Limited Holdem, Unlimited Fun

Thanks, nobody wants to fill my jubilee posting, so I do it myself.

My return to Party was also short and uneventful, except for them sending me second time spiraling down, and I consider it as a hint. To be honest I got a lot of strange hits with them like getting gutshots one after another or hitting 2 flushes in 2 consecutive hands on the same table. But it only allows me to be afloat, when they decide I got enough, I just sink. Funny, but today I lost so many great after-flop hands that I can't even find the worst, maybe another flush from flop in 5 way pot being lost immediately on turn with the 4th suited card, would be the my best reflection of this sad attempt.

So, I'm again fully on Stars, which, to be thankful, even heal my Party wounds, giving me a reasonable upswing , including getting 11 AA in 1k hands, and winning most of them

PS + PS BFF. Starting again from 50Cents and ....

Since I mostly returned to Stars. they decide to raise my spirits. Today in 517 hands they gave me: 3 AA, 3 KK, and 8 QQ, and I lost only 2 times with ladies from all that bunch (though even despite this abundance my W$SD is modest 50.8%). Of course it's happening on lower limit but still, in all 21 AA in last 2.5K hands, instead of expected 11. And I lost only twice
On the other side, against my last 6 Rockets opponents survived till river only 2 times, so my wins are rather nominal, but still add some BBs to a modest up. Ha-ha, probably they hope to push me back to higher limit, and only then show me again how to Kill your preflop hopes in 99 different ways

I was wrong. PS shows me again on very next session how to drop 100+ BB during session even on 50Cent, though give me a HAND, no, HAND to remember.
Hero BB with Q 7
4 players, CO folds, BU raises, SB folds, Hero calls.
Flop: T 8 J
Check, ouch, Check
Turn 9
Hero bets, opp Raises Hero re-raises. How I'd like to see A or at least K in his hand... But it wasn't my day, and opp folds....
Final Hero's hand - 7 8 9 10 J Q

Another report from beeloved PookerStars.
Just getting last 500 hands to stay Silver, and, yes, -115BB. It was kinda sad, but also funny, because I'm on 50Cent, but St*rs are still impressive. Sad enough was to lose 3 flushes to higher ones, but first place goes to: The highlight of the day, and also a short poker teaser:

FL 0.25/0.50, 6-max, Hero BB with 66, UTG (60 cents left) raises (full 50Cent FYI), all folds, Hero calls.
Flop J66.
Guess (1) who won the hand, and (2) how much money winner gets?

Another cool session, during which I had a strong feeling of being owned, but result suddenly showed 53% winning record and positive surplus. But this session was interesting in more different ways:
3. On one table there was a guy who always 3bets me preflop. Always! And he was lucky for long time, but still I made a small plus at the end. After a session I looked at our stats, maybe I killed his Royal Flush some time? No, before today we had only 3 hands together, and nothing strange there. So my only conclusion came from fact that he was from the same country as me. Always raising for this guy was probably so patriotic
2. Few sessions ago I got much more Aces that I deserved. Stars take it back, today in 900 hands I got none, and only one KK which I successfully lost.
1. Due to August promotion in this one session I protect my Silver star on Stars. Platinum Star, here I'm coming

This I call Sadism:
1. Hero MP3 with A 8 raises, SB calls, BB calls
Flop Q J K
Check, check, Hero bets , call, fold
Turn T Nice, each Ace has straight now
SB check, Hero raises, SB re-raises, Hero re-raises, SB cap
River Q
SB bets, Hero re-raises, SB re-raises, Hero calls. SB shows 9 T
He-he possibililty to get one flush from flop is 0.8%, what is possibility for this?

2. Hero with KK raises, all other 5 opponents call
Flop 4 9 J
Hero raises,3 folds, re-raise, re-raise, Hero caps
Turn K
Hero bets, 2 calls
River 4 :diamond:. Bingo?
SB raises, fold, Hero re-raises, SB re-raises, Hero caps. SB shows 4 4
P.S. Remember me (post of Jul 29), getting extra 10 cents for my quads?

Yes, to cover all my bad-beats, got pleasant surprise in a tourney. Finally some coin-flips won, some good hands paid and no major disasters. Time to move up limits

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Who said that poker sites favor depositors?

Returned to dollar limit, and made a deposit so my bankroll would be more appropriate. Deposit was 'clean', no bonus codes used. And the result?
2nd hand, battle of blinds, mine AKs on SB, got nothing, lost
Next big ace hand AK - nothing - lost
Next AJs - nothing - lost
Next AQ - nothing - lost
Next AK, finally A on flop dry board re-raise, re-raise < AA

To compensate it again got 4 AA in 400 hands. Results:
AA on BB, everybody folds (+0.5 bb)
AA on SB, everybody folds (+1 bb)
AA on BU, only BB caller who folds on the flop,
and only for last one got one shy caller to the end. And yes, it's short-handed

stop spamming this thread,if you want to keep updating your progress or regress start a blog,i have never seen an OP with so many posts in his thread.

HERE YOU GO,HAVE FUN.

Vox populi, vox Dei. Amen.

Yesterday evening I wrote a huge post with pictures and many words. My poker computer decides it's too much for you, so turned itself off before I submitted it. Say thanks to it.

To satisfy critics, yesterday I got -100BB (fixed limit BBs) that put it also to 9 losing session of last 11, and total streak down to 260BB. The funny stuff is that PokerStars knew that I will play these 900 hands, because for first time I've decided to earn their Gold status, setting personal distance record. And I knew that they knew, but still played it - am I masochist or what?

So my resolutions are:
1. Absolutely no distance. Never again. Leave playing at first signs of discomfort, even if only 5 hands are played.
2. Pokerstrategy and other similar sites are total waste of time, unless you use them as Facebook replacement. No more than 10-15 minutes occasionally.
3. PokerStars is rigged. But because there's no other site where I may find consistent FL play, I stay on it with full following of p.1

Au revoir amigos, and good luck!

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE,FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY,CLOSE THIS THREAD?PLEASE???

To make this poor soul happy, moderator close this thread, please.

Everybody's lazy to close my topic - so, another masterpiece from honest Starz:
FL SH
MP3 raises, Hero on CO with AKo re-raises, BU caps, MP3 and Hero calls
FLOP [2s 4d Qc]
MP3 (cool donker, ah?) bets, Hero and BU calls
TURN [2s 4d Qc] [Td]
MP3 bets, Hero and BU calls
RIVER [2s 4d Qc Td] [Jh]
MP3: bets $1
Hero (Oh yes!, finally, yes!!!): raises $1 to $2
BU: raises $1 to $3
MP3: raises $1 to $4
Betting is capped
Hero: cleaned eyes, recalculated twice - no boat, not even flush, no ... somebody is really out of luck - calls $2
BU: calls $1

Yes we can - said Obama and Starz.

MP3: shows [Ks Ad] (a straight, Ten to Ace)
Hero: shows [Ah Kc] (a straight, Ten to Ace)
BB: shows [Ac Kh] (a straight, Ten to Ace)
MP3 collected $7.60 from pot
Hero collected $7.60 from pot
BU collected $7.55 from pot.

Poor button - paid full nickel to be last to the money

Hey, my hole is still open, so enjoy, if you can.
Little off-topic: having problems with FL lately start thinking about alternatives. Tried NL with no luck, so maybe Omaha? Found new Gordon's book, and he showed one super sample, when flopping nuts straight from flop in 3-way pot, Hero's equity is just 12% Ouch, staying in FL.

Now back to PoperStars. There's strong discussion if it's crooked or not. Later I'm rather going to support the first, especially on Friday evenings where seems like they want to add more extra touches to the game. One of most popular - 4-suited boards. Can't count how much doppers-sets I've lost on these, even few flushes lately, but... still you need to play them on Stars because of:

Dealt to Hero [3 4 :club:]
CO: calls $0.50. BU: calls $0.50. Hero (SB) : calls. $0.25, BB: checks
FLOP [8 K 9 :diamond:]
Hero: bets $0.50
BB: folds. CO: calls $0.50. BU: calls $0.50

TURN [8 K 9 :diamond:] [T :club:]
Yes, my time has come, to bet or not to bet? Last time I got flush, checked waiting for reraise, and didn't get it, and my flush is again low, and I may be re-raised with straight, so
Hero: bets $1, CO: calls $1, BU: calls $1

RIVER [8 K 9 T :club:] [Q :club:]

Ouch. Another disaster?, just last session three players including me had flushes on Turn, and still they put 4th flush card on board, in fact saving me few BBs with similar flush and active action, but I was just kinda furious with my good flush becoming second worst:

Hero: bets $1
CO: calls $1, BU: calls $1, Ouch.
Can it be that nobody in 3-way has better hand? Yes, we can!

SUMMARY
Seat 4: CO mucked [K Q :diamond:]
Seat 5: BU mucked [T Q :heart:]
Seat 6: Hero won with a flush, King high

Yes, otherwise very strong, but very weak in this situation, both 2-pairs just cannot drop. And why - o- why it pops this poor river Queen, when instead it may put there one of 4, no - better one of 3 nice-looking Jacks

Ha-ha, Saturday was even cooler than Friday, played just 200 hands, and in those lost 3 pots, including 2 (two) straights on 4-flush boards to holders of one lucky-suited 7 or 9, and as usual in these cases, I had no such cards. Amazing, simply amazing

Hahahahaha, this blog is the nuts! Every new FL player should follow this

Another downswing serving good purpose.

Leaving high stakes (FL1). Cashed out everything except for $70 to play 20 cents when I'm drunk. If you see me playing anything higher in next few years, please send very serious letter to UN and PookaStars management.

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worst attitude towards poker/mindset ever.