Blog entries from Sep 2008 (transfered from livejournal.com)

In my new goal of going for broke at UB, I nearly did just that having my "back to the wall" with a tiny BR at a stake I should not have been playing. But as per a previous post I dont really care if I do go busto and I am happy to say that I have lasted 3 sessions at the 0.05/0.10 stakes.

So to the main point of this post, I played and won the biggest hand of my online poker experience to date, it was not because of a good read, a suckout from a 2 outer or anything like that. The way that I see it, it was a total gift! Yoink, ill take it! The dude donated his entire stack to me.

Here is the hand as it happened. He min to 0.20 raised PF, so it was an instant call for me with Jacks with position on him. This also managed to isolate the table to HU in the process.

The flop J 3 5 gave me top set, 5rick1 bet 0.40 to which I called thinking I could get more value out of this.

The turn filled me up hitting another 3, to which 5rick1 bet 1.20. Here I decided to min raise him to 2.40 too see if I could get him to give me more, to which he responded with an all in for 10.34 more! Now the only hand that has me beat was pocket 3's for quads, but I could not put him on this hand at all given the sizes of the bets he was making. And I figured if he had quads then so be it - I have done what I wanted and gone broke at UB, its not like there were three 3's on the table (I may have folded if that was the case). For me this was a call.

To my shock when we flipped cards he showed KK for 2 pair. LoL I just took the biggest hand for me ever!

YAY ME!

I played on for another 1.5 hrs after this win and to my surprise I managed to cash out $25 from the table, I would usually lose about half cause im a donk. I was in a good mood and and decided to gamble (read: spew) with 75o to a guy who only had $1 left. Like I said I was in a good mood and I felt sorry for him having taken many $ from him. I lost that hand, but did not care. I should have looked for a spot to keep taking money from him. I need to be schooled!

Hand #55255047-101726 at Texas City (No Limit Hold'em)
Started at 18/Sep/08 07:46:39

signsix is at seat 0 with $11.20.
singingwolf70 is at seat 1 with $10.07.
little rig is at seat 2 with $4.77.
5rick1 is at seat 3 with $10.94.
pooper0 is at seat 4 with $13.68.
Enjoys Junk is at seat 5 with $3.45.
The button is at seat 2.

5rick1 posts the small blind of $.05.
pooper0 posts the big blind of $.10.

signsix: -- --
singingwolf70: -- --
little rig: -- --
5rick1: -- --
pooper0: Jd Jh
Enjoys Junk: -- --

Pre-flop:

Enjoys Junk folds. signsix folds. singingwolf70
folds. little rig folds. 5rick1 raises to $.20.
pooper0 calls.

Flop (board: Jc 3c 5d):

5rick1 bets $.40. pooper0 calls.

Turn (board: Jc 3c 5d 3s):

5rick1 bets $1.20. pooper0 raises to $2.40. 5rick1
goes all-in for $10.34. pooper0 calls.

River (board: Jc 3c 5d 3s Td):

(no action in this round)




Showdown:

5rick1 shows Kc Ks.
5rick1 has Kc Ks Jc 3c 3s: two pair, kings and threes.
pooper0 shows Jd Jh.
pooper0 has Jd Jh Jc 3c 3s: full house, jacks full of threes.


Hand #55255047-101726 Summary:

$1.09 is raked from a pot of $21.88.
pooper0 wins $20.79 with full house, jacks full of threes.

Something really weird happened last night and I cant rule it out as something really dodgy. I opened up 3 tables at UB and dropped $1 on each as I usually do. I was up about 4 buy ins at the high water mark but by the end of the night I was down 2 buy ins. I have been looking back at my HH and discovered the following:

In the 510 hands that I was dealt
AA x 2 (0.39%)
KK x 8 (1.56%)
QQ x 3 (0.58%)
AK x 10 (1.96%)
AQ x 6 (1.17%)

This represents 5.66% of all hands were were in the AQ+, QQ+ range. Now I would not normally complain here being dealt all these monsters but that seems unusually high. Of these times KK was busted half the time, QQ was busted once and uncontested twice, AK won 8 of 10 times, AQ was uncontested every time and my Aces won 50% of the time.

My problem here is when these monsters were cracked they were cracked hard. ie: I lost about 2 buy ins when my KK was beaten by QQ (yep the 2 outer hit), this would partly explain why I was down 2 buy ins by the end of the night. I was getting my money in with the best of it on most occasions but still ended up losing for the night. Come on, what the hell UB.

Now more than ever I want to dump UB, so scrap the existing plan, heres the new plan. My BR at UB was derived from freeroll winnings and since I have also made a BR from zero at FTP I dont care as much if I go busto at UB - I stand to lose nothing. I only did this so I could play up a few levels and learn how to play better.

So its time to go for broke at UB and hopefully hit the min cash out mark. FTP cash tables start at 0.05/0.10 so I will play at these stakes at UB to get the practice in at this level. I will even play SnG's at higher levels than I should and attempt to use up all my Ultimate Points. If/When I go busto/cash out I will close my account then send an abusive email to the useless support team while I am at it.

Wish me luck! It may only last 1 session!

Its been a while since I have posted, so heres an update.

I have been hitting the freerolls hard and have managed 3 cashes at FTP which is where I think I will be playing from now on.

I am kind of getting over UB and the micro bots which always manage to suckout on you (UB are aware of this and seem to be doing nothing to combat it). Given the cheating scandals that have happened at UB/AP in the past I might give them a break for a while or even just try my luck on some larger MTTs chewing out the rest of the BR there for experience.

I guess the nail in the coffin is that their SnG's just suck real hard, they are really slow to fill - if at all. I dont think I have seen a 100 player $1.10 SnG fill or an 18 player fill for that matter.

One tournament I think I will be entering at UB is the $1.10 rebuy for a $5K prize pool. These are daily at 11am so I might try my luck on Saturdays on this one. There are usually about 800+ runners in it and the only time I played it I managed a top 300 spot, way out of the cash but not too bad for a first try.

So back to FTP. Last night I managed an 8th place for $3 but I was really disapointed with it as I felt I should have gotten a 2nd or 3rd place at least. I was 2nd in chips on the final table with about 500K and the chip leader was on my direct left with about 700K in chips, I was at least 200K ahead of everyone else when I stupidly played an A4 against the chip leader on a A66 board. I got it all in on the flop (why oh why did I do that it was 11pm and I was getting tired?!?) and was called by AQ. Goodnight, even if the board paired I was still drawing real thin with my opponents Q kicker, So I just donated my stack to the chip leader who now had 1.2M about 1M clear of anyone else. I should have just hit the "sit out" button and gone to bed. Im sure that I would have come at least 4th.

Anyway some more news at FTP. They had their 1 on 1 with Antionus 3 stage freeroll series. In one of these total donkfests I made it thru to rd2 and then managed a 295th place in the round 2 event out of 1500 runners. Not enough to sat thru to rd3 but it was a good experience. I found that people were playing and raising with any two cards which really made me concentrate and play a different game. Eventually I did something that you should not do and that was to go broke with a pair. Damm AK (which was TPTK at the time) was busted by trip 8's. I need to think a little more about that one.

Finally before I wrap up, I played in the 3 stage Poker After Dark freeroll. I managed to kill that one, but when I saw what time they were playing the rd2, I unregistered from it taking my 100FTP. Now I have 300+ FTP's which I may use on other points freerolls.

So thats the update for the moment. My BR from zero has grown a second leg at FTP now