The Rush is over…busto
Thursday January 28th 2010, 6:03 pm
Filed under: Casual Play,Full Tilt Poker,No-Limit Hold'em,Opinionated,Rush

Well, well, good job FTP…or should I say good job Ingoal? No matter what, after four days of playing rush on FTP (after reloading), I’m officially busto again. Rush – the quickest way to evaporate your bankroll! (TM)

Teeeheee mofos! I could go on about the cooler here and the cooler there, but what use is it? It’s tough to stay sane if you run into bs after bs…add to that, that it’s sometimes so hard not to overcommit when everyone is on crack and what are the chances someone has a higher pair than your JJ and QQ when it folds around to you – hint: not all that high…in rush it feels like 97,5%…

…and quicker than you can say “get the fuck out of here”, you’ve got one hell of a bad run that is unprecedented. All in all it took me 4.129 hands to go busto, should have been busto before that, but after getting aces cracked left and right I was able to crack ’em myself, just in time to give me a few extra hands…hehe…anyway…hawesome how I kept away from FTP exactly for that bs as I couldn’t catch a break, no I run back to the poker crack dealer and they got exactly what I need…getting kicked in the junk four times as much per hour….nice.

Some fun stats:
– Lost 0.05$ per hand
– #1 hand dealt 96o (54 times)
– Most money won (total): QQ 23.27 (dealt 25 times, won 22 times)
– Most money lost (total) AQ -39,63 (dealt 39 times, won 24 times)
– Only winning position: UTG (lol)

I’m feeling kind of numb right now…so I’ll let you enjoy the final rush pic dump and I’m outta here…not to return to FTP for at least the next 1.5 years…or maybe I should make it 3 as the first 1.5 years obviously didn’t do any good…

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Soul crushers
Wednesday January 27th 2010, 1:13 am
Filed under: Casual Play,Full Tilt Poker,No-Limit Hold'em,Opinionated,Rush

Those were the players I was up against today, soul crushers. I started off with a quick session winning around 1.5 buyins. Then later today I came back for a longer session and they really crushed my soul.

The old overpair vs overpair I can take, but what’s a lot harder to take is being river over and over and over and over. How can ppl honestly call preflop, on the flop and on the turn with air and hit their fucking river like 80% of the time? Two outer? No problem. 4 outer – no problem. 3 outer – no problem. 6 outer – why do you even ask if a 2 outer is no problem, go ahead monkeyshove, the dealer will peel it off for you.

What adds fuel to the internal steam-producing fire is the fact that you can’t get any fucking action on your big hands, at least on most of them. How come I get aces 4 times, and get no action whatsoever on two of them? How come on the other hand everytime I get kings I get monsteraction and usually end up getting junkkicked so hard, I could scream from the pain? Wtf is going on here? Full Donk Poker? Hidden camera show? Wtf!

In the end it got so frustrating that I did something I rarely if ever do…I donkshoved my last stacks in when I just knew that my opponent had sucked out…again. Disappointing. Anyway, enough of the rant, I’m outta here. Utterly frutstrated, mad and tilted, which seems to be the norm these days. Happy fucking day to y’all…

Mood: Steam-tilt

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pt 26.01.2010



Rush, rush, rushing
Tuesday January 26th 2010, 1:29 am
Filed under: Casual Play,Full Tilt Poker,No-Limit Hold'em,Rush

Only a short session today playing two rush tables at once. Took some beats (one of the nastiest was KK vs AA on a AKQ board…yikes…), put some beats on other ppl…all in all I’m really satisfied with my play today. Could be a normal up-swing, could be the adjustments I made, too early to tell after ~500 hands, we’ll see how it goes over the next few days/weeks…until then…enjoy the pic dump…I’m outta here…

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pt graph for 25.01.2010



Hello, I’m Ingoal, a cash game donk
Sunday January 24th 2010, 4:58 pm
Filed under: Casual Play,Full Tilt Poker,No-Limit Hold'em,Rush

Hehehe…just goes to show you how good natured I really am, I can still laugh after dropping 10Buyins. After 1,5 years of abstinence at Full Tilt, I decided to jump back in, because of the newest hype “Rush”. The concept has been widely discussed, so I’m assuming you know what I’m talking about.

I played around 5 hours of Rush so far and I’m really frustrated. I can’t get action on my big hands, if I do I got the second nuts running into the nuts, and I think I gave to much action on different occasions, when in reality it was totally unnecessary. Side effect of the constant action? Gambling mood? I think both are true to some extent and the fact that I’m usually a (turbo) SnG player doesn’t translate that well to cash…

Early lessons after analyzing the first 1.5k hands played:
1. It’s not worth defending the BB unless you’ve got a monster.
2. It’s not worth defending the SB either.
3. LP/Button – constantly raise, most ppl can’t be bothered to defend (see 1. and 2.) and if they do, they usually have a monster
4. Don’t be afraid to take a break every now and then – I usually only take a break after 2hours or something, but you gotta consider that I played around 300h per hour playing rush. That’s way above the usual hands/hour I play in any other game.
5. JackAce is the shiznuts. Got it 16 times, won 14 out of 16..lol…biggest winner ranked by Amount Won.
6. AQ and TT are the cash game devil…cost me a good 40 bucks running into AK, a small set or some random bs (Kx, etc)…
7. Don’t be afraid to pot, pot, pot it if you’ve got a monster…ppl are willing to fold for small bets just as they’re willing to call big if they’ve got a piece of it…and if they don’t they’ll fold anyway as the next hand is just 1s away….

I’m outta here…time to regroup and relax a little…no more poker today…

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Foul mood continues
Sunday January 24th 2010, 1:15 am
Filed under: No-Limit Hold'em,Opinionated,PokerStars,S&G,Shorthanded

Well, well, well…good job PS, good job. Reel me in with a reload bonus, then continue to torture me…really nice. All in all the only thing I’m satisfied with tonight is my play, with one exception (TPNK no gold against a set, crippled myself), and the fact that I quit after only 4 matches including 3 junk kicks. All in all I got one second (which should have been a first), 3 outered on the bubble and junk kicked with AA vs KK on a J high flop, while self-destructing in one (see above). Oh well…FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!

Now that I got that out of my system, I want to take the chance to talk about a novelty I just thought of. This year, there’s been only one new element to my blogs so far – the pt graph of the results. I want to introduce another one, which will hopefully be a little more polished in the days/weeks to come.

All the regulars, grinders, the fonkeys (fucking donkeys) and even the fonkdishes (donk fishes) know the feeling after playing. You take down a tourney or score nicely and you’re elated or you’ve just been kicked in the junk feeling like an NFL-kicker did the kicking…and everything that lies between that…and while you can sometimes read about that or deduct it from the way a post is written, you rarely see a clear “indicator” of the mood or state of mind the person was in. That’s why I thought about making that transparent (and maybe even a little funny). I won’t call it Tiltmeter, as that would imply that I expect to end up in some kind of tilt after any given session – which, tbh has been the case more often than not lately, but I don’t want it to be.

So I’ll think of a better name and if I can find the time I’ll even make a few icons and/or a scale (with a legend explaining the different “moods”) for it…until then I’ll just write it down and put it before the “legendary” pic dump aka “random junk kick mixed with some winning hands” brought to you by ps…

Mood: Pre-tilt
Pre-tilt: Feeling sick after getting one too many junk-kicks, but still positive about
a) realizing that tilt is only one beat away
b) getting the hell out of dodge after realizing a)

Alrighty…I’m outta here, enjoy the pic dump…

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pt graph for 23.01.2010



Junk-kick, episode 30291021
Saturday January 23rd 2010, 1:14 am
Filed under: Heads Up,No-Limit Hold'em,Opinionated,PokerStars,S&G,Shorthanded

Well, a little bit frustrated about the result tonight…play a grand total of 23 SnGs including 6max, HU and 4player HU (winner takes all). I got kicked in the junk more than I was kicking back…really fugly when people call your all-in on a double-paired board with a ten high flush draw with one card to come…of course they hit…happens…oh well…I’m outta here…some relaxing and a good night’s sleep and I’ll be back…

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pt graph for 22.01.2010



Even lazier
Thursday January 21st 2010, 9:27 pm
Filed under: Heads Up,No-Limit Hold'em,PokerStars,S&G

Yet another even shorter session in the books. Went 3 for 5 in headsup matches. Bla…I guess I’ll grind out some more once the weekend rolls around…time to start earning some more Points towards the Stellar Rewards thingy and my 2010 deposit bonus…

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Lazy
Wednesday January 20th 2010, 9:01 pm
Filed under: Heads Up,No-Limit Hold'em,PokerStars,S&G

Blah! Played a quick session of 7 HU matches, went 4 for 7…should have been 6…but hey…what can I do…I’m outta here…

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6max yuck, HU w00t
Monday January 18th 2010, 8:58 pm
Filed under: Heads Up,No-Limit Hold'em,PokerStars,S&G,Shorthanded

Well, the title says it all…got myself donk-kicked more than usual playing 6max SnGs carving out a nice ROI of exactly -100%. *lol*…not really suprising looking at the gems below, at least I was smart enough to switch games to HU after getting donk-kicked hard within the first few hands. So the results for today are: 6max 0/4…HU 4/5 for a minimal positive finish. Decision making: only had one real mistake, the rest I can live with, nothing more I can do than put the money in with my opponent drawing to 2 or 3 outs…I’m outta here…couch, here I come…

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Slighty up, playing good…mostly
Saturday January 16th 2010, 3:25 am
Filed under: Double Shootout,Heads Up,No-Limit Hold'em,PokerStars,Shorthanded,Tournaments

Got around to play a little today, 8 SnGs and one double shootout, a grand total of 297 hands (lol). Was headsup on the first table in the shootout, but just couldn’t overcome the good run of my opponent. He busted all other players before we were headsup and despite being at a major chip deficit I stuck to my plan and got to almost even. Then I couldn’t improve on an TP vs TP situation in which I was outkicked.

The 6 handed SnGs were about breakeven (1W in four tries, net -2.6$), what saved me were the 11$ heads up matches only played 4 won 3 of them including a 4-player-match…so that put me up to 27.95$ up for the session…that doesn’t matter much to me though, what matters is that I played good and made solid decisions, feels good when you call a big river bet with 68o for third pair and you’re right…

Alrighty…I’m dead-ass tired…so I’ll leave you with the usual pic dump and new pt graph…good luck and may the felt be with you…

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