My adventures in no limit appears to have some moderate success at winning small amounts mixed with some huge disappointments. The most frustrating problem I have had is when I have the best hand and another individual is able to draw out on me after we both go all-in.

My worse hit in the last week was last night. I have K/10 and the flop is A/Q/10. I flop the nut straight. The shortest stack goes all in for less than $20, the next player calls, and I reraise to about $40. He reraises and goes all in. This is another $40 in the pot, costing $80 total. Naturally, I call. He turns over A/Q (two pair) and the small stack has K/10 (so I will split the main pot with him/her). As you may have guessed, the turn brought another Q giving the 2nd player a full house and a pot of $180. That hurts.

This is not as bad, but has been indicative of some of the draws I have seen:



Holdem No Limit
$0.10/$0.20
[Jun 21 12:34:00] : Hand Start.
[Jun 21 12:34:00] : Seat 1 : ThangLoi has $9.92
[Jun 21 12:34:00] : Seat 2 : B-Wha? has $0
[Jun 21 12:34:00] : Seat 3 : mannysid has $23.10
[Jun 21 12:34:00] : Seat 4 : syphos has $32.96
[Jun 21 12:34:00] : Seat 5 : fastdan2 has $22.43
[Jun 21 12:34:00] : Seat 6 : Mike1941 has $7.39
[Jun 21 12:34:00] : Seat 7 : jayred22 has $23.69
[Jun 21 12:34:00] : Seat 8 : mavrick79 has $8.70
[Jun 21 12:34:00] : Seat 9 : kev4 has $2.36
[Jun 21 12:34:00] : mavrick79 is the dealer.
[Jun 21 12:34:00] : kev4 posted small blind.
[Jun 21 12:34:01] : ThangLoi posted big blind.
[Jun 21 12:34:01] : Game [41634] started with 8 players.
[Jun 21 12:34:01] : Dealing Hole Cards.
[Jun 21 12:34:01] : Seat 4 : syphos has Kd Qc
[Jun 21 12:34:06] : mannysid called $0.20
[Jun 21 12:34:15] : syphos called $0.20
[Jun 21 12:34:15] : fastdan2 folded.
[Jun 21 12:34:18] : Mike1941 folded.
[Jun 21 12:34:18] : jayred22 called $0.20
[Jun 21 12:34:18] : mavrick79 folded.
[Jun 21 12:34:22] : kev4 called $0.10
[Jun 21 12:34:25] : ThangLoi checked.
[Jun 21 12:34:26] : Dealing flop.
[Jun 21 12:34:26] : Board cards [Jd Tc 8d]
[Jun 21 12:34:29] : kev4 checked.
[Jun 21 12:34:43] : ThangLoi checked.
[Jun 21 12:34:45] : mannysid checked.
[Jun 21 12:34:47] : syphos bet $1
[Jun 21 12:34:50] : jayred22 called $1
[Jun 21 12:34:56] : kev4 called $1
[Jun 21 12:35:00] : ThangLoi folded.
[Jun 21 12:35:02] : mannysid called $1
[Jun 21 12:35:02] : Dealing turn.
[Jun 21 12:35:02] : Board cards [Jd Tc 8d 5h]
[Jun 21 12:35:08] : kev4 checked.
[Jun 21 12:35:10] : mannysid checked.
[Jun 21 12:35:12] : syphos bet $3
[Jun 21 12:35:21] : jayred22 folded.
[Jun 21 12:35:22] : kev4 called $1.16 and is All-in
[Jun 21 12:35:29] : mannysid folded.
[Jun 21 12:35:29] : Showdown!
[Jun 21 12:35:29] : Seat 4 : syphos has Kd Qc
[Jun 21 12:35:31] : Seat 4 : syphos has Kd Qc
[Jun 21 12:35:31] : Seat 9 : kev4 has 2s 9h
[Jun 21 12:35:36] : Board cards [Jd Tc 8d 5h Qd]
[Jun 21 12:35:36] : Seat 4 : syphos has Kd Qc
[Jun 21 12:35:36] : syphos has Pair: Queens
[Jun 21 12:35:36] : Seat 9 : kev4 has 2s 9h
[Jun 21 12:35:36] : kev4 has Straight QJT98
[Jun 21 12:35:36] : kev4 wins $6.96 with Straight QJT98
[Jun 21 12:35:44] : syphos : of course
[Jun 21 12:35:46] : Hand is over.


Right now I am in a $19,000 guranteed tournament ($10 buy-in with rebuys). My last two tournaments have placed me either in the money (20/180) or on the bubble (22/150). So I am hoping good things for this one. Right now I have more than quadrupled my starting chip stack to 6,400. The cards have been good to me, but its a solid start regardless.