Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Free Money






-- Status Update --
2009 VPPs:  134,998
Pace:  19918 AHEAD
Currently Playing:  Persona 4 (PS2)


PokerStars is rapidly approaching its 25th billion hand, so to celebrate (among other things) they tossed out a deposit bonus. Yay for a free $150!

I played a short early afternoon session today. The games weren't quite as bad as I was expecting, and many regs were spewing uncontrollably. Here's a fun hand:
Poker Stars, $0.50/$1 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 8 Players
Hand History Converter by Stoxpoker

SB: $100 (100 bb)
Hero (BB): $100 (100 bb)
UTG+1: $72.80 (72.8 bb)
MP1: $78.65 (78.7 bb)
MP2: $81 (81 bb)
MP3: $99.90 (99.9 bb)
CO: $100 (100 bb)
BTN: $99.50 (99.5 bb)

Pre-Flop: Hero is BB with Ah Kh
5 folds, BTN raises to $3, SB raises to $11, Hero raises to $29.50, BTN folds, SB raises to $100 and is all-in, Hero calls $70.50 and is all-in

Flop: ($203) 8d Tc 7d (2 players, 2 are all-in)
Turn: ($203) 8h (2 players, 2 are all-in)
River: ($203) 2c (2 players, 2 are all-in)

Results: $203 pot ($3 rake)
SB showed Jc As (a pair of Eights) and lost (-$100 net)
Hero showed Ah Kh (a pair of Eights) and won $200 ($100 net)

Since I don't think anyone in the history of 100NL has cold 4-bet folded, wtf is he thinking here?

1 comment:

microstakes bankroll builder said...

hi
its a fantastic achivement doing what you have done in just one year. it really is very rare. i wonder how much experience you had before you went online and for what stakes etc.
i was just wondering whether you think the supernova programme is better than fulltilt rakeback. I 8 table 50nl there and am about to go up to 100nl. but i want to do that at stars as the software enables me to 16table much easier than fulltilts.
also do you think i could reach supernova quite quickly 16tabling 3 hours per day @100nl? and do you get actual $ put into your account? or is it just points which you spend on goods?
many thanks if you can reply