Do Aces ever win?

it supposed to win 80% of the time. However, it seems for me it actually loses 80%..And NO, I don't slow play aces.

Yesterday got busted from 75 K W AA vs JJ.
Today On FT busted again after all in on flop in 18K GTD. 28th hand of the tourney. Raised 8x BB, but it didnt make to fold J5 and J9.

Sundays Tournaments

Merge
Bay 101 shooting star Grand Final
5th QhJh vs 1010 preflop

75K GTD
AA vs JJ. All in on flop. Flop J rag rag.

12,5 K GTD
AQ vs 66 preflop. 14th


Full Tilt
Sunday Brawl

1. AK vs AJ . All in on flop AJ9
2. A9 vs A8. On flop. Flop A82

1.5 Million GTD

1. AcKh vs AQ Flop All clubs w Q highest. All in on flop
2. 22 vs AK. Good all in read on flop 10107. Called All in on flop. River A
3. AhJH vs QsKs. Guy was stealing and it worked out fine. All in preflop. Even though turned Royal flush draw, river was blank.
4. AsQs vs 77 preflop. Min cashed

Sunday Mulligan

1. Straight against nut straight. All in on flop.

Huge Sunday

Tomorrow I will either will blow big chunk of my bankroll or I will hit something good.

Many huge tourneys.

Merge 75 K GTD and WPT Grand Final

FT sick amount of tourneys, with sick buy ins.

PS Sunday Mills.

IF ANYBODY WANTS TO INVEST, LET ME KNOW.

ltuflawless@yahoo.com

Todays bust outs

Merge
$7,5 K GTD-
AK vs 33 , Flop A32. All ins on flop.

$10K GTD-
Dont remember

$8k GTD
66 vs KQ preflop. Busted 7th

Full Tilt-
$150 K GTD-
22 vs JJ. Flop J23. turn 3. All in on turn

$66K GTD-
1. AhKh vs 1010 All in Preflop.
2. JJ vs KK. All in Preflop.
3. QQ vs AK. All in Preflop.
4. 66 vs KK. Preflop. Finished 12th

$37K GTD-
1. AsJ vs AQ. Flop Q52. All spades. Committed myself on flop. All in on Flop. Turn, river blank
2. Bluffed into KK.
3. AJ vs 66. Preflop. Second day in a row finished 7th. Was 1-2 for the majority time of the tourney, lost crucial hand against another bigstack w 20 players left w nut straight vs set of Queens with only one card to come. River A paired the board and lost 12o+ K chips pot when chip average was around 40-50 K.

Pretty much broke even for the day.

I hate poker

Full Tilt 66K GTD

I don't think I won at least one all in w AA vs 66 pre flop on FT or on stars. You can see form earlier huge tourneys and same happened today.

Early in the tournament. second blinds level. Preflop action

Raise, reraise, all in, call.

I'm not sure what people are thinking in $300 buy in tourney with such action w 66 in the beginning of the tourney, but as long as it works for them, I guess it will happen again :)

A tournament win I am really proud of.

Today I have witnesses pretty nice win and what's important it wasn't me who won it... I am really happy to see that one of my students "mindukas7" is getting so much better at poker. Lately he has gotten really good at low stakes tournaments and shows really big promise in the future.
To be honest I feel even better than me cashing myself in yesterdays 37 K on FT... He outlasted 148 players just to take it all.

Good job, mindukas7. Keep it up!!! I hope to see more of these...

Funny

I guess it will become pretty popular to bitch at the tables and call me out hoping for 2 minutes of fame.

There was one guy on cash table today who was barking how bad I suck, and that beating porky is nothing. And I should play him now.

I do agree that beating that Jungle bum gives me not even a smallest feather in my cap. But I can assure you all- your little tricks insulting me, in order to get me to agree to bitch slap everyone, simply won't work... There are way too many of the haters. Line is way too long. ;)

There are many regulars sitting at HU tables and you can go bark at them. They will be glad to take your money.

Can somebody explain this play?

I'm a little bit confused.

AA raise good preflop. Flop 34K Rainbow. Deep stacks, blinds 100-200

BB checks I bet, then he check raises me all in. Flips 109.

Turn 10 River 10.

Not the best way to get sucked out, but I still don't understand what was happening in his head when he check raised me all in. I am loose enough, but I would not be able to pull some stunt like that ;)

Junglepork, you just got bitchslapped....

Ok, I guess I will have to post what happened in this little match against this little nobody.

For people who don't know the history here, Junglepork, one of the Merge pro wannabes, would not stop bitching at the tables how bad I suck and making up shit accusing me of every possible crap what would get into his big head with very little brain...

Anyway, so he started calling me out how he will own me in HU match.

After telling him that I don't know how to play HU and that he is too good for me, just to boost his confidence, I finally agreed to little 4 HU tables match.

Even though I actually don't play HU at all and at the same time this is just waste of time for me for 2 hours, I thought it would be fun to put this idiot back in his place where he belongs.

Time was set for Tuesday 3pm-5pm

And finally we are at the tables.

The match for me started pretty rough. On one of the tables it seemed I would not be able to win. Two quick rebuys. On others things were going better since he was the one topping up.

Of course Junglepork had to needle me every time I re bought with this little merge emoticon - "whoisyourdaddy"... Funny heh? Wait till it will really gets even funnier...

Before the break the chips started going my way. Everything went back to its rightful owner... Finished first hour being up at least couple buy ins.

Of course then Pork guy started offering deals to move up in stakes, then to extend the game for another hour. Buddy, I'm not here to accommodate your wishes. Stay with the rules and try to win it back.

One hand worth of mentioning- biggest in the match was AK vs K10.

I'm on button. AhKx off. Preflop standard raise.

Flop:

Kh, 9h, 4h... Top pair with nut flush draw.
He checks I bet, he calls.
Turn 10s.
He Checks, I bet. Without much of thinking he over shoves all in.
Tank time

Ok, let's let you into my head a little bit

Insta read, - K10. I can swear on anything. I think he doesnt want to see any other card bcs he is afraid of hearts. And just wants to take it right there.

I know I'm behind. Not much time left for this little duel, and I'm still up more than couple buy ins. Pretty much I'm playing with his own chips.

If I call, and don't hit my A or flush, oh well. I just give him his chips back. And I still will be up.

But starting that I wasn't playing this for money, just to shut his mouth up, I need to win more money than simply preserve my winnings and at the end show only couple buy ins win.

All this ^^^^ took 5 times less time in my head than typing . LOL.

I Call.

River 3h. Nut flush. Yummy.

Obviously bad call. Good outcome.

Of course all the talk will be only about this hand once he tries to explain why he got owned.

Ok, scenario- if I would of folded this hand.
You would of still be down at least 2 buy ins. What shows, that you were still getting owned. That was just a cherry on the top.

The remaining 15-20 minutes were pretty slow. No big hands, even though he tried his hardest to build stacks with some crap hands, and go bust or get it back. Unfortunately, didn't hit any good hands to bust his ass. I gave him some extra time, so there would be no bitching about break time and stuff. Didn't really work out for him... Even last hand on one of the tables shipped around 70 bucks against my set of 9's.

Conclusion. Junglepork, let me ask you some questions.

1. How does it feel to call somebody out and get bitch slapped?
2. How did it work out with reg beating 101?
3. Maybe you will start being more respectful to people who are better than you?
4. Maybe finally you will stop making up shit and face that you are not the ONE?
5. How does it feel to pay 2 hours worth of rake for BOTH OF US on 4 HU tables?
6. Maybe you will realize that I don't really need your lessons?
7. Do you want me to point out your leaks? I do poker coaching.
8. How many new excuses you will find now?
9. Will you ever break Top 5 of Merge Leader board?
10. Why your blog Entry about this game is so short? Oh bcs you lost..
11. Up for another challenge? Now I choose the guns.
12. And last but not least-

WHO IS YOUR DADDY, BITCH?

6 hours playing HU- break even

That blows.
However, having in mind that in first two hours dropped few hundos, it doesn't sound that bad.
After all tourneys were over, decided to play some HU cash.
Beginning was pretty good, but after one hour it seemed that everything went downhill. If I catch something, opponent would always have better. Started getting bitch slapped left and right...

Went to play more tables at once against the same guy. On one of them was getting owned, but the two others were keeping me alive...

But the end result pretty much the same amount of cash in the account as I started.

Basically paid rake for 6 hours. Awesome.

HU challenge

I can't even count anymore how many haters I have on Merge. Not that I care, but it's really amusing.

And some of them always have to prove something to themselves. Telling how much better they actually are, showing off their little tournament wins.

People, I don't care how much you won 7 days ago. I don't care that you busted me in some tourney. I don't care that I sucked out on you. I don't care how much money you have in your poker account.

Anyway, there is one little guy "Junglepork" who wants to show off, and after feeding his ego for some time that he is too good for me, I agreed to play little $.5-1 4 HU tables on Tuesday at 3 pm Merge time.

Rules:

1. $100 buy in. 4 Tables. .50-1$
2. Unlimited Rebuys.
3. Rebuys are allowed only after total bust in order to track buy ins.
4. 3pm to 5pm. You can't leave earlier, especially if you are winning.
5. Breaks are allowed when both players agree on it.

Drewpeacoq8 said he will promote little fight and if anyone wants to side bet on this game, can post here :)

Meh

Can't make a single cash for a few days now.
Two days in a row came out on a bubble in $7,5 k GTD.

I hate poker :)

LTUFlawless's advice

I get a lot of emails to help out with strategy and certain hands, so I decided to have little weekly section to post couple questionable hands from Merge players and to give my insight how I would think in this situation and why would I do it.

Of course it might not be the best play or the best advice and somebody would totally think it's totally opposite from how they would do it, but like I said, I will answer HOW I WOULD be thinking in that given situation.

Since Merge is really small, to limit my own exposure to my game, I will explain only couple hands a week.

If you have questions, please email me your questionable hand with as much info as possible- players left in the tourney, chip stacks, do you know how aggressive/passive remaining players are and etc.

You can email me with more questions, not only particular hands. And if I think it's pretty interesting, I will post it here with an answer.

Email address: ltuflawless@yahoo.com

Great time for PC to freeze....

Bubble play in 7500 GTD. 13 Left, 10 get paid.
I get KK and I see Babelicious pushed with his shortstack all in. Yummy

Yeah right. My screen freezes for couple minutes and I cant do anything about it. Finally it comes back to life and I see at least 3 hands already past...

Awesome. And whats ironic, he finished higher than me :)

mehmehmeh

10 K GTD

Played really solid, survived one really good flip, but all this doesn't matter, when preflop your 1010 loses against some joke hand A3..

Was sitting pretty good in first place, but two hands in the row totally killed me. Instead of being dominating leader, got busted 9th.

First, 99 vs AK all in Preflop. Flop wasn't too pretty, needed to dodge some outs, but unfortunately River hit A. Even though lost good chunk of chips, I was still first... not for

Next hand. Guy 2nd in chips raises in position barely min 8888 (blinds 2000-4000). I repop w 1010 to 26 K. Insta shoves. Not much to think for me, call.

Shows A3s. I don't know why, but I had that feeling that A will hit anyway... Of course, Turn A. Massive two top stacks combined pot shipped across the table....

Guy starts apologizing for suckout, saying that he didnt think I had anything and so on... It's ok. I don't hate you.
Don't hate the player, hate the game...

That's how much one hand can change... Instead for a really legit change to win 3K, I got $200. Awesome.

Hand of the day

Good one. AK vs 88. Flip.

I flop trips and look at the percentage, wtf, why I'm still behind... Oh, it appears the guy had in hand 88 and flopped Full House. I guess hoping for runner runner full house or just hit A.

Ace on the river.

Yummy

6,5 K GTD

HU for first place. All in on Flop.

Not that I would care about the suckout, but the guy is so bad and talked so much crap at the table, like he is THE shit. And had to be out long time ago, but hit some miracle two outer...

Usually the ones who talk so much have the least amount of skills and try to cover it up with insulting opponents...

Woops

Gotta post this one.
6,5K GTD. 20 players left. Im on sb vs BB. Everybody folds.
Blinds 600-1200. I started hand with 20 K, BB w 35K
I just limp with my A7. Guy insta shoves all in.

Kinda strange play. Just got transferred to the table, have no idea how he plays. Meh, I'm either getting pushed around or best case scenario I have three outs.

I'm not really the one who you can push around. So, I decided that its a good time to
double up or get busted.

Bad read, good outcome. Out of my 3 outs I hit ... all of them

Yummy

Better a bird in the hand than two in the bush...

That means I chopped today in $8500 GTD for first place. We were even in chips and since I was playing 4 tourneys, including one for WPT Shooting star on Full Tilt, I just decided it will be ok to get $500 for sure, rather than play for a thousand and you don't know how it will turn out...One condition- I am the one transferring the money...Not that I dont trust other people, it's just I don't see any reason why anybody would be afraid of me screwing them, if they know me and have seen me playing for a few years on merge ....

Anyway, gotta admit, was almost out before final table. My AJ won against AK. And since then never looked back...Didn't put myself in all in behind situations and it worked out great.

Last 2010 Tournament

Oh, just remembered. It was pretty funny...

Dec 31st decided to play in one tourney only. That was $8500 GTD w Rebuys. Long story short, made to final 3. Chip leader had around 145K, 2nd in chips guy had around 45K and I just lost good junk of chips and sat there with 15K. I think blinds were 600-1200. Pretty bad shape :)

Genius idea hit my genius head. I offered a 3-way chop. Of course guys started laughing and I wasn't too mad about them making fun of my stack.

I said, "Ok, it's your own fault, now I will have to win the tourney". Series of smiley faces came from both opponents.

Couple hands later, got AA and doubled up on the big stack. And the fun game began. I think we played like half an hour back and forth, simply exchanging chips. In mean time Won one all in flip preflop with being 60-40 underdog to stay alive... Both opponent played really good poker and it took forever to bust somebody.

Finally got rid of the third one. The initial chip leader. Don't remember the chip count HU, but I know I had 2 to 1 chips in play. Unfortunately doubled him up w 88 vs JJ preflop and tables were switched... He had more chips than me already. We talked for couple minutes about chopping, but he decided not to chop, since it looked really promising for him to win.
Big mistake. 10 minutes into the game it was over. And guess who won...

Lesson learned- don't count anybody out with chip and a chair. If the guy is not out, he still has a chance to win it all. Lucky me, I was on the winning side here...

Sunday Millions

Of Course, you can play solid all game, but it wont matter if your AA preflop will lose against 66...

Blinds 500-1000, guy UTG raises 3600, Everybody folds and Im pretty sure he is not folding anyway, bcs he will have around 20K left, I push all in my 27 K. Button thinks for a while and calls my all in. Blinds fold. UTG calls all in.

My AA vs AK vs 66. River 6.

Thanks for playing.

New Years Resolutions

I guess I need some little check list what I need to accomplish in 2011.

1. Win one $12,500 Main Event Package (WSOP, Aussie Millions, WPT)
2. First on Scheduled By Merge Network Leaderboard in 2011 on Sharkscope.
3. Win at least 2 Tournaments with buy in higher than $100 on Full Tilt and or Poker Stars
4. Final Table 10x in FT and/ or PS with buy in higher than $100.
5. Cash in Sunday Millions 5x
6. Win Tourney King Leaderboard 5x
7. Cash in WSOP or WSOP Circuit Event.


Should be enough. If I Reach these few above it should be pretty good year :)

Happy New Year!

2010 is past...It was pretty interesting year. O a lot of ups and downs...

To wrap it up I can't complain too much. Won MTT Leader board few times, the other times was always in top 5. Won a WSOP Seat, Twice won High Limit Tourney King Leader board. And I guess the most important one- Was first on sharkscope in Scheduled By Network Leader board. Especially because I wasn't playing for 4-5 months...

December was realllllly tough month. Sickest hands ever. Even couple One outers rivered. not many One outers I have seen in my life, but when it hits against you twice in the same month But I guess thats poker. If you cant live through suckouts, dont play poker...

Anyway, happy new year to everyone. Like Mike Sexton says: "Let your cards always be live and your pots be monsters"