Sunday, May 21, 2006

PokerStars Blogger Freeroll, 1st prize is a WSOP Main Event package

I'm registering now for PokerStars Blogger Freroll that will be playing on June 16th.
First prize is a package for the WSOP main event, 2nd to 9th get a WSOP $1500 entry, and there are other prizes up to place 54th.


Online Poker

I have registered to play in the PokerStars Online Poker Blogger Tournament!

This Online Poker Tournament is a No Limit Texas Holdem event exclusive to Bloggers.

Registration code: 7330476

Saturday, May 20, 2006

Hand 5000000000 on PokerStars

Hit on a NL Holdem, 6 max, 0.05/0.10 table, and I was seating in 8 of them, but coudn't hit.
We got hand 5000000143, so we made it pretty close.
6 players at the same tables, and the great crew was:
Adrian20XX, BlueBurk, Cliodhna, he can fly, HGKrebs and kia3272.
Funny thing was that when we were arranging the tables one guy kept coming to our tables wanting to play with us. But we were already a group and were trying to get exclusive tables.
This guy was very very persistent, he followed us everywhere, and refused to let his sit to the guy that arrived late. The guy was wendingo, and ended seated on the hand number 5000000000 and wining 10K an the entry for the WCOOP.
Perhaps we should had followed him :-)
Really was a great table. BlueBurk gaves us some troubles with his delays and his mother in law, Cliodhna did a great job calling the people that got out of the table to get back, he can fly was one was the starter of the tables with me, HGKrebs had his childs that got shocked like almost all of us when we hit a hand ending in 450.000 and we all thought it was a prize hand ending in 500.000 seen all those zeroes, and kia3272 was perfect after a few problems that had on the first tables we were seating on.
Also JDLover was on another table that we played the night before, and everybody got sleep and didn't came back.
We were folding like being insane, and for one moment when we saw the upper number move from 4999 to 5000, it really seemed that the world stopped for a moment.

Friday, May 19, 2006

Hit the table type, not the table

Last post was made before the hand, now the hand 4992500000 was dealt and I was seating on 8 tables, 6 handed, NL, 0.05/0.10
But, I was not seated at Titania II that won the price.
And again happened the unreal, from the 6 players 5 folded pre flop, max stack was 14.70 that pushed all in, smallest was 1.45 that folded like everyone else.
Gonna keep trying this table types.

PokerStars Milestone Hands

From the 33 milestone hands, 17 of them had already passed, and now is going to be one every 40 or 50 minutes.
It's a good moment to analyze what has been going on in order to play the following 16 hands.
First of all the obvious thing, the most hands one plays the most chances to hit the milestone hand, so have to be seated at 8 tables.
Next, all of the hands have been dealt at Holdem, probably because is the more popular game, but also might be because is the fastest game to play, not so much information to track as for example in Studd HI/LO.
Microtables are also a must for small budgets, 0.05/0.10 is a table where you can get a seat, as oposed to 0.01/0.02 where the waiting list is around 40 people.
Lot of the hands have been dealt at short handed tables, much more than long handed, perhaps because of the speed.
So far, NL 6 max 0.05/0.10 has been the most profitable because it hit 4 hands of the 16, this is my choice to play.
And last but not least, do not fold when the hand comes. Unbelivable more than 50% of the players at a milestone hand fold, and the most unreal case was on hand number 4991000000, where one player pushed all in and everyone folded (this was a 2/4 table, but at least the person on the BB should had called). So this guy pokeravs stole the 3000 extra for the winer, not counted they all probably had extra money for having VPP status.

Thursday, May 18, 2006

So close to the 2K ...

I'm still trying to hit one of PokerStars Milestone hands.
This time I made it soooo close, missed it by only 2 hands, milestone hand was 4975000000 and I was seated on hand 4974999998.
So, will have to keep trying.

PokerStars Game #4974999998: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2006/05/18 - 14:34:43 (ET)
Table 'Eos III' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Adrian20XX ($4 in chips)
Seat 2: Shark280Z ($2 in chips)
Seat 3: MOWCHAN ($4 in chips)
Seat 4: xdestroy ($10 in chips)
Seat 5: michelmichel ($4 in chips)
Seat 6: bigbluffer79 ($4 in chips)
Seat 7: Leozito ($2 in chips)
Seat 8: AWS2345 ($4 in chips)
Seat 9: derfgolf ($4 in chips)
Shark280Z: posts small blind $0.05
MOWCHAN: posts big blind $0.10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Adrian20XX [4s 2s]
xdestroy: calls $0.10
michelmichel: folds
bigbluffer79: folds
Leozito: folds
AWS2345: folds
derfgolf: calls $0.10
Adrian20XX: folds
Shark280Z: calls $0.05
MOWCHAN: checks
*** FLOP *** [Js 7h 9c]
Shark280Z: checks
MOWCHAN: bets $0.20
Adrian20XX said, "F, we miss by two only"
xdestroy: calls $0.20
derfgolf: folds
Shark280Z: folds
*** TURN *** [Js 7h 9c] [3s]
MOWCHAN: bets $0.10
xdestroy: calls $0.10
*** RIVER *** [Js 7h 9c 3s] [3d]
Adrian20XX said, "So close ..."
MOWCHAN: bets $0.30
xdestroy: calls $0.30
*** SHOW DOWN ***
MOWCHAN: shows [Td 7s] (two pair, Sevens and Threes)
xdestroy: shows [9d 8c] (two pair, Nines and Threes)
bigbluffer79 leaves the table
xdestroy collected $1.55 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $1.60 | Rake $0.05
Board [Js 7h 9c 3s 3d]
Seat 1: Adrian20XX (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: Shark280Z (small blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 3: MOWCHAN (big blind) showed [Td 7s] and lost with two pair, Sevens and Threes
Seat 4: xdestroy showed [9d 8c] and won ($1.55) with two pair, Nines and Threes
Seat 5: michelmichel folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: bigbluffer79 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: Leozito folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: AWS2345 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: derfgolf folded on the Flop