Straight Flush - always nice or not?

Its always nice when you hit one straight flush but hitting it doesnt mean nothing when the others players doesnt have nothing

i was on the BB and i just checked with 5h 3h

the folp was nice 5d 2c 4h
since i was the 1st to talk i decided to check and to call any raise.
no raise from the others 2 guys

turn 2h wow what a great card since i didnt raise the 1st time i decided to check
and the others 2 also checked. Probably you are thinking wrong move but i will explain why did i do that. by checking i was defending my bankrool yeah i had straight flush draw, flush draw, straight draw and top pair. but if i raised i could be reraised by a guy with a higher flush or a guy that could aready hit the straight and since this is a cash game and not a tournment a decided to wait.

when the Ace of hearts it the river i just thought
" i hope someone have the 2 hearts with the king."

i raised the pot. the guy in utg fold and the CO went all in.
OMG
yes i just caled and won a nice pot. this was lucky because the Ace hit the river and mostly because the other guy just had the King. I could not win nothing with this great hand because even if i think i was passive and over-protected i think if i was more agressive at the flop the result would be wrost. I also dont know why the other guy when he was on flush draw didn´t raise it with the Kh. ofcourse i would call :)

the only reason i wasn´t more agressive after the flop and turn was because this was my 1st hand in that table and i didnt knew the players.

when the i leave that table i was with 181$ when i started with 52,35$

p.s- rael, varyag,teamdoobs and mr.fancypant ( all this 4 guys here good )

cya
Francisco " the truth k " Costa

Analisys

I prefer to play Live poker but my best results are online.
I prefer to play Tournments but i won alot more when i play ring 6$-3$ or 2$-1$.

that make me a masoquist, i think, because we should not give away money but i try to explain why do i prefer, play, won and lose.

I prefer to play live because i can trash talk alot not being afraid to lose never and being agressive. I also like to try to read players and like all the things around the tournment. In the internet u dont have that.
Normally in the internet u can play some tournment at same time.

why do i win more when i play ring?
Simple answer some tournment guys play cash the same away they play tournments and thats the wrost thing you can do because u will lose alot money. choose to play low limit cash 2-1 and 3-6 depending on your bankrool. and choose the hand that will make you play.
you can be agressive ( i prefer that ), passive ( limp and call and decide after the flop - i dont like this because people will soon notice your way ) or agressive/passive ( sometimes i do that to people dont know wtf i´m doing )

hands i think you can play pre-flop
AA - play it agressive. Never slow play Aces because u will cry at the end. with Aces is best to play against 1 or 2 players max.
The only time you should slow play aces is when u are UTG or UTG+1 and you know you have 1 or 2 maniacs that are raising all time.

KK- play it verry agressive. why do you play AA agressive and KK verry agressive ? u dont want one Ashit to call, try tu cut some guys out. Look at the flop and hit the 2nd shot. Even if you the flop hit one Ace i think you shout hit the 2nd shoot. why ? to see where u are? you never know some guys might call with conected cards or low pairs and will fold never check.

QQ/JJ/TT - always nice to have them but u will lose more than u will win with this cards playing low cash games. 2 options depending on your position, and the players in the table. You already know the 2 away you have. think twice if you are in early position and after your raise you get re-raised.

other pair- depending on the position limp or raise

connected/suited cards - i love this. because its simple if you hit the flop great if you dont ( yeah you can always try to bluff ) you can always fold. so you will not lose too mutch money and you can win alot.

if you play this kind of cards you probably will win playing cash games.

In tournments players play some shitty hands... The worst thing is that normally this guys win sometimes :( ...
I saw yesterday some stupid moves.
@ a mid stage of a tournment
SB raise 3,5BB that put all in the other player in the BB. he called
both show the hands
SB Ac Kc
BB 7c Jh
the folp Tc Jc 8s
the folp give the jack but also give 2 cubs ( flush draw ) ans TJ ( straight draw ) and since TJ cubs ( straight flush draw ) to the player in the SB
do you want to count the out?
any Ace, king, queen and cubs will just be enought
but
turn 3d
river 3h
bang...
the player in the BB saw his stack double up to around 5k and the player in the SB went to 1k. this kind of play make you mad and could ruin your tournment.
its sick
but the point is ... if it was a cash game playing 6-3 do you think he would call a 3,5 raise with 7Joff?
i already know the answer.

GL and GG
francisco " the truth k " Costa

la toja the photos

i will add my photos but need to donwload from the camera... i will do it later

Francisco "the truth" Costa :) got to love the mustache and the SLB jersey


Rwolf


lino cunha


jorge domingues 3rd


andre afonso


mr. Orlando Pinheiro

la toja

i love la toja
period

this time i went with orlando
when we arrived @ hotel puente de la toja we notice your friend Daniel aka Dperfeito was also there.
great we went to eat something and buy tabaco ( alot cheeper than in portugal )

i had a great tournment and send home 2 players and i was with 17,500k...
then i got moved for the 3rd time
(i also hate this)
but i loved that daniel was on my left and 7ete was his left they here the best players in that table so they couldnt try to steal my blinds and i could
:)

strange table alot of station calls
i was on button dani SB 7ete in BB 300-150
now look at this
utg limp
utg+1 limp
utg+2 limp
mp1 raise 1200
mp2 fold
mp3 fold
co fold
i was on Button and i went all in with 18k
why
1st i had AKs
2nd i had position
3rd i didnt want 7ete or Dperfeito in the hand if i raised or call they might have call because the pot was nice and they had position against me because they could try to bluff 1st
4th i thought mp1 could had a pair and since he had 10k plus it would be and easy fold

well everyone folded
he called with JJ
no help for me in the board
and i was with 7k left

after that i won some hands and i got back with 15,000k

then i was in a sick hand
i raised 2,5k
dperfeito went all in
7ete alfter some time folded
everyone folded
and i called
dperferto had AA i had AcKc
i only had 11%pre-flop
but with Tc8c+shit 5c 3c
i send dperfeito home
sorry mate

well sometimes u get lucky
i thought he could had a pair QQ the most but i never say no to a race @ this time
because if i lose i could go party if i win i´m in a good place to be ITM

well after that, belive me, my best hand was my last...
with only 23ºleft
and with 15k back
i was on the SB with the chip leader @ the BB
the blinds here 3,000-1,500 with 300 ante

i had A8s and i went all in
he said "only 12k more i call"
he had more than 200k so ...meh
A8s Vs 94
flop KJ2
turn 9
river 9

well the luck i had with dani went away with him
well 23º place
better than 13 aka the buble

i will put photos later
:)

Vilamoura Solverde 7

This was the sickest tournment i have been
why?

i wake up 6:30 - thats sick
but i need to drive around 550km
after 60 km i saw that the water in the radiator was hot hot hot and i decided to stop and saw what the fuck was happening
well bad news the fan to cool of the radiator was damage so to get to algarve i need to stop in EVERY gas station - thats sick
because of that my trip went from 4h and 30 min to 7h and 20min - and thats is sick too

i didnt get lunch because when i arrive the tournment started - thats sick
the tournment started great for me and i was top 10 before dinner - yeah thats the most sickest thing

like always i talk about my mistakes
i had 25k and i was MP and the blinds where 1,2k - 600
everyone fold and i made a 3.8k raise with KQoff
the BB went all win
he was verry nervouse and i forget all the hints he gave me since i arrive the tb
hint 1- he has a tight passive guy
hint 2- he was nervouse because he had a mounster
why did i call then
1- i thought he has nervouse because he knows me and he knew i could be trying to steal and easylly could fold since im loose agressive
2- they way he was picking his cards
3- the answer he gave me when i asked "man you got to be strong i might fold"

i upload the video later and you will see his face and then decide
well i had KQoff he had KK

and i was with 7k left

here is the video
http://pokerptvideos.com/c126-etapa-8-setembro-vilamoura/v1624-yuran-desce-para-7-mil-fichas.html

after some hands i was out.
i finish top 100 out 220
meh

now the photos

sergiofer

mr.anibal the winner

frida

ze quintas

luidgi

Me francisco "the truth" Costa

BPPT the photos

Francisco "the truth" Costa

nuno coelho aka zummy

toby samson

May

Samir shakhtoor

Luis Nunes the winner

juan macieiras

Catarina Santos aka katarina

henrique custodio aka hencus

Annette

jonh tabatabai

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Poker PT staff

BPPT day 1 and day 2

i started the tournment playing to damm tight
i couldn´t read the table and u know that is fucking hard to play
i also made some mistakes and finish the 2nd level with 12k
then the big news come
i was going to change table
hummm
lets go
i picked my 12k
and went to see my faith
shit i thought
i was on annette and the chip leader table.
that table already had kicked off the tournment 6 players
and i was the short stake.
since i love to be short lets rool.
my 1st and 2nd move was show the table that i was a loose guy
i had one move that i wanted to tell here
annette raise to 450
the chip leader call
and i looked at my cards and saw 27off
i couldn´t call so i raise it to 1200
the sb and the bb folded
annette raised to 4000
the chip leader folded and i start talking with her
i folded and "by mistake" (lol) i turn both cards over and she saw 27
after that i started to play my game and i Dup in one play i dont remember the play
after that the crazyest play of the i was on the big blind
the guy from the SB never show up
so we had 9 guys at the table
utg raise to 875
utg+1 call
utg+2 ( annette) call
mp fold
mp ( chip leader ) call
co call
sb fold
and i looked and saw
pocket TT
since i was with 20k i just call if i was short it would be simple all in
but to manny hands
the flop
TKA
i just hit the set but i thought some guy must have QJ
so i just check
utg check
utg+1 check
utg+2 check
the chip leader raise to 2,5k
co call
i call
all the other just fold
turn 6
mp 5k
co after thinking a litle went all in
well i folded because i put the mp on AK and the CO on QJ and i knew i was behind
well i was 2/3 right
because when i saw the chip leader call with AJ i was WTF
well i was even more furiouse when i saw a 6 on the river
well
but on next hand i knew the tournment was over for me
i had 8T hearts normally a hand i play when i have position
but i folded because utg raised to 875 and already 3 more guy there
when the flop come and i saw
79J hearts
i knew i was over
i just folded a strait flush
even wrost the chip leader
had a Ah and he was a calling station
other heart come to the board
and i said man u here lucky i had 8Th
and he reply man i had the A
:)
i finish the day in 68º with almost 18k
132players went to the 2nd day

DAY 2

nothing mutch to say
fold fold fold fold fold fold fold fold
boring
i had nothing till 17:00 cmon 2 levels and i was donw to 14k
on the 1st hand of the 3rd level
i had poket TT
i bet 3k
hencus raise to 7k
i thought he could have AK or AQ
and i went all in to a race
he called and showed pocket JJ
nothing mutch on the flop, turn or river

and that was it
i finish in 101 and i had a great time
i will put photos from the tournment soon

@BPPT

just wake up and waiting for canossa that only going to arrive today.

yesterday i join the super satelite. i finish in 37º just 9 position to getting other seat that i would change for $$.
i played badly ... when u are playing a satelite like that u need to survive, survive and after that be agressive when u play.
i was with 22k (remember 37 players left) in 3 hand pufff
did i play bladly?
lets analise
1st hand
i was on BB 3k
1 player MP raise
i had shit LOL dont remember
easy fold

2nd hand ( my killer )
same player MP limp
i on the SB call
BB check
i had Ad7d
i checked in the dark
flop
7h9dTs
since i checked in the dark the move was in the BB
he just checked
and the player MP bet 3000
i put him with AT T9suited this kind of hand even low pair to qq but not hitting a set on the flop
i just call when i should re-raised him
turn card 8h
in the BB i hit with 8k representing Jshit or QJ
but he re raise me all in
outch
well i just hit the hall
that was my thought
with 5,5k left i need to make a decision
i folded
i was behind there
for sure
he showed a Jh Ah
nice
@ the end i was right in every step
1st on the flop when i thought i re raise him
2nd i loved my raise there 8k was perfect bet because the pot was 15k + ante and 8k was mid pot so i fell i was representing a jack
3rd the fold was also good
but damm

3rd hand
the next hand lol
everyone fold till CO
CO bet 7,5k
i looked and saw AQsuited
instant call
SB and BB fold
CO show KJoff

folp
9TQ

CO said " ohhh nutts on the flop. sorry"
well
its end like this 22k ( with not only 1 rebuy only made the addon)
damm


after that hotel blablablabla
tamariz blablablalblalbalbalba
and i just wake up

p.s.-i think i´m still drunk

1st in eyes wide shut 7k grt

betfair is sick
u got to play poker poker
sometimes u lose with AA and that put me in a verry bad position
so close to the money with 22 left and i went almost broke
because some guy went all in and i instant call in the BB
i had AA
he had 45
flop 236
sick
and i was left 2,800k and the blinds 1600,800
then i was forced to go all in
with 3 other guys
with JTs
nice hand but with other 3 guys ...
i loved the flop TTJ
and i 3x
after that i played some solid agressive poker
finally in the final tb
with no hands at all
j4off q2off i only steal the blinds
and one by one guys went donw
till only 4 guys here there
then i try to steal a blind with Qc2s
the bb called
and show AcKh

i thought i´m dead unless
9s 4s 7s ks jh

i ask for sorry and i went from 2nd to chip leader
the other guy was the chip leader and start to %#%#$#%#$
i dont think people know what is poker
is not the best hand pre flop that wins is the best hand after the river that does

well
nothing special after that
when i´m chip leader or 2nd in the tb a normally win because i choose my hands
other guys see a fucking Ahigh and go all in
i kill other guy with Akoff vs A9off

finally i went heads up with the last guy
with 150000 vs 40000 more less
blinds
16000,8000
i got J8s
i was SB
he went all in
i call
he had K2off
i manage to get a 8 in the flop
and a flush in the river

gg and 2,260$ more in the bank
cya bastards and gg
francisco "the truth" Costa

BPPT here i go

like i promiss i won a satelite to Betfair Portuguese Poker Tour.
I didn´t post mutch since i´m in holiday
but i got to say that to all your bastards out there.

cya in estoril
Francisco " the truth k" Costa

p.s- http://noticias.pokerpt.com/49-bppt/1788-the-truth-ja-tem-lugar-marcado-no-estoril.html

new day and i did it again

yeah i´m in stage 3 of BPPT. The only porblem is i´m going to be in holliday but i will manage to get a computer to play the 6,6$ garanty with a pack of 3 seats ( 2,2k ). i kick of the table 5 guys playing verry loose in the beggining and after i get the stack i wanted around 10-15k i changed to tight. This tournment had 6 seats and with 9 guys and the BB getting higher i decided to be tight.
i did it again with my buddys ferreira24 and sfdcv.
congrats to both.

on this tournment i get to know other player 1/2 italian that said he will be in BPPT, nice trash talker like me, and he were blablashit against eachother at the end i got a betten hand than him and it was the end. But i promiss him that i will buy a beer in estoril.

cheers mate
better luck next time

Francisco " the truth " Costa

p.s- other moron that was there supporting this guy just said i was a average player and that my blog is shit. i love it when guys think that about me ... give me a HUGH EGDE.

you can say i´m cocky i say its the truth ok

yesterday i fail to enter the portuguese satelite today i was there in time and guess what i won.
i get other free oportunity to get my seat at BPPT like i promiss.

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