Show Us Your Hands Contest - Phil Galfond Will Review Winning Hand

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Cardschat and Runitonce.com are please to announce a new contest. We want to see your best/most interesting/craziest hand, just one, with as much or as little analysis as you think will give you the best chance of winning. Cash, tourney, hold'em, omaha, whatever you want, the type of hand doesn't matter, as long as you make it awesome.

To enter you should:
1) Record your hand to video or use a replayer or grab a screenshot.
2) Post it to youtube.com if you made a video.
3) Post it in this thread.
Extra Credit: Link it to the Cardschat Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/CardsChat) and/or share it with @cardschat on twitter

At the end of the contest period the mods will choose the winners based on your presentation, interest, analysis, the phase of the moon, etc.

Prizes:
1st Place: One Month Elite Membership ($100 value) to Runitonce.com plus Phil Galfond will personally break down your hand.

Runner-ups: Five (5) runner-ups will get a 3 Month Essential Membership ($30 value)

So go check out Runitonce.com and get started on your entries. The contest starts now and the entry deadline is Valentine's Day (February 14th). You may enter as often as you like.

Good luck.
 
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Can't wait to see Ducky's recreation of a live hand. ;)
 
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Offer some suggestions on how to convert old hands to video.
 
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Chrome blocks camstudio form downloading because it says the setup is malicious. Any other good free recorders?
 
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Chrome blocks camstudio form downloading because it says the setup is malicious. Any other good free recorders?
It's not malicious but I don't know of any others.
 
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I've used Blueberry FlashBack Express Software to make videos before which is really good.
 
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I've used Blueberry FlashBack Express Software to make videos before which is really good.
Feel free to link to it as long as it's freeware. As to my earlier statement that CamStudio isn't spyware, it seems that lots of people have issues with the latest version so I'm going to remove my link to it from the OP. Sounds like it may still be an option but I'm not 100% on it so download at your own risk.
 
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Everyone getting their entries ready for this?
 
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i have a photo of a hand i played on my ipad, and the history of it... but im not exactly sure how to convert it to video with just screenshots of hand history and final showdown...

but im sure ill figure it out :)
 
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If you download a program called Universal Replayer, you can input the HH and then run through the hand as normal, explaining your thought process on each street. Good luck!
 
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When I first saw this thread in the latest post sections I thought some one from CC had a hand fetish =o
 
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Updated the rules in the OP to allow non video submissions since you guys seem so shy.
 
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Updated the rules in the OP to allow non video submissions since you guys seem so shy.

Maybe some one should update the thread title to mention Phil Galfond to get more traffic

I'll look through my HH
 
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Updated the rules in the OP to allow non video submissions since you guys seem so shy.

My Hand History is such a mess, this the only trouble spot I could fnd since I posted it before..

Game started at: 2013/12/16 16:57:14
Game ID: 232314170 100/200 $1.50 Regular 9-Max, Table 1 (Hold'em)
Seat 2 is the button

Hero is dealt J♦ J♥
Seat 2: Adroit (6640).
Seat 3: peteL (3191).
Seat 5: SemperV60 (3669). <---- Hero
Player peteL ante (25)
Player SemperV60 ante (25)
Player Adroit ante (25)
Player peteL has small blind (100)
Player SemperV60 has big blind (200)
Player Adroit calls (200)
Player peteL folds
Player SemperV60 raises (400)
Player Adroit calls (400)
*** FLOP ***: [9h 9d 10d]
Player SemperV60 bets (688)
Player Adroit calls (688)
*** TURN ***: [9h 9d 10d] 3♠
Player SemperV60 allin (2356)
Player Adroit calls (2356)
*** RIVER ***: [9h 9d 10d 3s] 2♥
------ Summary ------
Pot: 7463. Rake 0
Board: [9h 9d 10d 3s 2h]
*Player Adroit shows: Three Of Kind of 9s [9s 8h]. Bets: 3669. Collects: 7463. Wins: 3794.
 
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Come on Cardschat community I'm disappointed in you.. Phil Galfond is one of THE best cash game players there is! He does a very good job analyzing his and others play. Everyone should be jumping on this opportunity (Especially Cash game players)

Step it up guys!
 
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This was an interesting hand for me. I flopped the nuts but when turn paired the board, thought that I was possibly crushed. However, the turn also brought me the straight flush open ender. Decided to raise the turn for value and when I was called was tempted to give up. In the end I went for a value bet on the river. Was it too thin?

Villain's stats: 30/7 over 71 hands - 1.2 Agg

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.16 BB (5 handed) - PokerStars Converter Tool from http://www.flopturnriver.com/



SB ($18.69)
BB ($14.83)
UTG ($17.18)
Hero (MP) ($16)
Button ($6.64)

Preflop: Hero is MP with 5
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, 7
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1 fold, Hero raises to $0.40, 2 folds, BB calls $0.24

Flop: ($0.88) 4
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, 3
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, 6
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(2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $0.48, BB calls $0.48

Turn: ($1.84) 4
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(2 players)
BB bets $0.96, Hero raises to $4.64, BB calls $3.68

River: ($11.12) 9
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(2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $6.40, BB calls $6.40

Total pot: $23.92 | Rake: $1.08

Results below:
BB didn't show but had 5c 2c
Hero had 5
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, 7
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(flush, nine high).
Outcome: Hero won $22.84
 
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The Game: Standard $1-$2 casino game, but with a few regulars.

The Time: Degenerate time - 3 o'clock in the morning on a Saturday.

The Hand: Full table, and fairly loose passive. Chips haven't been flying around per se, but the bad, hat-wearing lady-reg two to my right is on tilt after getting it in boat < boat, and the overall atmosphere is fairly "gambly."

Preflop: Decent, older reg with surprisingly long (but not hippy-ish) hair makes it $10 UTG. Bad, hat-wearing lady-reg flats in UTG+1, as does UTG+2, who is a tightish unknown, looking like a semi-reg. Hero looks down at :as4: :ac4: and pops it to $40 (starts the hand $240ish deep). My sizing could go as high $50 here, but my raises had been getting a fair bit of respect. I wanted to leave a lot of room for UTG to re-pop if we were in a cooler situation, but also trying to get HU or 3-way. It folds to UTG, who hesitates, but calls - bringing the other two along with him.

Flop: ($160) :kh4: :kd4: :4d4: (4 players)
UTG doesn't take long before leading out $40. Tilting, bad, hat-wearing lady-reg grumbles but folds, and the tightish player to my immediate right folds. UTG villain is someone who knows enough about the game to understand that he is betting a very small amount relative to the pot, but he probably doesn't give me enough credit for interpreting his bet sizes. We have a little history, but not a ton. Villain thinks highly of his own game, and while he knows I'm a reg, I don't think he views me as a threat at the table. I think his bet narrows his range immensely. Even though he leads small, I still don't think he leads at all with a K in his hand. In the moment I put him almost exclusively on 99-QQ. Probably none of those 4-bet preflop, so I don't discount QQ at all. I flat because I think I fold out that entire range by trying to raise for value.

Turn: ($240) :6h4: (2 players)
Villain asks how much I have behind. I quickly count out my stack, which is $162 (SPR = 2/3), and tell him. He counts out $165 in red and lines it all up in one stack. He grabs it near the bottom as he would to push it in, but then just "adjusts" it. It looks like he was going to shove and then chickened out. He checks while looking at me. After this it's certainly possible that he was just trying to discourage a bet from me. Again, I beat his entire range and don't get any value from betting, so I check behind.

River: ($240) :8c4: (2 players)
Villain thinks for about 20 seconds, then actually puts the rest of his stack on top of the $165 in red (he covers me by about $50), and moves his stack in. I think for a few moments, making sure I still like my thought process, and I call.
 
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lol feels like 8s or 6s ;) but nice explanation.

Might look up for a hand as well in HH.
 
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