*Official* Party Friday Special

[TheTimeIsUp]

Not in. Gl all.

[Jax_Grinder]

H4MM3R. gl

[billyjex]

i'm in. table 43, adme2urblist, GL all.

[bugstud]

79, not really in a LL mood. Been a while for online tourns.

[Ogre]

Meh, I'm in.
table 2 /images/graemlins/cool.gif

[Jax_Grinder]

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[Harv72b]

Pressing my luck on table 59; MarkBeard at the same table.

[bobby rooney]

noiseboy table 41, hanging in despite no hands so far. Man, they don't start you with many chips.

[billyjex]

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noiseboy table 41, hanging in despite no hands so far. Man, they don't start you with many chips.

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yeah, I really wish Party would give 1500 chips in Friday Special and Supers.

[LesJ]

UGLY first hour. Card dead, and lost over 300 chips when my a, j lost to a, 8. Down to 225 on table 54 (soon to break up). Need a couple of double ups just to stick around. GLA
Les

[Harv72b]

now on table 7 with t1395. Lost some chips when my straight ran into a flush, doubled up with AA, lost some back with JJ. Par for the course so far.

[billyjex]

nothing really going on. picked up some pots by pure aggression and am sitting at 1185.

[Pat Southern]

1170 at break, lucky table 13

[Bv3]

After winning a couple small pots I won 700 on the last hand before the break with QQ and am now at 1600.

[Harv72b]

Doubled up with ATs 2 hands into the 2nd hour.

[Bv3]

just made 800 with a straight flush

[LesJ]

Crappy night ends when my a, 10 goes down to pocket 4s. A, 10, btw. . was my 2nd best hand in 80 minutes. hopefully tomorrow will be better.
Good luck all that are left,
Les

[Bv3]

AK loses to AA and I'm out.

[bugstud]

5411 at the second break, table 21

[billyjex]

2nd break sitting w/ 2600 at table 12.

[Zinzan]

t5598, table 22. lrg/avg/sml=14K/3481/35. 825 entrants, 237 LEFT, money at 90.

-Z

[Harv72b]

Donked off half my stack with another ill-advised blind steal attempt + pot odds (Q5s this time), but got some back with still another ill advised blind steal attempt (T7o) vs. a short stack. t2705 at the second break, still on 7.

[Harv72b]

Damn, didn't see that Matt Hilger was playing til he went out. Would've liked to watch some of his hands.

[Zinzan]

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Damn, didn't see that Matt Hilger was playing til he went out. Would've liked to watch some of his hands.

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Wasn't sure if that was THE Matt Hilger, as it says he's from Rochester (I thought he was from Atlanta). Anyway, sat with him a long time. Must have been card dead, because he didn't do much. I won a decent pot from him with my AT v his A9.

-Z

[billyjex]

out. limped w/ sevens, flop 5 3 2, BB auto pushes and I call. he has 5 3. GL.

[Harv72b]

Out in 174, JJ loses to AT. Shoulda called for pot odds with my T9s a few hands earlier, but 20/20 hindsight & all.

[Harv72b]

[ QUOTE ]
Wasn't sure if that was THE Matt Hilger, as it says he's from Rochester (but I thought he was from Atlanta). Anyway, sat with him a long time. Must have been card dead, because he didn't do much. I won a decent pot from him with my AT v his A9.

-Z

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Could just be some donk using the name. He pretty much specializes in limit ring anyway, doesn't he?

[Zinzan]

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Out in 174, JJ loses to AT. Shoulda called for pot odds with my T9s a few hands earlier, but 20/20 hindsight & all.

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Well, I'm not sure you should'a opened the pot with T9 under the gun, dude. :/

Anyway, you had a couple of nice plays. You say you mostly play limit, right? Have you played much NL before?

-Z

[bugstud]

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Wasn't sure if that was THE Matt Hilger, as it says he's from Rochester (but I thought he was from Atlanta). Anyway, sat with him a long time. Must have been card dead, because he didn't do much. I won a decent pot from him with my AT v his A9.

-Z

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Could just be some donk using the name. He pretty much specializes in limit ring anyway, doesn't he?

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he played the wsop last year, at least.

[Harv72b]

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Anyway, you had a couple of nice plays. You say you mostly play limit, right? Have you played much NL before?

-Z

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I opened with T9s because first, the table was pretty tight, and second, I was short-stacked & wanted to play a little more aggressively tonight, hopefully building up a big enough stack to make it a little deeper into the money. That said, the pot odds were there & I should've called after the all in & overcall, but the guy that called the allin was tight as hell & I figured I was up against a high pair there.

I've played maybe 50 smaller MTTs over the past year, + around 100 or so SNGs. Tack on a couple thousand cash ring hands donking around in the 25 & 50 NL tables, and that's it. /images/graemlins/smile.gif I still make my share of mistakes, but I feel like I understand the thoery behind the NL game fairly well...I just need to get some experience & work on fine-tuning my aggression, I think.

Ah well, two moneys in a row & it really would've been beginner's luck. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Zinzan]

One turn of the cards and you could have moneyed.

You weren't THAT short-stacked, though. You had time to wait for a premo hand. I've seen four AA at my table in the past 20 hands.

-Z

[Harv72b]

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One turn of the cards and you could have moneyed.

You weren't THAT short-stacked, though. You had time to wait for a premo hand. I've seen four AA at my table in the past 20 hands.

-Z

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Yeah, but if I'd waited for AA I just would've lost to quads anyway. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Zinzan]

t13917, table 9. 26376/7783/1229. 16 to the bubble.

-Z

[bugstud]

7686, bad hour. Couple correct laydowns, one pwning by AK to my AQ

[bugstud]

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7686, bad hour. Couple correct laydowns, one pwning by AK to my AQ

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and I'm out 97th. F

pushed on a stealer with ATo. he has AKo. whoops.

[Zinzan]

Built up to 30K in chips, but lost a bunch with A4 against A7 on a low flop I hit.

t14664 on table 2. 44 left. 46K/19K/2K.

-Z

[Harv72b]

Good game, zin. Now no more smack about me opening with T9...at least mine were sooted /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Zinzan]

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Good game, zin. Now no more smack about me opening with T9...at least mine were sooted /images/graemlins/grin.gif

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Very true!

And I was sitting with just under 10 BB's, too, so it was a similar situation, 'cept I wasn't UTG.

But I was fine going out 40th or 20th... didn't matter... I needed to build a stack to get to the final table again, which was my goal.

Anyway, it was alright. I cruised into the money pretty easily, and that felt good. But couldn't build a stack as I approached the final tables.

Have a big $1000 NL tourney at Lucky Chances here in the Bay Area on Sunday. Need to tune up for non-online poker before the WSOP ME.

See ya on the $200K tomorrow night? I *may* play.

-Z

[mchilger]

That wasn't me.

I wrote a book on Limit, but I've probably had more success in NL tournaments than I have in Limit tournaments. That is definitely true in terms of live tournaments. For example, in NL, I finished 33rd in main event last year. I started out playing NL tournaments and love them. Online it's pretty close in terms of success between limit and no-limit tournaments.

What name exactly was this imposter using? My Empire account is mhilger which I use occasionally. Hope he did well /images/graemlins/smile.gif.

Matthew

[Harv72b]

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What name exactly was this imposter using? My Empire account is mhilger which I use occasionally. Hope he did well /images/graemlins/smile.gif.

Matthew

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matt_hilger, he finished 186 out of 825 (top 90 paid).

But mostly I just wanted to thank you for your book--it was the first book on poker I ever read, and turned me into an instant winner in micro- and then small-stakes LHE. Very well written & easy to understand; I still recommend it to every new player who asks. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[JackOfSpeed]

Agreed...Great book, Mr. Hilger. I've since moved on to shorthanded games, which your book doesn't really address, but your book was key towards my early success in mid-limit full ring. Good luck in the WSOP.

[Zinzan]

Never read your book, Matt, but I'm also from Atlanta, and you inspired me to move to NZ! Well, not permanently, but I've done a lot of work down there. Wanted to enter that NZ Poker Championship this year, but they didn't even set the date for it until about 3 weeks before the event, and I was back in SF by then.

-Z