11:46pm: I was thinking about narrating these, but both opponents basically handed me the match in one form or another, so there was no real strategy in each match other than to just wait for a good spot to finally call each of them when I knew I was ahead.

These are streaming videos in flash format, so just left click each one and it should open up your flash player in a new window.

Streaming Video
Video 1: For the Tie | Video 2: For the Record

Start a Clean Slate at a New Room, a New Sharkscope, and Keep HFL Free in the Process

4:50pm: Well, for the third day in a row I have started out the day 3-0. I have now bested my previous best 12 game win streak by three. Variance definitely owed me this one, as this has been a very frustrating month. However, it may have a happy ending after all. I’m not sure what the longest streak ever recorded for heads up sit n gos are. If someone could look that up and email me (trujm@yahoo.com), then I will be glad to post it here.

Good luck to everyone playing a night session tonight. I will be taking a break to eat, spend time with my GF, and then resuming play later on… around 10pm or so. I’ll post the results following…

Start a Clean Slate at a New Room, a New Sharkscope, and Keep HFL Free in the Process

2:27pm: Well, hopefully things can get back to normal, and I can start to put in a normal amount of volume today as the record of 12 straight wins has officially been broken. The guy I was playing was VERY aggressive but unfortunately for him, it was in a reckless manner as I picked him off with middle pair on a very bold bluff attempt. I will post both the record-tying and record-breaking matches in video form before the end of the night hopefully (as soon as I can upload them to YouTube).

Here is the straw that broke the camels back:

I need to give this hand a little bit of background information before you judge the call. He had been raising and going all in on the flop 90% of the time. My criteria that I set before hand for calling was (a) top pair, any kicker or (b) middle pair, ace or king kicker or (c) any hand better than a or b

PokerStars Game #16291326920: Tournament #82489716, $50.00+$2.50 Hold’em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2008/03/27 - 15:26:51 (ET)

Table ‘82489716 1′ 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: sj2609 (1610 in chips)
Seat 2: trujm (1390 in chips)
trujm: posts small blind 10
sj2609: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to trujm [Ts As]
trujm: calls 10
sj2609: raises 100 to 120
trujm: calls 100
*** FLOP *** [3s Tc Jd]
sj2609: bets 1490 and is all-in
trujm: calls 1270 and is all-in
sj2609: shows [Ac 6c]
*** TURN *** [3s Tc Jd] [3d]
*** RIVER *** [3s Tc Jd 3d] [3c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
sj2609: shows [Ac 6c] (three of a kind, Threes)
trujm: shows [Ts As] (a full house, Threes full of Tens)
trujm collected 2780 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2780 | Rake 0
Board [3s Tc Jd 3d 3c]
Seat 1: sj2609 (big blind) showed [Ac 6c] and lost with three of a kind, Threes
Seat 2: trujm (button) (small blind) showed [Ts As] and won (2780) with a full house, Threes full of Tens

I need to take a shower first, but if anyone would like to rail me for the potential record breaking match, I will be playing on Pokerstars. My id is trujm (if you haven’t already picked that up). Good luck to me!

*EDIT*, 2:08pm: Slight delay. Came back to my computer running a virus scan. Had to wait for it to finish. Will play in 10 minutes.