Heartland Poker Tour Gary, IN And The Guy Who Folds Kings Preflop To Me

The buyin was $2700 to play against the best construction workers, farmers, and ghetto black people in the Gary area. There was 208 players and first place was 141k. The structure was not too bad. You start with 15k in chips and blinds start at 100/100 with 40 minute levels.

My table was super weak besides one guy who was playing perfect poker. He had some major game. I was completely owning the first 3 hours. Floating flops when i thought they were weak and taking it away on a later street. Every single one of my bluffs worked besides one. The one that didnt work was a blind on blind war and the guy called me with A-7 on a k-8-9-6-7 board. It went check-check on flop. He bet the pot on turn 400 and i called with a pair of 6s. i put him on an open ended on turn. he bet 500 on river and i raised him 1000 more. I think its a great bluff even though the guy was a major donkey. One guy who i was completely owning was getting really frustrated with me and kept commenting how i bluff all the time. i only got busted bluffing one hand!

I got up to 38k in chips at one point then i made my only mistake of the tourney. this new guy at the table min raised my big blind to 1200 on the button. i called with k-8 (no spades). it came k-3-2 all spades. i checked he bet 1200 i raised 2400 more then he went allin for 6000 more. It was such an easy laydown but i just suffered a mental lapse.

So i basically went no where for the next 2 levels. the blinds went from 300/600 to 400/800 to 500/1000 then to 1k/2k. once it got to 1k/2k it turned into a shove fest. i knew i had win to a coinflip soon to start a run to the money.
i had 26k and shoved in the small blind with k-q and the big blind had 99. i barely had him covered and that was basically it.

I feel like im playing so much better in tournaments now. I used to show a bluff to get paid off easier when i hit a hand but i think the best strategy now is to try and get respect. They will call you anyway if you are being active at the table and i will probably get busted bluffing eventually. This style was working really well when i was playing the $560 satellite the night before the main event tourney. I was showing good hands when people were calling me and i didnt reraise someone once preflop. So i reraised preflop this one guy who i thought was picking on limpers a little bit too much and i thought i would get respect if i reraised. He was a pretty good player so i know he will lay a hand down like 10s to me. He folds less 10 seconds after i raise him saying that he knows i have aces and folds his kings face up!!!!! i had 5-6 offsuit.

i was playing not even close to nitty but i was showing down good hands when i was called. I was trying this strategy in a 5/10nl cash game at the casino the day before the main event and it was working really well. i was showing down good hands at the start then i started just stealing like crazy so easily. It was a good thing i was getting respect because i has having a very hard time hitting a hand. I did two 3-barrel bluffs and both of them worked because they saw me show down really good hands when i was called. Although eventually they did see some of the crap hands i was raising with.

I feel like im really on to something. Watch out world series of poker.

Key Hands from tournies. Whats your move?

Hand from sundays ultimatebet 200k with 20 left. im about 8/9th in chips
No Read on the guy hes only been at the table for an orbit

Started at 18/Mar/07 22:33:13
Buckohfive is at seat 0 with 119820.
spiker123 is at seat 1 with 197280.
Tamsusis is at seat 2 with 73620.
Fish991 is at seat 3 with 107400.
highroller48 is at seat 4 with 166935.
Kingdan23 is at seat 5 with 148465.
TheMasterJ33 is at seat 6 with 114850.
leavingegypt is at seat 7 with 204080.
DeathDealer14 is at seat 8 with 53045.
Froggy_06 is at seat 9 with 287550.
The button is at seat 5.
Buckohfive posts ante (500).
spiker123 posts ante (500).
Tamsusis posts ante (500).
Fish991 posts ante (500).
highroller48 posts ante (500).
Kingdan23 posts ante (500).
TheMasterJ33 posts ante (500).
leavingegypt posts ante (500).
DeathDealer14 posts ante (500).
Froggy_06 posts ante (500).
leavingegypt posts the small blind of 2500.
DeathDealer14 posts the big blind of 5000.
Buckohfive: -- --
spiker123: -- --
Tamsusis: -- --
Fish991: -- --
highroller48: -- --
Kingdan23: -- --
TheMasterJ33: Tc Ts
leavingegypt: -- --
DeathDealer14: -- --
Froggy_06: -- --
Pre-flop:
Froggy_06 folds. Buckohfive folds. spiker123 raises
to 36000. Tamsusis folds. Fish991 folds.
highroller48 folds. Kingdan23 folds.
TheMasterJ33??





Hand from Full Tilt $1K Monday tourney. This tourney has the toughest field on the net.
There was about 90 left out of 200. Avg stack was 7500ish. Do you call me here?

Seat 1: littlecreeck6 (12,411)
Seat 2: TILTYBOY (11,433)
Seat 3: sWeDiSH_FiSHeR (10,540)
Seat 4: TheMasterJ33 (8,485)
Seat 5: browerkid (2,710)
Seat 6: duggins_edge (5,757)
Seat 7: sportsrecord (7,623)
Seat 8: Sleepy_Hippo (21,042)
littlecreeck6 antes 25
TILTYBOY antes 25
sWeDiSH_FiSHeR antes 25
TheMasterJ33 antes 25
browerkid antes 25
duggins_edge antes 25
sportsrecord antes 25
Sleepy_Hippo antes 25
sWeDiSH_FiSHeR posts the small blind of 140
TheMasterJ33 posts the big blind of 280
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to sWeDiSH_FiSHeR [8h Kh]
browerkid folds
duggins_edge calls 280
sportsrecord folds
Sleepy_Hippo folds
littlecreeck6 folds
TILTYBOY folds
sWeDiSH_FiSHeR calls 140
TheMasterJ33 checks
*** FLOP *** [7h Jh Kd]
sWeDiSH_FiSHeR bets 700
TheMasterJ33 calls 700
duggins_edge folds
*** TURN *** [7h Jh Kd] [Tc]
sWeDiSH_FiSHeR bets 1,680
TheMasterJ33 raises to 7,480, and is all in
sWeDiSH_FiSHeR??

I lost 25k in one day. weeeeeeeeeeee

This sets my record as the biggest loss in one day. I was 4-tabling pot limit omaha 25/50 and it was 4 handed or less on all the tables. Its a very high varience game to play. I didnt think i was playing bad just running really cold. Gigbet joined the game halfway thru my session. Gigabet has alot of flaws in his plo game. I was surprised how bad he was playing but he was running super hot. Although hes definitely not worse than the worst plo player of all time, Gus Hansen. Anytime you have free time watch Gus play high stakes plo on fulltilt. I think he might be retarded. I wish he would record himself playing online so i could hear his brillant thought process.

my first post

I really hate writing so this is a real challenge for me. I feel like i have been getting dumber everyday because all i have done mentally challenging the last 2 years is play poker. Thats the main reason i decided to start a blog.