Thursday, June 15, 2006

I'm sick of playing online...

If this would have happened in a live game I would feel better because I could have knocked the fucker out for making this call:

#Game No : 4525564911
***** Hand History for Game 4525564911 *****
NL Texas Hold'em Trny:24871239 Level:6 Blinds(300/600) - Thursday, June 15, 21:57:34 ET 2006Table 5 - Table(737881) Table #1 (Real Money)
Seat 8 is the buttonTotal number of players : 9
Seat 1: NoBlackAces ( $3461 )
Seat 2: DrunkTed ( $2519 )
Seat 3: Hardshi ( $10724 )
Seat 4: Winsinvt ( $8937 )
Seat 5: atocdj ( $15621 )
Seat 6: ehall4 ( $4281 )
Seat 7: mtch69 ( $29542 )
Seat 8: winwinbabes ( $8854 )
Seat 9: JassonD ( $16061 )
Trny:24871239 Level:6Blinds(300/600)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to NoBlackAces [ As Ah ]
DrunkTed folds.Hardshi raises [1800].
Winsinvt folds.
atocdj folds.
ehall4 folds.
mtch69 calls [1800].
winwinbabes folds.
JassonD folds.
NoBlackAces: I HAVE AA
NoBlackAces is all-In [2861]
Hardshi folds.
mtch69 calls [1661].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9h, 7c, 8d ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 4h ]
** Dealing River ** [ 2c ]
NoBlackAces shows [ As, Ah ] a pair of aces.
mtch69 shows [ Jh, Th ] a straight, seven to jack.
mtch69 wins 9022 chips from the main pot with a straight, seven to jack.
Player NoBlackAces finished in 9 place

Oh wait... I don't want to fail to mention that this was a 5 table $33 SNG with $500 going to the winner. Oh, and only the top 7 paid out.

Now let me explain why I announced my hand: I don't want to go into a 3-way pot with 2 other guys holding AA. I know that if the original raiser calls, mtch69 is getting overwhelming pot-odds and has to call. Then, with a player all-in, they both check it down to the river giving both players optimum conditions to crack my aces. I want one call here, but if I don't get the call, I double up anyway.

Best case scenario, I get one call and I triple-up.

Worst case scenario, I get one call and the fucking guy flops the fucking nuts.

So just for fun I decided to go back into my pokertacker and look at all the final hands I played over the last 2 months and see if I am playing poorly or just getting plain unlucky.

In the 134 tournaments that I did not finish 1st or 2nd (including MTT), I put all my money in the middle with the best hand 77 times!! That's right... more than 57% of the time, I have the best hand (most of them being mid to small pocket pairs vs two overs averaging 52% favorite), but in 23 cases, I was a 3-1 favorite or BETTER!!! My favorite "bad beats" include this AA vs J10 pf, AA vs AK pf and my flopped set of 9s vs flopped top pair that turned into a runner-runner flush. Going back to March, I have played in 17 MTTs and been knocked out of 11 of them (including Pechanga) with the best hand when all the money goes in the middle.

How long is this shitty luck going to continue????

Hopefully I get it all out of my system BEFORE the WSOP.

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