Why did I make that call?

In a tourney the other night I made what to one person in the tournament seemed to be a bullshit call and made him very angry....

I raised preflop with a pair of 7's I had 2 callers after me, but I was left in position for the next round. The flop came down

6 10 10

player first to act checked.... and player 2 went immediately all in.

Now player 2 had been playing almost every pot and was a bit shortstacked and I believe if he had a 10 in his hand he would have checked to me in order to make me bet out and then come over the top of me in order to maximise his winnings. I therefore gave him a range of hands (although I was later proved to be a bit out)and judging by what he had played earlier, he played almost any suited cards and low suited connectors and almost any Ace... he was a bad calling station and fancied himself as a bluffer. (only using all in as a bluff all the time, is RISKY)

The range of hands I then gave him seeing as he called a preflop raise (3 x bb) was as follows

A 6 suited, K Q (probably suited), maybe even KJ, A 10, A J, or even A Q or unlikely AK.

After pressing my time button and having a good think about it, I made the call with my pocket 7's.

He had 6 4 spades... he had paired his 6 and moved all in on the flop with a paired board to a preflop raiser, STUPID. he shouldn't have even been calling out of position with a stupid hand like that.

He was FURIOUS, saying it was a bullshit call but I believe if he thought about it he would have realise his bet just showed he was trying to scare and his history allowed me to put him on a range of hands plus if I lost I still would have been left with chips to play.

The turn and river were blanks and I knocked him out of the tournament and gained an extra 800 chips or so. If I had lost, I still would have had about 1000 chips left to carry on and play.

So there is my reasoning behind my odd call on a paired board in a single table sit and go, which I went on to win.

Fortune favours the brave as they say!!

Keeping track.... Pokerdominator

One of the main principles of making a profit in poker lies not in the poker itself but another completely different discipline.. keeping track of your outgoings, your losses and your winnings.

Being able to do this is what makes the difference between a losing player and a winnng player as you can keep track of where you make the most money, where your holes are and how much you have in your bank roll and adjust accordingly. I have come to realise through this that I make the most money on single table sit and go's on pokerstars, so I can now concentrate on playing and crushing those!

There are all sorts of programs to allow you to do this available and most of the cost money but I have recently signed up to Poker Dominator and I reccomend that you do too if you want to keep track of your playing statistics.. it allows you to track of your play, your winnings and monitor your bankroll plus publish graphs and charts about your play... all for free.

It does require you to set some things up like prefered poker room and input sessions manually, but it is very useful and it has changed my perspective of my onlin epoekr life. and I HIGHLY reccomend it. It also includes fee odds calculators and hand helpers to help improve your game.

I am placing a link on the right hand side and really do reccomend you spend some time setting up an account and inputting your data into Poker Dominator.

Last nights online poker!!

So last night was a bit up and down, managed to cash in a big tourney even if it was for a measly extra 60 cents... above my 1 dollar buy in., it will pay off soon though, gonna hit that final table. :

PokerStars Tournament #77444140, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $1.00/$0.10
2332 players
Total Prize Pool: $2332.00
Tournament started - 2008/02/19 - 11:00:00 (ET)

Dear Tenakalaz,

You finished the tournament in 380th place.
A $1.86 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

This is a tournament I try to do everyday because of the cheap buy in but high rewards if you can reach the final table!!! you can win hundreds of dollars for a 1 dollar buy in.

Also manged a few wins, losses and cashes on the 5 dollar sit and go's

PokerStars Tournament #77957551, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $5.00/$0.50
9 players
Total Prize Pool: $45.00
Tournament started - 2008/02/19 - 13:48:39 (ET)

Dear Tenakalaz,

You finished the tournament in 2nd place.
A $13.50 award has been credited to your Real Money account.


Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

PokerStars Tournament #77964376, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $5.00/$0.50
9 players
Total Prize Pool: $45.00
Tournament started - 2008/02/19 - 15:06:10 (ET)

Dear Tenakalaz,

You finished the tournament in 1st place.
A $22.50 award has been credited to your Real Money account.


Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

Ended up breaking even for the night after getting donked in 3/4 other tournaments..

But to be fair I think I ahve my 9 man SNG strategy pretty tight now and feel I can comfortably make profit int he long run by sticking to it and watching my bankroll management!

Gonna hit the big 1 dollar tourney again tonight (25000 players rougly) and then abotu 3 9 man SNG's.

See you all friday will keep you all posted on any big progress.

Preflop odds (FOR BEEBS)

I was asked for the preflop odds so here we go, because it is such a huge list, I have linked to a site which has quite a comrehensive preflop chart with almost everyhand in it....

Preflop odds chart

good luck reading it, its quite the mind bender!!!

Have fun guys!

Laters