Played my last WCOOP event today. I played around 8 or 9 events total 5K in buyins, no cashes. The big disappointment was the 2K PLO event yesterday. I 1 tabled the event and was playing fairly well, I made a few mistakes being a little too passive and it cost me a bit. I lost twice to the same guy, top set vs naked T or J high flush draws, so frustrating but that is PLO. It was a great tournament with stacks being 100BB deep. I wish there was a bigger buyin PLO tournament on one of the sites every week. I think they could make a $215 100K guarantee and it would fill.

I'm going to the Baltimore vs San Diego game on Sunday so won't be playing any of those tourneys.

PokerStars Game #32853969602: Tournament #200909030, $300+$20 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XIV (250/500) - 2009/09/14 21:39:09 ET
Table '200909030 144' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: ANDAMAN 974 (31350 in chips)
Seat 2: WiCane (20374 in chips)
Seat 3: imperfekt (27627 in chips)
Seat 4: DOME@RHINO (8835 in chips)
Seat 5: Bear4rms (83338 in chips)
Seat 6: tollefishy (11031 in chips)
Seat 7: jampiriki (44060 in chips)
Seat 8: Nector33 (13154 in chips)
Seat 9: TCB624 (13291 in chips)
ANDAMAN 974: posts the ante 60
WiCane: posts the ante 60
imperfekt: posts the ante 60
DOME@RHINO: posts the ante 60
Bear4rms: posts the ante 60
tollefishy: posts the ante 60
jampiriki: posts the ante 60
Nector33: posts the ante 60
TCB624: posts the ante 60
WiCane: posts small blind 250
imperfekt: posts big blind 500
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to WiCane [Jd Jc]
DOME@RHINO: folds
Bear4rms: raises 750 to 1250
tollefishy: folds
jampiriki: folds
Nector33: folds
TCB624: folds
ANDAMAN 974: folds
WiCane: raises 1725 to 2975
imperfekt: folds
Bear4rms: calls 1725
*** FLOP *** [Qh Ac Th]
WiCane: bets 3375
Bear4rms: calls 3375
*** TURN *** [Qh Ac Th] [2s]
WiCane: bets 13964 and is all-in
Bear4rms: calls 13964
*** RIVER *** [Qh Ac Th 2s] [8h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
WiCane: shows [Jd Jc] (a pair of Jacks)
Bear4rms: shows [7s As] (a pair of Aces)
Bear4rms collected 41668 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 41668 | Rake 0
Board [Qh Ac Th 2s 8h]
Seat 1: ANDAMAN 974 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: WiCane (small blind) showed [Jd Jc] and lost with a pair of Jacks
Seat 3: imperfekt (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: DOME@RHINO folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Bear4rms showed [7s As] and won (41668) with a pair of Aces
Seat 6: tollefishy folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: jampiriki folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: Nector33 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: TCB624 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

I again decided to give the tourneys another chance. The plan was to play all the WCOOP (sans the 25K), the 2nd chances, and any FO tourney over $50. I also had $250 left in my Tilt account from rakeback and a few $50 bets I won on the UM/FSU game. I decided to play 3 $75 tourneys there.

Things started off pretty well, I got deep in a 100FO on Stars and a 75 6-max on Tilt. Unfortunately I went out in disappointing fashion, A8
I then busted a the 1st WCOOP and a few others. I never really got anything going in the 1K WCOOP, Darreneilas was on my left and kept owning me. I think he 3 bet me everytime I opened and eventually busted to him on A8577 3c board w/ AQ < 6c3c. I thought I was trapping him, lol.I then busted the 2nd chance of that in the 1st level. 15K chips at 25/50, I flopped bottom set on an T32 board. The hand played out really weird and I think I should have folded the river. If there is a time to get away from a set its 300BBs deep. My deepstack NL game is really really poor right now. I haven't played NL cash in so long that I think I'm way behind the curve.

Anyway, I ended up getting deep in both a 75fo and 75 PLO 6max on FullTilt. I ended up 4th in the PLO and FT the 75fo. I haven't FT a NL tourney in a long long time so it was nice to get through 1000 people to a final table. I came in 7th in chips but was able to win a race, AQ>TT to get in the top 4. From there things just worked out well and was the chip leader for a time 3 handed. When we got HU we were even in chips. I got him down a bit and then a questionable fold w/ A8 (not sure if it was correct). He then took the advantage but I won KK>A3 to again take the lead. The very next hand we got it in KT
Overall this is the best I've played and ran in tournaments in a long time. I made it a point to remain patient and not get upset about any bust outs. In the past I feel I've pissed away stacks after busting a few tourneys and ruining any chance of going deep.

I'm playing both WCOOPs tomorrow and then the $2100 PLO event on Thursday.

GL at the tables.

Day 2 only adds to my hate. I'm not very good at flipping coins so I'm not doing well in the tourneys. Lost AK
Just busted out of the PLO WCOOP, actually wasn't that bad of a tourney since we were almost 100BBs deep the whole time.

3 hours into a tourney day and I'm sick of them already. I'm already wishing I didn't have all these tickets for WCOOP so I could just skip it. The beginning of tourneys are just pure hell, getting deep is fun but it seems like I can't do that anymore. Much respect for all the tournament players out there, its a tough game mentally.

Busted 5 tourneys and don't want to start any new ones so I'm 1 tabling the WCOOP at the moment. GL to everyone playing.

Edit: Tournaments are just all together retarded.

August was brutal, I started off really strong and then went tilty for about 1.5 weeks and dropped approximately 50 buy-ins which resulted in my biggest downswing ever. I recovered fairly well at the end of the month. I also won a WCOOP ME sat. in a $215 extreme satty which helped.

Which brings me to WCOOP which starts tomorrow. I unfortunately cannot play the ME but Stars was nice enough to break my ticket up into a bunch of buy-ins that I'm able to play. Basically I feel like I'm freerolling a bunch of events, the one I'm looking forward to the most is the $2100 6-max PLO. I looked at the lobby and I imagine the tourney is going to be a tough field. I don't play a ton of tourneys but haven't made it deep in anything big in a long time. Hopefully I can bust out with a nice score soon.

Besides poker, college football season is upon us. I'm looking for the Hurricanes to make a little noise this season but they need to beat FSU on Labor Day. Lose that one and it could be another long frustrating season.

GL at the tables.

So I busted in the ME with KK
Overall I thought I played well but I did make a few mistakes. Day 2 just killed me when I couldn't pick up anything, I feel now that I should have made a few moves since I had such a tight image. I guess you play and learn.

GL at the tables. Taking some time off of poker and just relaxing.

Horrible day overall. I picked up 99, AQ, AA in the 1st hour of the day and lost 2 out of the 3 pots. Then was completely card dead until I got AK twice in the last 30 minutes of the day, only picked up the blinds in those 2 hands. The biggest pot I won all day was double barrelling a Q756 board when I opened A2 in the CO vs a button caller. I'm not really sure what else I could have done, I made one mistake bluffing off 10K in chips when a guy called me with 77 on a J9532 board (it was a very unbelievable turn and river bet on my part). I played most of the day with the blind guy, Hal Lubarsky, who plays pretty well and then who I figured out later was Nick Binger. I thought he played the best at my table.

Anyway I still have 30BBs and am pretty comfortable playing that kind of stack. I'm going to grind it as hard as I can, hopefully things will go my way. I'm sure I will be disappointed if I bust but I'm happy with the way I've played so far.

Played the ME yesterday. I got into Vegas on Sunday afternoon and went to sign up for the event. I'm glad I did since it appears that people were left out. Anyway, I got to my table and was a little disappointed because over all it was pretty tough.

Seat 1: good internet cash game player
Seat 2: good internet MTT
Seat 3: Jennifer Harmen
Seat 4: really bad old guy
Seat 5: me
Seat 6: pretty good young guy
Seat 7: bracelet winner in the 5K shootout last year, didn't know who he was though (Phil Tom apparently)
Seat 8: said he took 3rd in EPT
Seat 9: really good foreign player

So not the easiest table to start. I pretty much stuck to my game plan all day. Had 36k at the 1st break, 26K at the 2nd break, 36K at dinner break. 72K at the 4th break and ended with 80K.

I won by biggest pot with 88 on an 983J3 board. Only had 4 all-ins (where I had other people all-in)

KQ>8s6s on JsJTs board
88=97 on T98 board, ran out J7
AQ>AT preflop
AK<88 preflop that would have put me over 100K at the end of the night. Guy shoved 10K in CO+1 at 200/400.

I'm really happy with how the day went so hopefully Wednesday will be more of the same.

Twice in 2 important tourneys for top 5 stacks. 3 years of this same bullshit on one site. I honestly believe it is impossible for me to win on there, impossible if a hand never holds. This is just capping a lovely 2 weeks, more on my Vegas trip later.


Full Tilt Poker Game #12812151660: $50,000 Guarantee (93213732), Table 49 - 100/200 - No Limit Hold'em - 17:03:31 ET - 2009/06/14

Seat 1: spotty8 (5,330)

Seat 2: nextuniverse (1,980)

Seat 3: SuperTight5 (5,100)

Seat 4: Boniec (5,455)

Seat 5: ManWithTwoArms (4,965)

Seat 6: ItsTime2Win (9,223)

Seat 7: Jeffboski (6,995)

Seat 8: cooling1 (12,200)

Seat 9: spagedzzzz (4,205)

SuperTight5 posts the small blind of 100

Boniec posts the big blind of 200

The button is in seat #2

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to ItsTime2Win [As Ad]

ManWithTwoArms folds

ItsTime2Win raises to 525

Jeffboski has 15 seconds left to act

Jeffboski raises to 6,995, and is all in

cooling1 folds

spagedzzzz folds

spotty8 folds

nextuniverse folds

SuperTight5 folds

Boniec folds

ItsTime2Win calls 6,470

Jeffboski shows [Qs Qh]

ItsTime2Win shows [As Ad]

*** FLOP *** [Qd 6d 4c]

*** TURN *** [Qd 6d 4c] [Th]

*** RIVER *** [Qd 6d 4c Th] [6h]

Jeffboski shows a full house, Queens full of Sixes

ItsTime2Win shows two pair, Aces and Sixes

Jeffboski wins the pot (14,290) with a full house, Queens full of Sixes

*** SUMMARY ***

Total pot 14,290 | Rake 0

Board: [Qd 6d 4c Th 6h]

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Full Tilt Poker Game #12813202177: Sunday Main Event Qualifier (92185365), Table 30 - 50/100 - No Limit Hold'em - 17:54:29 ET - 2009/06/14

Seat 1: gregior (425)

Seat 2: FastEddie267 (2,610)

Seat 3: ItsTime2Win (6,455)

Seat 4: Chris Klecz (2,830)

Seat 5: bigdogpckt5s (6,370)

Seat 6: hitthehole (4,365)

Seat 7: stkbrkr1 (2,885)

Seat 8: YanniYankievich (3,010)

Seat 9: Scrat_Fan (3,650)

YanniYankievich posts the small blind of 50

Scrat_Fan posts the big blind of 100

The button is in seat #7

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to ItsTime2Win [Ac Ad]

gregior raises to 425, and is all in

FastEddie267 folds

ItsTime2Win calls 425

Chris Klecz folds

bigdogpckt5s folds

hitthehole folds

stkbrkr1 folds

YanniYankievich raises to 3,010, and is all in

Scrat_Fan folds

ItsTime2Win calls 2,585

YanniYankievich shows [Ks Kd]

gregior shows [9h 9c]

ItsTime2Win shows [Ac Ad]

*** FLOP *** [Qd 2c Kc]

*** TURN *** [Qd 2c Kc] [7d]

*** RIVER *** [Qd 2c Kc 7d] [9s]

YanniYankievich shows three of a kind, Kings

ItsTime2Win shows a pair of Aces

YanniYankievich wins the side pot (5,170) with three of a kind, Kings

gregior shows three of a kind, Nines

YanniYankievich wins the main pot (1,375) with three of a kind, Kings

ItsTime2Win: no #%!#ing way
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Yes another one for another top 10 stack

Full Tilt Poker Game #12813355260: $22,500 Guarantee (95140850), Table 101 - 100/200 - No Limit Hold'em - 18:03:27 ET - 2009/06/14

Seat 1: jbenya (12,405), is sitting out

Seat 2: 54nTA_Cl4u5 (15,014)

Seat 3: BLUEberLEEZ (3,680)

Seat 4: TuSSchaengel (4,266)

Seat 5: Caide (4,680)

Seat 6: nolez7 (4,180)

Seat 7: zestfulyclean (987)

Seat 8: ItsTime2Win (9,980)

Seat 9: tmeeks (5,270)

ItsTime2Win posts the small blind of 100

tmeeks posts the big blind of 200

The button is in seat #7

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to ItsTime2Win [Kd Kc]

jbenya folds

54nTA_Cl4u5 raises to 500

BLUEberLEEZ folds

TuSSchaengel folds

Caide has 15 seconds left to act

Caide raises to 4,680, and is all in

nolez7 folds

zestfulyclean folds

ItsTime2Win raises to 9,980, and is all in

tmeeks folds

54nTA_Cl4u5 folds

ItsTime2Win shows [Kd Kc]

Caide shows [Ac Qs]

Uncalled bet of 5,300 returned to ItsTime2Win

*** FLOP *** [Ah 4c 7d]

*** TURN *** [Ah 4c 7d] [2h]

*** RIVER *** [Ah 4c 7d 2h] [7s]

ItsTime2Win shows two pair, Kings and Sevens

Caide shows two pair, Aces and Sevens

Caide wins the pot (10,060) with two pair, Aces and Sevens

jbenya has returned

*** SUMMARY ***

Total pot 10,060 | Rake 0

Board: [Ah 4c 7d 2h 7s]