Deep At FullTilt's $17,000

"Someone please slap me"! Once again today i was able to get deep in an online MTT. This time it was the FullTilt Poker's $17,000 with a $24.00 buy-in. I was able to make the 1st hour with a double stack of 6000 right before break time.

After the second hour i was able to build up a slightly above avg stack. And then heading into hour number three i was solidly in 9th place with 89 player left. I was feeling very good about making another final table.

Then i pick up AQo in #2 position and raise to 4000. The small blinds pushed to around 11,000 for me to call. I make the call and the flop come Q-J-T giving me top pair and top kicker. Now this is where my lack of MTT skill comes into play.

Had i taken my time i would have just bet half the pot. But instead i pushed all-in;And ofcourse the guy calls with JJ for trip Jacks leaving me praying for a major suckout.

It's just another lesson learned for me as i am still learning the ropes for MTT play. All in all i was pretty happy with my results;But i still feel that i have a very long way to go!

I decided to play this tourney very strongly early and it paid off somewhat. I was basically looking for the chance to double up before the 1st break and i was able to do so.

Tilt has another tourney starting in 2 hrs or so with the same buy-in. I am really interested in playing in this one also. I have run pretty bad in the sng's lately but to my own fault to be honest.

I feel pretty good about the 2008 poker season; As i feel that i will make alot of final tables and go deep in alot of tourneys. I have put in almost a year of just working on getting better and learning as much as i can.

PokerStars $20+2 $20,000 Guaruntee Poker Tourney

I use the 10% bankroll rule for a max 3 buy-in without a cash rolling system. Using this method my sessions can be anywhere from 3 hrs;And anywhere from 8-12 hrs. I am not so concerned with the theory of 30-40 max buy-ins per tourney entry.

To me this seems very one sided and leaves no room for other games such sng's for roll building. I pretty much will enter one or two Mtt's and if i am not able to cash i will fall back into the sng grind for a certain day of play.

Today i played the $22/$20,000 MTT on Stars. I was able to make the 1st hour pretty much with ease. But once the second hour of play started; I was faced with the situation of playing in the 10-13(M) area.

For the 1st few hands that i played i was able to take down a few small pots. But as

the blinds got alittle bigger this hand came up!

PokerStars Game #13943278250: Tournament #70445354, $20+$2 Hold'em No Limit - Level VII (150/300) - 2007/12/18 - 13:45:36 (ET)
Table '70445354 129' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: Kanlund (7179 in chips)
Seat 2: bigjeffstud (4720 in chips)
Seat 3: arrogantione (13009 in chips)

Seat 4: SR8tAcEto5 (3270 in chips) Here my M is around 6.5 and i should be looking to play a pretty strong hand preflop. I also want to be the 1st to enter the pot as well. But the mistake that i made was getting into the pot period!!!!! QJ was a good enough hand to shove with in my position in a unopened pot. But the limper in front of me posed a very fucked situation for me.

I cannot tell you how many times i have made this mistake. I keep trying to drill this shit into my head; But i guess i am to slow or too stupid to realize the chip spewing right in front of me.




Seat 5: call2light (3177 in chips)
Seat 6: pupette2000 (6563 in chips)
Seat 7: lubomiir (6248 in chips)
Seat 8: scottyrm3s (4619 in chips)
Seat 9: Bismarck777 (6365 in chips)
Kanlund: posts the ante 25
bigjeffstud: posts the ante 25
arrogantione: posts the ante 25
SR8tAcEto5: posts the ante 25
call2light: posts the ante 25
pupette2000: posts the ante 25
lubomiir: posts the ante 25
scottyrm3s: posts the ante 25
Bismarck777: posts the ante 25
call2light: posts small blind 150
pupette2000: posts big blind 300
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to SR8tAcEto5 [Qh Jd]
lubomiir: folds
scottyrm3s: folds

Bismarck777: calls 300 "This should have set off alarm bells right here!!!!" If i was holding a medium pocker pair such as 88+; This would have been an instant shove for me. Even if i held a hand such as KQ/AK/AJ(maybe) i would have pushed all-in.





Kanlund: folds
bigjeffstud: folds
arrogantione: folds
arrogantione said, "shoulda known you were about to make a desperate call"




SR8tAcEto5: raises 600 to 900 "Here i commit 30% of my chips with "Very Low" M!!! This is yet another horrible move! The Gap concept has to be respected as well in this situation. I am obviously behinds with low M, and then i compound matters becoming pot committed as well.




call2light: folds
pupette2000: calls 600
scottyrm3s said, "hey lubo did that to me arro"
Bismarck777: calls 600
*** FLOP *** [3c Qs Ad]
pupette2000: checks
Bismarck777: bets 600
call2light said, "you made an excellent play"
SR8tAcEto5: calls 600
pupette2000: folds
*** TURN *** [3c Qs Ad] [4h]


Bismarck777: bets 900 "THIS IS OBVIOUS RESISTANCE!!!"




SR8tAcEto5: raises 845 to 1745 and is all-in "DEAD MAN WALKING"!!!! PLEASE POKER GODS GIVE ME A QUEEN!!!!!!!!!!




Bismarck777: calls 845
*** RIVER *** [3c Qs Ad 4h] [Kh]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Bismarck777: shows [As 9h] (a pair of Aces)
SR8tAcEto5: shows [Qh Jd] (a pair of Queens)
Bismarck777 collected 7765 from pot

*** SUMMARY ***(GOOD GAME ME) This is a perfect example of donkey play at it's prime!

Total pot 7765 | Rake 0
Board [3c Qs Ad 4h Kh]
Seat 1: Kanlund folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: bigjeffstud folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: arrogantione folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: SR8tAcEto5 (button) showed [Qh Jd] and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 5: call2light (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: pupette2000 (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 7: lubomiir folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: scottyrm3s folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: Bismarck777 showed [As 9h] and won (7765) with a pair of Aces

SUNDAY $170,000 MAJOR MICRO TOURNEY

This was my last hand of the tourney!

PokerStars Game #10956093196: Tournament #54733964, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level IX (300/600) - 2007/07/15 - 17:06:20 (ET)
Table '54733964 139' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: deadmonie76 (26100 in chips)
Seat 2: TejasHoldem (15075 in chips)
Seat 3: zgembo (16965 in chips)
Seat 4: NeVeRHoLD (11035 in chips)
Seat 5: a9ballplayer (14152 in chips)
Seat 6: whoflungpooh (17025 in chips)
Seat 7: TPupp (19960 in chips)
Seat 8: SR8tAcEto5 (3242 in chips)
Seat 9: HiHoNo (9105 in chips)
deadmonie76: posts the ante 50
TejasHoldem: posts the ante 50
zgembo: posts the ante 50
NeVeRHoLD: posts the ante 50
a9ballplayer: posts the ante 50
whoflungpooh: posts the ante 50
TPupp: posts the ante 50
SR8tAcEto5: posts the ante 50
HiHoNo: posts the ante 50
zgembo: posts small blind 300
NeVeRHoLD: posts big blind 600
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to SR8tAcEto5 [Jh As]
a9ballplayer: folds
whoflungpooh: folds
TPupp: raises 1200 to 1800
SR8tAcEto5: raises 1392 to 3192 and is all-in
HiHoNo: folds
deadmonie76: folds
TejasHoldem: folds
zgembo: folds
NeVeRHoLD: folds
TPupp: calls 1392
*** FLOP *** [Qd Kc Js]
*** TURN *** [Qd Kc Js] [7c]
*** RIVER *** [Qd Kc Js 7c] [9s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
TPupp: shows [Ad Ks] (a pair of Kings)
SR8tAcEto5: shows [Jh As] (a pair of Jacks)
TPupp collected 7734 from pot
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*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 7734 | Rake 0
Board [Qd Kc Js 7c 9s]
Seat 1: deadmonie76 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: TejasHoldem (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: zgembo (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: NeVeRHoLD (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: a9ballplayer folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: whoflungpooh folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: TPupp showed [Ad Ks] and won (7734) with a pair of Kings
Seat 8: SR8tAcEto5 showed [Jh As] and lost with a pair of Jacks
Seat 9: HiHoNo folded before Flop (didn't bet)