Sorry about the hand replayer

I do not know what's wrong with it, I thought I would use it to make it easier to see the hands I played but for some reason there are few problems with it, I will try to figure out later, but thought I would let everyone know, for some reason it doesnt show turn or river, sometiems shows turn but not river, very weird. I apologize but will try to get it fixed hopefully.

Icemonkey special

One of my friends, icemoney is very known for winning hu in one hand so I decided to show that I can do it too, with little bit of luck, hehe.

Moving on up!!!

Had a fairly good today, just took 2nd out of 90 in 3.30 ko and also 10th out of 400 something in 3.30 ko, could of made more $ but I'm still happy with it, lost 10s vs AJ heads up when J came on river, to lazy to get hand history and screen shots and way to tired right now, need to go take a shower and work on my sng article, really have to edit it and see if i missed anything important. I did hit 300$ today, well I just won two 6$ heads up, played a little out of my roll but it wasn't like I was tilting or anything and played a game I was actually really good at, heads up that is, after I finish my sng article I may start one for heads up. Oh and reason I took 10th was because I made a move at wrong time, had A4 on button, CO raised, i was trying to pick up a fairly nice pot so i re raised all in, not because I like a4 but I was just trying to make a move and ran into 10s, not mad about it or anything but I'm glad I do get to move up to 5$ 6$ games. I forgot to take a screen shot of my original roll and when I moved up but here is a screenshot with me at 300$, hope you trust me enough to believe me that I started with 25$ lol, and also I did use my points to help me out a little, but I'm sure I could of got there even without points, just would of took more time. I think thats it for now. Laterz.

You can't bluff me baby

Sick read I had during a heads up.

Kind of a tough handuring the 2$ rebuy

Had to think hard on this one but made right decision, :)

Wow This feels so good!!! ( moving on up!!!)

This feels so great, I can't even express it with words to be honest. I finally won a tourney again, so happy!!! because it has been a very long time since my last win and the best part is I was in 15th with 16 left with only 4-5bbs, I was at like 4-5k with 500/1000 blinds and I doubled up with 88 vs 33 and just got everything going and was lucky enough to win, made few good plays along the way, which makes me feel even better. So much stress, so much anger and is out of my body and so much patience, confidence and so much skill going in!!! Also thanks everyone who watched me while I played, appreciate it. Here is the last hand of the game and I figured it would be a coin flip and I was willing to take it and won :)

Ok back from a small break and ready to rock

Well past few days have been little rough, few personal problems and few problems at the tables, so today I spend working and when I came home, I watched a few movies. Watched that 21 movie, very good movie and I really enjoyed it, so right now I'm back and I'm ready to kick some donkey azz, let it out tiger, cmon let it out!!! RawrrrRRRrrrr!!!!! I think its time to rock on!!!!

Took 34th/1472 players in the 32k gtd

These 2 hands unfortunately cost me my stack and my tourney, we all make mistakes, I realize I made a misread and a mistake, but got to learn from mistakes so I'm happy with going that deep by using a token. I have two tokens left, I will be playing the 17k in about 20 minutes and probably try the 32k again tommorow, Idk, Then I will get back to my challenge.

I'm about to have a Mike Matusow Blow-up seriously

I'm running so fu**ing shitty that I'm about to literally blow up, I just lost 2 times on the bubble first a5 vs Kj ok not so bad, now this is just unreal.

Time for plan B (little back up)

On the first day of the challenge my luck was fairly good and I was doing ok in 1$ sngs, but since that my luck has been so terrible in them, and I keep breaking even or coming ahead 1$ or 2$ which is getting annoying and boring, so I realized that I still had little over 18k points, so I'm going to use them as a back up plan to take a small shortcut. I will be playing 10 1800 point 9 man sngs for a 26$ token and then I will use the token(s) to enter a 26$ 90 man and hope to win some money so I can skip some steps. If not then I will go back to 1$ sngs, I'm just so sick of playing them, 1/4 rake plus all of these people going all in on any 2, any 2 will do, which is also very annoying since they been sucking out on me left and right. So we will see how this goes, hopefully good, alright thats it for now.

Just trying something

Little update on the challenge

Ok as for my challenge, I started out fairly good the first day, doubling up my 25$ to like 50$ or so, and today I just been running really bad and just breaking even and having a very hard time hitting the next step. I will be playing in 1$ rebuy, in few minutes, don't plan to spend any more than $3 in it, so I think thats fairly good bank roll management. In my opinion, I need to work on proper bank roll management, which I have been doing good at last few days, but I also need to work on taking those small chances by playing just a little out of my roll to get that big win, so like for exampe if my roll allowes me to play 5$ tourney, I think I should be able to take small shots at 8$ tourneys, and just practice moving up and down. I really suggest practicing that to everyone, can be very helpful. Also I been practicing on controlling my emotions and so far I have been playing a really good game even though my luck has been terribly bad, and somehow I have been managing to break even with bad luck so I wonder how I will do with good luck. Hopefully tommorow, or maybe even after todays 1R tourney, I will be able to move on to the next step.

Poker Godz Stop Effing with me!!!

Like I said I hate to whine about bad beats, or how is rigged blah blah, but this time I feel like I really need to let it out so I keep playing my A game. I understand luck is a little factor in the game but so far it has not been on my side at all, Today I lost QQ 5/6 times which is ridiculous, I mean Q5 beats QQ, how much worse can it be? Yea I thought it couldn't get any worse either, well I'm playing a sng, watching tv and I get QQ some, I'm like ok cool, so flop comes 334, I'm thinking this couldn't of helped the villain, so I believe we end up practically being all in turn J, river Q, and I have 2nd best possible hand, guess what villain has? lol you guessed it right 3s, at the time I wasn't sure if I wanted to laugh or cry, I was down to 700 chips and came back to win anyways, because the table was really weak. Also whats been driving me nuts, is bs luck on the bubble, just lost AA to JJ on bubble, followed by losing AQ to 10s, followed by 99 losing to AJ, and its just starting to mess with my head. Also I'm sick, very sick of losing 60/40 hands, I mean I get heads up I hold A rag or AT+, I get like QK or QJ to push me all in, river Q, or I will have QK push and get called by A rag and lose, I'm not asking for much, I just want to win when I'm in with better hands. So stop this horse sh*t please!!!. Poker Godz its time for me to get lucky in my opinion.

Bob_tiger attempts a new challenge

Time to attempt a new challenge eh? You may wonder what type of challenge I will be attempting, well hold your horses, I will tell ya. This challenge will be a little harder than my last one but I think I can do it. I will be attempting to run $25 to $10,000 by using proper bank roll management and the rules I have set up for myself. The rules will be fairly similar like for my last challenge so here they are.

Right now I'm allowed to play any $1 sng/mtt
60> I'm allowed to play any $2 sng/mtt
150> I'm allowed to play any $3.30 sng/mtt
300>I'm allowed to play any $5.50mtt and any $5.50-$6.50 sng
600>I'm allowed to play any 11$ sng/mtt
at 1000 I'm allowed to play $26 sng up to 90 man. and any 11$ mtt.
2600>I'm allowed to play any $26 mtt
5500>I'm allowed to play any 55$ mtt and any sng up to $119
7500>I'm allowed to play any $75 mtt
10,000 I finished my challenge, and I'm allowed to cash out some $ and have some fun.
***I'm allowed to do any satelites my br allowes me to play higher buy ins, for example at 600$ I'm allowed to play 6$ and 8$ satelites for a 26$ token.***
I may also make few videos of some games I play, we will have to wait and see.


***After I'm over $1000, I must have 50 buy ins for sngs and 100 buy ins for mtts***
***Highest buy in sng I will play will be $119, so After I hit 6k, I will start playing those.***

I have no idea how long this will take, hopefully not very long, but we will see. Also I will start out by 12 tabling 1$ 9 man sngs, and will just keep updating my blog as I go, I guess. Reasons for doing this? Well I can sit here for hours and whine and tell you my bad beat stories but I find that to be a waste of time, basically I have bubbled many final tables while I was playing out of brm, I took 12th in 129$ KO tourney, I took 13th in 33$ 1rebuy1add-on tourney, I took 24th in 163$ 40k gtd tourney, and I'm sure there are more I can't think of right now, but basically I messed up in about 5-7 tourneys towards the end, I'm not sure why, maybe I was playing to aggresive, maybe not aggresive enough but I'm going to build back up and hopefully hit many final tables on the way. Also I feel like I need to work on my brm once again, since I have been slacking off quite a bit and by posting in here it really helps me, and keeps me motivated.

As for the goals I made last month,
>>> My main goal is to enjoy poker, which I usually do. (not so much towards the end of the month but hopefully we will change this soon)
>>> Get on SNG leaderboards. ( failed)
>>>Make one big ft in a nl hold em tourney. (yea took 8th in $55 1 rebuy 1 add-on tourney)
>>>Win another omaha h/l tourney. (yup did that)
>>> Try to make 3k profit or more. ( failed)
All of these goals sound very reasonable to me in my opinion and I think I can accomplish them all hopefully, but we will find out next month :).

Few good/bad news and some other stuff

I will start off with the bad news and get that out of the way, first off the sng low leader board is not doing to good, well I mean I'm not doing to good in it, lol. I haven't even played over 200 sngs, which sucks, I mean I still have some time to catch up but I don't know if I want to play 24/7 just to get few extra $. Also I got throwed into a pool today with all of my clothes on which I wasn't very happy afterwards but I guess it was funny in a way, don't consider it bad new but I was a little mad. I'm a little tired but thats ok.
Ok as for the good news, there is a lot more of that, since I tend to forget some of the bad ones sometimes. Well first off, I got my own private table on full tilt at 50c/1$ 9 handed and have been doing ok on it. Also I will be making a video right now of me playing few 90 mans, so will post those when I'm done. And here is a little update on the few goals I made last month

>>> My main goal is to enjoy poker, which I usually do. I'm about 60/40 on this, I had fun but had some bad days too.
>>> Get on SNG leaderboards. Right now I'm in like 200th place or so, I mean I can get in top 100 but at the end of the month I will get like only 22$ since I'm not like top 10 or so.
>>>Make one big ft in a nl hold em tourney. Nope this hasn't happene yet.
>>>Win another omaha h/l tourney. Yes this did happen, I won a 22$ omaha h/l tourney and funny thing is when we were heads up I had 10k chips vs 80k and I still pwned that noob.
>>> Try to make 3k profit or more. I'm at like 1.3k profit so by the end of the month yea should be 3k hopefully.

That's all I can think of now, laterz.

Poker, I think I finally understand it now

Well I can just post in here of how bad I played, how many hands I lost to suck outs 2 outers,3 outers, w/e. I can sit here and whine of how I lost a lot of money last two days but thats not the point.I rather not to do that and waste my or anybody elses time. Instead I will post what I have finally and I know this for a fact, I will even repeat myself I have finally learned the meaning behind poker. Last two days what I did was just a mistake on my part, I first started out by playing a few tourneys, then I started playing more and more until I got sucked out on few and then that caused me to donk off the rest but anyways, I just watched move "the deal" I really enjoyed it and I had to think about poker for a second and I think it really opened up my mind.
I won't give away the whole story but I thought the movie was excellent, I think from that movie I really learned what poker is all about, I don't play live much but poker in my own opinion is basically US, ok that might not make sense, but what I'm saying is we make poker, we create our own table image, we have our own style, stradegy, game plan etc etc. To be a winning poker player though you have to pay close attention to your opponents and thats the only way to be a winning player. I mean I could also blame that I lost many of my coin flips in my tourneys but who's fault is that? of course mine if I had played better I wouldn't be forced to get my short stack in with worst hand.
I personally don't play much live, mainly just with some friends just for few bucks and when we play its nothing serious, so there is nothing really to learn other than how to beat few drunks who dont care what happens, yea anybody can do that.
I'm going back between to many things right now, I'm just thinking about this and typing, which is probably a bad idea but I guess I just need to let everything out and just improve is what I'm saying.
Well my story is pretty interesting I think, when I first started playing, I wasn't sure what to think about poker, I thought of it what you would call "gamboling" ( yes I know I spelled gambling wrong) I played for fake chips maybe couple of hours a week, I didnt understand this game, so I started watching it on tv and I would learn more and more new things, and when I played I started to understand more so for example lets say the flop was all hearts, my opponent bets at me, and from what I have seen past few hands he would check with a strong hand and let the other player bet, so even though I have missed the flop too I started to think would he really be doing this if he had it, I think not, so I raise and he folds, that type of thing, of course sometimes I would get tricked by my "read" so I started watching more and more and started understanding it more. Then I had lots of fake chips on stars which I happened to sell to one of my friend for like 10$ of course when I started playing I had no idea what bank roll management was and sometimes today I wonder if I have yet to learn it, so I played like 3$ game or w/e it was obviously lost all of my money, don't really remember what happened but after trying playing few times I fell in love with the game right then and right there, so I decided to take another stab at it. This time I started playing some smaller sngs, won a little money here and there, I haven't really played any tourneys or anything so I'm thinking why don't i try one of these, seems like it would be fun from watching on tv. so I did that I believe my first tourney I did happen to hit itm but I think I got to tight and was playing scared money, thats when I started thinking if I can make it this far then I can make it even further, so my question to myself was how can I do that? so I started thinking, then I'm like well I definitely need to play a bit more aggresive loosen up and I don't need to have the nuts in order to call or bet, so I'm thinking ok I can try that. I kept playing them, got deep in few, nothing big of course I believe my biggest was like 7th place in 2$ tourney, Then I started learning more and more and taking more a bit serious. Then I finally had few nice cashed, don't remember everything exactly but I can say that I started improving, I wasn't playing scared money anymore and even though I was still playing ABC poker I understood poker even more, I learned few new tricks, check raising etc etc. Then I was able to actually final table smaller games and I started playing on full tilt.
This is probably the 2nd part of the story, so my very first tourney a friend of mine who I haven't talked to in a long time says to me you want to play some tourney, I'm like yea I guess I don't know just checking out the site or something like that I said, he goes I send you 26$ play the 26$ mtt thats in 10 minutes, I kept trying to convince him I didn't want to play it but to be honest I did want to play it even though really didn't want to play it with his money, believe it or not I got 13th place in it, yea very lovely number. At the beginning I started off pretty bad and I was able to bring it back from a short stack and was even at a table with umm whats his name, michael craig and even took a nice pot from him, and unfortunately I got very unlucky and took 13th. after that I for some weird reason decided to put 20$ in to heads up and figured if I lose I just save rest, give 30$ back to my friend and just keep the 10$ish or w/e I would have let to play w/ myself, I'm not sure why I decided to play heads up so dont ask why, and I happen to do really good and somehow I won 500$ in less than 2 hours, I was a bit surprised/excited and even shocked to some point. So yea I shared some of it w/ my friend and this is where the good part is, let's make it short and sweet, I had terrible brm was to excited played over my roll, and lost my money. Yup I was dissapointed but I figured oh blah w/e not like it was my money, I didn't really play often so it didn't matter much to me.
Then I started to poker more serious, joined few forums and basically read a lot of hand histories, just to try to figure out how people bet in each case at each level, and after a while obviously I stopped doing it. Of course I have got a lot better and moved up levels, but I like all players still need to learn and improve, I know luck is a factor in this game but it's so tiny that in the long run I should be alright long as I play smart and get better. I can keep going and tell more stories but basically what I was trying to say is I know this unlucky bs will end and I will even get lucky in some situations but luck will balance it all out, its all about my skill and do I have the skill to be a winning player? and the skill to be able to be patient and practice good brm, that I don't know right now but I hope I do and if I don't there is only one way to improve, Practice!!!

Running bad, blah!!!

I have been running so bad in tourneys lately and I just tilted off 55$ but I figured this would be a good to let my anger out and just chill out a little. Today has been pretty damn terrible for me, first I lose to a calling station in the msop main event 109$ buy in, actually before that i lost in a hu tourney with AQ vs ATc when four clubs came on the board, how lovely. Let's see well not long ago I raised it up to like 3x w/ 10s and I get a guy to call with 35off and hit two pair, I know I want these donks to be making calls like that but when they hit against me everytime I'm not sure what in the world I need to do, after that I tried making a move on a guy who was pretty loose and of course thats the time he hits a set, I just love my luck. As for the Sng low leaderboards, I'm doing pretty decent with little over 700 points and 1st is at 4k, I will catch up soon hopefully since I'm taking a break from the tourneys and will play more sngs and possibly cash games. I just had to
let my emotions out since I just can't hit shit to save my life and this is probably a bit messy and I'm sorry but I rather just let it all out than blow my whole roll on some stupid crap. All I want is for FTP to cut the bull shit and let me catch a break.

Here comes a new month

Well let's see, it's 4am in the morning and I'm still up which doesn't make a lot of sense to me but ok. Let's move on, Right now I'm waiting for my popcorn, weird how all of sudden at 4 am I want some pop corn but yea decided to update this and here I'm. The other night I once again happened to final table 26$ omaha h/l, this time I took 2nd for roughly 800$ or so. My hu opponent had to big of a stack for me to compete with him and he was a solid player, knew when to put pressure on me, and Before the final table I made a silly call after chasing a flush i believe, my bad call on the turn forced me to call the river which left me with 60k and then he just finished me off. I feel like I played pretty good considering I have made 2 top 2 finishes in 3 or 4 nights so thats always good.

Also today I happened to d/l the free trial of poker tracker 3, it seems really sweet and the HUD works really good, considering I happened to make couple of great plays at 100nl with it. I was just kind of messing around with it but he is what happened, I had Q2h on button folded to me, the sb was a really tight player his VP was at 6 ( VP basically stands for how loose/tight player is) so basically he was really tight, what u call a nit, so I figured I only had to worry about bb, who was at 31 vp i believe, so I raised to 3.50 he re raised me to 10, I was playing only one table and his re raising % was pretty high too dont remember what it was so I decided to get tricky and call. Flop came J 7 6 rainbow no heart if i remember correctly, he bets out 16$ after thinking about it I say to myself I know he missed this so i re raise him to 48$ i believe it was, and make it look like I'm protecting my "big" hand. he insta folds and i show my bluff, and whats even more funny is, next hand i get 88 someone raises to like 3.50 or 4 so i call. What was great about this is that i hit my 8 with 7 4 on flop a bit dangerous, but I knew he either had higher pp or two over cards, I didnt put him on 56 thats for sure from position he raised. So I bet 6.50 in to 10$ pot i believe, He calls me kind of fast. On turn the board pairs 4, he checks to me, I kind of slow down and check make it look like I was bluffing and I gave up on the hand so on river comes another 8, QUADS!!! BINGO!!! I'm thinking nice come on pay me off buddy, what does he to do, he bets pot 20-30$ it was i think, so i shove him all in, yea that was the bad part of this play i got 2 excited on the river, I should of made a min raise or a smaller raise but I'm still happy with 60$ pot or w/e it was.

Right now I'm about to go eat my popcorn and make a vid of me playing a couple of 3.30 90 mans so I'm gonna go. adios.