[jdunford]

Well, I haven't played online in quite a while. Couldn't sleep tonight, so gave it a go. Started off three-tabling the usual 10¢/25¢ NLHE (i.e. NL25). Was slaughtering it, and generally getting bored. By the way, see post #2 for me spanking a LAG donk with the hammer.

Anyway, decided to give the $6 SnGs another go. First one had 3 players out after 4 hands. Yep, they're pretty loose at PP. I finished 5th in the first one. Didn't play stellar; made my usual mistakes (biggest hole in my game is trying to limp with small pairs, only to have somebody min-raise, I call, then somebody min-raises behind, I call, miss the flop, lose a few bets). Anyway, was doing alright in the 2nd one... until a donk decided to go crazy and push/call with KXo... only to catch a straight with his "X"... twice in a row!! Here are the back-to-back hands that took me from 2nd to sidelines:

***** Hand History for Game 6971083400 *****
100/200 Tourney Texas Hold'em Game Table (NL) (STT Tournament 39571905) - Mon Apr 14 02:14:02 EDT 2008
Table Table 126614 (Real Money) -- Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 2: waynethegr81 (9460)
Seat 3: joylands (2490)
Seat 4: toocorexxx (1890)
Seat 5: iNano78 (3560)
Seat 6: Ackmed494 (2600)
waynethegr81 posts small blind (100)
joylands posts big blind (200)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to iNano78 [ , ]
toocorexxx folds
iNano78 raises (600) to 600
Ackmed494 folds
waynethegr81: nice try had A8 tho
waynethegr81 folds
joylands raises (2290) to 2490
joylands is all-In.
iNano78 calls (1890)
** Dealing Flop ** : [ , , ]
** Dealing Turn ** : [ ]
** Dealing River ** : [ ]
Creating Main Pot with $5080 with joylands
** Summary **
Main Pot: 5080
Board: [ ]
waynethegr81 balance 9360, lost 100 (folded)
joylands balance 5080, bet 2490, collected 5080, net +2590 [ ] [ a straight Five to Nine -- ,,,, ]
toocorexxx balance 1890, didn't bet (folded)
iNano78 balance 1070, lost 2490 [ ] [ high card Ace -- ,,,, ]
Ackmed494 balance 2600, didn't bet (folded)

***** Hand History for Game 6971083738 *****
iNano78: nice
100/200 Tourney Texas Hold'em Game Table (NL) (STT Tournament 39571905) - Mon Apr 14 02:14:36 EDT 2008
Table Table 126614 (Real Money) -- Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 2: waynethegr81 (9360)
Seat 3: joylands (5080)
Seat 4: toocorexxx (1890)
Seat 5: iNano78 (1070)
Seat 6: Ackmed494 (2600)
joylands posts small blind (100)
toocorexxx posts big blind (200)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to iNano78 [ , ]
iNano78 raises (1070) to 1070 (after going into the bank)
iNano78 is all-In.
Ackmed494 folds
waynethegr81: wow
waynethegr81 folds
joylands calls (970)
toocorexxx folds
** Dealing Flop ** : [ , , ]
** Dealing Turn ** : [ ]
** Dealing River ** : [ ]
Creating Main Pot with $2340 with iNano78
** Summary **
Main Pot: 2340
Board: [ ]
waynethegr81 balance 9360, didn't bet (folded)
joylands balance 6350, bet 1070, collected 2340, net +1270 [ ] [ a straight Nine to King -- ,,,, ]
toocorexxx balance 1690, lost 200 (folded)
iNano78 balance 0, lost 1070 [ ] [ a pair of Queens -- ,,,,:Tc ]
Ackmed494 balance 2600, didn't bet (folded)

***** Hand History for Game 6971084072 *****
iNano78 finished in 5 place.

Now, they weren't the worst beats in history, but definitely were suck-outs all around. Who calls an all-in with K8o against a guy who just showed AKs? I don't care if he thought I could be pushing with anything from the short-stack...

Anyway, I got my "revenge" in the next SnG. Took it down handily. And this time, my AK hands held up. Here are back-to-back hands from that one:

***** Hand History for Game 6971110654 *****
100/200 Tourney Texas Hold'em Game Table (NL) (STT Tournament 39572109) - Mon Apr 14 02:55:39 EDT 2008
Table Table 126423 (Real Money) -- Seat 10 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: KlausB222 (4650)
Seat 2: Annio (3405)
Seat 5: iNano78 (2290)
Seat 7: Zwelchbrain (3725)
Seat 9: JRMclean111 (4680)
Seat 10: H3R0I (1250)
KlausB222 posts small blind (100)
Annio posts big blind (200)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to iNano78 [ , ]
iNano78 raises (600) to 600
Zwelchbrain folds
JRMclean111 folds
H3R0I folds
KlausB222 calls (500)
Annio folds
** Dealing Flop ** : [ , , ]
KlausB222 bets (400)
iNano78 raises (1690) to 1690
iNano78 is all-In.
KlausB222 calls (1290)
** Dealing Turn ** : [ ]
** Dealing River ** : [ ]
Creating Main Pot with $4780 with iNano78
** Summary **
Main Pot: 4780
Board: [ ]
KlausB222 balance 2360, lost 2290 [ ] [ two pairs, Kings and Jacks -- ,,,, ]
Annio balance 3205, lost 200 (folded)
iNano78 balance 4780, bet 2290, collected 4780, net +2490 [ ] [ a full house, Kings full of Fives -- ,,,, ]
Zwelchbrain balance 3725, didn't bet (folded)
JRMclean111 balance 4680, didn't bet (folded)
H3R0I balance 1250, didn't bet (folded)

***** Hand History for Game 6971111389 *****
100/200 Tourney Texas Hold'em Game Table (NL) (STT Tournament 39572109) - Mon Apr 14 02:56:43 EDT 2008
Table Table 126423 (Real Money) -- Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: KlausB222 (2360)
Seat 2: Annio (3205)
Seat 5: iNano78 (4780)
Seat 7: Zwelchbrain (3725)
Seat 9: JRMclean111 (4680)
Seat 10: H3R0I (1250)
Annio posts small blind (100)
iNano78 posts big blind (200)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to iNano78 [ , ]
Zwelchbrain folds
JRMclean111 folds
H3R0I folds
KlausB222 folds
Annio raises (1700) to 1800
iNano78 raises (3200) to 3400
Annio calls (1405)
Annio is all-In.
** Dealing Flop ** : [ , , ]
** Dealing Turn ** : [ ]
** Dealing River ** : [ ]
Creating Main Pot with $6410 with Annio
** Summary **
Main Pot: 6410
Board: [ ]
KlausB222 balance 2360, didn't bet (folded)
Annio balance 0, lost 3205 [ ] [ three of a kind, Eights -- Ad,Jd,8s,8d,8h ]
iNano78 balance 7985, bet 3400, collected 6605, net +3205 [ ] [ three of a kind, Eights with King kicker -- ,,,, ]
Zwelchbrain balance 3725, didn't bet (folded)
JRMclean111 balance 4680, didn't bet (folded)
H3R0I balance 1250, didn't bet (folded)

And 3 hands later:

***** Hand History for Game 6971112236 *****
100/200 Tourney Texas Hold'em Game Table (NL) (STT Tournament 39572109) - Mon Apr 14 02:57:57 EDT 2008
Table Table 126423 (Real Money) -- Seat 7 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 1: KlausB222 (2360)
Seat 5: iNano78 (8185)
Seat 7: Zwelchbrain (3425)
Seat 9: JRMclean111 (4780)
Seat 10: H3R0I (1250)
JRMclean111 posts small blind (100)
H3R0I posts big blind (200)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to iNano78 [ , ]
KlausB222 calls (200)
iNano78 raises (800) to 800
Zwelchbrain folds
JRMclean111 folds
H3R0I folds
KlausB222 raises (2160) to 2360
KlausB222 is all-In.
iNano78 calls (1560)
** Dealing Flop ** : [ , , ]
** Dealing Turn ** : [ ]
** Dealing River ** : [ ]
Creating Main Pot with $5020 with KlausB222
** Summary **
Main Pot: 5020
Board: [ ]
KlausB222 balance 0, lost 2360 [ ] [ two pairs, Jacks and Sevens -- ,,,, ]
iNano78 balance 10845, bet 2360, collected 5020, net +2660 [ ] [ two pairs, Queens and Sevens -- ,,,, ]
Zwelchbrain balance 3425, didn't bet (folded)
JRMclean111 balance 4680, lost 100 (folded)
H3R0I balance 1050, lost 200 (folded)

Was pretty easy from here on in -- although the heads-up battle went back and forth, with each of us sucking-out at least once to stay alive; highlight was when my beat his when I caught the flush on the river... guess I can suck-out too!

[jdunford]

Originally Posted by jdunford

By the way, see post #2 for me spanking a LAG donk with the hammer.

OK, imagine the loosest LAG you've ever seen. Literally raised every hand, opened or unopened, and bet every flop. His stack fluctuated from $10-$60 every few minutes. Well, enter the hammer:

(Warning: Don't try this at home!)

#Game No : 6971071940
***** Hand History for Game 6971071940 *****
$25 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, April 14, 01:56:13 ET 2008
Table Table 125557 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 2: Sergynay ( $25.05 USD )
Seat 5: Crookshankkk ( $29.97 USD )
Seat 3: iNano78 ( $27.73 USD )
Seat 4: gallorojo56 ( $29.17 USD )
Seat 1: Lenindima ( $24.07 USD )
Seat 6: azeikel ( $25 USD )
iNano78 posts small blind [$0.10 USD].
gallorojo56 posts big blind [$0.25 USD].
azeikel posts big blind [$0.25 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to iNano78 [ ]
Crookshankkk folds
azeikel checks
Lenindima folds
Sergynay folds
iNano78 calls [$0.15 USD]
gallorojo56 raises [$0.50 USD]
azeikel folds
iNano78 calls [$0.50 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ , , ]
iNano78 checks
gallorojo56 bets [$2 USD]
iNano78 raises [$6 USD]
gallorojo56 calls [$4 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ ]
iNano78 bets [$7 USD]
gallorojo56 calls [$7 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ ]
iNano78 checks
gallorojo56 checks
iNano78 shows [ , ]two pairs, Jacks and Sevens.
gallorojo56 doesn't show [ , ]a pair of Jacks.
iNano78 wins $26.37 USD from the main pot with two pairs, Jacks and Sevens.

[osumike11379]

nice beatdown with the hammer sir as for the top posts - WOW have never played for real $$ on party poker but maybe I should give it a go - what mules...

[littlebu]

If only we could. No U.S. players. This post makes me really miss the old party sng's. Oh and you should be playing the 11's. Your paying to much rake at the 5's

Originally Posted by osumike11379

nice beatdown with the hammer sir as for the top posts - WOW have never played for real $$ on party poker but maybe I should give it a go - what mules...

[jdunford]

Originally Posted by littlebu

If only we could. No U.S. players. This post makes me really miss the old party sng's. Oh and you should be playing the 11's. Your paying to much rake at the 5's

Good point. I think I will next time.

Ya, PartyPoker SnGs are very juicy... just have to get used to the suck-outs, I guess. I have a +ROI at the SnGs, but I guess I always feel more comfortable with cash games. I can multi-table the 6-max, picking among the loosest/worst tables. On top of the stats in the lobby, I just watch them for a few orbits before joining the wait list and/or sitting down, and only sitting if my table position is favourable. And if I play 3 or 4 tables for 2 hours, I'm almost always up on all of them (occasionally down a little on 1; down on 2 tables on a bad day, but always leave with a net profit), so I always feel like a winner...

Whereas the SnGs... Played 3 last night. Finished 5th, 5th, and 1st. Feel like I deserved to do better, given the quality of play. But in the end, net profit was $25 - $18 = $7, which isn't that bad, really. Of course, given the time invested, I could have won about $100 at the cash tables.


Actually, I was playing a couple cash tables during the SnGs... and did win about $100 over that time period...

[littlebu]

sigh stupid party not letting me play there anymore. It seems every game at every level on that sight was super soft.

Originally Posted by jdunford

Good point. I think I will next time.

Ya, PartyPoker SnGs are very juicy... just have to get used to the suck-outs, I guess. I have a +ROI at the SnGs, but I guess I always feel more comfortable with cash games. I can multi-table the 6-max, picking among the loosest/worst tables. On top of the stats in the lobby, I just watch them for a few orbits before joining the wait list and/or sitting down, and only sitting if my table position is favourable. And if I play 3 or 4 tables for 2 hours, I'm almost always up on all of them (occasionally down a little on 1; down on 2 tables on a bad day, but always leave with a net profit), so I always feel like a winner...

Whereas the SnGs... Played 3 last night. Finished 5th, 5th, and 1st. Feel like I deserved to do better, given the quality of play. But in the end, net profit was $25 - $18 = $7, which isn't that bad, really. Of course, given the time invested, I could have won about $100 at the cash tables.


Actually, I was playing a couple cash tables during the SnGs... and did win about $100 over that time period...

[jdunford]

Sort of unrelated, but I don't want to start a new thread. Decided to play a $2 multi-table tourney on P* the other night - for the first time. Here was my outcome:

Originally Posted by PokerStars

PokerStars Tournament #87332437, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $2.00/$0.20
1623 players
Total Prize Pool: $3246.00
Tournament started - 2008/05/06 - 23:00:00 (ET)

Dear iNano78,

You finished the tournament in 88th place.
A $4.87 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 58.07 tournament leader points in this tournament.

Not too bad for my first time. Wish it was a $20 tourney; $3 profit for 4+ hours is a little weak. Especially since I blew through $300 in the cash tables I was playing at the same time. (bad beats to be posted later... once I've cooled down)

Anyway, here were two memorable hands in the tournament: the first got me back in the hunt, and the second permanently crippled me.

PokerStars Game #17257363691: Tournament #87332437, $2.00+$0.20 Hold'em No Limit - Level VIII (150/300) - 2008/05/07 - 01:07:12 (ET)
Table '87332437 80' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: djenertia (7530 in chips)
Seat 2: Ruzzie (2865 in chips)
Seat 3: SUNDANCECA (10308 in chips)
Seat 4: jab123slc (10913 in chips)
Seat 5: bizznac (13089 in chips)
Seat 6: SATCH53029 (2568 in chips)
Seat 7: iNano78 (2195 in chips)
Seat 8: mike610 (6412 in chips)
Seat 9: mchelle1 (10615 in chips)
djenertia: posts the ante 25
Ruzzie: posts the ante 25
SUNDANCECA: posts the ante 25
jab123slc: posts the ante 25
bizznac: posts the ante 25
SATCH53029: posts the ante 25
iNano78: posts the ante 25
mike610: posts the ante 25
mchelle1: posts the ante 25
mchelle1: posts small blind 150
djenertia: posts big blind 300
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to iNano78 [ ]
Ruzzie: calls 300
SUNDANCECA: calls 300
jab123slc: folds
bizznac: calls 300
SATCH53029: folds
iNano78: raises 1870 to 2170 and is all-in
mike610: folds
mchelle1: folds
djenertia: folds
Ruzzie: calls 1870
SUNDANCECA: calls 1870
bizznac: calls 1870
*** FLOP *** [ ]
Ruzzie: checks
SUNDANCECA: bets 8113 and is all-in
bizznac: folds
Ruzzie: calls 670 and is all-in
iNano78 said, "lol"
*** TURN *** [ ] []
bizznac said, "lol"
*** RIVER *** [ ] []
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Ruzzie: shows [ ] (a full house, Fours full of Tens)
SUNDANCECA: shows [ ] (a full house, Fours full of Tens)
Ruzzie collected 670 from side pot
SUNDANCECA collected 670 from side pot
iNano78: shows [ ] (a full house, Fours full of Kings)
SUNDANCECA said, "jesus fk crhist"
iNano78 collected 9355 from main pot
SUNDANCECA said, "great"
SUNDANCECA said, "PLAY UR OWN FK'N HAND!!"


PokerStars Game #17258083969: Tournament #87332437, $2.00+$0.20 Hold'em No Limit - Level XII (500/1000) - 2008/05/07 - 02:08:13 (ET)
Table '87332437 25' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: allskills1 (14736 in chips)
Seat 2: Gambolista (8326 in chips)
Seat 3: billbisa (9240 in chips)
Seat 4: herkqc (20463 in chips)
Seat 5: MadSignMan (32150 in chips)
Seat 6: DeanoDeano (16773 in chips)
Seat 7: iNano78 (18205 in chips)
Seat 8: answer03 (19650 in chips)
Seat 9: mcj011486 (20225 in chips)
allskills1: posts the ante 100
Gambolista: posts the ante 100
billbisa: posts the ante 100
herkqc: posts the ante 100
MadSignMan: posts the ante 100
DeanoDeano: posts the ante 100
iNano78: posts the ante 100
answer03: posts the ante 100
mcj011486: posts the ante 100
billbisa: posts small blind 500
herkqc: posts big blind 1000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to iNano78 [ ]
MadSignMan: folds
DeanoDeano: folds
iNano78: raises 3000 to 4000
answer03: folds
mcj011486: folds
allskills1: calls 4000
Gambolista: folds
billbisa: raises 5140 to 9140 and is all-in
herkqc: folds
iNano78: raises 5140 to 14280 (meant to raise enough to get allskills1 all-in)
allskills1: calls 10280
*** FLOP *** [ ]
iNano78: bets 1000
allskills1: calls 356 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [ ] []
*** RIVER *** [ ] []
*** SHOW DOWN ***
iNano78: shows [ ] (a pair of Aces)
allskills1: shows [ ] (a straight, Ten to Ace)
allskills1 collected 10992 from side pot
billbisa: shows [ ] (a pair of Aces)
allskills1 collected 29320 from main pot

When billbisa and I ridiculed allskills1 for calling the all-in and re-raise all-in bets, he said "I had to make a stand sometime". Who here would "make a stand" by calling off his chips with KQs against two players who are all-in?

lol. donkaments

[ipgyst]

Originally Posted by osumike11379

nice beatdown with the hammer sir as for the top posts - WOW have never played for real $$ on party poker but maybe I should give it a go - what mules...

Tell me if I'm wrong, but I believe the current state of online poker is that the rooms which do not allow US players are softer than the ones that do allow US players. As for PP, well, that's always been soft.

[BMFD]

Man, I never played Party when I had the chance. I knew it was soft, but all my friends played on Stars. Plus Stars was soft enough for me to win when I wasn't a very good player so I never tried Party. I hate that I never tried it.

So why doesn't Party reverse their decision about US Players? I know they were worried about post uigea, but Stars, Full Tilt, etc are still strong. Heck Doyle's Room is back now I think. So why would Party where US customers once made up 75% of their revenues not come back? Does it have anything to do with the parent company being public on the London Stock Exchange? I don't really know a lot about this, but it seems silly they won't come back. Maybe they are waiting for Barney Franks bill to pass.