About an hour away before my flight leaves and a quick 4 1/2 hour flight and I will be in Vegas. Can't wait to get there. Looks like the first stop will be at the Rio to get the safe deposit box squared away. Not a big fan of carrying thousands of dollars around with me. I may get some 1/2 in before the blogger mixed game gets together at the MGM Grand around 9pm.
As I here John Skank being called over the intercom I guess that means that its time to go, or that someone is being really funny this afternoon.
See you in Vegas!!!!
Friday, June 6, 2008
Everyone Else is Doing It
Well everyone else is on twitter, so I might as well give them more shit.
I'm signed up. This is pry only a Vegas thing cause I can't imagine being bothered with it at any other time. But since I do play in the occasional big tourny in AC why the fuck not right? I mean if everyone else can do it, why can't I?
Plane leaves tomorrow at 10:20AM EST. Figure some updates after I land.
Follow me. What the fuck else are you doing anyway? You're reading this.
http://twitter.com/TheBigSnarf
I'm signed up. This is pry only a Vegas thing cause I can't imagine being bothered with it at any other time. But since I do play in the occasional big tourny in AC why the fuck not right? I mean if everyone else can do it, why can't I?
Plane leaves tomorrow at 10:20AM EST. Figure some updates after I land.
Follow me. What the fuck else are you doing anyway? You're reading this.
http://twitter.com/TheBigSnarf
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Are We There Yet?
Only one more day till Vegas. While browsing through the updates this morning I see that Chris Falconer is currently 9th in chips with just 10 people remaining in the $1500 Omaha8 event. I met Chris in the Chicago airport on the way over to Macau. We hung out a little over there and managed to snap the picture over on the left. Hang in there Chris! If he makes the final table I will be there one day late. Damn it.
Tuesday night I played CHIMPS which was Stud8 and The Booze Cruise which is 1/2 PLHE and 1/2 PLO. The attendance was disappointing as there was only one table for each. I ended up finishing 3rd in the Booze Cruise for a very small cash ($3.50 profit WOOT!). CHIMPS went a little better. I was able to accumulate chips slowly and got heads-up with 3-1 deficit. I was able to battle back and take the lead when the following hand comes up:
Full Tilt Poker Game #6685069209: CHIMPS 3 - Event #4 (48190934), Table 1 - 500/1000 Ante 100 - Limit Stud H/L - 23:09:43 ET - 2008/06/03
Seat 4: warrendc73 (4,708)
Seat 5: scottc25 (7,292)
warrendc73 antes 100
scottc25 antes 100
*** 3RD STREET ***
Dealt to warrendc73 [9s]
Dealt to scottc25 [Qd As] [3h]
scottc25 is low with [3h]
scottc25 brings in for 150
warrendc73 calls 150
*** 4TH STREET ***
Dealt to warrendc73 [9s] [Ts]
Dealt to scottc25 [Qd As 3h] [8s]
warrendc73 bets 500
scottc25 calls 500
*** 5TH STREET ***
Dealt to warrendc73 [9s Ts] [6d]
Dealt to scottc25 [Qd As 3h 8s] [4s]
warrendc73 checks
scottc25 checks
*** 6TH STREET ***
Dealt to warrendc73 [9s Ts 6d] [2d]
Dealt to scottc25 [Qd As 3h 8s 4s] [7c]
warrendc73 bets 1,000
scottc25 raises to 2,000
warrendc73 calls 1,000
*** 7TH STREET ***
Dealt to scottc25 [Qd As 3h 8s 4s 7c] [Th]
warrendc73 bets 1,000
scottc25 calls 1,000
*** SHOW DOWN ***
warrendc73 shows [5d 4d 9s Ts 6d 2d 3d] a straight flush, Six high, for high and 6,5,4,3,2, for low
scottc25 mucks
warrendc73 wins the high pot (3,750) with a straight flush, Six high
warrendc73 wins the low pot (3,750) with 6,5,4,3,2
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 7,500 | Rake 0
Seat 4: warrendc73 showed [5d 4d 9s Ts 6d 2d 3d] and won (7,500) with HI: a straight flush, Six high; LO: 6,5,4,3,2
Seat 5: scottc25 mucked [As Qd 3h 8s 4s 7c Th] - HI: Ace Queen high; LO: 8,7,4,3,A
That one hurt a ton. I was busted shortly after that one was over.
I have been playing a lot of PLO8 lately. I love this game. In the handful of sessions I have played so far the game does not seem to have as big a swings as PLO. Maybe I haven't played enough hands yet, we will see. I deposited $200 onto Cake last night on the advice of Gambit. I played $0.10/$0.20 PLO8 last night and was up $10 in short order before I played in a tournament.
Also last night Gambit, deadmoney, Snarf and myself played a 90 player $3 knockout SNG. When we got down to 36 people Snarf, Gambit and myself at the same table ALL IN A ROW. We all made it to the final two tables but only one of us cashed (Gambit). I was busted in 11th. I was crippled when AQ<AJ all-in pre-flop. Meh.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
I Hate Poker
Hate it.
My only hope is that live poker is less rigged than online.
The other day I lost with AA twice on the same table:
Me: oh shit
Me: I hope I don't get fucked here
deadmoney: some of us have to work
Snarf: zooks please announce both hands before you play them
Me: QQ on AQ6 flop
Snarf: nice
Snarf: OMG
Me: yep
Snarf: OMG
Me: fucked by AA
Me: so fucking rigged
Snarf: case ace and case queen
Gambit: wow..rigged obv
My only hope is that live poker is less rigged than online.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Mr. Quads
I played in a $45 (yep, $35+$10) yesterday in Jacksonville. There were 21 people. We started out table 11 handed. They decide to do this the minute they start the tourney. Getting people squared up, getting another chair and and getting chips too 3 minutes off of the clock and only 18 minute levels. Thanks fuckers. I received an early double-up when I limped with 4,4 in about a 17-way pot. Flop came A,10,4. All the money got in on the flop and I was up against Ace rag. Turn 10. River 4 for the unnecessary quads and I am up a little over 4k right away. Over the next couple of levels I get K,K and A,A and busted one more.
When we break for the final table I have 8k in chips with the average stack a touch over 4k playing 200/400. I draw the button and don't get a playable hand in the first lap. Fairly quickly we are down to 6 people. The tourney only pays top 2 and there is one massive stack with around 20k. He promptly knocks out all but one of the rest and we are 3 handed with stacks of 25k, 10k and 7k. I bleed a little then get it in with A,9 and am facing the CL's Q,Q. Before this hand happens they get a calculator and figure out what a 2 way chop would be once I'm eliminated. I told the, poker karma is gonna fuck them for that move. Flop 9 turn 9 and I am in 2nd.
Still 3 handed and 400/800 the cooler comes. I have 9,9 in the BB and the CL limps from the button. The SB folds and I check. Flop comes 8 high and i lead for 1600 and get min raised. I shoved and he calls with 10,10. Bubble bitch I am and get nothing.
I go sit at the cash games and after a couple hours I am down to $32 with $150 invested. I flop a set vs two pair and get a double-up. I work the stack back to around $150 and hold steady for a while. When we drop to 5 handed I fall to around $110 but when the table fills again I am at $150 when the title of this post comes into play.
I pick-up A,A UTG and raise to $10 and get 3 callers. Flop comes AQ4hh. Checked to me and I bet $15 and get 2 callers. Turn quads me up and its checked to me and I bet $15 again. One fold anfd the SB check raises to $45 and I Hollywood and call. There is a bad beat jackpot here of $30k when Aces full of jacks are beaten by quads or better. Please have the Q,Q here. The river is the best card in the deck....Q! He leads for $50 I shove over the top and he insta-mucks. Fuck! Thought we had it there.
In the same lap I get presto (5,5) in MP and the same player raises to $10 UTG. I call along with 3 others. Flop comes 9,5,5. He leads for $10, 1 caller and I call. Turn is a K bringing a 2nd heart. He leads for $10 again, 1 caller and I min-raise to $20. He calls and the other player folds. The river is the Kh and he check calls my $25 bet.
Quads 3 times in one day live huh? I ended up cashing out of the game for $340 for a good profit on the day.
One other interesting hand came up in the first 10 minutes I was at the table. I think I probably played it bad on every street. Wait till you hear the end of this one. I get K,K UTG and limp. Unfortunately nobody raises and we see a 6-way flop of A,J,6. I lead for $8 and get 1 caller to my left. the 8 hits the turn and I check. He bets out $15 and I decide to check raise to $35 and he snap calls. The river pairs the 6. I check and he takes about 3 minutes and puts me all in for my last $45. I start talking over the hand and say how badly I played it. The dealer asks me to be quiet during the hand. I'M IN THE FUCKING HAND!!!! Apparently its not allowed here. What's up with that. I thought I was in Jacksonville and not Europe. I fold showing him the Kings and he turns over.....9,3 off. What!
I know I played this hand really badly but WTF was he doing. Let's go through the hand from his perspective. He limps UTG+1 with 9,3 off. 6 to the flop he calls an $8 bet with air and 4 people left to act. He then bets the turn when I check which I think is fine but when I raise to $35 how does he possibly think I am going to fold to anything on the river? The only way he can win on the end is with a shove. Just wow. I think there were about 37 wrong decisions between two people in that hand.
When we break for the final table I have 8k in chips with the average stack a touch over 4k playing 200/400. I draw the button and don't get a playable hand in the first lap. Fairly quickly we are down to 6 people. The tourney only pays top 2 and there is one massive stack with around 20k. He promptly knocks out all but one of the rest and we are 3 handed with stacks of 25k, 10k and 7k. I bleed a little then get it in with A,9 and am facing the CL's Q,Q. Before this hand happens they get a calculator and figure out what a 2 way chop would be once I'm eliminated. I told the, poker karma is gonna fuck them for that move. Flop 9 turn 9 and I am in 2nd.
Still 3 handed and 400/800 the cooler comes. I have 9,9 in the BB and the CL limps from the button. The SB folds and I check. Flop comes 8 high and i lead for 1600 and get min raised. I shoved and he calls with 10,10. Bubble bitch I am and get nothing.
I go sit at the cash games and after a couple hours I am down to $32 with $150 invested. I flop a set vs two pair and get a double-up. I work the stack back to around $150 and hold steady for a while. When we drop to 5 handed I fall to around $110 but when the table fills again I am at $150 when the title of this post comes into play.
I pick-up A,A UTG and raise to $10 and get 3 callers. Flop comes AQ4hh. Checked to me and I bet $15 and get 2 callers. Turn quads me up and its checked to me and I bet $15 again. One fold anfd the SB check raises to $45 and I Hollywood and call. There is a bad beat jackpot here of $30k when Aces full of jacks are beaten by quads or better. Please have the Q,Q here. The river is the best card in the deck....Q! He leads for $50 I shove over the top and he insta-mucks. Fuck! Thought we had it there.
In the same lap I get presto (5,5) in MP and the same player raises to $10 UTG. I call along with 3 others. Flop comes 9,5,5. He leads for $10, 1 caller and I call. Turn is a K bringing a 2nd heart. He leads for $10 again, 1 caller and I min-raise to $20. He calls and the other player folds. The river is the Kh and he check calls my $25 bet.
Quads 3 times in one day live huh? I ended up cashing out of the game for $340 for a good profit on the day.
One other interesting hand came up in the first 10 minutes I was at the table. I think I probably played it bad on every street. Wait till you hear the end of this one. I get K,K UTG and limp. Unfortunately nobody raises and we see a 6-way flop of A,J,6. I lead for $8 and get 1 caller to my left. the 8 hits the turn and I check. He bets out $15 and I decide to check raise to $35 and he snap calls. The river pairs the 6. I check and he takes about 3 minutes and puts me all in for my last $45. I start talking over the hand and say how badly I played it. The dealer asks me to be quiet during the hand. I'M IN THE FUCKING HAND!!!! Apparently its not allowed here. What's up with that. I thought I was in Jacksonville and not Europe. I fold showing him the Kings and he turns over.....9,3 off. What!
I know I played this hand really badly but WTF was he doing. Let's go through the hand from his perspective. He limps UTG+1 with 9,3 off. 6 to the flop he calls an $8 bet with air and 4 people left to act. He then bets the turn when I check which I think is fine but when I raise to $35 how does he possibly think I am going to fold to anything on the river? The only way he can win on the end is with a shove. Just wow. I think there were about 37 wrong decisions between two people in that hand.
Monday, June 2, 2008
Pokerslut Tour & Blogger Big Game
Last night was the season finale of the Poker Slut Tour. I had an outside chance to win it all but Zooks and Lillian had to bow out early. There were 15 runners. I was lucky as both of them were eliminated before the final table and points. I now needed a 2nd place finish to tie to the season and a win to win it outright. I played super super tight and was able to slowly chip up. The downfall hand was when I had (K,K)9 and we got it all-in by 5th street vs (x,x)K and he had the split kings. Neither of us hit two pair and I lost on the kicker to be knocked out in 4th. A small profit at least.
In the Blogger Big Game I had nothing playable for the first 4 levels. I think I tried making a play twice at the pot and was picked off both times. I was still at my starting stack of around 3k but lost two pots before the break and was down to 1900. I was able to maintain just a little after the break and then finally hit a set of 7's on a 8,7,4cc flop. All the chips got in and I was up against A,8. After that hand I had around 4k. About 2 laps later I opened from MP with 9,9 and then faced a 3k shove. I decided to pass but really needed a hand now. With 2700 or so I got A,A in MP. There was a raise to 700 (playing 120/240 I think). I shoved and after some time was called and he had 8,8. The board bricked......till the 8 hit the river and I was done in 31st. If my hand holds there I am sitting on around 5k and am in around 14th/31 left and in good shape to make a deep run. Alas it was not to be.
I am in Jacksonville till tomorrow. I am going to hit the poker room here tonight and maybe the Hard Rock on the way home tomorrow.
T minus 4 days baybeeeee.
In the Blogger Big Game I had nothing playable for the first 4 levels. I think I tried making a play twice at the pot and was picked off both times. I was still at my starting stack of around 3k but lost two pots before the break and was down to 1900. I was able to maintain just a little after the break and then finally hit a set of 7's on a 8,7,4cc flop. All the chips got in and I was up against A,8. After that hand I had around 4k. About 2 laps later I opened from MP with 9,9 and then faced a 3k shove. I decided to pass but really needed a hand now. With 2700 or so I got A,A in MP. There was a raise to 700 (playing 120/240 I think). I shoved and after some time was called and he had 8,8. The board bricked......till the 8 hit the river and I was done in 31st. If my hand holds there I am sitting on around 5k and am in around 14th/31 left and in good shape to make a deep run. Alas it was not to be.
I am in Jacksonville till tomorrow. I am going to hit the poker room here tonight and maybe the Hard Rock on the way home tomorrow.
T minus 4 days baybeeeee.
Weekend Poker Action
Well the stars aligned a little for me this weekend and I was able to squeeze in a little poker. Friday afternoon I returned to the 6max PLO tables for the tune of a buy in and a half. This was a nice treat to change the pace. Not much of significance to write about there, just made some solid plays, nut peddled when I could, and took some nice pots. Feeling embolden on Friday night I played the donkament and the 4K PLO for a little Vegas warmup. Donkament went as donkaments go. Got a little traction early but pissed it away, then never really got going after the rebuy period. I think I went out on a race but maybe not. Don't really remember.
The 4K PLO saw the number make by 8 bucks, only 167 runners, which is a pretty good size for me. First hour didn't see me do much of anything. Entering the second I had about my starting stack. I don't remember the blinds, early in the second hour so still pretty small relative to stack size, anyway I called a smallish raise from the button in the BB with A8d95. The SB also called and the flop came an almost perfect Ac7d10d. Figuring the button most likely hit an ace I went for the checkraise here. This turned out to be perfect as the button bet pot, the SB called, and I repotted putting in almost my entire stack. In a complete unexpected move they both folded. I didn't know people did that in PLO with chips in the pot. A few rounds later I made consecutive preflop raises, the second with AAxx, and took out someone who thought I was stealing. This got my stack up to around 10K. Unfortunately this is where things petered out. I really couldn't get any traction. I stole enough and hit enough to keep my stack afloat but barely. Now the hand I went out on, I'm curious on some opinions because I think I made the right move but I'm still second guessing. The UTG (who I had played most of the time with and was running about 55VPIP) raised with blinds of 500/1000 and I have 10K we are 3 from the money. I am second to act after him and I look down at AJdK10. Now I figure this to be ahead of his range since 1) we are near the bubble 2) he has a bigish stack and can afford to steal 3) he's playing 50% of the pots and raising almost any broadway paired hand. I go with my read and repot committing all my chips. The best laid plans of mice and men..........the guy to my immediate left insta repots. Not good. Even worse is the AA hand he turns over, AAKJ. Thank you Full Tilt. Opinons? Can I really fold that hand there? Calling is not an option as I see it but maybe I'm wrong.
Saturday saw another buy in+ take down at PLO. I feel like I am playing pretty well when it comes to PLO right now. On top of that running pretty well too. Hopefully this translates in Vegas to a nice cash at Binion's and a registration at the WSOP. I can hope can't I? I'm pretty happy with my play at this point and not burned out at all which I think I was a little last year when we headed to Vegas. Here's hoping that helps.
I'm slammed with shit to do this week before I go. Probably very little poker this week. Riverchasers on Thursday may be the only tourny I make. Maybe CHIMPS Tuesday but we'll see where the week goes.
The 4K PLO saw the number make by 8 bucks, only 167 runners, which is a pretty good size for me. First hour didn't see me do much of anything. Entering the second I had about my starting stack. I don't remember the blinds, early in the second hour so still pretty small relative to stack size, anyway I called a smallish raise from the button in the BB with A8d95. The SB also called and the flop came an almost perfect Ac7d10d. Figuring the button most likely hit an ace I went for the checkraise here. This turned out to be perfect as the button bet pot, the SB called, and I repotted putting in almost my entire stack. In a complete unexpected move they both folded. I didn't know people did that in PLO with chips in the pot. A few rounds later I made consecutive preflop raises, the second with AAxx, and took out someone who thought I was stealing. This got my stack up to around 10K. Unfortunately this is where things petered out. I really couldn't get any traction. I stole enough and hit enough to keep my stack afloat but barely. Now the hand I went out on, I'm curious on some opinions because I think I made the right move but I'm still second guessing. The UTG (who I had played most of the time with and was running about 55VPIP) raised with blinds of 500/1000 and I have 10K we are 3 from the money. I am second to act after him and I look down at AJdK10. Now I figure this to be ahead of his range since 1) we are near the bubble 2) he has a bigish stack and can afford to steal 3) he's playing 50% of the pots and raising almost any broadway paired hand. I go with my read and repot committing all my chips. The best laid plans of mice and men..........the guy to my immediate left insta repots. Not good. Even worse is the AA hand he turns over, AAKJ. Thank you Full Tilt. Opinons? Can I really fold that hand there? Calling is not an option as I see it but maybe I'm wrong.
Saturday saw another buy in+ take down at PLO. I feel like I am playing pretty well when it comes to PLO right now. On top of that running pretty well too. Hopefully this translates in Vegas to a nice cash at Binion's and a registration at the WSOP. I can hope can't I? I'm pretty happy with my play at this point and not burned out at all which I think I was a little last year when we headed to Vegas. Here's hoping that helps.
I'm slammed with shit to do this week before I go. Probably very little poker this week. Riverchasers on Thursday may be the only tourny I make. Maybe CHIMPS Tuesday but we'll see where the week goes.
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