JamesMackey

地址 - 四月 2009

• Busted Monte Carlo

  四月 30, 2009

  Going into the tournament I was pretty jet lagged but felt like I could still play pretty well. I started the day just grinding through the early levels without having very many big pots. I was up to about 40k (30k starting stack) at 200/400 50 ante when I played my first big pot. The cutoff raised to 1100 I called on the button with 56ss and the BB called. The flop came J56 rainbow, bb and cutoff checked I bet 2k the bb check raised to 7k cutoff folded I shoved for around 25k total he called with 88 and I held.

  Anyway so I entered the 300/600 level with around 60k and unfortunately I didnt make it to 400/800. I lost with an oesd and bdfd vs 2p, tried a small bluff that didnt work, had aj vs aq aipf against a short stack, and lost with an overpair vs pair+sd. I lost all of those hands in around a 30 min period and I was out. Really frustrating to have a big stack in a very soft tournament like monte carlo and then just hit a bad stretch and bust so quickly. But thats the nature of tournaments just have to put it behind you and move onto the next one.

  So for the rest of the trip right now my plan is to play the 5k euro nl event today and if I dont make day 2 of that I will be playing the 25k euro high roller event tomorrow and possibly some of the other prelims.

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• Monte Carlo

  四月 28, 2009

  Last week I played in the 25k wpt championship at the bellagio. I made it deep into day 2 and had 280k which was well above average but unfortunately lost some key pots and was out before day 3.

  Anyway iam now in monte carlo to play the 15k euro buyin ept championship. The total travel time from vegas to monte carlo was like 21 hours for me because of delays and right now iam really jet lagged right now blah. Not the best condition to be playing a large tournament in but I should manage ok.

  The structure for the main event is unfortunately kind of fast with the levels on day 1 being only 60 minutes long and the levels on day 2 and later being 75. But I did get a chance earlier to walk around the resort and the town earlier and the area around here is really beautiful so if I bust early I will take some time off just to relax and explore the town some more. Anyway going to try and get some sleep before the tourney starts in a few hours.

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• I suck asdf

  四月 10, 2009

  On wednesday I played 5k 6max scoop. It was probably the scoop I was looking forward to the 2nd most behind the 10k main event. Unfortunately I busted within the first 100 hands. I only played 2 big pots and I lost both of them.

  http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/670344

  Here is the first hand I lost. The table had been extremely aggressive and already there had been a couple 3bets between me and rivercrime. Against a tighter player I would probably just call pf since I think I would lose value by 3betting. However, I think rivercrime was going to call my 3bet in position with a very large range that ATs would play well against. On the flop I make a standard cbet, on the turn I picked up the nut fd to go with my gutshot and unfortunately I bricked the river. I dont really have any problem with how I played the hand the only somewhat questionable play is maybe firing the river but I think it was correct. I had been aggressive but I hadnt shown down any bluffs and early on in a big tournament people are less likely to run huge bluffs so I dont think he knew I was capable of firing three barrels with air. Also early on in a big tournament players are less likely to make a hero call before they have established reads so I felt that rivercrime would fold hands like kq k10 AJ a high % of the time. And even though I think most times he has a busted draw hes going to check behind river and my A high will win theres certainly some people who will fire river if they miss and force me off my hand. If he had a hand like aa/ak he 100% would have flatted on the river so after he shoves river his range is narrowed down to KK JJ 22 KJ and a rare bluff. JJ and 22 are the most likely since kk he will more often 4bet pf and KJ hes more likely to raise a previous street since the hand is more vunerable to being drawn out on. And if he was hero enough to have a bluff then he deserves to win but that seemed pretty unlikely.

  http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/670343

  Here is the 2nd big pot I lost and this one I was really upset about. The first hand I lost I thought I played fine, I was just unlucky to miss my draw and run into a big hand. However, this hand I think was a big mistake. Now normally with how aggressive the game was playing how often people were 3betting I would have no problem with my 4bet and I wouldnt have any regrets but I had a couple pieces of information that made this hand bad. The first thing was I didnt really feel he would be 3betting here that light. I dont really have a reason behind this but after you have enough experience you start to get a feel for table flow and just when people are going to be aggressive and try and bluff you and when they arent. But if this was the only information I had I still would have 4bet shoved because even though I didnt think it was a spot he was going to 3bet bluff that often in, it had still been less than 100 hands so I couldnt be certain on my read on the situation + my hand is really strong compared to a lot of aggressive 3bet ranges.

  The other piece of information I had was his 3bet size. Throughout the level his standard 3bet had been to 300 every time. After he made it 270 I immediately thought he might have aa/kk and thats why he made it smaller. But I ended up talking myself into it being because I had folded the last couple times he made it 300 so maybe he thought he could make it 270 and risk less chips to still get me to fold or maybe he just wasnt paying attention and accidently made it 270 instead of 300. So I was pretty pissed at myself that I didnt listen to my reads and talked myself into doing something dumb. But everyone makes mistakes you just have to learn from them and move on.

  Today iam playing the 2k 1r 1a so hopefully I can play better and maybe have a better result. Edit http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/670346 oh well haha guess just have the 10k to hopefully do well in now

  Anyway besides poker I went and saw adventure land with my roomate the other day. It was pretty good. It actually had less comedy than I expected but had a good story so I didnt really mind. I thought kristin stewart did a really good job and the movie had some nice 80s nostalgia moments. I did think it might have been a bit too long and it moved kind of slowly at times but overally I would recommend it.

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• SCOOP

  四月 07, 2009

  So this last week pokerstars has been running their first annual scoop series. Scoop can be an extremely stressful time for a lot of online players with how high the buyins are and how big the variance can be. And its even more stressful for people who back a lot of players. So far the guys that I back havent had any big scores but have had a few close calls and a couple cashes so my guys are definitely down for scoop but not getting completely destroyed.

  So far during the scoop I have played the 500r, 1500 2x turbo, 1500 shootout, 10k horsem, 3k nl, 1500 nl hu, and 3k mixed holdem along with the medium events for all of those and the 215 plo 1r1a and 215 triple draw. The only event I have cashed in so far was the 1500 turbo which I got 13th in. So pretty disappointing scoop so far. For the rest of scoop I think iam going to be playing the 2k razz, 4175 8 game, 5k nl, 2100 nl 1r1a, and 10k main event. I may play the 5k plo, 5k fl 08 and 3k stud but those are maybes.

  Overall I think the scoop has pretty good but I do have some complaints. Structure wise so far the nl scoops have been really really good however I thought the 10k horse structure was pretty bad and some of the plo events played a bit too fast early on. Also the payouts have been pretty garbage. Stars has been paying out way too many spots and for a couple of the medium events if you min cashed you didnt even get your buyin back. And while I havent played many of the satellites I have heard a lot of people complain that stars hasnt done a very good job setting up satellites that will actually run and I think the field sizes have been hurt by this.

  Other than scoop I won a 100r on ftp a few days ago for like 27k so thats nice helps to pay for most of scoop that I have bricked at least. And some of the biggest events are still to come so still have a few good chances at getting a nice score.

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