Today was frustrating. I think im done for the day mainly because I have a head ache. As usual I didnt play a ton. I started the day by playing a 5.50 double stack tourney. This tourney lasted me literally one hand.

***** Hand History for Game 13489423828 ***** (Full Tilt)
$3000.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, July 19, 01:22:44 ET 2009
Table 5 050 Tournament (99626843) Table 49 (Real Money)
Seat 9 is the button
Seat 1: averageal ( $3000.00 USD )
Seat 2: riger38 ( $3000.00 USD )
Seat 3: skitch78 ( $3000.00 USD )
Seat 4: Sjeemig ( $3000.00 USD )
Seat 5: Thunders86 ( $3000.00 USD )
Seat 6: Gerhard33 ( $3000.00 USD )
Seat 7: NooBasTank ( $3000.00 USD )
Seat 8: Scorpio71 ( $3000.00 USD )
Seat 9: P van Schetsen ( $3000.00 USD )
averageal posts small blind [$15.00 USD].
riger38 posts big blind [$30.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Thunders86 [ Ac Kc ]
skitch78 calls [$30.00 USD]
Sjeemig raises [$135.00 USD]
Thunders86 calls [$135.00 USD]
Gerhard33 folds
NooBasTank folds
Scorpio71 folds
P van Schetsen folds
averageal folds
riger38 folds
skitch78 raises [$2970.00 USD]
Sjeemig calls [$2865.00 USD]
Thunders86 calls [$2865.00 USD]
skitch78 shows [6c, 6h ]
Sjeemig shows [8d, 8h ]
Thunders86 shows [Ac, Kc ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8s, Ks, Qh ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 5d ]
** Dealing River ** [ 8c ]
Sjeemig wins $9045.00 USD from main pot


So honestly I dont really hate how the hand went. The whole AIPF bit is probably stupid, but for some reason i felt like gambling, but its definately not something i do all the time. Actually, i cant remeber the last time something like that happened. sigh

Anywho, on to the next tourney. This was early (again) in an 8.80 tourney. The player had just finished getting it in bad and catching up, so that and the stack sizes definately played into my decision making.

***** Hand History for Game 13489569871 ***** (Full Tilt)
$3000.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, July 19, 01:30:43 ET 2009
Table 8 080 Tournament (99749848) Table 15 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Seat 1: oscarfrowijn ( $1535.00 USD )
Seat 2: O_781 ( $2110.00 USD )
Seat 3: Stilgar666 ( $3980.00 USD )
Seat 4: McCat1 ( $2000.00 USD )
Seat 5: Thunders86 ( $1965.00 USD )
Seat 6: Oxide101 ( $1960.00 USD )
Seat 7: BigPimpLvL ( $1580.00 USD )
Seat 8: Alper Amaru ( $110.00 USD )
Seat 9: Angry Small Pot ( $2000.00 USD )
Oxide101 posts small blind [$15.00 USD].
BigPimpLvL posts big blind [$30.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Thunders86 [ Ts Td ]
Alper Amaru folds
Angry Small Pot calls [$30.00 USD]
oscarfrowijn folds
O_781 folds
Stilgar666 calls [$30.00 USD]
McCat1 folds
Thunders86 raises [$165.00 USD]
Oxide101 folds
BigPimpLvL folds
Angry Small Pot calls [$135.00 USD]
Stilgar666 calls [$135.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4d, 7d, 4c ]
Angry Small Pot checks
Stilgar666 bets [$540.00 USD]
Thunders86 raises [$1800.00 USD]
Angry Small Pot folds
Stilgar666 calls [$1260.00 USD]
Thunders86 shows [Ts, Td ]
Stilgar666 shows [Ad, 7c ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ah ]
** Dealing River ** [ Ks ]
Stilgar666 wins $4140.00 USD from main pot

That sucked. I dunno if im supposed to flat call there or what, but since any raise commits me, I went with the shove. Not great results...Moving along

The next tourney was an 18 man 5.50 non turbo. This was the final table bubble.

***** Hand History for Game 13489901649 ***** (Full Tilt)
$3000.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, July 19, 01:48:55 ET 2009
Table 5 050 Sit Go (99755155) Table 3 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: Spodsbjerg ( $1500.00 USD )
Seat 2: jayce h ( $1365.00 USD )
Seat 3: Ceratexx ( $1500.00 USD )
Seat 4: EvilMD ( $1410.00 USD )
Seat 5: Thunders86 ( $1410.00 USD )
Seat 6: bernalmh0 ( $1815.00 USD )
Seat 7: rd cool ( $810.00 USD )
Seat 8: Gram-Z-Q ( $2190.00 USD )
Seat 9: bozzs1 ( $1500.00 USD )
rd cool posts small blind [$15.00 USD].
Gram-Z-Q posts big blind [$30.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Thunders86 [ Qh Qs ]
bozzs1 folds
Spodsbjerg folds
jayce h folds
Ceratexx folds
EvilMD folds
Thunders86 raises [$90.00 USD]
bernalmh0 calls [$90.00 USD]
rd cool folds
Gram-Z-Q calls [$60.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Kh, 5s, Qc ]
Gram-Z-Q checks
Thunders86 bets [$200.00 USD]
bernalmh0 calls [$200.00 USD]
Gram-Z-Q calls [$200.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 8h ]
Gram-Z-Q bets [$180.00 USD]
Thunders86 raises [$1120.00 USD]
bernalmh0 folds
Gram-Z-Q calls [$940.00 USD]
Thunders86 shows [Qh, Qs ]
Gram-Z-Q shows [Tc, 9s ]
** Dealing River ** [ Jd ]
Gram-Z-Q wins $3125.00 USD from main pot

I think i played the hand fine, on the the turn my reraise is basically a pot sized bet. maybe going all in there isnt optimum, im not sure really what else i should do. My grasp on math isnt great, but i figure im commited and theres no way im just flat calling when only one hand beats me ATM. le sigh


After that I managed to take a win in a 6.50 turbo 18 man, and that definately helped my cause. There wasnt any overly exciting hands to report in that. I find in those little SNGs there isnt a ton of play.

Anywho last hand is from the record breaker tourney on tilt. Im basically just posting it coz it sucked.

***** Hand History for Game 13492255216 ***** (Full Tilt)
$4000.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, July 19, 03:42:05 ET 2009
Table The Record Breaker (99219444) Table 5213 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Seat 1: PeterJamesStyle ( $1595.00 USD )
Seat 2: Thunders86 ( $2030.00 USD )
Seat 3: AAbcPoker ( $1535.00 USD )
Seat 4: gatorgal13 ( $1880.00 USD )
Seat 5: sim28111 ( $1410.00 USD )
Seat 6: achahla ( $1255.00 USD )
Seat 7: Joelikeshoes ( $1445.00 USD )
Seat 8: dan888aa ( $1435.00 USD )
Seat 9: bigpairde ( $1410.00 USD )
sim28111 posts small blind [$20.00 USD].
achahla posts big blind [$40.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Thunders86 [ Ac Ad ]
Joelikeshoes folds
dan888aa folds
bigpairde folds
PeterJamesStyle folds
Thunders86 raises [$120.00 USD]
AAbcPoker folds
gatorgal13 folds
sim28111 raises [$380.00 USD]
achahla folds
Thunders86 raises [$1910.00 USD]
sim28111 calls [$1010.00 USD]
Thunders86 shows [Ac, Ad ]
sim28111 shows [Qc, Qh ]
Thunders86 wins $620.00 USD
** Dealing Flop ** [ 7h, 9h, Td ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Jh ]
** Dealing River ** [ 3h ]
sim28111 wins $2860.00 USD from main pot

Getting a migrane sucks, hopefully itll pass so i can play some more, but my meds for these generally knock me out for a bit. I know these hands are probably standard but im open to any input on things you might do differently. Oh well. what can yah do, pretty unfortunate. Not gonna bother posting until tuesday now since i covered today,

GL all

Okay, So I have decided to write a blog. There are two main reasons why I have decided to do this:

1- I figured that if I start posting my half assed weak as fuck results along with certain hands that ive run into along the way that, coupled with some constructive criticism from you fine folks, I just might get to be a little bit better.

2- I am bored as fuck

The other things that might show up in this blog could be stories that I find funny, observations, and things of that sort. My trip reports would generally include going to the bar, and sometimes trips out of this shitty town, but nothing like Bond18's epic stories. But, I will do my best
to type up some round ups if anything interesting or funny happens. Bond is actually my Hero.

Okay, so, on to poker. Before I get into everything I will let you know something; Im basically the definition of low volume. Thats not even a joke, my entire "sample size" on tilt where i play is 336 games, I also have maybe 4k hands of cash played, give or take. I'll be honest, I started playing in lke 2007, thats when i first found poker, online or otherwise, but it wasnt until last april or may that I really started to take the game more serious and doing things like reading books, checking out sites (like p5's and 2+2), and talking to my other friends who play poker etc. I play live around this little town when i get the chance as well but i really am still very inexperienced. Also, I have absolutely no ego when it comes to poker. Im not a great player, I dont make millions, i mean, im lucky if it covers my liquor and chinese food over the course of a weekend. Okay, thats probably an understatement. According to my records Im up an okay amount, the total isnt going to knock your socks off, but it keeps me going day to day.



I didnt really play much until June since i was working earlier, but June and up to now has been okay. i did good playing some cash, I won a weekly tourney held live here, and cashed in it another time, took a top 20 position in the MSOP O/E (half 08 half stud 8) tourney won a small stud 8 tourney (5.50 114 players), and FT'ed it again later the same week.

I had a FT in a HA tourney (5.50, 116 players took 7th) FT'd a small HOSE tourney (5.50 51 players took 6th) second place in an 11 dollar sunday night HORSE satty for 54 bucks.

Thats pretty much it up until yesterday except for some tier one sit an goes that i managed to score a couple of those dandy 26 dollar tokens.

That pretty much takes us up to yesterday. Yesterday didnt suck to bad either. I played in 4 different Sngs and one satty. 5.50 45 man, and 27 man. 8 dollar O8 satty, a 6 dollar turbo 18 man,
and a 6.50 PLO 6 max. thats right, all day, 5 tourneys.

I told ya, low volume. Anywho, i came in second in the six max wich basically just doubles your money, i came in 7th in the satty wich paid me a box of fresh wyoming air, i took 3rd in the 18 man wich is like 17 dollars profit, i came 33rd in the 45 man, i really dont do well in these, but i lost with KK against Ace rag, so thats just unfortunate. I managed to win the 27 man for a cool 54 bucks. I know SNG wins arent really big deals to most, but its nice to take a win any time.

So now your up to date. Pretty fuckin exciting eh! A buddy of mine picked up a card runners account, so He was nice enough to allow me to check it out, so ive been trying to look at the vids blogs etc. Its interesting stuff. One thing I noticed was a lot of people talk about variance.

Now having a friend who plays for a living Im pretty familiar with the term, but the question I have for you guys is this: How much do you have to play to experience variance? If you have a large sample size are you more likely to see the mean side of variance? im sure thats more the case but id love to get your points of view on it. I generally joke by saying "variance is when i am doing good, everything else is standard".

Well this concludes my first contribution. I am going to be updating this frequently, hopefully the next one will be a bit more interesting and I will be adding some hands etc.

Gl all