KwarK's place

So I was lucky enough to be dealt into a stars milestone hand in which everyone gets several buyins and the winner gets like 12 buyins. I read this, considered it briefly, looked down at my K2o and failed to consider the pot odds. The pot odds of a $25 shove into a $310+ pot. So, I folded my K2o. Which is unfortunate because it would have won.
Submitted by : KwarK

PokerStars Game #23228000000: Holdem No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2008/12/25 3:49:22 CET [2008/12/24 21:49:22 ET]
Table Walinskia II 6-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: KwarK_uK ($25 in chips)
Seat 2: borisone ($15.25 in chips)
Seat 3: arildb ($26.50 in chips)
Seat 4: M. Trapezius ($24.40 in chips)
Seat 5: sunsdown ($23.30 in chips)
Seat 6: mccarthy852 ($25.25 in chips)
sunsdown: posts small blind $0.10
mccarthy852: posts big blind $0.25

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to KwarK_uK
KwarK_uK said, "hello"
KwarK_uK said, "good to hear"
arildb said, "hello"
KwarK_uK said, ":o"
KwarK_uK said, "thats us"
KwarK_uK said, "!!!"
arildb said, ""
KwarK_uK: folds
borisone: calls $0.25
arildb: calls $0.25
M. Trapezius: folds
M. Trapezius leaves the table
sunsdown: calls $0.15
KwarK_uK said, "underwhelming hand "
mccarthy852: checks

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $1.00)

   
Aliochenka joins the table at seat #4
sunsdown: checks
mccarthy852: checks
borisone: bets $1
KwarK_uK said, "what do we get anyway?"
Aliochenka said, "i get nothing"
arildb: calls $1
sunsdown: calls $1
Aliochenka said, "im not in the hand"
mccarthy852: folds

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $4.00)

   
KwarK_uK said, "thats pretty sick"
sunsdown: checks
KwarK_uK said, "<3 stars"
Aliochenka said, "!"
borisone: bets $1
arildb: calls $1
KwarK_uK said, "i had K2o"
sunsdown: calls $1

River (Pot : $7.00)

   
KwarK_uK said, "awful hand"
sunsdown: checks
borisone: checks
arildb: checks

Showdown
sunsdown: shows (high card King)
borisone: shows (a pair of Sevens)
arildb: mucks hand
borisone collected $6.70 from pot

Summary
Total pot $7 | Rake $0.30
Board  
Seat 1: KwarK_uK folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 2: borisone showed and won ($6.70) with a pair of Sevens
Seat 3: arildb mucked
Seat 4: M. Trapezius (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: sunsdown (small blind) showed and lost with high card King
Seat 6: mccarthy852 (big blind) folded on the Flop

There's an idiot playing really badly and talking shit on my table. Nobody has so much as said a word to him in chat but he insists upon a barrage of personal abuse to the entire table. Unfortunately he was running like God for the first quarter of an hour and quadrupled up. Every time he won a pot he'd tell the loser who he sucked out on that he'd spend it on their mother, or some other such insult. Flopping trips with 27o and cracking QQ etc. It was pretty brutal stuff and even though we all had the dignity to ignore his verbal abuse it was obvious the beats were getting to the table. Some players started tilting a bit and one of the tightest players I know (11/9/2 over 3000 hands) started shoving AQo pf.
However he didn't have the sense to just hit and run. He thought his suckouts would last forever and his good run ended shortly and brutally. The pot sizes and the players he lost them two were very precise. Almost as if ordained by some higher power. First he gave each player he'd sucked out on a complete refund for pretty much the same as he'd taken. Then he sucked out on the nit a few times and got a decent stack. Then he gave it all to me. He really started shit talking then so I got a mod in and he muted him which was :D. He doubled up his last 20bb on my nit who said "donk table" which was the first thing I'd ever seen him say in 3000 hands at tables with him and left. I enjoyed that too, I liked seeing really tight nits tilt and act human like everyone else. His final 40bb went to me as AKo held against A3o pf and he just instaleft.

I share this story because poker is a brutal and very painful game which very rarely shows any sign of justice. In this case it did. The asshole lost all his money, all his pride and got muted. The 3 other players at the table got full refunds from him and the nit who had always seemed robotic went on crazy tilt and gave the asshole two buyins which ended up in my pocket. Life is good.

After losing WCGUK to Midian (again lol) I finally threw in the towel with Starcraft and decided to give poker a real shot. I got pretty good at microstakes around Christmas but hadn't really played since then because I got absolutely owned in January and lost half my roll. I'd cashed out most the rest and just left $120 in there. So I started poker again 17 days ago with $120 playing 2nl. I gave myself a 4 tables max rule because my 12 table style was high variance and low skill and I didn't feel I'd improve with it.

I spent like 5 days getting to $200 on 2nl because I was 4 tabling and I suck at 2nl. Once there I spent 9 days (including 3 days off to turn 20) to get to $500. Once there I spent 3 days getting to $1000. I'd only ever been to 50nl once before and I got completely owned so I was really quite nervous about it. Especially because I believe that I'm not really owning anywhere near as much as the results suggest, I'm just luckboxing. Anyway, after speaking to Midian and Ket I decided 20 buyins = move up. Long story short, I ran like God.

I'd like to thank Ket and Midian because moving up went v well so I'm a fair amount better off thanks to them. I'd also really like to thank Artanis and Silver because having them around to sweat me, review my hands, show me interesting spots, talk through theory with me, argue over playstyles and give their opinions are pretty much the only reason I'm any good at this game. I can't thank the two of them enough for always being willing to make me a better player, regardless of how demanding or whiney I am.

So, the graph. :D