Brok3again

"Keep Accurate Records : The only way you can really test and grade your poker skills is by keeping accurate records^[1]".

Résultats octobre 2006 : + $ 1866,63

Résultats septembre 2006 : + $ 1958
Résultats août 2006 : + $ 2095,57
Résultats juillet 2006 : + $ 2893,40
Résultats juin 2006 : + $ 1868,75
Résultats mai 2006 (du 25/05 au 31/05): + $ 951,26
Total 2006 avant le 25/05/2005: + $ 9465,45

Total 2006: + $ 21099,06
Temps de jeu 2006: environ 300h
Nombre de mains : environ 25000
Variantes : Holdem limit Cash games $15/$30 et $20/$40 (85%), Holdem no limit Cash games NL 100 et NL 200 (10%), Tournois et Sit ang Go à faible buy-in (5%)

Mes gains proviennent essentiellement de mes résultats en cash games mais je suis légèrement positif en tournois et SnG. Après un bad run et un début de tilt au début du mois, l'évolution des gains a été assez rapide pendant les 600 premières mains avant de croitre beaucoup plus lentement pendant les 1000 mains suivantes. Le passage du holdem limit au holdem no limit est assez visible en particulier l'évolution par plateau propre au no limit.

Evolution des gains en cash games (octobre 2006):



Le premier mois de la nouvelle ère. La loi du congrès US à considérablement modifié l'équilibre du poker en ligne. Il va être necessaire de quitter Party si le nombre de joueurs continue à diminuer. Les sites du réseau crypto n'ont pas été touché par la nouvelle loi et Fulltilt semble être le site qui a gagné le plus de joueurs ces dernières semaines en dehors de Pokerstars. Je vais probablement migrer sur Fulltilt et Sunpoker avant la fin de l'année, les offres de rakeback étant assez honnetes.

Evolution de la fréquentation des sites de poker en ligne depuis la signature de l' "Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act":

"Chronic bluffers are not always pre-flop bluffers. You would be making a big mistake if you didn't notice this fact^[1]."

Résultat de la session: + $7,23
Résultat octobre 2006 : + $ 1866,63

Un pot de près de $500 pour terminer la session, mais ayant fait un très mauvais début de session en perdant une cave sur un bad call, au final je termine à + $7,23 de gains.

Le bad call / bad read du jour :

Party Poker
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $1/$2
10 players
Converter

Stack sizes:
UTG: $232.64
UTG+1: $107.45
BROK3AGAIN: $172.87
MP1: $91.45
MP2: $263.64
MP3: $162.84
CO: $366.03
Button: $197
SB: $257.30
BB: $321.79

Pre-flop: (10 players) BROK3AGAIN is UTG+2 with 7♣ 7♠
UTG folds, UTG+1 calls, BROK3AGAIN raises to $10, 4 folds, Button raises to $25, 3 folds, BROK3AGAIN calls.

Flop: 2♣ 8♦ J♥ ($55, 2 players)
BROK3AGAIN bets $27.47, Button calls.

Turn: J♣ ($109.94, 2 players)
BROK3AGAIN checks, Button bets $50, BROK3AGAIN calls.

River: 5♣ ($209.94, 2 players)
BROK3AGAIN checks, Button bets $71, BROK3AGAIN calls all-in $70.4.
Uncalled bets: $0.6 returned to Button.

Results:
Final pot: $350.74
Button shows As Ah
BROK3AGAIN doesn't show 7c 7s et perd un pot de $ 350 après avoir joué comme un naze

Les pigeons qui "sauvent" ma session :

Party Poker
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $1/$2
10 players
Converter

Stack sizes:
UTG: $248.30
UTG+1: $315.79
UTG+2: $215.64
MP1: $102.45
BROK3AGAIN: $196
MP3: $86.15
CO: $278.34
Button: $138.54
SB: $411.68
BB: $371.87

Pre-flop: (10 players) BROK3AGAIN is MP2 with 9♠ 9♦
2 folds, UTG+2 raises to $6, MP1 folds, BROK3AGAIN calls, MP3 calls, 2 folds, SB calls, BB folds.

Flop: 9♣ 8♣ 4♥ ($26, 4 players)
SB checks, UTG+2 bets $12, BROK3AGAIN calls, MP3 raises to $30, SB folds, UTG+2 calls, BROK3AGAIN raises all-in $178, MP3 calls all-in $50.15, UTG+2 calls.

Turn: 6♦ ($486.15, 1 player + 2 all-in - Main pot: $266.45, Sidepot 1: $219.7)


River: T♥ ($486.15, 1 player + 2 all-in - Main pot: $266.45, Sidepot 1: $219.7)


Results:
Final pot: $486.15
MP3 shows 4d 4c
UTG+2 shows Jh Js
BROK3AGAIN shows 9s 9d et gagne $ 500 parcequ'il a trouvé 2 joueurs encore plus mauvais que lui

Les clefs du jour :

• Avoir la discipline de passer une overpaire face à un reraise à la turn
• Ne pas hésiter à reraiser un late raiser pour prendre le "driver seat"
• Défendre les "made hands" sur les "scary flops" en head up

Les erreurs du jour :

• Bet au flop et check-call la turn avec la 3d paire
• Toujours check-folder le flop depuis les blinds

"The object in any form of big bet poker is to bust or double up through your opponent. No limit is not about winning an extra couple of dollars from your opponent; it's about busting him^[1]."

Résultat de la session: + $114,17
Résultat octobre 2006 : + $ 1859,40

Si au holdem limit, il faut tirer profit de chaque edge, en no limit il suffit de gagner 1 ou 2 gros pots par session pour doubler :

Party Poker
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $1/$2
9 players
Converter

Pre-flop: (9 players) LaBostella is Button with 5♠ 5♥
5 folds, CO (poster) checks, LaBostella calls, SB calls, BB (poster) checks.

Flop: 5♣ 8♦ 9♣ ($8, 4 players)
SB checks, BB bets $2, CO calls, LaBostella raises to $12.57, SB folds, BB calls, CO calls.

Turn: 6♥ ($45.71, 3 players)
BB checks, CO checks, LaBostella bets $20.91, BB calls, CO folds.

River: K♥ ($87.53, 2 players)
BB raises all-in $45.62, LaBostella calls.

Results:
Final pot: $178.77
BB shows Jd Qs
LaBostella shows 5s 5h

P.S. : Nouveau pseudo sur PartyPoker, j'abandonne LaBostella au profit de BROK3AGAIN.

Bob Stewart, ancien CEO du Royal/Dutch Shell Group considère que le poker est une activité comme une autre.

Many members of the public will have no doubt noticed the prevalence of poker tournaments on television, and the increasing number of books giving advice on how to play the game, and win. Let me say, right from the outset, that I am a poker enthusiast for many many reasons, not least of which is that it is a more enjoyable way to make money than any other method I know of. The sceptical reader will be aware that about 80% of those who play poker report that they win – a conclusion that equates with the view that 80% of those who attend public school are above average. But then poker simply reflects many of delusions and idiosyncrasies of life.

One reason I love the game is the extraordinary close affiliation with libertarian principles. Let me explain further.

Poker is usually play by between five and eight players, usually but not exclusively males who enjoy the company of each other plus the thrill and skill of being able to extract cash from their rivals. The rules are pretty simple – to avoid boring everyone they can be found in many reference books – and are enforced by all participants in an unequivocal way in much the same ways as golf rules are enforced by the American Golf Association. There are no extenuating circumstances and genuine mistakes are regarded as acts of remarkable stupidity, and penalised accordingly.

The game featured most on television is called Texas Hold ‘Em and is the most elementary (and the most boring) of the many variations of poker such as Omaha, 5 card stud, 7 card stud, draw, baseball, and so on. Texas gives each player 2 cards face down, and 5 common cards that are dealt face up so that the best combination of 5 cards wins the pot. Players bet on their hands, and in the final analysis, unless he folds (gives up) or is bluffed out (is fooled by the actions of other participants) the player with the best hand wins although occasionally two players may end up with identical hands in which case they share the pot (the money in the centre).

Why would poker appeal to supporters of the free market economy? Well I can think of at least 20 reasons, but listing them can be tedious, and may lead to many (probably 80% of you who think you are above average) switching off and going on to read about the glories of the Iraq War.

Let me just mention six. But before doing so, allow me to emphasise at the outset that poker, unlike the free market economy, is a zero sum game. Participants who win are exactly matched dollar for dollar by those who lose. In economic exchange, both buyer and seller gain something otherwise no exchange would take place. Against the zero-sum game argument is the fact that five or six hours of poker is exciting entertainment that may well be worth any sum lost.

1. Competing against seven hardened veterans of poker means that the risk of failure is pretty high – at least 7 to 1 against. Unlike a job in the civil service, the monetary rewards from playing poker are not predictable and it therefore does not provide a guaranteed income. There is the obvious risk of ending up penniless, and there is always uncertainty. In the free market economy, unless you serve the consumer at least as well as your competitor you will end up broke. In poker, unless you are consistently better than your rivals over a five hour period you will end up with a nil or negative income and there is no government welfare office to bail you out. It is you versus the rest, and in the poker world, there are only two types – winners and losers with the latter being the more numerous species. It is a game of immense skill, not luck, although in the short-term luck can temporarily overcome skill just as it can in economic life. But as most people know, luck comes in two packages – good luck and bad luck – and no one knows in advance which will apply.
2. The laws of the game are fixed and inflexible, and stated in language that is precise with no emotionally loaded terms. You play for money, cash money, and not for tokens or for buttons. It is not possible to allege that after a year of playing the distribution of income is unfair, and that because you find yourself in the bottom decile someone should bail you out. There are no affirmative action policies for bad poker players, no unemployment insurance, no subsidies, no tax write-offs, no pension after 40 years for having played the game sportingly. You make your bed and you have to lie in it. Just as people can trade freely with everyone irrespective of age, sex, race, national origin, income or any other irrelevance poker players have no objection to anyone participating in the game provided he plays by the rules and does not complain if he loses. Indeed, any televised poker game provides a representative sample of society, although your grandmother might think that there is more than a fair number of shady characters wearing dark glasses and baseball caps with odd nicknames like Amarillo Slim. Poker is a great equaliser. It is rare for someone who wants to borrow to be denied a loan from another player; and it is equally rare in my experience for a debt not to be repaid in full.
3. Poker is not a team game. You have personal responsibility for all your actions and conspiring with other players to rig the market is not good form; in fact, it is, as it is in the business world, cheating and depending on the character of the players in the game can be a one-way ticket to oblivion. If you are good you win, and if you are not good you lose. This game does not provide camouflage for misguided decisions. The consequences are immediate and easily calculated in hard cash. You are on your own baby with no one to depend on except yourself. If you win, you keep your winnings and can gloat over them in private – it is not good form to count your winnings in front of the losers, or to congratulate yourself in public for having come out ahead. If you lose, there is no sympathy – at best, you can count on some bromide like "better luck next time" but that is only mentioned because the rest of the players love to have a loser in their midst. Indeed, one of the unwritten rules of poker is that if you sit in on a game and cannot immediately identify the loser (aka a rabbit) it is you.
4. Despite the flow of money from one pocket to another, poker players are congenial types. Unlike Western movies, no one pulls out a gun when he loses unexpectedly, or keeps the ace of spades under his shoe. Most games are held in private houses between friends and jokes and booze – the lubricants of a good life – are usually available in abundance. Even in casinos, there is remarkable conviviality and spontaneous order, just as there is in a fish or vegetable market. People are friendly and laugh a lot. The atmosphere is quite unlike that of the post office or immigration department. The problem with casinos is that the house, just like the government, takes a proportion of each pot. The house commission tends to be high which means that pots are substantially reduced. It should come as no surprise that the luxury hotels in Las Vegas or Atlantic City are not built from the winnings of the players, but from the rake-off of the House.
5. Poker, like economics, is a game of incomplete information. It is possible to calculate the odds of drawing a king to make a full house, or making a calculation of whether the amount in the pot is sufficient to risk calling a bet. A good poker player just does not play the odds he also plays the people. Is a bet of $100 a bluff, or is it a warning that your opponent holds four aces? Is the sweat on the hands of your opponent a result of the air conditioner not working, or does it arise from the fact that guy across the table is playing you for a sucker? All the information that you need to make a correct decision is not available and never will be (unless your opponent drops his cards and reveals his hand – unlikely). Like an entrepreneur, you need the skill to see into the future. As Ludwig von Mises puts it: "What distinguishes the successful entrepreneur and promoter from other people is precisely the fact that he does not let himself be guided by what was and is, but arranges his affairs on the ground of his opinion about the future. He sees the past and the present as other people do; but he judges the future in a different way." (Human Action by Ludwig von Mises, page 582) I wonder if he ever played?
6. Most of all, poker is a game of incentives. It has been said of economics that it is only a question of incentives, the rest is merely detail. No one in his right mind would play if, at the end of the evening, the money won and lost had to be re-distributed for the purpose of ensuring fair shares. Any poker game run on that basis would be a complete flop. In real life, an economy that seeks to ensure that losers are compensated from the earnings of the winners (those who cater to the wishes of the consumer) would not be a place that winners would like to frequent.

The next time a poker game is shown, please do not switch channels. Be aware that this is capitalism in action, and learn from the game even if you do not wish to be part of the action.

Résultat de la session: + $125
Résultat octobre 2006 : + $ 1745,23

" If you don't limit your play to games you can beat, then you aren't likely to beat the game. Game selection is the most important element of poker. I've seen some estimates that it's 80 percent of what makes a limit winning player.^[1]"

THEnaturalACE est un des plus mauvais joueur de Razz de Fulltilt. Lorsque je découvre qu'il est installé à une table de $9/$18, je m'installe immédiatement à sa gauche. THEnaturalACE perd rapidement ses $190, quant à moi je termine à + 125 et je quitte la table dix minutes après mon arrivée, en même temps que le pigeon.

Hand #1132894250
*Razz* ($8/$16), Ante $1,50, Bring-In $2

*3rd Street* - (1.31 SB)

steveraceday: xx xx 6s___folds
The UniBonger: xx xx Qs___*brings-in*
Poker-Babe: xx xx Th___folds
THEnaturalACE: xx xx Ac___calls
RonanC: 4d 6d Tc___calls
mjshooter: xx xx 3d___folds
ImANinjaFoSho: xx xx Js___folds

*4th Street* - (2.06 SB)

The UniBonger: xx xx Qs 5s___folds
THEnaturalACE: xx xx Ac Td___*bets*
RonanC: 4d 6d Tc 8h___calls

*5th Street* - (2.03 BB)

THEnaturalACE: xx xx Ac Td Qd___*bets*___raises
RonanC: 4d 6d Tc 8h Ts___raises___calls

*6th Street* - (8.03 BB)

THEnaturalACE: xx xx Ac Td Qd 9s___*bets*
RonanC: 4d 6d Tc 8h Ts 8c___calls

*River* - (10.03 BB)

THEnaturalACE: xx xx Ac Td Qd 9s xx___*checks*___calls
RonanC: 4d 6d Tc 8h Ts 8c 3h___bets
*Total pot:* (12.03 BB - $192,50)

Hand #1132896650

*Razz* ($8/$16), Ante $1,50, Bring-In $2

*3rd Street* - (1.31 SB)

steveraceday: xx xx 4d___folds
The UniBonger: xx xx 3d___completes___raises to $31 (all-in)
Poker-Babe: xx xx Tc___folds
THEnaturalACE: xx xx 8d___raises___calls
RonanC: 3c 7s 5c___raises___calls
mjshooter: xx xx Jh___*brings-in*___folds
ImANinjaFoSho: xx xx 5h___folds

*4th Street* - (14.19 SB)

The UniBonger: xx xx 3d Kc___all-in
THEnaturalACE: xx xx 8d Qc___*bets*
RonanC: 3c 7s 5c Ks___calls

*5th Street* - (8.09 BB)

The UniBonger: xx xx 3d Kc Qs___all-in
THEnaturalACE: xx xx 8d Qc Jc___*bets*
RonanC: 3c 7s 5c Ks Js___calls

*6th Street* - (10.09 BB)

The UniBonger: xx xx 3d Kc Qs 8h___all-in
THEnaturalACE: xx xx 8d Qc Jc 2h___*bets*___raises to $40.50 (all-in)
RonanC: 3c 7s 5c Ks Js 2c___raises___calls

*River* - (16.16 BB)

The UniBonger: xx xx 3d Kc Qs 8h xx___all-in
THEnaturalACE: xx xx 8d Qc Jc 2h xx___all-in
RonanC: 3c 7s 5c Ks Js 2c 3s

*Total pot:* (16.16 BB - $258,50)

"However, if your main interest is to win the tournament, this is a prime situation to really play aggressively and try to get closer to the leader or even overtake him. The difference in fifth place and first place is so huge that most players are just trying to hang on and can be pushed around in most pots. My main objective has always been to win the tournament. Even before I was financially secure, I always did what I thought was best to achieve my goal of winning first place.^[1]"

Investissement tournoi : $33

Gain du tournoi:$114,48

Résultat net du tournoi: $81,48 (114,48-33)

Résultat octobre 2006 : + $ 1620,23

Après avoir passé plusieurs heures à installer dotclear avec l'aide d' H. et SamSam, j'ai découvert l'url rewriting, le xhtml et les plugins. Puis après avoir testé plusieurs thèmes, j'ai opté pour un design aussi épuré que celui de l' ancien blog.

Pour célebrer l'ouverture du blog, j'ai participé à mon premier tournoi sur PartyPoker depuis la signature de l' "Unlawful Internet Gambling Act". Il y a encore quelques jours, il y avait 10.000 joueurs aux heures de pointes. aujourd'hui, il n'y avait que deux tables de $20/$40 ouvertes.

J'ai préféré faire un tournoi, le $33 de 21h auquel ont participé à peine plus de 300 joueurs. Le prize pool était assez faible, le vainqueur n'a empoché que $2500.

Je quitte le tournoi en 11è place aux portes de la table finale avec AQs contre le AJo du leader, dommage j'était pourtant favori à 3:1.

Je vais probablement être incapable d'atteindre les objectifs que je m'étais fixé au début de l'année. J'ai joué deux fois moins en 2006 que l'année dernière à la même époque. Il semble aujourd'hui impossible de passer les 30K avant fin décembre et je vais probablement devoir me contenter d'un résultat final d'environ 25K.

Résultats septembre 2006 :........................+ $ 1958

Résultats août 2006 :…………………………………….+ $ 2095,57

Résultats juillet 2006 : ………………………………….+ $ 2893,40

Résultats juin 2006 :…………………………………..…+ $ 1868,75

Résultats mai 2006 (du 25/05 au 31/05):…….+ $ 951,26

Total depuis le 25/05/06 :……………………………….+ $ 9766,98

Total 2006 avant le 25/05/2005:………………..……+ $ 9465,45

Total 2006 au 16 octobre:……………………………+ $ 20852,66

Mes résultats en détail sur l'ancien blog http://pokergagnant.wordpress.com.