Winrates and idiots

Sometime I wonder how a good winrate can be "only" 1BB per 100 hands. I wonder this, particularly when a bonafide idiot comes along and hands you about five of them in a single hand.



The only downside is that he left the table before I could tag him..

So I look down at AA

So I look down at a beautiful pair of aces (spades and diamonds) and raise (playing 8/16 6max limit). Only the big blind calls. Flop comes down JdTc6c, bet, call. Turn 9c - an ugly card, but I bet, and he calls. River Qc. Check, check.

He turns over 8h5c for the runner-runner 6th nut flush, which is why poker is clearly a game of skill. Or limit is, at least.

For his next trick, he runs down my KK with the mighty T6 suited.

Table selection shmabel selection

This month I am chasing a $450 rake chase bonus on Red Star, and as a result have played nearly all my sessions on there (Cake). Apart from choosing first the tables with the high % of players to flop, I have virtually stopped table selecting - I just hop on as many tables from 3/6 to about 6/12 as I feel comfortable playing. I am pretty confident that I can beat any table at these stakes (on this site at least), and with rakeback, rake chases and a deposit bonus I am way into green territory. And I am still constantly surprised at the number of poor players who hover around the higher stakes.

Case in point was a nice little half hour heater at 6/12 which netted 25BB or so. The player on my right was an awful, awful loose passive player who would play way too many hands preflop, call too many bets and then fold the river if he didn't have a pretty strong hand. Earlier, I played with a mouthy guy at 4/8 who is a dreadful weak tight player - he plays way too tight preflop and then completely fails to get value from his monsters (his set of kings went check-check on the turn and river because someone raised him on the flop).

It's probably obvious from reading the above that I am running well - up nearly $2500 since the last cooler just over a week ago. I am planning to take a bit of a break once I hit this month's $2500 rake target, since I have been playing way too much and have a lot of other stuff going on in my life.

Do the poker gods read my blog?

God know few others do.

I need to stop posting my wins. Seriously. I just took a massive reaming on some seriously fishy 5/10 Euro tables on Purple. $1200, or about 80BB in the space of about 90 minutes. Standard stuff, but just hand after hand - my AJ < AK on A high board. My AJ < AQ on A high board . My tptk crushed by turned 2 pair. My flopped set crushed by the paired turn(bigger boat) . Second pairs losing to top pairs. Huge draws (str8flush+overs) not getting there.

Just Ugh.

A very belated update

Ok, so I haven't posted now for nearly six weeks. To be honest, I've been running so badly that I didn't want to bore everybody with a litany of bad beats, coolers and tilt.

My worst day (ever) was just last week, when I somehow managed to dump 200 big bets (over $1000) in a couple of hours playing 2/4 and 3/6. This pretty well puts paid to the notion that 300BB is a big enough bankroll for limit.

As for the missing months: September was a net -$300, and October was a net -$500.

You would think that November was going the same way after that $1000 turdball, but you would be wrong. Somehow I managed to turn it around with a $1000 winner yesterday on Purple Lounge. That was around 100 big bets playing between 2/4 and 5/10 Euro.

It started with a pretty long heads up session against a loose/weak fish. I must have been running good, but this guy was so bad I don't think I could have lost even with bad cards. He was seeing about 70% of flops, but with only 25% WTSD. He was folding about 40% of the time to Cbets, and frequently limped his button letting me see free flops with rags. He also failed to Cbet when he missed on scary boards, letting me take down lots of pots with nothing. This stuff is suicide heads up, and I took him to the cleaners (even though HU is not my best game). I felt that I couldn't lose even if I ran bad. There is something very primal about playing heads up until one of you goes busto. This wasn't durrrr vs Isildur1, but it felt like it to me with my tiny little roll.

Shortly after that, I ran into my old friend johnoda, a 75/10 fish who took me to the cleaners at a HU 10/20 Euro game some time ago (which I then recovered from him the next day at 5/10 6max). Found the Jesus seat on a 5/10 table, with a couple of nits on my left - just how I like it. I continued to run good there, and on a couple of other tables (again, well placed with nits on the left and fish on the right). I even managed to survive a huge cooler, when I ran my AK into QQ on a flop of QKK. That wasn't very pretty, but about three hands later I ran my A7cc into the same guy's KQcd on a flop of JT6ccc with the fourth club on the turn.

The win is my biggest ever one day total on cash tables. And boy did I need it after the worst day only last week. As an added bonus, I should have a huge bonus coming in as a result of my VIP deal with Purple Lounge.

Two steps forward and three (or five) steps back

I should just shut my mouth. Seriously.

Last night was horrific. Over 100BB in the space of about two hours. Most of it was at 2/4EUR, where one particular megafish (who was seeing 100% of flops and about 60% of showdowns) was running all over me. He started out on my left, which was horrendous because he was also pretty aggressive. I managed to get him on my right, but by then much of the damage was done.

The $10k mark is suddenly quite a long way off, and it will probably get a bit further, as I am planning to play a qualifier at the casino tonight.

One small comfort is that I'll get a couple of hundred in rakeback at the end of the month, but I am still left with a bad taste.

(almost) Every Hand Revealed

I played the $50k guarantee ($75 buyin) on Pacific this morning (3:30am), courtesy of a free ticket. I managed a pretty deep run, and was actually chipleader at a few points. Sadly I made a few bad errors and had a difficult run towards the end, and ended up with a min cash of $140. This was sadly a long way short of the $12.5k 1st prize that I was aiming for.

I suspect my lack of NL tournament experience showed at times, and in general I did run good in the early to middle stages. I'd be interested in some expert comments.

Here is pretty much the whole tournament laid bare. These are the key pots (all pots where I won or lost 10 or more big blinds). Starting stack was 5000, 10/20 blinds, 20 minute levels.




Individual hand comments:

35: This was the first hand of the tournament. Gotta love flopping two pair and turning a boat. The river bet was an attempt to look bluffy by overbetting the pot. It's tough to get good value so early.
JTdd: Getting busy in late position here. As you can see, the play was pretty retarded for a $75 tournament. Incredible that he can go bust with a single pair here.
54o: Another two pair. This time I am probably giving the flush draw too good a price, but I wanted to keep the pot under control with such a vulnerable hand. The donk bet on the river was a dead giveaway - I probably would have value bet significantly more if he checked to me.
TT: This is probably my limit play getting the better of me. When an overcard flops my pair, I like to raise the flop and see a cheap showdown. I think this early I should probably give the flop donk bet respect, as the players are generally pretty obvious. Dropping so much on the hand was pretty poor, but I was suspiscious of the small bets.
QTo: Getting busy on the button again, and again it works out well. I probably could have got better value out here. Turn check was an attempt to get him to lead the river, but maybe I just need to play straightforwardly and extract maximum value from his K or A.
35hh: Middle pair on the flop, plus a gutshot on the turn. I thought the combination of the turned ace and the rivered pair and flush made it a good spot to bluff, but it didn't come off. I think he folds without an ace.
J9cc: Pretty straightforward. Is there any point in value betting this river? I suspect not.
QQ: Another nice hand. Should I bet the turn? I figured the pot was big enough to get a decent value bet in on the river anyway.
TT: A monster hand, which basically set up my run. It's a cooler for AA, but A2dd got what he deserved.
KQdd: A bit cheeky to fire the second barrel here, but it worked out ok. I shutdown if he calls, obviously.
JJ: Always getting it in versus the shortstack here, and run good enough to river my two outer.
J6dd: Just got drawn into this hand, and hit the wrong outs on the river. I don't really think I could have played it differently.
A8o: Weird hand. Scary board, but the minbets on flop and turn made it pretty clear that he had nothing. I might have folded a bigger river bet, gutshot being the only real possibility for a good hand.
TT: A lot of limping on this table. I liked to punish this tendency from late position. Villain was short, so race was inevitable.
JQss: I should explain that asbo was the megafish on this table. He open limped any two cards, and liked to donk any flop and often followed up on the turn and/or river. But he often folded when put under pressure. After the turn raise, I have to credit him for a hand, and just call for my double belly outs.
AJcc: Overcards plus flushdraw I figure good enough for this allin checkraise. My equity was certainly enough unless he has a set or big pair. I saw a lot of light calls during this tournament.
KQo: Did I mention that asbo was retarded? He claimed this was a bluff gone wrong, but that does not explain his final call on the river. He copped a lot of shit from the table after this.
AQdd: Huge, huge hand. Flop and turn were obviously semibluffs. The river 2.5x pot bluff was just completely inexplicable. I just couldn't put him on the backdoor flush, and surely sets would have done something smaller sooner? Whatever, it was a big call and put me into the tournament chiplead. The guy gave me shit about it for ages, basically calling me a fish for calling his retarded bluff, but whatever.
AQo: Did I mention that asbo was retarded? Yeah, I guess I did. I'll isoraise him all day, and float his inevitable donk bets liberally. Amazingly, he was still building a big stack by pushing the rest of the table around with these obvious and repeated bluffs.
A7o: Isoraising the fish again (the rest of the table were pretty weak, notably the BB here). My top pair is good 90% of the time here. Turn raise, because my kicker problem went away. Unfortunately it came back on the river. Cest la vie.
AQcc: Muppet from previous hand. Shortstack shove is quite likely to be air, but if not my pair outs ought to be good.
JQo: Detecting a pattern here? I like this button raise, especially when it folds out the other limper and leaves me with asbo once again. I had seen this river bluff so often, this was an instacall. After this hand, I hit my peak of 80k in chips which put me comfortably chipleader, with maybe 150 players left.
88: To be honest, I should find a fold here after the limp-reraise from the very tight player. But I figured he might have AK often enough that it was worth calling the short shove.
AJcc: Should probably fold the flop checkraise here. This guy hadn't got too out of line. Turn bet was obviously too big to go fishing for a flush. But part of me still thought that he had air and was just making a play against my presumed blind steal.

After that hand, there was a hell of a long time where I picked up nothing. Very little preflop, and nothing at all to play beyond the flop. Few opportunities to steal (or none). Worse however, I was moved tables leaving my megafish and assorted weak tighties behind.

KQdd: Preflop is fine. On the flop I just need to fold with the guy behind me. Raising was asking for trouble, and I got it. Shut down once he called my raise.
72o: Nice hand to bust out on eh? Flopping top pair is all very nice, but I probably shouldn't push it with four players seeing the flop. The raise is questionable to say the least. Once AAMERICK shoved over the top, I recalled the KQdd hand and figured he could be making a play recalling the same hand. The bet size certainly looked like it didn't want to see a call. Daft way to play a set, but perhaps an even dafter way to play 72o. Note in my defence: I had been playing for over five hours by this stage, having woken at 3:30am to play.

It's notable that I went from 200/400 to 800/1600 (6 levels) winning only one hand of note. So if my early tournament was a heater (you bet), then my late tournament was probably a cooler.

PLOtastic

I rocked up for a $100 PLO donkament at Burswood on Tuesday with a pretty solid understanding that I suck at PLO. I was joined by none other than TiocfaidhArLa from "Poker Career Downunder", who flew in - scheduled to arrive at the airport at 6:35, made it to the casino by about 6:55 (tourney started at 6:30) and got to his stack only 150 down. It was a pleasure to finally catch up, and we managed to have a good chat over a beer as well as playing a bit of (lol)limitaments afterwards. He busted out of the PLO shortly before me.

Played pretty tight for quite a while and found no playable hands. My first raggy AA hand I limped in EP intending to RR if the opportunity arose. Alas, it was called in about 5 places and I had to release it on the flop. The second AA hand I raised in MP, called from the button. Flop top set, but don't get paid. Maybe I could have checked it since the board was raggy but NM.

First really big hand was AKQ9, maybe double suited, maybe button. I Raised, flop goes 3 way. Flop KK9. Checked to me, I bet out nearly pot. One caller on my left (has me covered). Turn A (oh yes), I bet, he calls, river rags out and we get it all in. MHIG: he says he had K9. A couple more small pots and I am up to nearly 11k in chips with average still at 3.5k.

Then I lose a bit to a short stack, my KK53hhcc against his KQQxss when he makes a spade flush on the river. Move to a new table and the next big hand (cooler): I have AKJJss, pot it, flop goes 3 ways. Flop is JT6dd. I pot, call, guy on my right with Tourettes (but seemed like a really good bloke) raises AI, I call, other player folds. He has TT with the diamond draw. Diamond comes on the turn, river does not fill my boat. After that, I wasn't quite crippled but pretty badly damaged. I lost another AIPF against a dominated short stack with something like AKKJ to his KQTx with him making some stupid straight or something. My really bad hand (getting a bit short) was to raise KJT9cc, flop comes ATxhh, and I pot in an attempt to take it down. He RR me all-in, and I fold (he showed AQTx no hearts). I probably had the odds to call for the gutshot, but elected to limp on with my remaining pittance. It didn't last too long - I got it in good heads up once again but got drawn out on the turn.

Not too unhappy with how I played. If my top set of jacks had held up, I would have been in pretty good position to final table and maybe cash. And of course it was about 100 times better than the last rebuy PLO where i didn't win a single pot.

After that, I played 90 minutes or so of limit. Had pretty good position on two truly awful players. One middle aged lady (regular) who limp calls almost any cards preflop and cold calls most raises, and plays cards virtually face up postflop. The other was a chubby guy from Victoria who sounded like he plays a lot but just played so bad, calling down bottom pair to bets and raises multi-way etc. Anyway I started by losing nearly 100 when I raise JJ in MP, and get called by the usual suspects. I bet all the way on a board of tiny cards, and get raised on the end with the board reading something like 23459. I can probably fold easily here, but the pot was huge so I called to see not one but two players catching 6 high gutshots on the end (to be fair, one of them had a small pair to go with it, but still).

After that I won a decent pot with 77ui on a K25Tx board. I Cbet the flop (3 way), and the turn went check-check, so I value bet the river. I got raised and nearly folded since chubby was AI and the sidepot was tiny, but I call and he can't beat chubby's pair of 2s so MHIG. After that I won another decent hand and left exactly even to the dollar. But wow, the standard of play on that table was terrible. There were a couple of regs at the other end of the table who were decent, everyone else (except for TFAL sitting in the Jesus seat on my right) was either a passive calling station or a rock.

footnote:

Playing poker with Tourettes must be a particular challenge. The guy in the tournament was twitching constantly, occasionally shaking his head dramatically, and sometimes letting out an unintentional expletive. I didn't really try too hard to get a read on his tics, but I'm sure they must be readable.

Comeback!

johnoda (villain from yesterday) found me and sat two to my right on an already fishy 10/20 table. Bottom line: I managed to win back all of yesterday's loss (but not before getting sucked out by a rivered flush and a runner-runner gutshot straight).

It was a risky move to sit at 10/20 again, but it was too juicy to resist. The result is that my bankroll has been on a bender: down $500, up $700 today, and up and down like a yoyo over the past four or five days.

I'll have to sit down and decide if I really want to keep taking shots at 10/20.

Having a whale of a time at 5/10

I noticed a EUR5/10 table running on Eurolinx, and watched a few rounds.

This caught my attention:



Yes, that's right folks, he checks AA in the BB in a multi-way limped pot, then check-calls two streets, and THEN raises when the board has paired. Awesome. The best part is that his stats are like 96/60, and he clearly only checks the nuts here.

Needless to say, I jumped on that list. Unfortunately, I had to wait ages before a spot came up. When it did, it started poorly but eventually turned around:




Postscript:

I'm back on the table. The uberfish left and came back. He's now on my left, with a 62/10 on his left, and a 70/17 on my right. The 47/21 on his right is a nit by comparison. One proper TAG opposite, and we have a 58/25 table. Wow.

PPS:

Finished the session with QQ vs AK on a AQx flop. That was nice. 45BB on a 5/10 table is quite a lot :-D

First cooler in a while

I had my first tough session in some time last night. I played a EUR5/10 and 3/6 table on Eurolinx, and a 3/6 on Cake. I ended up just under $200 down, which wasn't too bad considering I was probably down closer to $400 at one stage.

It wasn't one of those bad beat after bad beat sessions, but just one where it seemed like my good hands were never paid off (AA wins the blinds) while my marginal hands were pounded, and my draws seldom came in.

I'm glad I stuck with it, as I ended up getting paid off by a 20/5 nitfish on my left on the EUR3/6 table. My pocket aces were capped preflop. Flop came king high, and I just called his threebet fearing KK a little bit. Turn was an A for top set and we capped up both the turn and river. Fish turned up AK for the most abysmally played top two in the face of my pretty obvious AA or KK. Nice result for a >130 Euro pot.

I guess this was the wrong time to take a shot at the 5/10 table

(Euros btw) But it was fishy, and I couldn't resist:



But on the plus side:

• I didn't lose as much as I might have
  
• I didn't tilt
• I didn't chase the loss after the fish on my right left
• I managed to (almost) break even on the session, even after dumping 15BB on a 2/4

Sidenote: Capping 87s pre is pretty bad, but I think check calling the flop with a set and then donking the turn is possibly worse.

Sometimes it's good to have the fish on your left

Sometimes it can be handy to have the passive calling fish on your left.

For these hands, both the players on my left were huge fish calling almost any action preflop with any two cards, and paying off with marginal hands postflop. This gives you a great opportunity to play drawing hands like small pairs and suited aces from early position.

Sitting UTG+1 and UTG (consecutive hands), I would nearly always dump 66 and A3s at a FR table. Here, limping gave the opportunity to create a big family pot.



Note there is a bit of a glitch in the replay, as I was UTG+1 and UTG not UTG+2 and UTG+1. Also Ron was BB in the second hand.

The first hand didn't work so well when fish #2 folded, and we ended up three ways. On the eight high diamond flop I figured my hand was worth a value bet, but unfortunately my gin on the turn was not paid off.

Hand two worked almost perfectly, with my two fish coming along for the ride and a late position raiser. The TP+FD flop was perfect, and I bet for value. The turn bet is probably a mistake since I am almost certainly still drawing.

I made a few more good pots against alli after these. I made "isolation" raises, which he would call and the rest of the table fold. He then calls two Cbets and my Q high junk holds up :)

Cake is bad, and theblindman runs goot!

How many bets does it take before you realise that your top pair 2nd kicker (no redraw) is no good on a paired flushing board? Quite a lot apparently!

Come to mention it, 3/6 on Cake is incredibad too!

Just spent an hour in the Jesus seat on Cake 3/6 FL. Guy on my right was limping and cold calling nearly 100% of flops, and calling many bets beyond with no pair and no hope. Not only that, but he had $1000 in front of him! Sadly it didn't last, and he eventually went away. The bottom line was very good for my bankroll however - around 40BB

3/6 FL on Microgaming is incredibad

3/6 Limit Holdem
4 players
Converted at weaktight.com


Stacks:

CO	_temujin_	($174.39)
BTN	Hero	($175.78)
SB	puppy12	($686.53)
BB	MrTromso18	($150.55)

Pre-flop: (1.5 SB, 4 players) Hero is BTN

_temujin_ raises, Hero 3-bets, 1 fold, MrTromso18 calls, _temujin_ calls

Flop: (9.5 SB, 3 players)
MrTromso18 checks, _temujin_ checks, Hero bets, MrTromso18 calls, _temujin_ calls

Turn: (6.2 BB, 3 players)
MrTromso18 checks, _temujin_ checks, Hero bets, MrTromso18 raises, _temujin_ folds, Hero 3-bets, MrTromso18 4-bets, Hero calls

River: (14.2 BB, 2 players)
MrTromso18 bets, Hero raises, MrTromso18 folds

Final Pot: 17.2 BB

Hero wins 16.8 BB ( won +8.8 BB )
_temujin_ lost 2.0 BB
MrTromso18 lost 7.0 BB



3/6 Limit Holdem
6 players
Converted at weaktight.com


Stacks:

UTG	Hero	($105.90)
UTG+1	taratoto	($51.00)
CO	MrTromso18	($15.53)
BTN	lowehjerte	($69.31)
SB	_temujin_	($164.29)
BB	pikkupeto	($217.35)

Pre-flop: (1.5 SB, 6 players) Hero is UTG

Hero raises, taratoto calls, MrTromso18 calls, lowehjerte 3-bets, 1 fold, pikkupeto calls, Hero 4-bets, taratoto calls, MrTromso18 calls, lowehjerte calls, pikkupeto calls

Flop: (20.5 SB, 5 players)
pikkupeto checks, Hero bets, 1 fold, MrTromso18 raises, lowehjerte calls, pikkupeto calls, Hero calls

Turn: (12.6 BB, 4 players)
pikkupeto checks, Hero checks, lowehjerte bets, pikkupeto calls, Hero calls

River: (15.6 BB, 4 players)
pikkupeto checks, Hero checks, lowehjerte checks

Final Pot: 15.6 BB
lowehjerte shows:
pikkupeto shows:
Hero shows:
MrTromso18 shows:

Hero wins 15.1 BB ( won +11.5 BB )
lowehjerte lost 3.6 BB
pikkupeto lost 3.6 BB
taratoto lost 2.0 BB
MrTromso18 lost 2.6 BB

Going fishing

Has anyone else noticed that sometimes there seem to be *more* fish at high stakes rather than fewer?

While dipping my toes back in the limit waters over the last couple of weeks, I have definitely found more fish at the 2/4 and 3/6 (Euro) tables compared to 1/2 (and 3/6 has usually been worse than 2/4). In the evenings I am finding a very consistent supply of fish in the 80/5, to 50/20 range. Some hyper aggressive postflop (60% bet percentage), some ultra-passive (15% bet percentage), but all pretty bad. I wonder if this is indicative that some players who are just there to gamble will simply play the highest stakes available - which is usually the 3/6 game.

The results have been very good, or at least I have managed to run reasonably well. The last few nights I have managed to rack up a few decent 10-30BB wins, which at 3/6 Euro is very nice indeed. This has dug me out of another hole which owed to my PLO disaster and a brief NL cooler. Meanwhile I am also racking up rakeback like gangbusters and shaping up well for a $100-$150 finish in the rake race.

Been a little while..

It's nearly two weeks since I posted! I'm a very bad boy. The reason for that, inevitably, is a horror cooler. Part of that was a live PLO rebuy tournament where I rebought twice and did not win a single hand whatsoever.

Recent days I have made a decent recovery playing some good old fixed limit on Eurolinx. The fish have been everywhere this week. Here is a nice hand from tonight:


2/4 Limit Holdem
6 players
Converted at weaktight.com


Stacks:

UTG	nkgud	($22.35)
UTG+1	Rayon	($143.55)
CO	redman42	($89.16)
BTN	vortice	($101.38)
SB	mallo83	($192.00)
BB	Hero	($94.90)

Pre-flop: (1.5 SB, 6 players) Hero is BB

nkgud raises, 1 fold, redman42 calls, vortice calls, 1 fold, Hero calls (7:1 is good enough for ATC here)

Flop: (8.5 SB, 4 players)
Hero checks, nkgud bets, redman42 calls, vortice calls, Hero calls (middle pair is just fine getting about 100:1 here)

Turn: (6.2 BB, 4 players) (bingo, time to checkraise)
Hero checks, nkgud bets (awesome), redman42 raises (hmm, maybe not so great), vortice calls, Hero calls, nkgud calls (pot is huge, so I have to see a showdown)

River: (14.2 BB, 4 players)
Hero checks, nkgud checks, redman42 bets, 1 fold, Hero calls, nkgud folds

Final Pot: 16.2 BB
Hero shows:
redman42 shows:
(that's right, folks two bets cold in the cutoff)
Hero wins 15.5 BB ( won +11.0 BB )
nkgud lost 3.5 BB
redman42 lost 4.5 BB
vortice lost 3.5 BB

Ahhh, fishies..

Gotta love 'em, gotta hate 'em.

By the way this is Euro, not $$. I was doing fine until this hand came along. It went up and back down the toilet after that.

http://www.holdemmanager.net
Limit Holdem $2(BB) Prima Game#2500150881

Hero ($80.75)
Arnaldo19 ($80.30)
Sokje ($118)
Rayon ($75.61)
Twistoffate ($280)
AKONNIE ($63.50)

Hero posts (SB) $1
Arnaldo19 posts (BB) $2

Dealt to Hero Kc Kd
fold, fold, fold,
AKONNIE calls $2
Hero raises to $4
Arnaldo19 raises to $6
AKONNIE calls $4
Hero raises to $8
Arnaldo19 calls $2
AKONNIE calls $2

FLOP ($24) 6c 3h Jd
Hero bets $2
Arnaldo19 raises to $4
AKONNIE calls $4
Hero raises to $6
Arnaldo19 raises to $8
AKONNIE calls $4
Hero calls $2

TURN ($48) 6c 3h Jd 6h
Hero bets $4
Arnaldo19 calls $4
AKONNIE raises to $8
Hero calls $4
Arnaldo19 calls $4

RIVER ($72) 6c 3h Jd 6h 4h
check, check,
AKONNIE bets $4
Hero calls $4
Arnaldo19 calls $4

AKONNIE shows 5d 6d
(Flop 25.2%, Turn 90.5%)

Hero shows Kc Kd
(Flop 55.3%, Turn 4.8%)

Arnaldo19 shows Jc As
(Flop 19.5%, Turn 4.8%)

AKONNIE wins $81

Pokerstars: so far, so good

I was under the impression that players at Pokerstars were better on average than other sites. TAGgier and tougher. Maybe I was wrong.

I played one table for an hour or so tonight and picked up 35BB in pretty quick time. A heater and a small sample admittedly, but the players seemed really quite bad. A couple of too aggressive (60/40 type) players, and a couple of loose/weak players (44/0 and too tight post flop).

Anyway, I've turned my $50 deposit into $120 so far and I will see how I go while finishing my deposit bonus. I probably won't stay while I have Rakeback elsewhere, but you never know.