Damn you QQ

By the title of this post one would think that I had a bad day of playing today. But, as it turns out I actually had a really good $$ wise but i still find myself pissed off. Since my epiphany about how i just wanted to play HU and MTT's I have been doing pretty well, about 99% of that pretty well being HU nlhe. Yesterday I played about 1k hands of HU 1/2 switching off and on between 2-3 tables and I was fortunate to walk away +750$ or so. And honestly i didn't really even play that well, my PT was having problems so i lost most of the hand historys but I can definately remember some bad plays/calls I made. Specifically i remember one guy really getting to me, annoying the hell out of me and i think it was his goal, but i eventually hit a great spot on him and stackked him in a 650$ pot when he was drawing dead:))), theres nothing better than that. I think i stacked this guy like 4 times 80,80,80, 120? something like that anyways, after that I had about 1050$ at my 1/2hu table, and like 700 at the other so i was feeling pretty good about myself even tho iwas only up like 750 when it looked like i was up 13-1400..
Anyway on to today, i played about 1100 hands of HU and won $1256.15, so ive been running pretty well last couple days and have been fortunate enough to run into some donkeys, like today I played with donkey that was sent from the heavens to give me money i think. His name was repins1 and i won $802.05 just from him!, basically at one table also, after I had stacked him for the last time i had over $1100 at a hu 1/2 table, i was feeling pretty good about myself again. Playing a guy like this is why I'm begining to like HU so much, when ur a lot better than someone HU they basically have no chance if u sit there long enough, u really get the chance to exploit bad players at HU compared to having to watch other people crush them at times at ring games. But I understand the varience is probably pretty sick at HU esp the way I play, so I'm gonna try not to get to over confident from my recent HU dominence. Anywways here are a few of my hands from my HU 1/2 nlhe session....http://www.pokerhand.org/?743227........http://www.pokerhand.org/?743230........http://www.pokerhand.org/?743232.......http://www.pokerhand.org/?743233.. i thought that was a pretty good call......http://www.pokerhand.org/?743239........
Now onto why I'm pissed off, I was a little bored and wanted to play a tournament, so i hopped into the 24+2 12k gaurantee, which ended up being 18k and change. Anyway to make a long story short there was 772 people in it and i Made it to the final table and was about 5th in chips and not 3 hands into a guy 3x's it UTG and im sitting with QQ, blinds were 4k/8k with 1k ante and i had abotu 137k in front of me and this guy had about 160k, so beign there was already 45k in the pot i just shoved all in. I really thought about just calling and playing the flop because i really didnt wanna gamble like that when it was that early at the final table, BUT i shoved anyway and got insta-called by KK and lost and went out 9th earning me $335..first got 4500 by the way.. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! oh well, my time is coming to cash big in one of these things, lets just hope its like the 500k when it happens :))...just because im kinda proud of myself im going to post my stats for my HU play the last week or so.
NL $2 1v1: +$2665 in about 3k hands
NL $1 1v1: +$1900 in about 4k hands
my PT has been all screwed up so these numbers arent completely accurate but pretty close. I did put in a little mini session of .5/1 6max today on stars and lost like $30 and got bored with it and quit. Its just hard to go from playing HU to 6max, i just get a little to aggro. Anyways time to go to bed heres the poker quote.

The next best thing to gambling and winning is gambling and losing.
-- Nick "The Greek" Dandalos

The Race reconvenes & the legend of J gold.

In one of my first posts in the blog i spoke of a race between me and this muppet called J gold1, maybe u've played with him before and remember being threatened by him after beating him out in a big pot..maybe he said his pattened " your lucky I dont know where u live" line. Anyways going along with the theme of this blog that race didnt happen..along with all my other challenges and crazy ideas..If u havent noticed yet BoBByBadfingers= massive ADHD problem.. I dont know really remember what Happened I think he said he was scared or something so we ended up not doing it.( im joking we both just has massive ADHD and never follow thru with anything). But the race is back on now, we each start with 1200$ on FT and play .5/1 6 man or 9 man NLHE tables, no HU. And the first one to 3k wins, I took and early but often lead yesterday in little session. J gold had some KK vs AA unfortunate luck and is stuck a couple hundred i believe and i played a few hundred hands and won like 143$. Now were not 100% clear on what the winner will get but I think i remember it being something like 50$ and some sort of humiliation on my blog?? It's mostly pride, and I feel bad that im going to have to take that from him. Because if he thinks he actually has a chance of beating me he is soooooo very.. ....
Now since my last post i havent played a huge amount, I still havent put in a real session in way too long. I really dont know what problem is im just so indecisive on what i wanna play. One sec I wanna play HU cash, then i wanna play a big MTT, then iwanna do a bunch of tables of 6 max, then iwanna play a bunch of HU sngos.. The one thing that has been a constant lately is me crushing the HU NLHE at the .5/1 and 1/2 limits. Right now at the .5/1 HU level in the last 4k hands I am at 29.63BB/100 hands and up 21 buyins, (this is in last 6 days), and at the 1/2 NLHE HU level in only 400 hands i have a 62.16BB/100hands and up about 5 buy ins. And at the 2/4 level i am down 350$ after like 200 hands.. I need to quit playing that level for time being, not because i think the players are that much better just because varience can be pretty bad at HU and im not realy for 2/4 yet.. Anyways I know this isnt even close to enough hands to really get an idea at what i could make playing HU at these level. But its a good start anyway...
This challenege is going to be good for me, I never really played 6max as low as .5/1, but since my month "break" (basically when I didnt get the chance to play much when i made the move out to LV). Since then my 6max game has been a little rusty, so this challenege win or lose I'm hoping succeeds in gettin rust off my 6 max play...Now before i end this blog i gotta tell a little story about what i witnessed on thursday night. Me and this J gold 1 fellow were both playing HU .5/1 on FT and on AIM discussing hands and what not. And during this Jgold1 was just getting killed by this guy( i dont remember name), he was just one of those calling station guys u jsut cant beat someotimes at HU and its soo annoying, anyways jgold steams off like 250$ i think it was to this gu yat HU .5/1. Then i search him and he's playing HU 2/4 and the very first thing i saw was a 650$ pot where J gold had QQ and flop was like 952 and Jgold shoved and got called by A10?!?!? and the guy rivered an A.... OUCH!!. anyways i guess another gay hand came about and J gold was down like 500 i think just to that guy plus the 250-300 he was down to the other guy,. Then i see him leave, i search him again and this time hes playing 5/10hu with his whole bankroll!?! with 1k, and at first when i search him hes hitting some hands and was up like 4-500 on this guy, the guy raises, j gold repops to 90 the guy calls, flop is K96 j gokld checks other guy checks turn is like a 2 , j gold bets out 125 and the donk moves in on him for like 400 and j gold calls with AK and the donk has Q10?? anyway river J, ahhh how sick.. anyways j gold ended up stacking the guy like the next hand with AA in like a 2k pot and after all that mess starting with the guy at .5/1 that got him on steam he ended up winning a couple hundred i think. lol good stufff, for a guy like me and alot of others that i know, who are tightasses with their bankrolls , this is a refreshing story, someone who is just straight gamblin.. Anyways j gold got his shoutout in this soon to be insanely popular blog, his life is complete now...muhahahaha..this thing has gotten to long, its saturdaay morning and im about to put in a big session hopefully... heres your poker quote for the day...

" The only bad luck for a gambler is bad health. Any other setbacks are temporary aggravation." ---Benny Binion

Look out Johhny Bax

look out johnny bax..thats funny, thats funny because i suck big ones at MTT's im figuring out, it feels like it did when i first started playing cash games, like im miles behind everybody. I feel like I'm a pretty good live tournament player, but for soem reason to me online tournys seem so much different, and i suck. I went like 0/6 yesterday at MTT's.......and it wasnt just that i went 0/6 without a cash im sure thats pretty normal, but i just palyed horrible, gambling with coin flips to early, not being aggro enough when it got deeper. It's just gonna be hard to get used to.
In other news im still runnning pretty well at the HU cash games on Ft, so i decided to go play a guy at HU 2/4 and made about the worst call ive made in weeks...well for some reason my hands is not in my PT,god im having some problems with that stupid thing, anyways to make a long story short i called a 205$ bet into a $109 pot with QQ on a AA56 board...what do i beat besides bluf???? answer is nothing.....god im dumb, and heres the donkey running away with my $$ after he toook big pot off of me....... well i gues not really running but...it was tough to make him look like he was running ok!.. Anyway luckily for me i rebounded back to even right away with this hand at a 1/2hu table...http://www.pokerhand.org/?726266...then at this point i was stuck a couple hundred i think at hu and at least a hundred at MTT probably more than that, then i crushed .5/1 again, mainly thanks to this guy named Desario on FT, apprantly he has huge stacks at the .5/1 all the time... and its not hard to see how, this guy was a complete nutjob, heres a couple of the big hands i had against him..http://www.pokerhand.org/?726283 .....http://www.pokerhand.org/?726285... haha wow ive never have played a guy like this HU before but when i sat down he had 800 and when i left he had 500 so thats how Bobbybadfingers rolls... this is me killing the donkey Desario...... haha ok i know ive gotten a little carried away with the dumb pictures but i just got my camera fixed so im havign a little too much fun with it. ..im in process off thinking of a new challenge thats going to pertain to my new HU and MTT venture, hopefully a challenge that I will actually DO this time. anyway I need to put in a big session today. And ive decided at the end of every post im gonna leave ya with a poker Quote....

"Limit poker is a science, but no-limit is an art. In limit, you are shooting at a target. In no-limit, the target comes alive and shoots back at you." Jack Strauss on poker.

Look out Sbrugby

For a change this is going to be a post where I have nothing negative to say, im not gonna bitch&moan like I usually do. Because The begining of my HU cash&tourny adventure has started off gggrrreeeeeeaaat!!....And most of the reason why it started off well is thanks to my new friend thebait20004....if I had to guess i think he looks something like this........ If for some freak reason u ever end up reading this blog i just want to say thank you! u have no idea how good it felt to take your whole bankroll besides even the money. IT helps the confidence, even tho most of the reason why u lost was becuase ur such a donkey...Anyways i played a minuscule 1500 hands and won 9.5 buyins ( 5 from one guy) playing hu .5/1 nlhe.. This was overall an odd session, mostly becuase of my playing with this baitman2004 fellow, he almost seem like a computer program, when we first started he was pretty tight/passive, i was definately the one pushing the action.. Then after i took the first big pot off of him...http://www.pokerhand.org/index.php?page=view&hand=721613.... he started steaming a little i could tell, he quit folding to my raises and he checked raised me neither everytime i c bet the flops... Then i got him with AA again when he was basically dead on flop...http://www.pokerhand.org/index.php?page=view&hand=721618....after this he was in full-blown steaming donkey mode, he was basically raising to 4 everyhand, there was 3 betting going on about everyhand preflop, i didnt see much reason not to see flops with the muppet, he was a maniac and he made it pretty obv when he actually did have a hand..and then this hand proved what a huge donk this guy really is..http://www.pokerhand.org/index.php?page=view&hand=721621...AHH it's refreshing when u tricky a donkey into doing exactly what u want him to.. anyway i pretty much kept crushing him until this hand came out, i made bad call on riv but i just couldnt fold a set to this muppet..http://www.pokerhand.org/index.php?page=view&hand=721624...anyway after this hand it almost seemmed like he had turned into a different player, he was back to tight almost passive mode, at this point we each had about $350+ in front of us( all his money) which is pretty crazy for a HU match to be that deep stacked... I was going to quit soon but before i could do that this hand ended it all ...http://www.pokerhand.org/index.php?page=view&hand=721626.. a 645BB pot! wow, that was good feelign when he called, It was a cooler for him but he checked the flop and that was such a insane bet by me on riv, after the way i was playing at that point and what was in the pot i dont see how he can call that.anyway it was nice to get all that $$ back after my bad call on river that one hand.
Now as far as MTT's go I have played a few and cashed a big fat 0 times. It's going to take some time to develop into a good tourny player. Well this was a boring blog i know but im tired and am gonna take a nap then wake up and hopefully have decent score tonight in a MTT.

High Stakes PLO on FT is unreal

I just witnessed a couple hands watching the 200/400 PL omaha on Full Tilt, that were fairly crazy i thought. Now I'm not much of PLO player. But look at a couple hands with guy named ziigmund had. It's hard to believe theres donkeys at this level online but wow, this guy is making a strong case for being one from what I can tell....http://www.pokerhand.org/index.php?page=view&hand=719723...i mean i guess i cant fault too much of his play afte the flop, but in for 22k preflop with 2c10s8c3h?? I know its omaha but wow...http://www.pokerhand.org/index.php?page=view&hand=719741.... now I realize that he has half his stack in there and it is a huge hand...But what is he calling off 20k with on flop, LOL..just funny. If there really is a lot of play like this going on at these stakes Sbrugby and Magic pitch are going to be billionaires soon.... I gotta put at least one pic in every post so....lets see if this works..

Just Donkin around

Since the disaster that was wendsday night I haven't played a whole lot. Oh don't get me wrong i still have found time to donk off a few hundred more at 1/2nlhe 6max tables, i mean someone has to pay those grinders rent..mine as well be me right. Anyway I'm flirting with the idea of giving just playing HU cash ant MTT's a shot. I'm not a great MTT player yet but I think im getting better quickly. I know being a tourny grinder is a tough life im sure, it's just nlhe 6 max cash games just don't do it for me anymore, there not fun for me. And I've found out the hard way that when im bored it costs me money. And with MTT's and HU cash games that they now offer on FT, i will at least be a lot more interested, which should in turn give me more motivation to play and I would play alot more.. I dont think I'm a great HU player yet either, but i think i have potential. I'm an action junkie so getting good at HU would be a lot of fun. The last couple days I think ive lost about 200sum playing MTT's with no cash and probably broke about even playing hu cash, after not too many hands. But earlier this morning I did win 3.3 buyins at the .5/1 hu nlhe tables in a limited amount of hands. I enjoy HU because there is a lot of tough decisions to make, a lot of the game has nothing to do with the cards and i love it. Playing HU im learning to make moves i wouldnt of ever learned at 6 max games... heres a couple hands from my little hu session...http://www.pokerhand.org/index.php?page=view&hand=718727....http://www.pokerhand.org/index.php?page=view&hand=718737....now I havent played much the last couple days but I was railbirding my buddy J gold1 earlier in a couple MTT's he was in, he was deep in the limit razz 2k, PL omaha H/L 2k, and the big one 15k NL holdem..sick right!. He ended up getting 7th i believe in the the lmit razz. And for the 15k, he was in great position with about 82k with about 28 players left, he lost a battle of the blinds which is alot with blinds so big.... and then this happened....http://www.pokerhand.org/index.php?page=view&hand=718753... he would of had a huge stack didn't get screwed, and would of been in prime time position to make run at the blue table.....the stupid muppet.......calls off 30k more with KQ and wins..........I was even cursing at the computer after taht card hit, UGH.. Anyways I'm not sure what the plan is yet, or if the January challenge is going to continue. But im def leaning towards giving the MTT life a try..so watch your back....... Danny because BoBByBadfingers is coming.

On Full Tilt at the begining of my Full tilt challenge

To say that my "January challenge to conquer 1/2nlhe on FT" has been a disaster would be an understatement..WOW..is the only word I can think of to describe it. I dont think I have ever had a 6k hands span where I ran as horrible as I have the last few days. It was so frustrating I had to wait a couple days to post a blog about it..UGH. The Key word to this bad run is FRUSTRATING!! I'm really not running that horrible in the way that everyone thinks of when they hear running horrible. It's not like I'm having 2 outers hit on me in huge pots or anything like that. It goes a little more like this...I play fairly LAG for a reason, so when I do wake up with big hands..say QQ KK AA, AK,JJ I get alot of action. This is the plan anyway. But the last 6 k hands either i get no action at all with them or I have been forced to lay them down after flop or turn... but sure shit i get 4 callers everytime i raise it up with my 89!! I really wish i had a stat for amount of times an A fell when i had KK or when an A or K hit when i had QQ. If i did have that stat it would be thru the roof compared to what it usually should be. Now obv this happens alot, and it isnt a big deal, but when I c bet and get raised EVERYTIME because my opponent out flopped me EVERYHAND im in with these handsfor like 5k hands in row, this calls for frustration in the worst way for me. And on top of this I think I won about 10% of bigger pot coin flip situations, which also gets annoying after a while hands like thishttp://www.pokerhand.org/index.php?page=view&hand=718634 .... or like this....http://www.pokerhand.org/index.php?page=view&hand=718644 ..hands like and also the smaller ones.. spots like.. I raise to standard 3x and get reraise my some short stack donk, so obv i shove him in for his 40-60 bucks and he instacalls me with his 55, and beats me. Which is fine, was behind i get it, just after losing like 8 of those in a row it aggravates me when It shouldn't... I definately could of played better thru the pain, i thought i had gotten past this problem and usually im ok but for some reason the steam of not being able to win a big hand or get put in a good spot the last 3 days has really gotten to me and affected my play. . Anyway these runs happen, I just need to quit being a... ...and deal with it. I honestly don't know what's going to happen with the challenge, im scared to play right now I dont think im in right frame of mind.. And PT got all screwed up when a tourny summary hand history got mixed in with a cash game hands and i deleted a bunch of hands on accident trying to fix it so the results are all messed up....anyway here are some hands for all u 2 people that proly look at this once in a blue moon to munch on....http://www.pokerhand.org/index.php?page=view&hand=718682...
http://www.pokerhand.org/index.php?page=view&hand=718685....http://www.pokerhand.org/index.php?page=view&hand=718691.

Today: - a little over 1k im guessing at the 1/2 6max
To date: well say -$700 sum?
To go: $8700..lol
Bankroll: $3400

Day 2 of Jan Challenge

Todays session was actually one of the more satifsying sessions I've played in a while. Even tho I barely won anything, I have a new rule while I'm playing to never check the cashier while I'm playing, I think this a problem most poker players have, their steaming anyways and then when they look at their cashier, they steam even more. It's hard not to look sometimes, but at the 1/2 im confident my bankroll is definately big enough for it so I just just focus on playing the best poker possible, not be results oriented. Anywho..the reason why I bring this up is because i was stuck 3-4 buyins I would predict very quickly into my session. Nothing that I thought I did wrong in these hands , thats just the way it goes sometimes. Here of a couple of the bad spots.....http://www.pokerhand.org/?712187....absolutely nothing i could do to prevent that one..http://www.pokerhand.org/?712193.. now this one I guess i could of not raised it up with 86ss, but I would be singing different tune if i won the hand, anyway donkeykong minraises me preflop so i cant fold to that, and then on that flop with his stack i thought i had a little fold equity and if he does have big pair as long as one of them isnt a spade i still got 14 outs 56% on flop. So i check raised him all in and lost, oh well. The the donk starts making fun on me like that was a horrible play or something...ahhh i love donkeys... now thats just a couple sort of bad hands and I dont have any hands from my comeback because my PT was having some issues importing those files so i just deleted them. But anywho I only put in a miniscule litte 1550 hands again, if i wanna make this challenge im definately gonna have to play more hands than that a day, It's just I had friends come into town and I was forced to go out pretty much. Although I was in good mood after my comeback, I was satisfied with how I played and a little proud of myself for not steaming/tilting at all. But anyway hopefully tonight I can................... some........ (these are muppets if anyones wondering)....And hopefully I can win a few of the 39 buyins I still have to go for this challenge..ughh. ..

Today: +$116.00
To date: +$296.00
To Go: $7704.00
Bankroll: $4296.00

Day 1 of January challenge.

Today I truely played some baaaddd poker. I just lost way too much money today being to aggressive preflop, and i realize that ruins my image and i get paid more when I do hit a hand playing the LAG style like i do. But it seems the players even at the 1/2 have gotten better than they used to be. Portraying a " maniac" just doesnt pay like it has in past..well i geuss im putting way to much into the little 1500 handsi put in today. . But when I have AA 11 times in 1500 hands and win +683$ with them and still only win +180$ for session..that is just sad. It woudlnt be if i would of gotten coolered in couple spots or something but that wasnt the case, i jsut played bad..like this hand for instance..http://www.pokerhand.org/?707923.. i know this player very well and i raised utg preflop, Its possible that he could do that raise on flop with flush draw or Kj or Aj. But thinking he has kj or Aj is wishful thinking i think. I was steaming a little, and these are mistakes i just cant afford to make if i want to make this goal.. URRRRRGGGHH! makes me mad just looking at tthe hand again because i knew i was beat. Part of the problem today i think was me not playing full attention at my tables.. With this new poker hu ace software i have i need to pay a little closer attention to my tables, and on top of that I talk to to many people on my AIM. I dont wanna know how much $$ AIM has cost me since ive started playing poker.. Between AIM, misclicks, and crappy connection i could probably be driving around an....... by now. So Starting tomorrow im going to only play 4tables maybe 5. And we will see if that helps. Well just so this whole post isn't negative ill show one bright spot of the session...http://www.pokerhand.org/?707930... now obviously this hand is a cooler for blizair.. But still think I played hand pretty well..let me explain. First of there was 2 limpers and im siting with KQhh in BB, o hate raisign out of position with hands like this but i will do it sometimes, but at this moment on this table I was being percieved as a maniac, so i decided not to raise and have a couple callers and have to play the hand out of position. now instead of slowplaying the QQ3 flop i just fired otu got raised by a solid player. Now i could just call here but then i thoguht about it. What could this solid player who limped in be raising me with here? i figured a medium pp or Q10 or Qj.. or god forbid 33. So i raised back and he instamoved in on me. Now i know he has one of a few hands 33, Qj,Q10 or maybe Q9 but not likely. Anyway i called, and i can actually say i played one hand ok for session even tho it was a cooler. ..anyway

Today: $180.00
To date: +$180.00
To go: $7820.00
Bankroll: $4180.00