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
Friday, April 10, 2009
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.
Monday, December 8, 2008
Return of the 4/8 Superstar
Since the Superdonk and I both had Friday night off and gas prices are way down, we decided a trip to our old stomping grounds was in order. The creek hadn't changed much...in fact, as I sat down in the seven seat I noticed Steve (big white guy reg, looks like kyle gass just not bald) and Su in the four seat (her husband Steve was playing NL.) The Superdonk ended up occupying the one seat, and the rest of the table was a smattering of LPP donks...it was going to be a good day.
Steve left pretty early, so I remember thinking the only players I really had to worry about was the SD and Su...but Su doesn't play incredibly well and me and the SD tend to stay out of each other's way for the most part.
I ran pretty good in the first hour or so...won a nice pot with a flopped set of aces on a four flush board and somehow no one had a diamond...you know, really odd stuff like that. I was up $100 for most of the night until I hit an absolute sick run of cards in my last hour or so at the table.
I won a kill pot with a goofy 75 soooooted hand...I think there was a couple limpers, I limped behind. Flop gave me a gutshot, so I bet with position and hoped to get a free river card. Everyone called...turn I hit my gutterball. Weeeeeeee. Checked to me and I bet, three callers. River was a blank, checked to me, one caller.
Anyway, it's taken me a week to write this and I can't remember anything else, but I cashed out +$430...wow, 50bbs+, obviously a sick run. Oh, shorthanded I got Aces once and Jacks once, both in kill pots...that helped out a lot. Anyway, I have an update for 12/12, so check back in a couple days for that.
Steve left pretty early, so I remember thinking the only players I really had to worry about was the SD and Su...but Su doesn't play incredibly well and me and the SD tend to stay out of each other's way for the most part.
I ran pretty good in the first hour or so...won a nice pot with a flopped set of aces on a four flush board and somehow no one had a diamond...you know, really odd stuff like that. I was up $100 for most of the night until I hit an absolute sick run of cards in my last hour or so at the table.
I won a kill pot with a goofy 75 soooooted hand...I think there was a couple limpers, I limped behind. Flop gave me a gutshot, so I bet with position and hoped to get a free river card. Everyone called...turn I hit my gutterball. Weeeeeeee. Checked to me and I bet, three callers. River was a blank, checked to me, one caller.
Anyway, it's taken me a week to write this and I can't remember anything else, but I cashed out +$430...wow, 50bbs+, obviously a sick run. Oh, shorthanded I got Aces once and Jacks once, both in kill pots...that helped out a lot. Anyway, I have an update for 12/12, so check back in a couple days for that.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
2008 Fantasy Football Rundown
Alrght since Champ said he wanted to read it, might as well post it. Sup Champ?! Anyway, somehow I found my way into three leagues this year (geek check!). The first two I purposefully joined ($100 league through work, $20 league through Cardplayer) and then the third league I helped out my friend from work who's never played before but wanted to get a free league going to learn, so I said w/e fuck it and joined as the 8th team.
So first off, my $100 league turned out to only be eight guys (two guys flaked on draft day, wtf?!) after being a 10-man league forever, so yeah, the teams came out kinda stacked. By the way, kind of a weird set-up...1 QB, 2 RBs, 4WRs (TEs count as WRs) 1 DEF, 1 Kicker, 20yds rush/run = 1 pt; 50 yds/pass = 1 pt, 6pts/TD...kinda odd, a lot of people I tell the league about hate the way it's set up...I've gotten used to it. Oh and there's no playoff system, best record at the end of the year wins...
So yeah, the first four picks were something like (Brady, LT, AP, Addai) and so I took Westbrook. I remember really wanting Addai, but decided Westbrook would work out okay. After that I can't really remember much, except I took Lynch 2nd round, Fitzgerald 3rd, then I got Turner in the 4th...blah blah...I had a pretty solid team and someone ranked me as the 2nd best looking team preseason. I know that doesn't mean dick, but at least someone liked how my team was set up. My one HUGE weakness was going to be QBs. Basically the 2nd and 3rd round was the round all the solid QBs went, so I said fuck it and decided to wait until the mid rounds to get a QB. I took all my RBs and WRs early (we have to start 4 WRs/TEs, so I loaded up) and didn't take Matt Hasselbeck until somewhere in Round 9 or 10. I also picked up Garrard and Delhomme, and just prayed one of these three would have a breakout year (if you've been following this year at all, you'll note none of the three have done shit). I almost took a shot and went with Kurt Warner, that would have been nice.
Basically what I learned from this league this year is that I am the luckiest motherfucker on the face of the Earth (*knock on wood* don't jinx me please). I knew it was going to be a good year as soon as week 1 when I was facing the commish's team with a three point lead going into the Monday night game...he had McFadden and his defense going and only needed four points to beat me (my guys were done), three to tie. Well obviously he only scored two points somehow (I think his D put up a goose egg) and I held onto a 53-52 (lowest scoring game of the week) victory. After that I seemed to face the lowest scorer each week and I'd repeatedly have to show up to work and say "I rallied my troops around, we played a close game, but we squeezed out a victory. That's what good teams do baby." I currently have a 1.5 game lead (I tied in week four or some shit) with four weeks left to play...HOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLD!!!
The CP league I decided to screw around a bit and take Brady in the first round with the 6th overall pick (I made sure to stay old school with the $100 league and take two RBs first). Let's just say after that my draft didn't look all that great, and once Brady went down in week 1, I all but gave up on that league.
The free league was an autodraft where you could pre-rank your players. I was definitely not going to spend the time pre-ranking players, especially since I really wanted a live draft, so I just left the rankings as they were and came back to a team where my first pick was S-Jax (I really didn't want S-Jax on any of my teams this year) and then my next three picks were all WRs (wtf...Moss, Andre Johnson, Fitzgerald). At least I had solid receivers...right? My backs ended up being S-Jax, Turner, Ronnie Brown (he didn't even sniff my starting line-up until after he blew up in one of those early weeks). Funny sidenote, Moss has been riding the pine in this league pretty much since week 2...and no one wanted to give me a good trade for him since Brady went down and we're all kinda stacked, so he's been on my bench except when he has had good matchups.
Anyway, somehow I made a couple good waiver wire moves (I picked up Steve Slaton off the free agent wire, traded Calvin Johnson for someone I can't remember because I was deep as fuck at receiver) and actually put a good team together. I started caring about this league once I figured out how much shit talk there would be, so I started getting into it and making my team as good as possible. The regular season just ended with me at 10-3, best record in the league, most points scored, yada yada, looking to take home the $20 trophy my buddy bought for the winner of the league.
So that's it for now, actually have a 4/8-Kill Cache Creek trip planned for Friday night, wish me luck, hopefully I'll have a good update for you guys Saturday. Thanks for reading.
So first off, my $100 league turned out to only be eight guys (two guys flaked on draft day, wtf?!) after being a 10-man league forever, so yeah, the teams came out kinda stacked. By the way, kind of a weird set-up...1 QB, 2 RBs, 4WRs (TEs count as WRs) 1 DEF, 1 Kicker, 20yds rush/run = 1 pt; 50 yds/pass = 1 pt, 6pts/TD...kinda odd, a lot of people I tell the league about hate the way it's set up...I've gotten used to it. Oh and there's no playoff system, best record at the end of the year wins...
So yeah, the first four picks were something like (Brady, LT, AP, Addai) and so I took Westbrook. I remember really wanting Addai, but decided Westbrook would work out okay. After that I can't really remember much, except I took Lynch 2nd round, Fitzgerald 3rd, then I got Turner in the 4th...blah blah...I had a pretty solid team and someone ranked me as the 2nd best looking team preseason. I know that doesn't mean dick, but at least someone liked how my team was set up. My one HUGE weakness was going to be QBs. Basically the 2nd and 3rd round was the round all the solid QBs went, so I said fuck it and decided to wait until the mid rounds to get a QB. I took all my RBs and WRs early (we have to start 4 WRs/TEs, so I loaded up) and didn't take Matt Hasselbeck until somewhere in Round 9 or 10. I also picked up Garrard and Delhomme, and just prayed one of these three would have a breakout year (if you've been following this year at all, you'll note none of the three have done shit). I almost took a shot and went with Kurt Warner, that would have been nice.
Basically what I learned from this league this year is that I am the luckiest motherfucker on the face of the Earth (*knock on wood* don't jinx me please). I knew it was going to be a good year as soon as week 1 when I was facing the commish's team with a three point lead going into the Monday night game...he had McFadden and his defense going and only needed four points to beat me (my guys were done), three to tie. Well obviously he only scored two points somehow (I think his D put up a goose egg) and I held onto a 53-52 (lowest scoring game of the week) victory. After that I seemed to face the lowest scorer each week and I'd repeatedly have to show up to work and say "I rallied my troops around, we played a close game, but we squeezed out a victory. That's what good teams do baby." I currently have a 1.5 game lead (I tied in week four or some shit) with four weeks left to play...HOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLD!!!
The CP league I decided to screw around a bit and take Brady in the first round with the 6th overall pick (I made sure to stay old school with the $100 league and take two RBs first). Let's just say after that my draft didn't look all that great, and once Brady went down in week 1, I all but gave up on that league.
The free league was an autodraft where you could pre-rank your players. I was definitely not going to spend the time pre-ranking players, especially since I really wanted a live draft, so I just left the rankings as they were and came back to a team where my first pick was S-Jax (I really didn't want S-Jax on any of my teams this year) and then my next three picks were all WRs (wtf...Moss, Andre Johnson, Fitzgerald). At least I had solid receivers...right? My backs ended up being S-Jax, Turner, Ronnie Brown (he didn't even sniff my starting line-up until after he blew up in one of those early weeks). Funny sidenote, Moss has been riding the pine in this league pretty much since week 2...and no one wanted to give me a good trade for him since Brady went down and we're all kinda stacked, so he's been on my bench except when he has had good matchups.
Anyway, somehow I made a couple good waiver wire moves (I picked up Steve Slaton off the free agent wire, traded Calvin Johnson for someone I can't remember because I was deep as fuck at receiver) and actually put a good team together. I started caring about this league once I figured out how much shit talk there would be, so I started getting into it and making my team as good as possible. The regular season just ended with me at 10-3, best record in the league, most points scored, yada yada, looking to take home the $20 trophy my buddy bought for the winner of the league.
So that's it for now, actually have a 4/8-Kill Cache Creek trip planned for Friday night, wish me luck, hopefully I'll have a good update for you guys Saturday. Thanks for reading.
Saturday, November 29, 2008
About Updating...
Never got around to updating the Vegas trip. Still being lazy, still sucking at life when it comes to poker and updating this. To be honest, I think I've played only a couple smaller sessions since Vegas and I just don't see playing a consistent live game happening anytime soon. I'm dealing with a lot of other stuff right now, you know, IRL stuff haha. I'm working a little more because of the holidays, job searching, talking to contacts, blah blah, boring stuff.
I do plan on making a Fantasy Football related blog post though lol, stay tuned.
I do plan on making a Fantasy Football related blog post though lol, stay tuned.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Wow, Been Awhile
Laziness, running shitty (sorta), and more laziness are my only reasons for not updating as often as I'd like. Sorry for leaving you guys hanging (hopefully I still have readers), and I promise to start posting semi-regularly again. I plan on updating the blog with the back end of my September sessions and my October Vegas trip.
Catch ya guys later, and thanks for still reading
Catch ya guys later, and thanks for still reading
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