addendum

Poker results: Busted a pro (fishman) on ftp in a $20 90 man ko tourney the other day...then donked his chips off over the next 2 levels to bust short of the money. Got a seventh in the 11pm Bodog 200 buyin paid $910 last tuesday. Got 9th yesterday in the $2k guarantee 10am Bodog tourney (my favorite as it is a superstack 5,000 chips starting stack blinds 5/10). Sucking ass on FTP... love the site love the software...hate my results. glgl

Tilt

The post for today is about tilt. One thing about it if you play poker and say you never tilt...you are a bold faced liar. There are varying degrees of tilt and various ways of going on tilt. Some people throw tantrums (or beer bottles). Some people get depressed. Some people commit bankroll suicide (because I deserve to get all that money back right away that some codsatchel sucker just sucked out from me hitting their 2 outer on the river). Some people delete their blog (which had a wealth of archive strategy info that was useful to some of us low level hackers). Some people criticize everything others do like they are the only one in this world who knows how to play poker. The fact of the matter is, tilt kills. I cannot thing of one positive benefit from tilt. A recurring theme from many successful bloggers is that their goal is to make the best possible decision as often as possible. After that, it is out of your hands. If someone runs you down chasing an unfathomable draw when you pot bet the whole way mid and late stage in a tourney or check raise an already monster size pot on the turn playing nl cash game...God bless them in their foolishness. This is what we want. Tilt should come more from when you check raise as a bluff...get shoved on...then call with a naked draw once you have been picked off because the pot has become so big. Tilt can reasonably ensue there because you knew better and did it anyway. Always have outs. So just remember, next time me or some other donkey chases you down...Beats happen. All for now.
JD

bodonkey

Short update: Bubble boy in the 28k and 50 50 at FTP, got 17th in the 3k guarantee at bodog for a small cash and 7th in the 10k for $350. Plan on taking down the Bodonkey tonight to work my way to the tourney of champions match for the wsop seat. Seem to be picking up little tidbits from other bloggers, friends, and pxfactor that has helped me navigate late game strategy in the mtts lately. SLLLLLLOOOOOOWWWWWWWLLLLLYYYYYY improving. Long way to go. GLGL.

off to myrtle

I will be going to Myrtle this weekend again. For the Suncruz excursion again.??? NO...Wifey and I will be celebrating our 9th anniversary. On the poker front, I have again played a ton of tournaments. Went fairly deep in the 50 50 the other night only to bust with money going allin on the queen high flop...me having pocket queens and villian having nut flush draw. Made it to 52 of 1558 in daily double A and busted because I got impatient and made a move on a guy with 44. He had just raised my big blind for the 3rd straight orbit and I was down to an M of 4.5. Getting my ass kicked on BoDog till i won a small tourney this past AM that started at 03:30 (120 players $12 + $1 guaranteed $1,500 (got $450 for 1st). Busted out of Bodonkey when I turned a full house of kk444 and money goes all in...MoFo69 (WillWonka on FTP) calls turn holding A4 (board had 2 4s) and rivers the miracle 3 outer. Don't know too many people who wouldn't make the turn call holding trip 4s top kicker...so not dogging him...just sucks. Take care and Goot Luck.

not much

Not much to post about today. Had to catch up on sleep after yesterday's 6 hour rebuy tourney followed by 12hr work. Played 3 sngs...$11 got 2nd $22 got 5th...$33 got first...best part was in the $33 when we got heads up...opponent typed in thanks for the chips after i doubled him up and he took the chip lead...3 hands later he was busto. Out for now.

recipe for a rebuy

Pre superbowl $50 rebuy and addon local live game: 18 players-
rebuy recipe: buy in double for 8k chips...chip up to 12k...donk off chips to below 4k and rebuy to get back to 8k chips...chip up to 13k by 1st break...add on at break for 4k more chips to get to 17k...fold...fold...fold...fold...fold........get aces utg and get paid by aggro in mid position to double and take chip lead...donk chips...donk chips....fold...fold...fold...fold...donk chips...fold...fold...blind off and get short 7th of 10 at final table...get lucky and win a race with short stack shove 44 in sb in to bb AK allin pre...2 hands later double up again w/ 10 10 allin on flop vs 88 after flop of 642rainbow...eliminate that player 6 hands later me with 88 him 33 on his short stack shove from cutoff into my BB allin preflop...back to chip leader...one more big hand with my JackAce call from the BB after UnTiltable shortstack desperation open shove from button (3.5:1 chip lead on him at time and his M was about 4). From there folded my way to final 4 (3 paid) and was able to leverage my chip stack on the bubble to take it down. $200 of buyins and $1,000 for first place. Long story short. Chip up the expensive way...donk donk goose...get lucky...get lucky...get paid by aggro monkey...get stupid...get stupid...get lucky...get lucky...don't get unlucky...use position and chip stack leverage. Probably the only reason I won was I was one of only 2 people not getting slam ass drunk. This was only because I had to go straight from tourney to work a 12hour night shift. Blinding off for now. goot luck.

back on the blogging horse

Well...it has been a looooooonnnnnngggggg time since my last post. I am an observer by nature (I enjoy reading other's blog posts more than posting my own). I have played a lot of poker lately (Mostly SNGs and MTTs with some cash games mixed in). I have made my first big poker stride in the past 12 months from sucking really bad to just sucking pretty bad. My goal is to become a net winner over the next 12 months (long road ahead...kiss my ass Sharkscope). I have had a couple of big scores in the last 6 months including 2 1st place finishes in the 1:59 EST $75 token MTT on FTP for a couple of big cashes and a 2nd place finish in the 40K 8:30 pm guarantee on BODOG for a $7,000 score (this was singlehandedly attributable to my good friend and fellow blogger Untiltable15 who made ALL of my tough decisions for me. Despite these big wins, I foolishingly commit bankrole suicide every time. That is where I need to work the hardest in the upcoming months. In a few hours, I will be playing in a pre superbowl $50 rebuy and addon live tourney locally (Untiltable15 http://untiltable.blogspot.com/ to attend as well). We expect about 20 players with average investment per head at only $100 as many will buy in for $50 and not rebuy or addon... most will do initial buyin and 1 add on...and some of us donkeys will probably pony up about $200 before busting after the 1st break on a semi-bluff. Shout out to Untiltable for his 1st place chop in the Friday Suncruz (North Myrtle Beach) MTT last week. He is kicking ass cash games as well. See some of you Tuesday at the BoDonkey!!!