Could not have run any worse tonight...it was pretty gross. I had this huge black dude in seat 5 doing his best to hemorrhage chips to the entire table but it just wasn't happening. He was winning with ATC and was catching monsters to boot...meanwhile I folded tons or raised pre then folded tons. I bled pretty bad today.
Down about a rack and a half, so I almost broke even for last night and tonight. All good though, maybe I'll play a few hours Friday or Saturday (I doubt it) or I'll just go in next week with a vengeance.
Maybe I'll blog some hands tomorrow, but probably not, I should be kinda busy and I'm far too exhausted to talk anymore tonight.
Sorry for the whining, promise I'll deliver harder next time. Late.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Another Fun Night at 6/12
4/8K: +40
6/12K: +240
Had a pretty good day I guess, was up almost $400 at one point at 6/12, but oh well, that's how it goes sometimes.
Toward the end of my session I lost with Kings twice, one of them being a kill pot, so that was one of the reasons I shipped back a rack of $2 chips toward the end of my session.
Here's one big hand I'll talk about...I plan on being lazy tomorrow and not doing anything all day, so look for me to update this entry a little more in depth. Tony, if you read this, let's shoot for Mongo around 1pm-ish...it's almost 5am and I still have to crash.
Okay so here was my favorite hand of the night. Pre-flop limped in like 5 spots (not joking), small blind has been a maniac and he raises. I look down at 55 and call. Gets around to button who 3-bets and then SB caps. I call and pray for a five.
Flop: 654 rainbow
Weeeeeeee
I check, Connie (seat 3, I'm in seat 2) bets, it gets raised, cold-called, 3-bet all-in and folded back to me so I cap. Pretty awesome I check/capped the flop...I was planning to CR the entire time.
Turn: 6
Boom (I hope). I bet, called in two spots
River: 3
I bet, called in two spots
I showed my boat and was obv good. Connie showed 77 for the rivered straight and the guy who 3-bet all-in actually rivered a smaller boat (he had 33). Huge pot, it was well over a rack ($200) in profit.
Ahhhh fuck it, one more hand:
Limped in four spots, small blind completes, I look down at KQ of clubs and decide to raise and build a pot. 6 players to the flop of: AT4 with the Ace of clubs on board.
I had a backdoor flush-draw and a gutty, not the greatest draw buuuut...My whole plan here initially was to raise pre-flop for value, and then check any really ragged flops. Well I saw the ace on the board, decided I had a fairly tight image, so thought I could fire the flop, see how many callers I got behind me, and then maybe fire a good turn (one I could semi-bluff with). A lot of players only raise pre out of the BB with very premium holdings...
The plan backfired though as I was called in three spots lol. But hey, Santi runs gooooot right? Of course I do.
Turn: J
I bet, get called in two spots.
River: 8
I bet, get one caller and show her the nuts. I got a pretty disgusted look from the asian girl I turned (guess she had a weak ace) and then got some chatter on the table about my hand. Apparently no one put me on KQ there haha. If anything, I'll take being lucky and showing that hand down. Not only because it was a good pot, but it gives me the image of an aggro donkey (possibly deservedly so).
Thanks for reading, check back later, I might have more.
6/12K: +240
Had a pretty good day I guess, was up almost $400 at one point at 6/12, but oh well, that's how it goes sometimes.
Toward the end of my session I lost with Kings twice, one of them being a kill pot, so that was one of the reasons I shipped back a rack of $2 chips toward the end of my session.
Here's one big hand I'll talk about...I plan on being lazy tomorrow and not doing anything all day, so look for me to update this entry a little more in depth. Tony, if you read this, let's shoot for Mongo around 1pm-ish...it's almost 5am and I still have to crash.
Okay so here was my favorite hand of the night. Pre-flop limped in like 5 spots (not joking), small blind has been a maniac and he raises. I look down at 55 and call. Gets around to button who 3-bets and then SB caps. I call and pray for a five.
Flop: 654 rainbow
Weeeeeeee
I check, Connie (seat 3, I'm in seat 2) bets, it gets raised, cold-called, 3-bet all-in and folded back to me so I cap. Pretty awesome I check/capped the flop...I was planning to CR the entire time.
Turn: 6
Boom (I hope). I bet, called in two spots
River: 3
I bet, called in two spots
I showed my boat and was obv good. Connie showed 77 for the rivered straight and the guy who 3-bet all-in actually rivered a smaller boat (he had 33). Huge pot, it was well over a rack ($200) in profit.
Ahhhh fuck it, one more hand:
Limped in four spots, small blind completes, I look down at KQ of clubs and decide to raise and build a pot. 6 players to the flop of: AT4 with the Ace of clubs on board.
I had a backdoor flush-draw and a gutty, not the greatest draw buuuut...My whole plan here initially was to raise pre-flop for value, and then check any really ragged flops. Well I saw the ace on the board, decided I had a fairly tight image, so thought I could fire the flop, see how many callers I got behind me, and then maybe fire a good turn (one I could semi-bluff with). A lot of players only raise pre out of the BB with very premium holdings...
The plan backfired though as I was called in three spots lol. But hey, Santi runs gooooot right? Of course I do.
Turn: J
I bet, get called in two spots.
River: 8
I bet, get one caller and show her the nuts. I got a pretty disgusted look from the asian girl I turned (guess she had a weak ace) and then got some chatter on the table about my hand. Apparently no one put me on KQ there haha. If anything, I'll take being lucky and showing that hand down. Not only because it was a good pot, but it gives me the image of an aggro donkey (possibly deservedly so).
Thanks for reading, check back later, I might have more.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
My Brute
Semi-addicting internet game to pass the time. Check it out, it's good fun!
http://the-santi.mybrute.com/
Haven't been doing much else, might actually head out with my IRL friend Fender to Cache or Capitol tomorrow for some live low-limit LHE. Hope I run goooooot ;-)
http://the-santi.mybrute.com/
Haven't been doing much else, might actually head out with my IRL friend Fender to Cache or Capitol tomorrow for some live low-limit LHE. Hope I run goooooot ;-)
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Jesus Hates Easter
My younger brother wrote this as a blog entry a couple years ago. I thought of it and decided to cut/paste it. Enjoy!
For some reason, I just feel like Jesus would be irritated about our easter celebrations...I mean, sure, it's one of the two days in the year that Catholics actually go to church, but what in goddamn fuck does Jesus have to do with hunting for easter eggs?! If I ever resurrect from the dead, I sure as hell hope people find a better way to celebrate my awesomeness...like drowning themselves in my honor, maybe...and anyone that doesn't participate gets shot in the face Tarantino style...and by Tarantino I mean ridiculously exaggerated to the point of annoyance...and by ridiculously exaggerated I mean drowning themselves in my honor...what?!
PS. Peeps fucking blow...
Friday, April 10, 2009
More 6/12 Capitol ~Fun
Alright so since I last blogged about the pokers I had a sweet little 6/12-Kill and 4/8-Kill session where I came up like $400 or so. Unfortunately I played a smaller two hour session last Thursday (games died a little quickly) where I broke almost even (down about 20 bucks) and then Wednesday night I lost about $80 at 6/12 spaced out over like seven hours.
Kinda depressing to play for so many hours just to lose $80, but I guess things could have been worse. But anyway enough whining, here was my day.
I worked Tuesday night into Wednesday, so I was up at about 9:00pm on Tuesday night. Took a shower, grabbed a bite to eat, then worked until 7:30am Wednesday morning. I still like working graves...I only have to put up with customers for an hour and a half, but even then I'm usually done with my work for the night and am hiding in the back of the store lol. Time goes by so much faster on graves. After that I hung around all morning, then grabbed some pho at around 2:00pm with my boss George and my buddy the Superdonk. After that I rolled on over to Cap and the SD would join me around 6:00pm or so.
When I got to Cap, the place had a couple 6/12 games going, as well as some 4/8 and NL. Since the list was small and there were two tables running, I got right into a game. The first table was actually kinda tough, especially compared to the last couple 6/12 sessions I had played in. This table included a couple nittier older players (I guess I wasn't used to these types of players since I usually play at night and here it was 3:30 in the afternoon), and also included Davin and Wilson from my 15/30 sessions last summer.
Davin was straddling Wilson's BB and Wilson was raising Davin's BB every orbit, so they eventually loosened the table up pretty good. I was up close to a rack after playing this table, with hands I can't really remember...I'm awesome at this blogging shit I know.
I moved to the main 6/12 game after a couple hours at the outer 6/12 game and was quickly thrown into the fire. My first couple hands were AQ, I won a big pot with TPTK on one and then lost a big pot with top two a couple hands later. Two people rivered trips against me khxjknerlnlernfls.
After that I ran kinda slow, went down a little here, down a little there...the table was great in terms of action and awful players, I just couldn't get the right cards to showdown. Later on in the night was where a majority of my big hands took place. This asian-ish dude ended up sitting down in seat four (I was in the two seat) and just started 3-betting me without letting up.
I didn't mind at first because I was getting the best of him, but it just seemed like we traded money back and forth the entire night, with him eventually getting the best of me. He wasn't three-betting junk either, a lot of times he had AK-AQ or pairs...and depending on whose turn it was to win the hand, we were usually either way ahead/behind each other.
One hand that sticks out in my head is a Kill pot where I have Tens. Seat four had been really, really hot for the last couple orbits, up about two racks and the hand right before this he flopped a set of nines against pocket kings. He made it a kill pot...
So I get a limper in front of me, I raise with TT, he 3-bets, a complete monkey who has been killing me all night with awful draws calls out of seat nine, and then seat one who had limped in front of me also calls. I cap because one TT is a great hand and should be capped and two I was almost positive there was no way seat four had yet another big hand.
The flop comes 882 with two diamonds. Seat nine checks, seat one checks, I bet, seat four raises, seat nine calls, seat one folds, and I opt to just call because I'm actually scared of an overpair now. Seat four had been getting froggy pre-flop all night, but his flop raises (especially in kill pots) usually spelled out big hands. The turn was an off-suit three. Seat nine checked, I thought really hard about betting, but at this point I just wanted to showdown because I had no idea where I was. Seat four also checked...wtf? Dammit, I just gave AK or AQ of diamonds a free look at the river...
The river was a black seven so the board is 87322 and the turn checked through...I'm incredibly confident in my hand at this point. Seat nine checks, and I opt to bet, maybe getting value out of 99 or a smaller PP. Seat four looks at me and say "you can bet? ugh okay I call" and then seat nine folds...seat four shows Queens and I feel like I've been punched in the stomach yet again...blahhhhh.
Not much more exciting hands than that...I plan on playing a couple times next week, maybe one more time before I go to work Saturday night, but I think I'm going to be busy the next couple of days so I doubt it.
Thanks for reading
Kinda depressing to play for so many hours just to lose $80, but I guess things could have been worse. But anyway enough whining, here was my day.
I worked Tuesday night into Wednesday, so I was up at about 9:00pm on Tuesday night. Took a shower, grabbed a bite to eat, then worked until 7:30am Wednesday morning. I still like working graves...I only have to put up with customers for an hour and a half, but even then I'm usually done with my work for the night and am hiding in the back of the store lol. Time goes by so much faster on graves. After that I hung around all morning, then grabbed some pho at around 2:00pm with my boss George and my buddy the Superdonk. After that I rolled on over to Cap and the SD would join me around 6:00pm or so.
When I got to Cap, the place had a couple 6/12 games going, as well as some 4/8 and NL. Since the list was small and there were two tables running, I got right into a game. The first table was actually kinda tough, especially compared to the last couple 6/12 sessions I had played in. This table included a couple nittier older players (I guess I wasn't used to these types of players since I usually play at night and here it was 3:30 in the afternoon), and also included Davin and Wilson from my 15/30 sessions last summer.
Davin was straddling Wilson's BB and Wilson was raising Davin's BB every orbit, so they eventually loosened the table up pretty good. I was up close to a rack after playing this table, with hands I can't really remember...I'm awesome at this blogging shit I know.
I moved to the main 6/12 game after a couple hours at the outer 6/12 game and was quickly thrown into the fire. My first couple hands were AQ, I won a big pot with TPTK on one and then lost a big pot with top two a couple hands later. Two people rivered trips against me khxjknerlnlernfls.
After that I ran kinda slow, went down a little here, down a little there...the table was great in terms of action and awful players, I just couldn't get the right cards to showdown. Later on in the night was where a majority of my big hands took place. This asian-ish dude ended up sitting down in seat four (I was in the two seat) and just started 3-betting me without letting up.
I didn't mind at first because I was getting the best of him, but it just seemed like we traded money back and forth the entire night, with him eventually getting the best of me. He wasn't three-betting junk either, a lot of times he had AK-AQ or pairs...and depending on whose turn it was to win the hand, we were usually either way ahead/behind each other.
One hand that sticks out in my head is a Kill pot where I have Tens. Seat four had been really, really hot for the last couple orbits, up about two racks and the hand right before this he flopped a set of nines against pocket kings. He made it a kill pot...
So I get a limper in front of me, I raise with TT, he 3-bets, a complete monkey who has been killing me all night with awful draws calls out of seat nine, and then seat one who had limped in front of me also calls. I cap because one TT is a great hand and should be capped and two I was almost positive there was no way seat four had yet another big hand.
The flop comes 882 with two diamonds. Seat nine checks, seat one checks, I bet, seat four raises, seat nine calls, seat one folds, and I opt to just call because I'm actually scared of an overpair now. Seat four had been getting froggy pre-flop all night, but his flop raises (especially in kill pots) usually spelled out big hands. The turn was an off-suit three. Seat nine checked, I thought really hard about betting, but at this point I just wanted to showdown because I had no idea where I was. Seat four also checked...wtf? Dammit, I just gave AK or AQ of diamonds a free look at the river...
The river was a black seven so the board is 87322 and the turn checked through...I'm incredibly confident in my hand at this point. Seat nine checks, and I opt to bet, maybe getting value out of 99 or a smaller PP. Seat four looks at me and say "you can bet? ugh okay I call" and then seat nine folds...seat four shows Queens and I feel like I've been punched in the stomach yet again...blahhhhh.
Not much more exciting hands than that...I plan on playing a couple times next week, maybe one more time before I go to work Saturday night, but I think I'm going to be busy the next couple of days so I doubt it.
Thanks for reading
Saturday, April 4, 2009
June Vegas Trip (10th-15th)
So a bunch of people from Cardplayer and 67suited will be attending Vegas sometime in June...I guess it's been dubbed CP3, but no one's really cleared that with me so yeah.
Anyway, the plan is for Deuce, Shabba and myself to play in the $1500 LHE Event (Event #26) that runs from June 12th through June 14th (hopefully the three of us will still be playing on the 14th). Those two may be playing other events, but as far as I'm concerned unless I can make a serious monetary splash this should be my first and only World Series event this year.
The next couple of months I plan on reading tons of LHE tournament material and practicing a bit on Stars. I've already played in a couple tourneys, but more are definitely in order. If anyone knows of any good sites or authorities on LHE tournaments, please please please post a link in the comments.
Here's a list of the guilty parties attending this trip, if you read this and aren't going, try to come out, it should be fun.
In:
Nik (10th - 15th)
Deuce (10th - 15th)
Shabba (10th-14th)
DanMcW
SilentRebel (9th - 13th)
Shifteye7 (10th - 15th)
NYRambler (10th-14th)
Fender (10th-14th)
TheAlbinoKid (9th - 15th)
iaatg6296 (from the NYRPS tournaments)
Pika - (10th - 14th)
Probables (pussies that haven't committed):
Luske
Scott
Juicybear
Anyway, the plan is for Deuce, Shabba and myself to play in the $1500 LHE Event (Event #26) that runs from June 12th through June 14th (hopefully the three of us will still be playing on the 14th). Those two may be playing other events, but as far as I'm concerned unless I can make a serious monetary splash this should be my first and only World Series event this year.
The next couple of months I plan on reading tons of LHE tournament material and practicing a bit on Stars. I've already played in a couple tourneys, but more are definitely in order. If anyone knows of any good sites or authorities on LHE tournaments, please please please post a link in the comments.
Here's a list of the guilty parties attending this trip, if you read this and aren't going, try to come out, it should be fun.
In:
Nik (10th - 15th)
Deuce (10th - 15th)
Shabba (10th-14th)
DanMcW
SilentRebel (9th - 13th)
Shifteye7 (10th - 15th)
NYRambler (10th-14th)
Fender (10th-14th)
TheAlbinoKid (9th - 15th)
iaatg6296 (from the NYRPS tournaments)
Pika - (10th - 14th)
Probables (pussies that haven't committed):
Luske
Scott
Juicybear
Thursday, April 2, 2009
You Asked for it...
What's up boys? Alright well last night marked the first time I've played live in over two months...just haven't had the time. I had checked in at Cap a couple times since my last session (actually didn't blog about it suprisingly, but I made something like $550 playing 4/8-Kill over six hours. Here's an excerpt I wrote at a poker forum not to be named on January 27th
Last night/this morning went just as well...played a little 6/12 early on and was having a rollercoaster of a night early. Quick rundown of the table looked like this: Seat 1 was Connie (laggy middle aged asian lady), seat 2 was an old LPP white guy, seat 4 was a lppish asian chick running like god, seat 5 was a whiney middle aged white dude named Steve, Seat 6 was another 30 year old asian girl running like god, seat 8 was me, and seat 9 was a taggy asian kid...all the other seats were filled but they didn't matter much.
The night started off pretty well with AQ soooooted and A8 sooted both flopping two pair. The first hand (AQ diamonds) was open-limped by seat two, folded to seat 6 who raised OTB, I 3-bet, call, call. Like I said flopped two pair. Bet to the river.
A8 of clubs was also in the BB, raised somewhere early, called in a few spots and I defended. CR flop, bet to the river. These two hands may have helped me semi-fluff later with a couple flush draws...I found myself flopping pretty hard out of the BB with decent connected cards and just found ways to either hit my draws or semi-bluff my way to victory.
I did mention a rollercoast though right? All my big hands were getting destroyed, which is to be expected I guess. AQ sooooted again in a kill pot, I raise and get a few callers...flop comes Q-high and I end up getting rivered by 88 (rivered set). That was pretty burtal and cost me a lot of chips. Later on KK flopped middle set and got runner-runnered...incredibly brutal hand.
So I get KK somewhere early, I think UTG+1. I raise, Connie in seat 1 calls, called in two other spots. Whiney Steve 3-bets out of the small blind, called by the BB, I cap...monster pot heading to the flop of AK9 rainbow. Top set woulda been nice, especially since small blinds aren't too aggro live, I was definitely thinking about him having AA...
He bets, one fold, I raise, Connie calls with J9 of diamonds...bottom pair, one diamond the board. First off, wow wtf? It's capped pre-flop, so yeah, huge pot, but there's an ace and a king on the board...your outs consist of maybe a nine (AA and KK are super likely) and your backdoor J-high flush. Anyway whatever, she calls and Steve calls. Turns a diamond, check, I bet, two calls. River is another baby diamond, so the board is something like AK942 with running diamonds...I like it a lot. I bet though, she raises, Steve curses alot and folds, and I just call to see the bad news. So gross.
It's okay though, two hands later I won a monster pot with 33, got four bets in on the flop against four players and two bets in on the turn against three players...I think someone flopped top pair and then made two pair on the turn...thankfully the river bricked out.
So 6/12 ran for about two hours, made a rack ($200) and after that I played 4/8-kill for the rest of the night. That was an even bigger rollercoast, but I made about $220 there, not counting the money I dropped on meals and sodas which I paid for out of my stack the entire night.
Fun night, was good to be back grinding it out with the same ol' degens I always see at Cap...hopefully my next sessions comes sooner than later. Thanks for reading.
"So long story short, I work graveyard and usually on my last day of work I stay up as long as possible and try to get back on a normal sleep pattern...instead yesterday I crashed and woke up 11pm and had nothing much to do on a Monday night.
So I went to play cards, knowing full well the best game I'd be able to find would be a 4/8-Kill game and Capitol where they don't make the winner of the kill pot post a kill blind (weaksauce)...
Six hours later, I cashed out +$550 and remembered what it was like to run like a god again
Weeeeee."
Last night/this morning went just as well...played a little 6/12 early on and was having a rollercoaster of a night early. Quick rundown of the table looked like this: Seat 1 was Connie (laggy middle aged asian lady), seat 2 was an old LPP white guy, seat 4 was a lppish asian chick running like god, seat 5 was a whiney middle aged white dude named Steve, Seat 6 was another 30 year old asian girl running like god, seat 8 was me, and seat 9 was a taggy asian kid...all the other seats were filled but they didn't matter much.
The night started off pretty well with AQ soooooted and A8 sooted both flopping two pair. The first hand (AQ diamonds) was open-limped by seat two, folded to seat 6 who raised OTB, I 3-bet, call, call. Like I said flopped two pair. Bet to the river.
A8 of clubs was also in the BB, raised somewhere early, called in a few spots and I defended. CR flop, bet to the river. These two hands may have helped me semi-fluff later with a couple flush draws...I found myself flopping pretty hard out of the BB with decent connected cards and just found ways to either hit my draws or semi-bluff my way to victory.
I did mention a rollercoast though right? All my big hands were getting destroyed, which is to be expected I guess. AQ sooooted again in a kill pot, I raise and get a few callers...flop comes Q-high and I end up getting rivered by 88 (rivered set). That was pretty burtal and cost me a lot of chips. Later on KK flopped middle set and got runner-runnered...incredibly brutal hand.
So I get KK somewhere early, I think UTG+1. I raise, Connie in seat 1 calls, called in two other spots. Whiney Steve 3-bets out of the small blind, called by the BB, I cap...monster pot heading to the flop of AK9 rainbow. Top set woulda been nice, especially since small blinds aren't too aggro live, I was definitely thinking about him having AA...
He bets, one fold, I raise, Connie calls with J9 of diamonds...bottom pair, one diamond the board. First off, wow wtf? It's capped pre-flop, so yeah, huge pot, but there's an ace and a king on the board...your outs consist of maybe a nine (AA and KK are super likely) and your backdoor J-high flush. Anyway whatever, she calls and Steve calls. Turns a diamond, check, I bet, two calls. River is another baby diamond, so the board is something like AK942 with running diamonds...I like it a lot. I bet though, she raises, Steve curses alot and folds, and I just call to see the bad news. So gross.
It's okay though, two hands later I won a monster pot with 33, got four bets in on the flop against four players and two bets in on the turn against three players...I think someone flopped top pair and then made two pair on the turn...thankfully the river bricked out.
So 6/12 ran for about two hours, made a rack ($200) and after that I played 4/8-kill for the rest of the night. That was an even bigger rollercoast, but I made about $220 there, not counting the money I dropped on meals and sodas which I paid for out of my stack the entire night.
Fun night, was good to be back grinding it out with the same ol' degens I always see at Cap...hopefully my next sessions comes sooner than later. Thanks for reading.
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