Update on happenings.

Well, it's been around 2 months since I wrote in this blog, and not for lack of things to write about I suppose, but more laziness/uni work. Here's a few things I'll be writing about now, as much for the benefit of you guys so that you know what you're going to be reading, as it is for my benefit so I don't forget to include something...

• Satellite Poker and the Wollongong trip.
• Casino Canberra
• Online Action (or lack thereof)
• The Hats nearly getting into a biff at Orange Ex-Services

As much as I'm sure you guys are keen to read that last bit, I'll start at the beginning. However, if you want to skip through, I'll mainly be outlining various plays and hands in the first 3 bits.
Ok, here we go.

Satellite Poker

As you guys may or may not know, I'm a poster/lurker on an Aussie poker forum called www.pokertalk.com.au. I used to post more (when I was bragging about pokerstars wins - -where have they gone?) but now I just log in and read occasionally. Anyway, I saw a league called Satellite Poker advertised on there that was going to have a Wollongong game with a 2-day structure and a fairly cool prize pool. So I asked any of the guys if they wanted to come, most of them were busy, but Nick and Teddy were keen to come so we drove down and got our $10-a-night rooms in the pub (which weren't bad). I met a couple of "usernames" as it were and most people were really friendly to us (albeit amazed that we drove from Bathurst to play).

Anyway, we have a 15k stack so I'm fairly certain I'll have a pretty decent edge against an average pub-poker field. However a lot of people at the event appeared to be fairly serious about the game (which is good for me because I usually hear whining at pub poker events from people who are just there to drink and have a good time) so I recalculated a little bit, even though I saw more than a few "gimps" (Benny's word for donks who think they're balla poker players because they had a better player explain pot odds to them and now they have to lecture the table with why they're so good at poker) sitting at the various tables.

I win a few hands early on (including the first hand with AJos on an A high flop - winning the first hand should surely have been a sign of impending doom). Anyway my stack was at around 14.2k when this doozy of a hand comes up.

The blinds are at 75/150 and I'm UTG+1 with AhAs. The UTG folds, I consider and simply limp into the pot. (TARP am I right?) The guy next to me, Franky, a former Satellite Poker winner, nice guy and clearly a skilled poker player, makes a sizeable raise to 600. It folds around to a guy in sunnies on the button who I was still wondering was a good player or not, who repops to 1200. Fairly sizeable action at this blind levels and I'm sitting here with the Bullets and a 14k stack. Great situation, right?

Well, anyway. Here's where I define there hands. I think for about 2 minutes and decide a shove is so spewy with these stacks and re-repop to 4200, leaving myself with a neat 10k behind.

Franky thinks for a good 3 minutes and eventually makes a crying fold. I put him on maybe TT or AK. Sunglasses guy, who I heard someone call the Baron, looks at me incredulously and shows his mate his hand, and does one thing I really didn't expect him to do: flat-calls.

So at this point I'm just hoping no K or Q flops. I throw up in my mouth a little bit as the flop comes KJ4. I look at him and he looks at the flop and then stares directly at me. Ugh. I can't check because I do not want QQ making a big play at me and I can't shove because that's just asking for KK to make a snap call. So I'm resigned to the fact that I might lose half my stack, so I bet 4000 and he pretty much instantly moves all in. I throw AA away face up and he shows me KK, and I'm left with 6000 around 25 minutes into the game. Sick.

Anyway. Two hands later I'm in the small blind with JJ. There's 4 limpers and its around to me, and I raise to 725. The big blind (Franky) calls pretty quickly and one other limper calls. The rest fold and I take a flop of A84. Demoralised, I check. Franky bets 1400 and the other limper folds and I fold JJ face up again and he shows me AK.

So now I've got around 5k and I'm starting to get annoyed. I'm on the cutoff 2 hands later and I get JJ AGAIN. There's a min-raise to 300 (ugh) and it gets around to a player on the hijack who makes it 1000. I think about re-repopping here then I realise that is a stupid play and a cold call here is probably best. One limper calls and we see a 3 way pot which is around 3300 in size.

The flop is a good one (finally), 232. First to act checks and the preflop re-raiser bets 1000. I tank for a good 5 minutes before I realised I have to shove here, if he has QQ good luck to him. So I move my 4125 into the middle, the preflop minraiser folds quickly and this guy begins to cut out 4000 and says, "well I guess I have to." I get annoyed and say, "well if you got Queens you got me bro." At this point, his hand freezes and I give myself a mental punch in the face as I realise he didn't specify a call. As soon as he freezes up I realise he doesn't have me beat.

The ridiculous thing is, at this point, he thinks for 4 or so minutes before eventually calling and flipping up -- of all things -- pocket 4s. (Yes, he repopped pre...) I look at my 11k pot and just ask for a Jack. Not much... just a jack. The turn of course is a scare card, dropping an Ace giving him 4 more outs. Sickeningly the third 4 drops on the riv and I am first out of this tourney that I drove 3 hours to play in.

Nick did fairly well, making day 2, and congrats to Teddy who made the final table (but didn't cash unfortunately).

Casino Canberra

WARNING: Contains Luckbox hands.

In the 2nd last week of the holidays I went to Canberra to mooch at my mate Phil's place who had gotten a cadetship at Centrelink head office and was being put up in a balla apartment in the middle of the CBD of a suburb called Tuggeranong. I went down there just to mooch pretty much but I did go to Canberra casino to play poker a few times and I thought I'd share a few interesting hands.

The game was a $200-$500 buyin with $5/$5 blinds.

On my first table, there was one fish, I'll call him Mr. Crazy, who every hand, regardless of position, raised it to $25. He would never fold preflop, rarely fold on the flop (or river -- I saw him do a [perhaps good?] call on a board of 67672 with K5os and win against some old dude who bluffed a busted straight). I was pretty much waiting to stack him. He raised it to $30 in his blinds, he just put 5 red chips in whenever it was his turn to act, and on every flop, did the same C-bet of $25 (no matter the size of the pot). Amazingly, he won the first 7 or so hands. One lady bet $25 into like $175 on the river and he called and she just mucked. I was ready to make some money.

Anyway, on my first BB, 2 people limp and Mr. Crazy raises to, you guessed it, $25. Two people call and I call with 7d9c on the big blind (priced in, right? :p) and 1 limper calls. The flop is okay, I guess: 5d6h8d. So I flop the nutstraight and check first to act. The original limper checks and this guy (who I'm expecting will bet his usual $25) actually bets a frisky $110. It folds to me and I think for about a minute and decide that theres no play better than a shove of my remaining $365 so I just go on ahead and put it all in there. It folds to this guy who SNAP CALLS and I'm pretty much expecting he has the same hand. However he shows 88 for top set and I fade the board pair to win a fairly healthy 975 dollar pot early on.

Two hands later I'm on the button with AcKc. The UTG player makes it $20 and it folds to Mr. Crazy who makes it $40. It folds around to me and I consider flatting here but I really want to take the pot heads up with Mr. Crazy so I pop it to $140.
Then it gets ugly. UTG raiser flat calls my $140 (uh-oh) and Mr. Crazy moves in for an additional $170 (uh-oh). I obviously cant fold AKs in a 900 dollar pot so I make the call. UTG folds with an annoyed look on his face (later said he had AJ... um yeah). Mr. Crazy shows KK and I'm more relieved that he doesnt have the bullets. I call for an Ace and luckbox one on the flop, A58. I'm already counting the pot as the turn drops a Jack ball but of course (the other players always get justice, WHERES MY JUSTICE), the case King balls on the river and I'm back down to around $580.

I decide to loosen up about 2 hours into the game, and when an old rock limps in UTG+2 I decide to raise to $25 with QsTs. I get 4 callers (lol cashaments am I right?) including the limper (Mr. Rock) and the flop comes Jc8s4d. I've got a fairly trifling holding with a backdoor flushdraw and a gutshot, but I fire the mandatory CBet of $50 when checked to me. It folds to Mr. Rock who min-repops me to $100. A check-raise from an old casino rock is something to strike fear into the blood of most but I figure I might be able to take the pot away from him with a nice semi-bluff card on the turn (like a spade). Anyway I flat call and spike my luckbox 9 on the turn. He checks and I bet $225. He moves in for $275 and of course I call. He shows JJ (oops), and again I fade my board pair and take in another nice pot. I cash off the table about an hour after (with some other decent hands) for around $1250 after buying in for $400.

The next day I go back and I only play for around 45 minutes. I buy in for $300 after playing some Casino War and I'm really in a gambly mood. I call a donk's raise with Jh5h early on when I'm in the BB and flop nice with J85. I bet $65, donk calls, turn is an ugly 9 and I shove like $135 and he folds.

The nice hand that came up was where I looked down at Qc7c and decided to raise in honour of Matty P (its his favourite hand). I make it $25 and get 5 callers.

So I flop huge (again -- btw I don't always get flops like this, I swear. I just ran good in Canberra :D) with Jc8c9c. They check to me and I lead $85. I get 2 callers. I ask for no club on the turn.

The turn is a club... the Tc for my delicious 6-card straight flush. They check to me again and I bet $105. One guy folds and one guy calls, this old guy who I was fairly certain was a tough, smart opponent.

The river drops the 7d which puts the 789TJ straight on the board. He checks to me and I faux-tank for a few minutes before shoving my $195 in. He thinks for a while, at one point asking the dealer to count the pot. I'm praying he calls and I put him on the Kc. After a while he calls and shows me the AcJd (wow) and I show him the straight flush and take down the $725.

I cash out from the table soon after since I don't feel I'm playing very well and realised if I keep gambling I'll go bust. So total profit from poker for the trip was around $1300. Begone, busto bug!

I KNOW I have two more sections to update (including the nearly getting in a fight at Orange APL) but I do have to go to uni so I'll have to let this blog entry finish here, and I'll try update the rest during the week!

Peace
Styles

Back to PubNubbing It

Howdy campers, since I last wrote there's been a bunch of crazy shenanigans and happenings, some of which are good and some of which are quite horrible. The main thing that happened is I pretty much went busto. I turned my $1k~ish online roll into $300 in like a week with a combination of running bad and playing well over my BR. So in order to teach myself a lesson I withdrew $300 USD (which used to be like A$400 but is now like... A$305) and it came to me from freaking click2pay in Euros so it's going to take like a month to clear in my bank account. So I get to enjoy the glories of being busto... which is somewhat humbling after being quite RObusto all year.

So anyway. Here I am deciding to Ferguson it and try to get somewhat of a roll back. I freerolled my way into Tuesday night's NPL $15 deepstack at the Aaron because I drove Benny (the TD) to the event, and managed a solid 2nd. I had enough chips at headsup not to chop because we were deep enough and the other player Adam, although a solid pub poker player, probably had a disadvantage against an aggressive player like me. He began to get visibly annoyed with my button raises immediately and as soon as I made my standard raise with 77, he came over the top immediately and I called and I had to win the race with QJ and he spiked that nasty ol' J bomb on the turn. So that was 2nd for a mere $110, not bad for a freeroll though imo.

The next night (last night) I played the Oxford in Bathurst with most of the Hats playing as well. Fairly early on I took a comfortable chiplead against Teddy when he overplayed his Ks9s on a KhQc8s flop against my KdKc. I grew my stack with my usual style of medium pot poker (revolutionary, I know) and after getting quite lucky in a 30k pot when I shoved AcKs on a board of 6c8c9c against two red 9s I made it to the final table again with quite a solid stack.

The shorties dropped off and I made my one bad play of the night with 8c9c. It folded to me in MP and I came in for a raise to 3k when blinds were 500/1k. It folded to the BB who was a very poor player from what I had seen and he flat called. (His previous final table actions were minraising twice, once with A5os and calling a shove of John a solid player who tabled QQ) and once with something that he didn't show.

The flop is beautiful, or so I think, when it comes 7sTc4c giving me the OESD and flush draw. Obviously a great flop to move in over the top of whatever he bets. But stupidly, he just shoves all his chips in the middle for like 17k into a 7k pot. I had around 21k left so this would cripple me but I was just so annoyed that he unknowingly made the best move against my massive draw that I called him. He tabled 9sTs for top pair and doing the pokerstove equities just now I see that I was actually ahead (I thought I might have been a slight underdog).

Board: 4c 7s Tc
Dead:

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 46.566% 45.76% 00.81% 453 8.00 { Ts9s }
Hand 1: 53.434% 52.63% 00.81% 521 8.00 { 9c8c }

Anyway, so maybe it wasn't so bad. So I had monster chips for a while, and I started getting played back on when I did my 3x so I moved it down to 2.5x opens and eventually just called a guy with JTos when he shoved over me when I button raised if only to let the table know I wasn't just going to raise/fold to their gay little shoves anymore. He had AK and won the flip but I didn't get shoved on quite as much after that.

I was down to the felt after one hand against a noob who once again outplayed me without knowing how or why. I had Kc7s in the BB and it folded to him 5 handed and he limped in. I decided to check since I knew he wasn't in the folding mood preflop. The board runs out AdJd8d and it goes check check. The turn pairs the J and he checks and I bet 10k, half his remaining stack. He flat calls and pretty much I am screwed. The river is the 8c making the board AJJ88 and I am of course playing the board. He thinks and pushes his last 10k into the pot and I actually have to tank. I don't see him with a flush or a J here very often and I don't want to be bluffed off a chop pot which is like 65k for 10k. I figure his range has an 8 here around 30% of the time and the other 70% is a hand like mine that became the board when the river dropped. I'll have 33k left if I fold and 23k left if I call with blinds at 3k/6k. Being that these guys don't really understand odds I figure I can probably shove my stack back to healthiness if I call, so I call praying to chop. He of course shows me some filthy 8 like 78os and rakes in a nice pot and after paying the SB next hand I was sitting on a meager 20k.

I shovebot my way back up to around 44k and I take a flop in the SB 4 handed with 7d9d. The flop is 78J. I immediately just shove into 3 runners and the BB folds and noob calls. I figure I'm beat but he tables AsTc? So I'm dodging a 9 or an Ace and the board turns a Q and rivers the T, and Benny goes to push the board towards noob before I point out my straight.

Anyway, we eventually get headsup, noob and I, and 2nd hand in its all over. He has me outchipped, limps on the button and I look at A4os on the BB and decide to raise, realise I can't raise anything other than all in effectively so I just shove. He calls pretty quickly with Kd4d and spikes the old K, winning the match and giving me my second consecutive second place in a row. But I did make $200 in the last two nights so that's something to be positive about definitely, and lets see how I can Ferguson my way to mega cash in the near future :D.

Peace

Styles

OK, I guess I should update while sober... right?

Styles here. All those who read this blog are probably under the impression that the Hats were all killed in a horrible grease fire of some sort. But we're still here plugging away. There's a couple of things to report on, so I'll get into it!

MELBOURNE:

In early March Benny, Matty, Shandog, Phil and I all embarked on a journey to Melbourne for three things: Drinking, Poker, and Comedy. And not necessarily in that order.

The first night we decided to get drunk and see whatever comedy shows we could. But first we had to have our dinner in a cafe/diner in Swanston street, near the Hi Fi bar. We were pretty drunk and as this video shows, we found the jukebox to be a fine entertainment source:



That night I also went to Crown Casino for the first time, and of course, loved it in my drunken state.. I popped all the money in my wallet ($135) onto a $2/$3 table and started playing, a bit hazy because obv I was drunk and just having a good time in Melbourne. I had one hand where I called a $35 bet on the turn with AT and the board reading A822 and I got overcalled by a 3rd player in the hand. The river was a T and the first bettor bet $55, which I then reraised all in for like $100 more and the overcaller called for like his last $45. The original bettor mucked AJ faceup and I apologised for drawing out on him, collected my $400 pot and left the table because even I was drunk enough to realise I wasn't playing that well.

The next day we just got as much comedy in as we could handle, and we moved to our ballin apartments in South Yarra. I also noticed that there was a poker tourney on that day at crown with a $100 buy in. First prize was $2200 so of course I had a crack. I had a massive hand early on where I limped UTG with AA, and this old guy went to reraise but looked at me suspiciously and just called. A LP guy raised and I reraised, and the old guy made the look of a crying call so I suspected he had a monster but he figured I had him beat. The LP guy flatted as well.

I wasn't sure if I liked the flop of AJ3, since I figured I was unlikely to get any action, however I checked, the old guy led out, the LP raiser shoved (??) and I called after hollywooding a tad. The old man painfully let go of AK face up. (nice laydown amirite?) The LP guy had JJ of course and he bricked giving me a fairly solid stack early on.

I remember a young-ish lady sitting down at my table and I immediately classified her as probably a tight passive fish. Sue me. I was, of course, right, except she turned out to be a calling station. She minraised on my BB at blinds 150/300 and another lady in late called. I called with the 2s3s. The flop was Q45, with the Q and 5 of spades. I led out for 3/4 pot and the raiser called and it was headsup after the lady in late folded. The turn was the 8s and I bet 3/4 pot again and when she minraised me I immediately shoved. She called tabling KQ, lol. So I was chipleader at my table when there were around 40 left (out of 108 starters).

I coasted along to the final table, simply stealing blinds to maintain my stack with no action hands. I remember this one bluff I ran with like 59os when this guy raised my BB. I had just sat down at the table and it folded to the small blind who had me just outchipped. He 3x'ed the bet and I 9x'ed it (just to let him know I wasn't some passive fish who he could steal from) and he called. The flop came QT4. He led out and I called. The turn was a 6 and he checked and I bet around 1/2 the pot. He looked at me for about a minute and folded JJ face up. It took all my willpower not to laugh at him and after deciding whether or not to show I figured this close to the bubble it would definitely pay to have a dirty tiltbox to my right, so I showed him the 9 high bluff and he lost it.

"Are you some kind of fucking moron? How can you possibly call a raise with that shit? I can't believe how bad some of the players in these fucking tournaments are." Blah blah blah etc etc.

Anyway, it gets to the actual bubble: 10 left. This guy gets into a pot with some other guy, raises and calls a reraise preflop, flop is AT4 and check raises all in and looks so sour when the other guy calls with AJ. The tilty guy goes nuts and gives this spiel about how its "the only move I made all game" (he had like J4 btw) and enjoys the sweet success of the bubble.

Anyway it's the final table and there's been one KO so far so I'm guaranteed $367. I pick up AsJs and just shove it in since the table average is around 16BB and I have like 13BB. It folds to this old passive calling station who has been playing just terrible and he makes the call and I show AsJs, expecting it to be crushing (since the guy was calling pretty much ATC to defend his blinds). This pot would put me in the chiplead if I won it, and I was fine to see myself up against the 77 of Mr. Station. Of course the poker god decreed that Styles Shalt Not Win a Race LDO, and I busted. But I still had a fairly good time.

A few nights later I bought in (sober this time) to the $2/$3 tables for the max of $200 and had a blinding session. The table wasn't full so I was in my element playing 6 handed against these guys.

I had one blinder: I had QsTs, two people limped and I raised to $15 on the button. The blinds folded and the two limpers called. The flop was Jc9c4h and the first limper lead out $20, which the other limper and I called. The turn was fantastic, the 8h, making my nut straight. Just as I was figuring what way to get action in the pot, the first limper shoves, and the next guy quickly calls! I check my cards again and of course make the call. The river shows the (seemingly) safe 6h and the first guy shows his Js9h for top two. The other guy in the pot is looking for me to show my hand and not want to fuck around with the slowroll I show my nut straight. He looks at me for ages, makes a pained expression and slowrolls the fucking Jh7h for the runner runner flush. God I was annoyed.
But anyway, I ran a big bluff against Mr. Runner Runner and took back a similar pot. I was sitting on around 600 when this hand happened. I had As7s and raised a couple of limpers to $20 on the button. One folded and one called and the flop was QJ4 offsuit. The guy checked and I bet $25 and he called. The turn gave me a flush draw with a 6, and the guy takes the lead and bets $25. As anyone who plays against me knows, I hate having the lead taken away from me, especially by a donk. I raise fairly quickly to $75 and he calls. The river is the Ah, and the guy leads out $75 and I instacall. He sheepishly says "I have nothing..." and doesn't want to show his cards, but flashes a 7 and says "wow" when I show my hand.

I ended up making $800 at poker at Crown and losing $300 at craps. But realistically, I had a ball and it was great, I can't wait to go back there (definitely going for Aussie Millions 2009.)

The Interwebs:

I haven't had much success online since coming back from Melb, going through a $600 downswing at MTTs ranging from $12-$55. I did however, come first in a $33 game on FTP for $1500 while all the hats and some others like LaLa, Steel88, and luckyshades were railing. I'm currently in the process of donking that off obv. I'll also try to update some more, it's good knowing that theres some out there who like reading this!

DRUNK POST

Heres the hats, as we ball. drunk. and fucking sweet. Me and shannon drrank a bottle of midoriand a bottle of blue smirnoff vodka. in an hour. shannon hart and matty p drank a dickload of alcohol. because tonight is st pats night in bathrust.not poker. even though we ball at poker, we kick ass at drinking and fucking sluts. thats how we ball, this is how we do. respect us.

Another heater, almost an 8k one!

I just had another good run on stars. I do love these. Started off simple:

PokerStars Tournament #80374360, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $11.00/$1.00
180 players
Total Prize Pool: $1980.00
Tournament started - 2008/03/10 - 09:51:59 (ET)

Dear Willskis,

You finished the tournament in 4th place.
A $158.40 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 137.60 tournament leader points in this tournament.
For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at
http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/tournaments/leader-board/


Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

Then I saw my other tourney coming up, the one I've done well in in the past.
One could say I did well in it again. :D

PokerStars Tournament #80124545, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $40.00/$4.00
150 players
Total Prize Pool: $6000.00
Tournament started - 2008/03/10 - 11:15:00 (ET)

Dear Willskis,

You finished the tournament in 1st place.
A $1,650.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 319.02 tournament leader points in this tournament.
For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at
http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/tournaments/leader-board/


Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.


This whole time I was also in an $8.80 rebuy game. I was doing ok until I started doing VERY well with 50 players left out of 2000.

PokerStars Game #15881086918: Tournament #80160276, $8.00+$0.80 Hold'em
No Limit - Level XVI (2000/4000) - 2008/03/10 - 14:07:55 (ET)
Table '80160276 83' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: psl86 (110582 in chips)
Seat 2: deuces3742 (84689 in chips)
Seat 3: Willskis (103011 in chips)
Seat 4: zVxUmW (5588 in chips)
Seat 5: bittarsolar (86819 in chips)
Seat 6: damu88 (169314 in chips)
Seat 8: narbet (181313 in chips)
Seat 9: F0RTUNE500 (118578 in chips)
psl86: posts the ante 400
deuces3742: posts the ante 400
Willskis: posts the ante 400
zVxUmW: posts the ante 400
bittarsolar: posts the ante 400
damu88: posts the ante 400
narbet: posts the ante 400
F0RTUNE500: posts the ante 400
F0RTUNE500: posts small blind 2000
psl86: posts big blind 4000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Willskis [Kd Ks]
deuces3742: folds
Willskis: raises 6000 to 10000
zVxUmW: calls 5188 and is all-in
Mórenito is connected
bittarsolar: folds
damu88: calls 10000
narbet: folds
F0RTUNE500: folds
psl86: folds
*** FLOP *** [7d 7s 3h]
Willskis: bets 16000
damu88: raises 24000 to 40000
Willskis: raises 52611 to 92611 and is all-in
damu88: calls 52611
*** TURN *** [7d 7s 3h] [Kc]
*** RIVER *** [7d 7s 3h Kc] [8d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Willskis: shows [Kd Ks] (a full house, Kings full of Sevens)
damu88: shows [Tc Th] (two pair, Tens and Sevens)
Willskis collected 194846 from side pot
zVxUmW: shows [5c 5h] (two pair, Sevens and Fives)
Willskis collected 24764 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 219610 Main pot 24764. Side pot 194846. | Rake 0
Board [7d 7s 3h Kc 8d]
Seat 1: psl86 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: deuces3742 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: Willskis showed [Kd Ks] and won (219610) with a full house, Kings full of Sevens
Seat 4: zVxUmW showed [5c 5h] and lost with two pair, Sevens and Fives
Seat 5: bittarsolar folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: damu88 showed [Tc Th] and lost with two pair, Tens and Sevens
Seat 8: narbet (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: F0RTUNE500 (small blind) folded before Flop

That put me at chipleader, and THIS pot further cemented that.

PokerStars Game #15881293133: Tournament #80160276, $8.00+$0.80 Hold'em
No Limit - Level XVI (2000/4000) - 2008/03/10 - 14:17:26 (ET)
Table '80160276 83' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: psl86 (72582 in chips)
Seat 2: deuces3742 (101089 in chips)
Seat 3: Willskis (270810 in chips)
Seat 4: shibashi (144090 in chips)
Seat 5: bittarsolar (114322 in chips)
Seat 7: Mórenito (163714 in chips)
Seat 8: narbet (191713 in chips)
Seat 9: F0RTUNE500 (104578 in chips)
psl86: posts the ante 400
deuces3742: posts the ante 400
Willskis: posts the ante 400
shibashi: posts the ante 400
bittarsolar: posts the ante 400
Mórenito: posts the ante 400
narbet: posts the ante 400
F0RTUNE500: posts the ante 400
narbet: posts small blind 2000
F0RTUNE500: posts big blind 4000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Willskis [Js Qs]
F0RTUNE500 said, "wow u dodged a ton of outs"
psl86: folds
deuces3742: folds
Willskis: raises 6000 to 10000
shibashi: folds
bittarsolar: folds
Mórenito: folds
narbet: calls 8000
F0RTUNE500: folds
*** FLOP *** [Kh Ts Ac]
narbet: checks
Willskis: bets 12000
narbet: calls 12000
*** TURN *** [Kh Ts Ac] [7s]
narbet: checks
Willskis: bets 20000
narbet: calls 20000
*** RIVER *** [Kh Ts Ac 7s] [6s]
narbet: bets 12000
Willskis: raises 40000 to 52000
narbet: calls 40000
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Willskis: shows [Js Qs] (a flush, Queen high)
narbet: mucks hand
Willskis collected 195200 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 195200 | Rake 0
Board [Kh Ts Ac 7s 6s]
Seat 1: psl86 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: deuces3742 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: Willskis showed [Js Qs] and won (195200) with a flush, Queen high
Seat 4: shibashi folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: bittarsolar folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: Mórenito (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: narbet (small blind) mucked [3h Ah]
Seat 9: F0RTUNE500 (big blind) folded before Flop

I would have been overwhelming chipleader with over 700k before I got sucked out in this pot:

PokerStars Game #15881741983: Tournament #80160276, $8.00+$0.80 Hold'em
No Limit - Level XVII (2500/5000) - 2008/03/10 - 14:38:39 (ET)
Table '80160276 83' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: psl86 (194209 in chips)
Seat 2: deuces3742 (139889 in chips)
Seat 3: Willskis (433031 in chips)
Seat 4: shibashi (113390 in chips)
Seat 5: bittarsolar (100622 in chips)
Seat 6: 494H (186122 in chips)
Seat 7: Mórenito (54494 in chips)
Seat 9: F0RTUNE500 (57098 in chips)
psl86: posts the ante 500
deuces3742: posts the ante 500
Willskis: posts the ante 500
shibashi: posts the ante 500
bittarsolar: posts the ante 500
494H: posts the ante 500
Mórenito: posts the ante 500
F0RTUNE500: posts the ante 500
Willskis: posts small blind 2500
shibashi: posts big blind 5000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Willskis [9d 8d]
bittarsolar: folds
494H: folds
Mórenito: folds
F0RTUNE500: folds
psl86: raises 8333 to 13333
deuces3742: folds
Willskis: calls 10833
shibashi: folds
*** FLOP *** [3s 8c 4c]
Willskis: bets 20000
psl86: calls 20000
*** TURN *** [3s 8c 4c] [3h]
Willskis: bets 65000
psl86: raises 95376 to 160376 and is all-in
Willskis: calls 95376
*** RIVER *** [3s 8c 4c 3h] [Ac]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Willskis: shows [9d 8d] (two pair, Eights and Threes)
psl86: shows [As 6c] (two pair, Aces and Threes)
psl86 collected 396418 from pot
F0RTUNE500 said, "ouch"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 396418 | Rake 0
Board [3s 8c 4c 3h Ac]
Seat 1: psl86 showed [As 6c] and won (396418) with two pair, Aces and Threes
Seat 2: deuces3742 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: Willskis (small blind) showed [9d 8d] and lost with two pair, Eights and Threes
Seat 4: shibashi (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: bittarsolar folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: 494H folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: Mórenito folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: F0RTUNE500 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

No great call goes unpunished as usual I guess. :p

I kept grinding for a while but I eventually busted out 17th at 5k/10k blinds for $179.
Not bad for $16 investment, but its still no $5600.

What a night.

I woke up at 1am after napping at 8pm after working in Orange at NPL.

I played a 12 180-man SNG from my bed while listening to music, lol. I came like 30th, meh.

Then I decided to actually get out of bed, and I just signed up to like 7 different SNGs, from a 1 table $3.40 turbo to another $12 turbo SNG. I was playing around 8 tables at once. I also signed up to the $44 6-max NL game that I won about a month ago. Here's a few notable results.


PokerStars Tournament #76881845, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $15.00/$1.00
9 players
Total Prize Pool: $135.00
Tournament started - 2008/02/09 - 11:00:45 (ET)

Dear Willskis,

You finished the tournament in 1st place.
A $67.50 award has been credited to your Real Money account.


Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

PokerStars Tournament #76881868, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $6.00/$0.50
18 players
Total Prize Pool: $108.00
Tournament started - 2008/02/09 - 11:00:47 (ET)

Dear Willskis,

You finished the tournament in 1st place.
A $43.20 award has been credited to your Real Money account.


Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

PokerStars Tournament #76881932, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $6.00/$0.50
45 players
Total Prize Pool: $270.00
Tournament started - 2008/02/09 - 11:02:55 (ET)

Dear Willskis,

You finished the tournament in 3rd place.
A $42.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.


Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.


Thats when things started to get good. While I was playing my $44 6-max game, I jumped in to more $12 180-man SNG's.

PokerStars Tournament #76889046, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $11.00/$1.00
180 players
Total Prize Pool: $1980.00
Tournament started - 2008/02/09 - 12:21:58 (ET)

Dear Willskis,

You finished the tournament in 1st place.
A $594.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 275.19 tournament leader points in this tournament.
For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at
http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/tournaments/leader-board/


Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.



But wait, there's MORE!

I kept grinding and grinding and grinding my 6-max tables, and before I knew it, final table!

I took the chiplead early but when we were down to 4handed the stacks were something like 90k, 85k, 80k and 5k. So I proposed (rather untactfully for the shortstack) a 3-way chop.

We knocked him out and the idea took hold, so we chopped for $1232 each, more than 2nd place money.

Hello Willskis,

Congratulations on your finish in tournament #76741348!
You agreed to a deal at the final table to adjust the payouts as follows:

Official New
Player Payout Payout
========= ======== ======
juventus777 #1 $ 1815.00 $ 1232.00
Willskis #2 $ 1138.50 $ 1232.00
hurley711 #3 $ 742.50 $ 1232.00

When the tournament ended, you were automatically credited with
the official 2nd place payout of $1138.50.

The difference between this amount and the amount to which you agreed
in the deal is $93.50, and this amount has been credited to your account.
You will find this transaction in the cashier history at this time.

Good luck in your next event, and thank you for your participation.

Best Regards,

PokerStars Support Team



And here I was thinking I was on an online downswing.

Impressed yet?

PokerStars Tournament #73423001, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $40.00/$4.00
145 players
Total Prize Pool: $5800.00
Tournament started - 2008/01/17 - 11:15:00 (ET)

Dear Willskis,

You finished the tournament in 1st place.
A $1,595.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 313.66 tournament leader points in this tournament.
For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at
http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/tournaments/leader-board/


Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.