Chris Hartman

Another meme

2008-01-02T04:07:01Z

Yeah, so I only post every three or four months...

sabyl was my vector for this one, but it seems kind of fun:

1. Leave me a casual comment of no particular significance, like a lyric to your current favorite song, your favorite kind of sandwich, or maybe your favorite game. Any remark, meaningless or not.
2. I will respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. Update your LJ with the answers to the questions.

So here are my answers to her questions:

1. What are you favorite and least favorite things about living in Alaska?

Hard to pick one favorite thing. I love being able to drive an hour, then hike an hour, then not see people for a week. Or to go on 9 day camping trips only seeing a handful of people every day. I love all the hiking/fishing/camping/boating opportunities. But I also love the people that are here. An odd mix of frontier, backwoods, intelligent, etc. Alaskan parties are NEVER boring. And the percentage of truly interesting people is astounding.

My least favorite thing is that travel to the rest of the world is inconvenient.

2. What one book or movie has been most influential in your life and how so?

Hrmmm. I'd have to go with Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love (the Life and Times of Lazurus Long)", but only because I read it in junior high. Heh, I suppose I shouldn't feel too embarrassed about that, it seems I'm not alone (after browsing some amazon reviews just now.) It was most influential because it pretty much matches what has become my philosophy of life. Basically enjoy everything and don't hurt anybody. :) 2nd place would be "The Fountainhead", which I read as a freshman in college. Both seem a bit simplistic now, but they're still great books.

3. Tell me something about yourself that would surprise most people who know you?

I'm stumped here. I live my life too openly for anybody who knows me to be surprised about much. Ahah, how about this one: My wife (of 16 years, so far) is a fairly religious Mormon. I have absolutely no religious tendencies. I've been to church twice in the 16 years we've been married. Once was last week, our two oldest kids played a Christmas carol and I wanted to watch them. (The oldest is 12, she plays the violin, my son is 9, he plays the harp.)

4. How did you become friends with Bill and Jerrod?

Through the internet, beginning, oh, probably 1994 or '95. Part of that whole rec.gambling crowd. (Yeah, before it was rec.gambling.poker.) But more specifically through a joint project/poker study group just three or four years ago. I didn't actually meet them in person until the 2006 WSOP.

5. What do you like and dislike about being a professor?

I like teaching. I love it when I can help a student grasp a concept. (And I'm good at it. :) ) It makes me feel like I actually contribute to society.

I dislike the fact that it's work, meaning, a job. I have a schedule, things I need to get done at certain times, etc. (Admittedly, much less scheduled work than most jobs, and I really only work 8 months a year, but still.) I make much more at poker and other gambling projects than I do at my job, and I'm often irritated by the amount of time taken up by planning lectures, grading homework, and making and grading tests.

Lunar eclipse

2007-08-28T17:19:42Z

Yes, it's a rare LJ post by me.

I managed to stay up late enough to see the very beginning of the lunar eclipse last night, then dozed for a half hour or so. When I woke up the northern lights were swirling everywhere, pink and green, and the moon was about half eclipsed. Perfect veiwing conditions here in Fairbanks, the moon was nearly due south and not too high in ths sky. Amazing...

chrishartman @ 2007-05-28T16:16:00

2007-05-29T00:22:49Z

Hey all. Haven't been blogging much, obviously. Basically, I don't want this to be a poker blog, and there's not much else I usually want to write about. That said, I've got a couple of things today, but they're both poker related, heh.

Year to date: + $80k, around 60k hands.
This month: + $110k, around 11k hands.

Yes, I've been stuck (as much as $70k) for the whole year, until the last couple of weeks, when I've started running at about 5 times my expected win rate. I guess I was "due". Lemme tell you, this game is a LOT more fun when you're winning.

I'm heading to Vegas for a couple of the preliminary WSOP events in limit holdem. I'll be playing the $1500 on June 4 and the $5k on June 10. Possibly a couple of little satellites or one of the smaller NL tournaments too. I'll update from there, especially if anything interesting happens.

Meme

2006-09-20T18:11:49Z

What the heck, I filled it out on tom_bayes LJ and answered yes to the last question, so I suppose I should put it here.

1. Your Middle Name:
2. Age:
3. Single or Taken:
4. Favorite Movie:
5. Favorite Song:
6. Favorite Band/Artist:
7. Dirty or Clean:
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:

HERE COMES THE FUN ... ... ...

1. Do we know each other outside of Live Journal?
2. Whats your philosophy on life?
3. Would you have my back in a fight?
4. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?
5. What is your favorite memory of us?
6. Would you give me a kidney?
7. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:
8. Would you take care of me when I'm sick?
9. Can we get together and make a cake?
10. Have you heard any rumors of me lately?
11. Do you/have you talk(ed) crap about me?
12. Do you think I'm a good person?
13. Would you drive across country with me?
14. Do you think I'm attractive?
15. If you could change anything about me, would you?
16. Would you come over for no reason just to hang out?
17. Will you post this so I can fill it out for you?

Happy Anniversary to me!

2006-07-21T03:27:39Z

I've been married 15 years today.

I forgot about my anniversary until yesterday, when my wife said "What are we doing for our anniversary tomorrow?"

She wasn't mad.

That's (part of) why I've been married 15 years.

Poker is fun...

2006-07-19T06:28:41Z

Ahhhh, what a day.

Mostly working on some programming projects, but after dinner the 100/200 game on stars looked great. I'd had a couple of glasses of wine, but it was THAT good. So I sat. And won. And won. And got more great cards. And won more. 45 minutes, two tables, +$9k. And in the breaks I took from programming earlier, I'd made $6k in the 80/160 on UB. I'm pretty sure that's my best day ever, not counting sharing action with others.

....

I have my notes from the other two WSOP events I played in, and I promise, I'll get to writing the trip reports. Soon. Tomorrow, hopefully.

Right now I'm REALLY enjoying my glass of Macallan 25 (which I don't pull out that often), and ruminating on life's pleasures. My kids are doing great, I ate the first garden produce of the year tonight, the weather is beautiful, ...

Man, life is gooooood.

....

Side thought: Why does using the leaded crystal glass add so much to the scotch experience? ting!

$1500 limit holdem WSOP (Event 4)

2006-07-01T19:38:41Z

Full report of my $1500 WSOP limit holdem event.

My first table has Shawn Sheikhan (http://www.bluffmagazine.com/players/playerBIOs.asp?playerID=919) at it, although he showed up late. He is as much of an ass in person as he is on TV. He busted rather quickly, obviously didn't care. Also Chad Brown, who hosts Ultimate Poker Challenge (http://www.ultimatepokerchallenge.com/) which I've never seen nor heard of, so he's nonplused when I ask him who he is. Heh. Finally, Jean somebody in Full Tilt gear who all the big players seem to know (since they all stop over and say hi...)

Interesting Hands:

Level one. Blinds 25/25. Start with T1500.
I open with KcJc from middle position, only the BB calls. I like the Ac 7c 2d flop, until I'm checkraised. Qc comes on the turn, so I get to raise, and bet the Qs river. He disgustedly shows A2.

Level two. Blinds 25/50. I have T1750
I have AsAd in the big blind and I don't raise after two limpers and SB (Chad) call. Flop is Qc 7c 4c, and I go for the check-raise, but the SB check-raises the 2nd limper instead, so I just call. I'm planning on raising the turn if it's not a club, or betting if SB checks. First limper folds, but the three of us check it down after the 2c turn and blank river. The small blind's flopped two pair with 74o isn't enough to beat the limpers flopped set of fours. Heh. I had AA beat in a three handed pot at showdown for a total cost of 1.5 BB.

Later I have 82o for free in the big blind, four or five players. Chad bets out at the 856 flop, I raise, clearing out the limpers. I love the 2 turn, and it goes check - bet - call both there and on the river. Chad says he had me on the flop (but doesn't seem too upset.)

Our table breaks here, and I get moved just to the right of David Williams (runner up in WSOP main event to Greg Raymer in 2004 for a $3.5 million payday). He's friendly. His mom is playing in the main event this year!

I get in a bit of trouble in about my third hand with A9o in the BB. David raises UTG and everybody folds to me. I defend, and check call the whole way on a A65 T 5 board. David has 66. Can I possibly fold the river?

Level Three. Blinds 50/100 I have T1675.
I defend T8o in BB to a good player's mid position raise. I checkraise the JTx flop, and bet the A turn, he folds. Phew.

I raise UTG 88, David 3-bets me, the next player makes it 4. Yikes! I flop perfect with 98x and checkraise. David folds, other opponent calls here and folds turn. Hmmmmm. Perhaps I should have bet out then slowplayed?

I steal a few blinds, and get my stack up to 2100 for level four, blinds 75/150.

I then get hurt pretty badly with KdTd. I open raise in middle position, and it gets three-bet. The SB stays in, and we see a flop of Qd Jh 8h. Three bettor bets, SB check-raises, and I call two cold. SB bets the Jd turn, and now I'm stuck in with a royal flush draw. The river is blank and I fold, SB wins with 88 for 8s full. I'm glad I didn't hit a diamond or a straight card, needed on of the two straight flush outs.

I'm crippled after I get AQ in the SB. I three-bet the table maniac and we see a T9x flop heads up. He calls a bet, so I check the K turn, he checks behind. The river pairs the x, and I check call. He had T5o. Sigh.

I'm down to 1.5 small bets, so it's basically find a hand to go all in with. Ac2c in middle position looks good until it gets re-raised behind me and the SB re-re-raises to almost all in. The guy who raised me had AK and the SB wins the pot with AT after a T comes. Heh. (Horrible play by him, but it didn't hurt me, I was losing to the AK anyway.)

I go play a bit of $50/100 which ends up short-handed and the players have no clue. In about two hours I win $1800 to be up for the day, heh. Best live game hand: I raise with 88, and a very weak passive player reraises me, meaning I'm pretty much dead to his huge overpair. The flop comes AJ9 and it goes check-check. Ok, so he flopped a set of aces, or I misread him. He looks a bit disgusted, but it could be an act. I stab at the turn (blank) anyway. He shows KK and immediately mucks. I tell him "Yeah, that wasn't a good flop for your hand." Well, it wasn't. I mean, if he was gonna let me take the pot from him...

That's it. My next event is the $3000 limit holdem, tomorrow (Sunday.)

Nothing exciting to say

2006-04-29T18:35:18Z

Heh, like lots of others, I haven't been keeping up with blog posts lately. Never sure what I want to blog about. Poker's going well, that's a bit of an understatement. School's almost out, I have only a week of classes left, then a final to write and two finals to grade - shouldn't be tough.

My wife wrecked her mini-van last week, fender-bender style, airbags didn't even go off or anything, nobody hurt. So I go to pick her up and she's all upset about the cost. It's going to be about $3k to fix. I had to reply "So last week I won or lost about three times that every day playing poker. Don't worry about it."

Wasting time on puzzles...

2006-03-24T01:56:04Z

captaino posts some interesting math puzzles. In puzzle #10, he asks for a number where multiplying by 7 moves a 7 from the end to the beginning. (A short example with 4 is 4*102564=410256). I wasted hours solving it (see the comments). Then, in a free moment today, I wrote a program to generate all the answers for all single digits in all bases up to 16. The results are behind the cut.

In base 3 try 1*1
In base 3 try 2*1012
In base 4 try 1*1
In base 4 try 2*102
In base 4 try 3*10113
In base 5 try 1*1
In base 5 try 2*102342
In base 5 try 3*101343
In base 5 try 4*101124214
In base 6 try 1*1
In base 6 try 2*1031345242
In base 6 try 3*1020412245351433
In base 6 try 4*10132203044
In base 6 try 5*10112404544315
In base 7 try 1*1
In base 7 try 2*103524563142
In base 7 try 3*1023
In base 7 try 4*101546324
In base 7 try 5*1013042156536245
In base 7 try 6*1011236326213520225056554303404531464416
In base 8 try 1*1
In base 8 try 2*1042
In base 8 try 3*10262054413
In base 8 try 4*10204
In base 8 try 5*1015
In base 8 try 6*10127114202562304053446
In base 8 try 7*10112362022474404517
In base 9 try 1*1
In base 9 try 2*10467842
In base 9 try 3*103
In base 9 try 4*102274
In base 9 try 5*10175
In base 9 try 6*10146711624827874217726406
In base 9 try 7*101267355850647
In base 9 try 8*10112360675404505630337202247314618
In base 10 try 1*1
In base 10 try 2*105263157894736842
In base 10 try 3*1034482758620689655172413793
In base 10 try 4*102564
In base 10 try 5*102040816326530612244897959183673469387755
In base 10 try 6*1016949152542372881355932203389830508474576271186440677966
In base 10 try 7*1014492753623188405797
In base 10 try 8*1012658227848
In base 10 try 9*10112359550561797752808988764044943820224719
In base 11 try 1*1
In base 11 try 2*105842
In base 11 try 3*10386593
In base 11 try 4*1028a54
In base 11 try 5*1022714759a8839635
In base 11 try 6*101952786a36
In base 11 try 7*101657
In base 11 try 8*10143318520286635a4056217098
In base 11 try 9*10126441757a732895a49
In base 11 try a*101123594269539202247078527a77404493145a54a438089762909a99875168415718a8863a325830336a66179650560672a213481a
In base 12 try 1*1
In base 12 try 2*10631694842
In base 12 try 3*10414559b393
In base 12 try 4*10309236a88206164719544
In base 12 try 5*1025355a9433073a458409919b715
In base 12 try 6*1020408142854a997732650a18346916306
In base 12 try 7*101899b864406b33aa15423913745949305255b17
In base 12 try 8*10162334b148
In base 12 try 9*101419648634459b9384b26b533040547216a1155b3b12978a399
In base 12 try a*101263037690aa832880982025060731619946554174404a
In base 12 try b*1011235930336a53909a873b325819b9975055b54a3145a42694157078404491b
In base 13 try 1*1
In base 13 try 2*1069b5948abc63173842
In base 13 try 3*1045a7b39bc8725193
In base 13 try 4*1034
In base 13 try 5*1028435b7691a9c5
In base 13 try 6*10226bcaa6
In base 13 try 7*101b546298a7
In base 13 try 8*101843a2b979119c8
In base 13 try 9*1015c2a5650739
In base 13 try a*101405317c65aca4c269a
In base 13 try b*10126197c70843c239a464173037552ab81bcba6b3505c4890a932868b59c9577a214b
In base 13 try c*101123591acaa861794044909a74c437b64b3145a30336a4156c65c54a1c
In base 14 try 1*1
In base 14 try 2*10738b59bcd6a52842
In base 14 try 3*104acd93
In base 14 try 4*1037c68924
In base 14 try 5*102baa79d28cdb233640b5
In base 14 try 6*10250bb43071275c91737839d47a8ab1bd93c4557cdb8d229ad6cb6814c6a65a40963532c204a19886
In base 14 try 7*102040812244893468d3c7b183264c9b58b3873060c1a366cdbd9d5cbb9954a9750a162c5ab79142852a56ad7d1c3a77
In base 14 try 8*101aa1392c88
In base 14 try 9*1017d484063b4521b13368724cdc60959d7a298bc2caa756b9
In base 14 try a*1015a534764b97d577a80b3cdc838a9679246086635d2a
In base 14 try b*1013d1292166d506595d3a746ab24051a4a885bdb61b899b
In base 14 try c*10126070830374171a90a7c4753d2398d81bb6b0cca576652aa32855184297b214ac809564049a2024c
In base 14 try d*1011235909a628b639d995055b30336a2d21347c64b1d
In base 15 try 1*1
In base 15 try 2*107b5a528bd6acde73949c631842
In base 15 try 3*1051a87c93
In base 15 try 4*103c30b69244c6ce758d71ba65514
In base 15 try 5*103091c571643cb849debe5d297d8ab236a5
In base 15 try 6*1027dc483d22ce9e255d73a940a1a433078b6d9b9688dec712a6b1cc2050c9917b45ae4d4abbe76381535866
In base 15 try 7*10226ba39147
In base 15 try 8*101d5648
In base 15 try 9*101a2be9e69
In base 15 try a*10179b72334c73ad1496e2dbd2c4365203047e46699e76b293dd5c8b5986ca406090d8cd44ded7537cbba27b41da580c131c2ab89cebea70a88550783c5b119263956824ae8e5e1621aa
In base 15 try b*10158a506cd6a244735b6761dc270990c533041b
In base 15 try c*1013cc4b9ac23e128e76d1151a21657e6303b86e4e266bc37bd7593405064418d390b4a5cec74556a85a71c9c
In base 15 try d*10125e48663e23979c46195505beb7c214ab328417081ba1dedc90a688b0cb5752a8d599e930372cda43bc6ad7e6d34d
In base 15 try e*10112358e8819b628b5167e76e65c30336a1bda94e437b40448d75d426909a5055b1cecca83c0cdba729c74c1e
In base 16 try 1*1
In base 16 try 2*10842
In base 16 try 3*10572620ae4c415c9882b93
In base 16 try 4*104
In base 16 try 5*1033d91d2a2067b23a5440cf6474a8819ec8e95
In base 16 try 6*102b1da46
In base 16 try 7*1024e6a17
In base 16 try 8*1020408
In base 16 try 9*101ca4b3055ee19
In base 16 try a*1019c2d14ee4a
In base 16 try b*101767dce434a9b
In base 16 try c*101571ed3c506b39a22d9218202ae3da78a0d673445b24304055c7b4f141ace688b6486080ab8f69e28359cd116c90c
In base 16 try d*1013c995a47babe74404f265691eeaf9d
In base 16 try e*10125e22708092f113840497889c2024bc44e
In base 16 try f*10112358e75d30336a0ab617909a3e202246b1ceba6066d4156c2f21347c40448d639d74c0cda82ad85e4268f880891ac73ae9819b5055b0bc84d1f

Say what?

2006-02-18T04:53:15Z

Browsing the nutrition information while waiting far too long for a lousy dinner last night:

% Daily value of Vitamin A:
10 pc Chicken McNuggets: 4
20 pc Chicken McNuggets: 6

% Daily value of Vitamin C:
10 pc Chicken McNuggets: 2
20 pc Chicken McNuggets: 6

% Daily value of Iron:
10 pc Chicken McNuggets: 6
20 pc Chicken McNuggets: 15

WTF?

Poker going well...

2006-01-30T02:40:36Z

Well, given that I lost over 350 big bets (playing 30/60) Sunday-Wednesday last week. I'd say ending the last eight days with a pofit is pretty good.

It amazes me that people used to be able to play pro before there was online poker. I'm one of the best 30/60 players (if I do say so myself), and I haven't had a losing month in three years, but if I'd been playing live... That run would have taken well over a month to play. Can you imagine losing for a month straight? Yikes. And the only reason I recovered so quickly was running as good as I ran bad - I had no expectation of doing that. (Best session, 120 big bets in about 1.5 hours at 15/30 heads up. Yeah, I moved down. Even though I have plenty of bankroll, it seemed prudent.)

Cancer's a bitch

2006-01-30T02:31:22Z

My best friend from Jr. High and High School:

John B. Koslick

Former resident John "Wolf" B. Koslick, 35, lost his battle with cancer Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2006, at Samaritan Albany General Hospital.

He was born Jan. 27, 1970, in Fairbanks, the son of Robert and Darlene (Ossander) Koslick. He grew up and attended school in Fairbanks. He attended the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Linn Benton Community College in Albany, Ore. He moved to Oregon in 1995.

John married Rachelle Carpenter on Oct. 31, 1998, in Albany, Ore.

He worked in the entertainment business for 13 years and was a karaoke jockey with Karaoke Northwest. He had a wonderful singing voice and sang frequently at the AMF Lanes in Albany. He was a 1998 finalist in the Star Search Contest. John worked for Evanite Fiber Corp. in Corvallis.

John once bowled a 300 game during a city tournament in Corvallis at Highland Bowl. He was very talented in working on computers and he enjoyed the coast and being outdoors. John loved animals, but his greatest loves were his wife, daughter and family.

John is survived by his wife, Rachelle Koslick and daughter Tabitha Koslick, both of Tangent; father and stepmother, Bob and Sandy Koslick of Fairbanks and mother, Darlene Ossander of Albany; sisters and brothers-in-law, Denise and Bobby Monigold of Albany and Sarah and Steve Feathers of Warner Robins, Ga.; his dog, Daisy, and his cats, Anastasia, Fantazia and Weebo.

A celebration of life was held at the AMF Albany Lanes on Friday, Jan. 27.

A memorial service will be held at Fisher Funeral Home at 11 a.m. today. A reception will follow at Fairmount Grange, 835 North Albany Road, Albany.

Contributions may be made to the John Koslick Memorial Fund at any US Bank.

Arrangements were by Fisher Funeral Home, Albany, Ore.

------------------------------------------

It would be harder on me, but we weren't very close any more. Still, we had each visited each other in the last five years, and I talked with him weekly over the last month or so. Sigh.

I knew LiveJournal was incestuous...

2006-01-27T00:09:02Z

... but this seems a bit extreme:

I am a member of 2 cliques of size 8

patrissimo, chrishartman, prock, undersupervised, jonathankaplan, hgfalling, sabyl, terrencechan

rcfox, terrencechan, prock, jonathankaplan, hgfalling, chrishartman, scottro, sabyl

A "fortune"

2005-12-23T21:58:00Z

Gambling ring on reality TV smashed

Five guys with inside knowledge made bets on reality TV and got away with $186,000.

The article states "An Internet gambling site has smashed a betting scam that was raking in a fortune from wagers based on inside tips on the outcome of reality TV shows."

Uhhh, yeah. At $37,200 each, those guys really made a fortune...

Bored, but Vegas in Jan.

2005-12-14T03:59:52Z

Pleasantly bored. I guess that's what a couple of beers on an empty stomach will do for you. I'm just kinda browsing the web, reading miscellaneous LiveJournal entries, etc. There are some neat people out there. Somehow that inspired me to make an entry.

The subject refers to my upcoming trip to Vegas, of course. I'll be there Jan 5-12 at the Orleans. Glad to hook up with anybody in town. Oddly enough, I don't usually play much poker there. It's easy enough to sit here in my recliner and play online any time I want. Mostly I eat and drink a lot, and watch people.

Poker: running great lately, but end-of-semester busyness has kept me from playing much. There've been four days this month that I've played less than 20 minutes and won roughly $1k.

Heh. LiveJournal spell check doesn't recognize LiveJournal - it wants the space between the words.

My new baby

2005-12-02T23:06:44Z

Finally bought myself a new (to me) car. A little more comfortable than my beater '92 Dodge Dakota:

1998 Audi A4 2.8l Quattro (that's AWD) 5spd, heated leather seats, Bose stereo package, etc.

I've never been much of a car guy, but driving this thing might change the way I feel :) Especially since it cost me less than a third of what I paid for Heather's mini-van four years ago. It looks more like a one year old car than an eight year old car, hardly a scratch, and only 68k miles.

Cat toys

2005-11-03T18:50:05Z

Kids + Halloween = lots of candy around. So what do my cats decide? Lollipops are the toy of choice. To the extent that they get up on the table, knock over the halloween bags, pick up a lollipop, and bring it into another room to play with. Repeatedly.

What we had...

2005-10-22T19:53:47Z

The holdings for yesterday's post are behind the cut. If you haven't guessed yet, please do!

I had Th4h for a medium high flush. I put SBFish on nothing, and hoped the button would too - I really did expect the button to raise if I just called. SB's cap surprised me, though, and I put my odds at about 50/50 at that point. (I would have expected him to raise a flush draw on the turn, but the cap did scare me a bit.) As it turned out, he had rivered the set of dueces (lol - always call two cold with 22 after 986 flop). Button had AA.

I like button's raise on the river. I make that play myself. When SB bets out, half the time he has some odd hand like A9 top pair on flop) that is "afraid" of a free river. After I just call, button is getting 2-1 on any raise he makes. Should he have folded after I re-raise? Hard to say. My play looked (and was) so odd...

Right after the hand, I decided I didn't like my smooth call on the river. Particularly, SB's "other" holdings for betting out are probably two pair or better, so expecting button to raise with AA or AK is really hoping for a lot. On the other hand, button may _fold_ those hands if I raise, so maybe I get the most by calling... Results oriented, of course, it worked out great - but it's possible button would have called two cold twice, too, so maybe raising would have made me the same. That is, if I decide to cap after SB's inevitable 3-bet.

Interesting river action

2005-10-21T16:33:09Z

How often do you see this river action: Three handed, it goes bet call raise, call raise call, raise call call! The hand:

I'm in the big blind, 3 handed 15/30 game. Button (decent player) raises, SB (total fish, aggressive with any real hand but calls with everything else, never folds) calls, I call. Flop 9h 8s 6d. I bet out, button raises, SB calls, I call. Turn Kh. SB and I check, button bets, SB calls, I call. River 2h, action is as above, SB bets out, I call, button raises, SB calls, I raise, button calls, SB caps, we both call.

Yeah, I didn't tell you my hand. I'd like to see what people guess, so I'll put it up tomorrow. So, what (roughly) did the three of us have? Partial credit for the correct order of finish and/or explaining my thought process.

Ka-ching!

2005-10-18T00:55:07Z

It looks like I was ahead the entire time, but it sure was nice to hit the only turn card in the entire deck that I like:

Briefly: AcAh, capped five ways preflop, capped five ways on the flop Kh 9d 2d, capped four ways on the turn Ac, only one caller for one bet on the river 6s. I win $3850 pot.

(And I'm still stuck for the day. Oh well.)

Hand #8515082-5984 at Zarusnik ($50/$100 Hold'em)
Powered by UltimateBet
Started at 17/Oct/05 19:53:27

MC_TheHammer is at seat 0 with $5000.
myrpg is at seat 1 with $4684.50.
louiscypher is at seat 2 with $2509.50.
asg999 is at seat 3 with $6386.50.
Quaternion is at seat 4 with $3960.50.
obi---one is at seat 5 with $8295.
BigDaddyBulbs is at seat 6 with $4925.
xphenomx is at seat 7 with $925.
Micon_Pwns is at seat 8 with $1337.
TRIPAS2003 is at seat 9 with $6660.
The button is at seat 7.

Micon_Pwns posts the small blind of $25.
TRIPAS2003 posts the big blind of $50.

myrpg: -- --
louiscypher: -- --
asg999: -- --
Quaternion: Ac Ah
obi---one: -- --
BigDaddyBulbs: -- --
xphenomx: -- --
Micon_Pwns: -- --
TRIPAS2003: -- --

Pre-flop:
myrpg raises to $100. louiscypher folds. asg999
re-raises to $150. Quaternion re-raises to $200.
obi---one folds. BigDaddyBulbs folds. xphenomx
calls. Micon_Pwns calls. TRIPAS2003 folds. myrpg
calls. asg999 calls.

Flop (board: 9d Kh 2d):
Micon_Pwns checks. myrpg checks. asg999 checks.
Quaternion bets $50. xphenomx raises to $100.
Micon_Pwns re-raises to $150. myrpg calls. asg999
re-raises to $200. Quaternion calls. xphenomx
calls. Micon_Pwns calls. myrpg calls.

Turn (board: 9d Kh 2d As):
Micon_Pwns bets $100. myrpg calls. asg999 calls.
Quaternion raises to $200. xphenomx folds.
Micon_Pwns re-raises to $300. myrpg calls. asg999
calls. Quaternion re-raises to $400. Micon_Pwns
calls. myrpg calls. asg999 calls.

River (board: 9d Kh 2d As 6s):
Micon_Pwns checks. myrpg checks. asg999 checks.
Quaternion bets $100. Micon_Pwns calls. myrpg
folds. asg999 folds.

Showdown:
Quaternion shows Ac Ah.
Quaternion has Ac Ah 9d Kh As: three aces.
Micon_Pwns mucks cards.
(Micon_Pwns has Ad Ks.)

Hand #8515082-5984 Summary:
$3 is raked from a pot of $3850.
Quaternion wins $3847 with three aces.

Want to bet?

2005-10-11T00:30:45Z

Bodog has a line on "What will Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck name their first-born child?" (at the bottom of the page.) They're offering 200:1 on "Bennifer". If anybody wants to make that bet, I'll fade the action, lol.

A good poker day

2005-10-08T01:27:11Z

My last post was complaining about a bad poker day. Recovery is easy, right? Just keep playing! If it were only that easy. But today it was: My first five figure day at limit poker - and I only played three hours because I had to work. Between running very well and playing a super-fish heads up at 80/160, it was a fairly easy milestone. I also made another couple of withdrawals from my equity bank - most notably rivering a 7 with A7 in the big blind vs AK in the small blind after AA2 T. Nothing like a three-outer (with six more to split, of course.) But then, my opponent didn't really need to three-bet the river, now, did he? (I capped - but if a four-bet had not been a cap, it would have been a close decision.)

Grrrr, bad poker day (but one good hand)

2005-10-06T17:32:53Z

Yesterday sucked. Lost about 80 big bets. Fortunately I've done well this month, so I'm still up over $3k since Oct. 1.

I did have a fun session yesterday, though. Playing 25/50 heads up, I've got my opponent flummoxed, he's checking his top pair until the river where I make two pair, calling me down with nothing when I'm bluffing a slightly better nothing, etc. Then this hand comes up.

I've got 96o in the big blind. He raises from the SB, I call. Flop is 666. I check-raise (SB has the button) and he 3-bets. I check-raise the 2 turn also, he calls. I bet the river 9, he calls. He had KJ. I guess he didn't think I'd check-raise the flop with a real hand. :)

Lesson for the day - slowplaying is a great way to make the least money from a hand. This is true in almost any form of poker, but especially true short-handed. I love it when I'm playing a typically aggressive opponent who always bets the flop after raising preflop, then suddenly he raises preflop and checks on a flop of KK4 or something. He might as well show me his king.

Dyson on Feynman, what could be better?

2005-10-06T17:24:58Z

When Freeman Dyson writes an extensive review of a collection of Richard Feynman's letters, it's worth reading.

(And now I have to buy another damn book - I've got too many on the "read this soon" list already!)

I guess I'm a ho too

2005-09-30T04:35:06Z

Geez, no fewer than SIX of my LJ friends put this up in the last five hours. Geuss I should get into the game!

I have registered to play in the
Online Poker Blogger Championship!

This event is powered by PokerStars.

Registration code: 7759083