Poker eyes are watching and hand review.

I had my first limited success in poker in a while in tournament poker. I took twelfth place in the 5.50 buyin knock out tourny with 1350 ppl. Not too bad – In that tournament I used for the first time a site that I was just recently intoduced to Pokerratings.com. A free site. I was curious if there any of you out there that use this tool. And if so what are the primary data that u pull from it?
I have been createing player notes like this

5.5 knockout tourny

Tourny Stats: prizes 102 Profit less then 0 ROI -46 ABI 2 AFS 291 ITM 15/113

Tourny Stats: prizes 2.3K Profit 113 ROI 5 ABI 8 AFS 692 ITM 52/261


This tells me that the first player is Primary a tight player at Low limits maybe just making his start in online play, while the second player is a medium stakes player that is well aware of good poker principals and a LAG player.
This is information that I can get on the fly, so when I am switched to a new table I can find out quickly some info about the players two to my immidiate left and right instantly. Of course in poker Every hand is independent, but how would you use this information?

A nother thing I cant help but think, is this information a violation of our privacy? Or is poker becoming to form what is a equivalent rating system campaired to chess? If you seated with a Grandmaster your less likely to confront him with risky gambit plays as he will out play you.

This site is also a Mega LOG of all your individual tournament play. And will allow you to asses wether you play well or not. Before you know it I am ppl are going to be lookin up your stats before considering whether or not to call your raises.

Im going to try to generate some conversations about a few hands – Is there another way that I could have played that hand that would have created a better outcome?

Full Tilt Poker Game #4244074652: $5 + $0.50 Knockout (32110823), Table 119 - 250/500 Ante 50 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:25:08 ET - 2007/11/20
Seat 1: (10,495)
Seat 2: (10,710)
Seat 3: uski (11,520) In the next hand
Seat 4: (5,091)
Seat 5: WildDuces234 (21,450)
Seat 6: (36,724)
Seat 7: senjahottie (5,406) In the following hand
Seat 8: (19,604)
PhilTheDrill7 antes 50
JuJuuu antes 50
uski antes 50
Artie Gonzo antes 50
WildDuces234 antes 50
BIVONA antes 50
senjahottie antes 50
RSTONE222 antes 50
JuJuuu posts the small blind of 250
uski posts the big blind of 500
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to WildDuces234 [Ad Qs]
Artie Gonzo folds
WildDuces234 calls 500
BIVONA folds
senjahottie raises to 1,500
RSTONE222 has 15 seconds left to act
RSTONE222 folds
PhilTheDrill7 folds
JuJuuu folds
uski calls 1,000
WildDuces234 calls 1,000
*** FLOP *** [Jc Td 8s]
uski checks
WildDuces234 bets 4,000
senjahottie calls 3,856, and is all in
uski raises to 9,970, and is all in
WildDuces234 calls 5,970
uski shows [8h 8c]

WildDuces234 shows [Ad Qs] I have the OSED getting three to one on my money, 8 outs twice. And I cant go broke here. I knew as soon as the all in came here the St8 was all I could make to save me.

senjahottie shows [Ac As]
*** TURN *** [Jc Td 8s] [5c]
*** RIVER *** [Jc Td 8s 5c] [5h]
uski shows a full house, Eights full of Fives
WildDuces234 shows a pair of Fives
uski wins the side pot (12,228) with a full house, Eights full of Fives
senjahottie shows two pair, Aces and Fives
uski wins the main pot (16,718) with a full house, Eights full of Fives
senjahottie stands up

the bountys I collected were not relavent enough, only about 6 – 7 bucks. But it would have been more had my significant risk with AQ placed me in a mega stack position.


The next hand I thought I might try and publically examine was the following weak PP 33. this hand turned in to a set Luckly, If I had raised the SB might have passed on the hand (maybe). But in reality with a M of 12 or so, can I really afford to raise with 33 to isolate?
If I had raised I might have cleaned up with this bottem set as the pot would have allowed him to call my later bets.

Full Tilt Poker Game #4244119427: $5 + $0.50 Knockout (32110823), Table 119 - 300/600 Ante 75 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:29:14 ET - 2007/11/20
Seat 1: PhilTheDrill7 (10,145)
Seat 2: JuJuuu (8,910)
Seat 3: uski (28,346)
Seat 4: Artie Gonzo (5,266)
Seat 5: WildDuces234 (13,680) Just Rebuilt stack w/o show downs. From T7500 chips
Seat 6: BIVONA (36,974)
Seat 7: CrazyCementer (3,295) small 300
Seat 8: RSTONE222 (19,254) BIG 600
Seat 9: native_grown (8,873)
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to WildDuces234 [3c 3s]
native_grown folds
WildDuces234: i can build it all back
PhilTheDrill7 folds
JuJuuu folds
Artie Gonzo folds
WildDuces234 calls 600
BIVONA folds
CrazyCementer calls 300
RSTONE222 checks
*** FLOP *** [4h 7d 3h]
CrazyCementer checks
RSTONE222 bets 2,000
WildDuces234 raises to 4,000
CrazyCementer calls 2,620, and is all in
RSTONE222 calls 2,000
*** TURN *** [4h 7d 3h] [Ts]
WildDuces234: getting a little aggresive here
RSTONE222 checks
WildDuces234 bets 9,005, and is all in
RSTONE222 FOLDS…. No reason to allow him to draw to a flush as well….
WildDuces234 shows [3c 3s]
CrazyCementer shows [9h Qh]
Uncalled bet of 9,005 returned to WildDuces234
*** RIVER *** [4h 7d 3h Ts] [8h] As it turns out, drrrrrrr short stack made his FLUSH
WildDuces234 wins the side pot (2,760)
WildDuces234 shows three of a kind, Threes
CrazyCementer shows a flush, Queen high
CrazyCementer wins the main pot (10,335) with a flush, Queen high

I am mega tiltted

today there is a whole lat ta tilt in my life. I am chillin here in my solidarity just thinking about whats going on with my home job and parental tilt. I don't know why i would post this all here. i know for a fact no one reads this blog. so my sewage of words is not heard by the masses.

My tilt in life may be the foremost cause of my playing tilted. i have lost a string of buy ins to FTP, a sum of about 600. for me I am use to requesting checks sent to me every 2 - 3 months. well it's been a while since this donkey turned a profit. and some of it. most of my loses I can say well you did donk it off you ass hole. and I did. I made plays at pots I had NO right too. I can say that most of these plays had been preambled by petty words that have stuck in my head causing me to play out side of my self. I don't play certain hands online. I just don't. If cant make a read at a player how in the world can I play a hand that is weak by nature? this is online gambling. QJ is the best example of this. in person - you can make reads that you cant other wise make. A-T, A9 Never K J, IDK im a loss for how to play anymore. being broke blows. it makes me all the more desperate to make a Mega pot that I can win.

I have to eliminate these horrid habits that I have picked up over the last 2 months. I have been the past 2 weeks getting back to basics. reading mags. reading blogs, hoy has been tilted himself and no real poker content other then dealing with tilt has been available. I think the way back to winnning poker is boredom. If Im not not bored Im playing wrong - lol LOCK DOWN POKER!

Whats the Longest one hand ever put you on tilt?

This is a horrible story: but like every car wreak you can't look away. For me the story starts at home where I carfully schedualled a trip to Taj while the USPC was going on in 2007. I signed up for my first major event in my lifetime. I played Briliantly! out playing the fish and crushing the great players when the cards came through for me. I managed to grap the chip lead taking down to Big stacks b2b.

a half hour later in the BB, delt AQ suited. Button limpped. SB limpped behind at 300 -600 level. I pop it to 2100. with 40K behind. both call. I instantly put the Button on a real hand Speciffically a pair. well I flop the crap outta hand. A Q 7. I lead right out 2500. the Button repopped. shocked to call 4K more I think there is no way he hit a set - maybe maybe AK donk.

well as it turns out I only call. Mistake - ???? not really. the player had 8K and change behind. after the 4K RE- raise. so he does seem pot committed here right?


well the turn is a brick. and I weirdly check my BB position thinking pot control. He bet another 4K. thus again pot committed himself. so I took my time on the flop 4 K bet deciding that I would call any and every bet made by him.

well the river was a King. and the pot was HUGE!!! so when he moved in for another 4 K and said aloud You have to call. I knew two things One i was beat and two I did have to call.

He showed KK. I did not recover from this loss / tilt for about 3 months.
It blew me away that he committed himself there with KK with my lead out and call.

and then he got there on the river. I found him the following day - he said two things - one he was pot committed with the KK and two he took down the tourny. I had 2 losing live cash game sessions after this and have not been a winning online player since this loss. I would go to sleep at night for the next few weeks thinking about how he trapped me, i retrapped and he resucked out. unreal.

well Im back in the swing of it all. If you blog about your worst tiltever go ahead and leave a comment I'll look up your blog.

OH MY GOD, DID I REALLY JUST QUIT MY JOB?

Yup, you read it right. as of august 9th I am free of the world of Hewitt Associates. the [CENSORED] of the Life and all happiness.

You can't blame me though. I was hired here with the notion that I would be able to apply for a Actuarial role with in 3 to 6 months, after I had gone through 6 months and 3 Unit managers (due to turn over) I was told the UGLY truth. I need to be in good standing in the firm at my Hellish job, and worked the job a min of a a Full Year before I can apply outside of my position. So here I am working 60 hour weeks for a year programing various clients DB calculations (That works out to about 14 dollars an hour), and getting 3 ppls work because the department has gone from 14 people down to 4. With the Lead of the team quiting only 2 weeks ago, the youngest member of our team is promoted to a job she can not handle and puts ultra stress and is putting unrealistic expectations on us.

If that is not bad enough. what made it really easy to RUN out the door is one of the guys who left told me he was mislead the same way I was. and he has been working the same job for FOUR years. no bonus ever came his way EVER! Same shit ass pay and unpaid overtime that is mandatory. I was just told by my yet again NEW unit manager (gone through 7 in a year) that I would not be able to apply for a actuarial role for another year.... lol. on top of that... guess who is not getting ANY kind of a real raise. 1K- LOL...
YEAH! I'm leaving!


To really burn the bridge here the new hire fresh in the door with NO exp, is going to be making more then me because we have so many rolls to fill. Should I tell her not to expect any real raise come next year? nope I'm suppose to keep my mouth shut.

So I am quitting with out any real locked up offers on the table for new employment. scary but I am going to lose it if I stay. if any of you guys have a decent position open I'd love to get a heads up.

Is it Worth it to be an asshole at the poker table?

Wrote this about half a year ago.

The set up. On my most recent trip to Trump Taj I had a very successful time at the 1 2 NL tables. There was a lot of back story to what led up to me busting a young kid in a blue jacket. To start the night off I was seated at a freshly opened 1 2 NL table with my standard buy in 120. play is interesting all of a sudden early on there is action Blue makes a big pre flop raise of 15 with A J suited early position. gets 2 callers the flop is an ugly [K K 4 Rainbow] Blue leads out and is called by one player, a older man. Next comes blue's ace. Blue takes another stab, old guy puts blue all in. The old timer has K 9 os. and takes a big pot off the Blue jacket Kid. The kid ribbed the old man for playing with K 9 as he raised the pot. he was PO'ed! I decided he'd be my mark for the night then.

To top It off, I decide the kid has a temper and is subject to tilt. So I call him out on his play with the old man. He goes off as expected. With my Sharp attitude, I say something to get a Sharp response. He stands up and tells me what I can do with my opinion and makes a mild threat to me. I Scream in a Deep baritone voice FFFFFFFFLLLLLOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRR! Three Very Very large men come to our table, and the dealer prompts them as well to our villain at the table. one man speaks to the Kid in Blue, as two Large meat heads stand behind his chair. This made him stand up and say it's not me... I did not say that, it's not me!!! He was issued a warning. PERFECT! Just as I planed. I lost a pot or two to him after this as he was aggressive to me, and even showed a bluff and taunted me openly. No need to call floor now. I have him completely tilted.

A little later after.... I told him pre flop I was going to give him action loosely calling his 15, he said fine it's your money(It certainly will be). He was elicit talking to me, so pleased to get in to a hand with me again. He was such a kid, if he took his head phones off… He might have heard me practically reveal my hand and gotten away from it. Or at least put me on a hand, as my voice cracked. (Was kinda funny to me) Flop was [5 10 J] he did not get away from it after I check MIN- re raised him. I said to him, do you have a Jack? he said nothing. I said I bet you don't even have a ten. ...He went all in. I Thought he had trips for a sec. But he opened his mouth - to ask if I had Kings? I say, "...............(realizing he has aces, or queens) Nope, and I call."

I show Jacks up. he did not improve with his aces, and I busted him. My question. He definitely over played them, and may have gone broke in this hand any way. But did my picking on him with the intent of tilting him get him to make a All in bet when he did not have too? He acted fast and did not think about the conversation. It was a sort of Auto Push. with his aces. only after he put it in did he think that he might not win this hand. All in all after he left having not a dollar to his name, the table said to me. that was quite a chain of events I pulled with him. as if to complement me on a Massive set up. as I planed to bust him with ten jack. well I still could have lost, but I was far ahead of his pocket pair when the money went in.

Do you guys agree that My tilting of this character is what caused him to over play his hand? or might he have done the same, with out all the Hollywood FULL BLOWN TILT attitude toward him? This said, I have to say I am very cool headed quiet at the table, unless I know someone. the I am just banter and having fun. I completely changed my image for this day at the table. sort of like how I would play chess in the city. Talking to my opponents telling how terrible they are and what a horrible play... and so on. like toying with them. I don't have the poker chops to fully do this, but for a trial run at the table it may have been a contributor. Love to get any responces or reply posts. TY all for reading

All hail the tournament Master Aussie Aussie Aussie - HOY HOY HOY

Im very impressed by the tournament runnings of Hoyazo. Seriously great run last night, acquiring a massive chip with 27 players left in the tournament. I would criticize hoy on the last play he made that I saw losing 60000 chips or 42% of his stack on a paired bored AA [?] - K [?]
saying he folded A 4... folding after a move all in. I know Im a bit of a pussy, but seriously you risked your tourny life on QQ against 10 10 and AK in one hand and managed to triple up at one point to chip leader your work is done for a while! I know we have different playin styles, but Hoy! you could have dominated this tournament till the end reserving your play a little more and waiting for monster hands and move up in the prize money safely. I know it's a Jamie Gold thing where you want to STEAM ROLL.... EVERYONE! ...but seriously, Big stack poker is just that. when your in a hand with a big stack - open your eyes and keep the pot small. I believe if you did in fact fold A 4, it was a good fold. If anyone thinks I'm wrong, love to hear from ya. All that said, IDK how hoy did last night I fell asleep with the puter one and did not see how things turned out.

I don't know if I can really deal out advice after last nights cash game loses, I took the whole bank roll to a 1 2 NL table, managed to play a hand perfectly and got screwed over by runner runner flushed board.

EP raised 9
SB Myself-AK os re raised 22

EP - only caller.
Flop A{s} 4{s} 7{d}
Great flop for me, I check -
EP Bets 25,
I move all in for 85 more.
EP calls and shows A{h} Q{s}

Board goes 8{s} , and K{s}
PUKE!

A lot of fun is to be had in the Blooger Tournys

I love the idea of creating community within this group of bloggers.
I have played the math 2 or 3 times and the mookie and dookie once each, (even though I had never played omaha at the time lol), because I really like the idea of getting feeling like when I play I can get recognized. talking about a Min raise as the Scariest raise and running my sevens in to KK(like a fool mind you), lol... I want to know the people i play with. I have gotten to know a little bit of that feeling going to AC 10 times in the past 3 months. Having done that I had gotten something from poker I had never gotten before. A sense that people are having a good time and want to share a little bit of them self's with you in doing so. I can honestly say I am known down there, always greeting and being greeted.

I Have never played a Math or a Dookie for the money, it's the people that got me to come back to it. It is begging to have a sense of history and feeling of a community when you play them. Knowing who's who and who is a Freakin Luck box/lunchbox, who's gonna bust you if a five hits the board, who hates AJ. Yea i can say that it would not matter if ya'll made this a Mega points competition or not. I wouldn't care, and play some cards with ya all regardless.