So I rolled into Cap kinda late, around 11pm or so. Saw The Dark Knight at Imax btw...sick stuff.
Anyway, I sat down at 4/8 for a few orbits and I kid you not, I went 2 for 4 with big premiums (AA-JJ). Unfortunately jacks and kings won me a couple small pots and the aces and queens lost me some bigger ones. After my name was called for the 9/18 game I was down $60 or so...
9/18 didn't start off so hot either as I was dealt 99 my 3rd hand at the table and raised from EP out of seat six. Bill (older, nice white guy regular) called from the eight seat as did the blinds. The flop came out JT9. I bet, Bill raised, blinds folded, I 3-bet, and he capped. The turn was a blank, I bet, he raised again...and so I decided to call. Me and Bill have some history, and we both should be able to put each other on big hands at this point. The turn was a hideous eight, so I check/called and he showed KQ for the flopped nut straight. Oh well...
9/18 continued to be pretty awful for the first hour and a half or so, as I just couldn't make any hands hold. There was this older white woman named Michelle in seat three who was just terrible, and sounded like a 3/6 player the way she tried to justify the donkeyish way she'd play a hand. I iso-raised her a lot with some solid cards (AK, AQ, medium pockets) and some other stuff like A9s or JTs, and boy was she mean-mugging me all night. Two pots she beat me out of early on were just disgusting...the A9 hand I flopped top pair and she flopped a couple backdoor draws with KJ of spades. Of course she goes running spades on me and I make two pair on the river and have to pay her off. A couple hands later she turned a set of threes against my pocket tens on an all-unders board...omg lifetilt.
At one point I was stuck close to $600 on the night, but eventually turned it around and left Cap around 5am or so up $380 (+$440 on 9/18). I'll talk about a couple beats I took before I end the entry for tonight, and I'll be back tomorrow (later today errr after I wake up) to talk about the sick hands I caught after hour number two to pull off a $1k swing.
The first beat is pocket aces in the Cutoff. Limped in one spot, I raised, a regular out of seat seven named Tom I think (short, mustache, always angry) calls from the button with 76os and the BB and limper call. The flop is 972 rainbow...BB donks, limper folds, I raise, Tom calls for some reason, BB calls. The turn is of course a seven and it goes check, bet, raise, fold, and I check/call down.
The second one is kinda minor, but it still kinda sucks. I got Kings somewhere in EP, I raised, and pretty much everyone called. The flop looked great (Q94), I bet out and four people called. The turn was an ace though, and Wilson bet out from the small blind and the BB raised so I had to fold. Oh well...
Like I said, things get much better, so I'll come back tomorrow and talk about those hands. Thanks for reading.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Thursday Night Poker Action (9/18) II
Ahh I missed 4/8, it was such a beautiful table last night. Call. Call. Call. Check. Call. Call. Call. Wonderful indeed. I folded a lot (obv), but then picked up this hand out of the BB.
If you read back a few entries, I talked about a hand where I flopped the nutflush out of the BB with A6 of diamonds, and I said I wanted to work on raising in that spot against a ton of limpers because we have a good equity advantage (Ax-suited). If I miss, I can check/fold and not have it be a big deal. So I was dealt A5 of clubs, raised after five callers limped, someone re-raised all-in for like two more chips, so everyone called that too...$10 x 6 players to the flop of 863 with two clubs.
I bet out, got three callers...turn was another eight, but the eight of clubs. I bet, kinda expecting to get raised (and wondering if anyone boated up...doubtful), but only got two callers. The river was a blank, I bet, all folded. I showed my nutflush and the all-in player showed her QJ of clubs with a big "awwwwwww" :(
There was another really big hand where I flopped a set of five out of the SB against a guy trying to get all-in. The flop was KQ5, turn was a six and the river was a jack...anyway I held and won another sizeable pot. Aside from those two hands, I can't really remember any other hands I won at 4/8...
9/18 was a good mix of bad players and some regs who are decent. There was a stretch where I raised with AA, won that pot, raised the very next hand with AQ of spades, flopped the nutflush, and then the very next hand after picked up Aces again. Craziness...this of course was after folding for my first few orbits at the table. I had actually seat changed from seat five (middle of the table...yuck) to seat one because I absolutely hate the middle of the table. No superstitions, just fat kid claustrophobia and feeling like I'm "in the spotlight." One player commented "seat change means new gear?" to which I laughed off and said "we'll see."
The second Aces hand was a bit strange as I raised from UTG, a guy named Dale in seat four (typical LPP) called, folded around to Sam in the BB who defended. Bummer...third hand I've raised in a row and no one wants to three-bet me when I have the nuts pre.
The flop was pretty good looking, 973 with two hearts, and I had the Ace of hearts in my hand. Sam bets out, I raise, Dale 3-bets (yikes), Sam caps and we all call...Hmm, what did I get myself into here? Sam, while mixes in his aggression well at times, has played with me a lot and would almost definitely put me on an overpair here...and Dale is as stationy as they come...
The turn is a blank ten, Sam bets out and I decide to just call. I was pretty sure he didn't have anything less than two pair here. Dale calls behind me and we see a turn of a three of hearts, pairing the board while also completing the flush. Sam seems unphased and bets out, I call, Dale calls.
Sam showed 77 for sevens full, Dale then shows the other two aces in the deck...lol. Wow, I usually muck my hand in this spot, especially since there's no reward for getting your aces cracked at the moment (usually it's $35), so I laughed and showed them the other two aces. "Sorry Sam I have quads" I remember saying as I threw my aces toward Dale's... :-)
After that a lot of hands are hazy...and like I said I ended up taking off to the Omaha game at the Derby. When I first sat down I bought in for a couple racks of $1 chips at 5/10 O8 with an option for a $20 bet on the river (sounds fun). One of the first hands I sat down I was dealt A34K with the ace-suited. I think just about everyone limped in, one guy out of the blinds raised (everyone called), and the flop was 982 and I was left in the middle of two guys raising each other and a bunch of callers. Weeeeee, fireworks already. The turn blanked out and it went bet/call/call, but the river I hit my four and had the nut low. I check/called a $20 bet from this Asian guy (played every single hand the entire time I was there, he may have folded three hands the entire night). Turns out the raiser out of the blinds couldn't beat either the high hand or my nut low, so me and the asian guy chopped the pot. It was a good pot...
After that a few hands later I played AKQ2 (double suited) from lp after a ton of limpers and raised. The flop was J93 rainbow with one of my suits backdoor. Some guy in EP bet out, and a few people called, I called.
The turn brought a 10 of clubs which gave me the nuts on a rainbow board, no low draw. Basically I had to dodge pairing the board and I'd have the nuts. EP bet out again, two callers, I raised, three calls. The river blanked out with a four or something...checked to me, I bet $20, everyone folded. Weeeeeeeeeee up $140 almost immediately.
Unfortunately after that I folded for-ev-er and was left watching a bunch of old men donk off tons of chips. Seriously, the next youngest guy at the table was probably 45 years old (not exagerating), but everyone played awful. The Asian guy to my left said he dropped $1400 for the night, and I believe him. He played every single hand, went to the river almost every single hand, and was looking people up with hands like bottom two pair. Wowwwwwww. <3 Live O8
Okay well that's all for now, look for some updates sometime tomorrow, I plan on playing today.
If you read back a few entries, I talked about a hand where I flopped the nutflush out of the BB with A6 of diamonds, and I said I wanted to work on raising in that spot against a ton of limpers because we have a good equity advantage (Ax-suited). If I miss, I can check/fold and not have it be a big deal. So I was dealt A5 of clubs, raised after five callers limped, someone re-raised all-in for like two more chips, so everyone called that too...$10 x 6 players to the flop of 863 with two clubs.
I bet out, got three callers...turn was another eight, but the eight of clubs. I bet, kinda expecting to get raised (and wondering if anyone boated up...doubtful), but only got two callers. The river was a blank, I bet, all folded. I showed my nutflush and the all-in player showed her QJ of clubs with a big "awwwwwww" :(
There was another really big hand where I flopped a set of five out of the SB against a guy trying to get all-in. The flop was KQ5, turn was a six and the river was a jack...anyway I held and won another sizeable pot. Aside from those two hands, I can't really remember any other hands I won at 4/8...
9/18 was a good mix of bad players and some regs who are decent. There was a stretch where I raised with AA, won that pot, raised the very next hand with AQ of spades, flopped the nutflush, and then the very next hand after picked up Aces again. Craziness...this of course was after folding for my first few orbits at the table. I had actually seat changed from seat five (middle of the table...yuck) to seat one because I absolutely hate the middle of the table. No superstitions, just fat kid claustrophobia and feeling like I'm "in the spotlight." One player commented "seat change means new gear?" to which I laughed off and said "we'll see."
The second Aces hand was a bit strange as I raised from UTG, a guy named Dale in seat four (typical LPP) called, folded around to Sam in the BB who defended. Bummer...third hand I've raised in a row and no one wants to three-bet me when I have the nuts pre.
The flop was pretty good looking, 973 with two hearts, and I had the Ace of hearts in my hand. Sam bets out, I raise, Dale 3-bets (yikes), Sam caps and we all call...Hmm, what did I get myself into here? Sam, while mixes in his aggression well at times, has played with me a lot and would almost definitely put me on an overpair here...and Dale is as stationy as they come...
The turn is a blank ten, Sam bets out and I decide to just call. I was pretty sure he didn't have anything less than two pair here. Dale calls behind me and we see a turn of a three of hearts, pairing the board while also completing the flush. Sam seems unphased and bets out, I call, Dale calls.
Sam showed 77 for sevens full, Dale then shows the other two aces in the deck...lol. Wow, I usually muck my hand in this spot, especially since there's no reward for getting your aces cracked at the moment (usually it's $35), so I laughed and showed them the other two aces. "Sorry Sam I have quads" I remember saying as I threw my aces toward Dale's... :-)
After that a lot of hands are hazy...and like I said I ended up taking off to the Omaha game at the Derby. When I first sat down I bought in for a couple racks of $1 chips at 5/10 O8 with an option for a $20 bet on the river (sounds fun). One of the first hands I sat down I was dealt A34K with the ace-suited. I think just about everyone limped in, one guy out of the blinds raised (everyone called), and the flop was 982 and I was left in the middle of two guys raising each other and a bunch of callers. Weeeeee, fireworks already. The turn blanked out and it went bet/call/call, but the river I hit my four and had the nut low. I check/called a $20 bet from this Asian guy (played every single hand the entire time I was there, he may have folded three hands the entire night). Turns out the raiser out of the blinds couldn't beat either the high hand or my nut low, so me and the asian guy chopped the pot. It was a good pot...
After that a few hands later I played AKQ2 (double suited) from lp after a ton of limpers and raised. The flop was J93 rainbow with one of my suits backdoor. Some guy in EP bet out, and a few people called, I called.
The turn brought a 10 of clubs which gave me the nuts on a rainbow board, no low draw. Basically I had to dodge pairing the board and I'd have the nuts. EP bet out again, two callers, I raised, three calls. The river blanked out with a four or something...checked to me, I bet $20, everyone folded. Weeeeeeeeeee up $140 almost immediately.
Unfortunately after that I folded for-ev-er and was left watching a bunch of old men donk off tons of chips. Seriously, the next youngest guy at the table was probably 45 years old (not exagerating), but everyone played awful. The Asian guy to my left said he dropped $1400 for the night, and I believe him. He played every single hand, went to the river almost every single hand, and was looking people up with hands like bottom two pair. Wowwwwwww. <3 Live O8
Okay well that's all for now, look for some updates sometime tomorrow, I plan on playing today.
Friday, September 19, 2008
Thursday Night Poker Action (9/18)
I'm way too tired to blog about the sessions buuuuut...results are fun.
4/8: +200
9/18: +100
5/10 O8: +125
I rolled into Capitol around 8pm (Tony put my name on the 9/18 list at 7pm), and I was still 14th on the list...wtf? So I played 4/8 for a little while, bought in for a rack, and by the time I got called for 9/18, I didn't have to pull anymore money out of my wallet. I gave the floorman three racks of orange and traded that in for a rack of purple $3 chips...
A couple hours of 9/18 were pretty crazy. Up and down, up and down. I think I got AK and AQ at least five times a piece tonight...some held, some didn't. I don't think I ever cracked more than +180 at that game, and never fell below even. Eventually the game broke around 1230am and I was left wide awake and bored out of my mind. Phoenix?
I decided the night was way too young and drove out to the Phoenix to see if they had anything going...I must have made a wrong turn, because I drove past where I thought Phoenix was and eventually ran into the Lucky Derby...w/e.
Derby had a 4/8-half kill game and a bunch of shortstacked NL games running, and then I saw a list for Omaha8. Hmmmmmm...
I sat down playing O8 and won a couple big pots early, folded for what seemed like an enternity, and then played some O8 shorthanded before finally calling it a night/morning.
Fun stuff, I'll blog about some hands tomorrow, right now I need to sleep.
4/8: +200
9/18: +100
5/10 O8: +125
I rolled into Capitol around 8pm (Tony put my name on the 9/18 list at 7pm), and I was still 14th on the list...wtf? So I played 4/8 for a little while, bought in for a rack, and by the time I got called for 9/18, I didn't have to pull anymore money out of my wallet. I gave the floorman three racks of orange and traded that in for a rack of purple $3 chips...
A couple hours of 9/18 were pretty crazy. Up and down, up and down. I think I got AK and AQ at least five times a piece tonight...some held, some didn't. I don't think I ever cracked more than +180 at that game, and never fell below even. Eventually the game broke around 1230am and I was left wide awake and bored out of my mind. Phoenix?
I decided the night was way too young and drove out to the Phoenix to see if they had anything going...I must have made a wrong turn, because I drove past where I thought Phoenix was and eventually ran into the Lucky Derby...w/e.
Derby had a 4/8-half kill game and a bunch of shortstacked NL games running, and then I saw a list for Omaha8. Hmmmmmm...
I sat down playing O8 and won a couple big pots early, folded for what seemed like an enternity, and then played some O8 shorthanded before finally calling it a night/morning.
Fun stuff, I'll blog about some hands tomorrow, right now I need to sleep.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Wednesday Night 15/30 (9/10) Cont..
Okay so I won a couple hands out of the blinds over the course of an hour or so, before I decide to limp behind with 87 of diamonds from the button with a few limpers in front of me...flop is J88. Checks to me and I stab at it, praying someone would think I was full of shit. I get called by an UTG limper and everyone else folds. The turn is a blank and UTG check/folds to my bet. Oh well, I still won a nice little pot from all those limpers...
The next big pot I won was JT of diamonds from the cutoff. Limped in a couple spots, I raised, folds around to the BB who calls, limpers call.
Flop: J84 with one diamond
BB checked, EP limper checked, MP limper named Bill (plays kinda odd) bet out into me, I raised, BB folded, EP limper called (odd), and Bill called. The turn was a deuce of hearts, completing the rainbow on the board. EP checked again, Bill checked, I bet, EP and Bill both called. The river paired the eight...kinda ugly. EP checked and this time Bill bet out into me. Ugh, so lame if he has the eight here, but I call obv because this is limit and what's that? Yeah, big folds are ghey in limit. EP folded and I said "nice hand"...Bill shook his head and turned over pocket sixes and said "nah your hand is good, was hoping you had AK." Phew.
So that was a healthy pot and finally I broke out over my break-even chipstack. A couple more interesting hands popped up, one where I flopped a set in a raised pot and got rivered by a King-high flush (lost a lot of chips) but then gained them back with a couple big hands (AK flopped a King and JJ held). Those two hands probably helped set me up for this hand.
We were maybe seven or eight-handed at this point as people had been getting up for smoke breaks or bathroom breaks, w/e, and I looked down at AJ of clubs UTG+1. UTG folded, I raised from the nine seat, and then got called by seats one, two and four as well as the SB in seat five and the BB in seat six. Jeeeeez...huge pot already.
The flop was disgustingly ugly...334 rainbow. "Wow...maybe no one caught a piece of that..." I thought to myself. Checks to me, I bet, called by seats one and two (which basically meant nothing, they had been floating with crap all day) and after those calls everyone else folded. Wow...I might have a shot at taking this one down...
During this time seat six had started talking and saying "I'm gonna lay my cards down to you man, you've been too hot, I don't think I'm good." I was hoping people would listen to him and maybe give me credit for a monster hand.
The turn was another low card, a six or a seven. I fired again, this time seat one folded and seat two called. Meh...at this point I figured I was getting looked up by a midpair. I've played with this guy before, older white guy named Fred, and I knew he was going to look up my river bet unless he had a missed draw that I beat anyway. The river was an ugly ugly card, a five I think. The board was now 33457...so a six would have made a straight.
I gave a bit of a stutterstep move, like I was going to bet and now just opted to check because the board was ugly...basically trying to spell out I had a monster but was afraid of the straight. Fwiw, I was check/calling the river for this massive pot, even though I was pretty sure Fred wouldn't bet the river without a hand that beat me. He checked behind and I said "I only have ace high" and turned my cards over. Immediately seat six started saying "nooo, I had the best hand, you got a lot of heart man" as he laughed and Fred looked at his cards and said "I can't beat that" and looked at his cards some more...he was obviously angry at himself for not putting a raise in somewhere or maybe a bet on the river during the hand (even though I would have called a river bet, he doesn't know that). So after several seconds of looking at his cards he finally mucked his hand and I raked in a sick sick pot with AJ-high.
So after that I was up a rack or so and picked up AA out of the BB about an orbit later. Three limpers, I raised, all called to see a semi ugly flop of KJ6. I bet, two callers. The turn was another baby card, something like a four. I bet, only one caller. The river was an ace...only QT beat me at this point. Bet/call and my opponent sheepishly mucked his cards. "Overkill" he said jokingly.
At this point I was up close to $800 and seriously wondering if I could maintain this kind of a rush...I had been slow early on, but I didn't expect to get this hot. Anyway, here's that three hand stretch of cards I was talking about...
So maybe a few hands later I get dealt aces yet again. Limped in a couple spots, I raise, the blinds and two limpers look me up. The flop is 853 rainbow. Checks to me and I bet, a laggy guy in seat three raises, I 3-bet and he caps OOP. Wow...that good? He had been pretty aggro since he sat down a few orbits ago, but for him to be able to cap OOP I figured he must be pretty strong. The turn was a nine, so I remember thinking if he was open-ended then he got there. He continued to fire, so I decided to go into call down mode. The river was a ten, not pairing a card like I wanted, so it went bet/call. Sure enough the villain turned over 76 and had gotten there on the turn...oh well, no biggie, I had been running out.
Very next hand I get dealt QQ, folded to me, and I raise. Unfortunately it folds to the BB (wtf, shouldn't they think I'm steaming?!), BB 3-bets (woohoo), and I only call (to disguise my hand). The flop is kinda bleh, KT4 with a couple of spades. He bets, I raise, he disgustedly calls. The turn is a jack...he checks, I bet, and he raises before I can finish my bet...I call. The river misses my OESD, he bets, I call and he shows a turned set of Jacks. Dammit!
Wow, at this point I'm now only +$500, sick turn of events. The very next hand (I kid you not) I get pocket tens...raise...get three callers behind me and the BB also calls. I started thinking about how sick it would be if I flop a set or an overpair and still lose...
Sure enough, the flop is AT8 with two diamonds. "omg if I lose this hand I'm gonna flip..." Checks to me and I bet, get one caller only.
The turn is an eight. Checks to me, I bet, and my opponent folded. Wow...sick that I got no action when it should look like I'm on ridiculous tiltbox mode...oh well haha.
A few more orbits go by and eventually all of the LPPs start leaving and start getting replaced with semi-solid players, so I decided to bounce out and grab some food. I plan on playing some tomorrow, so look for some updates from me this weekend. Thanks again for reading.
The next big pot I won was JT of diamonds from the cutoff. Limped in a couple spots, I raised, folds around to the BB who calls, limpers call.
Flop: J84 with one diamond
BB checked, EP limper checked, MP limper named Bill (plays kinda odd) bet out into me, I raised, BB folded, EP limper called (odd), and Bill called. The turn was a deuce of hearts, completing the rainbow on the board. EP checked again, Bill checked, I bet, EP and Bill both called. The river paired the eight...kinda ugly. EP checked and this time Bill bet out into me. Ugh, so lame if he has the eight here, but I call obv because this is limit and what's that? Yeah, big folds are ghey in limit. EP folded and I said "nice hand"...Bill shook his head and turned over pocket sixes and said "nah your hand is good, was hoping you had AK." Phew.
So that was a healthy pot and finally I broke out over my break-even chipstack. A couple more interesting hands popped up, one where I flopped a set in a raised pot and got rivered by a King-high flush (lost a lot of chips) but then gained them back with a couple big hands (AK flopped a King and JJ held). Those two hands probably helped set me up for this hand.
We were maybe seven or eight-handed at this point as people had been getting up for smoke breaks or bathroom breaks, w/e, and I looked down at AJ of clubs UTG+1. UTG folded, I raised from the nine seat, and then got called by seats one, two and four as well as the SB in seat five and the BB in seat six. Jeeeeez...huge pot already.
The flop was disgustingly ugly...334 rainbow. "Wow...maybe no one caught a piece of that..." I thought to myself. Checks to me, I bet, called by seats one and two (which basically meant nothing, they had been floating with crap all day) and after those calls everyone else folded. Wow...I might have a shot at taking this one down...
During this time seat six had started talking and saying "I'm gonna lay my cards down to you man, you've been too hot, I don't think I'm good." I was hoping people would listen to him and maybe give me credit for a monster hand.
The turn was another low card, a six or a seven. I fired again, this time seat one folded and seat two called. Meh...at this point I figured I was getting looked up by a midpair. I've played with this guy before, older white guy named Fred, and I knew he was going to look up my river bet unless he had a missed draw that I beat anyway. The river was an ugly ugly card, a five I think. The board was now 33457...so a six would have made a straight.
I gave a bit of a stutterstep move, like I was going to bet and now just opted to check because the board was ugly...basically trying to spell out I had a monster but was afraid of the straight. Fwiw, I was check/calling the river for this massive pot, even though I was pretty sure Fred wouldn't bet the river without a hand that beat me. He checked behind and I said "I only have ace high" and turned my cards over. Immediately seat six started saying "nooo, I had the best hand, you got a lot of heart man" as he laughed and Fred looked at his cards and said "I can't beat that" and looked at his cards some more...he was obviously angry at himself for not putting a raise in somewhere or maybe a bet on the river during the hand (even though I would have called a river bet, he doesn't know that). So after several seconds of looking at his cards he finally mucked his hand and I raked in a sick sick pot with AJ-high.
So after that I was up a rack or so and picked up AA out of the BB about an orbit later. Three limpers, I raised, all called to see a semi ugly flop of KJ6. I bet, two callers. The turn was another baby card, something like a four. I bet, only one caller. The river was an ace...only QT beat me at this point. Bet/call and my opponent sheepishly mucked his cards. "Overkill" he said jokingly.
At this point I was up close to $800 and seriously wondering if I could maintain this kind of a rush...I had been slow early on, but I didn't expect to get this hot. Anyway, here's that three hand stretch of cards I was talking about...
So maybe a few hands later I get dealt aces yet again. Limped in a couple spots, I raise, the blinds and two limpers look me up. The flop is 853 rainbow. Checks to me and I bet, a laggy guy in seat three raises, I 3-bet and he caps OOP. Wow...that good? He had been pretty aggro since he sat down a few orbits ago, but for him to be able to cap OOP I figured he must be pretty strong. The turn was a nine, so I remember thinking if he was open-ended then he got there. He continued to fire, so I decided to go into call down mode. The river was a ten, not pairing a card like I wanted, so it went bet/call. Sure enough the villain turned over 76 and had gotten there on the turn...oh well, no biggie, I had been running out.
Very next hand I get dealt QQ, folded to me, and I raise. Unfortunately it folds to the BB (wtf, shouldn't they think I'm steaming?!), BB 3-bets (woohoo), and I only call (to disguise my hand). The flop is kinda bleh, KT4 with a couple of spades. He bets, I raise, he disgustedly calls. The turn is a jack...he checks, I bet, and he raises before I can finish my bet...I call. The river misses my OESD, he bets, I call and he shows a turned set of Jacks. Dammit!
Wow, at this point I'm now only +$500, sick turn of events. The very next hand (I kid you not) I get pocket tens...raise...get three callers behind me and the BB also calls. I started thinking about how sick it would be if I flop a set or an overpair and still lose...
Sure enough, the flop is AT8 with two diamonds. "omg if I lose this hand I'm gonna flip..." Checks to me and I bet, get one caller only.
The turn is an eight. Checks to me, I bet, and my opponent folded. Wow...sick that I got no action when it should look like I'm on ridiculous tiltbox mode...oh well haha.
A few more orbits go by and eventually all of the LPPs start leaving and start getting replaced with semi-solid players, so I decided to bounce out and grab some food. I plan on playing some tomorrow, so look for some updates from me this weekend. Thanks again for reading.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Wednesday Night 15/30 (9/10)
So yeah, I've been up close to 24 hours so I think I'm just going to give a quick re-cap of the night. First things first, I played much earlier than I'm used to, maybe 430pm and just have to say that the daytime guys were very, very much different than the night players. For my first few hours four or five limpers was basically standard per hand...wtf right? That and my BB rarely got raised, which really helped me out considering I was very much card dead my first couple hours at the table. It was incredibly frustrating folding so much when there were three limpers in front of me and I had position, but there was nothing I could do with the cards that were given to me.
Eventually I caught some hands and made them hold in big multiway pots, which broke me from my breakeven chipstack that seemed to haunt me in my first two hours of play...I guess I'll start with 87 of diamonds flopping trips and then JT of diamonds TP holding against a couple stations...after that things started to flow...
I'll blog about the rest of my session tomorrow when I wake up, trust me, it gets much more exciting. The highest I found myself up for night was almot $800, unfortunately I hit a sick streak of cards that brought me down to cashing out $570 for the night. Still a great night obv, but yeah, I'll talk about it tomorrow (i.e. ater today for some of you). Check back later, thanks for reading.
Eventually I caught some hands and made them hold in big multiway pots, which broke me from my breakeven chipstack that seemed to haunt me in my first two hours of play...I guess I'll start with 87 of diamonds flopping trips and then JT of diamonds TP holding against a couple stations...after that things started to flow...
I'll blog about the rest of my session tomorrow when I wake up, trust me, it gets much more exciting. The highest I found myself up for night was almot $800, unfortunately I hit a sick streak of cards that brought me down to cashing out $570 for the night. Still a great night obv, but yeah, I'll talk about it tomorrow (i.e. ater today for some of you). Check back later, thanks for reading.
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Some Friday Night 9/18 Action (9/5)
Uh oh, second night I've played in a row where the 15/30 game couldn't get off the ground. It's a bit disappointing since my edge in that game is probably just as good as it is in the 9/18 game (and obv the stakes are higher), but at the same time I'm okay with it because the swings in that game could get nasty. Being stuck two racks at 9/18 is $600 compared to $1k at 15/30, so in a way it makes taking a loss a tad less stressful.
Anyway, for some reason I feel completely awful right now (monster headache), so let's see how long I can type before I go crawl into bed like a little girl. For the most part, I ran kinda bleh tonight. I had a couple hands hold facing a lot of action, but my big pairs were doing everything they could to get themselves cracked...aside from this hand:
It's maybe my second orbit in the session and I see UTG raise. I recognized UTG as a very loose/passive type, so an UTG raise was kinda scary. I looked down at a couple red queens though and obv three-bet. The BB came along for two more bets and UTG just called (probably an AK-like hand, maybe JJ).
I remember seeing a queen of spades in the window...the flop was Q96 rainbow, doesn't get much better than that. Checked to me, I bet, two calls. The turn was a second spade, a three I believe...so I remember I had to sweat the river a little bit...thankfully it blanked out and I got looked up by the BB with just second pair. Good start to the night...unfortunately it would only get worse from there.
About an hour or so into my session a very maniacal (poker-wise) heavyset black dude took a seat next to me in seat five (I was in seat four). After he sat down I had a couple orbits to watch him play as I was just terribly card dead, and he was doing some crazy stuff. CR-ing with bottom pair on the river, jamming up flops with absolutely nothing, etc. Obviously he'd get a hand against me though...
I'm UTG and look down at a couple red aces so I raise. Maniac calls, folds around to the BB who also comes along. The flop was pretty ugly: JT7 with a couple diamonds. BB checked, I bet, maniac raises, BB folded, I 3-bet, Maniac just calls.
His call really gave me a lot of confidence he had absolutely nothing. If he had a pair of tens he'd probably jam the flop up, but just calling my bet I was almost positive he had nothing but hopes and dreams. The turn was a four of diamonds, kinda ugly, but I had the ace of diamonds and figured the maniac would cap his flush draw on the flop. I bet out, maniac tanks and checks his cards again, and calls...
Hmmm...you on a lone diamond draw there? "Give him a diamond, ya know, since I do have the ace...", I thought to myself. The river was a red three...the three of hearts. I figured my hand was still safe and bet out...as soon as I bet the maniac raised. Bah...did he run me down and make two pair? I snap-called obv since the maniac could have 6-high here as far as I'm concerned and he turns over the three of diamonds and the three of clubs for a rivered set...yay two outers. To make matters worse I didn't even get $35 from the aces cracked w/e because the jackpot isn't $100k yet...I didn't really care about $35 anyway though. One of the shittiest feelings in poker is having the table moron catch on you and then donate all your chips back to the rest of the players at the table, and that's basically what he did the rest of the night.
Eventually I moved to the main game (they had two 9/18 games running, I started off at the must-move game). One of my first hands there propelled me back to even as I made AJ hold against A6 of spades on an A84 flop with two spades. The button in the hand turned out to have Q7 of spades, so I faded two flush draws and won a pretty nice pot. We capped the flop three-handed and then one bet a piece on the turn...I can't remember the board, but there was a four to a straight on the board after the river hit so the river checked through.
Unfortunately that was about it as far as big pots were concerned...I won some smaller ones, but lost a couple big ones when I flopped TP against five opps with AT, check-raised a T-high flop, made aces-up on the turn, but then got popped by a runner-runner diamond flush that got there on the river. To his credit, he did flop bottom pair on the flop with a five-kicker...:puke:
I ended up dropping something like $50 before taking off for the night. No big deal, hopefully I can squeeze a session in tomorrow night before work, but I'll likely be trying to sleep as much as possible so I can watch football all day Sunday. Thanks for reading.
Anyway, for some reason I feel completely awful right now (monster headache), so let's see how long I can type before I go crawl into bed like a little girl. For the most part, I ran kinda bleh tonight. I had a couple hands hold facing a lot of action, but my big pairs were doing everything they could to get themselves cracked...aside from this hand:
It's maybe my second orbit in the session and I see UTG raise. I recognized UTG as a very loose/passive type, so an UTG raise was kinda scary. I looked down at a couple red queens though and obv three-bet. The BB came along for two more bets and UTG just called (probably an AK-like hand, maybe JJ).
I remember seeing a queen of spades in the window...the flop was Q96 rainbow, doesn't get much better than that. Checked to me, I bet, two calls. The turn was a second spade, a three I believe...so I remember I had to sweat the river a little bit...thankfully it blanked out and I got looked up by the BB with just second pair. Good start to the night...unfortunately it would only get worse from there.
About an hour or so into my session a very maniacal (poker-wise) heavyset black dude took a seat next to me in seat five (I was in seat four). After he sat down I had a couple orbits to watch him play as I was just terribly card dead, and he was doing some crazy stuff. CR-ing with bottom pair on the river, jamming up flops with absolutely nothing, etc. Obviously he'd get a hand against me though...
I'm UTG and look down at a couple red aces so I raise. Maniac calls, folds around to the BB who also comes along. The flop was pretty ugly: JT7 with a couple diamonds. BB checked, I bet, maniac raises, BB folded, I 3-bet, Maniac just calls.
His call really gave me a lot of confidence he had absolutely nothing. If he had a pair of tens he'd probably jam the flop up, but just calling my bet I was almost positive he had nothing but hopes and dreams. The turn was a four of diamonds, kinda ugly, but I had the ace of diamonds and figured the maniac would cap his flush draw on the flop. I bet out, maniac tanks and checks his cards again, and calls...
Hmmm...you on a lone diamond draw there? "Give him a diamond, ya know, since I do have the ace...", I thought to myself. The river was a red three...the three of hearts. I figured my hand was still safe and bet out...as soon as I bet the maniac raised. Bah...did he run me down and make two pair? I snap-called obv since the maniac could have 6-high here as far as I'm concerned and he turns over the three of diamonds and the three of clubs for a rivered set...yay two outers. To make matters worse I didn't even get $35 from the aces cracked w/e because the jackpot isn't $100k yet...I didn't really care about $35 anyway though. One of the shittiest feelings in poker is having the table moron catch on you and then donate all your chips back to the rest of the players at the table, and that's basically what he did the rest of the night.
Eventually I moved to the main game (they had two 9/18 games running, I started off at the must-move game). One of my first hands there propelled me back to even as I made AJ hold against A6 of spades on an A84 flop with two spades. The button in the hand turned out to have Q7 of spades, so I faded two flush draws and won a pretty nice pot. We capped the flop three-handed and then one bet a piece on the turn...I can't remember the board, but there was a four to a straight on the board after the river hit so the river checked through.
Unfortunately that was about it as far as big pots were concerned...I won some smaller ones, but lost a couple big ones when I flopped TP against five opps with AT, check-raised a T-high flop, made aces-up on the turn, but then got popped by a runner-runner diamond flush that got there on the river. To his credit, he did flop bottom pair on the flop with a five-kicker...:puke:
I ended up dropping something like $50 before taking off for the night. No big deal, hopefully I can squeeze a session in tomorrow night before work, but I'll likely be trying to sleep as much as possible so I can watch football all day Sunday. Thanks for reading.
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