind him? If he had one pair he'd checkraise right?). Bizarre hand.


A few more movies I've watched lately that I've really liked:

Sex and Lucia -- Spanish film that is super confusing to follow (nice selling point heh?) but compelling nonetheless and one I really want to watch several more times until I've figured it out. I know that description makes it sound like it was a bad movie. It wasn't, I really liked it...just want to figure it out more and get my own interpretation of it. To make up for it here's some of someone's review of this film on imdb:

"Once again Julio Meden reminds us that doing movies is an art. Not just story telling, but Art. The very way of telling the story can be artful, and this flick is a nice example. Newspaper reviews in my city gave it two stars out of four, but this guys would never give good ranking to a movie without gay action or dark, 10-ton-of-sadness endings. Great movies, artistically speaking, can be done without leaving the feel-good mood, like this one. Good acting, superb job of photography, optimistic way of portraying the human being, an excellent movie!

Don´t be shocked with the sex scenes, there´s much more story around. The director was very courageous to jeopardize the movie reputation among puritan, hypocritical viewers. 10 out of 10. "

I've ordered another movie by the director of this one that a lot of people who liked this movie also have raved about, hopefully it gets here in a few days.


Speak -- A powerful story told piece-by-piece in a flashback style manner. Plus it helps that the main star of the movie is Kristen Stewart (Adventureland, Twilight), a girl who's quickly challenging Natalie Portman for #1 actress in my world.



I think I'm feeling like another live poker trip within the next few weeks. I've been playing a lot of online and doing relatively well (though some days have been extremely swingy!), but I'm feeling like a change would be nice.