Played to TEC Freerolls today (9:15am ET & 01:15pm ET). Didn’t really stand a chance and finished in 671th of 2308 (when my A-Q didn’t improve on the board while running into A-A) and 2168th of 2500 (when my A-J didn’t improve on the board while running into, yet another, A-A) 🙁

Played some low stakes Hold’em, but couldn’t get anywhere either during the course of play (25minutes, +/- 0.00$). I guess I’ll head over to Pstars for a S&G later tonight…

I signed up for an account over at UltimateBet tonight and decided to give it a whirl right away…I entered a 1000$ guaranteed tournament with a 1$ buy-in (no fee, nice!). Turbo style, blinds increase every 2 minutes, 1152players entered, 110 places payed.

I finished in 173 place as I was desperately short stacked – I guess I should play some normal speed tournaments…

This was a short day over at Pokerstars, I just played one S&G which was the fastest ever…unluckily 🙁 . Finished 44th of 45 as my All-In bet (A-Q) didn’t catch on the board…6 minutes played…and I’m out…not a good way to start of a poker session so I decide to quit Pstars for the night.

One days work at Titan Poker:

Ring game play:
-0,05$, played in different games with blinds of 0.02$/0.04$ and 0.05$/0.10$, didn’t catch much of hand…so decided to call it a day after roughly 2hours of play.

Tournament play:
Thought it would be a good way to finish my day at Titan, played a little S&G (1$ + 0.10$) and won it, +4,20$, nice 🙂

Before I call it a night (it’s already shortly before 4am over here) I wanted to try my luck on a normal poker table (no tournament), but I just couldn’t win hands…mostly top pair or second pair…but they weren’t enough…I guess it’s really time to call it a day/night…

Stats:

• Buy-In: 1$
• Limit Hold’em, 0.02$/0.04$
• Time played: roughly 30 minutes
• Result: -1$

Buy-In: $1 + 0.10 fee…6 players…top two payed…and I finish 3rd… 🙁

Tonight I decided to play a little S&G (1$ + 0.20 fee) over at PokerStars and whoooo was the deck hot early on. 45 players entered for a total price pool of 45$ (7 places payed: 14$/10$/7$/5$/4$/3$/2$), 1500$ chip count to start with.

Early on:

• I was looking down at Cowboys after 4 minutes of play, I limp in for 100, 2-3-6 flop, another 100 on the turn (8), check on the river (Q) and I look at pocket nines, so I’m up to 4th place with 2000$ in chips. Nice.
• After 7 minutes of play I look once again at my Cowboys (K-K) and my All-In is called in late position. K-K vs. Q-8 (?!), only low cards on the board…I’m up to 3040$ in chips, still in 4th place.
• After 15 minutes of play: still 4th with 3040$
• After 17 minutes I look down at A-A w00t! and someone calls my All-In bet, I’m up to 4075$ in chips, which is 2nd place at this point.
• After 19 minutes: A-J…All-In…A-Q calls (ouch), but the board has got no queen but a Jack for me…+1925 for 5060$ chips
• After 30 minutes: down to 4535$, but still in 2nd place (33 remaining)

Mid of the tournament:

• 32 minutes: I call an mid position All-In with A-J, but his Cowboys are smiling as the board is (4-10-7-8-J)…down to 2885$ (7th position)
• 35 minutes: I call another mid position All-In with Big Slick (A-K), he shows A-Q…and the board comes Q-10-3-8-6, argh!, down to 1295$…
• 36 minutes: As-10s, All-In, 2 callers, Js-Qs, Kc-7c, board: Js-Ks-Qh (nuts) 9c-4h, I’m up to 3175$ (9th/25)
• Now the deck is cold and all I get is weak stuff like J-2, 6-3, etc…I tighten up a little bit and sit out the next minutes, on the break (after 60min) I’m down to 2125$ due to the blinds…

After the break:

• I’m becoming more and more short-stacked and my bluffs don’t work, so I need to get out of some pots…down to 1125$ after 75 minutes. Right then I catch a A-Q and don’t hesitate to move All-In, two call…and this was the laugher of the night…both callers show A-Q (!)…three-way split pot…up to 1468$ (still short stacked in 12th/14 position)
• After 78 minutes I’m out…my A-K doesn’t hold up against Q-7 as the board shows: Q-8-9-5-9 🙁

Stats:

• Players busted: 3
• Finished in 13th position
• No final table, no money

After I started playing Poker (especially Hold’em) more regularly in recent days and weeks, I decided to chop all the poker content from my regular blog (Ingoal’s Insight…) and start a true Poker Blog…and here we are – Poker-Tastic.com is live!

There are still some tweaks and customizations going on in the backend, so don’t wonder if the site might look a little funny at times 😉