ID	Start Time	Name		Buy-in	Entrants	Position	Won	Notes
69421219	Dec 03 21:31ET	The Fifty-Fifty		$50.00 + $5		483	–
69307385	Dec 03 21:01ET	$100,000 Guarantee (Rebuy)		$100.00 + $9		63	–	You made 4 rebuys/add-ons for $400.00 .
70253666	Dec 03 20:31ET	$22,000 Guarantee (Rebuy)		$30.00 + $3		37	–	You made 3 rebuys/add-ons for $90.00 .
70250095	Dec 03 20:01ET	$32,000 Guarantee		$24.00 + $2	1,606	796	–
69420249	Dec 03 20:01ET	$65,000 Guarantee		$150.00 + $13		101	–
70246598	Dec 03 19:31ET	$33,000 Guarantee (1r+1a)		$100.00 + $9	217	26	$343.80	You made 2 rebuys/add-ons for $200.00 .
71004664	Dec 03 19:01ET	$40,000 Guarantee		$69.00 + $6	751	612	–

Total spent on buy-ins (incl. rebuys)  = $1260

Today’s winnings/losses = +$443.80 (+$100 for Matt Vengrin KO)

Today’s net profit/loss = -$816.20

         My whole sleeping schedule is a little out of whack and have missed the early big buy-in tournaments this week.  I just need to wake up at Noon just once to get it back on track, so I’ll try to do that tomorrow.  I did knock out a pro today named Matt Vengrin, not too familiar with who he is but read his profile and seems like he’s had some major success, the hand will be posted below.  This week, I’ve been running pretty bad and am stuck around $2500 so far.  I’ve cashed in a few tournaments but nothing too big to cover all my buy-ins and gain profits.  Good thing I am spending a lot less these days since there are no FTOPS satellites for me to play but all these small losses are adding up to be a good sum of money.

         I wouldn’t mind if I got coolered early on in tournaments but the past two days it seems like the poker gods wait for me to steadily build a nice stack for the middle-late stages and then decide to give me a bad beat when the time is most critical.  Almost as if they don’t want me to make a final table.  Higher pair vs. lower pair all-in preflop and lower pair flops a set happens quite often in poker, on average, I will experience this type of bad beat once or twice a day at most.  Lately, it’s been happening to me at least 2-3 times a day this week, which I don’t think is very common.  Another occurance I noticed that was happening to me was that in the middle-late stages of my tournaments I would get stuck in situations where it’s definately +EV for me to push with my premium hands preflop but end up running into one of the few hands that have me dominated, ie. KK vs AA or AK vs AA.  I still consider these types of situations bad beats, not because I was outdrawn but because of the sheer timing of when these situations arise, had they come early on in the tournament then it’s no sweat off my back, just brush it off and join the next tournament.  Usually when I run this bad, I like to think that the poker gods have something magnificent in store for me in the near future, hopefully a first place win in the $750k Guarantee this Sunday   For now, I’ll leave you with some hands of how I’ve been running this week:

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Matt Vengrin KO
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Full Tilt, 200/400 blinds, 50 ante NL Hold’em Tourney, 6 Players
Hand History Converter by Stoxpoker

BTN: 18,978 (47.4 bb)
SB: 33,863 (84.7 bb)
4XTRADER (BB): 14,358 (35.9 bb)
UTG: 12,460 (31.2 bb)
MP: 53,225 (133.1 bb)
Matt Vengrin: 2,059 (5.1 bb)

Pre-Flop: 4XTRADER is BB with
UTG folds, MP folds, Matt Vengrin raises to 2,009 and is all-in, BTN folds, SB folds, 4XTRADER calls 1,609

Flop: (4,518) (2 players, 1 is all-in)
Turn: (4,518) (2 players, 1 is all-in)
River: (4,518) (2 players, 1 is all-in)
Results: 4,518 pot
Matt Vengrin showed (high card Ace) and lost (-2,059 net)
4XTRADER showed (high card Ace) and won 4,518 (2,459 net)

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HAND #1
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Full Tilt, 800/1,600 blinds, 200 ante NL Hold’em Tourney, 9 Players
Hand History Converter by Stoxpoker

UTG+1: 35,265 (22 bb)
UTG+2: 27,364 (17.1 bb)
BTN: 11,260 (7 bb)
SB: 53,120 (33.2 bb)
BB: 31,313 (19.6 bb)
4XTRADER (MP1): 54,588 (34.1 bb)
MP2: 77,050 (48.2 bb)
MP3: 102,748 (64.2 bb)
CO: 27,447 (17.2 bb)

Pre-Flop: 4XTRADER is MP1 with
4XTRADER raises to 4,000, MP2 folds, MP3 folds, CO folds, UTG+1 folds, UTG+2 raises to 27,164 and is all-in, BTN folds, SB folds, BB folds, 4XTRADER calls 23,164

Flop: (58,528) (2 players, 1 is all-in)
Turn: (58,528) (2 players, 1 is all-in)
River: (58,528) (2 players, 1 is all-in)
Results: 58,528 pot
UTG+2 showed (two pairs, Aces and Tens) and won 58,528 (31,164 net)
4XTRADER showed (two pairs, Kings and Tens) and lost (-27,364 net)

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HAND #2
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Full Tilt, 500/1,000 blinds, 125 ante NL Hold’em Tourney, 6 Players
Hand History Converter by Stoxpoker

BTN: 8,689 (8.7 bb)
SB: 38,656 (38.7 bb)
4XTRADER (BB): 26,046 (26 bb)
UTG: 46,751 (46.8 bb)
MP: 9,173 (9.2 bb)
CO: 67,409 (67.4 bb)

Pre-Flop: 4XTRADER is BB with
UTG folds, MP folds, CO folds, BTN raises to 8,564 and is all-in, SB calls 8,064, 4XTRADER raises to 25,921 and is all-in, SB calls 17,357

Flop: (61,156) (3 players, 2 are all-in)
Turn: (61,156) (3 players, 2 are all-in)
River: (61,156) (3 players, 2 are all-in)
Results: 61,156 pot
4XTRADER showed (high card Ace) and lost (-26,046 net)
BTN showed (a pair of Eights) and lost (-8,689 net)
SB showed (a pair of Aces) and won 61,156 (35,110 net)

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HAND #3
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Full Tilt, 800/1,600 blinds, 200 ante NL Hold’em Tourney, 8 Players
Hand History Converter by Stoxpoker

UTG+2: 21,592 (13.5 bb)
MP1: 45,616 (28.5 bb)
BTN: 36,642 (22.9 bb)
SB: 19,033 (11.9 bb)
BB: 33,619 (21 bb)
MP2: 13,286 (8.3 bb)
MP3: 11,152 (7 bb)
4XTRADER (CO): 53,581 (33.5 bb)

Pre-Flop: 4XTRADER is CO with
MP2 folds, MP3 folds, 4XTRADER raises to 4,800, UTG+2 raises to 21,392 and is all-in, MP1 folds, BTN folds, SB folds, BB folds, 4XTRADER calls 16,592

Flop: (46,784) (2 players, 1 is all-in)
Turn: (46,784) (2 players, 1 is all-in)
River: (46,784) (2 players, 1 is all-in)
Results: 46,784 pot
UTG+2 showed (three of a kind, Eights) and won 46,784 (25,192 net)
4XTRADER showed (a pair of Tens) and lost (-21,592 net)

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HAND #4
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Full Tilt, 500/1,000 blinds, 125 ante NL Hold’em Tourney, 8 Players
Hand History Converter by Stoxpoker

SB: 8,210 (8.2 bb)
4XTRADER (BB): 59,027 (59 bb)
UTG+2: 6,500 (6.5 bb)
MP1: 8,446 (8.4 bb)
MP2: 41,400 (41.4 bb)
MP3: 24,027 (24 bb)
CO: 15,346 (15.3 bb)
BTN: 23,684 (23.7 bb)

Pre-Flop: 4XTRADER is BB with
UTG+2 raises to 6,375 and is all-in, MP1 raises to 8,321 and is all-in, MP2 folds, MP3 folds, CO folds, BTN folds, SB folds, 4XTRADER calls 7,321

Flop: (24,517) (3 players, 2 are all-in)
Turn: (24,517) (3 players, 2 are all-in)
River: (24,517) (3 players, 2 are all-in)
Results: 24,517 pot
MP1 showed (two pairs, Queens and Jacks) and won 24,517 (16,071 net)
4XTRADER showed (a pair of Aces) and lost (-8,446 net)
UTG+2 showed (high card Ace) and lost (-6,500 net)

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HAND #5
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Full Tilt, 60/120 blinds NL Hold’em Tourney, 9 Players
Hand History Converter by Stoxpoker

UTG+1: 7,090 (59.1 bb)
UTG+2: 910 (7.6 bb)
MP1: 2,250 (18.8 bb)
4XTRADER (MP2): 2,350 (19.6 bb)
MP3: 6,945 (57.9 bb)
CO: 4,480 (37.3 bb)
BTN: 2,860 (23.8 bb)
SB: 2,180 (18.2 bb)
BB: 1,955 (16.3 bb)

Pre-Flop: 4XTRADER is MP2 with
UTG+1 folds, UTG+2 folds, MP1 folds, 4XTRADER raises to 300, MP3 folds, CO raises to 1,080, BTN folds, SB folds, BB folds, 4XTRADER raises to 2,350 and is all-in, CO calls 1,270

Flop: (4,880) (2 players, 1 is all-in)
Turn: (4,880) (2 players, 1 is all-in)
River: (4,880) (2 players, 1 is all-in)

Results: 4,880 pot
4XTRADER showed (two pairs, Kings and Threes) and lost (-2,350 net)
CO showed (a full house, Queens full of Threes) and won 4,880 (2,530 net)

ID	Start Time	Name		Buy-in	Entrants	Position	Won	Notes
70908475	Dec 02 23:01ET	$11,500 KO Guarantee		$24.00 + $2	730	17	$106.58	You collected $24.00 for 6 Knockouts.
69422234	Dec 02 23:01ET	$30,000 Guarantee		$100.00 + $9		108	–
70900876	Dec 02 22:01ET	$28,000 Guarantee		$24.00 + $2	1,263	896	–
69421062	Dec 02 21:31ET	The Fifty-Fifty		$50.00 + $5	1,084	659	–
70128468	Dec 02 20:31ET	$22,000 Guarantee (Rebuy)		$30.00 + $3	299	38	–	You made 2 rebuys/add-ons for $60.00 .
70124700	Dec 02 20:01ET	$32,000 Guarantee		$24.00 + $2	1,654	659	–
69420135	Dec 02 20:01ET	$65,000 Guarantee		$150.00 + $13	635	512	–
70121034	Dec 02 19:31ET	$33,000 Guarantee (1r+1a)		$100.00 + $9	185	102	–	You made 2 rebuys/add-ons for $200.00 .
70121032	Dec 02 19:31ET	$10,000 Guarantee (Rebuy)		$20.00 + $2	275	26	$119.84	You made 6 rebuys/add-ons for $120.00 .
70877597	Dec 02 19:01ET	$40,000 Guarantee		$69.00 + $6	722	663	–

Total spent on buy-ins (incl. rebuys)  = $1024

Today’s winnings/losses = +$250.42

Today’s net profit/loss = -$773.58

            Woke up later than usual because I set my alarm clock to the wrong time which made me miss a few of the bigger buy-in tournaments.  I made it up by playing some different tournaments I usually wouldn’t play.  Nothing much to say about my results today, I could’ve got a lot deeper in a lot of my tournaments but kept getting coolered into my higher pair vs. opponents lower pair all-in preflop and they spike their set to win.  The worst part about these specific situations was they were at such a key moment of the tournament and were to put me at least in the top 10 chips in the middle-late stages of the tournaments.  Especially, the KK vs 55 hand, had I not been coolered in this hand I would’ve been an overwhelming chip leader and probably would’ve made the final table.  Just one of those days, I guess.  Here is what I was experiencing all day, I’ll also leave the last hand up for discussion, good fold or bad fold?

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HAND #1
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Full Tilt, 300/600 blinds, 75 ante NL Hold’em Tourney, 9 Players
Hand History Converter by Stoxpoker

UTG+1: 29,409 (49 bb)
BTN: 13,881 (23.1 bb)
4XTRADER (SB): 28,051 (46.8 bb)
BB: 8,670 (14.5 bb)
UTG+2: 6,040 (10.1 bb)
MP1: 27,785 (46.3 bb)
MP2: 27,133 (45.2 bb)
MP3: 9,250 (15.4 bb)
CO: 14,103 (23.5 bb)

Pre-Flop: 4XTRADER is SB with
UTG+2 folds, MP1 folds, MP2 raises to 1,600, MP3 folds, CO raises to 14,028 and is all-in, UTG+1 folds, BTN folds, 4XTRADER raises to 27,976 and is all-in, BB folds, MP2 folds

Flop: (30,931) (2 players, 2 are all-in)
Turn: (30,931) (2 players, 2 are all-in)
River: (30,931) (2 players, 2 are all-in)
Results: 30,931 pot
4XTRADER showed (a pair of Tens) and lost (-14,103 net)
CO showed (three of a kind, Nines) and won 30,931 (16,828 net)

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HAND #2
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Full Tilt, 600/1,200 blinds, 150 ante NL Hold’em Tourney, 5 Players
Hand History Converter by Stoxpoker

BB: 16,826 (14 bb)
MP: 21,434 (17.9 bb)
CO: 49,374 (41.1 bb)
4XTRADER (BTN): 74,350 (62 bb)
SB: 22,702 (18.9 bb)

Pre-Flop: 4XTRADER is BTN with
MP raises to 4,800, CO folds, 4XTRADER raises to 74,200 and is all-in, SB folds, BB folds, MP calls 16,484 and is all-in

Flop: (45,118) (2 players, 2 are all-in)
Turn: (45,118) (2 players, 2 are all-in)
River: (45,118) (2 players, 2 are all-in)
Results: 45,118 pot
4XTRADER showed (a pair of Queens) and lost (-21,434 net)
MP showed (three of a kind, Threes) and won 45,118 (23,684 net)

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HAND #3
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Full Tilt, 800/1,600 blinds, 200 ante NL Hold’em Tourney, 7 Players
Hand History Converter by Stoxpoker

BTN: 44,639 (27.9 bb)
4XTRADER (BB): 66,998 (41.9 bb)
UTG+2: 17,747 (11.1 bb)
MP1: 24,655 (15.4 bb)
MP2: 106,900 (66.8 bb)
MP3: 81,114 (50.7 bb)
CO: 60,414 (37.8 bb)

Pre-Flop: 4XTRADER is BB with
UTG+2 folds, MP1 folds, MP2 raises to 3,900, MP3 folds, CO folds, BTN folds, 4XTRADER raises to 12,600, MP2 raises to 106,700 and is all-in, 4XTRADER calls 54,198 and is all-in

Flop: (134,996) (2 players, 2 are all-in)
Turn: (134,996) (2 players, 2 are all-in)
River: (134,996) (2 players, 2 are all-in)
Results: 134,996 pot
MP2 showed (three of a kind, Fives) and won 134,996 (67,998 net)
4XTRADER showed (a pair of Kings) and lost (-66,998 net)

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Discussion Hand
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Full Tilt, 300/600 blinds, 75 ante NL Hold’em Tourney, 5 Players
Hand History Converter by Stoxpoker

MP: 33,032 (55.1 bb)
4XTRADER (BTN): 46,326 (77.2 bb)
SB: 11,555 (19.3 bb)
BB: 16,528 (27.5 bb)
CO: 31,882 (53.1 bb)

Pre-Flop: 4XTRADER is BTN with
CO raises to 1,444, MP folds, 4XTRADER calls 1,444, SB folds, BB folds

Flop: (4,163) (2 players)
CO bets 1,800, 4XTRADER raises to 5,400, CO raises to 30,363 and is all-in, 4XTRADER folds

Results: 14,963 pot
CO mucked and won 14,963 (8,044 net)

ID	Start Time	Name		Buy-in	Entrants	Position	Won	Notes
68663781	Dec 01 21:01ET	$1K Monday		$1,000.00 + $60	369	22	$2,029.50
69420057	Dec 01 20:01ET	$65,000 Guarantee		$150.00 + $13	553	527	–
69996040	Dec 01 19:31ET	$33,000 Guarantee (1r+1a)		$100.00 + $9	180	158	–	You made 1 rebuy/add-on for $100.00 .
70754004	Dec 01 19:01ET	$40,000 Guarantee		$69.00 + $6	699	328	–
69984773	Dec 01 18:01ET	Turbo $40K Guarantee		$200.00 + $16	211	141	–
69977482	Dec 01 17:01ET	$30,000 KO Guarantee		$120.00 + $9	341	226	–	You collected $20.00 for 1 Knockout.
69415559	Dec 01 16:01ET	$40,000 Guarantee (Rebuy)		$100.00 + $9	145	11	$765	You made 4 rebuys/add-ons for $400.00 .
69411491	Dec 01 15:01ET	$50,000 Guarantee		$150.00 + $13	388	257	–
70724188	Dec 01 15:01ET	$13,500 KO Guarantee		$24.00 + $2	956	622	–

Total spent on buy-ins (incl. rebuys)  = $2550

Today’s winnings/losses = +$2814.50

Today’s net profit/loss = +$254.50

             Today, I got back into my groove and made some decent cashes.  Even though I only won a peanut it did boost some moral and gets me pumped to make a final table tomorrow.  I contemplated long and hard about buying into the $1k Monday.  Good thing I did buy-in last minute because I did end up running pretty deep.  This is probably going to sound very unprofessional but there just might be method to the madness, when I played the $1k Monday I played on auto-pilot the whole way through as I was playing video games while playing the tournament.  Ironically, I still made it through the tough field and cashed in the money but didn’t make a final table appearance for the big money.  Sometimes it seems like I do better when I don’t concentrate on reads and just play on auto-pilot, there’s been numerous tournaments where I’ve made it really deep while occupying my attention on something else.  Maybe when I do try to concentrate and focus I over-analyze certain situations which makes me overplay my hands.  I’m not saying I do this all the time but when I do it seems like my results are just as good or sometimes better.  Reflecting back, I always ask myself:  Would I have made it that deep had I concentrated and focused only on the tournament?  Would I have made it deeper than I did? or would I of got knocked out earlier if I focused?  It’s very hard to say because the results vary between the two on different days.  Regardless, I believe this is a bad habit and I should try focusing throughout most, if not all, of the tournament.  So tomorrow I’ll try and divert all my attention just on poker and maybe I’ll win a good amount of money.

ID	Start Time	Name		Buy-in	Entrants	Position	Won	Notes
69884197	Nov 30 21:01ET	$35,000 Guarantee (Rebuy)		$100.00 + $9	322	119	–	You made 2 rebuys/add-ons for $200.00 .
69034654	Nov 30 20:01ET	$65,000 Guarantee		$150.00 + $13	740	88	–
69872947	Nov 30 19:31ET	$33,000 Guarantee (1r+1a)		$100.00 + $9	286	257	–	You made 1 rebuys/add-ons for $100.00.
68662972	Nov 30 19:06ET	The Sunday Mulligan		$200.00 + $16	1,141	1,037	–
70621701	Nov 30 19:01ET	$40,000 Guarantee		$69.00 + $6	992	336	–
68654819	Nov 30 18:02ET	$750,000 Guarantee		$200.00 + $16	3,668	3,423	–

Total spent on buy-ins (incl. rebuys)  = $1188

Today’s winnings/losses = -$1188

Today’s net profit/loss = -$1188

          I know I said I was going to get back into the online tournament circuit starting Dec. 1st but felt like the Sunday tournaments weren’t worth passing up.  I also got most of my important errands done which gave me some extra time to start playing today.  Unfortuantely, there was some un-welcoming variance that kicked in right away my first day back.  I could blame it on being a little rusty since I haven’t played an online tournament for about a week and a half but I feel like I just got the short-end of the stick when it came to luck today.  It’s very unusual for me to get eliminated before the first break of a tournament because in all reality I shouldn’t commit all or most of my chips that early on but today I had big hands that I just couldn’t fold against unknown opponents.  This resulted in getting knocked out very early in the $750k gaurt’d and Sunday Mulligan.  I ran deep in the $65k but knocked out about 16 places from the money when I lost a race with my QQ vs AK. 

        The competition never sleeps, dropping two spots from 16th place to 18th on OPR and going from 36th to 184th on the FullTilt November TLB, proves this statement.  I took a week and a half off the online tournament circuit to play some live tournaments in Vegas and it feels like I’ve been gone for a whole year.  Ironically, this month broke the record as the most profitable month making about $54k profit thanks to my 3rd place finish in FTOPS #7.  My second biggest month is $41k in September.  It’ll be tough but let’s hope I end this year with a bang and break the record once more, I’ll need it since expensive Christmas presents and a trip to Lake Tahoe and the Bahamas are all coming up!