Another rough start

Well, I basically lost the small BR that I had since the last post mainly because of the limits I was playing at, or at least that's what I could come up with as an excuse. I must say I don't see how some people do it by only depositing 20$, the only way I have ever made a good amount of money and kept a BR is if I deposited about 4-5 times more than that.
Anyways a friend sent me 4.40$ since he owed me that and I almost forgot about. So I entered a 3.40$ 18 person and ended up winning it, making my BR about 23$. That was just yesterday and since then I played last night and bubbled a 180 man tournament getting 23rd which was sickening since the top 18 got paid, and also bubbled exactly in 6th in a 5$ 18 man with QQ when JJ hit a J on the turn. So I had a pretty bad night last night luck wise and basically got upset and went to a 25 nl ring game with 9$ and turned it into 18$ then lost another 5$ SNG......whew!
So to sum this all up I am still alive with 13$ and am currently playing in a 18 person 3.40$ SNG, so I'm excited to play smart and turn this BR into something more of my standards!

Another thing I wanted to talk about before I go is that a lot of friends online that I have are playing or switching to playing cash games. This has caught my attention and I really might start playing these and learning. I also might mention that watching one of ChuckTs FR ring game analysis on CC was very inspirational and is also a big motivator in this new idea and decision........but we'll see, I wanna stick to what I'm good at for now and learn slowly!

Starting Over in Micro-land

Well I had about 5$ in my BR when I signed up for the 45 person 1.20$ SNG. I played this mainly because 2nl is almost a crap shoot and my cash game play is bad enough I doubt I'd get anywhere in that sea of fish. Anyways I played this the same way I play a 5$-20$ 45 person SNG, aggressively! I really was fortunate to be catching cards also.

Although I almost learned a costly lesson when I made a play/bluff that usually at higher limits players would respect and fold, but not this micro playing pro lol. I had position on the guy and the pot was raised preflop he raised and I called with 9 10 suited. Flop came and he checked so I pushed to take a nice pot since blinds were high, and then he thought about it and took time. Well I put him on AK before I pushed and that's what made me make the play since I know that AK wouldn't call on a nothing flop.....well he did but it was AQ and I need to hit a 10 or a 9 or a inside straight draw, but I hit the 9 on the river and from there I was in 1st place and grew from there. I took about 60% of the final table and when it came down to HU I had about 43K to his 20K.

At this point I knew for sure I was going to win.......actually I was this sure at the start of the final table....wait actually before the sng even started lol! But I ended up making a sick call with bottom pair against his high cards and I ended up winning 14$ for my efforts and a huge boost to my very low BR!




So now I had 17$ in my BR and my good friend Icemonkey9 logs onto aim and we discuss possibly playing a 3$ 18 man SNG. So we get in one and away we go. OF course we both make it ITM which the top 4 get paid, and I really wasn't surprised we made it because, well first of all we are from CC and 2nd of all Icemonkey is also a solid player cash or mtt wise. Well I was 2nd in chips when it came down to the last 4 but I ended up making a raise in the SB to steal and got called. I hit bottom pair and the inside straight draw so i pushed and was called by 2 pair instantly, no help and I was out in 4th.

icemonkey9 3:03
what the hell did you just do

kingcurtis 3:03
one of the stupidest things ever

icemonkey9 3:04
agreed

kingcurtis 3:04
i could say i thought he was bluffing but thats not good enough

So after that Ice monkey took care of the 3rd place guy and was in 1st but only by about 3K. Then he was all in PF with A 6 against AJ if I am correct, they both hit A but no 6 to save Ice. So he struggled to stay alive and eventually went out in 2nd for about 16$ but still a really nice finish and I am proud we both cashed! So now I am going to do what I used to do for a while and post my BR and a new feature which is a goal for the week or next couple days!

Current BR: $19.00
BR Goal for 6/21/08: $25.00

Big Feild, a Cash, but no Final Table!?

I really thought I had this one, the whole time I was winning races hitting nut hands and even flopping the nuts. I was 2/2200 in the first 20 min and amazingly, I stayed in the top 15 up untill about the last 40 people. I really did make a bad call with AQ near the end, which crippled me down to about 35K, in which i trippled up to about 110K. Then I got JJ and went all in and was called by 10 10.....YAHTZEE!!!.........no, it ended up being an all heart flop, which 10 10 had a heart and the turn brought a heart which made me throw up, not really but I was sick. Thus sending me off in 28th place for about 4X my buyin. One thing I am proud of is that I made it as far as I did in such a large feild 28/2460 is a very deep finish although it takes a lot out of you when put all that time in and don't make it to the Final Table. Anyways heres the results and I should email this guy and see if he'll give me some of his winnings, the guy that knocked me out won the whole thing for almost 4K$!!

PokerStars Tournament #91350059, No Limit Hold'emBuy-In: $10.00/$1.002460 playersTotal Prize Pool: $24600.00Tournament started - 2008/06/14 - 19:00:00 (ET)Tournament finished - 2008/06/15 - 03:03:10 (ET)
1: noniserb (Kitchener), $3813.00 (15.50%)
2: steel144 (Windang), $2767.50 (11.25%)
3: lusky8 (simpsonville), $1980.30 (8.05%)
4: peachlandbc (Etobicoke), $1353.00 (5.50%)
5: ThaiDam (Muenchen), $1107.00 (4.50%)
6: donnacarmela (catania), $861.00 (3.50%)
7: TheMiltMan (La Junta), $615.00 (2.50%)
8: Blucat192 (Nirvana), $405.90 (1.65%)
9: bluebartnt (Armstrong), $250.92 (1.02%)
10: tmh_money (Archdale), $184.50 (0.75%)
11: tk10009 (natick), $184.50 (0.75%)
12: TMONEY505050 (loveland), $184.50 (0.75%)
13: MOGZZ (Petawawa), $135.30 (0.55%)
14: Dgizzard (San Francisco), $135.30 (0.55%)
15: SebbyGl (Leipzig), $135.30 (0.55%)
16: LLongiManuSS (Hamburg), $86.10 (0.35%)
17: marleyj (Richardson), $86.10 (0.35%)
18: PrairieSk8er (Winnipeg), $86.10 (0.35%)
19: Blitza (Gillingham), $54.12 (0.22%)
20: Northon (Ieper), $54.12 (0.22%)
21: schmuck (rough and ready), $54.12 (0.22%)
22: JMCmoney (Brooklyn Park), $54.12 (0.22%)
23: austinski (Austin), $54.12 (0.22%)
24: cashgamedebo (Sioux Falls), $54.12 (0.22%)
25: Taste0fChaos (City of Evil), $54.12 (0.22%)
26: Nevets19 (St. John's), $54.12 (0.22%)
27: Kin-Chris (Redmond), $54.12 (0.22%)
28: KingCurtis67 (York Haven), $46.74 (0.19%)

KC Back??

PokerStars Tournament #91618729, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $4.00/$0.40
180 players
Total Prize Pool: $720.00
Tournament started - 2008/06/10 - 20:07:25 (ET)
Tournament finished - 2008/06/11 - 00:21:39 (ET)


1: theostinky31 (xanthi), $216.00 (30%)
2: Nemo3733 (Grafton), $144.00 (20%)
3: wildcard0877 (clinton), $85.68 (11.90%)
4: Dhlads (Edmonton), $57.60 (8%)
5: KingCurtis67 (York Haven), $46.80 (6.50%)
6: jcnkt (Uxbridge), $36.00 (5%)
7: louie777uk (edinburgh), $25.20 (3.50%)
8: bada flav (Schleswig), $18.72 (2.60%)
9: elbernal (Bogota), $12.24 (1.70%)

That is the final table results from last night.  This 180 man sng was easy and I felt strongly about winning it and
felt no other players were better than me. It helped that I was also the chip leader going into the final table,
which I hung around 50k untill the last 5.This is when I woke up with KK and ran into AA thus sending me off.If this didn't happen or if I was on the other end of
this I feel I most def. would have won...

Poker??

Yea Yea, this is a poker blog right? Why no poker posts, why no updates, or screen shots of big mtt wins? I know it's depressing but I think in the long run it is going to pay off. You may be thinking this post is pointless since I've already announced that I'm taking a break until school's over, but it isn't! This is mainly for me, to remind myself not to deposit, because I can, but to keep focusing on school and finish it out strong. Once it's over I have the summer and no other worries but poker, which with my results isn't really anything to worry about :P.

I think the whole being refreshed and ready to play thing will make me feel better once I get to that point. Poker, after a while, can pull you down, not in life or anything but just in your play. Every time I take a break from poker and then comeback, I kill it, I own and make a good amount of money(at least to me it's a good amount). For example, about 1 year ago I had a stable BR on FT, I played mainly SNGs and MTTs as I do now. I had about 1K and started playing bad BRM. So I cashed out around $600.
So I basically didn't play online after that, until about 2-3 months ago my dad lent me 10$ on FT which I basically played 1, 10$ HU(which I won) and then built it to about a 300$ BR and a 750K ticket in about 10 days. Awesome right, well almost. I actually ended up playing horrible poker in the 750K busting out a little after the first break. One word, Intimidation. I basicaly thought to much about how I was going to play before the game. When all along I should have just played my game, making good reads, and playing solid poker. Anyways I eneded up cashing out again, and not playing until my most recent run at poker(which I don't think I need to explain).

One last thing before I end this post. I haven't always won money online. Yeha I knnow right, lol, but when I first started in highs school, somehow the first site i deposited on was Hollywood Poker, and I was a fish if there ever was one. I maxed out my only credit card for the max credit line of 300$ and slowly paid that back. Which I preceded to do again. Although this $600 loss was a lesson more than anything, not only to get better and learn more to make money, but to know when to stop playing, when to withdraw, and when to not bluff(one of my biggest problems in the past).