BRUTAL fuck-a-round with Pokerstars!

Just a ridiculous bunch of shitty circumstances this past month with Pokerstars. It's been a week or so now to digest how f'n lame of a situation it turned into & coming to the realization that not just anyone can play on their site & if someone wants to attempt to cause you problems with slanderous bullshit it can definitely get you right fucked up. After doing some research, I've discovered many accounts that Pokerstars has banned, barred, etc. without providing details to back their accusations, & giving 'canned' email responses (if they even bother to respond that is.... which incidentally they haven't to myself & this is after telling me I could go & withdrawal my account funds.... but then when I go to do it, of course there's some restrictions in the process (ie. transfer FTP funds to Stars to WD from there via bank transfer but of course the Stars WD bank transfer had already gone through & now had to wait another 24hrs. which would put me past the deadline they gave to me.. pff.. what a f'n joke.. and of course ZERO help from their support (they actually responded 6days later, informing me they'd be getting back to me very soon (& then never did... yet). Anyways... I discovered many others who've been barred on Stars & of course there's no recourse for getting account reactivated. Meanwhile on forums you can read about sooo many higher stakes players caught for shit like fraud, multi-accounting & TONS of other cheating ass scammy bullshit but then they're back playing on the site shortly after?????? (could it be because they're generating a shit ton of rake?..). Who am I to stars? Some f'n micro donk who pays the minimum in rake but pulls off $3 or $400 a month... a donk who takes advantage of every micro dollar-added freerollin' donkament on the sites. Was REALLY bummed about the situation as I actually had plans of upping my play on there, putting in some volume to pull in $1,000 to $1,500/mth. regularly but now will just have to figure out a schedule on some other sites & put together a bankroll to work with (did think about the zero-to-hero challenge but it's such a f'n grind & I don't think I have it in me anymore & probably a waste of time I could be spending on something more +ev). Another lesson learned.... just a shit ton of idiots in the poker community with an even larger percentage of them hanging out on the poker forums. I'm f'n embarassed for getting addicted to a site like Cardschat. What a massive waste of time & is HUGELY -ev (there's absolutely ZERO to learn on that site... or close to zero; nobody worth it to hook up with re: strat. talk (unless you want to deal with emotional tards & ego donkfucks). Evertying I don't like about the poker community I've wasted my time around (everything except the degen gambling & money borrowing fuktard crowd). The lesson with this is > if you're not in the ass-kissing or 'look at me' crowd, & if you have a tendancy to be a bit of a 'tell it like it is... aka prick', you can run the risk of jealous f'n idiots (& tons of emotionally retarded people - - I have run into some REALLY WEIRD SHIT... & many of them I thought were 'friends', LoL.. no doubt if I'd met them in person I wouldn't have had a single thing to do with them, seeing the for the social misfits they are..... still searching for the correct words here as I seem to be missing my own point.... how bout > fk'n weirdos To sum it up. I've suffered a HUGE loss which came with a major personal expense. Really bothers me that I've been accused of cheating when I am sooooo far from being a cheater it is insane!!! The things I am guilty of are: being naive, being wayyyy too generous with money (on pokersites to others... to friends.. to family.. to forum members... to even total strangers (how many of them gave or sent money to me? NONE! Meanwhile I've given away over $10k, lol.. what a f'n joke!). Good thing I didn't get into any serious backing... I'd have fucked myself for sure. I'm also guilty of staying in wayyy too many micro forum donk-ass games & spending just wayyyy too much time studying the game (when most of them are just donks & one needs to dumby down the thinking ALOT in order to play them just one level above in the thinking cuz they are that bad!). Seeing evidence of weird-ass jealous goofy idiots, but not heeding the warnings or thinking they could actually cause me a problem by their whining (when I KNEW I was guilty of nothing!!.. but didn't think that it didn't matter... I could still get fucked over regardless). I should've stayed away from the goofy forum bullshit A LONG time ago!! (& fuck the posting... pfff... why do I want to help someone get better at this game? that is the stupidest thing I've ever heard of). Live & Learn. Pretty lame pm from the CC mod. staff. Pff... they ban Jenna from playing in any of their games but they let her stay on the site (gimmee a break! as if she'll want to have anything to do with their site when they didn't even message her or anything... but then again they didn't bother even asking me about what was going on with Stars & FTR goofs (fuck you Keith_MM you goofy loser kid... what a joke reading your posts, acting 'as if' you're better than the other donks on the sites... then posting your yearly giraffe of your tourney wins! (when the majority comes from playin your ftr donk buds, lol.... in a game where you play like sheeee-ite... how many years? & you still suck!).. for the big total of $800 (no not for yesterday... no not last week....or last month.. nope.. the ENTIRE YEAR! gosh.. you're a champ!... that's almost $5/day!). I thought CC would've been interested in hearing what was going on for me??????? Nope. I'm not in the debi cool crowd. 'no room for discussion' < LoL Guess I'll have no room for discussing anything ever again on your forum aside from the bare minimum to enter your games.

Funny one here, 4th in one of those 100k Privilege Freerolls on Pokerstars

This one was funny because I had completely forgotten about it shortly after it started. I think I doubled & tripled up a couple times early & then satout once my partner arrived home (had minimized screen & then completely forgot about it). I left my desk, went to eat then did a bunch of other stuff before coming back to my computer maybe 1hr. later (probably longer). I still had chips! & real close to the bubble. Then ran pretty good (hands held up, lol) & finally out in 4th of 7,847 entrants for $80.03. Kind of a bummer how it ended as one stack had only <4bb's & he limps otb & I shove in SB with ATo on ~15bb's.. but then BB wakes up with a hand & calls.. SS 'folds' :( BB's QQ holds & I"m out. SS wins an extra fiddy.. sigh.

Freeroll win after a bad run

1st today in the Cardschat Pokerstars freeroll.

HendonMob April League - two more Top10 leaderboard results!

Picked up some more prizes for finishing in top10 on both the Pokerstars & Fulltilt HendonMob leaderboards for the April League. Won a $55 ticket on stars & a $109 on Fulltilt. snoop managed a 1st place in the Pokerstars league & she won $500 worth of tickets! NICE!

'Freeroll' Saturday

Seems like I get into a pattern of playing freerolls on Saturday mornings & because there's quite a few of them, I end up rarely playing anything else but 'freerolls'. One funny one today was the POKERNEWS SundayStorm 100 ticket freeroll. 10,000 entrants & managed to place & win a ticket, lol. Another pokerORG final table, 3rd of 95. Adds a few more bucks onto the Carbon account & should bump me up a place or two in the Leaderboard standings. (need to hit top3 in this series for sure!!!). Also played the 'BigBang' (PSO) tourney today - - placed 8th of 907 entrants & picked up $172.33 In the past two mos., investing only 910vpp's, I've won $99 + $172 ... total of $281 I swear those are the easiest way to win a few extra bucks on Stars these days. Lastly, I've picked up an addiction to multi-tabling micro ZOOM 6-max tables & have actually probably played over 40,000 hands in the past 2 mos. It's pretty sick. Need to stop this insanity & make better use of my time. Thing is, I get online & figure to only have maybe 20mins. of time to play, can't lose at micro zoom, grab a few pts. while at it. Need to re-allocate my time & put in some SNG sessions instead.

took another freebie ticket to a final table on Carbon

Won another $11 ticket on FTR for Carbon. Used it to play another of the EarlyBird tourneys & took 9th/219 for $42.71 that's two tickets both for cashes. Have hardly played at all on Carbon & now from those two freebie tickets ($2 & $11) I've built it up to almost $350. Still don't want to play on that site, lol. Time to take it out for grocery money.

New April League - HendonMob - off to a good start!

The Hendon Mob April League started up today, with games on both Fulltilt & Pokerstars. Off to a great start in both with a 1st place finish on Stars & a 3rd on FTP!! Some REALLY great prizes up for grabs in this month's league & I intend on getting some of them! Dar played a great game today too, taking 3rd in the Stars game. Unfortunately went out early in the Fulltilt game, after losing a big pot with AA vs. J9s on a J-T-4(rbo) flop.... she cbets, he check-Clik-raises from SB... she RRAI & he calls it off, & hits a '9' on the river (ugh!).

Double Trouble... missing out on the $'s

Another double dose of less than good luck today. Woke up feeling like crap but had plans on using ~$700 worth of tourney tickets (in STT SNG's). Just felt off though & blew up a bit at my partner over something trivial (trying to play while TV movie was blasting... maybe a $250 investment in Bose headphones would pay for itself?). Playing the final game of the PokerPlayer Magazine (UK) series (4-games) had no clue I had any pts. on the leaderboard & with no clue how they were accounting for the pts. in the final game. Then with 6players left I discover that whoever wins this final game will actually win enough pts. to take the leaderboard 1st place prize of 500euros!!! (top3 pd. in tourney). Guy on the button raises it up to 900... (150/300) I shove 11bb's in BB w AKs. he calls w KQo. Board comes 8-5-7 4 3 (sigh) we chop :( earlier on, 18 players left (60/120) I'm sitting with 4,200 (biggest stack on table), I raise with AJo utg1 & BB calls. Flop QsThKh I lead out for over 2/3 pot... he calls. Turn brings a 3rd heart '7h' He checks... I bet out again ~60% & he check-raises me BIG (leaving himself only ~8bb's behind). I time down & fold the flopped nuts (broadway straight)... feeling sick while doing so (but still will have largest stack on table & there's plenty of soft spots as the majority are weak players. Later I wonder 'wtf was that?' And wished I'd just gotten it in. Guy on forum tells me "I thought you were weak there. Thought I was ahead with my AQ & the Q was Qh so I had a flush draw if I was behind" I'm thinking that he was thinking that I was strong in that spot. I mean AJ is the bottom of my range there pre... so what could I have where I'm c-betting that board & then leading turn again (after being called & I know he's not calling with garbage there due to stack sizes, etc.). I could have AQ (with Ah), AK, KK, TT I'm not going to have AhTx (cuz I'm not raising in utg1 in that situation (lots of resteal stacks on table 12-17bb range). I might have KQs flopping Top2 Which of those hands can he get to fold? (well... He got me to fold the flopped nuts! LoL). I just assumed he'd figure I was uber strong there but obviously not. Cuz his thinkin was "Figured you weren't strong" Probably my biggest leak... trying to think what they're thinking. Especially in the micro tourneys where they're 'not' thinking & even in these priv. forum games where it's not much beyond level1 thinking stuff. (ie. like am I double barrelling weak'ish' hands that have good showdown value there? basically turning them into a bluff? Am I double barrelling 99 in that spot? Maybe 'JJ'.. with the oesd? (meh.. I'm sure I check that one back on the turn). Anyways, it turns out to be a ridiculously tight fold but I find once I get a few games under my belt on these priv. games I get player reads down pretty decently & do a bit better later on (ie. I still don't know the PuntersLounge players very well at all... girlfriend knows them & her comment was "Just assume that they're all donkeys because almost all of them are. There's a few good players but chances are you'll be up vs. a donk." Hendon Mob games I did crap in the first month, til' I discovered who was a winning reg. & who wasn't. Who overvalues hands, who's often full of shit & picking bad spots. Who are the level1 thinkers.. etc. etc. Last two mos. I've won a ticket on leaderboard every time. I end up going out in 4th for NO money... with 77 < 66 (aipf.. I open shove otb.. they call it off in SB) & once again for the ChipLead. Same guy donked me out in the last PokerPlayer buyin game on WillHill. he jams 20bb's otb with J8o & I call it off with AdQd on BB. Board comes 6s2sAs Qh (me now on Top2!!!!!).. river 7s, giving him the flush, sigh. As usual I did the shits in the CC games this weekend. That FTP $600 satty tickets freeroll evades me once again, winning nothin this time (typically only winning a $3 ticket... at least I won the hoodie, a t-shirt & a coffee mug with my $3 ticket in the CC Invasion). Worst laydown in awhile. And two bummer beats close to some decent dollars! Turns an easy potential $800+ day into a dismal $50 day. (Final table bubbled the $1k PokerCoach freeroll on WilliamHill... with KK < AQo for the chiplead).

finally!! Took 1st in the Cardschat buyin on Carbon!

After running like total shit for ages in the Cardschat Carbon game I finally take one down! Decent payout for a $5 buyin... 1st/31 for $127.51

Double Bubble

Ugh! Had 4 tourneys on the go after working all day. PokerTube on BlackChip with $250added. Cardschat Carbon freeroll. Cardschat $500 mission freeroll. FTR $300 added, + 5x $38 satty tickets to the $100k on Bodog. Go out closing in on bubble in the Daily Mission AK < JJ aipf. Why is that no surprise? Played it 3x now, first time I was the exact bubble boy (pd. 42 & I went out 43rd). Cashed once. In the FTR game on Bodog, I placed ITM but went out in 6th, missing out on the $38 ticket :( And finally in the PokerTube game on BlackChipPoker, I went out in 4th place (7 places paid) only to discover that the $250 added was just for the Top3 spots, lol..... sigh :( busto hand was aipf A2o < 64o on a A-2-4 flop.. '8' trn... '4' river. OMFG! Ended up with some minimal cashes, losing out on at least $100 (but possibly much more). Oh well. Shoulda just taken a nap instead. Here's the busto hand..

Placed Top10 (again) in HendonMob league on Pokerstars

Managed a 7th place finish in the final game of the Feb. season on Pokerstars today which moved me into 7th overall for the league & means I've won ANOTHER $109 ticket! That's 2x $215 + 2x $109 in the last two series! reallyyyyyy enjoying those HendonMob League games & not just for the chance to win the big tourney tickets but also because there's some really good players in them & has been fun playing vs. them. Here's hoping for a three-peat next month! Hopefully I'll be back here with an update on some deep runs with the big tickets! (I wish, lol)

Slow going ... still :( but played the SundayMillion & won some tickets in leagues!

Had all kinds of grandiose plans for 2014 & am falling short on all of them (so far). I don't even have my new computer up & running yet (sigh... I feel like selling it, lol). Haven't played much, TONS of work obilgations & now just recently totally f4cked up my back :( Never thought I'd be wanting to get back to working so badly. One would think it'd be prime time to play the pokerzz but my back is soooo f'n bad it hurts to sit in my puter chair. Have managed to play in some private games & doing decently in the HendonMob league with a 3rd place overall finish in the Feb. Fulltilt Leaderboard.... good for another $215 ticket!!! The wife actually pulled off a 1st in that league! WoW! With a 2nd place finish in the final game (& I got 3rd). Was very fortunate to have been able to play in the 8th Anniv. SundayMillion tourney on Pokerstars this past weekend. Had a few shots at a ticket... all for free (of course, lol). I won an 11T$'s in a satty & used it to play a big satty to the SunMill., but bombed out. Then a $55 ticket from a deposit but lost that one too (raised in EP on 25bb's... player in LP 3bai. Looked him up & saw he was a HSMTT reg. so figured his range to be fairly wide in that spot, called & he showed AQo... but lost the flip). Last chance was from placing in top300 of a 'freeroll' satellite that had 10,000 entrants. I won the $33 Ticket! Played the 333seat gtd. satty & won a $215 entry from it!!! Hung around in the SunMill for a couple/few hrs., then with ~13bb's I went out with AA vs JJ on a J-T-9 flop (allin preflop). Oh well. No big deal. It was just great getting to play in this game 'for free'!! (< may favourite way, lol).

2014 slow start /fast computer!

Finally purchased myself a new computer! Fractal Design Arc Mini R2 i5-4670 Samsung 840 'PRO' G.SKILLZ 2x 4GB Ram ASUS H70M-PRO Haven't been playing much poker.... 'yet', lol. BUT am getting ready to hit it hard. Planning on playing Tues., Thurs. & Sun. each week. Did manage to place in both Jan. Leaderboards with Hendon Mob League & picked up a $215 Fulltilt ticket & a $109 Pokerstars ticket! Also won the final Stars game even after disconnecting for 34mins. with final 6players & ending up with <2bb's when I finally re-connected. Was pretty cool.

Finish off 2013 fairly solidly, re-motivated for 2014!

With 2013 coming to a close my main focus was to figure out how to consolidate a bunch of small balances on obscure sites I rarely ever play on. With Skrill closing it's doors to Canadian players, I didn't want to leave any balances out there in limbo. Went at it with a plan but it changed frequently, lol. One nice surprise was seeing a small balance left on JuicyStakes, thinking I could withdrawal it then discovering it's a $150 minimum. Thought I might try to run it up from $60 but then read some forum posts saying JS players weren't even getting paid. Then got an email wiht a list of Holiday Tourneys on there, played the very first one, shipped it for $197.77, put in for a withdrawal & actually received a week later! (today, lol). Another cool one was at myBet (iPoker site). I deposited a bit to bring the balance up high enough so I could make a withdrawal. Then they told me I'd need to verify my account with documents (I know I'd done this before!). Then they tell me I'd need to play out the amount I'd deposited. wtf? I had enough iPoker sites to play on, with a number of different special tourneys lined up that I didn't need this wrench thrown into the mix! So I figured "FU myBet!" And I went & bet it all on a women's ski race, actually shipping it at like a 21 to 1 longshot, LOL. Then put in for a withdrawal & was paid in full! (tks myBet, I only wanted my $50 but I'll take the $700 tyvm!). Did something simliar on another iPoker site, but this time I bet on a men's downhill racer from Canada... & sure enough he wins!! And again I win at something like 14to1. Love it! A great way to close out the year! .... now if I could only get my money off of Lock Poker :( You never know though, I did actually receive an email from them today.... Only other site I still have a WD pending on now is Carbon. Decided to pull just about everything off of there aside from 2buyins for the Cardschat priv. tourneys because I do not see any easy (or cheap) method to WD funds from there going forward & I am not into dicking around anymore in that respect. And, I can always win a few bucks in the priv. freerolls on Carbon in hopes of getting to play a few more of the CC buyin games on that site. Have a few sites to grind a bit on for january but not going to get started seriously til' probably mid-late January. Will be posting my plans for 2014 for the pokerzz as they're going to be quite a bit different from what they have been the last couple/few years (ie. no more wasting my time playing some of the garbage private stuff & will be investing into more play/volume during the times when I am on the computer (less forum b.s., unless it is for a purpose). also going to sign-up to two training sites (part of my Christmas present) & am looking forward to that. Also .... well I'll save it for the next post, LoL. Am getting myself a new computer... FINALLY!! I figure I deserve it & is a way to celebrate some of the money I'm pulling offline via Skrill from Dec. gl on the virtual tables & EV EVeryone < enjoy variance