Predator314's Poker Journal

I decided to go ahead and play in the Wil Wheaton tournament on Stars yesterday. I did decent considering the cards I was getting. Boy Genius put a hurting on me early when he dropped the hammer on me and hit a straight. He had me to the felt early. I regained my chips after some strategic all ins and a little luck. Someone else put a bad beat on me later to leave me short stacked. I can't even remember the hand. I finally pushed with something like A8 and was called by AJ.

Speaking of AJ, did I miss that memo that this was a good hand to put all your money in the pot when you don't have to? AJ is a decent starting hand, but it's behind a shitload of other hands. That is unless you're playing me. You will catch that jack or flush or straight or whatever you need on the river.

I played a $11 tournament on Full Tilt last night and made it to the money. I got the minimum again when my AK fell to... you guessed it, AJ.

I did have a great hand that rocketed me towards the top of the chip leaderboard. I had AA on the button. There was an early position raiser. Then a re-raise from the cut-off. I shoved. Both called. Early position turned up QQ, cutoff turned up KK. It was a huge pot.

I've spent a bit today playing some more $2/4 6 max on Stars. I can't get away from this game. It's been a goldmine so far. I've had a couple downward spirals, but that's just because it's a donkfest.

Here are my stats so far at the $2/4 6 max game:

Hands: 14,694
VP$IP: 28.38
PF Raise%: 19.61
Att to Steal Blinds: 32.44
BB/100: 4.43

You can probably do the math to see what kind of boost this game has been to my bankroll. It's hard moving up with that kind of win rate. Although I don't think it's sustainable. I think 3 BB/100 is definitely sustainable at that game though.

I've also been playing quite a few $16 sit n goes on Stars and have been doing good with those. I played a few last night and took 1st, 2nd, and 4th. I played 2 this morning and bubbled out on both. They were much tighter. I got played in my last one. The blinds were at 100/200 with a 25 chip ante (I think) and I was in the big blind with A4 suited. Folded to the small blind who limped. I raised it with up with about half my chips. He pushed. I figured it was a donk play. I called. He had AA.

I'll probably play some more cash games this evening. I'm gonna run some errands now. I'll be ready for the blogger tournament tomorrow. Hopefully Lee Jones will help me win an Xbox 360. I'll take the WPT package too, but my goal is the Xbox.

Mr. Jones over at Poker Stars decided he wanted to turn my doom button on last night. I played 4 sit n goes. I took the big Oh-fer.

All sit n goes were 9 handed $16 turbos. In sit n go #1, it's fairly early. I'm in the small blind with AK. A couple limpers and then the button raises to like 4 or 5 times the big blind. I cold call so I can get away from the hand and fight another day.

Flop: A,K,Q rainbow.

Checked around to the raiser. He bet roughly the size of the pot. I check raise all in. Folded to the raiser who instantly calls with...... AJ offsuit. Total domination.

Turn: rag
River: 10 giving him the straight and giving me the door.

#2. I lose a coin flip with everyone at the table, but the blinds at 50/100. I push with QK on the next hand and triple up. I eventually take the chip lead, but fall to 2nd in chips with 4 left. I try a few blind steals, but the chip leader pushed on me both times. I get pocket Jacks on the button. Standard raise. Chip leader pushes again! I call. He has Queens. I have a bubble finish.

#3. Nothing major happened had happened and the blinds were going up, so I wasn't desparate, but I wasn't going to be able to cruise to the money. I get AK in the cutoff. 2 limpers and a pre-flop raise. I shove. Big blind calls with 6-8 offsuit (m'kay), pre-flop raiser calls almost all of his chips with ... that's right ... AJ offsuit. The turn brought a jack and I'm out of that one.

#4. About the same as last game. The blinds are getting up there and I don't have enough chips to cruise to the money. I get QQ in late/middle position. 50,000 limpers in front. I push. I'm called by A-8 offsuit. The river Ace had me tossing my new Mx1000 mouse across the room.

TILT!

In hand #1, I'm roughly a 5.6 to 1 favorite. In hand #2, I was a 4 to 1 dog, but I can't see myself playing it any differently. In hand #3 I was roughly 2:1 favorite. Hand #4, I'm roughly 2.5 to 1 favorite. I can't complain. Just one of those nights.

All was not so bad though. I did play some ring games on Full Tilt to try to clear the remaining $50 in bonus I have left. I ended up recouping my sit n go losses here.

I haven't played a lot so far today, but this hand sure was cute:



FullTiltPoker Game #260126165: Table Baltimore (6 max) - $3/$6 - Limit Hold'em - 16:07:48 ET - 2005/10/21

Seat 1: grinders101 ($55.50)

Seat 2: bummer56 ($130)

Seat 3: Owen Money ($91.50)

Seat 4: sendit2fbt ($275)

Seat 5: Hero ($205)

Seat 6: Badturn ($101)

grinders101 posts the small blind of $1.50

bummer56 posts the big blind of $3

The button is in seat #6


Holecards:

Dealt to Hero [ ]

Owen Money folds

sendit2fbt folds

Hero raises to $6

Badturn folds

grinders101 has 15 seconds left to act

grinders101 calls $4.50

bummer56 folds


Flop :
[ ]

grinders101 checks

Hero bets $3

grinders101 calls $3


Turn:
[ ] [ ]

grinders101 checks

Hero bets $6

grinders101 calls $6


River:
[ ] [ ]

grinders101 checks

Hero bets $6

grinders101 calls $6


Showdown:

Hero shows [ ] (four of a kind, Queens)

grinders101 mucks

Hero wins the pot ($43) with four of a kind, Queens


SUMMARY:

Total pot $45 | Rake $2

Board:
[ ]

Seat 1: grinders101 (small blind) mucked [ ] - a full house Queens full of Sevens

Seat 2: bummer56 (big blind) folded before the Flop

Seat 3: Owen Money didn't bet (folded)

Seat 4: sendit2fbt didn't bet (folded)

Seat 5: Hero showed [ ] and won ($43) with four of a kind Queens

Seat 6: Badturn (button) didn't bet (folded)

My gameplan tonight depends on the weather. No Rain = Football game, then home to play some cash games. Rain = Walmart to buy an Xbox game and play in Wil Wheaton's tournament on Stars. It's raining right now.

Where to begin. I was counting on a big boost to my bankroll last night, but it didn't happen. Some lucky fucker in Oregon won the $340 Million Powerball.

I've been ripping up the $2/4 short handed games on Poker Stars recently. This has been a really good boost to the bankroll. Add in a multi-table victory on Sunday and my bankroll looks pretty good right now. I think I'm ready to move up.

No "ifs", "ands", or "buts", my next move is to $3/6 6 max on Party. This game is a goldmine. I've played a few thousand hands there and I'm a marginal winner so far. I've run bad a couple times in those couple thousand hands too.

I'm going to make some "preparations" for my move up. I still want to be conservative with the bankroll. I have a healthy bankroll for $5/10 right now, so I think it would be ok to move up without making these preparations. However, better safe than sorry.

In preparation for my moving up in limits, I will do a little more bonus whoring. Empire has a 100% up to $300 going right now, but it's a 20x to clear in 10 days. I think I'll skip that one. However, Pokerroom has a 40% up to $200 reload going on. I think I'm going to start with that bonus.

After Pokerroom, I'm going to whore bonuses and collect a little schwag in the process. Amazingly, there are a few poker rooms out there that I've never signed up for. So I'm going to go to Poker Source Online and collect on some free shit.

I think I'll start out by signing up for The Gaming Club and get some free poker chips. It only takes 750 raked hands. Plus I get a free $50 bonus.

Next, I think I'll go for the Titan and a free set of Copag cards with some chip racks, cut card, and dealer button. Also, Titan has a 100% up to $500 bonus. Not sure how hard it is to clear. We'll find out.

So, I'll probably have those 2 bonuses, plus what little bit of rakeback I get this month. I also have some bonus left to work off at Full Tilt. I guess I should finish that thing before it expires.

I also want to get a Party rakeback deal going. I haven't heard from my Empire affiliate which is supposed to be hooking me up with a deal at Party. However, I have heard from another reliable affiliate that will hook me up with 25%. I think I'll just go with that.

I'm really excited to be moving up to $3/6. Playing $2/4 after being used to playing $5/10 for so many months was getting pretty boring. It's a little more fun playing short handed on Stars, but it's still $2/4 and even with a decent win rate, I'm not making as much money as I want.

Moving up to $3/6 will be a lot better. If I can maintain a 2BB/100 win rate, that's $12/100 hands. So I'll be making roughly $40-50/hour plus rakeback. With my mediocre volume, I should still pull in $600-$700/month.

Also, the $3/6 6 max game is pretty fun to play. Once I move up, prepare for a bunch of posts cussing these 6 max fuckers that donk bet me on the turn and catch their inside straight draw on the river.

Not really much to report. Yesterday, I had that no-sugar hangover I've been expecting. I felt pretty bad all day long. I think I've slept it off. I feel much better today.

As a result of me not feeling well, I played minimal poker yesterday, but had a very good day. I played a little under 300 hands of $2/4 6 max on Stars and racked up. I also played a $16 turbo sit n go on stars while I was waiting for the new WSOP Main Event show to come on and placed 3rd in it.

I got rivered pretty badly in the sit n go. I was the short stack and was dealt QJsuited on the button. I raise. Cold called by the big blind. Flop was Q,3,x. I push, he calls with A-3 offsuit. Turn rag. River... fuckin' 3.

I watched the WSOP shows last night. Nothing too interesting. Phil is pure entertainment though. The AK hand was pure fucking genius entertainment. "HOW MANY PEOPLE IN THE WORLD CAN MAKE THAT LAYDOWN?". LOL. You the man Phil, you the man. I also caught myself chanting "throw a jack dealer, throw a jack!" when he had the AK vs KJ. How does this prick not get his ass beat? Phil, you're a weak/tight entertainment genius. Keep it up.

I think Marcel Luske is one of my favorite players to watch on TV. His whole attitude about life and poker is just too damn cool. I bet he gets all the pussy back in Amsterdam. Doesn't even have to pay for it! He played some very good poker yesterday in my opinion.

I was suprised X22 didn't get more airtime than what he did. The man is dangerous. It looked like he had a monster chipstack. I think I would have made the same play against Phil with that chipstack. Off course, had the tides been reversed, Phil would have cold called and checked in the dark. I like watching X22 or whatever the fuck his name is. I just wish he would fix that damn nose. It looks like a monkey hung from it for a year or so.

Another thing I've done the past 2 nights is watch a little bit of Live @ The Bike. This is pure fucking genius as well. No soap opera 30 minute timeouts because Matusow said "Fuck". Just pure cash game. It is well done with commentary and hole card cams. I think it said that tonight will be a $5000 mininum buy in game. A game regularly played by Jerry Buss. I'll be tuned in tonight after my bowling league.

In preparation for the Blogger tournament this week, I'm going to work on my no limit tournament game for the remainder of the week. I'll probably play some regular and turbo sit n goes on Poker Stars. I'll probably even play a few mult-table sit n goes. I'm going to work on maintaing focus and spend the "down" time takign notes on everyone at my table. Hopefully I can make this a habit.

That's all I got for now. Keep 'er cool!

Ok, starting to feel the sugar hangover effects. This will be a tough couple days.

On to poker...

You know that great feeling you get when you just have someone's number? No matter what they do, you are one step ahead of them. I had that feeling today against a guy claiming to be 12. He was VERY aggressive, but too loose to be profitable.

Here are a couple hands where we clashed:

PokerStars 2/4 Hold'em (6 handed) converter


Preflop: Hero is SB with As, Qh.

2 folds, CO raises, 1 fold, Hero 3-bets, 1 fold, CO calls.


Flop: (7 SB) 8s, Js, 2s (2 players)

Hero bets, CO calls.


Turn: (4.50 BB) 2c (2 players)

Hero bets, CO raises, Hero calls.


River: (8.50 BB) Td (2 players)

Hero checks, CO bets, Hero calls.


Final Pot: 10.50 BB


Results in white below:

Hero has As Qh (one pair, twos).

CO has 9s Ah (one pair, twos).

Outcome: Hero wins 10.50 BB.

Normally, this would probably be a -EV decision to call the river with Ace high, but I was pretty confident with my read.

Hand #2:

PokerStars 2/4 Hold'em (6 handed) converter


Preflop: Hero is CO with Qh, Kh.

UTG raises, 1 fold, Hero 3-bets, 3 folds, UTG calls.


Flop: (7.50 SB) 3s, Kc, 4s (2 players)

UTG bets, Hero raises, UTG 3-bets, Hero caps, UTG calls.


Turn: (7.75 BB) 3d (2 players)

UTG bets, Hero raises, UTG calls.


River: (11.75 BB) 8d (2 players)

UTG checks, Hero bets, UTG folds.


Final Pot: 12.75 BB


Results in white below:

Hero has Qh Kh (two pair, kings and threes).

Outcome: Hero wins 12.75 BB.

In this hand, I purposely overplayed the KQs because I was still confident in the read on this guy.

Last hand:

PokerStars 2/4 Hold'em (6 handed) converter


Preflop: Hero is UTG with Jd, As.

Hero raises, 3 folds, SB calls, 1 fold.


Flop: (5 SB) Js, 7d, 7s (2 players)

SB checks, Hero bets, SB raises, Hero calls.


Turn: (4.50 BB) 5s (2 players)

SB bets, Hero raises, SB calls.


River: (8.50 BB) 9c (2 players)

SB checks, Hero bets, SB calls.


Final Pot: 10.50 BB


Results in white below:

SB has 8h Jh (two pair, jacks and sevens).

Hero has Jd As (two pair, jacks and sevens).

Outcome: Hero wins 10.50 BB.

This hand pretty much played itself.

The kid is probably a winning player at $2/4. He is definitely one of the most aggressive players I've seen at the tables. He just overdoes it.

Day one of my new lifestyle began bright and early this morning. 6:25am to be exact. Damn, do I wish that I had went to bed earlier. I feel like shit today. I'm working on about 4.5 hours of sleep.

So far as for the diet, I'm doing good. I had some Special K cereal and a banana for breakfast. I had a turkey sandwich on wheat with mustard and some sugar free jello for lunch. Right now I'm munching on some carrot sticks as my afternoon snack. I haven't drank any water so far, but I'm grabbing a bottle as I type this up. I did have a diet Dr. Pepper for lunch because there wasn't any cold water available. That will be the only soda I drink today. It's milk and water from here on out.

It's been easy so far, but I've kept busy today. I had to be at a customer's office this morning. I haven't felt any effects of the lack of sugar in my body yet. However, I do expect to have some sort of withdrawl symptoms. Contrary to popular belief, food can be addicting. At least mentally.

One thing I've decided to do is keep a journal of everything I eat. No I'm not going to post it on this blog, because frankly I'm sure nobody gives a shit.

On to poker. I have no gameplan for this week or the remainder of the month. I figure I'll just stick to the ring games and play an occasional tournament. The tournaments are nice when you win. However, they are B-O-R-I-N-G. My first place finish took nearly 5 hours yesterday. That's with only 50 entries. Now, it was a rebuy tournament. Once we got to the final table, I had a blast. That's just because I had a nice chipstack and could bully people. Let me tell you people. It was truly a work of art how I used the chipstack to my advantage.

I had a friend stop by and sweat my victory. Actually, he came by to pick up his mail and got interested in watching. After about 5 minutes, he said "So, are you just going to raise every hand?". The next hand was something like AJ suited. I raised it again and replied "Scott, when you get cards like these, I'll raise every hand and there's no excuse for losing".

And now finally:

The True Story about My MTT Victory Yesterday

Yes, I did win the tournament, but there was a portion of the tournament that I didn't blog about yesterday. In fact it was a big portion. There were 19 people left in the tournament at the time I started blogging about it.

When the tournament first started, I took a bad beat right off the bat that cost me about 75% of my chipstack. I really went on tilt. So I figured I'd hit the away button and walk away from the game.

I put in a load of laundry and was checking out something on the TV and then the phone rang. I forgot all about the tournament in the process. After I remembered, I walked into my office and saw that I was still in the tournament. I only had 230 chips or so with an average of something way above that.

They were just coming back from the 1st break. I decided I'd just push with any decent hand. I think I pushed with 9-10 suited and doubled up. I worked my chipstack up rather decently after a while. Then I got the pocket 7's hand where I flopped a set against 2 over pairs and more than tripled up. That was my tournament right there.

So to be honest with you, I won a tournament that I forgot I was playing in. Beat that!

I'm currently about 3rd in chips with 19 remaining in a $2600 Empire tournament. Only the top 8 get paid though. Here is the sweet ass hand that put me up near the top in chips (sorry for the shitty hand history, but I can't get the converter to work on tourney hands).

***** Hand History for Game 2854992286 *****
150/300 Tourney Texas Hold'em Game Table (NL) (Tournament 16461095) - Sun Oct 16 12:56:49 EDT 2005
Table $1500 Daily Guaranteed(485330) Table 2 (Real Money) -- Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: GodsmackBLS (3693)
Seat 2: Edward57 (2988)
Seat 3: ShiptheChez (4930)
Seat 4: dragan_hemsk (4675)
Seat 5: Dan_Banan (9590)
Seat 6: st0rballe (10631)
Seat 7: Nada10 (7185)
Seat 8: zidane84 (5162)
Seat 9: jamie834 (12870)
Seat 10: biboune2004 (1316)
Nada10 posts small blind (75)
zidane84 posts big blind (150)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to GodsmackBLS [ 7c, 7h ]
jamie834 calls (150)
biboune2004 folds.
GodsmackBLS raises (600) to 600
Edward57 folds.
ShiptheChez folds.
dragan_hemsk calls (600)
Dan_Banan folds.
Nada10 calls (525)
zidane84 folds.
jamie834 calls (450)
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 2s, 7d, 8d ]
Nada10 bets (150)
jamie834 folds.
GodsmackBLS raises (800) to 800
dragan_hemsk raises (2000) to 2000
Nada10 calls (1850)
GodsmackBLS raises (2293) to 3093
GodsmackBLS is all-In.
dragan_hemsk calls (1093)
Nada10 calls (1093)
Creating Main Pot with $11829 with GodsmackBLS
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 2d ]
Nada10 checks.
dragan_hemsk checks.
** Dealing River ** : [ Jh ]
Nada10 checks.
dragan_hemsk checks.
** Summary **
Main Pot: 11829 |
Board: [ 2s 7d 8d 2d Jh ]
GodsmackBLS balance 11829, bet 3693, collected 11829, net +8136 [ 7c 7h ] [ a full house, Sevens full of twos -- 7c,7h,7d,2s,2d ]
Edward57 balance 2988, didn't bet (folded)
ShiptheChez balance 4930, didn't bet (folded)
dragan_hemsk balance 982, lost 3693 [ Th Td ] [ two pairs, tens and twos -- Jh,Th,Td,2s,2d ]
Dan_Banan balance 9590, didn't bet (folded)
st0rballe balance 10631, sits out
Nada10 balance 3492, lost 3693 [ Qd Qc ] [ two pairs, queens and twos -- Qd,Qc,Jh,2s,2d ]
zidane84 balance 5012, lost 150 (folded)
jamie834 balance 12270, lost 600 (folded)
biboune2004 balance 1316, didn't bet (folded)

We just came back from the 2nd break and it's hand for hand all the way to the final table. I've been in this position many times before. I think I'm just going to lay low and try to slowly work my chipstack up to a good point.

I'm gonna blog my way through the rest of the tournament starting now:

- I'm currently 2nd in chips with 11904. #1 is on my right.

- I get 79 hearts. 118 limpers, I check in the big blind. Flop came A,7,5, with the 5 of hearts. MP bets minimum. Me and another guy call. Turn is 8 hearts. Now I have a flush draw with a straight draw and middle pair. I think about betting, but decide to check. It's checked around. Checked around on the river and I take the small pot to give me the chip lead.

- I lose a small pot with A5 against AA when he tried to slow play and the board got too scary for him to do anything.

- Tournament play is boring and slow. I was playing some $2/4 short handed on Stars, but decided to focus on this tournament. Not a lot of action so far.

- Uninvolved in a hand, I became 2nd in chips. Dude won a nice pot and took the chip lead.

- I raise with AJ from MP and take the blinds.

- Still 19 players, but there are quite a few short stacks. Avg is 6200, but there are 12 out of 19 below that. Most of those are extremely below that.

- We get one to bite the dust on our table. AJ rivered 2 pair, but lost to a set of 5's.

- Some asshole is stalling even though it's hand for hand.

- I try to steal from the button with KT offsuit. BB reraises 1000, I call. Flop came A,3,5. He checks, I bet 1200 as a stab. He folds. I'm back in the chip lead.

- I raise with QJ offsuit from late-middle position and take the blinds.

- I just noticed that this was a rebuy tournament. Shows you how much attention I paid at the beginning of this thing. Guess what? I didn't have any rebuys :)

- Another one bites the dust at our table. However, I've moved to 2nd in chips with 17 remaining.

- Chip leader went for a blind steal, but I called with QK suited on the button. Flop was all rags. He bet small. I raised and he folded. I'm back in the chip lead.

- They ain't doing shit on that other table.

- Down to 16. 55 lost to 66, I'm 2nd in chips as a result though.

- 15 remaining. I'm 3rd in chips. I'm not losing any, but the 2nd and 3rd place guys are just knocking people out. It's a close battle at the top though.

- Agggh. These people suck. Dude has the damn nuts and a short stack reraises him. The bigger stack doesn't put the short stack all in, he just called.

- I lost a small pot with the chip leader. His J8 beat my KJ. Still 3rd in chips though.

- Down to 14. 3rd in chips.

- Down to 13, AK beat AQ on the other table. Chip leader also had his KK cracked, but lost less than he should have. It's a 3 way battle at the top.

- I just won a very nice pot when I rivered a flush against a couple limpers. One of those limpers happened to be the chip leader with KK. They kept min betting, then I put in a huge raise on the river with the nuts and chip leader called. I'm new chip leader and have almost 2 to 1 advantage on 2nd.

- AK beats A3 and we are down to 12. I'm still 1st in chips, but the gap was closed after that last hand. 4 more til the money.

- I'm 2nd in chips. Chip leader is on the other table. He only has a couple on me.

- Down to 12. 2nd in chips.

- Down to the final table. I'm not sure where #11 went, but I don't care. 2 more til the money. I'm barely in 2nd place behind the chip leader.

- Still 10 left. Things are going slow and I'm card dead. I did get one blind steal with K5 suited from the CO. I'm still 2nd in chips though and the chip leader is on my right and he is a DONK! At least I got good position.

- I regained the chip lead when I caught a king high flush with 4 spades on the board. I should have won more, but I was playing it careful.

- Before I got the above typed I lost the chip lead when 2nd won a hand. However, I regained it by coming over the top of donkey 3rd place with KT suited when he tried a blind steal from the CO.

- By the way, we are down to 9. It's been like that for a while. 1 more til the money. There are 3 extremely small stacks. I'm gonna play it safe. Folded 55 from UTG. Of course the flop brought a 5.

- 2nd in chips again. Damn I'm starving.

- In the money. 8 left.

- Down to 7. I just won a coin flip with AK vs 99. I'm leader again.

- I just missed a chance to eliminate a guy. He limped and I checked from BB with 4-2 off. He had less than 1/2 a bet remaining. I put him all in. He called with KJ and I caught a 2 on the turn. He caught a J on the river.

- I had drifted back to 2nd in chips, but made a move on the chip leader with pocket 6's and it worked out. Back in the lead.

- All in from small stack, 2nd in chips calls, small stack win.

- big hand transpired between 2nd and 3rd in chips. 2nd just took 2/3 of 3rd's stack. Now I'm 2nd in chips.

- Down to 6. 2nd in chips.

- Almost even at top of chips. Had pocket 8's in the small blind. Chip leader limped from the button (he's a donk). I raise to 6 times BB. He calls. I push on a 7 high flop and take it down.

- Empire is getting ready to fuck up. My client is getting very slow for some reason.

- I just lost a pot to the chip leader. I'm still 2nd in chips though.

- Only the me and the chip leader have over 10,000 in chips. He has 59,000, I have 32,000.

- Down to 5 as teh chip leader takes another one out. He's playing every hand and catching cards right now. This will be tough. He's min raising every hand too. I'm gonna get that douche.

- This thing has been running 4 hours and only 50 entries. Rebuy tournaments suck. Even if you don't know it's a rebuy tournament.

- small stack went all in with AJ, BB went all in with 10J. AJ held up. Still at 5 people

- Small stack goes in, chip leader calls with better hand. Small stack catches a boat.

- I take out the 5th place guy when my A7 suited holds up against his K9.

- Down to 4. 2nd in chips. 2 small stacks.

- bridge between me and the chip leader has dwindled to almost nothing.

- I'm new chip leader after I hit a straight against chip leader's 2 pair.

- Down to 3, I'm 1st in chips.

- Still 3 left, I'm still the chip leader and punishing.

- 2 left. My QQ beat 10-10.

- 2.5 to 1 advantag in chips.

- I kept dwindling his chipstack until this hand:

#Game No : 2855117082
***** Hand History for Game 2855117082 *****
NL Texas Hold'em Trny:16461095 Level:13 Blinds (750/1500) - Sunday, October 16, 15:30:01 EDT 2005
Table $1500 Daily Guaranteed(485330) Table #1 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 2
Seat 1: st0rballe ( $20746 )
Seat 2: GodsmackBLS ( $97754 )
Trny:16461095 Level:13
Blinds (750/1500)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to GodsmackBLS [ Qd 6d ]
GodsmackBLS raises [3850].
st0rballe calls [3100].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 7c, 4s, 6h ]
st0rballe checks.
GodsmackBLS bets [21900].
st0rballe is all-In [16146]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 8d ]
** Dealing River ** [ 8c ]
GodsmackBLS shows [ Qd, 6d ] two pairs, eights and sixes.
st0rballe shows [ Th, 4h ] two pairs, eights and fours.
GodsmackBLS wins 5754 chips from side pot #1 with two pairs, eights and sixes.
GodsmackBLS wins 41492 chips from the main pot with two pairs, eights and sixes.
Congratulations to player GodsmackBLS for winning tournament $1500 Daily Guaranteed
Player st0rballe finished in 2 place and received $520
Player GodsmackBLS finished in 1 place and received $780
st0rballe has left the table.
GodsmackBLS has left the table.

Victory is mine!



That's MTT victory #2 for me. Victory #1 came some time last year after I busted out on the 2nd hand of a blogger tournament.

It's time to clean myself up and hit the grocery store. I'm fucking starving.