Comatose_Soul
-
Content Count
212 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Calendar
Posts posted by Comatose_Soul
-
-
I'm not arguing. The main reason I posted this was because I thought it was interesting how my 'feelings' and my mind were contradicting each other and affecting my play.I literally said 'this guy has Aces,' out loud when he min raised UTG. I've been running real cold, so this is probably what put this in my head (I have no other reason to think he has Aces -- I even checked my PTracker DB, and I've never sat at a table with this player before.) So it comes around to me in the SB, and I agree 100% the right play is to re-raise. I had Aces in the gut though (contradicting the logical part of my brain,) and said I'm calling and folding if I don't hit a Q.Obviously I didn't hit a queen. But at this point the logical part of my brain starts to kick in. I've got an over-pair and a backdoor straight draw. Surely he does not really have Aces -- I can get him of this hand. I bet out close to the size of the pot. He calls.Turn comes, and I slow down when I probably should not have. I agree with Absolute's assesment of turn raises (it was not as strong as my flop bet,) it smelled afraid -- and I think I was. I was looking at any 8 having a straight, and my illogical gut was screaming Aces again. With the logical side of my brain and my gut at war, I compromise and make the bet I made (a bad one - agreed.)River is pretty much a blank, but I'm spent. Two sides of me are screaming at each other and I'm practically waving a white flag. Yet he only bets 300. I start racing through what he could have, AJ? Maybe he missed the spade draw? AQ and he missed the straight? I had to know, so I called and he flipped over AsAd.you played this whole hand like a donk."i thought he had aces"cmonthere is no way you can put him on aces unless he told you "i am minimum raising because i have aces"not re-raising this pre-flop should be a poker crime.poker isnt a game about "feelings". its about making correct plays. this isnt one of them.your bet on the flop is fine.on the turn, when i see someone double their previous street bet, or bet less size of the pot than the did on the previous street, its a huge indicator of weakness. if i were the villian, id take your hand away from you right there.your check on the river is worse, and any decent player can take that pot from you by pushing right there. -
He had AK - and my flush never came.
-
He's been pretty tight. He's the short stack, and my impression is that he's been waiting for around for a good hand.
-
99.9% of the time I agree -- I'm gonna re-raise to see where I'm at, but for whatever reason I had a sick feeling about this one, and I went with my gut and just called.I'll give the outcome tonight or early tomorrow morning
-
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t100 (6 handed) converterButton (t1540)SB (t4350)BB (t1260)UTG (t1980)Hero (t1360)CO (t1075)Preflop: Hero is MP with Td, Th. 1 fold, Hero calls t200.Flop: (t1150) 4h, 4c, Qs (2 players)CO has T575 left, Hero does what?(I busted out a few hands later in 10th when my KK got busted by AJ - flop was A high, turn another A, river a blank.)
-
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t20 (9 handed) converterUTG (t1140)UTG+1 (t1290)MP1 (t1390)MP2 (t1330)MP3 (t1240)CO (t2320)Button (t1770)Hero (t1540)BB (t1480)Preflop: Hero is SB with Qh, Qd. UTG raises to t40.
For some reason I immediately thought Aces when the guy min-raised, figured some sort of good hand. So I simply called.Flop: (t140) 7s, Ts, Jc (3 players)Hero bets t100, UTG calls t100, MP1 folds. 
Ok, normally a great flop for me, but I was thinking the guy had a monster earlier. I bet ~2/3 of the pot, and the min raiser calls.Turn: (t340) 9d (2 players)Hero bets t200, UTG calls t200. I'm sick about this hand. I've got a pair of overs and an open-ended straight. I bet a little less than 2/3 of the pot, and the min raiser calls again. He has to have a hand now I'm thining.River: (t740) 4d (2 players)Hero checks, UTG bets t300 What now? He bets T300 into a T740 pot, he wants me to call does he not? -
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t20 (9 handed) converterMP3 (t1720)Hero (t1490)Button (t1460)SB (t1480)BB (t280)UTG (t1400)UTG+1 (t1160)MP1 (t1460)MP2 (t3050)Preflop: Hero is CO with Qs, Ks. UTG calls t20, 3 folds, UTG folds, MP3 folds, Hero calls t60.Flop: (t340) 2s, Kh, 5s (2 players)SB bets t80, SB calls t380 (All-In).Final Pot: t3030Too aggressive for Level 1? What hands do you put the SB on?
-
I only had:6. Michael Mizrachi10. Chris FergusonBut I still have:3. TJ CloutierIn the top 10 of the 5k NL event (think Harman got 16th as well.)So this week has been good so far
-
Thanks for the pics! Enjoyed them.
-
At least http://www.forumspile.com is getting some good use today...
-
so much
-
1 - Anyone, no cost. If you want to watch a final table on the bleachers, you need to show up early and wait in line (line started about 2-3 hours early when I was there.)2 - Rio Convention Center -- don't go through the casino if you can help it (saves 5-10 minutes of walking.)3 - Past 2 a.m. depending on the event, #s, etc...
-
I had mentioned in an earlier post that I had seen someone snaggin a Doyle autograph during the Limit event:http://www.fullcontactpoker.com/poker-foru...6261&highlight=Anyways, I'm still surprised they allow spectators to get autographs at all 'during' the action. Should be limited to breaks only IMHO. And even then the fans should not expect them.Date / Time: 2005-06-14 13:16:00 Title: Warning To the Crowd Log: Tournament directors have just issued a warning to the crowd. "Do not ask for player autographs, while they are in a hand." This seems like a no-brainer, but this should be common knowledge for fans of any sport. -
premature introduction?I noticedt he same thing earlier this morning.
-
I raise 60-75% of the hands I play. I don't play 60-75% of the hands I'm dealt ;)Playing hold'em I'll see anywhere between 15-30% of the flops depending on how I'm running, and if the table remains full. 30% is generally my peak on a full table.your raising 75% of the hands you play????? do you know how high that is. I hope you don't play alot of hands. -
Two quick thoughts -- I've really not pondered this very much.First, I probably raise about 60-75% of the hands I play (Ring Games.) I normally notice two things happen when I'm raising everytime I'm in a hand: stealing on the flop is easier (or works more often,) and generally someone at the table will get frustrated and either push-in on me, or start re-raising more often (normally someone starts playing a lot looser when I'm in the pot.)Second, while I generally like what Chris Ferguson is saying here, there seems to be more and more players that like to just call. Regardless of what they have, they call. They can have pocket rockets, flop a set, and just call, call, call. I think you have to be very careful of these anti-action junkies (I hate to label them calling stations, because they generally won't call you down with a 'bad' hand.)Like I said, just two 'quick' thoughts...
-
Oops - wake me up after lunch :-)considering there was only 212 entries and only 18 got cashthat is impossible -
1- E-dogWhy you have to throw that stack away brother! :evil: Still have:6. Michael Mizrachi10. Chris Ferguson13. John JuandaAlso had several of the guys that (EDIT) came close to the final 18:1- E-dog4. Marcel Luske8. Phil Ivey17. Howard Lederer19. Ted ForrestHopefully Freddy Deeb can take down that pot-limit hold'em event ;)16. Freddy Deeb
-
Hopefully people are not sick of these already, but here is a small report from my Vegas trip back on the 2nd
I plan on updating my blog in a few days with more detail about my trip and all the poker I played. But for now, here are my thoughts on the WSOP.WSOP – Trip ReportMy buddies and I arrived in Vegas around 5 p.m. I had wanted to go directly to the Rio to sign up for event # 2, but apparently my buddies did not have the same urgency. We got checked-in to our hotel and headed to the Plaza to play their 7 p.m. tournament. One of my buddies busted out early and went over to Binion’s for their 8 p.m. tourney.During a break I call to find out what he is up to. Apparently some people at Binion’s are telling him that Event # 2 is full already. Bleh! I make the final table of the Plaza tournament (only had like 32 players or so,) but bust out on the bubble in sixth when my K10o doesn’t catch anything against a Q9o that catches a 9 on the flop. So now one buddy is in the money for the Plaza tournament and the other is at Binion’s.Soon enough we’re all wrapped up (one friend busted out of the Binion’s tourney, and the other finished third in the Plaza tourney.) We jump in our rental car and speed on over the Rio. I had never been in the Rio, and was very impressed with their convention area. It was HUGE, and very nice. We walk up to new player registration, and the line did not look too bad (maybe 50-75 people waiting.) There was one worker with a WSOP badge that we tried to get some information from. He knew absolutely nothing. The best information we could gather was from other people in line; ~2070 players registered for event # 2 and there was talk of them allowing another 100 alternates.We figure we’ll look around a bit before we decide if we want to be an alternate or not. We round a corner and bam, at least 100+ maybe even 150+ people waiting in line to pay for event # 2. Looking at a 2-3 hour wait, the two of us that were going to play event # 2 decide against it (maybe a poor decision in hind-sight, from what I heard ALL 300 alternates got into the event within the first 30 minutes.)Looking around, the event room was the largest I have ever seen. In fact it was a bit too much for me. They had event #1, cash games and single table satellites all running in different sections of the same room. The staff were all very friendly, but very clueless. The flow of information was horrendous. Ignoring the lack of information about the actual series, the cash game setup was nice. Very easy to get signed up and in a game, and easy to see where you were on the list. It looked like they had brand new tables, new cards and the chips looked new as well (I didn’t see the chips up close because we didn’t play a single hand at the Rio that weekend.)So my first impressions were basically that the room was impressive, almost intimidating, the tables looked nice, and the sign up process sucked. Hopefully next year, we will be able to sign the ESPN release online and print our own player registration cards. In addition, it would be nice to have some more online payment options – or at least be better prepared for the opening day madness. Finally, the staff need to carry head-sets and be better informed.It was not until Sunday that I broke away from my buddies to actual watch some of a WSOP event. I strolled in about a half hour into the Limit event. I was pretty surprised about how loose and unorganized things appeared. Access to the tournament tables was pretty much wide open. I even saw someone getting an autograph from Doyle during the action (Doyle was out of the hand, but still) – this floored me. Doyle was awesome about it, and all smiles, but damn, can’t you wait for a break or something? There were flashes going off left and right. At times there were even people sitting directly behind a player for a little chit-chat during a hand (not something I expected to see at the WSOP.) I have no idea how the pros feel about all this, but I wanted a bit more separation. Just seemed like the fans had too much access to the players during the events.The other interesting/surprising thing I witnessed was the first blind change. There was a pretty visible tournament clock with the blinds posted, and when it switched, I heard Doyle’s dealer say that they don’t actually change until the tournament director announces it. All well and good, except after five minutes, there was still no announcement and the other tables had already started using the new blinds. Again, a little more unorganized than I had expected.All in all it was exciting, and that is all that matters really. Hopefully next year (or even further into the events this year,) they will be a little bit more organized, and figure out how to better handle the large numbers. It would have been nice if the Rio/WSOP staff kept better track of the tournaments. I would have liked more monitors in the room with event information. Posting event results somewhere would have been nice too – was pretty lame that I had to go to the cardplayer booth just to get information about the previous day’s events. -
I'll be there Thursday - Monday.Plan on playing Event #2 if there is still room Thursday night.
-
support@FullTiltPoker.comThey are normally extremely responsive.
-
I'm sure just about everyone has made a bad call or bluff before; however, have you ever played a single hand so badly that after all your money or T-chips are scooped away you just kind of stare off into the distance, wondering who the hell that idiot was that played so poorly? Just one hand where you break down and show absolutely no patience, or discipline. Anyone?! :shock:
-
Just wanted to drop a thank you in this thread for all the great info Harry drops on us from time to time. Thank you!You might have answered this already, but are you registered for Event #2 (I assume you are.) Just curious - I'll be there on Thursday (the 2nd,) no idea if I'll be playing or not though.
-
I've got company this weekend, and I'm in Vegas next, but I could probably put some php/mysql stuff together on my website (Mammoth Works,) using any formula people agree to by mid-June.That works comatose, so I guess the question is...Are you going to keep the leaderboard updated or is Tritz?
nl 2 table sng - hand #1
in General Strategy
Posted