PokerStars 180 player $20+$2 Sit & Go

kincsem

These are nice tournaments (15 minute blinds). They are running them every night. Now for the showing off bit ---> I placed 3rd tonight.

PokerStars Tournament #14885908, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $20.00/$2.00
180 players
Total Prize Pool: $3600.00
Tournament started - 2005/11/09 - 14:03:40 (ET)

Dear kincsem,

You finished the tournament in 3rd place.
A $428.40 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 178.65 tournament leader points in this tournament.


Some of you boards sharks :v: should clean up.:rolleyes:

Dub13

well done.

Culchie

kincsem wrote:

These are nice tournaments (15 minute blinds). They are running them every night. Now for the showing off bit ---> I placed 3rd tonight.

PokerStars Tournament #14885908, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $20.00/$2.00
180 players
Total Prize Pool: $3600.00
Tournament started - 2005/11/09 - 14:03:40 (ET)

Dear kincsem,

You finished the tournament in 3rd place.
A $428.40 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 178.65 tournament leader points in this tournament.


Some of you boards sharks :v: should clean up.:rolleyes:

Well Played Kincsem

How long did it take the tourney to play out?

roryc

the $20 deepstack tourneys are pretty good too. Playin one at the moment, about 500 left, im around 180th.

$14,000 in prize fund with $3,500 for first....

ntlbell

roryc wrote:

the $20 deepstack tourneys are pretty good too. Playin one at the moment, about 500 left, im around 180th.

$14,000 in prize fund with $3,500 for first....

Wouldn't worry about the prize fund too much rory, You'll be posting a bad beat long before it!! :D

roryc

Won't post a bad beat but you can be fcuking damn sure thats how im going out.......


If I don't go out on a bad beat ill post

ntlbell

roryc wrote:

Won't post a bad beat but you can be fcuking damn sure thats how im going out.......


If I don't go out on a bad beat ill post

Be slightly optimistic rory!

The deepstack tournys are really good, can be a bit time consuming for a small profit tho....

roryc

I lost my optimism after the millionth BB.

Realised it doesn't matter if im optimistic, pesimistic or fcukin supercalafraggilistic....... I get hit either way

Culchie

roryc wrote:

I lost my optimism after the millionth BB.

Realised it doesn't matter if im optimistic, pesimistic or fcukin supercalafraggilistic....... I get hit either way

Rory .. book recommendation .... Zen and the Art of Poker.

roryc

Yeh cheers culchie, Im gonna start reading a few books in a while. Not for online though! Ive TOTALLY lost interest in online poker as a profit making game!

Ive exhausted basically every method to try and improve my game online but the bottom line is I am very, very, very unlucky in online. Ive gone through my hands with other players, I even asked a friend to watch me play over a week period, but the simple fact of the matter is I AM UNLUCKY!!!

When you lose 70 -80% of pots when your miles ahead, when you win on aces/ kings less than 20% of the time, when you consistently lose basically every pot you go into ahead.... my stats speak for themselves and its time to hang up my online boots! I have been on a 'bad run' since day run, and am playing now purely out of boredom until the cash in my account runs out.

Will defo look into getting the books though as I want to improve my live game

Daithio

Nice one Sean, not a bad return for 20 bucks!

roryc

I know I said I wouldn't but for fcuk sake this was horrible..

PokerStars Game #3017258382: Tournament #14705268, Hold'em No Limit - Level VI

(100/200) - 2005/11/09 - 21:17:54 (ET)
Table '14705268 92' Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: cheesebob446 (4890 in chips)
Seat 2: oldmeller (37473 in chips)
Seat 3: tex54 (23635 in chips)
Seat 5: roryc69 (9378 in chips)
Seat 6: weaverman (18018 in chips)
Seat 7: Rockville1 (15260 in chips)
Seat 8: emdordje (6439 in chips)
Seat 9: duggins_edge (14005 in chips)
duggins_edge: posts small blind 100
cheesebob446: posts big blind 200

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to roryc69 [As Ah]
oldmeller: calls 200
tex54: folds
roryc69: calls 200
Schwartz [observer] said, "good stuff"
weaverman: calls 200
Rockville1: calls 200
emdordje: calls 200
duggins_edge: folds
cheesebob446: checks

*** FLOP *** [3d Qc 6h]

cheesebob446: checks
cheesebob446 said, "JOPKE INDEED"
cheesebob446 said, "GG SIR"
oldmeller: bets 800
roryc69: raises 2200 to 3000
weaverman: raises 2200 to 5200
Rockville1: folds
emdordje: folds
cheesebob446: folds
oldmeller: folds
Schwartz [observer] said, "ty gl"
roryc69: raises 3978 to 9178 and is all-in
weaverman: calls 3978
roryc69 said, "please dont, please, one time just please don't.. "


*** TURN *** [3d Qc 6h] [8c]

*** RIVER *** [3d Qc 6h 8c] [7h]

*** SHOW DOWN ***

roryc69: shows [As Ah] (a pair of Aces)
weaverman: shows [7c 7s] (three of a kind, Sevens)
weaverman collected 20456 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 20456 | Rake 0
Board [3d 7h 6h 8c Qc]
Seat 1: cheesebob446 (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 2: oldmeller folded on the Flop
Seat 3: tex54 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: roryc69 showed [As Ah] and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 6: weaverman showed [7c 7s] and won (20456) with three of a kind, Sevens
Seat 7: Rockville1 folded on the Flop
Seat 8: emdordje (button) folded on the Flop
Seat 9: duggins_edge (small blind) folded before Flop





I probably should have raised preflop, but I was hoping to induce a raise. And when I bet the flop I was pot committed but for fcuk sake, what horrible play by him, and again, I get royally fcuked over. Played for hours and was nearing the money, $3,500 for first... what the fcuk was he doing in there with sevens ??????

I have given up trying to make sense of online. Just cannot understand it...

NickyOD

roryc wrote:

I know I said I wouldn't but for fcuk sake this was horrible..

He must have put you on the flush draw.

kincsem

The tourneys take about four hours, although I reckon at least the last half hour is head-up as the blinds are probably 1500-3000 with 270,000 in play.

Tonight when three left the leader had about 190K and 2nd had 43K. I had 40K. The small stacks got it all-in. He had K3 v my A6. Turn a 3.

The previous night I was 31st, which included a 10 minute sin-bin near the end thanks to a software problem (not Irish Broadband, some PokerStars glitch). When I got back I saw QJ and went all-in rashly v QQ.

I like this tournament. Three hours suits me, and you can roll along without too much pressure from big stacks, unlike a 9 or 18 player Sit & Go. And you get good practice playing close to the tournament lead for small money.

kincsem

roryc wrote:

I lost my optimism after the millionth BB.

Realised it doesn't matter if im optimistic, pesimistic or fcukin supercalafraggilistic....... I get hit either way

O/T but that brought to mind the great newspaper headline when Inverness Caledoian Thistle beat the mighty Celtic

Super Cali Go Ballistic Celtic Are Atrocious

Imposter

kincsem wrote:

The tourneys take about four hours, although I reckon at least the last half hour is head-up as the blinds are probably 1500-3000 with 270,000 in play.

Tonight when three left the leader had about 190K and 2nd had 43K. I had 40K. The small stacks got it all-in. He had K3 v my A6. Turn a 3.

The previous night I was 31st, which included a 10 minute sin-bin near the end thanks to a software problem (not Irish Broadband, some PokerStars glitch). When I got back I saw QJ and went all-in rashly v QQ.

I like this tournament. Three hours suits me, and you can roll along without too much pressure from big stacks, unlike a 9 or 18 player Sit & Go. And you get good practice playing close to the tournament lead for small money.

I played 2 of them last night too. Nice sized fields and a nice standard - harder than 20STT's but easier than 50MTT's. Almost made the money once but the super LAG guy to my right came over the top of my preflop raise with AK. He had J8 and obviously hit his 8. Both of us were well stacked but I just had to call him because he was super loose and about 40% of my money was already in there with the raise.

NeVeR

a little off topic but here goes...

Do Pokerstars let you cash back to your credit card, i used to play on there about 15 months ago but stoped when i couldnt cash back to my visa, has it changed?

Imposter

NeVeR wrote:

has it changed?

No, Neteller, Cheque, Firepay etc but not back to CC.

NeVeR

i might go back to it, and get the cheqe (IF i win),,, i remember once i started with 50 and with 3 hours and playing $1/$2 no-limit i was up to over $1000.

Culchie

NeVeR wrote:

a little off topic but here goes...

Do Pokerstars let you cash back to your credit card, i used to play on there about 15 months ago but stoped when i couldnt cash back to my visa, has it changed?

I could be wrong, I use neteller, but I think they allow you to cash back to your credit card to the amount that you deposited.

4 hours is OK for a MTT, might try these. Good result Kincsem. Or they all $20 and $50 ?


Rory ... when you go buying books, make sure Zen and the Art of Poker is the first one you read, because you are going to go from blonde to grey before you hit 30 the way you are going.

You need to find 'Zen' ! .... Quickly.

jimbling

this may be an unbelievably stupid question, but how do these tourneys work? Is it really just a 180player MTT, or does it work like a shootout or something? I've never played in one, and never seen one, but it sounds interesting.

Also those deepstack tourneys... going to have to have a look at those.... is it only pokerstars they have them?

Imposter

jimbling wrote:

this may be an unbelievably stupid question, but how do these tourneys work? Is it really just a 180player MTT, or does it work like a shootout or something? I've never played in one, and never seen one, but it sounds interesting.

Also those deepstack tourneys... going to have to have a look at those.... is it only pokerstars they have them?

It's a 180 player Sit and Go. They start when 180 players are registered. Top 18 pays.

jimbling

Imposter wrote:

It's a 180 player Sit and Go. They start when 180 players are registered. Top 18 pays.

hmmm... okay.. its early... and I slept in this morning, so the heads not with it...

so its basically an MTT, just with a pre-set number of players

Imposter

jimbling wrote:

hmmm... okay.. its early... and I slept in this morning, so the heads not with it...

so its basically an MTT, just with a pre-set number of players

Yes and a flexible starting time.

Waylander

I have played a couple of these and also finished in the money for one of them. I erally like this tournament, for what I am looking for it is just about perfect. $20 buy in, a freezeout, and 180 people is just right. I will be playing alot of these in the future.

roryc

kincsem wrote:

Super Cali Go Ballistic Celtic Are Atrocious

califano

kincsem wrote:

Super Cali Go Ballistic Celtic Are Atrocious

And their Irish pub supporters are idiot clones of eachother with their pristine starched celtic shirts, drainpipe jeans and crew cut hair cuts, waltzing into the bookies in little clusters on match day like they know what their doing.

I might play a couple of those 20+2 sng's on stars instead of the tuesday poker.ie tournie to avoid that ginit who bets "273" or "89".

roryc

Yeh he was so fcuking annoying.... what is the point in betting such stupid amounts?

I'm definitely playing next tuesdays game. Didn't hit any major bad beats until I got knocked out on one heads up, so it's probably been the most succesful game all month!


Think I'll try out the 180 player SnG too. Anyone know the usual times they start registering? Or is there always one going?

Imposter

roryc wrote:

Think I'll try out the 180 player SnG too. Anyone know the usual times they start registering? Or is there always one going?

Always gonig. They've also said they're going to have them at different amounts and field sizes. I hope they don't put on too many or they'll take a lot longer to fill.

kincsem

kincsem wrote:

O/T but that brought to mind the great newspaper headline when Inverness Caledoian Thistle beat the mighty Celtic

Super Cali Go Ballistic Celtic Are Atrocious

Going OO/T and lower but
No, no. "Super Cali" was a triumph alright, but the bestest ever was this one in my local rag....a guy had escaped from a mental hospital and raped 3 women in a launderette, leading to the headline "Nut screws washers and bolts".