Saturday, October 11, 2008

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Going away for a couple days, so I thought I’d leave y’all with this:

PokerStars Game #21100524796: Hold'em No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2008/10/11 4:26:39 ET
Table 'Circinus II' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: Macros909 ($7.10 in chips)
Seat 2: cimeria ($24.75 in chips)
Seat 3: YugoJesus ($36.40 in chips)
Seat 4: pikachu808 ($24.70 in chips)
Seat 5: angus1966 ($15.25 in chips)
Seat 6: bastinptc ($28.50 in chips)
Seat 7: ciDoR ($5 in chips)
Seat 8: lucascorso13 ($23.65 in chips)
Seat 9: Ashaman16 ($18.20 in chips)
Macros909: posts small blind $0.10
cimeria: posts big blind $0.25
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to bastinptc [Ac As]
YugoJesus: folds
pikachu808: folds
angus1966: folds
bastinptc: raises $1.25 to $1.50
ciDoR: folds
lucascorso13: folds
Ashaman16: folds
Macros909: folds
cimeria: raises $9 to $10.50
bastinptc: raises $9 to $19.50
cimeria: raises $5.25 to $24.75 and is all-in
bastinptc: calls $5.25
*** FLOP *** [Ts 3c 9d]
*** TURN *** [Ts 3c 9d] [3s]
*** RIVER *** [Ts 3c 9d 3s] [Jc]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
cimeria: shows [Ad Ah] (two pair, Aces and Threes)
bastinptc: shows [Ac As] (two pair, Aces and Threes)
cimeria collected $23.60 from pot
bastinptc collected $23.55 from pot

And I know y’all have heard this one before:

PokerStars Game #21100625614: Hold'em No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2008/10/11 4:36:45 ET
Table 'Circinus II' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: Macros909 ($6.75 in chips)
Seat 2: cimeria ($24.25 in chips)
Seat 3: YugoJesus ($28.70 in chips)
Seat 4: pikachu808 ($24.20 in chips)
Seat 5: angus1966 ($17.10 in chips)
Seat 6: bastinptc ($26.75 in chips)
Seat 7: ciDoR ($4.65 in chips)
Seat 8: lucascorso13 ($23.65 in chips)
Seat 9: Ashaman16 ($24.70 in chips)
Ashaman16: posts small blind $0.10
Macros909: posts big blind $0.25
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to bastinptc [Kh Kd]
cimeria: folds
YugoJesus: folds
pikachu808: folds
YugoJesus said, "good night"
angus1966: folds
bastinptc: raises $1 to $1.25
ciDoR: folds
lucascorso13: folds
Ashaman16: calls $1.15
Macros909: folds
*** FLOP *** [3c 9c 5c]
Ashaman16: bets $2
bastinptc: raises $2 to $4
Ashaman16: calls $2
*** TURN *** [3c 9c 5c] [3d]
Ashaman16: checks
bastinptc: bets $5.25
Ashaman16: raises $14.20 to $19.45 and is all-in
bastinptc said, "nh"
bastinptc: folds
Uncalled bet ($14.20) returned to Ashaman16
Ashaman16 collected $20.25 from pot

And then there was a mighty roar:

PokerStars Game #21100717236: Hold'em No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2008/10/11 4:45:38 ET
Table 'Circinus II' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: Macros909 ($10.95 in chips)
Seat 2: cimeria ($25 in chips)
Seat 3: christhanh ($14.60 in chips)
Seat 4: pikachu808 ($25 in chips)
Seat 5: hombs ($7.75 in chips)
Seat 6: bastinptc ($24.25 in chips)
Seat 7: ciDoR ($4.30 in chips)
Seat 8: lucascorso13 ($42.80 in chips)
Seat 9: Ashaman16 ($28 in chips)
lucascorso13: posts small blind $0.10
Ashaman16: posts big blind $0.25
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to bastinptc [3c 3s]
Macros909: calls $0.25
cimeria: folds
christhanh: calls $0.25
pikachu808: raises $0.50 to $0.75
hombs: folds
bastinptc: calls $0.75
ciDoR: folds
lucascorso13: folds
Ashaman16: folds
Macros909: calls $0.50
christhanh: calls $0.50
*** FLOP *** [8d Jd 3h]
Macros909: bets $1
christhanh: calls $1
pikachu808: calls $1
bastinptc: raises $4.25 to $5.25
Macros909: calls $4.25
christhanh is disconnected
christhanh is connected
Ashaman16 leaves the table
christhanh: folds
pikachu808: folds
*** TURN *** [8d Jd 3h] [4s]
mirk191 joins the table at seat #9
Macros909: bets $4.95 and is all-in
bastinptc: calls $4.95
*** RIVER *** [8d Jd 3h 4s] [2c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Macros909: shows [4d Ad] (a pair of Fours)
bastinptc: shows [3c 3s] (three of a kind, Threes)
bastinptc collected $24.50 from pot

Almost a tale of woe. Almost. The line is so fucking thin.

2 comments:

Memphis MOJO said...

Bon voyage!

PAPro_SandMan said...

It's a thin line indeed.

Often the difference between very good and very bad runs of luck for me comes down to which side the coin is consistently landing on. A good player can only hope to weight the coin enough to gain an advantage...

Oh, and outright deception and manipulation don't hurt.