Thursday, March 29, 2007

FTF Table: Great night


Look at that lineup!! Ritze Mike (boats), Rob (rawl), title, Sly, dimmy, and dekker. All at the same table.

This is how the stack got started. I'd abused the table for a few starter orbits, and the poor hokie decided to take a stand.

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

DonkeyTest.com

I shouldn't have taken this at work, but oh well. Overall, not too embarrassing except for the Tournaments part.

Full Results:

Poker IQ Score
Your General Poker IQ Score is 116 and shows how skilled you are in general. Anyone with a score this high is considered to be a low stakes pro. This score is better than 85.69% of all persons taking this test. You should expect to win in low stakes NL hold'em games.
You scored higher than your average percentile score in 9 individual ability categories. 8 of these better scores could be called statistically significant and may indicate special abilities, or that you were distracted on those parts of the IQ Test that counted more heavily in the other ability categories.

Position
Solving many of the IQ Test's problems required the ability to analyze your position at the table, considering blind levels and stack sizes, the tendencies of your opponents and the strength of your hand.. Many poker situations require analysis of position. The ability to play in and out of position strongly is required for skilled NL Hold’em players.
Your Positional Play score of 62% is not significantly different from your average score.This score is better than 87.15% of all persons taking this test.

Blinds
Understanding what changes occur when out of position but required to put in half a bet are important. By far, the blinds will be any NL Hold’em player's least profitable seats. It is important to play out of the blinds correctly in order to minimize losses over time.

Your Blinds score of 60% is not significantly different from your average score.This score is better than 82.47% of all persons taking this test.

Tournaments
This is the ability to change your strategy, hand strengths, calling and pushing ranges as blinds and antes rise. It is most useful during tournament play, but is useful in dealing with short stacks in deeper stacked cash game play. It is important to learn tournament skills even for cash game specialists. Strong tournament skills should translate to more tournament cashes and deeper finishes.

Your Tournament Play score of 45% is significantly lower than your average score.This score is better than 47.34% of all persons taking this test.

Big Pairs
The ability to play big pairs correctly is important for any successful NL Hold’em player. Although over time big pairs will be the most profitable hands, playing them incorrectly can lead to disastrous results. Beginners get themselves into trouble by slow playing and/or overplaying big pairs, and often try to be excessively tricky with them. Although poor players sometimes play their big pairs correctly, it is rare. In general better players will win more and lose less with JJ+ as they gain skill and experience.

Your Big Pairs score of 77% is exceptionally higher than your average score.This score is better than 98.36% of all persons taking this test.

Small and Medium Pairs
The ability to play small and medium pairs is typically difficult for beginners. Typically beginners will call too much pre-flop with these hands and overplay overpairs on the flop. Folding a set is rarely correct but sometimes necessary.

Your Small and Medium Pairs score of 68% is exceptionally higher than your average score.This score is better than 93.74% of all persons taking this test.

Bluffing
Bluffing is big part of NL Hold’em. Bluffing and semi-bluffing at the right times is important. So is recognizing that an opponent is likely to be bluffing and acting accordingly. Balancing your own bluffs and adjusting opponent calling ranges is essential.

Your Bluffing score of 68% is exceptionally higher than your average score.This score is better than 93.74% of all persons taking this test.

Flop Texture
Adjusting your play based on the "texture" of the flop is important. The flop cards should be analyzed in light of your opponent's tendencies, his suspected hand range, and the strength of your own hand. Failing to include the flop texture in your post flop decision making is a typical beginner mistake and is easily disastrous. As you gain experience in NL Hold’em and play against more experienced opponents, it will become second nature and of paramount importance.

Your Flop Texture score of 72% is exceptionally higher than your average score.This score is better than 96.41% of all persons taking this test.

Pot Odds
Sometimes you are required to call when you know you're losing because the price is right. Sometimes you must fold because you're facing a bet that is too big or because an opponent does not have enough money behind to justify an implied odds call. Failing to make the correct odds calls is a major error. Sometimes it is correct to call in some surprising situations.

Your Pot Odds score of 69% is exceptionally higher than your average score.This score is better than 94.52% of all persons taking this test.

Logic
Logically analyzing the action during a hand is important. Players with strong logical ability are quicker to see where a given set of conditions is leading, better understand the technical aspects of the game, often move up quickly in stakes and have little trouble with bankroll management.

Your Logic score of 70% is exceptionally higher than your average score.This score is better than 95.22% of all persons taking this test.

Betting Patterns
An awareness of betting patterns serves a number of purposes. It is useful for analyzing the playing styles of opponents and for finding errors in your own game. Often beginning players have no awareness of common betting patterns. Experienced players are sometimes able to watch a hand, adjust for the skill, experience and tendencies of each player and determine almost exactly what each player holds.

Your Betting Patterns score of 70% is exceptionally higher than your average score.This score is better than 95.22% of all persons taking this test.

Hand Selection
It is important choose which hands to play by adjusting for position, stack sizes, and the tendencies of your opponents. Beginners often have no awareness of relative hand strength, often play weak hands out of position, or easily dominated hands against tight opponents.
Your Hand selection score of 60% is not significantly different from your average score.This score is better than 82.47% of all persons taking this test.

Aggression
Aggression is important in poker. It increases your equity in most hands by giving you an extra way to win the pot. Your opponent may fold. Playing passively yields only one way to win -- with the best hand at showdown. Beginners typically play too loose and too passive. Excessively aggressive players will lose less than passive players. A balanced tight aggressive strategy is typically best for NL Hold’em depending on game conditions and stack sizes. Loose aggressive style is more difficult to master but can often be extremely profitable.

Your Aggression score of 69% is exceptionally higher than your average score.This score is better than 94.52% of all persons taking this test.

Computational Speed
Solving problems quickly indicates a combination of experience and card sense. Experienced players can often play most hands automatically, and only require significant thought for the most complex situations. Experienced players should easily answer a good amount of the questions on this test, leaving extra time to focus on the more complex situations.

Your Computational Speed score of 8% is significantly lower than your average score.This score is better than 0.31% of all persons taking this test.


Sunday, March 25, 2007

FTP: Another HU Marathon


Won another satellite SNG, this time to the bigger $400K sat. Wayyy too much work for a sat. Here's the hand that did it, all aggression baby (for the record, it was based on about 50 very patient HU hands, this was only the second time I came over the top)....Edit: I didn't have the beta saving hand histories, so... basically I had 9-4 soooted and the chip lead. I called a decent bet on the flop, missed my draw on the turn, he overbet the pot, and I pushed. I had him on an paired ace, but the turn completed the broadway draw if I was on it, and there all kinds of scary cards I could have paired for second pair. He said "??" and folded. He was forced all in the next hand with K 4, I had A 9. Game over.


Saturday, March 24, 2007

FTP: Marathon HU SNG


I played one FTP sat and lost after a long HU with top pair king to bottom two pair (8 5). Then I played about 50 or so hands with this guy. He was chasing long shots, making bad folds, bad all-ins, but I couldn't get him.
I hated having to call with this hand, but I thought there was a good chance I was good, and the blinds were starting to take a lot of skill away if I waited for another hand. He pushed on the river after overbetting the flop and check-calling the turn.

Anyone have thoughts on the call? Steeler was watching and just said "Wow." I don't know if that's "Wow, you're an idiot!" or what.

Full Tilt Poker Game #2062675465: 600 FTP Sat to $1K Monday (15470160) Table 1 - 250/500 - No Limit Hold'em - 21:55:50 ET - 2007/03/24
Seat 1: gcomposer (7 080)
Seat 2: Virge (6 420)
Virge posts the small blind of 250
gcomposer posts the big blind of 500
The button is in seat #2

Holecards:

Dealt to Virge [ ]

Virge calls 250
gcomposer checks

Flop:
[ ]

gcomposer bets 1,500
Virge calls 1,500

Turn:
[ ] [ ]

gcomposer checks
Virge bets 1,000
gcomposer calls 1,000

River:
[ ] [ ]

gcomposer bets 4,080, and is all in
Virge has 15 seconds left to act
Virge calls 3 420 and is all in
Uncalled bet of 660 returned to gcomposer

Showdown :

gcomposer shows [ ] (two pair, Kings and Nines)

Virge shows [ ] (two pair, Kings and Nines)
Virge wins the pot (12,840) with two pair, Kings and Nines
The blinds are now 300/600


SUMMARY:

Total pot 12,840 Rake 0

Friday, March 23, 2007

I love $1/$2 limit O8

ontiltsince82: did you really raise with 4 diamonds?
Cambo71: ya i only need one the board to get a flush