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Today, I decided to take a chance at $.50/$1 table. I bought in for $60. Lost a few hands, won a few hands. Kind of getting unlucky. Then I pick up AK in the small blind. 1 guy limps in and button raises to $5. I make it $50 to go cause the guy on the button's range is kind of wide like he could have a suited connector or a low pair. But he has 10s and I lose the coin flip. Kind of sucks cause I hit an ace on the flop and he hit 10 on the river.


Anyway, I have $16 left in my Betmost account. Not sure what I'll do with it, maybe play a few sit and gos.

Online Poker Show Freeroll

I was watching Pokerstar's Sunday Million replay and they gave a password for a freeroll. First place is only a $215 ticket for Sunday Million which kind of sucks unless there are only a few hundred people who join. Pokerstars also invited me to a $10,000 freeroll on July 11th which is cool..



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I just played in one of the Pokerstar's Sunday Football Tournaments. Free entry with a reload deposit. It was A $11 buy-in and 5118 entrants and $51,180 prize pool. On top of that the winner receives 2 foot ball tickets to the biggest game on earth and $1000 for travel expenses.



I picked up some huge hands early on and was 2nd place in chips for most of the tournament. I bullied a lot of the table with my big stack and by the time they called I could take a hit to my stack or I had a good hand! Like in this hand, this guy finally took a stand with J9 suited but I had pocket rockets!



Then I have problems with my wireless internet connection, it kept cutting out every 2minutes for 40 seconds. I think the card was overheating so I'm trying to cool it down by blowing on it. That didn't help much. On 2nd break, I unplug the computer and take directly to internet router and try to plug it in but it doesn't work, break is over and continue to use wireless. It's working a little better..

With about 200 players remaining, I lose a coin flip, AK vs QQ. Then I win a big pot when I double up with 99 vs. AK. On third break, I clicked reset "repair internet conection" or something like that and now my wireless doesn't work either! I have something like 120k chips, in a good spot, blinds at 4k/8k. I turn off router and internet, it takes 15 minutes to get it working again..At this point I'm so mad because I had a good chance at a few thousand, if not 9k and 2 football tickets. When I log back in I have just over 16,000 chips. I triple up to 50k and next hand I pick up AJ. I go all in and instantly get called by QQ and I don't hit. If I win that hand, I'd have $125k and be in a good spot to win it.



So, I'm not really happy with 56th place for $84.44 when 7th place broke the $1k mark..But it was nice to play because I haven't played in a while. Maybe next time.

Anyway, here are 3 interesting hands:

First hand, two guys are always limping in so I go for the squeeze play with Ace 6 suited. I raise pretty big too, to 900 when they limped in for 200. They both call and I hit a nice flop! I go for a small continuation bet of 1200 hoping they reraise. I get 1 caller. Great turn card and I bet 2500 he goes all in with just a gut shot.


PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 11 Tournament, 100/200 Blinds (9 handed)

saw flop | saw showdown

UTG (t1225)
UTG+1 (t5275)
MP1 (t1757)
MP2 (t4630)
MP3 (t2910)
CO (t8390)
Button (t3500)
SB (t1800)
David (BB) (t12760)

David's M: 42.53

Preflop: David is BB with A, 6
1 fold, UTG+1 calls t200, 3 folds, CO calls t200, 2 folds, David bets t900, UTG+1 calls t700, CO calls t700

Flop: (t2800) J, A, A (3 players)
David bets t1200, 1 fold, CO calls t1200

Turn: (t5200) 9 (2 players)
David bets t2500, CO raises to t6200, David raises to t9900, CO calls t90 (All-In)

River: (t17780) 7 (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: t17780
Main pot: t17780 between CO and David, won by David

Results:
David had A, 6 (three of a kind, Aces).
CO had K, Q (one pair, Aces).
Outcome: David won t17780


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I just won the last two pots by raising 1800 and I do it again with KQ suited. I get called this time and he bets out into me on the flop. I hit top pair of queens, great flop. I call because I have position, it's possible he has a better hand than me and I want to see what he does on the turn. On the turn he checks so I check to for pot control, I don't really want to bet and get check raised all in. And if I check the turn he may think I think I'm a lot weaker than I am. On the river he bets out 3000 and there is no reason for me to go all in because he's usually only calling with a better hand.



PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 11 Tournament, 300/600 Blinds 50 Ante (9 handed)

saw flop | saw showdown

MP1 (t7995)
MP2 (t4476)
MP3 (t15723)
CO (t1280)
Button (t6985)
SB (t14866)
BB (t6160)
UTG (t19464)
David (UTG+1) (t34450)

David's M: 25.52

Preflop: David is UTG+1 with K, Q
1 fold, David bets t1800, 5 folds, SB calls t1500, 1 fold

Flop: (t4650) 6, Q, 9 (2 players)
SB bets t2400, David calls t2400

Turn: (t9450) 8 (2 players)
SB checks, David checks

River: (t9450) 5 (2 players)
SB bets t3000, David calls t3000

Total pot: t15450
Main pot: t15450 between SB and David, won by David

Results:
SB had A, J (high card, Ace).
David had K, Q (one pair, Queens).
Outcome: David won t15450


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Here's another interesting hand. I should have check raised all in on the flop..Maybe he would have folded.


PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 11 Tournament, 1000/2000 Blinds 200 Ante (8 handed)

saw flop | saw showdown

UTG (t19647)
UTG+1 (t21310)
MP1 (t27677)
MP2 (t51148)
CO (t25920)
Button (t28734)
SB (t35128)
David (BB) (t77265)

David's M: 16.80

Preflop: David is BB with 5, 4
2 folds, MP1 bets t5000, 4 folds, David calls t3000

Flop: (t12600) 7, Q, 4 (2 players)
David checks, MP1 bets t6000, David raises to t14000, MP1 raises to t22477 (All-In), David calls t8477

Turn: (t57554) A (2 players, 1 all-in)

River: (t57554) 3 (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: t57554
Main pot: t57554 between MP1 and David, shared by MP1 and David (t28777)

Results:
David had 5, 4 (one pair, fours).
MP1 had 5, 4 (one pair, fours).
Outcome: David won t28777, MP1 won t28777



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Here are some of my favourite poker quotes from some of my favourite poker pros!

Sam Grizzle: "You can spend your money the way you want to and ill spend somebody else's money the way I want to"

Gus Hansen: Clonie: "I have an above average hand" Gus: "I have an above average something too" Gus: "Do you know that good old saying?" Daniel Negreanu: "Which one?" Gus: "F*** you"

Mike Matusow: "Only a donkey would make that call" "poker 101 - never bluff to an idiot" "Just call me Bossman"

What are your favourite poker quotes?


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A while I posted about how Lucky Ace Poker/ Pacific Poker Network takes money from inactive accounts, which they call "administration" fees. To make things worse, they also take your bonus dollars (Money which you have to wager before withdrawing) and they make you work off the pending bonus before you can withdraw even though they took the bonus dollars.

For example:

I had $25 bonus dollars in my Lucky Ace Poker account. $20 of it was taken for "administration" fees while I was inactive. Now, before I withdraw, I have to wager enough to clear the $20 but when I complete the requirements, I do not get to keep the $20..

No pokerroom should be able to do this, it's just plain wrong. I suggest everyone stay away from Pacific Poker Network... you can see what network pokerrooms are on at http://www.pokerscout.com/PokerSites.aspx

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