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Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Monday, July 7, 2008
Fairly Quiet Weekend
This was a pretty quiet weekend for me on the poker front. Really tried to take some time to relaxe but did get a little play in here and there. Thursday night saw my Riverchasers money streak come to an abrupt halt. Only 8 people showed up for the pre-holiday weekend festivites and one wasn't there. So with 8 people (only really 7) and three making the money, you would think it would not be hard to cash. Well unless Full Tilt gives you one of the most ricockulous setups in the history of poker. What is is you ask? Only AA vs KK vs QQ all in preflop. 7 handed. Thank you Full Tilt. I didn't have the AA if you didn't guess.
On Friday afternoon I went to play what I thought was a shootout. Well it was, just a HU shootout. Can we decide now that this is assinine of FullTilt to classify the HU tournies this way? I think it's just an excuse to make more little letters and numbers show up next to the tourny ID to give some jackoff his jollies. At any rate, of course I win my first 3 matches to get to bubble, 64 left 32 get paid. I had the 2-1 chip lead in the 4th match when he limped with JJ and I of course make top pair and pay him off. Then after playing like a tighty nit the whole time he calls my push with 99 for half his stack with A10 and I don't win the race I need. I know, I know I woulda called with A10 there too but it still sucked.
Don't think I played at all on Saturday. Or at least nothing of significance. Sunday afternoon though I was able to play a little full ring PLHE. And finally I was the one able to take the money from the idiot. I hate when you find the moron at the table only to have him stack off to someone else before you can get his money. The best part about Sunday was I kept winning off him but no completely busting him. He would then go and win a bunch back and I would take that from him, lather rinse, repeat. Turned my 30 that I bought in with into 75 and then left at a .25/.50 table. So that was the highlight. Lost a few SNG's later in the evening. Spewed 10 bucks at a .05/.10 PLHE table for no good reason and called it a night.
CHIMPS tuesday.
RiverFuckers Thursday.
Standards.
On Friday afternoon I went to play what I thought was a shootout. Well it was, just a HU shootout. Can we decide now that this is assinine of FullTilt to classify the HU tournies this way? I think it's just an excuse to make more little letters and numbers show up next to the tourny ID to give some jackoff his jollies. At any rate, of course I win my first 3 matches to get to bubble, 64 left 32 get paid. I had the 2-1 chip lead in the 4th match when he limped with JJ and I of course make top pair and pay him off. Then after playing like a tighty nit the whole time he calls my push with 99 for half his stack with A10 and I don't win the race I need. I know, I know I woulda called with A10 there too but it still sucked.
Don't think I played at all on Saturday. Or at least nothing of significance. Sunday afternoon though I was able to play a little full ring PLHE. And finally I was the one able to take the money from the idiot. I hate when you find the moron at the table only to have him stack off to someone else before you can get his money. The best part about Sunday was I kept winning off him but no completely busting him. He would then go and win a bunch back and I would take that from him, lather rinse, repeat. Turned my 30 that I bought in with into 75 and then left at a .25/.50 table. So that was the highlight. Lost a few SNG's later in the evening. Spewed 10 bucks at a .05/.10 PLHE table for no good reason and called it a night.
CHIMPS tuesday.
RiverFuckers Thursday.
Standards.
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Quick Addition
I did something yesterday in the game that I can't remember doing for a long time, if ever. I had K8cc in middle position and limped. We saw a multi-player flop of Ad,8d,3s. It was checked around when the 8s hit the turn. I lead out with what I thought was $10. The dealer said two but I paid no attention to it and I got two callers. When the callers threw out two blue $1 chips I realized that I grabbed from the wrong stack and made a silly $2 bet. Not the smartest thing in the world with two flush draws out there. The river bricked and I was able to take the pot down.
Even with the number of hours that I play I can still make stupid mistakes like that.
Even with the number of hours that I play I can still make stupid mistakes like that.
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Small Win
The wife told me to go to the track today and win at least $100 cause we needed to buy some stuff at the mall. Who am I to deny her that right. Plus I get to play poker. Win win in my book. I got there when they opened at 12:30 and our table was filled and started about 10 minutes later. I could quickly tell that it wasn't the normal horrid players I usually see during the week. Of the 9 other players in the game I would say that 6 of them were solid. I blinded away about $20 before the first key hand of the day came up.I called a raise to $20 in middle position. Someone behind went all-in for $31 and both of us called. We checked all the way down and the all-in had 10,10 which was good. After that hand I had around $50 when I picked-up 8,8 and called a small $7 raise. On a 7,5,2 flop the pre-flop raiser who seemed to be raising light lead for $20. I shoved my last $50 in but unfortunately got a call behind and I knew I was no good. Original bettor folds. The caller had 7,7 and I was drawing to the two outer. I missed and reloaded for another $100.
I ran that $100 down to around $50 when I played the next big hand. I called a raise to $6 with the 7,7. The flop came 6,5,4 rainbow. The original raiser made it $20 and I shoved for my last $50 again. Damn it if he didn't flop a set on me too. He had the 6,6 but I had quite a few outs. The 8 hit the turn and the river was a blank and I nearly tripled up to $140.
A little ways into the session a younger kid sat in the game. He played around 95% of his hands splitting them between raising and calling. He led out at most flops too. I just seem to have a really hard time with this kind of player. I think I just have to tighten up a lot more. I always seem to want to play pots with them with ATC which is definitely not the right line. I don't see too much of it around here but when i travel I see it a lot more and need to improve against them. What usually happens with players like this they build a stack early, in this case to around $300. He made hero call after hero call to get the stack. After that people value bet him large on the end and by the time i left he had around $50 left.
After I got the stack to $140 I was able to slowly grind it up above my starting stack to $205 after I called it a day 2 1/2 hours into the session. Not the $100 I was looking for but a winning session none the less. I am more proud of wins like these when it is a tough line-up compared to bigger wins against fish. Its starting to tell me that I can be a long-term winning player in the cash games and can adapt to the different type of games that I run across.
Hope the winning keeps up. I should be able to play a couple more sessions next week.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Still Going Strong
I three tabled a little on Cake today. Wow is the play just horrid there. Playing 0.1/0.2 I raised to 0.7 with 9,9 in EP. There wa a raise to $1.55 and a shove for $12 before it got back to me and I folded. What did they show? A,K and K,10. K,10? WTF! Yeah, the flop came 9,4,4.
I got in another live session at Tampa Bay Downs. The table I was seated at was fairly soft. The same kid that was in the game from a few days ago was there. He lost a lot of money with top pair no kicker last time. Today was the same thing. I limped a few pots early. There wasn't much raising pre in the beginning. I think I flopped a straight draw 3 times in the first two laps but missed everything.
On one hand I limped with 65cc in MP and a LP player raised to $10. Earlier in the session I saw him shove for $40 with 4,4. I called along with one other limper and we saw the flop of 10,7,6hh. I checked and he bet $10 and I called. The turn was the 3h. I figured I could represent the hearts here and I lead for $20. After some thought he called. The river paired the 10. He had about $30 left and I decided to lead for $25. He shows the AK with the Kh and mucks. Who knew, I was bluffing with the best hand.
I picked up KK a short time later and raised to $10 with no callers. Shortly after that I get QQ and raise to $10. Mr. 44 ends up shoving for $61. I have an easy call in this spot I think. Based on how he was betting he easily could have a lower PP or A,K. I called and he showed me AA. Flop comes rags with two clubs. He has the Ac. Turn another club. I'm now drawing to one out. Well, it hit. Gotta love it when the old 2% gets there. That one sent him off of the deep end. He bitched for 15 minutes straight. Not at me but just at his luck in general. He then says how he can beat everyone in a pot at the table except me. Perfect. I took that to my advantage and was able to take a couple small pots off of him light.
Only other real hand of note is when I had J,J in middle position. I just decide to limp and we see the flop 8 ways (no that's not a misprint). Flop is 9,6,5dd. Checked to me and I lead for $20. Folded to the short stack kid who was spewing money and he went all-in for $18. Everyone else folded. He shows the Kd10d. The interesting Jd hits the turn. I get out "pair the" when the 6 hits the river.
That was about it. I ended up with $260 in front of me at the end of the session for a $160 profit. Not bad, a little over $400 the last two sessions totaling around 4 hours.
Might play Riverchasers tonight with Snarf.
I got in another live session at Tampa Bay Downs. The table I was seated at was fairly soft. The same kid that was in the game from a few days ago was there. He lost a lot of money with top pair no kicker last time. Today was the same thing. I limped a few pots early. There wasn't much raising pre in the beginning. I think I flopped a straight draw 3 times in the first two laps but missed everything.
On one hand I limped with 65cc in MP and a LP player raised to $10. Earlier in the session I saw him shove for $40 with 4,4. I called along with one other limper and we saw the flop of 10,7,6hh. I checked and he bet $10 and I called. The turn was the 3h. I figured I could represent the hearts here and I lead for $20. After some thought he called. The river paired the 10. He had about $30 left and I decided to lead for $25. He shows the AK with the Kh and mucks. Who knew, I was bluffing with the best hand.
I picked up KK a short time later and raised to $10 with no callers. Shortly after that I get QQ and raise to $10. Mr. 44 ends up shoving for $61. I have an easy call in this spot I think. Based on how he was betting he easily could have a lower PP or A,K. I called and he showed me AA. Flop comes rags with two clubs. He has the Ac. Turn another club. I'm now drawing to one out. Well, it hit. Gotta love it when the old 2% gets there. That one sent him off of the deep end. He bitched for 15 minutes straight. Not at me but just at his luck in general. He then says how he can beat everyone in a pot at the table except me. Perfect. I took that to my advantage and was able to take a couple small pots off of him light.
Only other real hand of note is when I had J,J in middle position. I just decide to limp and we see the flop 8 ways (no that's not a misprint). Flop is 9,6,5dd. Checked to me and I lead for $20. Folded to the short stack kid who was spewing money and he went all-in for $18. Everyone else folded. He shows the Kd10d. The interesting Jd hits the turn. I get out "pair the" when the 6 hits the river.
That was about it. I ended up with $260 in front of me at the end of the session for a $160 profit. Not bad, a little over $400 the last two sessions totaling around 4 hours.
Might play Riverchasers tonight with Snarf.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Welcome Back Kotter
Since I last posted its been pretty up and down, mostly down. First the good. On Sunday I had a final table finish, albeit 8th place in the pokerslut tour. That was good enough to keep me in 3rd place for the season. The bad was a $100 loss at the Hard Rock Tampa. Its the 1st time I have been back since the limits changed. If I would have been fortunate enough to pick-up cards I would have done well. There was one person who literally raised 95% of his hands. When he was UTG he would throw out a dead raise. Yep, that good, and I still lost. Over the weekend I lost around $100 playing 0.25/0/50 NL heads-up online. High variance and higher rake but there is some money to be had there. I just can't afford the swings right now. I have been sticking to the $5 heads-up SNG's. So far so good.
Back to the title of the post. I was able to get back to Tampa Bay Downs for a $1/$2 NL session. Early on I limped a few marginal hands only to see them raised. By the time it got back to me after 5 people called I am priced in for the extra $5 with hands like A5dd. I whiffed every flop. I was down to around 50 when I was able to see a flop from the SB for a limp with 83. Flop X,X,3. Checked around 5 ways. Turn X checked, river 3. I lead for $7 and everyone folds.
The brutal hand of the day comes up next when I get A,K off. After one limper I raise to $12, get one caller and the limper folds. 9,7,3 flop and I lead for $15 (leaving be $30 behind) and he calls. Turn Ace. I shove for my last $30 and he calls all-in for $28 and shows the Blaz, A,J. Well he was enough a donk to win with it as the J hit the river and it was time to reload for another $100. A couple hands into the $100 someone on the table hit a 9 high straight flush holding the 86ss good for a $200 high hand bonus. About 5 minutes later this hand comes up.
I get 86ss UTG. Yep, same hand as guy who hit the straight flush. I limp UTG. There are about 3 limpers and then the SB kicks it to $10. I call along with two others. Flop comes the beautiful 7d5s4s for the flopped straight plus redraws. SB leads for $15, I call and two others call. Turn is the gin card of the 7s. Check, I check, next to act bets $15, 1 caller, fold, and I call. River is an off-suit queen. I lead for $25 and get raised to $50. Next to act goes all in for around $50 and I shove for around $62 total. Lady calls having us both covered. She turns over the 74 for the turned boat and the other guy had J10ss for the turned flush. That was quite a turn card. I won the pot along with the $200 high hand bonus.
I played for around an hour longer and didn't win another single hand. I ended up leaving with a profit of $245. It sure is good to be back home. Time to build that bankroll again.
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