News / John Tabatabai / 22 November 2008 / 1 Comments

The other day was the end of my first two weeks in the $1k to $100k challenge. Unfortunately I struggled the last week at 0.5-1 for some reason, I was doing great then went through a pretty bad stretch of variance.

Luckily, however, I hit good form in the MTTs for the BMF quest. My bankroll is now at approximately $9750. My target for the 2nd week was $10,000, so I am back on track. One thing I am disappointed with so far is the amount of hands I've played. I have only played approximately 40k hands the last two weeks. I think in order to stand a chance I am going to have to play a considerable amount more over the next few weeks, especially as my opponents abilities should be increasing which in turn should mean increased variance, the only solution is to play more to even it out. I am going to start playing 1-2nl now, and hopefully within a few good days take some shots at $2.5-5. The challenge is getting exciting now!

Apart from being a monkey grinder on Betfair Poker, I have started playing some more tournaments in the evenings to improve my MTT game as I feel I have been concentrating too much on cash. I have been doing pretty good and thought I would share a hilarious hand I had the other night. I still can't believe it. You must keep in mind that I hadn't been overly active as I was playing around 9 other MTTs, so was playing pretty solid-ish.

Full Tilt Poker Game #9095591804: $17,000 Guarantee (Rebuy) (69446479), Table 24 - 300/600 Ante 75 - No Limit Hold'em - 17:30:57 ET - 2008/11/21

Seat 1: Dooffus (24,753)

Seat 2: twlaing (20,304)

Seat 3: nickbor (18,616)

Seat 4: YouCantEscape (15,807)

Seat 5: ekyo (12,974)

Seat 6: hAAj_fkp (29,331)

Seat 7: ilushan (35,925)

Seat 8: repcatcher (32,420)

Seat 9: HERO (71,172)

nickbor posts the small blind of 300

YouCantEscape posts the big blind of 600

The button is in seat #1

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to HERO[Td Qd]

ekyo folds

hAAj_fkp folds

ilushan folds

repcatcher folds

HERO has 15 seconds left to act

HERO raises to 1,500

Dooffus calls 1,500

nickbor folds

YouCantEscape folds

*** FLOP *** [5s 4d Jh]

HERO has 15 seconds left to act

HERO bets 2,400

Dooffus calls 2,400

*** TURN *** [5s 4d Jh] [Ad]

HERO bets 5,600

Dooffus has 15 seconds left to act

Dooffus calls 5,600

*** RIVER *** [5s 4d Jh Ad] [8h]

HERO bets 61,597, and is all in

Dooffus has 15 seconds left to act

Dooffus calls 15,178, and is all in

Uncalled bet of 46,419 returned to HERO

*** SHOW DOWN ***

HERO shows [Td Qd] Ace Queen high

Dooffus shows [Qs Kd] Ace King high

Dooffus wins the pot (50,856) with Ace King high

*** SUMMARY ***

Total pot 50,856 | Rake 0

Board: [5s 4d Jh Ad 8h]

Seat 1: Dooffus (button) showed [Qs Kd] and won (50,856) with Ace King high

Seat 2: twlaing is sitting out

Seat 3: nickbor (small blind) folded before the Flop

Seat 4: YouCantEscape (big blind) folded before the Flop

Seat 5: ekyo folded before the Flop

Seat 6: hAAj_fkp folded before the Flop

Seat 7: ilushan folded before the Flop

Seat 8: repcatcher folded before the Flop

Seat 9: HERO showed [Td Qd] and lost with Ace Queen high

Looooool, how funny is that? The subsequent chat was pretty hilarious, after I asked the guy if he misclicked or allowed his pet to play the hand for him he wittily replied, "I had a tell on you so knew you were bluffing." LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL. Yea, the first time I've 3 barrel bluffed on FTP since I started playing there and what about small pocket pairs that I turn into bluffs there? So fking moronic. Some people are so braindead it is beyond comprehension.

On the topic of braindead people I suggest you all read the following blog, it is hilarious and good motivation to not become an addict of the game. To Busto and Back. Another recommended to me but not had the chance to check it out yet is Would Be Tales.

gl all kunku.

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