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Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

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BetfairPoker Game 584734717 / Tournament
Table Sodium 174 6-max (Real Money) – 03.10.09 – 22:18
Blinds : 0.1/0.2
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6 players
[SB] mediumone (19.23)
[BB] TehPussyMan (19.8)
[1] Aoo (32.24)
[2] shab B (10.18)
[3] DiiCode (17.85)
[But] bh72 (19.55)

TehPussyMan Q Q Initial Pot: 0.3

Aoo folds
shab B raises to 0.4
DiiCode calls 0.4
bh72 folds
mediumone folds
TehPussyMan raises to 1.4
shab B calls 1
DiiCode calls 1
### FLOP ### J 2 J Pot: 4.3

TehPussyMan bets 2.5
shab B folds
DiiCode raises to 8.85
TehPussyMan is All in
DiiCode is All in
TehPussyMan shows Q Q
DiiCode shows K 2
### TURN ### A Pot: 39.15

### RIVER ### 5 Pot: 39.15

TehPussyMan wins 1.95 from side pot n°1 with Two pairs, queens and jacks
TehPussyMan wins 37.2 from the main pot with Two pairs, queens and jacks


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So so so sick … :(

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 577067756 *****
NL $0.10/$0.20 Texas Hold’em – Wednesday, September 16, 19:20:36 GMT 2009
Table Taurus 148 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of active players : 6
Seat 1: TehPussyMan ( $20.74 )
Seat 2: bouliuk ( $11.75 )
Seat 3: nick1120 ( $53.18 )
Seat 4: damgambit ( $20 )
Seat 5: Pilzkiller ( $14.60 )
Seat 6: wernard ( $21.31 )
TehPussyMan posts small blind [$0.10]
bouliuk posts big blind [$0.20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to TehPussyMan
nick1120 calls [$0.20]
damgambit folds
Pilzkiller folds
wernard raises to [$0.90]
TehPussyMan calls [$0.80]
bouliuk raises to [$1.60]
nick1120 calls [$1.40]
wernard folds
TehPussyMan calls [$0.70]
** Dealing Flop **
TehPussyMan checks
bouliuk checks
nick1120 bets [$4.80]
TehPussyMan raises to [$9.60]
bouliuk folds
nick1120 goes all-in
nick1120 raises to [$51.58]
TehPussyMan calls [$9.54]
TehPussyMan goes all-in
Returning uncalled bet [$32.44] to nick1120
** Showdown **
TehPussyMan shows
nick1120 shows
** Dealing Turn **
** Dealing River **
** Hand Conclusion **
nick1120 wins $41.79 from main pot with four of a kind, Threes
************ Game 577067756 ends ************


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Amount of fish on BetFair Poker seems very very ok :)

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

I’ll just let the hand history speak for itself :)

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BetfairPoker Game 574353111 / Tournament

Table Sodium 169 6-max (Real Money) – 10.09.09 – 19:20

Blinds : 0.1/0.2

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5 players

[SB] BrasilNut (24.02)

[BB] luvmel (4.31)

[1] maddix (10)

[2] Jasperrr (21.66)

[But] TehPussyMan (19.5)
TehPussyMan K K Initial Pot: 0.3

maddix raises to 0.7

Jasperrr folds

TehPussyMan raises to 1.6

BrasilNut folds

luvmel is All in

maddix calls 3.61

TehPussyMan is All in

maddix is All in

maddix shows 5 5

TehPussyMan shows K K

luvmel shows Q 9

### FLOP ### A 4 T Pot: 33.91

### TURN ### 4 Pot: 33.91

### RIVER ### T Pot: 33.91

TehPussyMan wins 9.5 from side pot n°0 with Two pairs, kings and tens

TehPussyMan wins 11.38 from side pot n°1 with Two pairs, kings and tens

TehPussyMan wins 13.03 from the main pot with Two pairs, kings and tens


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Monsterflop for my nine seven offsuit

Monday, August 10th, 2009

I decided to redeposit some earnings from Fat Bet Poker on my old Pokerstars account, because I wanted to play some 9-handed sit and goes again. It’s been a while but seems that I still have it :D I played two sit and goes (one of $1.2 + one of $3.4) and I succeeded in winning them both. In the heads-up phase of the last one I got a true MONSTERFLOP for my trademark hand. Pokerstars is getting to know the 97 as well. I checked the board until the river, hoping for my opponent to try a steal which he did. Obviously I reraised and the guy folded.

Few hands later I knocked the last player out with the following hand.

Glad I’m already winning sit and goes this soon, because the shift from cash games to tournaments isn’t an easy one I encountered. It’s an oh so different game ;) But I must not forget to mention that I had some luck on the right moments (I hit some lucky rivers but hey who doesn’t? ;) ) Maybe I’ll be playing some more tournaments on Pokerstars in the future. Thinking about depositing more money on Pokerstars trying to profit from their 300$ reload bonus :)

Cheers


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I created a new blog with reviews of poker articles

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

Hi,

I must admit, it’s been a while. Been busy with lots of things, not concerning poker. Sometimes I play for a short time at fat bet poker but as I told their hand histories are crap so the few special hands I saw over there, it’s a burden to make a post about them.

Instead of playing poker, I’ve been busy more often with the development of plenty other websites rather than playing or viewing poker. One of the latest websites I created is Online poker shopping. Its purpose is to give some solid reviews about some poker products. I hope you’ll like. It is nice, I like ;)


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Don’t get you caught on tilt!

Monday, May 11th, 2009

What happens when your opponent hits a one outer on the river to win your whole stack? Do you start to play like a nut and start losing a lot of more money? If this is the case, this article could be helpful for you :)

You’ve very prone to go on steaming, which means you lose your emotional control when things go wrong. This is something you really need to be able to control, it will save you a lot of money. Everyone suffers bad beats from time to time, but if you go on tilt every time you will lose a lot of money and it’ll destroy game.

But there are some things you can do to minimize your damages after suffering a bad beat. The simplest solution is to follow this rule.

Anytime you feel that your emotional control has been affected by a bad loss, juist quit for the day (or some reasonable length of time). If you’re multitabling, shut down all the tables. Take a walk, read a book, watch a movie, but don’t play poker until you’re back ready.

This will certainly have some negative affect on your poker action. But … when you’re tilting action is the very last thing you need ;) Don’t take too many risks losing your bankroll ;) Better to break a while than become favourite to lose a few hundred big blinds. Know when to fold!


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Calculate your winning percentages

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

If you counted the remaining outs you still have, you can easily obtain a rough estimate of the winning percentages you have. ITropical Poker gives a quick guide how to count these outs, by the way ;)   Remember, these are just estimates, but they can certainly give you a good indicator of the strength of your hand.

Some handy tricks …

The rule of four

If two cards are still to come and you can see both cards, you have to multiply the amount of outs by four to get your winning chances in the hand.

The rule of two

If there’s only one card still to come, multiply the outs by two and you get your winning change percentage

As you can see, these results will never be extremely accurate, so if you want to be more precise just use the Solomon’s rule.

Solomon’s rule

With two cards to come, multiply your number outs of four. From this number you’ll have to substract the number of outs in excess of eight to get a more accurate winning percentage. 

e.g. I have 14 outs, what is my winning percentage?
(14*4) – (14-8) gives you 56-6 = 50%


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Betting types: the PROBE BET

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

poker K9 casinoIn one of my previous posts I talked you about the notion of the value bet. Now I want to say something briefly about another sort of bet: in face the probe bet. They have some things in common with the previously noted value bet but it’s goal/function is actually completely different.

THE PROBE BET

In general, probe bets are a bit smaller dan the value bets. (1/3 to 1/2 of the pot size). You do probe bets when you believe you don’t have the best but you want to bet for some various reasons. You do it when you want to know where you stand in comparison with your opponents. A probe bet could result in one of the follow outcomes:

  • winning the pot
  • That would be definitely an unexpected result, but you definitely won’t complain :)

  • getting in control of the hand
  • By taking the lead in betting yourself and establishing yourself as the main man in the pot, it’s possible you may get a free card or two on later streets.

  • avoiding larger bets
  • Players with a decent hand are more likely to bet first in the pot, than to raise an initial better. By betting first, you could convince an opponent to just call rather than betting a larger amount. This enables you to see the turn or river at a cheaper price.

  • chase out the weakest
  • With a bet you could convince a couple of opponents to throw their bad hands away, rather than call with hands that might have beaten you with a lucky draw. And believe me, by just checking this happens a lot :p


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Betting types: the VALUE BET

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

poker table straight chipsIn poker a bet into a pot isn’t just a bet of a randomly chosen amount. Definitely there are different kind of bets, each with an own goal. You have value bets, probe bets, bluffs and semi-bluffs.

THE VALUE BET

Value bets you make when you believe you’ve got the best hand and you just would like to spice the pot a bit. You don’t need absolute certainty before contemplating a valuebet. Except when having the absolute nuts in your hands, your belief of having the best hand at the table is just a well-thought guess. In poker however, you have to act on these kind of guesses so in this case, you will just bet. A normal value bet is usually in the range of half the pot to the whole pot :)

What are the distinct possible goals of making a value bet?

  • Getting more money into the pot when you’re a favourite
  • One of the primary goals in poker is to build big pots when being favourite, and to keep the pot small when you’re less likely to win. A value bet can accomplish this first goal.

  • Chasing away hands better than yours
  • If you are wrong and you don’t actually have the best hand right now, a bet might still chase away somebody with a slightly better hand. That way you could win a pot you wouldn’t have caught elsewise.

  • Denying proper odds to drawing hands
  • If you have the best hand at this time, but an opponent has a good draw to beat you and you bet an amount which denies him good odds they have two choices. The obvious option is to fold, but in the other case they voluntarily put some extra value in the pot. Then you just hope they don’t hit, but in the long term these kind of drawers will earn you a nice profit :p

  • Taking control of the hand
  • If you bet, you say to the others at the poker table you have a good hand. It sends out some kind of authority ^^
    It could prevent some of your opponents to bet on the turn or the river, despite maybe having a better hand than you have. In that case you’ll get the opportunity to see a free card.


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the 4 principles of poker

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

poker principles dan harringtonMaybe obvious for the more advanced players among us, but for the beginners I’ll summarize the main principles of each poker form (as stated by Action Dan Harrington) :) If you follow these short and simple guidelines, I’m sure you’ll end up winning money playing poker on the internet. Just be smart and think about your choices ;)  

Principle no. 1 : The Strength principle

In general, you want to bet your strong hands, check your mediocre hands, and fold (or sometimes bluff) with your weakest hands ;)

That wouldn’t be too hard not? Obviously you want to bet your very strong hands to build a bigger pot when you’re likely to win. Your middle hands you better check because it’s harder to make money when you bet these. Better hands than yours are likely to call or raise, while weak hands probably fold. Folding your weakest hands is quite obvious. Bluffing with your weakest hands might be not so obvious, but then again if the bluff works you’ve gained value from a hand that had none :)

Principle no.2: the agression principle

In general, agression (betting and raising) is better than passivity (checking and calling)

Agressive actions have two possible outcomes: your opponent could fold to your bet, or he could call your bet and you can win at the showdown. Passive actions in contrary has just one, at the showdown. 2 > 1 :D

Principle no.3: the betting principle

In general, a succesful bet must be able to do one of 3 things: force a better hand to fold, force a weaker hand to call, or cause a drawing hand to draw at unfavorable odds.

A bet can thus make money in three ways. If you can chase away a better hand, you won a pot you normally would have lost. If you get a weaker hand to call, you’ve got more money into the pot. Same goes to let somebody call a draw at unfavorable odds ;) If you don’t think a bet could accomplish one of these things, just don’t bet :p

Principle no.4: the deception principle

Never do anything all of the time

This is quite clear. Be surprising, don’t act predictively! In order to be succesful at poker, you need your opponents to keep guessing about your bets.


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