Pokerstars month....BLAH Review B

This is how pokerstars went for the month...as you can see, i got off to a really nice start lol...oh well...grinded my way back to close to even playing cash games. Bottom line, i ended up down $550 on stars this month. For starters, i was actually down about $100 more then this graph shows in cash games...somehow an entire session got deleted from pokertracker, so it didnt register, but i was stuck about $100. Lost probably close to $300 playing omaha8 (literally the worst run ive ever had in that game...ive never held the nuts so many times in my life on the flop and turn, only to have someone spike their gin card EVERYTIME on the river...sick). I only played 7 tournaments onstars the enitre month (sigh...i miss multi tables) and lost around $60. Sng's i only play 16 this month, and ended up down $15. I guess thats about it...i actually cashed in a few freerolls on starts in april, so give or take, that was the breakdown fore the month.

Grand total for both sites...$770 for April...(begin applause)...Seeing as i started the month down $1000...its feels pretty nice to turn a profit of almost $800!!

I need to watch lost here b4 i goto work, so i wont post my goals for may until tomorrow....but to be quite honest, im glad april is over...it was a very swingy month, and i'm hoping for a little more consistency in may...

Murph

ps click on the graph to get a better picture of it

A Tale of 2 sites: review A Fulltilt

Well its that time of the month again....time for a wrap up. As most of you know, i started the month on a DISGUSTING stretch finding myself down 1k..."things change mox" and here are the totals .

The above graph is my month on fulltilt just cash games. All in all, i was up $1230 for the month on fulltilt (this number includes $300 from rakeback...VERY nice...and $150 won playing some donkaments). Whatever is left probably came from some omaha8 i played and i cashed in a couple freerolls during the month. As you can see, once my doomswitch was turned off, i started to really put up some nice results, but that start to the month was so gross, i just oculdn't post another SICK month, but i'll definately take $1200 considering after 18k hands, i was down nearly $500!!

I'm slow when it comes to computers and cant figure out how to post another graph in this blog, so i'll start a new one for my stars

Lol donkaments

So i decieded to make this afternoon a donkament day...flamed in all my stars tournies (standard) but fulltilt was a bit different. Played in a $14 satalite for the $50 330 toruny and won the satalite, so i was free rollin' for the $50...bottom line, ended up coming in 14th for $150...on the whole i'm happy, but the hand i went out with was a doozy...im in the BB with 10bb's sitting in 11/14...folded to the SB who just shoves...i wake up with AK (YES!!!) i snap call...he turns over 106 offsuit....10 on the river gg murph....yes, i threw up on my laptop when this happened. If i win this pot, i'm sitting pretty nice, and looking at making the final table where the winner gets 4k...whatever, i run like shit, and i can never run good enough to EVER win a donkament, and ive accepted that. Earlier in the tourny, i was chipping up nicely, i made a standard raise with AK....guy shoves all in over the top...i call, he has AJ...Jack on the turn LOL...this pot would've put me in 2nd place and i wouldve been crusing...instead i had to play a mid-short stack the whole way...it just doesn't stop ya know!!

I will say this though...i did suck out on the bubble to stay alive...had like 4500 with blinds at like 300-600...36 ppl got paid and there were like 39 left...i pick up A10...fodled to me...i push...get a call...bb goes all in, other guy folds...bb has KK..i hit my ace to triple up. blah blah blah, thats tournament poker i know...but its these frusterations that have made me HATE playing them now a days!

Ok, grinding some cash tonight, nothing too exciting...

Murph

GRAPHS BABY!!!

So i finally figured how to use poker grapher which ive had downloaded for months ( F ing windows vista is a BITCH)... this graph is my April so far on fulltilt...you can precisely see when my fulltilt doomswitch was turned off. I'm on a nice run this past week on fulltilt. I hope this doesn't jinx it, but i just wanted to post a graph to see if i could get it working. From now on, i'll be posting graphs at the end of every month, so having a nice visual for you guys will be nice...you're all welcome...

Actually, one negative thing about this graph is it shows just how many hands i've played this month...and its only the 20th!!!!! WTF!!! lol when you're thinking what a degenerate i am, dont forget the thousnads of hands ive played on stars....the sngs...AND the tournies...this is just fulltilt cash...to all my family who read this...start planning that intervention LOL j/k!

Ok, i'm throwing in a trivia question, and to the person that answers the question correctly, you have a cool $5 headed your way lol...

Rules: 1)You MUST have either a stars acct. or fulltilt acct...if you don't...please do not answer and ruin it for the other readers
2) One person already knows the answer since i told him....he cannot answer!!
3) This is a VERY obscure quote and i will be VERY impressed if someone can nail it...that being said, here is the quote...

"500 dollars in prizes" Hint...it is said with an accent...post your answers in the comments, and i'll let anyone know if they are correct

good luck at the tables

Murph

ps click on the graph to get a good look at it...i still have to figure out how to format it to look good just posted without clicking on it

DENY DENY DENY

Here is the email pokerstars sent back to me...

Hello $#%&*$$

Thank you for your email. I am sorry to hear that you have not been enjoying your time with us recently. As an avid player myself I understand how frustrating online poker can be. We take the integrity of our site very seriously, and I appreciate the opportunity to address your concerns. There is no such thing as a 'Doomswitch'. We have no interest in favouring one player over another. Our shuffle is completely random, favoring or disfavoring no player over any other. The computerized methods we use to shuffle the deck are more than sufficient to ensure complete randomization of the cards, and complete unpredictability of the cards to come. You can see the description of these methods at: http://www.pokerstars.com/security.html In addition, we track all hands dealt daily to see if there is any statistically significant variance. In fact, we gave the source code to two independent auditors who reviewed our shuffle algorithm and found it sound and random. You may read the analyses of these auditors at: http://www.pokerstars.com/rng_audit.html We have dealt over 16,000,000,000 hands, and have freely given out real money hand histories any time somebody has requested them. Not once has anybody found any indication that our shuffle is not 100% random, and many who have undertaken such studies have posted their findings to the Internet. You may find just two of them here: http://tinyurl.com/32ajma http://tinyurl.com/2wu99w If you have further questions about this, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Regards, AndyPokerStars Support Team

He still didnt explain to me why i'm running like shit...

Anyway, final tabled the $5 rebuy omaha8 today on fulltilt...came in 9th of course when utg limped...i raised pot (essentially putting me all in ) with AA105...he turns over the best possible hand JJK2!! here comes my double up....wrong...K on the flop...K on the river...gg murph

Cash on fulltilt is going much better then a week ago...i'm actually out of the red for the month ( istarted the month on a 8 buy in downswing on fulltilt), so with 2 weeks to go, maybe i can turn a decent profit for the month...stars is a lost cause

Murph

This should fix everything

I just got done emailing this to pokerstars...

Dear Pokerstars,

It has been brought to my attention that the reason for my most recent downswing on your site has been that my doomswitch has been activated for some reason. I have been a very loyal customer for a few years now, and have done nothing but create tons of rake for you, and in return, after posting my biggest month ever, i am now on a sickening losing streak. At first, i thought it might just be bad play, but this is not the case (i'm still on a roll on a rival site when i play there). The only logical conclusion i can come too, is that my doomswitch must have "accidently" been flicked on (maybe you were reaching for lesmurphy8's doomswitch, and hit mine instead). I'm not asking you to turn on my boomswitch or anything like that, just please turn off my doomwitch, and we'll call it even. I think this is fair for both of us, beause if i continue to run like ASS on your site, i will have no choice but to bring my play to a rival site, and we both end up losers in the end.

Thank you for your time, and i hope to log on tomorrow and not run into set over set, flush over flush or have my opponets hit anymore 2 outers when all the money is in the middle. Thank you and have a good night.

Lesmurphy7

Non poker blog??? Kind of...

So i hit the links for the 1st time this year on tuesday (i'm a BIG golf nut), and i'm not sure if this is a good sign of things to come or not, but my 1st drive of the year i STRIPED one down the middle about 270 leaving me like 210 into a par 5...5 shots later i walked away with a bogey LOL....pull hooked my 4 iron into a forest, and hacked my way out through there...blah. Ended up shooting an 83 which i was pretty happy about seeing as it was the 1st time out..the only reason i'm slightly upset about it was the fact that i think my putter has been possessed by pokerstars....i missed 7 f ing putts inside of feet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Talk about bad beat!! Even if i made 3 of these, i probably would STILL be bitter about missing 4 short putts, and would've shot an 80! Oh well...my ball striking was solid, and aside from my putter, my short game was solid...all in all, a good day...i think i'm going again monday

Ok, i was gonna write a bit about poker, but i don't feel like boring you all (WHOOOO HOOOO)...

Murph

Turn around????

Well, if you would've asked me 4 hours ago, i would've told you i may have turned things around. Ask me now, and i'll tell you i think fulltilt has stuck it to me enough for the month, but stars isn't quite done.

I booked a solid $240 win on fulltilt today. Nothing much to report about the session, other then the best hand held up most of the time (funny how i win money when that happens). One significant hand that I KNOW i would've lost a week ago went like this. I called a min raise from an early position guy with 22...6 ppl saw the flop of 852 with 2 clubs...original raiser bets 4...i'm next to act so i make like 12....get 3 f ing smooth calls....and then the original riaser pushes all in for 50 (playing .25-.50)...im not worried about him since id basically bet the house he has AA, but i am slightly worried about the other guys....never the less, i'm not folding this, so i call the push...and SO DO THE OTHER 3 GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 5 of us all in...when the other 3 guys called, i figured soneone had a set...nope....original guy had AA, 2 of the other morons had flush draws ( like 109 of clubs and k8 of clubs), and the 3rd guy had 34 for an open ended straight draw....somehow, the 3rd club never came, and my hand held, and i won a monster...ty fulltilt!!

Pokerstars on the other hand....can die!! 8th hand of my session, i get set over set when the flop comes A94 and i have 99...clearly i'm up agaisnt the Aces...down $100 instantly...about 30 minutes later i get it all in pre flop with AA on a KQ874 board...other guy had KK...thankfully he didnt have a fullstack....somehow i managed to with like $40 in this sessions of about 500 hands. Then i sit down to play about 3 hours ago...and got killed....lost like $170...2 sweet hands....i have AA in sb...folded to button who is tight, who makes it $4....i re raise to 13...he calles...flop come 764...(this is a good flop since he's tight, i KNOW he wouldn't call a re raise with any of this junk)...so i bet like 24 (almost pot).....he calls.....turn Q...FUCK!! he could easily have QQ here...so i check...he checks behind...river pairs the board iwith a 4...i'm ready to just check call since i feel he has QQ...he bets like 35...i HAVE to call...he turns over QQ...nice 2 outer for ya! I actually think i lost the minimum cuz if i bet the turn, we're getting it all in if he raises. This last hand is buggin me, and is just a classic example of pokerstars whoring me...utg min raises (STRONG) gets like 6 callers, and i'm in the BB with 68s...i call...flop Q86 (YES!!!!) i check, utg bets the pot...gets 1 call...here's where i make my move...i check raise him to like $43...he INSTA PUSHES for like $65 more....other guy folds and its on me...looking back, i think i should've folded becuz he would have to be a true donk to make that play with AA or KK after my huge check riase...so i grudgingly call....he turns over QQ for top set when i flopped 2 pair...gg murph.

After this last hand, i just INSTANTLY shut pokerstars down...i was in such a good mood after the fulltilt session, and that happens...so frusterating!! NOTHING holds anymore, or i get put in spots that are next to impossible to get away from...not to mention i don't hit my draws anymore...sigh...

Oh well, it was a winning day on the whole, and hopefully i've turned it around on fulltilt ( i actually changed my avatar b4 i played today...and killed it...i think there is something to that...i'm now the donkey, with a confused look on his face)

Murph

TRUE STORY!

I SWEAR TO GOD THIS JUST HAPPENED....

I just lost Quads to a straight flush....and THE VERY NEXT HAND, lost the NUT full house to quads when he hit his 4th 2 on the river to beat my JJ on a J8422 board...good times

Murph

Chat back

So i got my chat back today on stars....then proceeded to lose $300 bucks

I want to cry...

Murph

MAKE IT STOP!!!!!

So today was suppose to be a big multi table day, but i shut it down early after i was bounced from 3 tournaments 1)AA vs 77 all in pre flop 2) JJ vs A7 all in pre flop 3) AK vs A5 all in pre flop. These do not include my KK vs QQ all in pre flop during the $5 re buy for a huge stack, and of course i bust with 1010 vs AK...at least it was in the money...i lose every race, i get sucked out on, and yet, i managed to cash...so that was it for the hold em tournies...i was bounced from an omha8 tourny when some MORON hit a 1 outer on the river to bust me, he needed the 4 of hearts to come, and sure enough...4 of hearts on the river... i just laughed and closed the table...its times like these where i'm glad my chat is banned (speaking of which....its been over a month now...am i ever getting it back?) Managed to come in 3rd in the $5 rebuy omaha8 on fulltilt though for $125 which was nice! With 12 left, i was leading, and i guess wasnt paying attention, and misread my hand, thinking i hit the nut straight on the river, when actually i missed...so i came out betting the pot (it was a huge pot too) and he called and scooped with the nut low, and a pair of 8's LOL...this put me in dead last since the guy who i was in the pot with was 3rd at the time...i grinded my way back though, and took home a decent piece of change...why i even bother playing hold em tournies any more is beyond me...

So, how is the cash game going you ask?? Here is 1 hand that tells it all... i limp with 22...we see the flop 4 way...it comes 442 (decent flop) sb min bets...bb min raises (at this point, u cant take the grin off my face) so i make it like 6...sb min raises me to like 11...bb flat calls...(clearly the both have the 4 now)...so i make it 30...sb pushes all in...bb snap calls...and me, who has the mortal nuts since these morons obviously each have a 4 calls....$140 in the pot...sb has A4....bb has 46...i have 22...6 on the turn...ship it to the guy with the worst hand....nuff said

It really is sickening how bad i'm running right now...i dont even know what to do. I'm sick of complaining about it, but i literally NEVER get it in bad and win...the only time i EVER win a pot, is when i get it in good...and even then, i only with about %50 of those...one more sweet hand and im done....utg raises to 1.75...i smooth call on button with AQ...moron in BB pushes for like 33...original raiser folds...now usually this is a fold, but this guy had been a maniac, and i was looking to gamble since i'm on perma semi-tilt these days...so i call expecting a race...oh my bad, he flips over the best possible hand...QJ...i hit my ace in the flop (hand over right?)...it goes runnning hearts and he takes it down...nh sir...well played

Lastly, its not the amount of money that i'm losing thats buggin me ( i'm actually only down like $100 on fulltilt this month)...its the beats i cant deal with....i'm losing every session, but only a small amount each time, when in reality they should be big winning sessions....oh well, i know it'll turn around...

Murph

ps Sorry for such a bitchy post, but i'm very frusterated and annoyed right now!

Huh??

This picture can double as my reaction after this hand. I'm pretty sure this is the worst beat i've ever taken...maybe not % wise, but after you hear it, you'll know why. I raise AQ to $1.50...everyone folds to bb who calls. Flop comes A86...he checks, i bet 3...he check raises to 6( the oh so powerful min check raise lol), so i sense weakness, so i make it 33 (he had like 35 behind at this point)...he thinks about it for awhile...and calls (at this point, i'm no longer loving my AQ, he could have 2 pair right now)...turn comes a 10, he checks, i bet the 3 to put him all in, he calls...and turns over 10 2?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????!?!?!!??!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! WHAT?????? See if you can guess what came on the river.....A DEUCE....ship the $90 to him. I mean the flop came A86, and u have 10 2...i dont hate the attempt at the check raise, i mean, if i didnt have an ace, he owuldve taken it down then...but i made it $33 and he had $36 left...how the hell could he call that????? he had NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!! not even a backdoor flush/straight draw...he literally had NOTHING!!! Ive really never seen anything like it!!

That hand bascially sums up how my month is going, i've been running like ass in cash, and i've played quite a few hands too. Thankfully i've won about $100 in omaha8 cash games and i'm up in sngs...not enough to cover the hold em loses though. Oh well, the month is still early, lets hope my 1st week of the month doomswitch has now been flicked off until may!!

Havent played a single tournament this month, but i think tomorrow i'm gonna make a tourny day, so hears to running like fire!!!

Sorry i dont have anything interesting to report...but cash games are boring, which means, not much to write about!!

One more sweet hand...utg raises to $1.5...i'm on the button with AA, so i make it 5.25...they guy in the bb pushes all in for $50....clearly i snap call....and he turned over 10 6 offsuit HAHAHAHAHAHA...i held and won it but 106?? are u serious????? This is the reason you dont fold KK pre flop in a micro limit cash game...there are WAY too many guys who play like that!! lol No matter how much it may look like AA...sometimes it can be 10 6 offsuit lol

Murph

Memphis baby!!

Dropped some cash on Memphis tonight -2.5 baby!!! If i were you, you should be the house on Kansas now

Murph

#@*% me!!

Dear fulltilt/pokerstars,

Can i please not lose hundreds of dollars the first week of every month

k thanks

Murph