Full house vs Full house

Today was bad beat central for me, but instead of complaining about all the crap that happened to me, I thought I would post the one hand that I re-sucked out on.

Me 8 7 Villain 5 5

Flop A 8 8
Turn 5
River A

What the?

What the hell is up with Full Tilt's tourny history? You can barely read the font to see any results. I just finished another poker book, this one is an old school cheapy one I picked up in the Borders bargain section for 3 bucks. It focuses on limit poker and stud, and was written right after Moneymaker won the WSOP. It had some good basic advice, one bit I am going to start doing is keeping track of everything. I used to go to the link from full tilt but now since I can't friggin read it I'm going to write down all my results. I have my hand history to look at as well on the hard drive from years ago. A lot of info on how to improve my game. My bankroll small as it is, is going up on Fulltilt. I had it down to under a dollar and now I have it up to almost $30. Pokerstars hasn't been so good to me and I'm at $30 there too, down from $50. Gotta keep grinding away.

I noticed on Pokerstars there is at least one person every tourny with a huge stack who sits out until they make it to the money and then they come back. One good thing that Pokerstars does is when someone doesn't come back when they run out of chips they don't have a showdown they just get knocked out. I like that better than at Full tilt where they can keep doubling up. Ok random thoughts, back to the tables.

still focused...

Yay! I'm on my game finally. I got unlucky in a 6 man, my set was busted by a flush, but I won an 18 man sng. I also made 8th in a wsop freeroll, so I'm doing well. I think not giving up is key.

Finally!

OK finally I won!! whoohoo! after an afternoon of feeling defeated, and knowing I did not play my best heads up, I got myself together and won two sng's. One was a satellite to the daily dollar...cuz I ran out of money lol, and then I won a 6 man sng and came in 2nd in a 9 man sng. So now I have some $$ and I have to build it back up with those $1 tournies. I didn't feel like playing pokerstars today, even though I need to earn those points, but my full tilt bankroll is so sad I had to work on it. It used to be really high and then I played like a donk and almost lost it all. I think I realized one of my biggest mistakes is not LEARNING from my mistakes. It's not good to be a repeat offender. The heads up battle I won I fought hard! I had the best hand twice going all in to knock them out but they caught up both times, I had AQ vs A9, they catch a 9, and I had KK vs A8 they catch not one, but two aces. I fought my way back and they shoved with A4 and I had KK and thankfully they held up and I finally won. It feels good to know I gave it my best...

poker gods!! WHY?!!

I don't know what is going on, but between my aces getting cracked the other day, and today's suck outs, it's been too cruel! Basically I get my money in with the best hand and have them dominated to one out, and boom they get there. AQ vs KQ, AQ vs K3, AK vs AQ. Also I haven't won a sng in awhile. I came in 2nd several times or 3rd but still no 1st. I was pretty good at my heads up game with those free HU tournies on ftp, maybe I need to practice more. Although no suck outs would be nice too. When i shove with 66 and they call with 22, somehow we friggin split the pot! Ahhh I like Kenny Tran's quote "Poker is like fire, sometimes it warms your heart, and other times it burns your bankroll!"

pocket aces cracked twice! make that 5 times

dang... two sit n go tournies, i raise three times the blind with pocket aces, both times they re-raise me, so i shove all in, first time my aces were cracked with 10 8 by the flop 10 8 7, second time my aces were cracked by pocket queens! LAME! ok this is ridiculous... i've had them 7 times today now, and they have been cracked 5 times!! by one opponent too , obviously having the worst hand, pocket threes catching a 3 , another pair of pocket queens got me and a pair of pocket 10s! ok how many more times today can they be cracked ... i think i should fold them lol....

Been awhile...

Sorry I haven't written in awhile. Quick updates... I finally signed up with Pokerstars.com, I was only playing on fulltilt, but they never seem to have enough tables going on during the day for omaha hi/lo or HORSE. Pokerstars format was hard to get used to at first, I prefer fulltilt, it's cleaner and you can adjust the look of the game. ****just sucked out with the worst hand lol, one of those fulltilt main event round 1, I had Ks Qs flop came Kc 8c 9s. original min raiser bets min, 2nd caller pops it to half their stack, and because its a free tourney i go all in having a feeling i'm going to win even though i know i am probably beat, orginal raiser calls with Ad Kd, 2nd caller has Qc 9c. Turn 5s River Qh. haha. tripled up. hopefully I can win another one of these things as the last time i won a round one, round two was absolutely card dead to me. **** Anyways, back to Pokerstars, or as Vanessa Rousso says "Pookerstars" in her commercials. Once I got used to their format, I've done ok...although I find it impossible to win their points to get my bonus. If you play a sit n go, it only gives you one point. Or if I play a cash table I seem to only get two points. I'll have to try a day where I play 8 hours straight and see what happens.



In non poker news, I got a 24 hour stomach flu this weekend. And no it wasn't swine flu, everyone asks me that ;-). Although I was worried, but I didn't have all the symptoms. I had some weird feeling I picked it up from Target when I was there Saturday trying on some bikinis for summertime, you go in those fitting rooms and there are kids running around God knows how many germs are in that place. Needless to say I was able to go to Borders and grab a good book that day before I got sick, "Angels and Demons". I've read "Da Vinci Code" and as much as I enjoyed that book, this one is a lot more exciting. I got through half of it yesterday. I'm looking forward to seeing the movie, even though the first film was pretty boring. The thing with these books, is that they are very exciting reading them as Langdon talks about the FreeMasons, Knights Templar, etc, but when you have to translate that to film, that can be boring as hell. I really think they would have to change the storyline a bit to make the movie more exciting and more of an action film, kind of like "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" as that makes religion, relics, history, VERY exciting to watch. I love that film. I watched it again this weekend as I lay sick trying to keep food down lol. This Thursday is going to be exciting. The short film I produced is going to be screened for friends/cast/crew. I can't wait to see everyone's reaction. This film has gotten a very positive response from people in the industry that have seen it, so I can only hope this will boost my career somehow. Fingers crossed! Hope everyone is feeling ok....