Saturday, January 31, 2009

Liz Lieu is indeed a Poker Diva

KLuber:310,000
Lieu:144,000

Ron Kluber completed from the small blind and Liz Lieu checked her option. Blinds are 4,000/8,000 with 12 people left on the tourney, already in the money.

On a flop of (6d Th Jd) Kluber led out for 20,000 and Lieu made the call. The turn landed the (5c) and Kluber pushed a stack worth 95,000 into the middle forcing Lieu into the tank.
After several minutes she layed down (4d 7d) with Kluber following suit showing (Jh 8h) and the pot.

So she folded an open ended flush draw, I like to get an idea as to when is the correct time to call with open ended flush draw with one card left(river) in an MTT, maybe my imaginary friends can help me out here.

Friday, January 30, 2009

Cant Even Win In My Own Dream

I was drooling over this tournament in Manila, Asian Poker Tour, I slept last night thinking I should've been there but I cant due to work and other commitments.

Anyway, last night I dreamt that I was heads up with Barry Greenstein for the coveted Asian Poker Tour first prize money. Mimi Tran, Bob Stupak, Steve Zolotow and Joe sebok are in the audience cheering for Barry. I remembered vividly Barry is slightly ahead in chip count, I got dealt T8 suited and called the miniraised from Barry.

Flop was T86 rainbow, I checked and Barry bet big, I hollywood for a moment then went all in, he reluctantly called with 69.

Turn was an Ace

But the river is a freakin 6.

I cant even win in my own dream, wth.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Midgets are people too

Last Sunday I went to play $4-$8 Limit Holdem at Commerce CAsino, I played with this midget guy who kept complaining about how casinos are not midget friendly, he's right why does he need to bring his own seat addon to play poker, they should have a high chair much like kids when they eat in a restaurant.

Anyway he went on and on about how he cant reach the chips and cards on the table and some other issues then proceeded to ask me a question which caught me by surprise why me?. "Why is it that there's no events for midgets at the annual WSOP?", so I just look at him seriously and answered, "Because that would be a tall order". The table burst into laughter including the little guy, I thought he would be offended but he's cool with it and surprisingly he also stopped whining too.

Hey that's a great idea that would surely bring in ratings, how about half buy in events for the midgets. This could be the newest event WSOP can introduce this year.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Softplaying or Collusion

Hand #76PokerStars Hold'em No Limit - Level VII (100/200) - 2009/01/14 12:29:09 ETTable '133982116 1' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: Villain (12488 in chips)
Seat 4: LuckyOne(127 in chips)
Seat 5: Victim (3950 in chips)
Seat 7: anothervictim (2271 in chips)
Seat 9: kobenator (8164 in chips)
Villain: posts the ante 25
LuckyOne: posts the ante 25
victim: posts the ante 25
Anothervictim: posts the ante 25
kobenator: posts the ante 25
Villain: posts small blind 100
LuckyOne: posts big blind 102 and is all-in
*** HOLE CARDS ***
kobenator:folds
Victim: folds
AnotherVictim: folds
kobenator: folds
Villain: folds <--------------------wtf
Uncalled bet (2) returned to LuckyOne
Villain said, "say thank you i leave you alive ;)"
LuckyOne collected 325 from pot
LuckyOne: shows [2d 9c] (high card Nine)
*** SUMMARY ***Total pot 325 Rake 0
Seat 1: Villain (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: LuckyOne (big blind) collected (325)
Seat 5: Victim folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: anotherVictim folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: kobenator (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)

As you can see Villain decided to get a tag team partner, LuckyOne was able to recover and they tag teamed to eliminate Victim, and then me, but they were both eliminated by Anothervictim on same pot. I tried to tell Villain that what he did is not cool but he just gave me the middle finger. I was also going to limp in with my rags to help eliminate LuckyOne but Villain has been very aggressive and I dont want to spew my chips.

I tried to complain to Pokerstars about this incident but they said, this is the first time they played together so its not collusion, whatever, I put some notes on this player and will get my revenge, bwahahahahahahaha.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

I'm a Big Stud

This morning I got bored playing donkaments and just wandered in and around Pokerstars and saw a familiar game, 7 card Stud. This is the first game I have learned to play growing up in the Philippines, I visited my cousin in Olongapo City and there I saw a group of old and retired US Navy peeps playing this game. I observed and learned the game, my cousin told me to sit down and it was like baptism of fire, luckily I kept getting trips and flushes that I won $10 on the session which is pretty big during that time.

Fast forward to present time, I used to grind this game at HAwaiian Gardens but I got tired of the big casino rake and smelly old farts playing Stud. One funny thing I encountered playing Stud was when the casino was full and this young guy sat down and thought he was playing Hold em game, he asked, "Dealer, why did you show one of my cards", we all laugh and the poor kid stood up and left. This is so great, I can play Stud at home, it must have been a big undertaking for the programmers to get this game going online.

Anyway, I was surprised to learn from National Enquirer(you know they are never wrong) that my friend Chuck Norris was supposed to be going to Somalia to hunt down Somali pirates but Human Right Activist protested saying that would be too cruel. Instead, Chuck is stuck in India working as a call center tech support agent, bad economy is sure affecting everybody.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

New Year, New Donkaments

I was looking at Pokerstars and they have this new 90 MTT with 12 places getting paid, this is sweet, they have a 3.25 buy in(Turbo ) with 1500 chips then a $5.50 buyin (non-Turbo) with 2000 starting chips. I like this type of MTT's, 180 MTT and up are too long and too much for me. Fult tilt's version is the 90 KO sit n go, they also have a $5.50 90 MTT with 18 places getting paid but it takes more than an hour to fill up.

I timed 3 MTT's at Pokerstars from zero to full, I did it this morning 8am Pacific time, first was 45 MTT $6.50 and it took 2 minutes and 21 seconds to fill up, while it took 6 min 2 sec for the 90 MTT $5.50. Then I went to Fulltilt and timed the 90 KO MTT on both 3.30 and 10+1 KO MTT, the $3.30 took 6 min & 35 sec while the 10+1 took 11 minutes to fill up. Well there's nothing surprising about this data, there are more traffic on Pokerstars than fulltilt, but for me who have less than 2 hrs of poker play everyday, it does not make sense to go on Fulltilt at all.

By the way, my friend Chuck Norris just called me and asked if I have authorization to use the word "KO" on my blog and I said no but he's in a good mood so he's letting me use this word "KO", apparently Fulltilt is paying Chuck Norris for using the word KO on their site, KO and other words like dead, killed, roundhouse kick, action and spanked are all trademark by my friend Chuck Norris, so dont just use these words without his permission, just a friendly reminder.