Archive for September, 2008

8-game chip swings

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Overall I had a successful WCOOP. I cashed in 3 and made a nice overall profit. One of the new events this year was an 8-game event. I decided to chart my progress in this event for all to see. Here are the chip swings by game:-

2-7 Trip Draw - 4000 up to 4250
Limit Holdem - 4250 down to 4030
FL Omaha Hi-Lo - 4030 up to 4052
Razz - 4052 down to 3712
Stud - 3712 down to 3317
Stud Hi-Lo - 3317 down to 3312
NL Holdem - 3312 up to 3367
PL Omaha - 3367 down to 2137

2-7 Trip Draw - 2137 up to 2647
Limit Holdem - 2647 down to 2227
FL Omaha Hi-Lo - 2227 up to 3127
Razz - 3127 up yo 3332
Stud - 3332 up to 3442
Stud Hi-Lo - 3442 down to 3392
NL Holdem - 3392 up to 3681
PL Omaha - 3681 up to 4821

2-7 Trip Draw - 4821 up to 4981
Limit Holdem - 4981 down to 2821
FL Omaha Hi-Lo 0 2821 down to 653
Razz - 653 down to 0

From this, extremely limited sample, my most consistantly productive game was 2-7 trip draw (3 increase out of 3). My least productive was Limit Holdem (3 decreases out of 3). NL Holdem also saw 2 increase out of 2.

In terms of swings PLO is probably the big one, no doubt reflective of my kamikaze approach. In the first rotation I lost over a third of my stack. And in the 2nd rotation I gained almost a third on my stack.

The biggest killer of all was the final LHE rotation sliding from 4981 to 2821.

Whilst the tournament was enjoyable, despite a rubbish result, the structure left a lot to be desired. The limit games were running at stakes 4 times the blinds, rather then double the blinds. It left a wierd feeling of comfortable stack, following by a feeling of extreme shortness.

All said and done, a bit of fun, but structure improvements needed, and better play needed from yours truely ;)

Cash Game Challenge Update - over 5500 hands

Monday, September 29th, 2008

After a downswing of about $20 I have been on a heater almost ever since. I crammed in some monster sessions. Poker is always so much easier to do long sessions in when you are doing well. I am getting a little frustrated with Sun Poker as a site, but now I have started this challenge I feel obliged to stick it out. It seems ludicrous after a reasonably successful WCOOP to keep it going. But stubborness to complete the challenge drives me on. Must Complete, Must complete (in my best robotic voice).

Current Balance = $317.15. Total Challenge Profit = $117.15. Total hands played = 5539

ckingusc wins the WCOOP

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

A very dramatic final table took place in the WCOOP Main Event on PokerStars, with many swings and bad beats taking place. The players agreed a chop with 5 players remaining. Here are the details of the agreement:

StaffBryanS [Host]: ckingusc: $1,065,432
StaffBryanS [Host]: liberace: $1,375,249
StaffBryanS [Host]: AJKHoosier1: $782,542
StaffBryanS [Host]: ShoesRDurrty: $801,153
StaffBryanS [Host]: Markush13: $961,718

They carried on playing with ckingusc picking up the win and the extra $200,000 left on the table

1st: ckingusc - $1,265,432
2nd: liberace - $1,375,249
3rd: AJKHoosier1 - $782,542
4th: Markush13 - $961,718
5th: ShoesRDurrty - $801,153

WCOOP Main Event - Review of Final Table Players

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

WCOOP 2008 Main Event

This is the current online MTT stats of the final table players

ckingusc $55,623 profit
liberace $79,181 profit
AJKHoosier1 $379,240 profit
Markush13 - Negative ROI from 333 MTTs, Qualified via a $215 satellite
ShoesRDurrty - Negative ROI from 11 MTTs, ABI $20!
Sumpas - Negative ROI from 335 MTTs, Qualified via a $215 satellite
klslcz - Negative ROI from 558 MTTs
BOLLPOKER - Negative ROI from 125 MTTs
kovi99 - Negative ROI from 801 MTTs

$10,300 WCOOP HORSE Event

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

125 players entered the $10,300 HORSE Event in the WCOOP. A tough contest saw DocHolatchya beat PokerStars Pro aakkari to the bracelet

1 DocHolatchya United States $287,500.00
2 aakkari Brazil $200,000.00
3 crazyjanie United States $150,000.00
4 pycb United States $112,500.00
5 pumped4good United States $75,000.00
6 djk123 United States $59,375.00
7 7CardRyon United States $46,875.00
8 gipsy74 Russian Federation $38,750.00
9 MadCaddy United States $25,000.00
10 Empire2000 United States $25,000.00
11 goodolehank United States $25,000.00
12 MrSmokey1 United States $25,000.00
13 Humberto B. Costa Rica $18,750.00
14 ozenc Netherlands $18,750.00
15 floes United States $18,750.00
16 jerrod United States $18,750.00
17 Exclusive Netherlands $13,125.00
18 double joker United States $13,125.00
19 THAY3R United States $13,125.00
20 LeeNelsonP* New Zealand $13,125.00
21 gibralter11 United States $13,125.00
22 bigjoe2003 United States $13,125.00
23 str8flushin5 United States $13,125.00
24 astarisborn United States $13,125.00

stevesbets takes down $25,500 Buy-in Event

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

WCOOP $25,500 Heads-up Event

1 stevesbets United States $560,000.00
2 ElkY United Kingdom $320,000.00
3 zivziv Israel $160,000.00
4 GavinGriffin United States $160,000.00
5 LadyMaverick United States $100,000.00
6 VictorRamdin United States $100,000.00
7 PAW717 United States $100,000.00
8 brianm15 United States $100,000.00

$10K WCOOP Event

Friday, September 5th, 2008

WCOOP Event 5 - NL Holdem

A great event to look forward to is Event 5 of the WCOOP on PokerStars on 7th Sept. This is the high roller $10,300 buy-in NLHE.  Standard table size of 9 players at a table.

Currently there are 36 entrants, 13 of which are from Team PokerStars itself.  Those entrants are as follows:

aakkari (Team PokerStars)
Allingomes
Bebop86
Born2Dogbaby
ChadBrownPRO
Dariominieri (Team PokerStars)
DOTTT
Exclusive (Team PokerStars)
GavinGriffin (Team PokerStars)
Goral
holla @ yoboy
HouseeLover
jcamby33
John Duthie (Team PokerStars)
Katja Thater (Team PokerStars)
klslcz
Kravchenko (Team Pokerstars)
LadyMaverick (Team PokerStars)
LucaPagano (Team PokerStars)
MiniTilt
Money800 (Team PokerStars)
Moorman1
nofingclue11
snake8484
stevesbets
stevejpa (Team PokerStars)
stpauli111
taktloss47
Telefonkiosk
THE__D__RY
tjbentham
Tom McEvoy (Team PokerStars)
Tulkaz
VictorRamdin (Team PokerStars)
William

Each player gets 25,000 starting chips and the blind speed is 30 mins per level, starting at 25/50

Cash Game Update - over 3000 hands

Friday, September 5th, 2008

Things have been going very well on this challenge.  I have crammed in as many sessions as possible before the WCOOP starts on PokerStars, which will be keeping me busy for a few weeks. 

Barring a couple of losing sessions things have generally been going pretty smoothly.  There seems to be plenty of donks on Sunpoker ready to stack off with TPTK or overpairs.   As with all cash games, table selection and patience have been big factors.   If you realise you are on a table of rock hard grinders after half an hour then move on rather than trying to beat the game out of stumborness. 

Current Balance = $258.60. Total Challenge Profit = $58.60. Total hands played = 3109