i´m in BPPT stage 2

for 10 min i couldn´t get in the portuguese BPPT satelite so i decided to enter the satelite to all players. And i did it i finish 1st and i get my seat to saturday.
i´m going to try to finish in top 3 because i really want a seat in BPPT and since i dont get a sponsership yet if i couldnt get the seat i´m going to pay 550€+50 the buy in. one thing i know i will be threre period. Because i got trafic in the way home i couldnt record the match. well wait for saturday i promiss.

have fun
and remember
"if you want to win u couldn´t get afraid to lose"
play agressive
loose or tight
i prefer a more loose in the beggining to raise my chips and after i x2,5 or more i start to play more tight
i really think that is the best option to win a tournment
People normally play alot tight in the begging and then get a bad beat and start to make stupid moves. i dont care about bad beats ... i dont even want to listen to them
they happend to everyone
they will happend to you more and more because if you get afraid play chess or other game
remember that because poker is like life
sometimes its not fair
but at the end the best hand wins
so want you want to do its to make the right moves and dont put all your chips in a coin flip
AQoff AJoff AToff and mid pairs are stupid to go all in
unless you already get a good picture of the other players
i undertand all in moves at mid stage of the tournment not in the beggining

well i´m going to rest now because i´m tired
it was a hell of a day
and the gym just kill me
i´m off
francisco "the truth" Costa

Tonight

i´m going to record my game at betfair satelite for BPPT. it´s going to be my 1st video and i dont know how it going to be but i thought it would be funny to do so.
At the end i´m going to comment hand by hand.

cya later because now i´m going to the gym

nothing mutch

to say

yesterday i played a BPPT satelite but i finish mid table 22 out 44 on betfair
and i played the 10k grt in everest. Even finish ITM i only won small amount.
its was a big field and after i just grt the money i played verry agressive. when i was on the button after everyone folded i bet 3x the pot i dont remember the blinds but i think it was 800-400 or so. i got a call. i had AQsuitted and i had a fantastic flop As Qs 7c i just made a small bet 1/2 the pot and the other guy just went all in. well i couldn´t understand... AA? no... QQ? nah 77 crazy but could be
but i put him on Ashit or even in flush draw.
i was wrong the guy was stupid he had KK
well maybe not because on the river the got that luck K
and it was over
i finish 90´shit over 1000´s nice but not for me

no poker this weekend

my girls asked me to go spend the weekend to his summer house and away we go.
so my friends without internet there was no poker this weekend.

cya
francisco "the truth" Costa

BIG DECISION

The day started with a nice freeroll.

Freeroll you might ask! yeah
this freeroll gives the oportunity to be in the bankroll builder with a total of 2,5 GTD

so its not total BS.


later i try to get a seat to the SPT aka spanish Poker tour.
i finish 3rd only with 2 seats to the event.
damm i was itm but what i wanted was the seat not the 40$ for the 3rd place
i fell like a bboy with money
damm



well i was crazy mad and i decided to close everest
and went to pokerpt to see the news

then i saw Betfair will organize the BPPT aka betfair Portuguese poker tour with a buy in of 550€+50.
i thought for 1-2 min and decided that i´m going to be there.
Since i could pay the tournment via betfair
i decided to donwload the thing
i deposit 900$
because i wanted to get the special promotion $600x2
well i started to look at it.

betfair is alot different of everest
everest is more easy to find the thing
after having a look there are more GRT money with lower buy in
but betfair have alot of satelites
satelite for this satelite for that
dammm
besides poker betfair also have sports bets and that i like alot
because i´m a nba top tiper

crazy
well i decided to play my 1st game because i need to see the layout
the players
etc
i didn´t like the layout got to be honest
but i like the bad quality of the players
outch
they played so bad
crazy
i finish in 2nd place and won around 120$
well this is important because it will help me pay the buy in in BPPT



cya guys

Francisco "the truth" Costa

AGAIN AND AGAIN

i just won again a pack to play next sunday the 100k garanty.
it was a satelite 3+0.3$ with R in the 1st hour and 1 add on ( op )
i will post all my tournment hands ( only the big ones ) and hands from other players in a total of 20 hands.
i will talk about what is ok and what is not
and satelite rebuy strategie
but right now i´m going to the gym
i need to relax!!!

just spend the last hour copy past the 20 hands for you bastards. :)
well you deserv it

cya in 3hours

Back

1st of all Strategy Satelite with Rebuys

---- why people don´t play this even more tight than normal ? ------

i can´t explain that
In this kind of tournments the fish normaly play this tournment too damm loose
they want to see the flop
they dont mind to lose the chips because they can rebuy and its cheap
and they will re raise your hands with nothing

my ADVICE play even more tight choose top pair or AK AQ to play be patience
because the blinds start at 5-10
if you are in UTG, UTG+1 or UTG+2 and you get this kind of hand make only the call of the BB i garanty at least one guy will make a bet after that you go all in and i bet there is a 3/4 chance you get a call to your all in
if you are mid position do the same thing but the chance to get raised is only 1/2
if you are mid position and the hand already been raised re raise it hard dont do 3BB make it hard at least 300-400 raise
if you are CO or button make a big raise or go all in deppending of the nº of calls or call raise

well you can say

But i can lose with top pair or with top cards

yes sure but this is a rebuy tournment and i dont want you to rebuy to mutch
accidents could happend
but you want to avoid them

in statelites rebuy tournments
you should make only 1 rebuy
in this one i only made 1 rebuy because i lost when i didn´t follow my rule and decided to went all with a pair mid pair... WRONG ...Mistake onle TOP PAIRS or AK AQ
but with 44 players entering the game we got a total of 85 rebuys
this is just MAD
i bet some guys just rebuy 3 or 4 times that is arond 9,90$ or 13,20$
why dont they play $11 satelite then?
make one rebuy

the add on
do it only if( your stack + the add on ) x 2 = to one of the seats that gives the pack
why you want to Double up

this is making sence? ok

Rebuys tournment in the 1st hour are NOT poker tournments
you will think to your seft
"this is not poker"

lets give exemples
the best one´s are the hands i played

hand 1 to 6 in the 1st hour
hand 7 to 20 after the rebuys when you start to play your poker

in a case like you are going to watch
final 5 guys
take notice to one thing
if you are chip leader or so relax dont get envolved even with a monster sometimes
you lose and you will get cold feet
even i sometimes make this kind of mistakes
there are always one guy that thinks its a sure thing and its not
if you are short take advantage
raise with position
you got to risk it
but dont be crazy
i will talk later on when i talk about the hands

lets go

HAND 1

i got QQ
and there was 3 guys betting 60
i was with 995
dont had a problem to went all in
did i get a call
ofcourse
why simple
people dont care if they are with 2-4k
lets risk it
or A2-9 i have one ace

i Double up

you say but:
if nobody called? i just had won 240$
if someone got A or K high and it its the flop,turn or river? then rebuy
but you want less players playing the hand giving you more chances to win
do you think a guy with TJsuitted or other suitted 2 cards or low pair wouldn´t call a re raise 60 to 180 or even 240? in a rebuy tournment givin you less chances to win...

BE AGRESSIVE

Hand 2

like i said before only go all in with top pair or AK AQ
be tight
be agressive
I MADE A MISTAKE
I WENT ALL IN WITH A MID PAIR 99 AND THE GUY ON MY LEFT JUST CALLED
WITH KK i hit the wall

i rebuy

Hand 3

didn´t wait to mutch time only 2 hands latter
i had Kc Th i like alot this hand
since this was not a top hand
i decided because MP i make a raise to 350
and i got 4 calls
blinds where 100-50
the flop was great Ts 4 s Td

but what would you say about this
SB bet 300
BB raise all in 1560
then come to my position
my thoughts were
how many T?
5?
ok joking
the 1st one was bluffing or maybe with one pocket pair
the 2nd with AT? no ofcouse not if he had that he would went all in before
he was a maniac
maybe only have 4 or a pocket pair
call all in
the other folded
and the SB do the same

when he showed 77 i was not surprised
i just won a 3k pot
great
keep tight and will try to Dup again before the break

Hand 4
i got other mid pair 88
even so i decided to raise it to 300 to get at least one of the two guys out of the pot
but both made the call

on the flop i saw the 8d q 7
but the SB bet 150 i decided to call the same did the other guy

turn 3d

it was the 2nd dimond so you never know
and since the SB check
i bet 1k
in a 1350pot
both players folded



Hand 5

nothing special to add
i saw one opening
the short stack of the tb
i raise 350
he called with 64
why?
he was on the Button

couldn´t you wait?
200-250 is the kind of stack you will call
imagine there is 3 call
if you won
its 600-750 and you are back
unless you grabb a miracle and won with 6high

i won and well played

and i only played big this 6 hands
did i made the add on?
sure
with the add on i would be with 5k the 2nd player on the board had 10k
i was 1 Dup way

AFTER THE REBUYs

HAND 6
all the action happend pre flop
utg made a call
i was mp with AJ raise 1800
everyone fold a buttom made all in for 5k
i didn´t though to mutch he was a bully
so i didn´t put him better than me
and i was right

hand7
he had 55
a J on the flop
and i won

Hand 7
a short stack when all in
i had AK suited easy call
he had A7 off
7 on the flop
7 on the river

great
its poker

Hand 8

was the hand of the tournment for me
i was trying to steal
because we were 600-300 75
so the pot already more 1k
i was with 7.5 or so
so i decided to go all in
i go 2 calls
yeap
one from a 66 dumb for almost 8k cmon
and other from a AK guy
on the flop i saw the K and i was saying goodbye
but on the river
i got my 4
won the pot and was chip leader by this time with more 20k

i asked for sorry

Hand 9

i was BB and i got 2 calls
i decided to check with 87suitted dimonds

flop
9d 7x 2x

i bet 3k
one check the other player fold

turn Jd

great now i´m flush draw

i bet 9k and he call all in with 3.9k

he showed 22

river 4d
yesssss

moral of the story

NEVER EVER MAKE SLOW PLAY
IF HE HAD RE RAISE ME ON THE FLOP I PROBABLY WOULD DROOP THE HAND
YOU SHOULD ALWAYS BE AGRESSIVE IF YOU GOT THAT HAND


HAND 10

i was not inthis hand
hidalgos was and played well nice read
the other player
was the kind of guy that ouldn´t let go a top pair
hidalgo knew that too


Hand 11
i was not in this had too
but you can see a normal mistake
people like to do
why in hell do you call a all in of a player that is not in trouble situation
( trouble situation is when the blinds are comming ) this player was on the Bottom
for sure he had a goood hand
bad call by Apikassa


hand 12

what can i say
i got AA
the other got KK
i´m not my buddy orlando
i won
big pot here 60k and chip leader by far

hand 13
agaisnt the same guy hand 12
but now i had AK vs AA
he won and i knew by then he was not orlando´s new nick name
LOL


hand 14
i was on BB with 58,5k
the UTG bet 3,5k and he was the short stack with 13.5k
i look at my cards and saw A6off
since there are only 5 players i decided to call the raise
flop
Ad 6d 8c
great this will be finish soon
i bet small 1.2k
and he went all win
with 11k i called
he showed 7d 7x

turn 10d
river 8d

he just hit the flush
he automatic asked for sorry
i replyed "its poker" loled at the play

moral of the story
why with 2x more the 2nd player did i call to see the flop
with A6off?

it was not my war
u could say cmon
you would be left with +-44k but ... why? if i could be with 58k?
if this was not this kind of tournment ok sure
i wanted to play for 1st prize but finish 4th or 1st in this tournment was the same shit
bad play bye me
let the others do the dirty work

Hand 15

pama was the chip leader by then with 44k
and dicided to make the same mistake i did
i was strong but should a AQsuitted deserv to call all in 21k?
answer
NO
later this money will make the difference in his stack because he finnish on 5th place
thx good my brain was good at the time and i folded A6

Hand 16

this was a great read by me
Apikassa made a small raise 6k
i had JJ
well i put him on AK for sure
i decided to call
if a ace come into the flop
i would fold and be with 20k left
if not i would be all in

so
no ace on the flop
i raise the pot
he fold
now only with 13k
and show all AK

yes
and i was back with 36k
and now with my eyes open because hand 14


Hand 17

this hand is only to prove zawoot know that doesn´t need to push it

hand 18
hidalgo making the same mistake
i did
and pama did
dont do that


Hand 19
my mistake part 2
but now is different he only had 9k
and even if i lost it
i would be 26,5 that what i think
and i had JJ
but i should have thought
if he won he would be with 21k near me
near everyone
he had kq
on the flop i saw the 1st k
on the river the 2nd
LOL

LAST HAND THE 20th
2h 55m 30sec
pama decided to push it but after the flop
hidalgo had top pair
call
he hit 2nd top pair on the turn
hidalgo push it all in
easy call

congrats
hidalgo
alpikassa
zawoot

see you guys next sunday
for the 100k garanty
i hope you guys get 2nd 3rd and 4th
:)

Monday

everyting went wrong :(

i started the day with 1611$ after a buy out of 200$

1st i played 3 tournments

the 1st was a multi table buy in 11$+1 satelite for italian LIVE tour
with 55 guys and 5 packs i finish 7th
i was on UTG blinds 800-400 ante 75
i had 7425
i raise 1800
and i got 2 calls
the SB and BB

flop
Kh Tc 3s

i was with KK
both SB and BB check
there was 5575pot
and since i only had 5625
and i made a push with half my stack
so i bet 2825
sb fold
BB who was also chip leader went all in
i check
showing Kd kc
he Showed As Ah

turn Th

river Ac

i didn´t say 1 word
i tryed to phone my friend Orlando´s but say if i was playing agaisnt you i would have won but he didn´t answer.

Then i started to play a 3.5k garanty with 30+3$ buy in
i was chip leader after the 1st hour
and i was owning the table
then someting strage happend
i was distracted because the other tournment i was starting to play just had started
so i was puting the 2 windonws together and i was going to fold the 39off in the other tournment
but
the windonw changed and i resaised all in in this tournment everyone fold till the guy that just had bet
he was the 3rd in stack
with +-1200 less than me
he asked wtf do you have
i didn´t reply
i was hopping that he folded because i had T2off
and it was a big raise almost 40bb
lol
well he checked with AA
the stranget thing was he won with a flush
lol
and i went on tilt with my 1200
when the average was around 3000
i made one mistake
but i was so mad that i couldn´t think being 1st and went donw like this was too mutch at least for me because it was not my call
it was the Fucking windonw
then in the tournment a alaways play at 20:00 portuguse time
the 11$+1 10k garantty
i was so mad that i said to my self
i´m going to push somebody to go all in in a coin flip
i hate that and who knows me know i´m not like this
so i get a 88
and since i was in UTG+1 i decided to bet 50 because we where on the 5th hand of the game and saw one guy in Bottom already short stacked with 190 and hoped that he went all in
what hapend i got a call from a player in MP
and he went all in
the SB fold
the BB called
and i went all in
the MP fold
and the BB called

the Bottom had TJsuited
the BB had AQsuitted
a A on the flop put a end to my misery

with a loss of 57$ i went dinner
and i came back decided to make some $$ in cash games
i was with 1554$ left and i decided to go
play some 1-2$ NL
i join a tb with 54$
my 1st hand
i had ATsuited_spades
and i call the button raise for 7$
the folp Ah 6s 9s
i raise to pot limit 15$
and he raised all in
he was the short stack
so i paid more 22$
i show AcTc
he showed As 6c
so i was with 10$left

damm i was preparing to add 100$ but i was not fast enought
and i saw in the SB QJoff
everyone fold till me and i went all in 10$
representing a tilt
the BB call me
he showed JToff

i thought
i´m bac....and the flop show a T ...
and for the 2nd time this week
phills spirt went to my body

wtf
grrr

now i was with 1500
what should i do
CORRECT ANSWER-STOP you are near tilt
go to MSN and talk
relax

i found in MSN other poker player
Fabio AKA FABIOR10
i talked and i tell him the storys he loled
and we talk about poker starts tournment
and i decided when i was talking with him to play a STG

i join 100$ 6players STG expecting to win the 1st prize
and then i saw other portuguese player
Zecarioca aka jackdaniels

jackdaniels is a wellknowed player in portugal
he just had a great 7Stage in the portuguese tour
he finish in 22º
well at least it wasn´t the 21º aka buble

he give me his email but i forgot to copy
jack if you read this
plz give me you email back

well
i started great the SNG
1 knock out the 1st guy and i was chip leader with 1700 or so
then other player was out
and i was a litle donw to around 1500 or so
i was playing different
no tight
no agressive
i was loose
i was passive
LOL
yeah
i wanted to see as many flops i can
and then make the correct call
strange
then i knock out jack
i was litle sad but he was the most tight and agressive player on that table
i was SB and i call
i had JJ
it was 30min or so in the game
so i just make the call
sence he was short stack he tryed to steal
and went all in
i said "shit man nooooooooo"
and i called
i was not affraid
but
i didn´t wanted to knock him out
he showed J9
and nothing to add here

then i was with 2 other guys and i was the chip leader again
with 3100chips

nothing special to add
and i was still talking with fabio
but i was distracted again
and i make a call to a raise of 700
well at least i had A4
lol
with only3 players
u never know
the flop
K J 7
since he had only 600 more
i decided to make a small raise resprenting the K
so i bet 300
he thought
and went all in for more 300
i called
he showed A8

A8 cmon
with that flop
after calling a 700 raise??
well i went donw to 1000 after some shit hand
then i decided to get agressive
and went all in
and try to steal the blinds
and i went up to 1600

then i had the hand of this stg to me

i notice a player that when he was on the BB and i on the SB
when i call
he always raise it
so i recive
a Fantastic AA
and since he was with a stack near mine
i dicided to just call
the 200
i forgot to say that the Bottom just folded his hand
and the BB like always raise it to 600
well i called
in the flop Q J 8
he went all in
i called
he showed QJ damm i´m going to be the BBoy i thought
but in the turn i saw a 8
and i DU

the other player was the to easy
to win
even with 3100 vs 2900 or so
he was to tight
waitting for a hand
folding everithing till
he had 1500 or so
when he went all in with A2
well i had AQoff it was a easy call
and i won the tournment
with a final prize of 420$
see that i was so fucking loose
i saw more than 40% of the total hands
and at the end i was agressive
se the re-raise
the big % of call was in the beggining / mid tournment
when i was playing loose passive
then i changed to loose agreesive
one other thing
this 6 player SNG was played in 1h and 26min 9sec
OMG

and i finish the day with +310$
cheers

Francisco "the truth" Costa

Lunch break

I was @ my lunch break time and i decided to play some poker i was with no hungry so i decided to play some cash game.

normally i play 0,5-1$ NL starting with 100$
but i like to play 2-4$NL or 5-10$ even with no bankrool to play that kind of tables
i know i have the skills to play them.
You might ask : " who dont have the money? but i saw you win some nice prizes..."

yeah that is correct but i cash out most of times and i dont like to have more than
1.5k in my bankrool

Plenty has been written about bankroll requirements. This is what i think
Game NL-----you need to have in your bankrool
$0.05/$0.10 = $50
$0.10/$0.25 = $187.50
$0.25/$0.50 = $500
$0.50/$1 = $1.5k
$1/$2 = $4k
$2/$4 = $10k
$3/$6 = $18k
$4/$8 = $28k
$5/$10 = $40k
$10/$20 = $90k
$25/$50 = $250k
$50/$100 = $550k
$100/$200 = $1.2m
$200/$400 = $2.6m

well i look over my bankrool and whatched that i had 1.525,75k left
but decided to go to $1-2$ table and play 25,75$
i know you can loled @ it but i was playing agressive and the size of the pot is ALWAYS the most important factor when making poker decisions. ALWAYS. I decided to Double up or lost 25$ since i was going to be fucking agressive i just need one Doble to be working shit.

Only going to talk about the most important hands
remember it was 1-2NL, in a short table 6players( because i think it would be better than a normal 10 to go all in at the begging of the tb getting 1 call ) i join the tb with 25$ and i was going to play tight agressive

Hand 1
After just folded all my hands for 1 round i was again in the BB
with a nice hand to win some $
2h 7h
i had took some notes about the players and i watch the action
bigshoot the bully of this table he just bet/raise 5 out 7 times
made a small raise
and i decided to call
in the flop
8c7dTc
well i just go one pair and since i put him in A_low_kicker or 2 over cards i decided
to go all in with my pair
he thought for 10sec or so almost till the limit and decided to call
( @ this time i knew i was in front if he had something he just had made a instant call. this is why i dont mind to start with low $$$ because i can make this "stupid" all in dont care about if i lose or win - ofcourse i like to win but i think you can get the picture )
he show a As 9c
damm he had tons of outs
3 A + 3 nine´s + 4 jacks + 4 six´s= total 14 outs
wow i was in trouble
turn
3h
river
Kc

he just call me a maniac and said he predict i will lost all my money
i just loled @ him and start to give hints that i was a noob
saying "i read that once Doyle B. won something with 27 offsuited i had 27 suitted so its better", and my best was "every 2 cards can win".

i can say that better than the 44$ pot is my image @ the tb, now everyone there thinks i was a maniac and i would try to get the best
of it

hand #2
i round later and nothing really special and i was again in the BB
now with Ac 9d
not a great hand but in this kind of table ( 6 guys could have some value and in this tb right now there here only 4 guys )
with 4 guys i will call position 0 the UTG and position 1 the button but ofcouse doesn´t have the same value than in a 10 player game
UTG just call the 2$
button fold
SB call the 2$
BB ( hero ) raise it $6

they both called
that was the good thing about HAND#1 (i´m a naniac) and none give a shit at my poker skills. i knew i was in front at this time and both just called because of hand #1

flop
Ah Qh 9c

wow i dont need poker skills to play this
if they had AA QQ AQ they wouldn´t had just call $2 even call the raise for $6
but they could had 99 that i dont belive because i would be sick i had the other. 2 hearts? hummm lets be agressive and find out. Since the 2 other guys had about 190-200$ and i was view in the tb like a maniac i decided if the SB didn´t bet i would go all in.

the SB check
BB??? ofcouse all in
utg instant call
SB fold

utg show As 8d
i was smilling
i just net again and since A9 offsuitted is not that kind of hand the naniac thing was still alive

turn
8c

river
Kh

and i won
now i had 93$

hand #3
two new players just enter the tb
to short stack like me in the begginig
i give some kind of respect to them because they come here to Double up and normally will bet or go all in only with good % to win the pot and people with lot of money think´s that they should play because "its only more $20 or $30" nothing could be more wrong

well
with 5 players now
i will put this names UTG MP B SB BB
i was on B with Ah Qs

the MP raises to 7$
botton ( hero ) call
SB fold
BB call

well the flop was
8c 8s Qc

the SB check
the MP just hit the fan with a raise of $22
i thought for a while
why would he do that?
he was a litle loose but a solid player like to see the flop
and i knew for sure he had something but when he had something he normally makes a
bellow average pot like 12-15$ bet
so i put him in a lower pair or flush draw
and i decided to ask
"hey we are playing pot limit?"
he jumped "zzzzzzzz"
i normally if you have a hand you want people to call so you dont say nothing
saying that the "zzzz" i notice he wanted me to think he was strong saying something like cmon play so i decided to raise his bet to $66 i had top pair top kicker and i knew if he had just hit something he would not raise the pot
when i shoot the $66 i thought damm only if he thought really i was a maniac and would call that or even wrost re-raise it :)
SB fold
he call

@ that point i knew his hand
i was with 3,75 behind
why didn´t he make a re raise of more 3,75
@ that point i knew he was on flush draw

so i didn´t want no c

turn
9d
great
lets bet my last 3,75

river
Qh

wow i just hit a full house
great now i was with 203,50 and didn´t thought for 1 second to leave the tb that a commun mistake ppl normally do

hand #4
nothing special till here i just lost some pots but nothing big
i was with 190$ or so and we had a new player @ the tb and one of the short stack guys just Double up thx to the bully

well right now we had Utg Mp Co B SB BB
and i was on the BB
i just got the dream of every poker player except orlando´s
Ah As
i got 3 calls and i decided to bet 8
4x the big blind i knew i could do that because of my image and i probably get a call
45 hands later i still had no respect @ my blinds

i got a call by the short stack that just Du on last play

flop
5h Kd 6s

i bet the pot
he made the call
i thought i got you you have the K

turn
Ts

i bet the pot again
he was on all in

he showed a Ks 8c

i thought
don´t give the fucking bastard a 8
well poker gods where good to me

and the river show
6h

now i was with 255,70

hand #5
this is what you shouldn´t NEVER do
5 players
i was on utg+1 and i decided to raise with 2s 3s to 4$
the bottom call it
both SB and BB just fold it

flop
3d Td 9h

i check
and the bottom just bet 11$
i had decided to play this hand since i make that bet in the begging
everyone just thought of myself like a guy that can have everything and i just fell the table start to respect me
so i decided to see if he was strong with that hand
and i bet more $11
i decided to go small
to represent that i wanted him to call
to represent one hand
if i had one re-re-raise
ofcouse i would let the pot go
but he after thinking for a some moments decided to call

turn
2d

hummm
lets see if that bet result
i didn´t want to bet
lets imangine that he had two dimonds in his hand
if he dont had the Ahigh flush after my bet he would not bet if i check because i could go all in
he he had 1 pair or strait draw he would not bet either

so i check
and so did he

river
Qd

damm
other 2 or 3 would be great but i think he thought i had the flush draw higher than him or a better hand than him
so i dicided to check again after thinking for 3-5sec because i wanted him to thought i was slow playing

he check

he show 7c 8c
and i won the hand
he was madddddddddddd
and left the tb

now i was with 290$

my last hand
i dicided that i must go
and i was getting close to my blind
and i got 6h 6s
hummm wtf
lets play

i was utg+1
and i decided just to call
other 4players were in there to see the flop
6d Td 3h
great flop
sb check
bb check
i bet 5$
and got 2 calls

turn
10h

the Sb just bet his last 17$
like i said before i give some credit and i put him with Tshit for the TTT and hopefully not with a T3 or T6
so the problem was the other player on my left
well he probably could be on the flush draw
( i make one mistake i just call when i think i should re raise his bet because i would want him to think that i only want to play with the short stack guy make him to go all in or so but i decided to call to give him a chance to get the flush)
he fold

the short stack just show Tc 8s
and the river did not help him

giving me the win with the Jd
finish my luck breack with 316,85

cya
francisco " the truth " Costa

This Sunday

well this sunday started with a update in this blog. I just add here some youtube videos i think could help some of the guys that read this blog.
It´s Poker Roundtable hosted by Fulltilt @ ESPN.
Some pros just talk and give some hints about the game i hope you like it.
Then i played the 100k garantty tournment in everest.
i was doing great till the level 75-150
i was in 85 out 886 players, and almost 350 already out.
i had 3.6k and the average was 2.1k
But i was in MP with Th Tc and i bet 450
everyone folded and i got a call by the BB
the flop was good i think but not great
Jh 8h 4c
the big blind bet 450
after some thought and remember the plays he was involved and his stack ( after the bet he only had more 550 ) i decided to re raise to 1000.
he made the call
and showed a Js 4c
the turn and the river didn´t had notting special
well 2 things to considered
1st i was donw to 2.1k still on the average
2nd why can a guy who only have 1.45k can make a call to a tight player with Js 4c?
its 1/3 of his stack
well keep going
8 plays later i was on the button with As Kh and everyone just fold
and i bet again 450
the SB fold
again the BB called my bet
flop
Ah 9h 2c
hummm
great flop i think
well i was with 1.5k because i just lost my 2 blinds ( the small and the big )plus the 450 raise in the bet
and i decided to make a below pot raise half my stack at the moment
so i bet 750
he thought for 10seconds or so
and decided to go all in
well i thougt i was comitted to the pot because i only had 750 left if i fold
the player was the bully of the table and chip leader in the table
so i thought well if he had a good hand why did he re raise it?
probably he have KQ or QJ or JK and his on strait draw
or 2 more hearts and he could be in flush draw
or probably a pair of nines or two´s
well wtf let just call the bastard
we showed Th 9s
and i was yeeeessss
well at least until the turn that show me the 9c
and it was like the spirit of phil hellmuth was on me
i was #$%#$"#$%"$"
how can this just happend
T 9??? offsuited
cmon

it was not great tournment for me i was out after 1hour and 30min
at the 435place

well its poker
i played well and i do it again

Francisco "the truth" Costa

9 Poker Tournament Lessons

Lesson 1
Amir Vahedi said about a million times at the 2003 WSOP, “In order to live, you have to be willing to die.” It sounds a little ridiculous, but I really believe in it. I am just as ready to go broke on the first hand, as I am on the bubble. In the last tournment i been ( la toja in spain ) i was talking with other guys and they didn´t follow the same idea. Some just said " i´m going to be so tight that if i got AA in the 1st hand i will fold it " i hope he was joking. Why people have afraid to go donw in the 1st hand? you got the cards you should play them agressive, if you die remember "its just poker"
OT: i was on the phone some minutes ago with Orlandop and Dperfeito both were on the casino stairs because they have been knowed of of solverde season 7stage ( portuguese live tournment that occurs every month) one with AA the other with AKo... cmon guys its poker

Lesson 2
Everything in moderation. When I first started becoming more and more aggressive ( and i´m notting special ) in tournaments after reading a lot of posts, I started going nuts open raising 100% of the time from the button, CO, CO-1, if I had the chance. Obviously players picked up on this, and I would get my raises abused. Stealing blinds is only +EV if well, if it works. Don’t open raise if you are going to get picked off every time by the big blind. I have been at incredibly aggressive tables where I rarely button raised, because I didn’t think it would work

Lesson 3
No fear, and make sure they know it. Let the players to your right know that your blind is like your first born child. Resteal with 72o and if the circumstances are right, show it. If you don’t like restealing, you can call the raise, and lead out on any flop. Be agressive but don´t be mad. whats the difference read lesson 4.

Lesson 4
Watch the action, always. I have stopped playing more than 2 tables when I’m in a tournament, because every hand that you are not involved in is like a goldmine of information waiting to be exploited. Even online, there are tells. Recognize what every hesitation means, and remember it. One important note that I like to take on players is, can they fold top pair or not. Some players are incapable of folding top pair. They just can’t do it. Others can fold the 2nd nuts. Always know who they are. Other thing i notice only good players know how to fold the dark side is that is more easy to make a bluff to this kind of players if they notice that you can play.

Lesson 5
Don’t berate the fish. I was once in a tournment and I ‘lol-ed’ someone for open pushing J9o for 20 big blinds. The guy went nuts on me, and taught me my lesson. It’s really a general poker thing, but it’s a good lesson. Although I never would abuse them, I always would playfully joke at the fish for doing dumb things. There really is no point. Make them feel comfortable playing like a jackass.. In la toja I played a sit and go and the player on my right was a dumb ass. He start to picking up ( and watch them in front of his nouse and shit ) the cards and i notice he folded a 10 3 offsuited and on the flop showed 10 3 3 and he start talking with me. " I folded a 10 3 damm" normally the common guy would say " what the fuck are you crying about? are you stupid?" well I took advantage of him and said " what? man you should never fold any card before seen the flop you never know any 2 cards can make you a winner". He was out 5 plays later.

Lesson 6
You don’t have to win every pot. I think there was a post where MLG basically wrote. “I raise 86s in MP, I get called by the button, flop comes T9A. I check, the button bets out, what’s my line?” Basically the post was a joke and the point he was trying to make, is that it’s ok sometimes to check/fold. If you bet 100% of the time on the flop, well, it will get picked up on.

Lesson 7
Think everything through. This has probably been the biggest improvement in my game lately. Take all the time you need to fully assess a situation, and make the educated decision. Like I said before, sometimes I would act immediately without really knowing why I was making a decision. Never again will I just click call without at least trying to put my opponent on a hand. Your reasoning behind every decision is just as important as the decision itself.

Lesson 8
Be able to judge yourself. In la toja, I made a all in with AQs that was clearly no good on the flop KQshit. Afterwards, I looked at myself and couldn’t figure out what I was thinking when I re-raise the other player. I relapsed back to my old self where I just clicked call or fold without thinking it through. I knew if I was playing that way it was time to take a break. Always be able to assess your current mental state. Know when you won’t be able to play well and don’t play. You can’t just play like a machine in tournaments, the way you sometimes can in cash games. You really have to be in the right state of mind.

Lesson 9
Maximum value, every time. You always want to get every chip you can get when you have the best hand, as it can and will come in handy when it gets late and 1 big blind can make a big difference. This means knowing your opponents’ tendencies, knowing how much you can get out of his TPTK when you have a set, your TPTK vs his TPWK etc. I am really not a fan of slowplaying very often. So many times people just think “wow I flopped trips/straight/etc, I can’t bet.” Well often times one of three things can happen that are bad:
a) You let your opponent improve to a better hand.
b) You let a scare card fall, which kills your action.
c) Despite trying to appear weak, you in fact appear strong and lose all deceptive value.

Exemple A
I defended my big blind to a small button raise by a very aggressive player with 52s. Flop came down, 22T. I led out for half the pot, I didn’t even think of check-raising. Why?
simple lets think about it. Suppose he has an overpair, the money is going in either way. But let’s say he has something like 33-99 range. It’s pretty hard for him to put me on any kind of a hand by the way I played it, so it’s unlikely he’ll fold, whereas if I check raise him he may fear that I have a ten. But there is also a 3rd possibility, that he completely missed with overs, or a total steal like 87o. He is an aggressive player, so if I check to him he will most certainly bet, I will raise and he will fold. So I probably get a half pot sized bet out of it. What a waste. However, by leading out I think a lot of aggressive players will play back at that with any 2 about 75% of the time. As it turned out I led out for half the pot, he reraised 3x my raise and I smooth called, figuring that he still had nothing, and it is unlikely that I would lose action from him if he did in fact have a hand. By just calling I now give him a chance to bluff a 2nd barrel.

other nice result

it was a satelite for the everest 100k tournment last sunday.
this is the most important tournment in everest with a field of 1000players.
i did it one and i dont have nothing special to talk about it
i was the buble boy for the 1st time in my life.
i finish 91th in a fiel of 986 players
i hope this time @ the end i finish at least ITM.
well at least i just garrantty the buy in via satelite
my hand on that satelite was
vilan1 @ utg+1 - call 1200
vilan2 mid position - call 1200
hero CO - Ah Kh - raise 6500
sb - 600 - fold
bb - 1200 - fold
vilan1 goes all in for 8800
vilan2 goes all in for 10100
hero call 10100

show donw
hero Ah kh
vilan1 Ac Qh
Vilan2 Ad Qs

flop
Ks Ts 9h

i didn´t like the flop
they just pass from 2 out the 2 Q to 4 outs add the 10 and loose the Q because the Q
just give the strait

turn
2h

i just love this card because it was not a T lol

river
2c

winner
hero - ks kh 2h 2c Ah pot 30k + the 4.8k i still had + the ante around 1.2k

after that hand i dont remember to watch a single hand
i had 2 hands i could raise one pocket 88 @ button and one Ac Qc @ utg but whats the point?
And i say that because i cant get why people with a healthy stack just push it?
i remember a guy that finish @ 7th with 3$ started the final table in second with
arund 41k of chips. cmon...
i know u may think bad beat
well i tell you not a single one
he just bet or re-raise
trying to push it
be smart
and manage or chips in a tournment like this
because the 6th place gives the same shit that the 1st and you dont want to finish 7th


cya sunday
Francisco " the truth " Costa

Great Article by Ashley Adams

5 Times You Don’t Have to Call
Many poker players mistakenly call when they should fold. They’ve been led to believe by convention or habit that there are certain situations when they have to call. Most of these conventions are wrong. Here are the top five bad calls that even good players often make automatically. You don’t have to. I’m giving you permission to fold.

1. Calling the check-raise.

Your opponent checks. You have a good but not a great hand. You see the check as a sign of weakness. So you bet. Your opponent now raises you. It’s tempting to call. After all, you might catch a miracle card and turn the tables on this brash check-raiser. You should probably fold.

2. Calling the re-raise.

You have a strong hand but not a monster. Someone bets in front of you. You raise. Someone after you, not a maniac, re-raises. The first player folds. You don’t have to call.

3. Calling a late position steal raise.

You’re the big blind. Everyone folds to the button. The button raises. The small blind folds. You look down and see Jd3c. You don’t have to protect your blind. Fold.

4. You know someone is bluffing.

There’s a maniac to your right. He raises everything. Five people have called and he raises. You have a bad hand. Don’t be a policeman – even though you know he’s stealing. Let the stealer win. Fold.

5. It’s only a partial bet to call.

It’s the middle stage of a tournament. You’re the big blind of $1,000. You have $3,000 left. Someone to your left goes all in for another $600. Everyone folds to you. You have 9s5s. Yeah, it’s a bargain and you’ll knock out your opponent if you win. But don’t call. You don’t have to; you have a lousy hand, and you will save a significant piece of your stack by conceding.

Of course there are situations like the ones above when a thoughtful player may want to call or even raise. But don’t do either automatically.

What turns an average player into a good player is his ability to stop his habitual response and replace it with the proper thoughtful action. He should never call automatically – just because he has initiated action in a particular round of betting. In this sense, a good poker player must reverse the old adage “winners never quit and quitters never win”. He must learn that quitting is sometimes the smart play.

Ashley Adams has been playing poker since 1961 when he learned it literally at his grandfather's knee. He started playing seriously in 1993 when Foxwoods Resort Casino in Ledyard, Connecticut opened their poker room. He can usually be found there at the $20/40 stud or the $2/5 no limit hold 'em table.

Ashley has played poker all over the world, winning money in ring games and winning tournaments in Hungary, Austria, England, the Bahamas, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Nevada, California, Washington, British Columbia and the Yukon Territory. He was the most prolific writer of poker articles in 2005, 2006, and 2007 and has written two poker books. His first, Winning 7-card Stud (Kensington, 2003) is available on Amazon.com. His no limit hold 'em book, Winning Low Limit No Limit Hold 'em, is an ebook and most readily available directly from the author for $10.00 at asha34@aol.com.

Ashley also runs charity poker tournaments, teaches poker privately and at the Boston Center for Adult Education, is a frequent guest on radio and television programs (having appeared on WBZ-AM, WHDH Channel 7 TV, WGBH-TV, NECN-TV), and has a regular radio show that can be heard 24/7 on www.houseofcardsradio.com.

The wsop 2008 final table

Official November Nine Chip Counts and Seat Assignments

On November 9th, 2008, the following nine players will return to the felt with 21 minutes and 50 seconds left in level 33:

Dennis Phillips - 26,295,000
Craig Marquis - 10,210,000
Ylon Schwartz - 12,525,000
Scott Montgomery - 19,690,000
Darus Suharto - 12,520,000
David 'Chino' Rheem - 10,230,000
Ivan Demidov - 24,400,000
Kelly Kim - 2,620,000
Peter Eastgate - 18,375,000

Hellmuth gets a penalty at 2008 WSOP Main Event

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URcB47kUZUk

#&!#%$fuck#$#"#$#"#

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
i can´t remember other word. Yesterday i was playing 7.5k garantty in everest with a field of 254 players with top 20 getting paid.
i was in the 5th position with 27 players left....
And i get involved with a short stack player
hero-AsKs
villan-44
flop-AhTsJs
i said out and clear to me "vamos" a portuguese word that means go
and i give a litle knock on the computer
and it was the last thing he did
he frezzzzz out
and got blocked
since if you cant get on in everest u lose your spot
so i lost the oportunity to get a big prize because if i won that pot (and i was with flush draw, strait draw and high pair.) i was going to jump to the 2nd place with 26 players left.
at lest i would get 11-20 and i would get 150$
so fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
í didn´t got nothing and i lost my computer
if that happends to you call a poker friend and ask him to play for you
thats the best conclusion of this story
and i only get to that when i was talking to some friends of mine and they both said that

take care
francisco " the truth " Costa

Back to Porto from la toja

Friday Every tournment have his story and you learn someting from them. This was no different! I went friday to la toja and the 1st thing i ask in the hotel was " did any portuguese guy arrived?". The girl in the reception ( a beautiful blond } said " not yet but orlando will arrive today". Orlando? i thought...humm well orlando is a well known portuguese poker player. But the question was "will he be a cool or a cocky guy? well lets wait and see ... i went to the bedroom to take care of my self and after me and my girlfriend decided to go to the Casino of la toja. On the way out i asked again "did orlando arrived yet?" This time the answer was different "yes but i think he go out." we arrieved to the Casino and we find the poker on the top floor. There i saw orlando he was with a tshit saying orlandop on the back. He was playing a sit&go and since i couldn´t see his chips i asked in portuguese "how many chips do you have?". He turned his back and said "the ones in the SB +1200" and went all in. For 2 seconds 2 things cross my mind: a} shit what a fucking stupid question to ask if he is piss of now i´m in troble b}i hope i help the guy with giving him and open with the turn of the back and the going all in ( showing he was satisfied with his 2 cards and he could turn his back to the other players talk with someone and then go all in" He recived a call and he busted. damm we started to talk and 10sec later arrived 2 players i didn´t knew, Nuno Canossa (Didascalos} and Pedro "Amial" Monteiro. Both seemed to be to verry nice guys and after a quick chat we decied to play a sit and go. my fist thought in that sit and go was "2 bullys on the table???"wtf... players pick the cards in the hand in front of the eyes,etc... i thought its in the bag but i was wrong the bullys 1st take care of Pedro but i dont remember the hand. then after orland almost doble up and eliminated nuno this hand happend. vilan1-raised to 300 vilan 2- went all in for 1200 orlando on the SB went all in for 4500 BB after thinking a litle bit went all in too for 2500 the vilan1 didn´´t thought too mutch and also went all in showdonw vilan1-77 vilan2-AQ orlando-A10 BB-77 the flop A46 great even if orlando lost to vilan2 he is going to take care of most of the pot turn-5 river-8 omg well u get the picture now 7 hands later the bully called a all in for one short stack short stack-Aj bully aka vilan1 from last hand- TT flop 987 turn K river T the bully start chanting saying three Ten and the dealer start to giving him the chips and the worst part the other player was starting to get up of his chair i could shut up because after that it was only me and more 3 guys and i probably could get ITM but i went MAD and start shooting in every direction. to the bully because he was a moron to the other player because he was worst and finally to the dealer well after that my concentration i lost my chips. I couldn´t be near the casino for one me second and i wasked orlando where can i eat a good parrilhada. "A solina is the place" he said he was a gent and was kind enought to give the directions and offered to take us there. I was glad that i found someone like him friendly enought and with the poker know how. we had a superb dinner and we went party with orlando, pedro, nuno and nuno´s girlfriend. Saturday wtf i have a hangover.... we went to the SPA of la toja ( one word GREAT } and after that we went to the hotel because the tournment was one hour away. He arrived at casino la toja and i was surprised some big name there pakito - professional poker player from spain Juan Maceiras -the spaish guy that last year won the 3 bigest tournment on fulltilt and almost the best portuguese players zummy- the guy with more final tables in solverde Diogo "Phounder" Veiga-aka wonder kid Sponsored by betfair among with others well known portuguese poker players. The tournment started blinds 25-50 my 3rd hand AhAc utg+1 who had lost almost 2k on last hand raised to 350. everyone fold i was CO and i raised to 1000 everyone folded 5 hands later QcQs i was UTG+1 so i decided to call the raise that the utg did 250 but i had no luck 4 calls damm floop JcTs2h utg call and i bet 800 sb fold bb fold utg asked me "what do you have?" i replyed "ace high" "no" "let me see... top pair" he said "AJ???" i said"yeah something like that" he fold and show J and and show him QQ it was dinner time i was with 10.5k and the average was around 10k then i saw orland was out damm back to the table well i´m a verry tight player and i like to the table to respect me but i change table 4 times after 5 min @ my new tb i got AQ suited everyone fold till my position so i bet 1500 the blinds @ 600-300 i got 2 calls diogo phounder on the CO and from quintas on the SB quintas was the chip leader on the tb and phounder also have 15k with that bet i was with 7.0k flop KQ8 sb check i check phounder bet 2500 quintas fold on the small blind well it was time to double up i thought phounder likes to make some bluffs and i start to thought wtf can he have AQ?AK? no if he had that he would had raise in the CO KQ? or made a tree of a kind with a poket pair in that case on 88 make some sence.could be but that would be sick K shit? probably Q shit? probably or trying to steal the pot well i decided to go all in he made a instant call with KQ damm i thought still have 3 outs Ace Ace was on my mind turn 6 cmon i thought river K well it´s over i finish in 45th in 84 guys i will be back Francisco "the truth" Costa

the truth on tour to la toja

so i´m 1h away to go to la toja spain to play 250+25 buy-in tounment.
I know some portuguese guys are going to be there and since this is going to be my 1st time there i already know at my strategy going to be. @ the end i only hope i have a good time drink some beers and hopefully play the poker i know i can play. Cmon its not to bragg... its only good thoughts.
i´m going to take some picks and make the report later.cya

Diogo Borges ITM @ WSOP Main Event 2008

The only portuguese guy right now @wsop.

@ endding of day 3 diogo is in the 40th place with 500,000k chips

congrats segrob

power poker

well

since i was fucked up because i lost the qualification to the backroll satelite i try to give it a chance and try other with less buy in but with 25 invitations. i finished in 5th and i got my entry

pokerinfo league

in the pokerinfo legue (only portuguese players} once again i make a run to the final table here the results