Pokerstars 90 Billionth Hand Hits

I tried my best to hit the mega milestone hand by 28 tabling NL50. It was so intense as I tried to keep up with the action.

I lost $200 in no time at all before I started to get control a little. It the end I won it all back and ended even and of course missed the big one.

28 tabling is the devil...!!

The mega hand landed on a 6max NL200 table and all of the players won big especially m1sspiggy with a whopping $67k:

The Lame Min 3bet

This type of tiny or minimum 3bet really does price me in with pretty much any 2. If we pretend that he has a full stack he should be look at making a solid 3-4x sizing. As he is a shorty he can get away with less but his choice is still too small. As there is also an overcaller I will definitely call here with any 2.

Sometimes I will jam this turn but I don't think I have much fold equity versus the overcaller. With just over 30% equity I chose to flat and he got the worst card in the deck.

Run It Twice on Pokerstars Cash Games

Run It Twice (RIT) is now enabled on certain cash games on Pokerstars.

This should help reduce a bit of variance while only taking a couple of seconds longer. The rake is still the same when you RIT.

I'm going to give it a try and see how I get on.

When my whole stack is in the middle I usually get it in good so am open to and get a fair few beats every single day. During my recent 4 month downswing RIT could have helped me mentally when I was going a bit crazy.

The flip side is you are giving a chance to the villain to chop the pot when you are good. I will have to figure out if this run it twice is a good thing or not.

Here is how to select RIT:

Sometimes You Just Want To Gamble

Villain here is a solid reg but his squeeze is quite high at around 10% also his fold to 4bet is high at around 72% over a really big sample (close to 10k hands).

Normally I would fold here to his Jam but the cards looked so pretty. I'm hoping for an AK here as I would only be like a 60/40 dog but against an overpair I would be an 80/20 dog.


Poker Stars $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players

BTN: $50.00
SB: $27.40
BB: $89.66
UTG: $114.94
UTG+1: $52.16
Hero (UTG+2): $58.00
MP1: $42.34
MP2: $50.09
CO: $56.52

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is UTG+2 with 9 T
1 fold, UTG+1 raises to $1.25, Hero calls $1.25, MP1 calls $1.25, MP2 raises to $7, 5 folds, Hero raises to $15.29, 1 fold, MP2 raises to $50.09 all in, Hero calls $34.80

Flop: ($103.43) J 8 J (2 players - 1 is all in)

Turn: ($103.43) 9 (2 players - 1 is all in)

River: ($103.43) 9 (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $103.43
Hero shows 9 T (a full house, Nines full of Jacks)
MP2 mucks Q Q
Hero wins $100.93
(Rake: $2.50)

Challenge Update: 100 Stacks in a Month - 24/11/12

Just under +84 now

Year Graph in Big Blinds, So Far.....

Clear Blue Sky - Followed By Ghosts - The Entire City Was Silent - 2007

I don't often list to music when grinding but when I do I like to choose something with as few words as possible.

This means I usually go for something like drum n bass or dance.

I have also used this type of music on occasion when winding down and reviewing my hands on holdem manager.

I used this relaxing track while watching my bad beats :)

Good to keep the mind mellow sometimes...

Same Track with PBF Training:

Nit Spew or Misclick?

I am really not sure wtf happened in this hand. A solid 11/9 nit opens 15x from the CO then jams over my raise:



Looks like a misclick followed by a 'F*** it' shove..!!

Challenge Update: 100 Stacks in a Month

Its been a few days now since I wrote about my latest challenge which was to win 100 stacks in a month. Since that post you can probably guess what happened. Yes, I went on a mini downer (10 BIs) but I have pulled it all back and am pretty much where I was when I published the post:

He Trapped Himself