So where are you guys this month? lol

No big cash for me in August and feeling a bit washed out so I have decided to mix a lot of $5 games in this month. Please tell me they all play like this at that level lol:

PokerStars Game #32394202920: Tournament #191369854, $5.00+$0.50 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level III (25/50) - 2009/09/03 13:35:17 ET
Table '191369854 197' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: FlopHorror (3540 in chips)
Seat 2: Y.S.o43 (2835 in chips)
Seat 3: buoya (4175 in chips)
Seat 4: dakota-xx (2730 in chips)
Seat 5: gotta419 (8355 in chips)
Seat 6: dzedze63 (2950 in chips)
Seat 7: LäckBobby (4870 in chips)
Seat 8: momoney0115 (7345 in chips)
Seat 9: twotimes35 (2200 in chips)
LäckBobby: posts small blind 25
momoney0115: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to dakota-xx [Jh Jd]
twotimes35: calls 50
FlopHorror: folds
Y.S.o43: folds
buoya: calls 50
dakota-xx: raises 150 to 200
gotta419: folds
dzedze63: calls 200
LäckBobby: folds
momoney0115: calls 150
twotimes35: calls 150
buoya: calls 150
*** FLOP *** [8d Qd 2d]
momoney0115: checks
twotimes35: checks
buoya: checks
dakota-xx: bets 500
dzedze63: calls 500
momoney0115: folds
twotimes35: folds
buoya: folds
*** TURN *** [8d Qd 2d] 6♣
dakota-xx: bets 750
dzedze63: calls 750
*** RIVER *** [8d Qd 2d 6c] 5♥
dakota-xx: checks
dzedze63: bets 1000
dakota-xx: raises 280 to 1280 and is all-in
dzedze63: folds
Uncalled bet (280) returned to dakota-xx
dakota-xx collected 5525 from pot
momoney0115 said, "lol what are you kidding me?"
dakota-xx: doesn't show hand
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 5525 | Rake 0
Board [8d Qd 2d 6c 5h]
Seat 1: FlopHorror folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: Y.S.o43 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: buoya folded on the Flop
Seat 4: dakota-xx collected (5525)
Seat 5: gotta419 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: dzedze63 (button) folded on the River
Seat 7: LäckBobby (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 8: momoney0115 (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 9: twotimes35 folded on the Flop

I may be in this thread for the month, going to start playing several micro-donkaments a week...is it ok to call them donkaments in here?

I suppose so lol.

Anyone had any luck satteliting into a WCOOP? I've thrown about $10 at the little rebuys to #6 but no luck.

Yea - I understand about the check raise. I just thought at that point it was a fold or a raise - no point in leaving myself with 280 chips. I probably should have bet the river - though as it turned out I got 1000 extra chips by checking. Definitely a busted flush draw - just can't believe he put all that money in the pot and then folded with 500 chips left lol.

But there is a point to keeping 280, that's probably what is meant by chip ev, right? More important to ensure survival than possibly add 5% to your stack...especially since there aren't many hands that would call that you have beat (better hands or bluffs bet that river). I guess Adx that paired the board might call, doubt TT/99 would call along and then bet on the end.

Will def be posting in this thread as well since MiniFTOPS is running this month. Might play a few WCOOP events as well, not sure.

No big August cash either, but meh can't really expect it.

Semptember on the other hand.... 1k cash here we go! I'm playing 25NL and $5~ MTTs but more cash. Still hope to get 1/2 MTTs in a day and end up with 30+ for September

Best o luck to the rest of ya

Originally Posted by dakota-xx

Yea - I understand about the check raise. I just thought at that point it was a fold or a raise - no point in leaving myself with 280 chips. I probably should have bet the river - though as it turned out I got 1000 extra chips by checking. Definitely a busted flush draw - just can't believe he put all that money in the pot and then folded with 500 chips left lol.

the check on the river is IMO the best possible play. i think almost any hand that calls your bet either has you beat or will bet the river if you check. but there are way too many hands that will bluff the river that will never call a bet. i posted a hand on another forum where the pot was so big and i ended up broke because i raised allin for the small remainer of my chips intead of just calling. people pointed that out to me and i will not make that mistake again i hope. this is the whole point of ICM. the bigger stacks the value of each chip is less. in a smaller stack each chip is worth more. and this is a good eg clearly that 280 in chips will be worth more if thats all you got as opposed to it being added to a huge stack.

Failed to cash in a couple nlhe, but won a small HORSE dollarment tonight.

Originally Posted by cardplayer52

the check on the river is IMO the best possible play. i think almost any hand that calls your bet either has you beat or will bet the river if you check. but there are way too many hands that will bluff the river that will never call a bet. i posted a hand on another forum where the pot was so big and i ended up broke because i raised allin for the small remainer of my chips intead of just calling. people pointed that out to me and i will not make that mistake again i hope. this is the whole point of ICM. the bigger stacks the value of each chip is less. in a smaller stack each chip is worth more. and this is a good eg clearly that 280 in chips will be worth more if thats all you got as opposed to it being added to a huge stack.

Thanks for the feedback! I did manage a small cash in that tournament - wasn't much but have to hit the money once in awhile if you are playing tournaments, even for some small cashes. Once I changed my goal last month to final table instead of just cashing I found myself cashing a lot less often. So that is what I am struggling with at the moment.

Good job D'Wil on winning that tournament!

Only one tournament for me this weekend - that is the Pokerlistings freeroll at Pokerstars. They are giving away 106 WCOOP tickets and I expect the field to be under 1000.

I already have one $215 ticket that I will use on Sept 13th or 20th. Another one would be sweet - especially a $320, $530 or.....$1050! Gotta get to the top 6 for one of those. But 7th-106th is a $215 and I won't be unhappy with one of those either.

Other than that I will be with drunk Irish friends til Monday night. (and my husband who becomes Irish with them hehe)

Folded Jacks in the blind after super nitty player raised big to half allin. Was obv too much to call to see flop and thought it was extremely likely I was crushed.

relevant stacks
BTN with 4599
BB [Hero] with 6246

Blinds: 150/300
Site: Full Tilt Poker
Dealt to BB:J♠ J♦
Preflop:
1 players fold.
UTG+1 calls [300]
2 players fold.
MP3 calls [300]
1 players fold.
BTN raises to 2,100
2 players [Hero] fold.
UTG+1 calls [1,800]
1 players folded.
Potsize: 4950
Flop:
Q♣ J♥ J♣
UTG+1 bets [3,365, and is all in]
1 players fold.
BTN calls [2,474] [ all-in ]
UTG+1 shows :
10♠ K♣ BTN shows :
K♠ K♦

Won a ticket in the dollar rebuy satellite to the 80k (T$55) on stars. These are a really good value for small bankrolls if you can find time to play at 2 eastern. Pokerstars adds 5 tickets to a field that only generated 18 others.

Near bubble, nerve racking deuces shove vs raiser that had been putting pressure on shortstacks. Probably should have waited for a spot to shove/steal (or already done so before blinds hit me), but was getting short and liked my odds of flipping with dead money that would secure the win.

relevant stacks
SB with 44346
BB with 30265
CO with 94490
BTN [Hero]with 10812

Blinds: 1500/3000
Site: Pokerstars
Dealt to BTN:2♥ 2♣
Sklansky group 7
Preflop:
3 players fold.
CO raises 3000 to 6000
Hero raises 4512 to 10512 [ all-in ]
2 players fold.
CO calls [4512]
Flop: J♦ K♣ 3♥
Turn: K♠
River: 9♥
Results:
titerephil shows a pair of Kings: A♥ 7♦
Hero shows two pair, Kings and Deuces: 2♥ 2♣ Hero collected 27624 from pot.

Hand that ended it, super shortstack on big blind spared when healthy stack shoves over limpers and gets KO'd by rags.

I'm having fun donking it up at the $2.20 Bounty tourneys on Carbon. 2 outright wins in 4 tries so far...

Whats the definition of micro here?

I think it was $25 and under when first thread was started. Don't know why its called micro tbh, micro makes sense for the cash game thread, but not here.

I only called it that cause that was how it started lol. I can take the micro out - cause we only have a small group of members who play MTT's.

Besides - some of mine this month definitely won't qualify as micro hehe.

I like this thread

I satied into the Full tilt Mini Ftops Horse event on September 15th which happens to be my birthday...Cost 7.00- Prize pool $50,000

Considering FTOPS mini games what ones look like the best structure to you guys?

Well, it looks like they make it a little better for each increase in buyin. The $33 looks pretty good, superstack with 12, then 15, then 20 min levels.

Satied into FT Mini tops #4...gonna withdraw this into T dollars and enter another $20.00 tourney


Event 1( nl Holdem) has huge field and very nice payouts

or

Event 3 (L omaha /8) has smaller field and smaller payout


These satellites are beatable

Originally Posted by the lab man

I like this thread

Originally Posted by dakota-xx

I only called it that cause that was how it started lol. I can take the micro out - cause we only have a small group of members who play MTT's.

I like this thread and I'm definately playing micros .... and I found out I'm best at mtts, maybe through CC freeroll training ?
Last/this weeks results on FT added.... and I won the CC-Bodog FR last week, cashed in the UB CC freeroll, too.

Funnily I completely sucked at the sats to the DD - but I think I can shrug that off.

Yo dudes, I hate donkaments but thinking of playing the mini ftops event #8 and #24 maybe event #1 aswell.

You guys can buy into these with your ftp points which is the only reason I am playing them!

I think the term donkament should only be used to describe tournaments with buyins <$5.

You simply cannot call >$5 tournaments donkaments when they require considerable skill to be profitable in any meaningful sense.

Most people that frequently use this term to describe MTT's are simply players that do not understand how tournament play differs from cash.

My best result until now, this month, on MTTs:

Good job jijiboss!

Okay I am back in action today. Though some of my tournament time will be taken up watching videos, etc. I am not expecting Sept to be anything special - but October or November will be my month!

I haven't been fairing so well on the tourney front, my best finish so far this month was 113th place with a field size of 6718.

I seem to find when I want to make a move I almost always choose the wrong time which ends up crippling me or costing me my stack.

i dont play many multi table tourneys. i neither have the time nor the patience. I played the cc pokerstars deepstack on sunday - the structure was nice (lots of room for manouever ) but the lenght of time it took nearly drove me batty. i just dont think i can concentrate for that long.

i dont think i have the patience to play for hours and only make a few cents above buy in. obv my mentality is not suited to mtt.

i respect those who can mtt with rgularity. How do you get the time or the space in the day not to be interuppted?

I am fortunate that I don't have a real job and Joe is at work during the day. With no kids it is just me and the dogs. I try to workout and run any errands in the morning and I play my tournaments in the early afternoon. When Joe gets home he works out and showers. If I am still in a tournament by then it means I am itm - so he doesn't mind that I am still playing.

I walk the dogs right before I start - and with the synchronized breaks now I can take them out for a few minutes every hour.

Unfortunately for my poker most days I am done by the time he gets home lol.

My life is tough.

Originally Posted by ace2daface

How do you get the time or the space in the day not to be interuppted?

- I don't sleep much on the weekens (my gf sleeps loooong, usually until 1pm) and I'm awake at 6-7 ready for poker (without being disturbed )

- I multitable 4 mtts - then they're not so boring.

- I suggest working on your patience - it will help you in sngs, cash + real-life, too.

Nice read on my part - I knew I had him beat. He kept coming way over the top to defend his big blinds lol. Sad.

PokerStars Game #32607648412: Tournament #193236406, $10+$1 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XIII (200/400) - 2009/09/08 16:17:10 ET
Table '193236406 186' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: lenorultra (33512 in chips)
Seat 2: jvengrin (10061 in chips)
Seat 3: ricodelsud (20750 in chips)
Seat 4: jostein333 (39469 in chips)
Seat 5: datantchowda (6940 in chips)
Seat 6: 4Lim (15311 in chips)
Seat 7: henri177 (12994 in chips)
Seat 8: dakota-xx (9889 in chips)
Seat 9: Gavs666730 (18450 in chips)
lenorultra: posts the ante 50
jvengrin: posts the ante 50
ricodelsud: posts the ante 50
jostein333: posts the ante 50
datantchowda: posts the ante 50
4Lim: posts the ante 50
henri177: posts the ante 50
dakota-xx: posts the ante 50
Gavs666730: posts the ante 50
Gavs666730: posts small blind 200
lenorultra: posts big blind 400
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to dakota-xx [Kc Ac]
jvengrin: folds
ricodelsud: folds
jostein333: folds
datantchowda: folds
4Lim: folds
henri177: folds
dakota-xx: raises 800 to 1200
Gavs666730: folds
lenorultra: raises 6000 to 7200
dakota-xx: raises 2639 to 9839 and is all-in
lenorultra: calls 2639
*** FLOP *** [6s Th Ts]
*** TURN *** [6s Th Ts] 3♦
*** RIVER *** [6s Th Ts 3d] 3♠
*** SHOW DOWN ***
lenorultra: shows [Td Kd] (a full house, Tens full of Threes)
dakota-xx: shows [Kc Ac] (two pair, Tens and Threes)
lenorultra collected 20328 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 20328 | Rake 0
Board [6s Th Ts 3d 3s]
Seat 1: lenorultra (big blind) showed [Td Kd] and won (20328) with a full house, Tens full of Threes
Seat 2: jvengrin folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: ricodelsud folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: jostein333 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: datantchowda folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: 4Lim folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: henri177 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: dakota-xx (button) showed [Kc Ac] and lost with two pair, Tens and Threes
Seat 9: Gavs666730 (small blind) folded before Flop

I've been playing mainly the $3 and $6 KO 90-player tourneys on Full Tilt lately, and been hitting a couple of satellites for the MiniFTOPS tournaments (won entry to the MiniFTOPS Event #1 on Wednesday, and the MiniFTOPS Event #8 on September 13 - I ended up unregistering for the MiniFTOPS event that was $10+$1 rebuy tournament that I won entry to), and satellites for the $20 tournament (Bring $22 and a dream tournament) on Sundays, which I have been hitting every other week.

Every once in awhile, I'll jump into a large $10 tourney, and that's something I shouldn't be doing while on a downswing, lol.

Lately, I've been on a bit of a downswing, trying to get that back up. I think it has something to do with the lack of playing live lately. I haven't played a live game in about 3 months. Been playing all online, and though, I do enjoy playing online, it's much more fun for me to play live. And it's easier to get tells, lol.

Geez... you guys are so lucky. I finally had a day off from both school and work on Monday, so I threw a good chunk of my BR at a $2.75 7K guaranteed MTT on Stars and ended up taking down 141st place for $33 and change.

Just think if I had a lot of time on my hands what I could do? Wait... nevermind, don't answer that.

LoL, nice run jazz. I play that one sometimes too...and the miniftops sats like mortis. rebuy satellites may turn out to be most profitable form of poker for me. I'm decent at going deepish/survival poker and stealing late game rather than chip accumulation/taking first place...so they are much more suited for me than regular tournaments.

Also, you play less rake on your investment since the rebuys aren't raked, and if I rebuy to start and addon, almost always have ~average stack+ after the rebuy period, with higher ratio of ticket value to investment than players left to players paid.

I've only played ~15 for ~$30 investment so far, but have cashed 6 for $176 in prizes (only a few this month). Not going to claim that's sustainable, but its not just a lucky run as I get close or in good position anytime I rebuy to start and addon. I've tried to make it on just the original buyin a few times and that's not a good idea.

I failed in my next attempt at that $55 ticket when I spewed most of a 55bb stack with bottom two pair on bb limped flop 'special' when half the field was already gone and I could have easily just played small pots/stolen blinds until near the bubble.