I only played a couple sessions this past week at 6/12 with nothing much exciting to note. I think I lost something like $20 on Tuesday and followed that up with losing a rack at 6/12 Wednesday. I ran pretty shitty early on in both session, Tuesday's session I was just lucky enough to get back close to even before the game broke.
Wednesday the action was great for most of the night. A couple very aggressive players (Raj and Ben) were there, and usually when they're playing the rest of the table loosens up and starts showing down crap. Tables like this usually bring higher swings though, so making a hand hold at this table would usually mean a huge pot, the trick is to just hold up.
I'm kinda in a hurry so I'll post some HHs tomorrow when I'm less busy, I have to get a haircut, grab breakfast with a friend, then be to work by 1pm. I know you guys don't care, so yeah sorry haha.
Sorry for the crappy update, but it's all I got. Look for me to post a couple articles I read this past weekend that I really liked and thought would be beneficial to the aspiring low stakes live LHE player. See ya then.
Friday, May 29, 2009
Sunday, May 24, 2009
River Hero Call
So like I was talking about in my last entry, an interesting spot came up Thursday night where I really had to tank a river to figure out wtf I should do. Now some backstory on the table, a couple of guys were really gambling, but the rest of the players were mostly your typical live LPP calling stations.
I can't remember too much about pre-flop except that I was in seat six, and it was limped in about five spots pre and I checked my option witb 95 of hearts. So six players to a flop of 954 with two spades.
Top two in a limped pot, wet board, let's see what happens. The SB bets into me, I raise, and it gets called by seat eight (no real reads), seat one (definitely came off as laggy, and one play made him look borderline maniacal). SB called one more bet and the four of us saw an eight on the turn.
SB checks to me, I bet, called by seat seven, now seat one raises, SB calls yet again, I just call, putting seat one on an OESD (67) that got there on the turn, seat seven folds, maybe figuring he was drawing dead? I dunno, I thought it was odd he would fold for one more after getting 7:1 on his money just on the turn. So I'm assuming I'm behind to a straight, but based on seat one's earlier plays I knew that it wasn't even close to a guarantee I was behind, there was a good shot I was still ahead and planned on showing the hand down.
I'm thining to myself "pair my freaking hand" when I see a seven on the river. Oh sonofabitch if I wasn't dead before I almost certainly am now. The board is 98754, but at least the flush didn't get there. SB checks, I check, and seat one quickly bets yet again. SB takes a second and calls, and now I really start going into the tank. I don't think I've tanked longer about a hand than I did this one, and in my mind about three seconds into the tank I was almost positive I was folding. I wasn't worried too much about SB, I put him on something more like TP with a flush draw combo, maybe bottom two pair, not likely a flopped set because I'm sure he 3-bets the flop...I think I have his hand beat, it's the lagtard in seat one I'm worried about.
I started thinking about seat one playing kinda funky a couple orbits before this, so just because the only hand I personally could possibly have in his position was 67 did not mean that he in fact had to have 67. I see a lot of good young players do this with their hand reading skills...and actually this reminds me, in training for my job working with autistic kids a few weeks ago, a certain lecture slide came up that gave me an idea for a good analogy.
Autistic children, especially at a young age, are usually unable to see things from another's point of view and will answer questions based on their own PoV. For example, if a child is holding a green crayon and their mom is holding a yellow crayon, and I ask them what color crayon their mom is holding, almost all of them will say "green." Hopefully I didn't butcher that analogy, but what I'm saying is good players assign some incorrect ranges sometimes because they can't get into the heads of their lesser skilled opponents. I see players say "well shit he can't have a goofy two pair here because look at that flop, no way he calls with only midpair for two bets..." when in fact, hey, some people just like to gambooool. A lot of their plays and ranges don't make sense because they're not there to make 2BBs/hour, they're there to have fun, hit the jackpot, spew some chips, or whatever.
So back to the hand, I'm tanking, counting the bets in my head, 6sbs pre (3BB), 8sbs flop (4BB), 7BBs on the turn, 2BBs on the river equal something like 15 or 16 to one on my call...dammit Nik how sure are you he has a six? Will you go on supreme monkey tilt if you fold and see you laid down the winner? I call, uttering something like "ugh I dunno why I'm calling" and finally seat one turns over 84 for a turned two pair.
Omg sick, SB quickly turns over his cards and says "I can beat that" and shows 87 for a rivered two pair. Holy shit hero calling is awesome. I quickly grab my cards from underneath the orange $1 chip that was protecting them and say something to the extent of "oh hey my flopped two pair held" and rake in an absolute sea of red chips. Sweet, guess I can hero call 15 times based on this pot I just won :-P There are a lot of great feelings that come with playing poker, but calling down on a hand you think you lost and seeing that you in fact won is pretty hard to top. Not so much because "hey I caught you trying to bluff me" but more for the fact that "this sucks, I flopped two pair and now I'm gonna los- holy shit I'm good?!" Heh, emotional swongs.
Welcome to live low-limit LHE I guess, thanks for reading.
I can't remember too much about pre-flop except that I was in seat six, and it was limped in about five spots pre and I checked my option witb 95 of hearts. So six players to a flop of 954 with two spades.
Top two in a limped pot, wet board, let's see what happens. The SB bets into me, I raise, and it gets called by seat eight (no real reads), seat one (definitely came off as laggy, and one play made him look borderline maniacal). SB called one more bet and the four of us saw an eight on the turn.
SB checks to me, I bet, called by seat seven, now seat one raises, SB calls yet again, I just call, putting seat one on an OESD (67) that got there on the turn, seat seven folds, maybe figuring he was drawing dead? I dunno, I thought it was odd he would fold for one more after getting 7:1 on his money just on the turn. So I'm assuming I'm behind to a straight, but based on seat one's earlier plays I knew that it wasn't even close to a guarantee I was behind, there was a good shot I was still ahead and planned on showing the hand down.
I'm thining to myself "pair my freaking hand" when I see a seven on the river. Oh sonofabitch if I wasn't dead before I almost certainly am now. The board is 98754, but at least the flush didn't get there. SB checks, I check, and seat one quickly bets yet again. SB takes a second and calls, and now I really start going into the tank. I don't think I've tanked longer about a hand than I did this one, and in my mind about three seconds into the tank I was almost positive I was folding. I wasn't worried too much about SB, I put him on something more like TP with a flush draw combo, maybe bottom two pair, not likely a flopped set because I'm sure he 3-bets the flop...I think I have his hand beat, it's the lagtard in seat one I'm worried about.
I started thinking about seat one playing kinda funky a couple orbits before this, so just because the only hand I personally could possibly have in his position was 67 did not mean that he in fact had to have 67. I see a lot of good young players do this with their hand reading skills...and actually this reminds me, in training for my job working with autistic kids a few weeks ago, a certain lecture slide came up that gave me an idea for a good analogy.
Autistic children, especially at a young age, are usually unable to see things from another's point of view and will answer questions based on their own PoV. For example, if a child is holding a green crayon and their mom is holding a yellow crayon, and I ask them what color crayon their mom is holding, almost all of them will say "green." Hopefully I didn't butcher that analogy, but what I'm saying is good players assign some incorrect ranges sometimes because they can't get into the heads of their lesser skilled opponents. I see players say "well shit he can't have a goofy two pair here because look at that flop, no way he calls with only midpair for two bets..." when in fact, hey, some people just like to gambooool. A lot of their plays and ranges don't make sense because they're not there to make 2BBs/hour, they're there to have fun, hit the jackpot, spew some chips, or whatever.
So back to the hand, I'm tanking, counting the bets in my head, 6sbs pre (3BB), 8sbs flop (4BB), 7BBs on the turn, 2BBs on the river equal something like 15 or 16 to one on my call...dammit Nik how sure are you he has a six? Will you go on supreme monkey tilt if you fold and see you laid down the winner? I call, uttering something like "ugh I dunno why I'm calling" and finally seat one turns over 84 for a turned two pair.
Omg sick, SB quickly turns over his cards and says "I can beat that" and shows 87 for a rivered two pair. Holy shit hero calling is awesome. I quickly grab my cards from underneath the orange $1 chip that was protecting them and say something to the extent of "oh hey my flopped two pair held" and rake in an absolute sea of red chips. Sweet, guess I can hero call 15 times based on this pot I just won :-P There are a lot of great feelings that come with playing poker, but calling down on a hand you think you lost and seeing that you in fact won is pretty hard to top. Not so much because "hey I caught you trying to bluff me" but more for the fact that "this sucks, I flopped two pair and now I'm gonna los- holy shit I'm good?!" Heh, emotional swongs.
Welcome to live low-limit LHE I guess, thanks for reading.
Saturday, May 23, 2009
A Couple Quickies
Played Thursday night for a little bit, broke about even (I think I won like $25). Played late Friday night (probably started around 11pm after a quick nap) and made a rack ($200) or so in a few hours. What's kind of odd is that it was actually a bit of a slow night for me tonight in terms of hands played, I just seemed to get in with some good hands, have them hold, then fold the rest of the time. Obviously winning is the most important thing so I'm happy with the results, like I said, I just thought it was strange not to be mixing it up as much as I'm used to.
I need to talk about a hand from the Thursday night session that I thought was worth mentioning, but I guess I'll address tonight since it's still fresh in my head. Basically when I got to the table I immediately started sailvating. The table was very loose and seemed to be building a lot of pots early and often.
Seat one was this middle-aged black dude that I've played with before, defninitely far from solid. Seat two was a dealer named Chi that I've only played with once before, and during that session he was actually hemorraging chips at 4/8 for fun. It would turn out that he was playing super solid (I have a ton of respect for his game now to be honest, when he was in a hand he had the goods). Seat three was a younger white kid that looked like an online player, backwards hat, talked a lot about odds, haha whatever. He played okay, ran really good, but was still kinda loose pre. Seat four was an older Indian dude (dot, not feather) :-P who was absolutely terrible. I saw him call a bet then attempt to muck his cards immediately after calling at least three times. You didn't read that wrong, he tried to muck his hand after calling a bet on the turn. "I meant to fold, but I called..."
Serious wtf. Seat five was open for awhile but would later be filled by another dealer, she's pretty taggish but can be lappish sometimes. Seat six was a bit of a goofball player, definitely a donater. He blames dealers alot for his misfortune, but he's pretty nice to me whenever we play so I'll cut him some slack. Anyway, he's definitely LPP. Seat seven was a Lagtard who would swing from two racks of chips in front of him to six racks in front of him at least twice while I was there. Seat eight was yours truly and then seat nine was this taller asian dude who was also a bit laggy. So yeah, fantastic table. Sorry for rambling about the table make-up, just wanted to emphasize how great this table was.
So yeah, I folded my first three orbits just being absolutely card dead, but it gave me time to take mental notes and see how everyone was playing. I was actually getting afraid that perhaps my image was going to be really bad and keep me from getting paid when I finally do play a pot. So knowing what you know, I pick up red fives in EP and limp behind seat seven who was UTG. Seat nine raises, it gets called by seat one, the internetish looking kid in seat three and the blinds in four and six call as well, so do the rest of us.
Flop: KT5 rainbow
Weeee bottom set in a big multiway pot, checks to me, I check obviously looking for seat nine to bet, trap some callers in between us, then CR once it got back to me. Unfortunately seat nine checked and it gets to seat three who bets, folded to me, I raise, seat nine gurriedly threw three chips in, but once he saw that I had raised he apologized and took his chips back. Totally fine, I like it when people play quickly so if they accidentally call thinking it was only one bet I'm not gonna be an ass. Folds to seat three who just calls. Bummer. Oh well, pot was still pretty big because of the action pre-flop.
The turn was a bit of a scary card, a jack I believe, put a broadway straight out there, but I bet and was only called. The river was a harmless number card I can't remember, again I fired, seat three tanked and finally called. Obviously I was good and raked in a sweet pot.
I would go on to get fives once again, this time after two limpers. I limped behind OTB, the blinds called/checked their option and we saw a flop of 652 rainbow. Weeee middle set this time, checks to seat six who bets out, seat seven folds, and I opt to raise because of how coordinated the board was. Seat one (BB in the hand called two cold) and seat six also called.
The turn was an ace of clubs, I was really hoping it'd be a money card. It wasn't, as the players checked to me and again they both called. Hmmm wonder what they have...river was a beautiful red jack, so unless someone was super slowplaying their flopped straight (0% chance of this with these two players actually) I knew I had this hand locked up. Checked to me, I bet, seat one calls and seat six folds telling me he head 54 and that I hit the case five in the deck. Sweet, go me.
Hmm, I'm afraid this entry may be too long already, so I'll talk about the hand from Thursday night tomorrow. Basically I hero-called the river with two pair when I was all but certain I was beat by a one card straight (board was 98754), but since there was so much money in the pot I called and was actually goooooot. Haha I'm such a donkey, til next time, thanks for reading.
I need to talk about a hand from the Thursday night session that I thought was worth mentioning, but I guess I'll address tonight since it's still fresh in my head. Basically when I got to the table I immediately started sailvating. The table was very loose and seemed to be building a lot of pots early and often.
Seat one was this middle-aged black dude that I've played with before, defninitely far from solid. Seat two was a dealer named Chi that I've only played with once before, and during that session he was actually hemorraging chips at 4/8 for fun. It would turn out that he was playing super solid (I have a ton of respect for his game now to be honest, when he was in a hand he had the goods). Seat three was a younger white kid that looked like an online player, backwards hat, talked a lot about odds, haha whatever. He played okay, ran really good, but was still kinda loose pre. Seat four was an older Indian dude (dot, not feather) :-P who was absolutely terrible. I saw him call a bet then attempt to muck his cards immediately after calling at least three times. You didn't read that wrong, he tried to muck his hand after calling a bet on the turn. "I meant to fold, but I called..."
Serious wtf. Seat five was open for awhile but would later be filled by another dealer, she's pretty taggish but can be lappish sometimes. Seat six was a bit of a goofball player, definitely a donater. He blames dealers alot for his misfortune, but he's pretty nice to me whenever we play so I'll cut him some slack. Anyway, he's definitely LPP. Seat seven was a Lagtard who would swing from two racks of chips in front of him to six racks in front of him at least twice while I was there. Seat eight was yours truly and then seat nine was this taller asian dude who was also a bit laggy. So yeah, fantastic table. Sorry for rambling about the table make-up, just wanted to emphasize how great this table was.
So yeah, I folded my first three orbits just being absolutely card dead, but it gave me time to take mental notes and see how everyone was playing. I was actually getting afraid that perhaps my image was going to be really bad and keep me from getting paid when I finally do play a pot. So knowing what you know, I pick up red fives in EP and limp behind seat seven who was UTG. Seat nine raises, it gets called by seat one, the internetish looking kid in seat three and the blinds in four and six call as well, so do the rest of us.
Flop: KT5 rainbow
Weeee bottom set in a big multiway pot, checks to me, I check obviously looking for seat nine to bet, trap some callers in between us, then CR once it got back to me. Unfortunately seat nine checked and it gets to seat three who bets, folded to me, I raise, seat nine gurriedly threw three chips in, but once he saw that I had raised he apologized and took his chips back. Totally fine, I like it when people play quickly so if they accidentally call thinking it was only one bet I'm not gonna be an ass. Folds to seat three who just calls. Bummer. Oh well, pot was still pretty big because of the action pre-flop.
The turn was a bit of a scary card, a jack I believe, put a broadway straight out there, but I bet and was only called. The river was a harmless number card I can't remember, again I fired, seat three tanked and finally called. Obviously I was good and raked in a sweet pot.
I would go on to get fives once again, this time after two limpers. I limped behind OTB, the blinds called/checked their option and we saw a flop of 652 rainbow. Weeee middle set this time, checks to seat six who bets out, seat seven folds, and I opt to raise because of how coordinated the board was. Seat one (BB in the hand called two cold) and seat six also called.
The turn was an ace of clubs, I was really hoping it'd be a money card. It wasn't, as the players checked to me and again they both called. Hmmm wonder what they have...river was a beautiful red jack, so unless someone was super slowplaying their flopped straight (0% chance of this with these two players actually) I knew I had this hand locked up. Checked to me, I bet, seat one calls and seat six folds telling me he head 54 and that I hit the case five in the deck. Sweet, go me.
Hmm, I'm afraid this entry may be too long already, so I'll talk about the hand from Thursday night tomorrow. Basically I hero-called the river with two pair when I was all but certain I was beat by a one card straight (board was 98754), but since there was so much money in the pot I called and was actually goooooot. Haha I'm such a donkey, til next time, thanks for reading.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Heh, Shipped Some Back
Dropped $280 last night, just couldn't get a hand to hold in the middle of my session. Lost with Aces all three times I got them, and in one sick three-hand run, I lost with Jacks twice and Kings once. The flops looked good but the turns killed me on all three hands (two pair, lower pair turning a set, and a straight respectively).
Oh well, it happens obviously, just woke up from a nap so I can't remember my middle name, much less any hand histories. Maybe I'll come back later when I wake up. Doubt I'm playing tonight or Friday, but I guess we'll see.
Catch ya later
Oh well, it happens obviously, just woke up from a nap so I can't remember my middle name, much less any hand histories. Maybe I'll come back later when I wake up. Doubt I'm playing tonight or Friday, but I guess we'll see.
Catch ya later
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
$800 Day at 6/12
Ran huge last night, so many hands just talking about one isn't possible. I'm tired so I'm gonna delay until later to talk some hands, so yeah, $800 day, makes up for last week where I think I came up $200 spaced out over something like four days lol.
Okay I lied, here's two hands.
One limper, raiser in MP, CO and Button call, I call out of the SB with 44, BB defends, limper calls.
Flop: T54 with two spades
Checks to Raiser, Button calls, I raise, BB calls, Raiser 3-bets, button folds, I cap, BB and Raiser call
Turn: 7 of spades
I still bet, BB hesitates and calls (he has the spades), Raiser calls. The BB has played with me a lot and knows I'm pretty solid, so he must have put me on the nut spades.
River: 4
Booooom quads. I bet, BB calls, the raiser mini-tanks and at this point I was really hoping he had TT and didn't raise the turn because of the flush, but eventually he just called and showed red kings. Weeee I run goot.
Sometime later it's folded to me in MP and I raise with 44. The sb who is pretty awful calls, as does the BB. The flop is K74. Checks to me I bet, SB raises, folds back to me, I notice SB has only enough chips left for a cap so I 3-bet and he caps it all-in. The turn is a four sealing up the hand for me and the river blanks out. SB disgustedly showed JJ and I won again with quad fours :-P
Okay thanks for reading, I'll post more hands later
Okay I lied, here's two hands.
One limper, raiser in MP, CO and Button call, I call out of the SB with 44, BB defends, limper calls.
Flop: T54 with two spades
Checks to Raiser, Button calls, I raise, BB calls, Raiser 3-bets, button folds, I cap, BB and Raiser call
Turn: 7 of spades
I still bet, BB hesitates and calls (he has the spades), Raiser calls. The BB has played with me a lot and knows I'm pretty solid, so he must have put me on the nut spades.
River: 4
Booooom quads. I bet, BB calls, the raiser mini-tanks and at this point I was really hoping he had TT and didn't raise the turn because of the flush, but eventually he just called and showed red kings. Weeee I run goot.
Sometime later it's folded to me in MP and I raise with 44. The sb who is pretty awful calls, as does the BB. The flop is K74. Checks to me I bet, SB raises, folds back to me, I notice SB has only enough chips left for a cap so I 3-bet and he caps it all-in. The turn is a four sealing up the hand for me and the river blanks out. SB disgustedly showed JJ and I won again with quad fours :-P
Okay thanks for reading, I'll post more hands later
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
6/12 Junkie Part II (Thursday and Saturday)
Alright well like I mentioned Thursday was a fun day. A lot of action, a lot of swinging, and I ended the day up a little over a stack. Boooooooo. One more hand from that session, will show people a "play" that is commonly used in LHE.
So like I mentioned last time, Raj was opening a ton of pots and just being a typical maniac pre-flop. He raised somewhere in EP, maybe UTG or UTG+1. I looked down at AQos and 3-bet it. I think BB may have called and then Raj capped.
Three players to a flop of QQ7 with two diamonds. Obviously a money flop for me, BB checks to Raj who bets, I raise, BB folds, Raj 3-bets and I just call. I raised in case BB was on a flush draw, wanting to charge him max value, but also felt like Raj would continue to play whatever hand he had fast. I think my AQ is actually disguised really well to this point, especially when I just call his 3-bet. Now he's almost guaranteed to lead the turn thining he's still ahead and I can pop him for two big bets.
The turn is a blank, he bets, I raise, and he finally calls. River is another blank and he check/calls to see the bad news. Fun times.
Saturday was a quick little session, I think I came up two stacks this time (yay), so about $120 combined for a couple days. Not the best winrate, but a win is a win I guess and I'll take winning a little over losing a lot anyday. I was up about a rack, but a bad last couple or orbits knocked me down a few stacks so oh well, whateva.
One hand I'll talk about is a killpot I got involved in with a maniac. Maniac raised pre-flop, and it was HU so I called out of the BB with KQos. I was actually very prepared to go to showdown with K-high against this guy, but I ended up getting a Queen-high flop.
The flop was something like Q83 with two hearts, I had the King of hearts. I check, Villain bets $12 and I CR to $24 (remember it's a killpot). Villain calls and the turn is another baby heart. I bet $24 and he calls again. River blanks out, I fire one more time and get looked up...show my hand and I'm good. Weeeeeeeeeeee....
So yeah, gotta run now, but thanks for checking back. I plan on playing a couple times this week, so see ya soon.
So like I mentioned last time, Raj was opening a ton of pots and just being a typical maniac pre-flop. He raised somewhere in EP, maybe UTG or UTG+1. I looked down at AQos and 3-bet it. I think BB may have called and then Raj capped.
Three players to a flop of QQ7 with two diamonds. Obviously a money flop for me, BB checks to Raj who bets, I raise, BB folds, Raj 3-bets and I just call. I raised in case BB was on a flush draw, wanting to charge him max value, but also felt like Raj would continue to play whatever hand he had fast. I think my AQ is actually disguised really well to this point, especially when I just call his 3-bet. Now he's almost guaranteed to lead the turn thining he's still ahead and I can pop him for two big bets.
The turn is a blank, he bets, I raise, and he finally calls. River is another blank and he check/calls to see the bad news. Fun times.
Saturday was a quick little session, I think I came up two stacks this time (yay), so about $120 combined for a couple days. Not the best winrate, but a win is a win I guess and I'll take winning a little over losing a lot anyday. I was up about a rack, but a bad last couple or orbits knocked me down a few stacks so oh well, whateva.
One hand I'll talk about is a killpot I got involved in with a maniac. Maniac raised pre-flop, and it was HU so I called out of the BB with KQos. I was actually very prepared to go to showdown with K-high against this guy, but I ended up getting a Queen-high flop.
The flop was something like Q83 with two hearts, I had the King of hearts. I check, Villain bets $12 and I CR to $24 (remember it's a killpot). Villain calls and the turn is another baby heart. I bet $24 and he calls again. River blanks out, I fire one more time and get looked up...show my hand and I'm good. Weeeeeeeeeeee....
So yeah, gotta run now, but thanks for checking back. I plan on playing a couple times this week, so see ya soon.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
6/12 Junkie Part I (Thursday Night Action)
Basically I had training for my new job everyday last week avout five minutes away from Cap, so I found myself rolling by for at least a few hours everyday this past week but Friday (the Superdonk's Bday dinner/bars/club/whatever).
Thursday was probably the most action packed night of the week. I started off the day down about $140, swung all the way up to +$400 at one point, and ended with me leaving up about $50 (doh).
I was all over the map today with a lot of good hand histories I wish I could remember. I'll give me a few fun ones, but I'll use this time to tell ya I was up two racks with the plan of leaving in about an hour, picked up aces three times (twice in the BB), got involved in some heavy raising five or six players to a flop and lost all three. Straight brutal, but completely standard in this kinda game...it happens.
I'll talk about one of those hands since there was so much action. Limped in two or three spots, Raj on the button in seat eight raises (nothing new, Raj is a complete maniac at this point, raising once every three hands or so). If he's coming into a pot, whether it be AK or 54suited, Raj is raising. SB calls and I'm in the BB in the two seat with AA (club/diamond) and pump it back up to three bets. The limpers call, Raj caps, and we see a flop six ways capped pre.
The flop is super draw heavy, I believe it's something like Q94 with two spades
SB checks, I bet, limper raises, call, one fold, Raj three balls, SB calls three cold, I cap, four callers
At this point I wasn't insanely worried (I capped), but obviously at this point I have to be afraid spades and straight draws. Raj, while maniacly aggro pre-flop, doesn't get incredibly carried away after the flop. In fact, I respect his flop/turn/river game most of the time, and his 3-bet really told me he either has an overpair like Kings (he's getting coolered), Queens (coolering me with top set), maybe AQ or has the nut-flush draw (K-high draw is probable here too). I really wanted a four to come off, and I got my wish.
The turn brought out a four of spades. Oops...I meant an off-suit four. SB checks, and with three people behind me, I opt to puke on myself and check to see what happens. These players hadn't been too tricky to this point, so if it's two bets back to me I think I can correctly fold. Usually I fire this turn even though it's a scare card, but with this many players behind, I opted to check and see what happened.
The limper who raised my flop bet bet-out, limper2 called, Raj raised, SB folds, and now I decide to fold. I didn't really tank over it at all, I really thought Raj's hand just looked so much like Queens full or nut-flush, not to mention I think the turn bettor has me beat at this point as well. I almost never fold aces post-flop in this game, so me folding and with so much ease was really rare. The turn bettor end up calling, and then limper2 wakes up and says "you want to raise? here I'll raise now too" and 3-bets. Wow wtf? Interesting...
Raj caps and the three see a blank river. The first limper checks now, limper2 still bets, Raj calls and the other limper calls. Limper2 shows quad fours (nice), Raj shows AJ of spades (sick cooler), and the other player doesn't show. That was a fun hand.
I'll end this entry with one more quick HH. Some quick history, seat nine is a complete monkey donktard, in that she is just all over the map with raising and calling and w/e, basically you can't really read a hand she's playing, but you can pretty much guarantee it doesn't matter because she's awful.
Anyway she limps in, seat one limps in, I look down at red kings and raise, BB defends and seats nine and one decide to call.
The flop is K55 with a couple of spades. It gets checked to me, and of course I decide to bet. A lot of people like to get cute and check behind, then raise if anyone decides to bet the turn, but obviously that just spells out Kings full, so what's the best way to conceal a monster? The answer is bet, especially when you're playing against complete tools (see seat nine).
Anyway I bet, BB folds, seat nine starts tanking and I get scared that I maybe I shoulda checked. She calls and then seat one folds. This is good I guess, HU with the donktard that's capable of just about anything.
The turn is a six, no spades. I bet again and really hope she's on a flush draw. All of a sudden I see her trying to stack chips for a CR. Oh another quick blurb, she came to the table with four racks of chips, obviously on one of those luckbox heaters, so she's ready to spew some chips. After a quick commercial break seat nine finally gets 12 chips past the yellow line, and I snap 3-bet her. She goes back to her chips and again starts trying to stack 12 chips. AWESOME! A good analogy here is like watching a hot chick jogging down the block in a sports bra...not only that, but I get to watch it in slow motion, and she's tripping over herself to boot.
Anyway, she four bets, I snap five bet, and finally she opts to just call. Awww, no more raising? Bummer.
The river is a six, so now the board is K5566. Considering the action on the turn, I might actually be worried about pocket sixes quading up here (if I wasn't facing seat nine), but when I saw that card I thought "oh wow that might actually get me more action. Again seat nine bets, I hide my giddyness and raise, and unfortunately she just calls. I show Kings, everyone else at the table is saying "ldo (like duh obv)" to themselves and I have fun stacking a shitload of seat nine's red $2 chips. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I'll probably blog some more tomorrow morning about this session, and then go over my quick Saturday session I had with Tony and Tommy as well. No time to proof read so I hope this all is kinda grammar friendly, makes sense and was enjoyable. Thanks for reading.
Thursday was probably the most action packed night of the week. I started off the day down about $140, swung all the way up to +$400 at one point, and ended with me leaving up about $50 (doh).
I was all over the map today with a lot of good hand histories I wish I could remember. I'll give me a few fun ones, but I'll use this time to tell ya I was up two racks with the plan of leaving in about an hour, picked up aces three times (twice in the BB), got involved in some heavy raising five or six players to a flop and lost all three. Straight brutal, but completely standard in this kinda game...it happens.
I'll talk about one of those hands since there was so much action. Limped in two or three spots, Raj on the button in seat eight raises (nothing new, Raj is a complete maniac at this point, raising once every three hands or so). If he's coming into a pot, whether it be AK or 54suited, Raj is raising. SB calls and I'm in the BB in the two seat with AA (club/diamond) and pump it back up to three bets. The limpers call, Raj caps, and we see a flop six ways capped pre.
The flop is super draw heavy, I believe it's something like Q94 with two spades
SB checks, I bet, limper raises, call, one fold, Raj three balls, SB calls three cold, I cap, four callers
At this point I wasn't insanely worried (I capped), but obviously at this point I have to be afraid spades and straight draws. Raj, while maniacly aggro pre-flop, doesn't get incredibly carried away after the flop. In fact, I respect his flop/turn/river game most of the time, and his 3-bet really told me he either has an overpair like Kings (he's getting coolered), Queens (coolering me with top set), maybe AQ or has the nut-flush draw (K-high draw is probable here too). I really wanted a four to come off, and I got my wish.
The turn brought out a four of spades. Oops...I meant an off-suit four. SB checks, and with three people behind me, I opt to puke on myself and check to see what happens. These players hadn't been too tricky to this point, so if it's two bets back to me I think I can correctly fold. Usually I fire this turn even though it's a scare card, but with this many players behind, I opted to check and see what happened.
The limper who raised my flop bet bet-out, limper2 called, Raj raised, SB folds, and now I decide to fold. I didn't really tank over it at all, I really thought Raj's hand just looked so much like Queens full or nut-flush, not to mention I think the turn bettor has me beat at this point as well. I almost never fold aces post-flop in this game, so me folding and with so much ease was really rare. The turn bettor end up calling, and then limper2 wakes up and says "you want to raise? here I'll raise now too" and 3-bets. Wow wtf? Interesting...
Raj caps and the three see a blank river. The first limper checks now, limper2 still bets, Raj calls and the other limper calls. Limper2 shows quad fours (nice), Raj shows AJ of spades (sick cooler), and the other player doesn't show. That was a fun hand.
I'll end this entry with one more quick HH. Some quick history, seat nine is a complete monkey donktard, in that she is just all over the map with raising and calling and w/e, basically you can't really read a hand she's playing, but you can pretty much guarantee it doesn't matter because she's awful.
Anyway she limps in, seat one limps in, I look down at red kings and raise, BB defends and seats nine and one decide to call.
The flop is K55 with a couple of spades. It gets checked to me, and of course I decide to bet. A lot of people like to get cute and check behind, then raise if anyone decides to bet the turn, but obviously that just spells out Kings full, so what's the best way to conceal a monster? The answer is bet, especially when you're playing against complete tools (see seat nine).
Anyway I bet, BB folds, seat nine starts tanking and I get scared that I maybe I shoulda checked. She calls and then seat one folds. This is good I guess, HU with the donktard that's capable of just about anything.
The turn is a six, no spades. I bet again and really hope she's on a flush draw. All of a sudden I see her trying to stack chips for a CR. Oh another quick blurb, she came to the table with four racks of chips, obviously on one of those luckbox heaters, so she's ready to spew some chips. After a quick commercial break seat nine finally gets 12 chips past the yellow line, and I snap 3-bet her. She goes back to her chips and again starts trying to stack 12 chips. AWESOME! A good analogy here is like watching a hot chick jogging down the block in a sports bra...not only that, but I get to watch it in slow motion, and she's tripping over herself to boot.
Anyway, she four bets, I snap five bet, and finally she opts to just call. Awww, no more raising? Bummer.
The river is a six, so now the board is K5566. Considering the action on the turn, I might actually be worried about pocket sixes quading up here (if I wasn't facing seat nine), but when I saw that card I thought "oh wow that might actually get me more action. Again seat nine bets, I hide my giddyness and raise, and unfortunately she just calls. I show Kings, everyone else at the table is saying "ldo (like duh obv)" to themselves and I have fun stacking a shitload of seat nine's red $2 chips. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I'll probably blog some more tomorrow morning about this session, and then go over my quick Saturday session I had with Tony and Tommy as well. No time to proof read so I hope this all is kinda grammar friendly, makes sense and was enjoyable. Thanks for reading.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
First Ever High Hand Jackpot
Well after work Monday (training day...lame) I decided to head over to Capitol to play some midday 6/12 action. Game wasn't too bad...actually, the action was really good compared to most of the midday Cap sessions I've had. So I sat down around 4pm and at 4:10 pm I get black tens UTG in seat eight. I raise, get cold-called by someone in MP, and then seat seven in the BB 3-bets me. I cap and we're three handed to the flop of T66.
Wow, pretty good flop I guess. SB leads out and I opt to just call, looking to drag in the player behind me. In retrospect, I think maybe I should raise the flop and then it could get capped if BB has a big overpair. I think I just got too fancy and I could have actually disguised my boat much better.
The turn in another ten, obviously crippling the deck and makes my above paragraph look ROT, but in all honesty I think raising the flop is the right play with that much action from the BB. BB leads again and this time I really just call. Now I just want him to fire the river again or please please please boat up on the river.
The river is a three and finally the BB checks. I bet and he calls me, showing aces. Hehe, I suck out goot. I didn't think much of the hand, like "yay quads," because normally the high hand for the shift (Capitol runs a $200 High Hand promotion every eight hours) is a straight flush. The jackpot was over at 4:30 (It was now 4:10), so when seat two said "hey that's a high hand" I just kinda smirked and said "yeah like tens are good."
The floorman actually came over though and said "four tens, six kicker" and then informed me I only had to hold for 15 minutes. :shockface: Wow, HOLLLLLLLLLLLD! Long story short I held...first ever high hand jackpot. I run bad at those.
Aside from that I came up about a rack and a half for the night, so about a $500 day if you include the jackpot. Had some big pairs hold finally, and overall just ran pretty solid.
I went back to play a quick three hour session on Tuesaday and donated a couple red stacks ($40 a piece, so about 80 bucks) back to the game, but this session was much more action packed, especially for only three hours. Here's the HH for one sick pot.
Limped in two spots, one fold, and I raise red eights in MP, called by everyone behind me, and BB goes all-in for two more chips. So that's eight chips for eight players already...seven active players, one all-in.
Flop: 984 with two spades
Wowwwwww. SB donks, call, call, I raise, call, 3-bet and capped.
I think 5 players, 4 bets a piece (84 chips in the pot minus four for rake so 80 chips)
Turn: red three
SB bets, call, fold, I raise, one fold, SB calls, call
Three players, 12 chips a piece (116 chip pot)
River: 5 of spades
SB bets, call and I call
He shows K2 of spades and rakes in a sick pot...ugh blank out and I win about a rack in profit of chips...
Can't complain much though, good last couple of days, hope I can keep it up. Thanks for reading.
Wow, pretty good flop I guess. SB leads out and I opt to just call, looking to drag in the player behind me. In retrospect, I think maybe I should raise the flop and then it could get capped if BB has a big overpair. I think I just got too fancy and I could have actually disguised my boat much better.
The turn in another ten, obviously crippling the deck and makes my above paragraph look ROT, but in all honesty I think raising the flop is the right play with that much action from the BB. BB leads again and this time I really just call. Now I just want him to fire the river again or please please please boat up on the river.
The river is a three and finally the BB checks. I bet and he calls me, showing aces. Hehe, I suck out goot. I didn't think much of the hand, like "yay quads," because normally the high hand for the shift (Capitol runs a $200 High Hand promotion every eight hours) is a straight flush. The jackpot was over at 4:30 (It was now 4:10), so when seat two said "hey that's a high hand" I just kinda smirked and said "yeah like tens are good."
The floorman actually came over though and said "four tens, six kicker" and then informed me I only had to hold for 15 minutes. :shockface: Wow, HOLLLLLLLLLLLD! Long story short I held...first ever high hand jackpot. I run bad at those.
Aside from that I came up about a rack and a half for the night, so about a $500 day if you include the jackpot. Had some big pairs hold finally, and overall just ran pretty solid.
I went back to play a quick three hour session on Tuesaday and donated a couple red stacks ($40 a piece, so about 80 bucks) back to the game, but this session was much more action packed, especially for only three hours. Here's the HH for one sick pot.
Limped in two spots, one fold, and I raise red eights in MP, called by everyone behind me, and BB goes all-in for two more chips. So that's eight chips for eight players already...seven active players, one all-in.
Flop: 984 with two spades
Wowwwwww. SB donks, call, call, I raise, call, 3-bet and capped.
I think 5 players, 4 bets a piece (84 chips in the pot minus four for rake so 80 chips)
Turn: red three
SB bets, call, fold, I raise, one fold, SB calls, call
Three players, 12 chips a piece (116 chip pot)
River: 5 of spades
SB bets, call and I call
He shows K2 of spades and rakes in a sick pot...ugh blank out and I win about a rack in profit of chips...
Can't complain much though, good last couple of days, hope I can keep it up. Thanks for reading.
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Rollercoaster (not of love)
Say what?
Yeah. I was up probably more than two racks at 6/12 at one point...then got straight destroyed and cashed out +$70
Went and played 4/8-Kill for a couple hours and dropped $120. Weeeeeee down $50 for the night. I suck.
One HH I guess I can remember is 74 of clubs in the BB.
Limped in all but one spot, all but family.
Flop comes 874 two spades.
Kinda gross, especially when it goes check check, bet, and a raise...Superdonk flats OTB, I opt to 3-bet and then the original bettor caps. Fuck what'd I get myself into right? I figured 84 or a set wasn't all that likely, just hoping we had some midpairs, A8s, some spades and straight draws present so I was actually ahead...
Turn was a seven. Woot. Now I'm getting killed by 87 or 88, but I'm crushing everything else so I lead, gets called in two spots.
River is a King, no flush present. I bet and SD looks me up. Good pot.
After that I guess I just ran kinda bad. Got outflopped, turned, rivered. Typical LHE session. The back end of my night is what kinda got me frustrated though. 4/8 was good for the taking but I couldn't hit a flop with overcards to save my life and my overpairs wouldn't stick for the life of me.
Oh well, riding the rollercoaster that is LHE is always fun, win or lose, guess I'd rather just be winning.
Check back next week boys, got a busy five days ahead of me. Thanks for reading.
Yeah. I was up probably more than two racks at 6/12 at one point...then got straight destroyed and cashed out +$70
Went and played 4/8-Kill for a couple hours and dropped $120. Weeeeeee down $50 for the night. I suck.
One HH I guess I can remember is 74 of clubs in the BB.
Limped in all but one spot, all but family.
Flop comes 874 two spades.
Kinda gross, especially when it goes check check, bet, and a raise...Superdonk flats OTB, I opt to 3-bet and then the original bettor caps. Fuck what'd I get myself into right? I figured 84 or a set wasn't all that likely, just hoping we had some midpairs, A8s, some spades and straight draws present so I was actually ahead...
Turn was a seven. Woot. Now I'm getting killed by 87 or 88, but I'm crushing everything else so I lead, gets called in two spots.
River is a King, no flush present. I bet and SD looks me up. Good pot.
After that I guess I just ran kinda bad. Got outflopped, turned, rivered. Typical LHE session. The back end of my night is what kinda got me frustrated though. 4/8 was good for the taking but I couldn't hit a flop with overcards to save my life and my overpairs wouldn't stick for the life of me.
Oh well, riding the rollercoaster that is LHE is always fun, win or lose, guess I'd rather just be winning.
Check back next week boys, got a busy five days ahead of me. Thanks for reading.
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