4-tabling

[NellaKreb 0]

Daniel "KidPoker", just played a "training" match vs nanonoko in a 4 table session. According to nanonoko, they played 2501 hands and nanonoko "won" with a $900 profit. Smells like Daniel's gearing up for an Isildur1 Showdown...

[FCP Bob 1,321]

Daniel blogged about it.http://www.fullcontactpoker.com/poker-jour...&ucat=&

[NellaKreb 0]

Whoa. Another training session in the books.Just got done watching Daniel play another 4 table session, this time against "ZeeJustin". It wasn't pretty! For Justin anyway. Preliminary unofficial stats make Daniel at least a 15K profit winner and it could be as much as 20K, given that he ended the session with about 26.5K spread out across the tables. At around hand 1500, he was up 13K and change. Official stats are gonna have to wait a little while. I don't know if Daniel's going to blog about it again tonight or if he's in the process of doing so as I write this, but in the event that he doesn't, here's a little recap for those who missed it: The session began just after 10pm here on the East Coast and ended just before 3am. Daniel essentially owned the match. Most of the time he had 6 or 7x as much as Justin on every table except one, where they were pretty much even most of the time with around 2K each. Justin was between a rock... and a bottomless pit. Most of the rail, the few there were who could say anything (which seemed a lot fewer than last night), were just saying how hot Daniel was running when the conversations they were having did have to do with the session. Yes that was part of it. But more than that, Daniel looked like he was a lot more comfortable and confident after his tough match with "nanonoko" last night. Towards the end, Justin went on a small rush, but it didn't last long. It was too little too late, esspecially after he bluffed all-in with an open-ender on the turn and got called down by Daniels' top-pair (A's). I would've liked to see Justin call the last hand of the match (not that I wanted him to lose any more), so I could see the hole cards they both had. Justin raised to $30 pre-flop, Daniel called, the flop came 10d-Qc-9c, check - check, the turn came Jc, Daniel bet $40 - Justin raised to $140 - Daniel called, the river came 10h, Daniel bet $1,440 into a $335 pot, Justin folded. Daniel claimed Q 10 in the pocket and Justin claimed A K with the Ac, not to say they were lying, but I would've liked to see for myself.Ok, the official results are in. From what I attained, they played 2494 hands and Daniel won $16,277.75. 2 interesting things I noticed from the match were first the pre-flop raise sizes. Daniel always min-raised and Justin always made it 3x the BB ($30), when they did raise, and I'm pretty sure Daniel never just limped in. The second thing was the 3-betting. It seemed like Daniel did almost all the 3-betting pre-flop and Justin was satisfied to just call or fold, unlike nanonoko last night who had no problem 4-betting pre-flop. Different styles breed different stories of success and failure. Better luck next time Justin, which might be on Tuesday from the conversation he and Daniel had after the match. Daniel said he's playing "2easy" on Monday, so check it out if you get the chance.On a side note, it must be nice to play at a table where the maximum rake is 50 cents when you're playing for thousands.Oh btw... GO STEELERS!!! I hope they win today the way Daniel did tonightIt's cool, I live in Pittsburgh, I'm biased

[custom36 5]

Oh btw... GO STEELERS!!! I hope they win today the way Daniel did tonightIt's cool, I live in Pittsburgh, I'm biased

I actually thought your post was kind of cool. And then I saw this. j/k...kind of. God I hate the Steelers.

[NellaKreb 0]

Oh chit, guess I shouldn't have said anything, maybe they would've won (lol, thanx man

[NellaKreb 0]

Daniels' third 2,500 hand session just ended and it was a pretty good one.Tonight he faced off against "bmwmcoupe" as he continues to train for Isildur1. Watching the session, it seemed closer than the final stats would indicate as provided by "bmwmcoupe" - they played 2,506 hands and Daniel won with a profit of $11,252. This match was a good one. For the first half of it they were sharing the tables, each being chip leader at 2 of the 4. The action wasn't bad at all, raising and reraising with a lot more 4-betting preflop than his Saturday night session with "ZeeJustin". Early on it seemed like Daniel didn't want to just call raises from "bmwmcoupe" preflop, opting instead to 3-bet it or fold. As in the Saturday session, Daniel's preflop raises were min-raises and his opponent raised 3x the BB. Towards the middle of the session he began to call more often, feeling out his tough opponent whom he refered to as such - Daniel: "You are the toughest I've faced by far". But as the match went on he turned the heat back on, 3-betting more and regaining the chip lead at all of the tables. Around this time, Daniel pushed all-in at one of the tables where it seemed that "bmwmcoupe" was commited after betting about $650 on the river, leaving him with just over $500 left. But he folded, prompting him to say - "I don't like playing you, lol". To which Daniel replied - "lol, You use to" - "bmwmcoupe": "haha, ya". "bmwmcoupe" did leave with the chip lead at one table though, $4,545.75 to Daniels' $2,757.25.The match started just after 8pm on the East Coast and ended at about 12:20am. With about 100 hands left I lost my connection. Luckily I was able to get it back (with 70 hands left) just in time to see Daniel disconnect, lol. He switched computers and wasn't out long. The last 70 hands were uneventful. Daniel reiterated after it was over that "bmwmcoupe" was the toughest player he had faced. He also said that he thinks he's ready for isildur1 and said during the match that it could be set as early as a month. I had never seen "bmwmcoupe" play before but he played well in my opinion, even if the stats don't agree. This was a good match to watch. A few more like this and Daniel really will be ready for Isildur1, lets just hope he's doing his homework and watches Isildur play in the coming days and weeks. I know I will be, this coming Sunday for example.

[DanielNegreanu 141]

Trying to decide who to play next. Any suggestions?

[BellaireDrew 2]

Trying to decide who to play next. Any suggestions?

I'll 4 table you at 100nl. 5/10 is too high for me

[NellaKreb 0]

I liked the idea of Veldhuis, but this morning I watched "urnotindangr" play Isildur, maybe there's a good direction for you, he beat Isildur pretty good.or maybe try a different direction like Liv Boeree, considering she just won the Sunday warm-up, but I don't know how prevalent she is in HU. But women deserve a chance to help you train too right...

[NellaKreb 0]

Oh yah, "ADZ124", "Sauce123" and "nutsinho" are a few others.

[custom36 5]

Oh yah, "ADZ124", "Sauce123" and "nutsinho" are a few others.

Who ARE you? I assumed just a random fan...but now I'm not so sure

[FCP Bob 1,321]

Who ARE you? I assumed just a random fan...but now I'm not so sure

I'm about 98% sure he's just a casual player who loves poker. There are thousands of people out there who love to rail big limit and big name players online as entertainment. I think what's throwing you off is that he's literate when so many new people who post on forums aren't.

[custom36 5]

I think what's throwing you off is that he's literate when so many new people who post on forums aren't.

Lol, that's part of it. The thing that made me ask was that his posts are so long and detailed, especially for a new guy. I didn't realize there were legitimate high-stakes railers.Welcome new guy.

[NellaKreb 0]

Wow, you guys get up and post early. At 6am over here I'm catching the first few minutes of Stern before I pass out. I generally don't come on 'till about 8pm, howerver I'm a bit late tonight and missed the first half of this nice 3-table, 6-max, 100/200 action Daniel's gettin' into tonight. I might just have to start coming on earlier anyway.Bob has it right, I love watching poker and I love playing poker, you can add the other 2% now. But I only like watching high limit games and mostly players I recognize, unfortunately Stars doesn't have very many big games (like the one we're watching tonight), unlike FullTilt where they seem to happen much more often. I don't like FullTilt though and I'm not gonna go over there just to watch. I think PS is an all-round better site, we need to work on getting more of their big names over to Stars, lol. I never considered myself a railer, more of an observer, in any case I would never say anything to the players at a table I'm watching (unless I knew them personally), I'm not that kind of fan (or railer - lol).I'm new at posting anything really, it's kinda insane that I didn't even know about this site (or that it's Daniels') untill a few days before I signed up, and I've been playing at Stars for a little over 2 years. I think the site is great though. Good job guys.And thanks for the welcome custom36, glad to be here.

[NellaKreb 0]

I'm not going to post an analysis or recap of Daniels' 3-table session tonight. For now, most of my posts will stick to Daniels' training sessions heading up to the Isildur1 Showdown. But there is 1 thing I will mention about tonight... Wow "ADZ124", hit-'n-run artist, I didn't expect that. Just plays a few more small hands then sits out for a half hour before disappearing so it doesn't look like it (I guess). But maybe I'm out of line... I don't know the guy, maybe he had some real life emergency that just happened to coincide with his win-'n-dip, maybe he was sleepy...

[NellaKreb 0]

Poker anyone??If you were looking for some TeamPro action, then I hope you found it with Daniel playing his fourth $5/10, 4-table, 2,500 hand training session. If not, you're in luck! Although I refer to them as "training" sessions, they're a lot more than that...Here's the recap:Daniel vs "MyRabbiFoo" This was a kind of - "You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" match, with both players using each other as a wall to bounce ideas off of, without saying much, and sharpen their skills as the both prepare for their respective Isildur1 Showdowns. The action was fast and strong early, and trust me, the replay button was used often. Both trying to impose their will, with an underlying tone of respect, as they battled it out.With almost 1,000 hands played, Daniel was up almost $2,500 in profit.In the middle of the match, there appeared to be a sort of... stale-mate, even though there was still plenty of action. Just as I was writting that thought down to comment on it, the action started getting heavy again. Daniel hit a set with pocket 10's at one of the tables on the flop and got paid off when he bet half his stack on the river and got called, for an almost $2,500 pot. A string of big pots rattled off, leveling the chip stacks at all of the tables but one, the one where Daniel had just hit his set of 10's. Then just like that, Daniel got it all in on the flop with pocket K's, 2 spades on the board and his opponent drawing to the flush. A spade on the river forced Daniel to reload. 1 hand later it happened in Daniel's favor on another table, this time they waited 'till the turn to get it all in, "MyRabbiFoo" pushing there with Q's in the pocket after Daniels' lead out bet. He turned over the spade flush and with only 4 outs left "MyRabbiFoo" couldn't hit 1. "Rabbi"s' flush earned him a $4,629 pot and Daniel earned a $4,933 pot for his. 2 nearly $5,000 pots back to back! Towards the end of the session (on the same table that Daniels' K's lost to his opponents flush on the river) it happened again. After reraises preflop and on the flop, Daniel made a good, yet tough, all-in call on the turn with pocket 10's where "Rabbi" just had the nut-flush draw. Once again, the flush came. 4 hands later on that table, Daniel doubled-up when he hit a 6 on the river to give him 2 pair when his opponent had flopped top-2 (5-4 to Daniels' K-6). Unfortunately, not long after that "MyRabbiFoo" again took all of Daniels' chips (on that same table) with pocket Q's when Daniel bluff check-raised all-in on the turn (on a 6-8-6-6 board) with A J off. The J on the river was obviously no help. This was a heavy weight fight! (at slightly less than heavy weight stakes). A little more than 5 hours long, starting at 8pm EST and ending a little after 1am."MyRabbiFoo" said in the latter stages of the match: "I don't even know what planet I'm on right now." Don't worry, you're on a good one man. And you've earned your place with the good play we just saw as well as your past good play. Good luck vs Isildur on Sunday.This match ended extremely close, with Daniel having just over 14K spread across the tables and "MyRabbiFoo" with just over 16K spread out at match end. Official stats:From what I could find, there were 2,497 hands played, with Daniel... losing... $234.25. Although, according to a tweet posted by Daniel, he won with a profit of $194 and "MyRabbiFoo" ended with a loss of $646. But like I said, It was extremely close.-Thinking about it though, considering the rake, with a rake of $.50 a hand @ 2,500 hands, that's a rake of $1,250 ($625 each). So with a match this close (which ever way the stats went), neither player truly profited financialy. I think it's safe to call this one a draw.ggg

[ahosang 0]

Poker anyone??............

Fantastic reports. I actually read them because you write them with a fairly energetic tone. Thing is I don't think many in this subforum really care about poker or DN's results. I don't either, but like I say, I read your posts, because they're good.We kinda post here about politics. So, things like how much Obama sucks, healthcare, philosophies of life(although religion subforum is down the street), media role in political structure, etc.You'd probably get some better responses in the 'general poker' subforum.

[Mercury69 3]

Trying to decide who to play next. Any suggestions?

The Steelers. They're probably still kind of reeling from last week's session.

[NellaKreb 0]

Thanks for the reply ahosang, I'm glad you've enjoyed reading what I've written.And thanks for the tip. Maybe I will see about transfering my topic over to the General Forum, eventually.

[Balloon guy 158]

Thanks for the reply ahosang, I'm glad you've enjoyed reading what I've written.And thanks for the tip. Maybe I will see about transfering my topic over to the General Forum, eventually.

Well written indeed.I would imagine if you could see all the hands you could a lot more.Daniel, send him the hand histories!

[NellaKreb 0]

Hahaha, hand histories are the 1 thing I probably don't need. What I'm more interested in are stats such as hand ratios, the number of hands won per player and the percentage of hands won per pot size, for both players, against all of the different challengers that Daniel has faced. However I probably wouldn't add those things to my recap posts as to not give an unfair advantage to any players who may play or replay Daniel in the future that might happen to read my reports.But thanks anyway though Balloon guy.

[NellaKreb 0]

I debated wheather or not I really wanted to come on and say anything after the Showdown today between "Isildur1" and "MyRabbiFoo", not that I was gonna post a recap about it, but I actually do want to say a few things that I was thinking about.I didn't find this to be a great match (I'm not really sure why), but despite what the rail was saying, it was pretty good for at least the first half. Make no mistake, even though it was a blood bath, it didn't really come on 'till the fourth quarter (even though Isildur yoyo'd as high as 60K and pretty much back to even before ending 111K profit winner). Speculation as to why it happened like that, so late in the match, can run wild, but it might go back to something "MyRabbiFoo" said the other night in his session with Daniel that I mentioned in my recap post: "I don't even know what planet I'm on right now". Around the time things started going really wrong for him tonight was about the same time during his match with Daniel that he said that. Exhaustion combined with playing this format at much higher stakes than you're use to against someone like Isildur, seems like the most obvious reason for his downfall (not to mention getting it all in good several times vs Isildur and being drawn out on to make a stress fracture even more compound). But even a logical analysis is still just speculation, like I was saying before.I can tell you one thing that would have annoyed me If I had been playing and having a tough, stressful session... the Host stat announcements. At the request of observers, the host posted the stats far too often, sometimes as close as 100 hands apart. I can't imagine any player wanting to constantly be seeing the stats when their name isn't the the one they see almost the entire time right before the phrase "...leads the match". I think, at most, the stats should be posted every 500 hands from the beginning of the match. Also, I don't know if he had his observer chat off but I hope he did. The rail was merciless, and it got worse towards the end. R.I.P. Doyle jokes turned into "R.I.P. Rabbi", "MyRabbiFail" and a whole lot more. Suprisingly, the rail helped make the match for me. Mostly for when they were joking on each other and small jokes like telling people that were asking for stats to hit alt+F4. (And no, I never hit it - lol). The rail is often annoying and distracting when watching a match (which contributes to having to use the replay button a little more often), but they had their moments, as they usually do. I know however, that I'm probably going to have to turn observer chat off when it comes time for the Daniel vs Isildur Showdown (at least on 2 of the tables ).Oh yah, and about the Host stat posts... since it is so easy for them to keep track of the stats, Daniel should ask them if they wouldn't mind posting the stats at the end of the training sessions he plays. Of course they would send him the stats in a private email if he wanted them to, but doing it like that doesn't make my "job" any easier, haha.See ya, 'till the next training session.

[NellaKreb 0]

One other thing...As the Showdown "Went-down", I noticed that Isildur started playing in some of the same tourneys that Daniel was playing at that time, almost like he was taunting Daniel. Am I reading too far into that...What do you guys think??Speaking of the guy, he just sat down at 4 of the Daniels' Room $50/100 tables. Maybe I'm not reading too far after all. Gonna check it out for a little while.Make that 6 of the Daniels' Room tables and he's got some action goin.Somebody get a hold of "GoMukYaSelf", "WheresMyRoll" and the others sitting out and tell them to get in there! lol-1:50 am now, Isildur's sitting at 13 tables and playing a $5,600 HU SNG.He has only been able to get action on about half of his tables at one time, most players leaving his tables (esspecially the $50/100 tables), forcing him to run around and chase them to other tables, LOWER tables.He's probably up at least 60K, not including the SNG's where I know he's won at least 3. However, he did drop around 90K in a few PLO sessions after his Showdown match today.2:21 am out East and his session appears to be over for the night. I actually thought he was gonna out last me.It looks like he did get the 90K back in the session he just finished. Showdown (111K) - PLO session + late night NLHE session = 111K. lol, from what I could find.

[NellaKreb 0]

Well, since Daniel hasn't played any 4-table training matches this week, his last one being last Thursday against "MyRabbiFoo", I thought I'd write about something relevant to the main purpose that Daniels' training sessions are intended for (his upcoming, highly anticipated Isildur1 Showdown). Therefore, Isildur and his recent sessions become the subject.I haven't figured out wheather his alias "Isildur" means something in Sweedish, like "beat durrrr", or if he's just a big fan of Lord of the Rings... But after watching him since he has arrived at PokerStars, I do know 1 thing... He's COMMITTED!This guy is a machine (maybe literally). He's been playing 6-table sessions everyday, mostly against "urnotindangr", at the same $50/100 stakes used for his Showdown Challenges. Playing more than 1 session a day with sessions lasting from 3 to as many as 9 hours at a time, while also playing either a PLO session or one-after-the-other $5,500+$100 HU SNG's at the same time sometimes. Almost always having between 200 & 300K in front of him, spread across his tables, after 10K buy-ins and rebuys, he's quickly establishing himself as the most regular highest stakes player at PokerStars, providing the biggest games on the site DAILY!Isildur's fearlessness was reflected in a message he left tonight on one of his comment boards while playing, after someone wrote on the same board: "isi is getin durrrrd by sauce123 BIG TIME down about 175k!! F**K me hes getting his swedsh a$$ spanked over the table". Isildur simply replied: "Dont worry about it bluffr22, its only money". Today he played 2 long sessions with "Sauce123" back-to-back, a relatively short session with "takechip" after that, then a mix of 6-max PLO and HU $25/50 PLO, and Just got done playing 3-tables with altiFC in another, what is standard for him now, $50/100 NLHE HU game . Who knows what other action he was getting into before hand, since I only started watching as he was playing "Sauce123", but you can be sure that he had a few other sessions before that. After reaching a valley in his online cash games on Jan. 29 of this year (since he joined PS in Dec.) at down $650K, he has made his come back, briefly breaking above even a little while ago before stats showing that he dipped back into the "Red". Last stat track shows him in the "black", but wheather he is in the "Red" or the "Black" at this moment, he appears to be very close to even, plus or minus 50K . Isildurs' Showdown matches are "only" 4-tables and 2,500 hands. It seems like the amount of time and number of sessions he's been putting in this week, playing at least 2,500 hands a day and sometimes even 2 or 3x that many, that it must be making his Showdown matches easier and easier for him, which was shown as he played multiple Sunday tournaments while in the middle of his Showdown match vs "MyRabbiFoo". With Daniel not playing as much online, even though he has been playing a lot more recently, from being (as he said in a tweet a few days ago) "poker'd out" and being tied up with other things such as TV cash game filming, I hope he gets a lot more time online in training sessions before his Isildur Showdown arrives (considering how Isildur demolished "MyRabbiFoo") or it probably won't go as well in Daniel's favor as I'm sure most of us want it to. On the other hand... Daniel has done very well in his training sessions and has been playing at these types of stakes and higher for at least 3 or maybe even 4 times as long as Isildur has, and considering how well he can and has adapted (esspecially to the 4-table format), maybe the preparation he has done and has yet to do will be enough if the Showdown between these two is any time soon. Only time will tell!Poker anyone???...

[NellaKreb 0]

Daniel's playing a $0.25/0.50 9-max table right now, for anyone interested. Apparently doin' a little "challenge" work...