The Poker Bus

Long Blog.

Well the last week of my life has been really busy. Between work, poker and girls I haven’t had the time to even think about a new blog.

Poker wise nothing interesting to report really. I played a couple of MTT and a NWP private tourney, I woke up real early on Sunday I was really hung-over and for some reason couldn’t sleep albeit I was very tired. I decided to play in a MTT the only hold’em MTT that was to be running soon was a 10$ NL. I figured why not. I played well but never really got any hands, after looking at the stats I requested from poker stars I laughed at my flop seen %. I think most players who play with me know that I am a pretty loose player PF. I like to open pots when the action gets to me. I believe that NL hold’em is the truest test of poker when played properly. I think that its always better to be putting people into tough decisions for their chips then to ever really be forced to make one yourself.

10$ NL Tourney stats.

308 hands played and saw flop:
- 9 times out of 40 while in small blind (22%)
- 9 times out of 39 while in big blind (23%)
- 26 times out of 229 in other positions (11%)
- a total of 44 times out of 308 (14%)

Pots won at showdown - 16 out of 21 (76%)
Pots won without showdown - 23

Short handed I couldn’t find a hand and eventually made a move with J-4 from the small blind at the BB and he had JJ. It payed a measly 100$ or so.

I didn’t see many flops but as the stats show I was making the right plays. I wasn’t showing down bad hands at showdown, and was winning my fair share without showdown.

It was just about the same in the NWP tourney I played on Friday, I pretty much played what I think was flawless poker, even short handed I was killing it until the following hand crippled and ended my bid to win. I decided to even close all the tables I was playing on UB and Stars at the time because I said that I wanted to play my A game and win this thing. I had played a few NWP tourneys without really playing hard and when I did I would get donkstruck hard for my whole stack.

Anyways the following hand is from when we just entered the money and 3rd was 31.00$ 2nd was 50+$ I think and 1st was 90+$ around.

Bang’em was playing pretty solid as was Seedthrower. Seedthrower was too passive though he allowed me to steal his blinds pretty much the whole final table. All tourney I did a good job of avoiding big pots and getting into it for a lot of chips, I pretty much built my stack from a few pickoffs and got about 1K from Liquidsyphon when I sucked out with AJ to his AQ (gotta get lucky sometimes). When this hand came up I was chip leader and pretty much in command at this point. The call from Bang’em and Seedthrower was most definitely some type of A or big paint. I was sure Seed had a big A because he was letting me run him over, bang’em would fight back sometimes so his lack of re-raise here meant weak A or semi decent K

*********** # 130 **************
PokerStars Game #3289611118: Tournament #16278661, Hold’em No Limit - Level VI
(100/200) - 2005/12/09 - 22:31:03 (ET)
Table ‘16278661 2′ Seat #3 is the button
Seat 3: DonkDown (9088 in chips)
Seat 5: BANG EM c):O (7335 in chips)
Seat 8: seedthrower4 (7577 in chips)
BANG EM c):O: posts small blind 100
seedthrower4: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to DonkDown [7d 5d]
jshronk [observer] said, “knives”
matty82 [observer] said, “6 of a kind”
Adamx17 [observer] said, “trips”
DonkDown: raises 800 to 1000
BANG EM c):O: calls 900
seedthrower4: calls 800
*** FLOP *** [5s 9s 9d]
Adamx17 [observer] said, “whatever”
Yoshi2K [observer] said, “3 pair”
Adamx17 [observer] said, “three of them”
matty82 [observer] said, “it’s aboot knives”
BANG EM c):O: checks
seedthrower4: checks
DonkDown: bets 2000
BANG EM c):O: folds
seedthrower4: calls 2000
*** TURN *** [5s 9s 9d] [Qh]
seedthrower4: checks
Adamx17 [observer] said, “ah well”
matty82 [observer] said, “another NWP tourney, someone start it up”
Yoshi2K [observer] said, “Bang EM, I get 10% of your profits”
DonkDown: bets 4577
seedthrower4: calls 4577 and is all-in
*** RIVER *** [5s 9s 9d Qh] [Qd]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
seedthrower4: shows [Js Ah] (two pair, Queens and Nines)
DonkDown: shows [7d 5d] (two pair, Queens and Nines - lower kicker)
DeadlySkillz [observer] said, “lol!!!!”
DonkDown said, “sick”
jkopp984 [observer] said, “owned”
seedthrower4 collected 16154 from pot
BANG EM c):O said, “LOL”
DonkDown said, “wow”
crew89 [observer] said, “omg”
Yoshi2K [observer] said, “SFO”
matty82 [observer] said, “ghey”
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 16154 | Rake 0
Board [5s 9s 9d Qh Qd]
Seat 3: DonkDown (button) showed [7d 5d] and lost with two pair, Queens and
Nines
Seat 5: BANG EM c):O (small blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 8: seedthrower4 (big blind) showed [Js Ah] and won (16154) with two pair,

After the flop it’s an easy assumption that in position after raising the flop that I will fire at anything, even better when I fired I had a pair. I knew that my hand was best but seedthrower obviously put me on some type of steal attempt. I can agree with his logic of me trying to steal. But don’t just check call me fight back then!!!! Anyhow I get Retarded donkstruck and end up pissed about that. Not because I lost first place money I don’t care about that. But I concentrated played, well and that happens. I also lost tons of cash by not playing my regular side games etc..

If anyone wants to email me hands that they had or interesting situations to discuss feel free to do so. I will be glad to post and talk about them.

Matt_young55@Hotmail.com