No better way to start a blog....

than with some bad beats! Some stats too from this week. Been playing a lot since we have the week off from school. Think we're suppose to be 'reading' on reading week but hey, whatever.

The good news is I'm up a bunch running a heater on stars playing NL50 and NL25....really for a couple hundred bucks. As soon as I get my poker tracker fixed I'll have some numbers of actually interest on here.

Also, I've played the daily 15k with 2500-3000 people the past 2 days...taken 48th and 180ish which was obv. for no cash but hey, it's a decent result. I've also played a few other 11 and 5.50 mtt's on stars with several similar results...cashing in 3/4 of those I think, nothing big though. I'm playing pretty well so hopefully we'll go deep 1 timeeee soon :)




So, on party they have these steps...buy in to step 1 is $3, buy in to step 6 is 500 and it finally actually pays out.

Long and the short is I played a bunch, get a dozen step 2's or so and decide to go with it and being only realistically optimistic that maybe I can get 1-2 shots at step 6 and make a cash.

Here we are, Step 5 ticket number 1, playing yesterday. Get to 5 handed and the blinds are ridiculous so only the poker gods can control what happens from this point on but a double up would have been nice here....**obv side note is this is a $170 sng so kinda a big deal for a dinky low limit guy like me!

#Game No : 6805381047
***** Hand History for Game 6805381047 *****
NL Texas Hold'em Trny: 38553042 Level: 6 Blinds(200/400) - Thursday, February 21, 15:27:06 ET 2008
Table Step 5 (1343814) Table #1 (Real Money)
Seat 10 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 2: Haggis420 ( 4,200 )
Seat 3: popeye176 ( 4,475 )
Seat 6: joker1203 ( 5,370 )
Seat 9: dupi3 ( 1,990 )
Seat 10: MikeLEPK ( 3,965 )
Trny: 38553042 Level: 6
Blinds(200/400)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to dupi3 [ As Kd ]
joker1203 folds
dupi3 is all-In [1,990] <-------------obv shove in CO with 5bbs
MikeLEPK folds
Haggis420 folds
popeye176 calls [1,590] <------------snap calls half his stack with QJos, obv
** Dealing Flop ** [ 5d, Kc, 4h ] <---------------he is basically drawing dead
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qd ]
** Dealing River ** [ Jc ] <---------i commit suicide
popeye176 shows [ Qc, Jd ]two pairs, Queens and Jacks.
dupi3 shows [ As, Kd ]a pair of Kings.
popeye176 wins 4,180 chips from the main pot with two pairs, Queens and Jacks.
Player dupi3 finished in 5 place and received Entry to Step 4($70 USD)


Anyways, my fault I was short and in that position but I'm not calling half my stack, lotto blinds or not with Q high because he can find much better spots than that in the next 10 hands, 2 orbits....then the way the hand played out makes you want to puke


SO

on we go back down to step 4 right away, this is the closing hand of that one...standard cooler, nothing special...but as a chain of events, sucks big donkey balls. Also, there is lots of space to fill here....


obv. note is again, I'm ss and he isnt folding here, he is just raising in position and with the blinds at what they are, I can't blame him for raising an ace on the button, and my move is risky at best but I had a read, had no chips left and had to giver, ah well.


#Game No : 6805619357
***** Hand History for Game 6805619357 *****
NL Texas Hold'em Trny: 38554679 Level: 4 Blinds(100/200) - Thursday, February 21, 16:17:32 ET 2008
Table Step 4 (1343928) Table #1 (Real Money)
Seat 9 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: dupi3 ( 1,500 )
Seat 2: ianbingham ( 2,680 )
Seat 3: Sazevrecsod ( 4,270 )
Seat 4: Grant2008 ( 4,180 )
Seat 5: BIGLUCK74 ( 1,960 )
Seat 9: sandbag3030 ( 5,410 )
Trny: 38554679 Level: 4
Blinds(100/200)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to dupi3 [ Ad 9c ]
Sazevrecsod folds
Grant2008 folds
BIGLUCK74 folds
sandbag3030 raises [800]
dupi3 is all-In [1,400]
ianbingham folds
sandbag3030 calls [700]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 5s, 4h, 7h ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Th ]
** Dealing River ** [ Kd ]
sandbag3030 shows [ 7s, Ah ]a pair of Sevens.
dupi3 shows [ Ad, 9c ]high card Ace.
sandbag3030 wins 3,200 chips from the main pot with a pair of Sevens.
Player dupi3 finished in 6 place and received Entry to Step 2($10 USD)


And that is how I turned $170 into $10 yesterday.