AWOL Super League

This started about 2 weeks ago with the 1^st game going AWOL, well it started and got cancelled mid way through. Since then it is me that has gone AWOL, in that of the 7 played I have played in just 3 of them and done appallingly  in all of them. I have probably outscored myself in the ones I haven’t played being disconnected!

Also HEM isn’t working currently do to the latest PKR update, I’m not sure why they keep changing the hand history’s as currently they aren’t even compatible with their own forum.

I haven’t actually played all that much this month, with it coming up to Christmas I’m finding more reasons to go out, so it will be close whether I hit 100K hands for the year, but with HEM not working I’m not sure how far behind I am.

Once I hit my bonus and I see in the New Year, I am going to hit the NL50 tables.

As I haven’t posted many hand histories, here are a couple, the 1^st one is like what I referred to in one of my previous blogs and people open shoving on me. Thankfully it was into the flopped buts and it held. Some people are just idiots!

Table #33032871 - ***NO TABLE***

Starting Hand #1542935167

Start time of hand: 08 Dec 2010 19:53:32

Last Hand #1542934384

Game Type: HOLD'EM

Limit Type: NO LIMIT

Table Type: RING

Money Type: REAL MONEY

Blinds are now $0.10 / $0.25

Button is at seat 1

Seat 1: MeneGeneOkerland - $29.18

Seat 2: devonacid - $24.65

Seat 3: nicktheshark - $10.04

Seat 4: PokaLady1985 - $29.88

Seat 6: JOHNARAS666 - $34.48

Moving Button to seat 3

PokaLady1985 posts small blind ($0.10)

JOHNARAS666 posts big blind ($0.25)

devonacid posts $0.25

devonacid posts $0.10 dead

Shuffling Deck

Dealing Cards

Dealing [8 d][8 s] to MeneGeneOkerland

MeneGeneOkerland raises to $0.75

devonacid folds

devonacid rebuys $0.70

nicktheshark folds

PokaLady1985 folds

JOHNARAS666 calls $0.75

Pot sizes: $1.95

Dealing Flop [7 c][8 c][3 d]

JOHNARAS666 bets $33.73 (all-in)

MeneGeneOkerland calls $28.43 (all-in)

Returning $5.30 to JOHNARAS666 uncalled

Pot sizes: $58.81

MeneGeneOkerland shows [8 d][8 s]

JOHNARAS666 shows [A c][2 c]

Dealing Turn [6 d]

Pot sizes: $58.81

Dealing River [7 d]

Pot sizes: $58.81

Taking Rake of $2.94 from pot 1

JOHNARAS666 has One Pair: 7s

MeneGeneOkerland has Full House, 8s over 7s

devonacid: call on a draw

MeneGeneOkerland wins $55.87 with: Full House, 8s over 7s

Seat 1: MeneGeneOkerland - $55.87

Seat 2: devonacid - $25

Seat 3: nicktheshark - $10.04

Seat 4: PokaLady1985 - $29.78

Seat 6: JOHNARAS666 - $5.30

devonacid: yesssss

End of Hand #1542935167

The 2^nd one, its not very often I over bet the pot, but for him to call two streets on that flop I thought he has to have a pair, so thought, shove the river to look like a bluff missed flush draw, and hoped my line just looked weird enough.

Table #33065541 - ***NO TABLE***

Starting Hand #1544192510

Start time of hand: 09 Dec 2010 23:10:01

Last Hand #1544191011

Game Type: HOLD'EM

Limit Type: NO LIMIT

Table Type: RING

Money Type: REAL MONEY

Blinds are now $0.10 / $0.25

Button is at seat 6

Seat 1: nicktheshark - $18.15

Seat 2: rastanopasta - $3.13

Seat 3: MeneGeneOkerland - $33.30

Seat 4: Spartan777 - $23.65

Seat 5: epodinos - $19.89

Seat 6: xRamsesIIx - $35.40

Moving Button to seat 1

rastanopasta posts small blind ($0.10)

MeneGeneOkerland posts big blind ($0.25)

Shuffling Deck

Dealing Cards

Dealing [2 s][2 d] to MeneGeneOkerland

Spartan777 calls $0.25

epodinos folds

xRamsesIIx folds

nicktheshark folds

rastanopasta raises to $0.75

MeneGeneOkerland calls $0.75

Spartan777 calls $0.75

Pot sizes: $2.25

Dealing Flop [2 h][8 h][6 s]

rastanopasta checks

MeneGeneOkerland checks

Spartan777 bets $0.25

rastanopasta calls $0.25

MeneGeneOkerland raises to $1.50

Spartan777 calls $1.50

rastanopasta folds

Pot sizes: $5.50

Dealing Turn [5 d]

MeneGeneOkerland bets $3.85

Spartan777 calls $3.85

Pot sizes: $13.20

Dealing River [J s]

MeneGeneOkerland bets $27.20 (all-in)

Spartan777 calls $17.55 (all-in)

Returning $9.65 to MeneGeneOkerland uncalled

Pot sizes: $48.30

MeneGeneOkerland shows [2 s][2 d]

Spartan777 shows [4 h][6 h]

Taking Rake of $2.41 from pot 1

MeneGeneOkerland has Three of a Kind: 2s

MeneGeneOkerland wins $45.89 with: Three of a Kind: 2s

Seat 1: nicktheshark - $18.15

Seat 2: rastanopasta - $2.13

Seat 3: MeneGeneOkerland - $55.54

Seat 4: Spartan777 - $0

Seat 5: epodinos - $19.89

Seat 6: xRamsesIIx - $35.40

End of Hand #1544192510

Running good in poker a no no

I have been thinking about this for a while, and a thread on PKR has made me write about it here, but before I start, I’m not entirely sure what I am going to write about as I am not a psychologist and don’t know the answer.

But anyway, I read a few poker blogs and forums, the majority being on PKR or PKR players . But everyone always writes about how bad they run, or that they are running X amount under EV. I am also guilty of it, but, in truth I run good, my fear is that at some point it WILL bite me in the ass, but whats to say it will, yes it should but at the other end someone could run eternally bad.

As an example I read Rhymenoceros’ blog, who put is monthly graph of winnings, with the EV graph with the comment  “I put the obligatory ev line in which only goes in when you run below allin ev (learnt that one off Muzone and all the 2+2ers)”

This is what I find funny and got me thinking, is it bad to put how good you run, and I have to say I was going to put my November results up but, surprise, I was going to put it up without the EV graph because I ran above EV and whats more I have done all year!

However what I am lost on is whether poker players just like to moan how bad they run and tell everyone they do, or is it for some metagame purpose that I just don’t get. Or is it just posted so everyone who is running bad just to wallow in self-pity and pat each other on the back and say “yeah man I feel your pain”. Of course it could just be human nature.

As I said I am no psychologist and having a quick Google search I found nothing (that I could understand), however I did find one person being Sam Chauhan who is actually a mindset coach and has poker players as clients, who had some interesting articles albeit not answering the question of why people always remember the negative and not the positive.

Well like I said I found no answer but then didn’t really pose any questions, but I shall leave with a good Chinese proverb stole from Sam Chauhan in one of his blogs

“The farmer used a horse to till his fields. One day, the horse escaped into the hills and when the farmer’s neighbors sympathized with the old man over his bad luck, the farmer replied, “Bad luck? Good luck? Who knows?” A week later, the horse returned with a herd of horses from the hills and this time the neighbors congratulated the farmer on his good luck. His reply was, “Good luck? Bad luck? Who knows?”

Then, when the farmer’s son was attempting to tame one of the wild horses, the son fell off the horse’s back and broke his leg. Everyone thought this very bad luck. Not the farmer, whose only reaction was, “Bad luck? Good luck? Who knows?”

Some weeks later, the army marched into the village, taking every boy they found there. When they saw the farmer’s son with his broken leg, they let him off.

Everything has a purpose. Many things happen in our life that we might not understand.If those things did not happen, you would not become who you are about to become.

Oh and my November 10 graph with run good EV :P. Pretty disappointing as most the profit was from playing ~1000 hands at NL100