Thursday 28 August 2008

A promising start

Well I headed over to a friends tonight for a cash game and managed to make a small profit so my attention turned to Pokerstars on my arrival home in a bid to get my challenge with Hutchylad properly under way.

I played 4 qualifying tournaments for the challenge and I managed to cash in 3 of them. I played the $3.30 rebuy $40k gtd and invested a total of $9 but went out in 800th or so after the usual bad beat stories.

Here are the emails from the 3 cashes :)

PokerStars Tournament #103653601, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $8.00/$0.80
1980 players
Total Prize Pool: $15840.00
Tournament started - 2008/08/28 - 20:40:00 (ET)

Dear PizzicatoXev,

You finished the tournament in 104th place.
A $22.17 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 83.62 tournament leader points in this tournament.

PokerStars Tournament #104939788, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $6.00/$0.50
18 players
Total Prize Pool: $108.00
Tournament started - 2008/08/28 - 22:51:24 (ET)

Dear PizzicatoXev,

You finished the tournament in 3rd place.
A $21.60 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 30 Sit & Go Leader Board Points for the Venus Division in this tournament.

PokerStars Tournament #104939405, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $11.00/$1.00
180 players
Total Prize Pool: $1980.00
Tournament started - 2008/08/28 - 22:55:02 (ET)

Dear PizzicatoXev,

You finished the tournament in 9th place.
A $33.66 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 91.73 tournament leader points in this tournament.

I consider myself unlucky not to have progressed further in all 3 of the above tournaments but thats just the way it goes sometimes. Its a promising start and I am very happy with my game at the minute so hopefully I will be able to get the challenge sewn up in short order :)

I will leave you with a HH of a particularly sick hand which the other guy in the pot took rather well considering what happened...

PokerStars Game #19978744349: Tournament #104939405, $11+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2008/08/28 - 22:55:02 (ET)
Table '104939405 13' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: pilaa (1500 in chips)
Seat 2: JRBluff (1500 in chips)
Seat 3: PizzicatoXev (1500 in chips)
Seat 4: exxlax (1500 in chips)
Seat 5: jahenry (1500 in chips)
Seat 6: JAY CUSH (1500 in chips)
Seat 7: Memphis780 (1500 in chips)
Seat 8: idiotsuit (1500 in chips)
Seat 9: PokerLuck_AA (1500 in chips)
JRBluff: posts small blind 10
PizzicatoXev: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PizzicatoXev [9h 4s]
exxlax: raises 40 to 60
jahenry: folds
JAY CUSH: folds
Memphis780: folds
idiotsuit: calls 60
PokerLuck_AA: folds
pilaa: calls 60
JRBluff: folds
PizzicatoXev: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [9d 9c Tc]
PizzicatoXev: checks
exxlax: checks
idiotsuit: bets 220
pilaa: folds
PizzicatoXev: raises 280 to 500
exxlax: calls 500
idiotsuit: folds
*** TURN *** [9d 9c Tc] [9s]
PizzicatoXev: checks
exxlax: bets 940 and is all-in
PizzicatoXev: calls 940 and is all-in
*** RIVER *** [9d 9c Tc 9s] [5s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
PizzicatoXev: shows [9h 4s] (four of a kind, Nines)
exxlax: shows [Td Th] (a full house, Tens full of Nines)
PizzicatoXev collected 3350 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3350 | Rake 0
Board [9d 9c Tc 9s 5s]
Seat 1: pilaa (button) folded on the Flop
Seat 2: JRBluff (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: PizzicatoXev (big blind) showed [9h 4s] and won (3350) with four of a kind, Nines
Seat 4: exxlax showed [Td Th] and lost with a full house, Tens full of Nines
Seat 5: jahenry folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: JAY CUSH folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: Memphis780 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: idiotsuit folded on the Flop
Seat 9: PokerLuck_AA folded before Flop (didn't bet)

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