I Remember This...

-- Status Update --
2009 VPPs:	888,648
SNE Pace:	99,528 AHEAD
Currently Playing:	Persona (PSP)

Been a while since I could say I've run good, but today I most definitely can make that assertion. Yay. Here's a graph of Saturday the 10th through Thursday the 15th:


I've finished Black Sigil for the DS. It was painfully buggy in places, had a very lackluster ending, but did deliver an "old school" SNES RPG feel. Playing through it didn't feel like an entire waste of time, which is good, but it does leave me wondering how great a SNES style RPG developed well for the DS or PSP could be. I'll be moving on to the Persona remake for the PSP which I have moderately high hopes for.

I'd post a few hands but even the most notable ones are basically just megadonks being megadonks. Ah what the hell, here's a couple 300bb pots at 100nl. All four villains who stack off in these hands can be considered extremely fishy. I believe the lowest VPIP of any of them was >50. In the 88 AIPF hand, the one guy was 95/60 and the other guy was basically never folding anything remotely playable vs him (and himself had a very high VPIP). Note that while both hands only had 6 people seated, I am not playing 6-max and they were of course my regular FR tables. The fact that three seats are open at each of these tables containing two megadonks per is a testament to how badly 100nl regs in general fail at game selection.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $1.00 BB (6 handed)
BB ($99.85)
UTG ($17)
Hero (MP) ($100)
CO ($100)
Button ($104.40)
SB ($183.30)

Preflop: Hero is MP with 8, 8
1 fold, Hero bets $4, CO calls $4, 1 fold, SB calls $3.50, BB raises to $20, Hero raises to $36.50, 1 fold, SB calls $32.50, BB raises to $99.85 (All-In), Hero raises to $100 (All-In), SB calls $63.50

Flop: ($303.85) 10, J, 4 (3 players, 2 all-in)

Turn: ($303.85) 10 (3 players, 2 all-in)

River: ($303.85) 8 (3 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: $303.85 | Rake: $3

Results:
SB had 3, 3 (two pair, tens and threes).
BB had A, K (one pair, tens).
Hero had 8, 8 (full house, eights over tens).
Outcome: Hero won $300.85

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $1.00 BB (6 handed)
Hero (BB) ($100)
UTG ($150.05)
MP ($206.80)
CO ($109.25)
Button ($99.60)
SB ($327.15)

Preflop: Hero is BB with Q, K
1 fold, MP bets $3, 1 fold, Button calls $3, SB calls $2.50, Hero calls $2

Flop: ($12) A, 10, 9 (4 players)
SB bets $2, Hero calls $2, MP raises to $10, Button calls $10, SB calls $8, Hero calls $8

Turn: ($52) J (4 players)
SB bets $50, Hero raises to $87 (All-In), 1 fold, Button calls $86.60 (All-In), SB calls $37

River: ($312.60) 3 (3 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: $312.60 | Rake: $3

Results:
Button had A, 6 (one pair, Aces).
SB had J, 9 (two pair, Jacks and nines).
Hero had Q, K (straight, Ace high).
Outcome: Hero won $309.60

Brag: Biggest Pot Ever; Beat: Flames Lose

-- Status Update --
2009 VPPs:	876,650
SNE Pace:	103,970 AHEAD
Currently Playing:	Black Sigil: Blade of the Exalted (DS)

Variance: -$150 in AIEV. I guess it's better so far than last month, this month I've only been below AIEV in 7 of 8 sessions, slightly better percentage wise than 26 out of 28!

Friday graph:


Here's my biggest pot ever won. Villain is a huge fish who takes a dumb line with KK preflop and gets coolered anyway.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $4.00 BB (7 handed)
BB ($400)
UTG ($313.65)
MP1 ($947.10)
MP2 ($400)
CO ($431.50)
Button ($400)
Hero (SB) ($598.60)

Preflop: Hero is SB with A, A
1 fold, MP1 calls $4, 3 folds, Hero bets $20, 1 fold, MP1 calls $16

Flop: ($44) 4, K, 9 (2 players)
Hero bets $34, MP1 calls $34

Turn: ($112) A (2 players)
Hero checks, MP1 bets $48, Hero calls $48

River: ($208) 9 (2 players)
Hero bets $116, MP1 raises to $232, Hero raises to $496.60 (All-In), MP1 calls $264.60

Total pot: $1201.20 | Rake: $3

Results:
Hero had A, A (full house, Aces over nines).
MP1 had K, K (full house, Kings over nines).
Outcome: Hero won $1198.20

Had lots of fun pots lost where I had 85%+ equity on the flop. Some of my favorites were TT on AT5r versus donkey's A6 which is obviously the nuts if you can turn a 5 and river and A. Also K9 vs QQ in BvB on 993r versus a reg whom must have been very confident he could spike a Q after 4b/calling the flop, even though he only beats a stone bluff.

Bouwmeester Shall Deliver Us

-- Status Update --
2009 VPPs:	872,609
SNE Pace:	102,669 AHEAD
Currently Playing:	Black Sigil: Blade of the Exalted (DS)

Epic ending to the second round of the Battle of Alberta tonight. A Bouwmeester point shot with 1.5s left (and Kipper on the bench, obviously) gets deflected by Rene Bourque to tie and send the game to OT. Flames later win the shootout to maintain an undefeated record through four games so far this season. Awesome.

Poker today was pretty good, ended +$771 off the tables, with the bulk of the profit coming at 400nl and 200nl, despite the majority of the hands being played at 100nl.
I'll post one semi interesting hand below.

Villain in this hand is a bad FPP pro reg who is capable of getting out of line occasionally. I called the river c/r because I really didn't think he'd check the river with 44 or 66. The more I think about this hand the more I don't really like the call that much, but luckily I ended up being good. I hate his c/r bluff because given his image and mine I can have AQ/AA a lot. My check behind on the turn is pretty standard as he's nitty postflop and I have a very nitty image.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $2.00 BB (8 handed)
CO ($232.75)
Button ($206.25)
SB ($246)
BB ($211.25)
UTG ($203)
UTG+1 ($200)
Hero (MP1) ($252.45)
MP2 ($203)

Preflop: Hero is MP1 with Q, K
2 folds, Hero bets $8, MP2 calls $8, 3 folds, BB calls $6

Flop: ($25) 6, 4, Q (3 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $13, 1 fold, BB calls $13

Turn: ($51) Q (2 players)
BB checks, Hero checks

River: ($51) A (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $28, BB raises to $84, Hero calls $56

Total pot: $219 | Rake: $3

Results:
BB had J, J (two pair, Queens and Jacks).
Hero had Q, K (three of a kind, Queens).
Outcome: Hero won $216