very weird

Last year when I won my seat to the Main Event, I couldn't sleep all night. I took a nice walk around the neighborhood at some ungodly hour like 1AM (it was may, it wasn't 30 degrees). I still couldn't sleep. My brother, who had gone to bed before the tournament ended, woke up at around 4 for bathroom related reasons (if I remember correctly), checked the results and called me. I hadn't yet fallen asleep.

This is completely different. Last year I think I made playing in the WSOP as a sort of benchmark. It meant "Yes, I am officially good." And now, many months months later, I no longer need that affirmation - I know I'm good. I fully expected to play in this year's WSOP Main Event. I'm happy, sure, but it's certainly a different feeling.

The best way to describe the feeling is by saying "Well, I'm glad that's out of the way." I got my seat, I can play the rest of these tournaments for the cash. And I plan on playing quite a few of them for that cash, it's worth noting.

There are a few of you who read my blog regularly who need to get cranking on getting qualified. I want to see you in Vegas.


To conclude, a little Mitch Hedberg.

As an adult, I'm not supposed to go down slides. So, if I'm at the top of a slide, I have to pretend like I got there accidentally. "How'd I get up here, Goddamnit!? I guess I have to slide down. WHEEEEE!!!!" That's what you say when you're having fun — you refer to yourself and some other people.

things are looking up

Well, the horror story: JJ < 33 for 25BB at party.

The happy story: I qualified for the WSOP Main Event this evening on Full Tilt. I benefitted from some poor bubble play, but I'm not gonna complain. I would write more, but I'm pretty happy at the moment.

blah

FT WSOP satellite. No hands, I busted early when I knew a player had AK, AA or KK. I could beat AK, I couldn't beat KK or AA. I put an equal likelihood on the 3.

He had KK.


UB 125k. I lasted a while, but crippled myself with 66 v. AA. Dude open potted with AA, he'd open minraised with aces earlier. So credit to him, he played them differently. I pushed him in, he called. I went out two hands later with K9 to A8.

It's been a rough couple of weeks.

this is getting old

I've lost all but one pot I was in as a favorite thus far today (i'm out of hte stars $1m and the party 750k). Three times in as a 3:1 favorite on party, 3 times I lost, then I went out as a dog. I had a lot of Ax vs Kx on stars, I lost all but one of them, lost a coinflip, lost a dominating hand, then went out pushing 87 on the last hand of the 100/200 level (before the brutal jump to 200/400) for 2700, the BB called 1/3 of his chips with A4 and made aces full.

Heaven forbid I win as a favorite OR a dog, jesus.

I'll probably play the UB 125k and the WSOP satellite on FT tonight, but this is really getting old.

so very very mad

Four more tournaments today, four more cashless efforts.

100/9 30k gtd on Full Tilt. 45 paid, I went out around 65th trying to build a stack. EP raised, I pushed with AJs and the player had AQ. This player had called a UTG's all in for 7BB for about 1/3 of his chips with 9Ts and spiked a ten (UTG had 99). I had seen other, how do you say... loose stuff from this player.

200/15 WPT satellite on FT. I went out bluffing off my chips against a player who had no business being around. Raise in MP with KTo. Called by the CO and a blind. Flop comes 789, two diamonds. Checked to CO who bets small, blind folds and I call. Turn is another 8. I check again, CO bets small again. I raise it appreciably (but apparently not appreciably enough). CO thinks and calls. The river is the 5 of diamonds. I push, CO INSTACALLS with 66. I was dumbfounded. I don't know how he calls a reasonable checkraise on the 7889 board with 66.

100/9 15k gtd on UB. Horror show. I got to 5k early on with AA > KQ on a K high flop. Then everything went wrong. I made the fatal error of making a big laydown. UTG (new to table) limp, I raise in EP with QQ, get a LP call, folds to UTG who raises. I decide to just call and LP folds. The flop comes JT5 and UTG moves in for > pot. I believe UTG covered me slightly. I ultimately timed out trying to figure out what in the hell UTG has. After the hand UTG asks "AK?" to which I truthfully responded "You really think I'd have timed out with AK?" Karma was against me there, because I proceeded to lose a bunch of hands where I had tremendous starting cards that either a) missed the flop or b) became obviously bad by the flop. I then lost a coinflip for 85% of my chips and went out with K2 to QT who made trip tens.

And then the Saturday 200k gtd on Party. I went into this planning on a much more patient approach than I had been on Party. I even went out of my way to find a more appealing skin to play on (Yes, Chris, I think the software did have something to do with it) and found one (get the table too). I actively focused on being patient. I picked up very few hands in this event, but because I focused on being patient I was able to pick my spots well. The ONE time I got out of line in the event I was burned for it. Against a weak/loose limper I semibluffed two streets and ran into a set of aces. I didn't hit my open ender and was put down to about 4500 with blinds escalating to 300/600. I pushed 44 behind two limpers at a new table and was called by AQ. The flop was QQJ (FUCK!), the turn was a 4 (YAY!) and the river was a dangerous looking but ultimately harmless K (YAY!). I actually won a coinflip when I was all in. Crazy.

Anyway, from there I built my stack up slowly. Really slowly. Amazingly slowly. That was the last decent hand I saw till the end, except for a 77 behind a UTG raiser that I didn't feel the need to go to war with. I just found spots to pick up chips. Because I was forcing myself to be patient, I was also forcing myself to look for ways to pick up loose chips. I was doing a very good job of this, but I was still half average as we neared the bubble when my table broke again. The new table was just bad - a bunch of shorties (making me look pretty healthy) and a bunch of big stacks. Not good. A few hands in a shorty pushed, I protected with AQ, the best hand in over an hour and a big stack woke up with AK.

Cruel game, isn't it? I was able to pick up chips with nothing, but when I finally had a hand I went el busto. I did win two coinflips (one very early on against a player with 1/12th my stack. Whoopie.) so that was nice. I also seem to have hit on the key to these party tournaments. Patience. It's very different from Stars or FT where I am very very active. It only helps to be able to play both ways, though.

Fun hand from the 200k. I noticed as I folded the SB a few hands prior to this that I had 6666 chips. I announced to the table that I planned to fold for an entire orbit because I thought it was very cool that I had this count. I was talking about it for a couple hands with two others at the table when I found a nice opportunity to take advantage of this suddenly rockish image I'd immediately built for myself:


***** Hand History for Game 3624318545 *****
NL Texas Hold'em Trny:20497549 Level:3 Blinds(50/100) - Saturday, February 25, 22:58:55 ET 2006
Table $200K Guaranteed Saturday(604784) Table #59 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 1: THEOSU7 ( $6666 )
Seat 3: SeverusC ( $6435 )
Seat 4: str8jacket ( $4590 )
Seat 5: voodooguide ( $14232 )
Seat 6: jjl80 ( $2555 )
Seat 7: mrcooley ( $5578 )
Seat 8: pkrjoker111 ( $6294 )
Seat 10: gregak21 ( $7323 )
Seat 9: bakerkeno ( $4831 )
Trny:20497549 Level:3
Blinds(50/100)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to THEOSU7 [ Qs Js ]
jjl80 folds.
mrcooley folds.
pkrjoker111 folds.
bakerkeno folds.
gregak21 calls [100].
THEOSU7 raises [400].
SeverusC folds.
str8jacket folds.
voodooguide folds.
gregak21 calls [300].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3c, As, 8d ]
THEOSU7: i hate to do it, but i can't pass this up
gregak21 bets [424].
THEOSU7 raises [1500].
gregak21 folds.
THEOSU7 does not show cards.
THEOSU7 wins 2874 chips.


No, I don't know why seat 10 is before seat 9 in the chipcounts. But I implied a monster and followed through on it even when the flop missed me, and picked up a very nice pot.

another disappointing day

Three tournaments today - 150 on stars (why? I don't know. I really don't. The structure sucks and doesn't fit my playing style at all. I think I'm done playing this tournament), the Friday Party Special and a UB WSOP satellite.

150 on stars was pretty bad, I got no service and went out on a coinflip (though I did win one earlier in the tournament). I got up to just under double my stack early at Party, though I made a poor play on a hand where I called a PFR from the SB with AJs. That was probably my main mistake in the hand, I hit the flop reasonably and unsuccessfully tried to take it on the turn. I treaded water for a while till I C/Red in hour 2 with 9T on a KTx flop - the button called all in iwth QQ. I went out on a... yep. AT < 44.

So to the UB WSOP satellite (3 seats). I have good results on UB because I play a very patient game, but I mix it up. That was again the case today. I don't know why, but I am able to maintain patience much longer on UB than on Party, which also requires tremendous amounts of patience. Anyway, I did get a bit of luck that got me some momentum. The player on the button on my big blind had, from really the beginning, potraised when there was one limper. Without fail. I got very few free big blinds unless they were real multiway limpfests. I hadn't had much to fight back with, lots of T6o and 94s and the like. Finally I got A8 and planned a stop and go (I was pretty sure the weak limper would fold - he usually did). The flop came 832 rainbow, I went ahead and pushed it in, and he instacalled with queens. Oops. The 8 on the turn was the first REAL suckout I'd had in a while.

I built my stack up from there (QQ > 99 featured), lost a bunch of it on a coinflip, got it back, then stagnated for a while. At one point I was 23rd of 27. I then got a nice rush of cards and the happy side of the deck - most of them escape me at the moment, but I know a boat beat a straight in there. With 16 left I had moved to 3rd, and leader at my table.

And then they moved me. I was suddenly 4th in the tournament, 4th at my table - the top 6 were all at one table. I went into a modified shell - I was going to work to get a tight image and use it. Pick up a few pots with my image, pick up a few with my cards, but mostly just sit back and wait. It worked, and I came to the final table 4th in chips. The key hand at the final table is one for me to think over for some time. I believe I'm correct here, but I'm not certain. I was fifth in chips at the time (33k), but only 5k back from first. Villain in the hand had 21k and was on the SB.

I raised (150/800/1600) from LP to 4500 with TT. The SB moved in. It was slightly over 16k to me to win about 28k. In a quick guesstimate put his range on 88-AA, AK, AQ, KQs. I put less emphasis on AA and KK though, I think it's more likely that he plays those hands a little cuter. I decided that I would be at around 55k if I won the hand, while still have 12k if I lost. The advantage of being able to sit back with a healthy stack and continue to pick spots was a huge + to win, and I would not be crippled if I lost. I made the call, unfortunately he had JJ and it held. I wonder if my thinking on this hand is flawed.

Anyway, I shortly busted thereafter with AA to 88 - 8 on the flop. If I won the hand I'd have had 21k and a chance at the top 3. Instead I finished in 8th.

It was rough, but I've come to expect these things. I took a chance with the TT hand, and maybe the 88 spiking was just a way of saying "no, not today."

I like the structure at UB much more than at FT, certainly. The bad side is, for multiple seats I believe they give 100 TECs and 2k cash. I believe FT gives the 12k cash. 12kcash > 100 TECs + 2k. But I'll worry about that after I qualify.

Which I'm sure won't be long.

boo

I think yesterday's madness at poker carried over into earlier today. I made a miserable play at the Party Super (I knew he had aces. I still thought he was capable of folding aces, even though nobody's capable of folding aces.) I made a miserable play at the FT WSOP Satellite (I tried to induce a fold from a moron. It didn't work out.)

I then played the 55k. I picked up quite a few more hands than normal, which was nice, but I played very very well in the tournament. I ended up going out in 230th after I got in a huge pot with the guy on my right with the tournament chiplead at stake.

Folded to him in the SB, he minraised and I called. The flop came KT7 with two spades. He'd just won a huge pot with A7 of diamonds against 25s on a A52, two diamond flop. He checked, I bet, and he made an unusually large raise. This was not something I'd seen from him thus far at the table. I had about 75k to start the hand - blinds were 800/1600. I thought through it briefly - with the two spade board was he semibluffing a hand like Ax of spades or was he protecting a made hand? In the end I went with my mantra of "I don't make big folds online unless there is amazingly compelling evidence in favor of it" and pushed. He called with KT of clubs. The turn was a king and the river a seven. I would have gone broke on the hand regardless.

Even though the results weren't there in the tournament I feel very much better about poker this evening than I did last night. I made two foolish plays which cost me in the earlier tournaments - which is something I haven't done in a while. I do stuff which APPEARS stupid, but there's actually very sound reasoning behind it. This stuff was just moronic. But I was able to cool down from them and play a very solid game of poker where I did (and woulda if I hadn't pushed there) gone broke on a cooler. That shit happens sometimes.

very mad at poker

I made a silly play in the 75k on UB this evening, I've no one to blame but myself.

The 55k on stars was a joke. I had an AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL table of nits to start. I think I was in for more than the rest of my table combined. Then, about 15 minutes after the rebuy period ends, I get moved (though my table does not break!) I didn't even get to enjoy their total rockiness post-rebuy! I went out shortly after moving when that new table seemed to think it was still the rebuy period and AJo decided that getting it in preflop for 6k at 100/200 was a good idea.

I played some video games for a bit to cool down, but wanted to end on a positive note so I sat at some 5/10. Yeah, it wasn't positive. I had my second really rough session there in the times I've sat down (-100) and just like that first time, I had a guy next to me hitting multiple two outers. He put three on me. Pretty sick. I was making some mistakes though. I know some of them I've already made, a couple of them were first time errors. I'm slowly learning/adjusting to the errors I've repeated and am making fewer of them. It's a good sign. Hopefully I'll dodge some of these sick beats the next few times out.

real quick.

Monday was bleah. Went out on a rough hand when a player had no business still being in the hand. Today was decent, early exit from the Super when guys couldn't find their fold buttons.

i finished 50th in the 55k on stars going out on (if you've read this for any length of time you know the next two words are) a flip. I did get a few notables in this tournament though:

I sucked out for the first time in a week.
I hit a draw for the first time in a week.
I won a coinflip for the first time since Saturday.

I am now 1 for my last 12 coinflips. Nice.

Biggest hand in the tournament was one I may have misplayed.

At 600/1200, I'm on about 65k and a MP who covers me raises to 3600. With KsTs and the button, I decide to see a flop, as does the BB. It comes QJ8 rainbow (one of my spades though). BB checks, MP bets 6000. I decide to semibluff raise to 20k, thinking that it's reasonably likely to take the bet will take the pot, failing that - i'll get a free turn. BB folded and MP surprised me by quickly moving in. It became a pot odds question, then. I had to call my final 41k to win 100k. I couldn't put him on a range that made the call wrong.

He had 88 and I turned the nine. It was nice hitting something.

I ultimately went cold, getting 72 four times in a two orbit span, with 32 featuring twice. With about 8BB in the BB I picked up AQ and called a shorty's all in - he had 67. Flop 842 turn 8 river 5. I went out with that same AQ against TT. I did get lucky in the course of the tournament, but couldn't keep it at the end. I should be upset, but I'm just excited that I actually got some luck at one point.

Payday wasn't that great, only 170 bucks. I was a winner for the day because I was up at the 5/10 limit game while I was folding up a storm in hour 2 of the rebuy. I really need to find a day when I just sit down and 2 or 3 table 5/10 for several hours. I know I can really be a significant winner at the cash games, but I have much to learn. I'd like to get in several thousand hands to get my game in the right place, then be able to move up. I know that'd be a quick move, but I have the bankroll for 10/20, and I know I have the ability to crush the game. If I'm a 1BB/hr winner at 10/20 and 3 table it for 4 hours a day... do the math.

It's late. I'm going to bed.

Sunday night

Full Tilt WSOP satellite was a joke. They usually are, but today the awful play got rewarded against me. I moved to 0 for my last 6 coinflips there.


125k on UB I finished in 64th for 370 bucks. It's something for the day, so it's nice not to go ohfer, but it was frustrating. I was up to 10th just before the end of the second hour. At that point, I went completely card dead. The only reason I was able to last as long as I did is I found good steal situations, and good resteal situations. Then, I wasn't even able to find those, as I moved to a new, much more active table. In the last hour or so my best hands were TT, 77 and AQo. The 77 was folded behind a big stack's EP raise (good fold, someone else pushed, he had AK and an ace flopped. I hate coinflips). The AQ was on the bubble (82 left, I believe, 80 paid) behind an UTG raise. I HATE playing just to cash, but that struck me as an eminently sensible fold. The TT was after the bubble burst and won a hand when a player was blinded all in. I went out pushing A5 for 4.5BB and ran into queens. I can't win coinflips, so there's no way I'm gonna win when dominated.

The key to my success? I took no coinflips. I made a few very big hands and got paid. I found good spots to pick up pots, even big pots, without the best hand. I think I played very well in this tournament, but I just couldn't get the service that I needed to get at the end. I think I do a good job of being able to pick up some pots when I'm not getting the service, and I did a hell of a job of it here, but there came a point where I had to pick up something, and I just couldn't get anything.

Honestly, I'm not sure which is a more annoying feeling. Limping into the money like I did or going out in a blaze of glory like this afternoon. Of course, the tourney at FT trumps them all on the annoy-o-meter.

Sunday afternoon

750k on stars, I last 25 minutes. UTG minraise at 15/30, I call with K5o in the BB. flop KJ5 with two spades. We get it in, he's got QT of spades, spade on turn, no four outer on river. Down to 200 chips, I fold around to my BB, call a minraise with K8o on my BB, then get it in there on the KJ5 flop (familiar?) against QJ. Q on river.

500k on party. I last 45 minutes. Big hand comes at 50/100 with about 5500 chips. One limper, I complete on the SB with AJ, BB checks. Flop QQT. Check check limper pots for 300. I call, BB folds. Turn is a 3, puts two clubs out there. I check, limper bets 1000 into a 900 pot, leaving 2800 behind. I don't see him doing this with a queen. I put him in. He had QJ. I don't hit the four outer. I go out with AQ to 99 a couple orbits later.

Last night Matt observed that I was running not awfully of late in coinflips. He was right, I'd actually won 3 of the last 4. Thanks, Matt! I've gone 0-4 since. He is no longer allowed to comment on my coinflipping ability.

Done until 9 - WSOP satellite on FT and 125k on UB.

a nothing update

Just wanted to say that dinner was good, and that I'm better than my wife at video games. That's all, really. I'm not very good at winning coinflips, though.

first time

Full Tilt Poker Game #447389222: Table Alto (6 max) - $5/$10 - Limit Hold'em - 13:57:28 ET - 2006/02/18
Seat 1: rockdove ($249)
Seat 2: THEOSU ($227)
Seat 3: quicksticks ($92.50)
Seat 4: CTrob ($76.50)
Seat 5: uramonkey ($534)
Seat 6: fetch ($347.50)
uramonkey posts the small blind of $2.50
fetch posts the big blind of $5
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to THEOSU [7c Tc]
rockdove folds
THEOSU raises to $10
quicksticks folds
CTrob calls $10
uramonkey folds
fetch calls $5
*** FLOP *** [9h Ac Jc]
fetch checks
THEOSU bets $5
CTrob calls $5
fetch calls $5
*** TURN *** [9h Ac Jc] [Qc]
fetch bets $10
THEOSU raises to $20
CTrob folds
fetch calls $10
*** RIVER *** [9h Ac Jc Qc] [Kc]
fetch checks
THEOSU bets $10
fetch calls $10
*** SHOW DOWN ***
THEOSU shows [7c Tc] (a Royal Flush)
rockdove: royal
fetch mucks
THEOSU wins the pot ($104.50) with a Royal Flush
rockdove: yes
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $107.50 Rake $3
Board: [9h Ac Jc Qc Kc]
Seat 1: rockdove didn't bet (folded)
Seat 2: THEOSU showed [7c Tc] and won ($104.50) with a Royal Flush
Seat 3: quicksticks didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: CTrob (button) folded on the Turn
Seat 5: uramonkey (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 6: fetch (big blind) mucked [8d Th] - a straight, Ace high

Quick Update

Just one tournament this evening, the Friday Special on the Brand New Party. Seemed like a solid structure for what I played, which was just over an hour. I got no hands, and was scrambling just to keep my stack at the starting amount. I went out bluffing a big stack who I thought was putting a move on me. He wasn't. Oops.

I two tabled the 5/10 limit game on FT for about 45 minutes. I finished up $240 bucks, so I paid for my tournament entry, and a bit. I was getting decent starting hands, but I was hitting some flops and hit a few draws. I wasn't getting skewered by the river that badly, either. That's a happy combination. Here's a nice hand:


Full Tilt Poker Game #446376255: Table Alto (6 max) - $5/$10 - Limit Hold'em - 23:50:21 ET - 2006/02/17
Seat 1: THEOSU ($108.50)
Seat 2: Smokedogs ($85)
Seat 3: Clarity ($58.50)
Seat 4: lopi75 ($574)
Seat 5: MAVERICK1720 ($150)
Seat 6: savydady ($69)
savydady posts the small blind of $2.50
THEOSU posts the big blind of $5
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to THEOSU [Ad Ac]
Clarity raises to $10
lopi75 folds
MAVERICK1720 calls $10
savydady raises to $15
THEOSU raises to $20
Clarity calls $10
MAVERICK1720 calls $10
savydady calls $5
*** FLOP *** [4s Jd Kc]
savydady checks
THEOSU bets $5
Clarity folds
MAVERICK1720 calls $5
savydady calls $5
*** TURN *** [4s Jd Kc] [7s]
savydady checks
THEOSU bets $10
MAVERICK1720 calls $10
savydady calls $10
*** RIVER *** [4s Jd Kc 7s] [8h]
savydady checks
THEOSU bets $10
MAVERICK1720 folds
savydady has 15 seconds left to act
savydady calls $10
*** SHOW DOWN ***
THEOSU shows [Ad Ac] (a pair of Aces)
savydady shows [Qs 8s] (a pair of Eights)
THEOSU wins the pot ($143) with a pair of Aces
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $145 Rake $2
Board: [4s Jd Kc 7s 8h]
Seat 1: THEOSU (big blind) showed [Ad Ac] and won ($143) with a pair of Aces
Seat 2: Smokedogs is sitting out
Seat 3: Clarity folded on the Flop
Seat 4: lopi75 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: MAVERICK1720 (button) folded on the River
Seat 6: savydady (small blind) showed [Qs 8s] and lost with a pair of Eights

I am BUBBLEBOY

WSOP satellite on Full Tilt this evening, I finished in 3rd. Two seats were awarded. I did win a nice payday, but I'm yet again agitated horribly.

It got down to 3 handed and I got absolutely cold decked. 45 of spades on a 933 two spade flop. I try semibluffing my opponent off the hand, he won't fold, and I fold the river unimproved (board came red TK). T2 of hearts on the J43 two heart board. I fired two semibluff barrels this time, he didn't fold, and I folded unimproved on the river (board came As Ad). I then called down the same player with bottom pair. He had nothing on the flop, but turned a pair, and it was good. In the midst of all this, I got 72o four times three handed. Finally, the hand that really killed me:

With 43.5k at 2k/4k I raise to 10.5k from the SB with red queens. The BB, who is quite tight, thinks for a while and calls. The flop comes AJ5, with two hearts. I bet 11k, and the BB instamoves in. I was forced to fold the queens (BB shows AK, with the ace of hearts, so that backdoor draw was dead). Two hands later with 4BB I push with nines and run into jacks. GG me.

There's nothing I can do when the cards turn against me. I am sure I could have played some hands better (the semibluff hands, for instance) but would it have killed me to hit one of those draws? Or have the key coinflip win for once?

By the way, 3rd of 163. I did go 2 for 2 on coinflips (A3s > 22, AQo > 44 - but I should count the QQ and AK hand) but I did not once win when the money was in when I had the worst of it (excepting the aforementioned coinflip situations). Of course, I don't think I DID get the money in with the worst of it at all, come to think of it. I played really, really well. Until the end, when I think I misplayed a couple of those semibluff hands incorrectly, and then ran into a cold deck.

Lazy Sunday

Pass the Chronic what? cles of narnia.

Fixed!

Limit fun

After crashing out of the 75k on UB today, the only tournament I entered (riverfucked thrice), I still had the hankering to play some poker, though I obviously did not want to start a new tournament at 11:30, so I sat at a little 5/10 limit on Full Tilt. Wow. Players are not strong at limit poker.

I stood up at about 1 o clock up almost 150 bucks. There were a few hands where I just shook my head at what people kept calling me with. I was getting some nice hands, but I got riverfucked a bit more (though I in turn was able to give some riverfucking of my own, a pleasant turn from earlier in the evening).

It sure is promising, though. I need to sit down a bit more when I don't have much going on. I need to get better at limit, because if I'm ever fortunate enough to be able to do this for a living, I'd like to be able to count on the less evilly variant limit games for my regular source of income, and then still be able to play tournaments for kicks. That seems much more reliable than playing NL cash games or tournaments for regular income.

boring boring

Nothing much in the past few days.

Played the 150s on Stars a couple times (2 hands Monday, both times ran into aces, a little longer today but couldn't fade it), UB 100 tournament I made one major error after building a nice stack and couldn't regain my momentum. Mostly blah stuff.

I did win my ticket to the Sunday 750k on Stars though, and I sat at a 3/6 NL game today with some decent success, so it isn't all bad.

Thursday I'll play in my first WSOP satellite of the season. It's also my birthday. I see good things happening!

8th in the FT 200k

Very frustrating 8th place.

Remember earlier this week when I wondered if it was possible to finish 6th of 177 and get very unlucky? It wasn't that bad, but I never once came from behind in this tournament to win.

I got a number of decent hands here, which is cool since I was card dead all weekend up to this point. I had a number of big favorites hold to be chipleader with 40 left - AK v. AQ and QQ v A9. But after that I neither could get lucky nor could avoid the bad luck.

I was bullying my table well, slowly building my stack, when with 11 left and 3rd in chips (two monsters on the other table though) I put a player in from the SB with QTs. He called all in (loose call, but I'd been using the all in as a weapon) with KJs. I flopped the queen, he rivered the king. The final table appeared, I was 4th of 9, with 2 monsters, 1 that was just shy of that (the KJ guy), 4 of us in about the same area and two with about 5 big blinds. One of the shorties was on my left, and he is a notoriously tight player - I put him in when folded to me on the SB with K5, he called all in with KQ and flopped trips. I had a flush draw on the river, but couldn't spike it.

I picked up a steal in there, then on my BB the new shortie (8 left) moved in for about half my stack. I called with A9, he had 87s. The flop was 765, and I couldn't hit an ace or the straight. Back on that guy's BB after I folded garbage with raises in front, I moved in with Q7s. He thought for a while and called half his stack with K5o. I flopped the 7 and dodged the king.

Next hand with 10BB I had QQ and moved in again. I was hoping there would be people that wouldn't understand the difference in the situations, and call with weak hands like middle pairs and weak aces. Tighty on my left called all in with AK, the flop was KJT. The turn was a T, but I couldn't spike an ace or queen. Left with 1.5BB, I put it in the next hand with A4, but couldn't beat A6 or 77 and I was eliminated in 8th.

I'm pleased with the payday ($5k), as it sure beats going 0 for the weekend, but this is incredibly frustrating. I harken back to early December when I kept getting close but couldn't quite finish the deal. If I could have just gotten lucky in one of those spots (dodging the river K in the QT v. KJ hand, for instance) or won a flip (QQ v. AK) I'd certainly have finished at least 5th which would have been good for personal record payday.

This is the sort of tournament where I don't know if it ever gets to the point where I'm pleased with the result. I think it'll just be forever frustrating, because of how close I came on a few occasions to that monster $50k payday.

The Grand

I finished in 203rd of 705. I got aces twice in the first half hour - after that my only pair over tens was QQ. I played for about 5 and a half hours. That's not a lot of service.

Despite this, I was able to last a while. I was finding spots to pick up pots, changing up how I would do it. I started gettnig reraised preflop - at one point I got reraised five times in six, and that other time the player called, then pushed the flop. All this, no hands - and I still survived. I'm immensely pleased.

I crippled myself on the following hand. I had about 18500 in MP, and I raised to 2600 (500/1000, no ante) with KJ of spades. It was folded to the BB who had about the same amount, having recently doubled up. He just called. The flop came down 622, rainbow (one spade). BB checked, I bet 3300, and he raised to 8000, leaving just under 8000 behind. Normally, I'd have interpreted this as a sign of great strength, but I thought about this some more. If he had a hand like 99-JJ, wouldn't he raise more (or all in) to ensure that he didn't give me odds with AK and have a turn card that he really didn't want to see? And wouldn't he have reraised with QQ-AA as he had when he doubled up with KK (granting, he was a smaller stack then, so circumstances were different). The more I looked at this, the more it seemed as if he was trying to buy the pot while leaving himself an out.

I pushed. He had JJ. I turned the Queen of spades, but couldn't get lucky on the river. That left me with 24 chips, and I went out the next hand with ace high. As it turns out, had I waited one more card, I would have probably been able to buy the pot, although I had used that move very recently.

I'm thinking it over and while my timing was off, I think the move was great. I think his range of doing this move is huge, particularly since he just doubled up and may have been flush with confidence.

I almost forgot

A big hellooooooooooo to Justin Daniel Tekavec, born 11:30 AM on February 9th. I'm an uncle for the first time.

Mixed Bag

Is it possible to finish 6th of 177 entrants and have had awful luck?

I finished 6th in UB's 15k gtd tourney this evening, so I feel the day overall is a success, but by the same token, I've had some AWFUL luck today.

First off, I'm trying to win my entry to the PokerRoom Grand VI tournament by satellite, but I'm having minimal success, to say the least. I'm 0 for 8 this week. I have to be something like 3 for 15 in coinflips in them, it's sick. I played like 4 or 5 of those this evening, I think I went 1 for 7 in flips, the win when I had two big blinds left after losing a flip the hand before. What stuns me is the number of people who call their stack off knowing they can be no more than a coinflip, and yet they happily do so regardless. Normally, this is good, but thus far every single time this has been the case it has, in fact, been a coinflip. And I've lost.

I played the Party Super this evening. I wasn't in the tournament very long, I lost half my stack with TT to KK and then went out with 9T on a 9JQ flop - I was in there with a shot to triple my stack against Q8 and AJ and turned a 9, but a river Q and IGHN.

The UB 15k kicked off at the same time as the Party Super, and I had much better results. Overall, I've had spectacular results on UB, I think the slower structure especially suits me, as it allows me to play in the manner that best suits the conditions. If I want to get aggressive and take control of the table, I can do that. If I want to play tight and wait for big hands, I can do that, too. Usually I'm somewhere in between the two, fluctuating. I'll speed up for an orbit or two, then slow down for a few orbits.

Anyway, I got a decent stack early, TT taking a shortie's 77 to get to 4k at the end of hour one (2500 chips to start). I don't quite remember how I got here, but in the beginning of hour three, I was up at 12k and eighth in the tournament when I got in a hand with the other big stack at my table. This player had just doubled up with aces against queens, and then raised on my BB. I had A8s, and his raise was to 725 at 150/300 with a quarter ante. The hand before, with aces, he raised to 775. This isn't a whole lot to go on, but it was something. The flop came 732. I checked to him, and he bet 1000. I thought there was a good chance I could take the hand here, and made it 3000. After taking some time, the player called. I figured this meant he had a hand like 99 or TT, maybe JJ. I was done with the hand. Until the A on the turn. I came right out and put 5000 out there of the 8000 or so I had left. He took a looong time again and then put the rest of his chips in. I of course called, and he indeed showed 99. I think it was pretty poor play from him, but it benefitted me, so I wasn't going to complain.

That made me the chip leader with around 25k. From there, I was able to get my stack to about 35k with 30 left (20 paid) which was good for 2nd - a player just started going off and got to 76k in that time. I got up to 40k, then lost with AA to AT, who made a straight on the river. I got it back again, getting up around 40k as the bubble burst, which was good for 3rd, and the two big stacks were at the other table. But no sooner than the bubble burst, than I got AA cracked again by QJ who... made a straight on the river. I was able to sustain myself with steals, but I couldn't pick up any hands (which is just as well, no one seemed keen to tangle with me, as all I showed down were aces). It was pretty uneventful to the final table, which I reached 5th in chips but with an awful table draw. Chipleader was on my left, 2nd stack 2 on my left and 3rd stack 3 on my left.

And then it went nuts. The player on my left was insane. He was pushing preflop for 50BB. Nuts. During this time, I lost half my stack with KK to AA (same player that cracked my AA with AT - I could not return the favor) to get myself short. The player on my left busted the guy who was 3rd entering the table in 9th when he pushed for 95k at 800/1600 on the button with A3o, the BB called 85k all in with KK. An ace spiked the turn.

Despite being up at 180k with no one else over 80k, the player got shortstacked soon enough by doing more of this. He then got himself in as a 3-1 dog repeatedly and won. I was fluctuating between bottom stack and 2nd bottom stack, but doubled with KQ through QJ to give myself some room, then the guy who I doubled through and this nutjob busted. From there, I was looking for a spot to double up for a chance to win and took KJ against AQ and lost. It was still good for just a touch over 1k. Of course, all that does is pay for the many, many satellites to the Grand that I haven't won.

Still - that's pretty amazing. I count one hand when I got lucky, the A8 v. 99, and I had a couple of draws hit early on (though I was given them for free). The rest of the time I was really just making chips. I busted a shortie early on with a set against his pair of aces, then the two big hands I mentioned in here were really the only big pots I played. I was really playing very, very well. I really wonder what might have been if I had been able to have my aces hold up, or even if I didn't get the KK v. AA cooler.

Again, is it possible to finish 6th of 177 and have been horribly unlucky? It may well be.

still glowing from the 45k

It had been a rough two weeks. No moneys in any tournaments - but this hopefully is the beginning of a nice run. Would be a good time to have it, with the Poker Room Grand this weekend.

Now, it's easy for me to say that it's been all bad luck, but that's not true. I've made some horrible decisions during the past two weeks. I don't think it's a stretch to say that until yesterday, at least once a day I had made a move that, IMMEDIATELY upon clicking the action, I said "wtf? that was ridiculous." On some of the occasions I said that AS I did the action. Yesterday in the 45k I had none of those. I don't think I made one poor decision all tournament.

Even the hand that crippled me wasn't a bad decision. This is the last hand at the 10k/20k level, 15k/30k follows. The players on my left seemed quite tight in the time I'd been with them:


*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to THEOSU [3d Kh]
ajmaster333: folds
AppSt2004: folds
AppSt2004 said, "ha"
PLAYAMAN has timed out
PLAYAMAN: folds
PLAYAMAN is sitting out
howSgoing: folds
PLAYAMAN has returned
THEOSU: raises 157768 to 177768 and is all-in
bille2222: calls 165870 and is all-in
abbot: folds
*** FLOP *** [Th Td 5d]
*** TURN *** [Th Td 5d] [8c]
*** RIVER *** [Th Td 5d 8c] [5c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
bille2222: shows [Qh As] (two pair, Tens and Fives)
THEOSU: shows [3d Kh] (two pair, Tens and Fives - lower kicker)
bille2222 collected 378740 from pot


So there I sat for 5 minutes with 1898 left, blinds 15k/30k with a 1500 ante. I was fortunate to pick up AJ and get protection from QJ - the ace played. I got to 12k. I took a hand off, then "pushed" with TT and won a flip from KJ - moving into the top 27 at the same time, which was a nice accomplishment considering. That got me to 48k. Next hand, UTG+1, I push with K2 of spades. I ran into AJ and AK, but the board made a club flush, and no one had a club. I took 56k. UTG with K9, I put it in again, ran into AQ, and flopped the straight - 168k. Just like that.

I folded my blinds, pushed A8s and AKo in the next orbit, folded my blinds again, then pushed A8, A9 and AA on consecutive hands (showing the AA). I was hoping someone got sick of it, but no luck. I folded the blinds again, pushed AT, when it got back to my big blind. My stack got to 340k by this point, and the guy who limped was an enormous stack...



*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to THEOSU [Jh 4h]
DoggerPA: folds
apestyles [observer] said, "haha"
PLAYAMAN: calls 40000
ajmaster333: folds
toofatforyou: folds
AppSt2004: folds
Seanbob1: folds
dicstache: folds
howSgoing: folds
THEOSU said, "you are wise to play cautious"
THEOSU: checks
*** FLOP *** [Qh 8h 6h]
THEOSU: bets 80000
PLAYAMAN: raises 360000 to 440000
THEOSU: calls 223736 and is all-in
PLAYAMAN said, "nooooooo"
DoggerPA said, "omg"
WillyDope [observer] said, "HOLD"
Saratzila [observer] said, "lol"
ZBTHorton1 [observer] said, "BOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
*** TURN *** [Qh 8h 6h] [5d]
ZBTHorton1 [observer] said, "YEAH"
*** RIVER *** [Qh 8h 6h 5d] [Js]
WillyDope [observer] said, "BOOM"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
THEOSU: shows [Jh 4h] (a flush, Queen high)
PLAYAMAN: shows [Ac As] (a pair of Aces)
PLAYAMAN said, "wow"
THEOSU collected 725472 from pot
DoggerPA said, "nh"
gobboboy [observer] said, "THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 725472 Rake 0
Board [Qh 8h 6h 5d Js]


The folks rooting for me are mostly 2+2ers who got wind of my comeback.

That was about as interesting as it got. I won a big coinflip with 88 v. AK to put me over a million, but I used up all my big hands to get there, as I didn't pick up much from there on out. I tried to steal to sustain the stack, but I got more action than I wanted from them, and leaked down to 600k, when I went out.




PokerStars Game #3901354327: Tournament #19224800, Hold'em No Limit - Level XXV (30000/60000) - 2006/02/08 - 05:00:10 (ET)
Table '19224800 116' Seat #3 is the button
Seat 2: oneman69 (936386 in chips)
Seat 3: Seanbob1 (2390422 in chips)
Seat 4: BIGFELLA44 (630724 in chips)
Seat 5: PLAYAMAN (2616169 in chips)
Seat 6: TAMPA_SLIM (470164 in chips)
Seat 7: bizzyb32 (1488276 in chips)
Seat 8: THEOSU (582272 in chips)
Seat 9: howSgoing (1330587 in chips)
oneman69: posts the ante 3000
Seanbob1: posts the ante 3000
BIGFELLA44: posts the ante 3000
PLAYAMAN: posts the ante 3000
TAMPA_SLIM: posts the ante 3000
bizzyb32: posts the ante 3000
THEOSU: posts the ante 3000
howSgoing: posts the ante 3000
BIGFELLA44: posts small blind 30000
PLAYAMAN: posts big blind 60000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to THEOSU [Ah Tc]
TAMPA_SLIM: folds
bizzyb32: folds
THEOSU: raises 519272 to 579272 and is all-in
howSgoing: folds
oneman69: raises 354114 to 933386 and is all-in
Seanbob1: folds
BIGFELLA44: folds
PLAYAMAN: folds
*** FLOP *** [3h Jh 8h]
*** TURN *** [3h Jh 8h] [9c]
*** RIVER *** [3h Jh 8h 9c] [Kc]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
THEOSU: shows [Ah Tc] (high card Ace)
oneman69: shows [7h 7d] (a pair of Sevens)
oneman69 collected 1272544 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1272544 Rake 0
Board [3h Jh 8h 9c Kc]
Seat 2: oneman69 showed [7h 7d] and won (1272544) with a pair of Sevens
Seat 3: Seanbob1 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: BIGFELLA44 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: PLAYAMAN (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: TAMPA_SLIM folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: bizzyb32 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: THEOSU showed [Ah Tc] and lost with high card Ace
Seat 9: howSgoing folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Apparently, I was the talisman, because the player that busted me won.

Hell of a ride it was.

The end of the cold spell?

Finished 8th tonight in the 45k.

I was down to 1828 in chips with 30ish left after pushing with K3 from the button the last hand before a break. The SB called with AQ and won.

The blinds, coming back from break, were to be 15000/30000 with a 1500 ante.

And I finished 8th.

I'm not too upset about losing the coinflip to go out in 8th, although the story would be like a million times better if I came back to win.

i run very very bad

UB 125k, which had an overlay of almost 30k this evening. 50 paid, I went in 60th on this hand:

I got what I wanted... It's just sick.


Getting Hand History Information...
----------------------------------------------------------------
Hand #11664840-291 at Sun9pm200-003 (No Limit tournament Hold'em)
Powered by UltimateBet
Started at 06/Feb/06 00:32:50
RogerMaris is at seat 0 with 31020.
cableguy70520 is at seat 1 with 27055.
hywayauto is at seat 2 with 23570.
THEOSU7 is at seat 3 with 13875.
pokerkurt is at seat 4 with 11110.
pokertrip is at seat 5 with 16075.
SassyTexan is at seat 6 with 34530.
killerbritty is at seat 8 with 14255.
classyploppy is at seat 9 with 14415.
The button is at seat 0.

RogerMaris posts ante (100).
cableguy70520 posts ante (100).
hywayauto posts ante (100).
THEOSU7 posts ante (100).
pokerkurt posts ante (100).
pokertrip posts ante (100).
SassyTexan posts ante (100).
killerbritty posts ante (100).
classyploppy posts ante (100).
hywayauto posts the small blind of 400.
THEOSU7 posts the big blind of 800.

RogerMaris: -- --
cableguy70520: -- --
hywayauto: -- --
THEOSU7: Ts Kc
pokerkurt: -- --
pokertrip: -- --
SassyTexan: -- --
killerbritty: -- --
classyploppy: -- --

Pre-flop:
pokerkurt folds. pokertrip folds. SassyTexan folds.
killerbritty folds. classyploppy folds.
RogerMaris raises to 3700. cableguy70520 folds.
hywayauto folds. THEOSU7 calls.

Flop (board: 3c Tc 9h):

THEOSU7 checks. RogerMaris goes all-in for 27220.
THEOSU7 goes all-in for 10075. RogerMaris is returned
17145 (uncalled).

Tournament all-in showdown -- players show:
RogerMaris shows 5s Ad.
THEOSU7 shows Ts Kc.

Turn (board: 3c Tc 9h 7h):
(no action in this round)

River (board: 3c Tc 9h 7h Ac):
(no action in this round)

Showdown:
RogerMaris has Ad Tc 9h 7h Ac: a pair of aces.
THEOSU7 has Ts Kc Tc 9h Ac: a pair of tens.

Hand #11664840-291 Summary:
No rake is taken for this hand.
RogerMaris wins 28850 with a pair of aces.

I run bad

It's been a bad week. Even disregarding what happened in New Jersey, since I've been home I haven't moneyed once. Let's describe this weekend thus far:

Saturday:

Iron Man Freeroll on FT. 1500 starting stacks, 10 minute levels. I forgot just how shitty a structure this is. It's shitty. I actually drew out a couple times in this, but I ran into guys that couldn't fold marginal hands and couldn't win those.

Ace of whatever on Poker Room. I created my own hole in this one because I misread my hand. I was at my brother's and for whatever reason, Poker Room won't download on that computer, so I was using the web based version. Having said that, it's inexcusable. I thought I had a straight. I didn't. It was a very amateurish error that cost me a big chunk of my stack, from which I nearly recovered, but could not.

100/9 on UB. Card dead, then at 10/20 with 2200 or so, I raise to 65 with 44 (Again, I mussed up here, because I didn't see UTG raised). Flop was five way, came down AK4 with two hearts. I bet, guy behind me goes all in for 1800. To a pot of like 300. He had 62h, and spiked the river. I couldn't come back.

45k on stars. I actually played very well for two hours, then busted out in hour 3 - but not on a coinflip. I raised in MP with K6s because I'd been card dead at my new table and wanted to raise on occasion in case I were to actually get a hand at some point. Flop came KT7 with two diamonds - check check. Turn was an offsuit 6. I bet, he called. River came the 3d. I checked to the other player who bet enough to put me in. Last hand he minraised a riverbet, and here he bet enough to put me in. I couldn't see him having the flush because he checked when I checked the flop. He did, he had 97d. I don't know why he'd check behind with a pair/flush draw, and wait till the turn to put chips in, but I guess if you're going to spike the river...

Today:

Live tourney, $100 buyin, almost 100 runners, just for fun. Decent structure, but a double up in the first hour is almost mandatory. I went out after about 75 minutes. Two decks were in use, so the play was pretty quick - we probably got about 60 hands in during that 75 minute period. I got A3s twice and A7o once. I got KQs once and KQo twice. I had no pairs. I got rivered once by a player who could not fold 3rd pair and ended up making 3rd and 5th pair. I flopped a nice two way draw with 57s on the A23 two spade flop, but didn't hit any of my outs. That was it.


I guess the moral of the story is this: Since I've come back, I've not run well. On the very rare occasions that I got hands - I got no action. I've had guys make awful plays that either were good because they were the one time I ran a big bluff all tournament or the awful plays spiked the river.

It'll pass. It always does.

oh for two

Couple of tough tourneys.

I didn't get far in the Poker Room Ace of Clubs tournament. I represented a straight on a 3456 board and could not get 55 to lay down. I represented it very well, he just refused to fold. I fought back with my short stack and actually got it back to triple what I had left myself with, but then I wasn't able to manufacture more. Ultimately, I went out when T2 decided to muck around with the short stack and he spiked a deuce, which was enough to sink my AQc (on the 652, two club board - I was the favorite).

In the Stuper on Party, I got just shy of the money, out in 163 when 140 paid. I had an above average stack when I doubled up KK with AQ on a QJ3 flop. That dropped me to average. I then lost half of that stack when I raised the CO who limped (I was button). The guy then minreraised. I only had 52s, and I should have folded there, but I was getting 4.5-1 odds, and the guy's chips were clearly going in on the flop. I didnt' have the time to put him on a particular range, but I shoudl ahve tightened it up hugely. That's almost always the action of AA or KK. I paid the rest of his stack when I did grab a piece of the flop. It was poor.

I then was REALLY crippled (to 68 chips!) when I pushed from the SB and the BB called all 7BB of his stack off with JTo. I only had T7s, but... come on! JTo? For all your chips? When you're not dead?

I was not able to build the 68 back up.

Meh. I made a mistake and I paid for it at Party. The Ace of Clubs was just bad luck that he had a set and couldn't lay it down. I played the hand very well, it just didn't work out.

Back in Columbus

We got home last night.

The Borgata is an amazing hotel. It's classy, comfortable and relaxing. The rooms are incredible, and we were in the low end of those. The food was great. There were a couple places that people who didn't want to drop a hundo on dinner could go, and those places were great. There were places that you could drop a hundo if you wanted to - Mixx was awesome, and I can only assume the other places don't suck, either. My one complaint was that I had to go downstairs to a "Living Room" to get on the internet - the wireless network didn't reach my room. The rest of AC, though - what a hole.

It was either Al Alvarez or Anthony Holden that said that when you're in Vegas playing poker, there is no outside world. I came back last night and checked out CNN.com. What do you know? Bush gave his State of the Union (and said things that we dirty liberals have been saying for years) and Samuel Alito was confirmed to the Supreme Court. Who knew? Matt bought a paper a couple days, but all I did was read the sports (yeah, I'm that guy). It was weird. I had my laptop and a connection to the internet downstairs, but never bothered to check out CNN. I read poker blogs, updated mine, checked out cardplayer and pokerwire. That was about it. Nuts, huh?

I'll probably be playing a bit this evening. I'd like to get in the Ace of [whatever suit] this evening on Poker Room. They upped the guarantees this month, and I love the structure of the tournament. If I'm in that, I'll probably give the Thursday Stuper a go, too. This weekend I'm headed back to Cleveland. There's a Super Bowl tournament up there that I played in last year (great structure for a live tourney - it's not a charity, a guy puts it on and takes no rake if you're a NARC and reading) and the Iron Man Freeroll is also on the books. My brother-in-law's wife is due Friday, so if my nephew is born I'll definitely see him, too.

Ok, so my brother-in-law's wife. Is she my sister-in-law? To my mind, sister-in-law implies either my brother's wife or my wife's sister, and there's none of the former. But referring to her as "my brother-in-law's wife" seems so impersonal. Can someone help me out here?

I've killed enough time here, I have an exam in a bit, so I've got to finish studying for that. No matter how boring it is.

Mad ups to Nordberg

Nordberg just finished 7th in the Borgata Winter Poker Open, taking the sickest beat I've ever seen.

Date / Time:
2006-01-31 20:43:00
Title: Peter "Nordberg" Feldman Eliminated 7th ($73,914)
Log: Erick Lindgren raises to $140,000 and Josh
Spiegelman moves all in for around $675,000. Right behind him, Peter Feldman moves all in for about $515,000. Lindgren folds and Spiegelman shows As-Kd but Feldman has Ad-Ah. Feldman is a 92.8% favorite per the Card Player Odds Calculator. The flop comes Jd-10d-7h, but the turn brings the Qs and make Spiegelman his straight. The 2d comes on the river and Peter "Nordberg" Feldman is eliminated on one of the sickest beats we have seen in this tournament.

Always on this site...

Dude's a hell of a player, and this was just disgusting. Handled it like a champ, though. Knocked the table, wished people luck, got his receipt to get his money, and then ran upstairs to jump in front of a cab.