Well 2niteI couldn't come through on my guarantee to win the math. I did decently, but was basically owned.
One thing I noticed though is the gheyness of the blogging community. I talk some smack and they're all about thinking I'm some asshole when they all talk smack every tourney. Please..
Some of these people think they are somebody.
Lol..
OK.
Yes folks, thats right, going to take it to the blogging community tonight and make smokee cry!
I am guarranteeteeteein a win tonight for Trailer Park Poker at the Math..
Yeah Baby...
Yeah...
For those of you who don't know my handle on FT is Prophesy... Keep yours eyes open and everyone sign up to try to knock me out! I need mo money! YEah baby!!
YEAH!!
Yeah, the hot ones! No, not those, the ones that are like jalapeno flavored.. AHhh yes, there they are. Hook the king up baby, ummmm.... Tasty.....
Ok, now that I've had my fix, I'd like to make a post bout the last few weeks. I'm settling down into a daily poker routine. I get home round 11 or so on the week nights and round 12 or so on the weekends. I typically get involved with the midnight madness on FT and something or other on UB. Sometimes I'll play more then two tourneys, but for the most part I'm attempting to limit my play and focus more upon those that I am playing. And I must say, its really starting to work out well for me. I've made two decent cashes in this time and I've cashed or bubbled in most others.
Last night sucked somewhat as I just cashed for minimum amount on ub and I played a pair of pocket bitches like shit on FT causing me to bubble, well click here to see that hand. I mean preflop I did well. After that however. I just needed to lay it down on the flop bet ol guy threw out there. I have thought about it and feel that his flop bet amounted to 1/3 of what he had left. This should of been like him jumping up and down saying dude, I have an ace! Or two! Perhaps I Could figure he'd have two kings but that would be a stretch and even so he'd still beat me! I knew I was beat when I called the 1k bet, but I just could not lay it down! WTF! I am finding myself having this problem lately. I'll know I'm beat, heck a couple weeks ago a friend was sitting next to me, I had hooks in a similar situation and turned to my buddy said I'm prolly beat but called anyways. Why can I not figure this out and lay them down!!!
I would like to take a moment now to comment on the rant I'm not going to get into about that donkeys call with a8 to my raise. Was my raise too big pf? Well, anyh00, no rant on his preflop play. As pathetic as it was.
But, I am aware of my problem and every time I come into that situation I will know I'm there again and will hopefully find the ability to start laying them down. I mean this really crippled me, I went from being in the top third to being in the bottom 20 in one foolish hand where I knew I was beat yet called anyway. This is why I am a fish.
Least I got pickles.
Well, I figure I am going to talk a little bit how I begin my tournaments. I am going to qualify this by saying that I have had some success playing online tournaments, but really, I'm just a donkey who has probably lucked out for around 4k worth of winnings. I've won two mtt's, and finished on the final table in like 8 more out of say 200+ mtts online I've played. I have money'd countless times. I figure I've got a 10-20% money rate in my tourneys. Probably closer to the 10%.
That being said, I want to share with you my early game strategy... This strategy works exceptionally well on UB since they've got those dirt cheap blinds to start out with. But, basically I play an extremely lp game Loose and passive. I call with virtually any two cards. Well, no, not any two. I do have strict guidelines with a calling hand, but at the same time they include a very wide range. I love the suited connectors. Hell in the really cheap stages just any two connected cards will do and if they're s00ted and within 2-3 places of each other they will do as well. Once I call the bb by limping in mightily, I will typically call any raise up to 8bb. I do this just to give an impression of a calling station and two because if I hit with my 57s00ted, I'm going to get paid 95% of the time in a big way. Pocket pairs are great to play of course. I always limp with pp unless jj-aa. If jj-aa I will raise 3x-4x with jj-kk, and 2-6x with aa. The reason for the wide variance with aces is mainly blind size. I want to make at least a 15% of my stack raize here. I feel this is the right amount to protect from guys like me and enough to lure the "sharks" in to feed on my rockets. Course if I hit a set, if I have a terrible image I may just all in or I may just slow play and hope for a big bet from an aggressive guy. I've found that most people online are passive though and will not give you a bet. So much check raising going on round here people are scared.
So, now I'm rolling along calling my ass off and typically dwindling away to 1.2-1.3k after starting with 1.5. At this point if I've not hit anything I will tighten up to hoy hoy standards. Basically, I'll raise with pocket pairs and high s00ted connectors. I'll raise at least 3x the bb, but on some occassions I'll limp if I am afraid of giving that impression of now I got something so I'll raise. I want my table persona to be he could be calling or raising with anything, I want people to think I suck and am someone they can certainly outplay after the flop. So hopefully I've gotten that persona made and can get anyone to call a decent raise. And hopefully my hand will hit the flop. If its a high pair I'll pretty much be committed to it unless they play at me and I'm in position. If I'm outta position with a high pair I will push hard on the flop regardless. I'm in this to win and I need a big bump early to settle down into holdem foldem mode. So either my big pair holds or I go down really low.
If I do got down to the under 650 range, I am playing all in or nothing. Very occassionally I'll get a hand I try to limp in with but by now the blinds are escalating to a higher percentage of my stack then I can afford to play with. And you'll notice if a short stack limps a lot folks will pop it up whether or not they've a hand or not. I certainly do :). All in or nothing. That means I stick to the hoy hoy standards aa kk qq jj, ak, aq s00ted (depending on if I feel lucky). At times I will go a little below those standards like a small sooted connector but more often then not those will be the hands I try to limp on when short stackin it.
This style of play requires a great deal of discipline. It is very easy to call off more chips then you need to when you hit a str8 or flush draw on the flop. Typically I suggest dropping your hand if you do not hit the flop for real. Nuts. This style of play focuses on promoting a terrible self image and allowing your opponants to feel that you've got a weak hand while he calls off all his chips to you. So don't be that peron who has the weak hand while going all in trying to bluff yer opponant off. Drop your weak hands soon as they hit shit, push lightly and try to utilize position. If you're last to act make a 2/3 pot bet on flop if noone else has. If its called be careful of firin a second bullet. One thing bout online play is everyone and their fuckin brother thinks their gods gift to poker and check raises. I've never seen so much check raising as I've seen in the past month or so online. Its amazing. People cannot just bet out anymore. Even guys with top pair will check raise lol, hell I've seen someone check raise with a jack with a queen on the board. Its hillarious.
Ahh well, thats bout it for my early game. I know you'll probably not read this and you'll think I'm a fool for it if you do, but hey, thats my game sir!
Take care,
T2T
King TPP
Suprisingly I did ok.
What a donkey Last Hand though!
Yeah!
So I recken I'll document here. As of now its 430am in ta mo'nin and I'm considering the joys of my future adventures.
Myself and SteveO are heading to the big V. We're not really going to become gamblers, we're just going to make a new life. Eastern NC is spent. I mean if you'd like a job slinglin or delivering pizza, well come on down, but other then that. PFft, good luck. So we both figure well what more do we have to lose? Its not like we can't get a job... Its not like we can't be poor bitches somewhere else... So we're going to vegas with enough to buy a few months rent and hook us up with some broke bitch jobs. I'll work towards obtaining quality employment like I had once upon a time before eastern NC and then I'll bring the ol lady on down...
The excitement of being poor.. YAy! But I feel that if I let it slip, if I do not do it. I'll just be letting myself down. Perhaps I will fail miserably but perhaps it will be that thing which I tell my grandchildren bout how I changed my life by doing. Whatever the case may be, I do feel like it will be an adventure, and that is what I am shooting for. So stay tuned, I'll have my lil kodak digital cam cam and my HP lil pute pute, and I'm sure there are plenty of wireless nodes too hook up with on the way! WOOHOOO gd, I'm excited.
Till the next one!
Later slabes!
T2T
Yeah.... You heard it here first bitches.. The king of tpp is moving to vegas! Ok... Don't believe me.
It's a done deal.. Course I've not told the ol lady yet, but she'll go wherever the king goes so thats all good. LOL...
Later slabes,
Tommy2tone
