My Adventures in Microstakes (a.k.a. The Chris Ferguson Challenge) - Part 1

So, because of my poor bankroll management (in case I haven't mentioned it before, blogger tournaments are -EV), I've taken the few dollars that I have left and started going after the microstakes cash tables.

Starting with $4 a couple of weeks ago, I now have $7 thanks to 2 winning sessions.

2 highlights:

str8 flush


The other guy mucked trip 10's.

Later, I flop a boat from the SB. I get paid somewhat, but my river value doesn't (probably because a third club fell.)

Seat 1: crazdgamer ($5.70)
Seat 2: tica4 ($12.10)
Seat 3: monstro_dann ($10)
crazdgamer posts the small blind of $0.05
tica4 posts the big blind of $0.10
5 seconds left to act
monstro_dann posts $0.10
The button is in seat #9
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to crazdgamer [Qh Th]
monstro_dann checks
crazdgamer calls $0.05
tica4 checks
*** FLOP *** [Tc Qc Ts]
crazdgamer checks
tica4 checks
monstro_dann has 15 seconds left to act
monstro_dann bets $0.20
crazdgamer calls $0.20
tica4 folds
*** TURN *** [Tc Qc Ts] [7h]
crazdgamer checks
monstro_dann has 15 seconds left to act
monstro_dann bets $0.65
crazdgamer calls $0.65
*** RIVER *** [Tc Qc Ts 7h] [2c]
crazdgamer bets $0.50
monstro_dann has 15 seconds left to act
monstro_dann folds
Uncalled bet of $0.50 returned to crazdgamer
crazdgamer mucks
crazdgamer wins the pot ($1.80)

So now I have $7. That's almost a Mookie or Riverchasers buy-in. Too bad I won't be buying into either of these tournaments until I get at least 10 of those buy-ins. (Technically, I shouldn't have even sat down at the microstakes tables, since the amount on the table is definitely more than 10% of my bankroll, which breaks one of the Chris Ferguson Challenge rules.)

The plan here is to play in either the uber-donk 2,700 player freerolls in the futile hope of getting top 27 to score $2 (or get first for the big $15), or find a SNG or MTT in which the entry is FTP points, which I have plenty of. But, until then, I have $7.

Go me?

Razz Sucks (Part 3)

I guess this is my Presto is Gold-like series.

BBTwo: MATH 10/29/2007

Position: 35/82

Not bad this time. I liked my play this time around, even though in the end, I pushed A9 in the SB against a button raise I figured for a steal, only for it to be AQ. Sometimes, it's not always stealing.

This highly unlikely event happened during the tourney.




And now, some bad news.

My FTP account is seriously lacking in funds.

Like... I won't be playing in any more BBTwo tourneys any time soon. Unless I decide to cash-deposit, which I'm less inclined to do than before, since I have less disposable income than I did the last time I cash-deposited. So, until I use what little I have left at the micro-stakes cash tables, I'm out of BBTwo. That's how it is.

BBTwo Event 2 - MATH 10/22/2007

Position: suck/82

This was the biggest MATH every, I think. I know it's probably because of the huge prizes that are being given out for the BBTwo.

Anyways, I didn't have the time to win a $75 token, and I didn't want to / couldn't buy into Sunday's Big Game directly, so I skipped Event 1 and started my BBTwo on Monday, instead.

Table 1 had some familiar faces, but some new ones.

Right at the start, any time I entered a pot, someone I didn't know would enter with me. My c-bets would be raised or called pretty consistently. I was able to take a few pots pre-flop in levels 2 and 3, but it was rough.

I pretty much forgot how to play against donks, since I've only played bloggers recently (and even then, not so often).

Then I get into a hand like this:

Blinds 20-40. thepokergrind limps UTG, I raise 4xBB with QQ, he calls, everyone else folds.

Flop is 3h5cKh. thepokergrind bets some amount (I don't have the hand history at the moment), I raise to see where I'm at, he re-raises. I currently have 1600 or so, and would have 1000 left behind if I called. I hate this, but I have to fold. Did he limp AA, AK, 55 or 33? I don't see him betting out and re-raising with anything I beat.

I go busto to him on this ridonkulous play.

Blinds are 30-60. He's in the cut-off and min-raises to 120. I have JJ, and I'm completely fed up with all the min-raise bullshit that this table's been doing. So, of course, I think it's a good idea to min-raise myself. It's sort of a "how do YOU like this"-thing. It made sense at the time. Shutup.

jjok in the BB folds, thepokergrind calls.

Flop is 8dTd6d.

I end up getting all in (I bet out, he raises, I push, he calls), and he turns over 7dAc. I'm way ahead. He has 7 outs.

So, of course, he hits 9h. He makes his inside straight.

But now I have an OESD. 7 makes a straight on the board, but me having a J will give me a higher straight, and Q will complete my straight, too.

No, I don't re-suck out on the river. That would be too easy.

So I'm gone.

My parting shot:

BBTwo

It's coming!

MATH - 10/1/2007

Poker? Yes!

Position: 8/33

Statistics for 178 Hands
Street Saw Saw/Total
Flop 31 17%
Turn 20 11%
River 16 9%
Showdown 11 6%
Street Won Won/Saw Won/Total
Pre-flop 14 8% 8%
Flop 4 13% 2%
Turn 0 0% 0%
River 4 25% 2%
Showdown 6 55% 3%

Look at me play suited connectors out of position and stack one opponent and get chips off another. (This is hand #1)

Full Tilt Poker Game #3729840244: Mondays at the Hoy (28382640), Table 3 - 15/30 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:01:00 ET - 2007/10/01
The button is in seat #9
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to crazdgamer [8h 9h]
pebble78 calls 30
Joshuacarlsen folds
IslandBum1 folds
riggstad folds
ssantam folds
NumbBono raises to 110
Fuel55 folds
crazdgamer calls 95
Mattazuma folds
pebble78 calls 80

*** FLOP *** [9c 2s 8c]

crazdgamer bets 230
pebble78 calls 230
NumbBono raises to 800
crazdgamer raises to 2,890, and is all in
pebble78 has 15 seconds left to act
pebble78 has requested TIME
pebble78 folds
NumbBono: bleh, I'm too weak to fold this
NumbBono calls 2,090, and is all in
crazdgamer shows [8h 9h]
NumbBono shows [As Ac]
*** TURN *** [9c 2s 8c] [5d]
*** RIVER *** [9c 2s 8c 5d] [Kh]
crazdgamer shows two pair, Nines and Eights
NumbBono shows a pair of Aces
crazdgamer wins the pot (6,370) with two pair, Nines and Eights
NumbBono stands up

I was lucksacking all night, too.

Poker? What's that?

So yeah.

Haven't signed on to FTP in a while. Been busy with other things (mostly clearing out my DVR queue. Last Comic Standing has been building up, and Jericho got completely neglected when it returned from its winter hiatus.)

So, for all 8 readers of my blog, that's what I've been doing.

I'll be playing the Daily Double A tonight. No MATH for me tonight, as my bankroll is starting to slip and I want to conserve and make a cash before getting back into $26 tournaments. You know how it is.