tsiguy's daily poker journal - rags to riches to rags |
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Posted Wed Apr 05, 2006 12:41 am GMT by greathuskie
hi, welcome to the first thread of my poker journal  .
on friday, i signed up for a free 50 dollars from partypoker through some promotion website or something. anyways, yes the money came through yesterday, and after going up to 85 bucks then down to 29 and a miraculous double up (http://www.pokerhand.org/?289231) i withdrew my money at 52 bucks to deposit at PS.
so today i deposit my money on PS, play a cash game lose 6 bucks and play a SNG and go out 4th. next, i signed up for a 5 dollar 45 person tournament, and this was the result:
PokerStars Tournament #22501138, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $5.00/$0.50
45 players
Total Prize Pool: $225.00
Tournament started - 2006/04/04 - 13:38:48 (ET)
Dear tsiguy96,
You finished the tournament in 1st place.
A $69.76 award has been credited to your Real Money account.
w00t w00t. so now ive got roughly 110 in my account. been playing here and there today, winning some here losing some there, and just lost my AK to KJ when he flopped a jack in a heads up 5 dollar sng. as of right now, i have 101.72.
heres hoping some more cards fall . gonna play one SNG then go to bed. ill post more later.
btw: sngs and tourneys, besides the one, arent going my way today. however cash games ive made nearly 30 bucks in today, just to blow it all on tourneys. its normally the other way around 
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Posted Wed Apr 05, 2006 3:06 am GMT by greathuskie
so i sat at a cash game (.25/.50 NL) with 15 bucks (always do, very easy to double up. about 2 hours later im sitting tight with 73 dollars. then this happens: http://www.pokerhand.org/?290819
i played it horribly, obviously, but it happened and i cant change it now. that left me with 21 bucks. after 30 minutes and some grinding i was back to 62 dollars. at this point i figured its best to leave. i then went and angry-tilted away 5 bucks at a .01/.02 game, and now my bankroll sits pretty at 137.57.
Posted Wed Apr 05, 2006 5:16 am GMT by Johny
| greathuskie wrote: | so i sat at a cash game (.25/.50 NL) with 15 bucks (always do, very easy to double up. about 2 hours later im sitting tight with 73 dollars. then this happens: http://www.pokerhand.org/?290819
i played it horribly, obviously, but it happened and i cant change it now. that left me with 21 bucks. after 30 minutes and some grinding i was back to 62 dollars. at this point i figured its best to leave. i then went and angry-tilted away 5 bucks at a .01/.02 game, and now my bankroll sits pretty at 137.57. |
Why do you think you played it bad? I wouldn't have made the min. raise on the flop, but there wasn't anything really wrong with it. You got all your money in with AA on a non-threatning board, not much you can do if you run into a set.
On a side note, this journal idea seems like it will be fun to read.
Posted Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:04 am GMT by Muck
| Johny4444 wrote: | | On a side note, this journal idea seems like it will be fun to read. |
Yea I’m already drafting The Muck Story, “From rags to worse rags to begging naked in the gutter.”
Posted Wed Apr 05, 2006 10:59 am GMT by wEbMaStEr
Interesting reading huskie ty.
I have been keeping records of my play this week and hope to unleash it on you all on Sunday, "From riches to rags" 
Posted Thu Apr 06, 2006 12:04 am GMT by greathuskie
started off today pretty bad, lost nearly 40 dollars from cash games and tourneys, so i was at around 100. won 10 bucks in stud, another 5 in aheads up tourney, and lost a 20 dollar buy in at a cash game, and the rest of the day i just sorta floated around the 95-110 mark.
i quit for awhile, decided to come back later, and just now joined a cash game, im doing good. heres a couple highlights so far from just this game:
1.http://www.pokerhand.org/?291849
2.http://www.pokerhand.org/?291850
3.http://www.pokerhand.org/?291849
4.http://www.pokerhand.org/?291856
ill report back when im done for the night
k, i had one last hand but i forgot to get the hand history. in short, i dont know how to bluff . lost 12 bucks on that hand, not THAT much but i defenitely thought i could bluff the guy out of the pot. oh well, ABC poker is working out just fine for me . its highly underrated
k, im playing my last game for the night, a 180 person 4 dollar tournament. had a huge scare with this hand, it would have made me chip leader:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?291928
but then this hand helped alot (i nearly doubled up over the course of a few hands in between):
http://www.pokerhand.org/?291926
and just now i won a big pot:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?291929
im in 3rd place with 27 people left, top 18 get paid. wish me luck
Posted Thu Apr 06, 2006 3:26 am GMT by greathuskie
went out 4th  on a bad beat
runner runner straight on my flopped set
this sucks so bad, i only took 60 when winner of the tourney takes 215
OMFG why do i get bad beats at the worst possible times?
http://www.pokerhand.org/?291989
on that note, i went out 4th
PokerStars Tournament #22594900, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $4.00/$0.40
180 players
Total Prize Pool: $720.00
Tournament started - 2006/04/06 - 00:47:44 (ET)
Dear tsiguy96,
You finished the tournament in 4th place.
A $57.60 award has been credited to your Real Money account.
w00t, todays total balance: 193.82
post again tomorrow
Posted Tue Apr 18, 2006 10:35 pm GMT by mackkie
Reading all your hands on pokerhand I couldnt help but notice how much you like to complain about your bad beats. I love to watch people like you go crazy when you lose a hand you thought u shoulda won. We all get bad beats...learn to deal with them.
Other than that, Great job with the bankroll starting from $50.
I started out with $50 on PS, got up to $355, and just cashed out for $117 
Posted Fri Apr 21, 2006 12:35 pm GMT by greathuskie
i will finish my journal in the summer when i have a job. i cashed out my money for now, and i will redeposit in the summer when i dont need every penny i can get.
Posted Sat Apr 22, 2006 10:39 am GMT by Geno
Read some books before you play again starting with an anger management one.
Posted Tue Apr 25, 2006 3:05 pm GMT by JewishPete
the
"OMFG
OMFG
OMFG DUDE"
always gets a chuckle out of me
Remember, aces are not invulnerable...
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