Oooops

Win money at Hold'em, lose it all at omaha... That's kind of the story of what happens, lol

It's always fun getting into pots vs loose players... you just don't know what they can have.

The villains in this next pot are a 29/6 in MP and a 38/16 on the button. I have only a small sample on both

I never think that the button has what he has... it is more likely that the MP has that hand but anyway when im running like this it does not matter..!!


Poker Stars $50.00 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players

BTN: $42.95
SB: $22.05
BB: $50.50
UTG: $26.95
UTG+1: $56.15
UTG+2: $23.35
MP1: $31.90
Hero (MP2): $104.85
CO: $50.50

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is MP2 with A A
2 folds, UTG+2 raises to $1.50, MP1 calls $1.50, Hero raises to $6, 1 fold, BTN calls $6, 3 folds, MP1 calls $4.50

Flop: ($20.25) J K A (3 players)
MP1 bets $6.50, Hero calls $6.50, BTN raises to $36.95, MP1 calls $19.40 all in, Hero calls $30.45

Turn: ($120.05) A (3 players - 1 is all in)

River: ($120.05) 4 (3 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $120.05

BTN shows T Q
MP1 shows K J
Hero shows A A

Hero wins $94.95
(Rake: $3.00)

Must be Nice.....

I'd be happy with the interest the month I'm having..!!

Software to Take Your Game in Poker to the Next Level - By Andrew Perry

The arc for many successful poker players looks much the same, as many get started in casual games with friends or online and spend plenty of time having fun but largely spinning their wheels as far as making steady profits. For players that decide they want to get serious about the game, the next step in their poker journey typically involves reading poker strategy books, visiting poker forums, and signing up for coaching or subscribing to an poker video training service.

One of the most common ways that players at many different stakes and games improve their profitability at the tables is by turning to tracking software such as PokerTracker and HoldemManager. These rival programs are very similar in function, giving online poker players the ability to record and analyze all of the hands that they play online. Both programs work with all the major online sites, and with a few clicks you’ll be up and running and able to automatically log all of the hands you play online.

Once you’ve collected enough data you can then start sifting through all your hands and start identifying areas of your game that are strong as well as picking out weaknesses to focus on. Stats can be filtered by hundreds of different parameters, letting you see how well or poorly you play from each position at the table, whether or not you’re defending your blinds as much as you should be, and what starting hands are your big winners or losers. The programs won’t recommend how you should play pocket jacks from early position but they can definitely increase your profits at the tables.

You can also use them to do far more than just calculate poker odds and look at your past data, as both programs include tools that pull from your database and display stats in real-time as you play at online tables. This means that at a glance you can see stats at the table such as how aggressive your opponents have played in the past as well as session stats for your own play such as how often you’ve raised pre-flop, how many times you’ve check-raised, and other valuable insights. 

Pius Heinz Wins the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event for $8,715,638

22yr old Pius Heinz from Germany becomes the first player from his country to win the WSOP Main event.

He passed through 6,865 opponents to be crowned the 2011 champ and receives his customary bracelet along with a nice $8,715,638.

The tournament that commenced in July goes on a 3 month break before the final table plays and ends the season with what is known as the 'November Nine'.

The final hand against runner up Martin Staszko saw Heinz pick up AKo. Martin shoved with T7cc and Pius made the easy call.

You can see how the hand went down in the clip below:

Smokin' Joe Frazier (1944 - 2011)

• Born 12 January 1944, Beaufort, South Carolina
• Total fights 37 - 32 wins (27KOs), 4 losses, 1 draw
• Won gold for USA at 1964 Tokyo Olympics
• Won WBA and WBC versions of world title with victory over Jimmy Ellis in 1970
• Last world title fight in 1975 against Muhammad Ali
• Retired in 1976 and made a comeback in 1981, fighting just once, before retiring for good
• Dies 7 November 2011 after suffering from liver cancer

Joe Frazier Fight Record: 32 Wins, 4 Losses, 1 Draw, 27 Knockouts

1965
1965-08-16 - Woody Goss, Philadelphia, PA, W TKO RD 1
1965-09-20 - Mike Bruce, Philadelphia, PA, W KO RD 3
1965-09-28 - Ray Staples, Philadelphia, PA, W KO RD 2
1965-11-11 - Abe Davis, Philadelphia, PA, W KO RD 1

1966
1966-01-17 - Mel Turnbow, Philadelphia, PA, W KO RD 1
1966-03-04 - Dick Wipperman, New York, NY, W TKO RD 5
1966-04-04 - Charley Polite, Philadelphia, PA, W TKO RD 2
1966-04-28 - Don (Toro) Smith, Pittsburgh, PA, W KO RD 3
1966-05-19 - Chuck (Charley) Leslie, Los Angeles, CA, W KO RD 3
1966-05-26 - Memphis Al Jones, Los Angeles, CA, W KO RD 1
1966-07-25 - Billy Daniels, Philadelphia, PA, W TKO RD 6
1966-09-21 - Oscar Bonavena, New York, NY, W RD 10
1966-11-21 - Eddie Machen, Los Angeles, CA, W TKO RD 10

1967
1967-02-21 - Doug Jones, Philadelphia, PA, W KO RD 5
1967-04-11 - Jefferson Davis, Miami Beach, FL, W KO RD 5
1967-05-04 - George Johns, Los Angeles, CA, W RD 10
1967-07-19 - George Chuvalo, New York, NY, W TKO RD 4
1967-10-17 - Tony Doyle, Philadelphia, PA, W TKO RD 2
1967-12-18 - Marion Connors, Boston, MA, W KO RD 3

1968
1968-03-04 - Buster Mathis, New York, NY, W TKO RD 11
1968-06-24 - Manuel Ramos, New York, NY, W TKO RD 2
1968-12-10 - Oscar Bonavena, Philadelphia, PA, W RD 15

1969
1969-04-22 - Dave Zyglewicz, Houston, TX, W KO RD 1
1969-06-23 - Jerry Quarry, New York, NY, W TKO RD 7

1970
1970-02-16 - Jimmy Ellis, New York, NY, W TKO RD 5
(Won WBC Heavyweight Title)
(Won WBA Heavyweight Title)
1970-11-18 - Bob Foster, Detroit, MI, W KO RD 2
(Retained WBC Heavyweight Title)
(Retained WBA Heavyweight Title)

1971
1971-03-08 - Muhammad Ali, New York, NY, W RD 15
(Retained WBC Heavyweight Title)
(Retained WBA Heavyweight Title)

1972
1972-01-15 - Terry Daniels, New Orleans, LA, W TKO RD 4
(Retained WBC Heavyweight Title)
(Retained WBA Heavyweight Title)
1972-05-25 - Ron Stander, Omaha, NE, W TKO RD 5
(Retained WBC Heavyweight Title)
(Retained WBA Heavyweight Title)

1973
1973-01-22 - George Foreman, Kingston, Jamaica, L TKO RD 2
(Lost WBC Heavyweight Title)
(Lost WBA Heavyweight Title)
1973-07-02 - Joe Bugner, London, England, W RD 12

1974
1974-01-28 - Muhammad Ali, New York, NY, L RD 12
1974-06-17 - Jerry Quarry, New York, NY, W TKO RD 5

1975
1975-03-01 - Jimmy Ellis, Melbourne, Australia, W TKO RD 9
1975-10-01 - Muhammad Ali, Manila, Philippines, L TKO RD 14
(For WBC Heavyweight Title)
(For WBA Heavyweight Title)

1976
1976-06-15 - George Foreman, Uniondale, NY, L TKO RD 5

1981
1981-12-03 - Floyd (Jumbo) Cummings, Chicago, IL, D RD 10

70 Billionth Hand Passes Through the Night

So all the Regs were mass multi tabling in an effort to be sat at 'the' table when the 70 Billionth hand on Pokerstars was dealt.

I stepped up my tables to 20 and vastly underestimated the time that it would go down. I guessed it would be at around 3am but as the volume of players went down during off peak time it actually hit just after 5am. Man, I'm tired...!!

The table was a heads up NL50 between 2 German players who had just been exchanging blinds over the previous 50 hands. This meant that the winners VPP bonus was nil as you get $500 per VPP over the last 50 hands played at the milestone table. The milestone bonus of $70,000 was however up for grabs and they flipped for it with the winner making a pair of aces on the flop. A sweet reward for being in the right place at the right time..!!

I still have never hit a milestone hand which is annoying for someone who plays a lot but my graph for the day was not too bad at all for NL50 as the games get juicy with all the recreational players piling in during these promotions:

I guess I will just have to take down the 80 Billionth hand then...!!

Later

October 2011 Review

Its all head in books these days... Learn Learn Learn.....

I played some of the micros stakes at the start of the month so there was some learnings to be had there in terms of figuring out the nuances at NL2, NL5, NL10 and NL25.

I then decided to read an Omaha book and learn some of the big points of this game. I can confirm that I hate this game. Omaha kinda goes like this:

Get AAxx, lose the hand
Get the nuts on the flop, lose the hand by the river
Get the nuts on the turn, lose the hand on the river.

The equity holdings of each player in the pot are a lot higher than in hold'em so that means people are rarely drawing dead and chase down combo draws and usually hit vs me. It is a high variance game and I won't playing much of this in the future.

Most of my time is now being spent studying for the December Exams.

I am playing my usual NL50 when I can and have got in a little bit of volume in October.


The final numbers for October are as follows:

136,000 Hands Played
12,716 VPPs

+$659 (Cash Game Winnings)
+$1,500 (FPP Cash Bonus)
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+$2,159 (Total Month)


The Ytd numbers as at the end of October are as follows:

1,155,000 Hands Played
250,791 VPPs

-$1,214 - Jan
+$1,075 - Feb
+$722 - Mar
+$4,766 - Apr
+$3,278 - May
+$415 - Jun
+$1,334 - Jul
+$2,341 - Aug
+$1,833 - Sep
+$2,159 - Oct
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+$16,709 (Total YTD)


I still have ambitions of making 300k VPPs for the year but it is going to be very tough as my exams finish on December 15th. I will probably have virtually no volume in the next 6 weeks so I basically need to get 49.3k VPPs in around 16 days in December which is around 3.1k VPPs a day.

I will need to move up to NL100 and maybe NL200 to make this happen. It might not be worth the $2,800 bonus if I have a bad run at NL200 which could be a lot more than the bonus. Lets see how it goes...

He's Repping the Jackson Five

If you don't know who Nanonoko is then you must be residing on another planet.

Seriously though he is probably unknown outside the Poker World. For those who don't know, he is the number 1 mass multi tabling grinder on the planet who plays 24 high stakes tables of 6 max cash games simultaneously.

I have included a clip at the bottom showing his sick sick skills.

In 2008 he was involved in a funny hand that I have only just found the transcript of. I had heard about the hand but never knew that he had posted it on-line.

Here it a copy taken from his forum post:

nanonoko: raises $8 to $12
uk_djerba: folds
mugsyjets: calls $8
*** FLOP *** [7c Qs 2h]
mugsyjets: bets $20
nanonoko: raises $506.25 to $526.25 and is all-in
mugsyjets said, "u beat AQ?"
mugsyjets said, "wtf!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
mugsyjets: calls $409 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [7c Qs 2h] [6c]
*** RIVER *** [7c Qs 2h 6c] [Ac]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
mugsyjets: shows [As Qc] (two pair, Aces and Queens)
nanonoko: shows [5c Jc] (a flush, Ace high)
nanonoko collected $882 from pot

mugsyjets: what a fcuking joke
mugsyjets: stupid fcuking moron
mugsyjets: youre a fcuking stupid kunt, fish
mugsyjets: runner runner flush
mugsyjets: fcuk you kunt
mugsyjets: speak up dikhead
Mooshoo: he's repping the jackson five
Mooshoo: don't hate
mugsyjets: stupid fcuking ****
mugsyjets: god damn slope
mugsyjets: fcuking jokerstars rewards morons like you is whats funny
mugsyjets: say something you gutless poussy
nanonoko: hello sir
mugsyjets: your play was so obvious you hAD nothing
micutu17: i would love to punch in the mouth whoever built the system
micutu17: def a sick *******
micutu17: always rewards fish
nanonoko: fishes call
nanonoko: hence you are the fish and i'm not
mugsyjets: fishes call???????????? thats what u say?
mugsyjets: i had you KILLED u fcuking moron
nanonoko: don't you know fishes love to call?
mugsyjets: it was an obvious steal with that overbet and now u are criticizing my play?????????????
mugsyjets: youre a fcuking joke
nanonoko: the say the best players are the ones who puts a man to a decision for all of his chips
mugsyjets: LMAO
mugsyjets: you must be another stupid fcuking asian
micutu17: lol
mugsyjets: u did and i read you perfectly
mugsyjets: fcuking donk
nanonoko: BTW
nanonoko: i am NANONOKO

Dealer: mugsyjets has a pair of Kings
Dealer: nanonoko has a pair of Aces
Dealer: Game #15889845865: nanonoko wins pot ($199) with a pair of Aces 

He is NANONOKO and with over $3m in earnings he is a phenomenon:

Graham Norton Show

I went to the Graham Norton show last night.

For those who have never watched it, it is a comedy chat show that is broadcast on BBC1 on Friday nights.

The guests were James McAvoy, Joanna Lumley, John Bishop and Nancy Dell'olio.

The Band on the night was the Arctic Monkeys.

It was an excellent show and if you get the chance to watch BBC1, then its on at 22:30.

Assault on Omaha

I have spent the last few days learning how to play Omaha. I read a book and have been playing PLO5 since.

I played a lot of Omaha hands one month last year. I played a super lag maniac style and the ups and down were huge in terms of BIs and I lost overall.

I am now playing a tighter, more controlled and intelligent style, while aggressive in good spots. I have now become a winning player over the last 4 or 5 days and I am up around 14 BIs. I have learnt a lot about the nuances of the game and am making less mistakes. I am only playing 6 tables and each is 6-handed.

This game is a lot of fun and I am enjoying playing. It takes a while to get the hang of it but it is good fun.

If you have tilt issues then give Omaha a miss as you will encounter some ridiculous shoves from villains that get there and drive you mad. It's high variance game and is more complicated than Hold'em as you have 4 cards but you must use 2 of them. At first you will get confused with when you have a flush, straight, trips and full houses but eventually it comes together.

My goal is to beat PLO5 and then move up to PLO10 and eventually to PLO25 where I will then just play for fun on occasion inbetween my NLH sessions . Maybe a few drunk gambling Omaha sessions ahead.....

We all know the best NLH hands but for those who are curious here are the Top 30 best Omaha hands (they should be double suited):

See yous on zeeee felt... later