Stars

Been playing more on Stars lately due to the low traffic on betfair. It takes a little to adapt as it seems on Stars they are far more willing to gamble at a certain time ( for sure on bubble ) so you have to get lucky at times and maybe narrow a little my pushing range and widen a little my calling range. Still to see. Am playing the 13$ 6packs now and running at about 17% ROI , which seems good but as yesterday i had a vey bad losing 7 out of 9 70/30s on bubble i think i should manage to get 20% ROI after a good sample of games. What i also find interesting is the fact you see way more winning players and way more big fishes then on betfair. Either the players are good or very bad. On Betfair many lose like 5% , on Stars many lose 20 - 25% ....

Poker is strange , frustrating, funny , ............. Yesterday, as said, all went wrong, lost twice with a FH to a bigger FH where they hit 3 outer on river when both committed, ran with AA into K8s who calls 5BB raise on bubble, hits his FD and hits flush on turn when he pushes allin for 35BB, anyway way too much bad luck to tell all , and i'm sure ure not interested.

Was down 65$ , which ofc is far from a drama, but for me it is a bad day. When my wife was feeding the baby and i wanted to play a turbo MTT on BF . I misregistered and found myself in a 2$ superturbo omaha MTT ffs. So i decide to play all hands. First hand a guy raises and we are 4 to call. I hit open end Str8 draw and decide to call his C bet. I hit my Str8 on turn and have the nuts with a Q high FD going with it, so i decide to CR and get all the chips in. As thought he bets pot again , i CR for the rest and he calls with a set of jacks and only the river to come. OFC the river k paires the board and i lose another 75/25% when played to perfection. Left me so frustrated i went allin with my remaining 160 chips, doubled up 4 times in a row to get me back to starting stack. Went on to win the tourney ( 46 players ) for fecking 30$ ( which cut my losses in half , good ). But i had another session planned for the evening but couldn't bring myself to it anymore after this ridiculous rollercoaster of anger , luck, relief , joy........ Moral : get it in 75/25 , lose and the gods will be with you the rest of the tourney lol.

Will post one HH from yesterday which i must say i quite enjoyed and it made a losing day still worth remembering. Checking the nuts 3 times and getting rewarded 3 times ;-)


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PokerStars Spel #35254428789: Toernooi #211876666, $12+$1 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level V (75/150) - 12/11/2009 10:31:30 ET
Tafel '211876666 1' 6-max Plaats #2 is de button
Plaats 1: entabeni (5272 in chips)
Plaats 2: tammasch (3728 in chips)
tammasch: zet small blind 75
entabeni: zet big blind 150
*** GESLOTEN KAARTEN ***
Gedeeld aan entabeni [Ad Ac]
tammasch: callt 75
entabeni: raiset 300 naar 450
tammasch: callt 300
*** FLOP *** [Ah 5s As]
entabeni: checkt
tammasch: bet 450
entabeni: callt 450
*** TURN *** [Ah 5s As] [2h]
entabeni: checkt
tammasch: bet 450
entabeni: callt 450
*** RIVER *** [Ah 5s As 2h] [3h]
entabeni: checkt
tammasch: bet 2378 en is all-in
entabeni: callt 2378
*** SHOWDOWN ***
tammasch: toont [7s Qd] (een pair Azen)
entabeni: toont [Ad Ac] (four of a kind, Azen)
entabeni won 7456 van pot
*** SAMENVATTING ***
Totale pot 7456 Rake 0
Board [Ah 5s As 2h 3h]
Plaats 1: entabeni (big blind) toonde [Ad Ac] en won (7456) met four of a kind, Azen
Plaats 2: tammasch (button) (small blind) toonde [7s Qd] en verloor met een pair Azen