Monday, May 19, 2008
MATH frustration continues
Winning this would have put me at 10k with ~20 left. Instead I was left treading water till we got down to 13 players and my card death ended in calling a SB shove with A3 to his A9 with me sitting on 8bb. GG.
I had AA four times. FOUR! I didn't get called preflop ONCE despite running 24/19/2
Friday, May 16, 2008
To the Cas!
So I went for some drinks with friends tonight to enjoy the amazing weather on a patio. Afterwards a bunch of them were going to the casino so I decided to tag along.
The casino we went to runs a poker room thats only limit. I'm pretty comfortable playing 4/8 kill, so I got my name on the list, and 30 minutes later I was in seat 2 at table 4 with 100$ in front of me.
Got off to a good start when I was dealt AsKs in middle position and raised. The flop came with an ace, and I bet all 3 streets to rake a decent pot. I won the next hand with something - I don't remember what. All I know is that it was my kill button the next hand and I was dealt T8o. There were 4 callers and we saw a 97K flop. Open endeeed! I called one bet on the flop to see a blank turn, I think a 3. There were 3 players in the hand at this point and it checked around. The river was a beautiful 6, with no flush on board giving me the nuts. I bet and got one caller to rake a massive pot.
After that I had a couple bad hands. Once I had 77 in a pot that got capped preflop. (I was between the two guys who ended up capping it so I kept thinking "well shit, I gotta call". The flop came something like T83 and it checked around (!?!?!). The turn was a K. The capper bet, the other guy called, and I reluctantly folded. The river was another blank and they both checked ... ace high. AQ high takes the pot over A5o ... ?!?!?!
I also lost a ~decent pot with JJ on a TKKxT board when my opponent rivered a 2-outter ten. That pissed me off a little.
I can see why Santi loves his live limit. Soooo many donkeys. There was some guy who bet all 3 streets of a raised pot with ten high and was calling raises with 32o (and then calling bets with no pair no draw). I mean really.
The very last hand as I was getting ready to leave, I was on the button and got Qc6c. There were a bunch of limps, so I tagged along for shits. The flop came T62. EP bet, it folded to me and I made an "aw fuckit" call. It was down to heads up already.. The turn was a ten. He bets again and I call, feeling better about my hand. The river rags off a 3 and he bets yet again. I announce "call" and before I even get my chips out he's mucked his cards. Sweet. That was a nice lil 80$ pot.
So I left up $155. Pretty sweet
If only I ran like this online...
I wanted to stay, but my ride was pushing me to leave. So I'll almost certainly be back at a casino some time hopefully soon. For now I've gotta pack my bags and get ready to road trip it down to Montanna for may long weekeeeend! It's gonna be a SHIT show and I am PUMPED.
Enjoy your weekend folks.
The casino we went to runs a poker room thats only limit. I'm pretty comfortable playing 4/8 kill, so I got my name on the list, and 30 minutes later I was in seat 2 at table 4 with 100$ in front of me.
Got off to a good start when I was dealt AsKs in middle position and raised. The flop came with an ace, and I bet all 3 streets to rake a decent pot. I won the next hand with something - I don't remember what. All I know is that it was my kill button the next hand and I was dealt T8o. There were 4 callers and we saw a 97K flop. Open endeeed! I called one bet on the flop to see a blank turn, I think a 3. There were 3 players in the hand at this point and it checked around. The river was a beautiful 6, with no flush on board giving me the nuts. I bet and got one caller to rake a massive pot.
After that I had a couple bad hands. Once I had 77 in a pot that got capped preflop. (I was between the two guys who ended up capping it so I kept thinking "well shit, I gotta call". The flop came something like T83 and it checked around (!?!?!). The turn was a K. The capper bet, the other guy called, and I reluctantly folded. The river was another blank and they both checked ... ace high. AQ high takes the pot over A5o ... ?!?!?!
I also lost a ~decent pot with JJ on a TKKxT board when my opponent rivered a 2-outter ten. That pissed me off a little.
I can see why Santi loves his live limit. Soooo many donkeys. There was some guy who bet all 3 streets of a raised pot with ten high and was calling raises with 32o (and then calling bets with no pair no draw). I mean really.
The very last hand as I was getting ready to leave, I was on the button and got Qc6c. There were a bunch of limps, so I tagged along for shits. The flop came T62. EP bet, it folded to me and I made an "aw fuckit" call. It was down to heads up already.. The turn was a ten. He bets again and I call, feeling better about my hand. The river rags off a 3 and he bets yet again. I announce "call" and before I even get my chips out he's mucked his cards. Sweet. That was a nice lil 80$ pot.
So I left up $155. Pretty sweet
If only I ran like this online...
I wanted to stay, but my ride was pushing me to leave. So I'll almost certainly be back at a casino some time hopefully soon. For now I've gotta pack my bags and get ready to road trip it down to Montanna for may long weekeeeend! It's gonna be a SHIT show and I am PUMPED.
Enjoy your weekend folks.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Running Good Late, cont
Played a couple tourneys this afternoon. Made a good run in the 2$ deepstack. Slowly built up, and then became huge with this hand with about 50 left.
Shortly after this, I got moved to the table I would spend the rest of the tourny at. I quickly found out the guy to my left would always, ALWAYS play back when I tried to steal in late position. Unfortunately for me, I wasn't really getting hands (again), so I had to slow down, and my 40BB stack quickly became a 30BB stack, then a 20BB stack. I managed to stay in that range only by well timed steals like this
And big blind specials like this
And then I get my first premium hand in roughly 100 hands, for this.
Ugh.
That is all. Cya in the Mook briefly.
Shortly after this, I got moved to the table I would spend the rest of the tourny at. I quickly found out the guy to my left would always, ALWAYS play back when I tried to steal in late position. Unfortunately for me, I wasn't really getting hands (again), so I had to slow down, and my 40BB stack quickly became a 30BB stack, then a 20BB stack. I managed to stay in that range only by well timed steals like this
And big blind specials like this
And then I get my first premium hand in roughly 100 hands, for this.
Ugh.
That is all. Cya in the Mook briefly.
Disappointing final tables
Made a great run in the same 3$ turbo I took down a few days back the very next day (this was two days ago now). Unfortunately I picked up two big hands that dropped me on my ass and I was out in 6th for a minute cash.
Tonight I final tabled the 3$ KO
I got the perfect balance of cards leading up to the final 18 players and never got my money in worse than a 60% favorite, but as usual went totally dead. As much as I'd love to blame not winning on a lack of cards (my best hand for the last 150 hands was AKo once, then AJ twice), I really didn't have to go out when I did (in 5th). The chip leader in the SB was a calling station (45/5/0.5) and he'd already outplayed me for a few pots. I very briefly took the chip lead by repeatedly taking pots from other players, but then I just kept giving it back to him. It was incredibly frustrating, and my frustration got the best of me in the hand I busted on. I might share later, but it was pretty brutal, and he played the hand to perfection.
Oh well... 5th was worth 70$. Only got ~4 KOs. The only way I can ever seem to build my stack is to run huge steals/bluffs against players I know will let me get away with it. One of these days I'll get on a heater in the right time... One day..
Tonight I final tabled the 3$ KO
I got the perfect balance of cards leading up to the final 18 players and never got my money in worse than a 60% favorite, but as usual went totally dead. As much as I'd love to blame not winning on a lack of cards (my best hand for the last 150 hands was AKo once, then AJ twice), I really didn't have to go out when I did (in 5th). The chip leader in the SB was a calling station (45/5/0.5) and he'd already outplayed me for a few pots. I very briefly took the chip lead by repeatedly taking pots from other players, but then I just kept giving it back to him. It was incredibly frustrating, and my frustration got the best of me in the hand I busted on. I might share later, but it was pretty brutal, and he played the hand to perfection.
Oh well... 5th was worth 70$. Only got ~4 KOs. The only way I can ever seem to build my stack is to run huge steals/bluffs against players I know will let me get away with it. One of these days I'll get on a heater in the right time... One day..
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Losing big flips late, and rigged heads up hands
Since the turbo win, my roll has been close to what it needs to be for me to play those 6.50$ double heads up for tokens. I won my MATH token last weekend fairly easily. My first opponent and I got it all in on the first hand preflop and my AA held off his 77. I don't remember much about the 2nd game, but I do know I won.
That made way for the MATH. I got a bunch of cards early, and played them pretty fast. And one player gave me waaay too much credit. Once he raised in the CO with what he claimed was AK. I also had AKs in the SB, and I 3b pretty hard. He folded. Clearly he's not up to date on how most people play AK in shorthanded NL... A while later he raised from OTB and I was in the BB with AQo. I 3 bet him again pretty hard, and he called. The flop came something like JT7, all diamonds. I made a hard c-bet, and he thought for a long time before folding what he claimed to be QQ with no diamond. I'd probably call it a bad fold, but I did have a lot of outs. I had the Q of diamonds, so 3 K, 2 A, and 9 diamonds (Including Ad, Kd). Woulda been interesting if he called.
I ended up busting in a huge pot with around 14 players left. The winner of the hand ended up taking the tournament. Oh well.
Later I played another double heads up token satellite, and after winning the first match handily, the second match ended like this:
Pretty rigged imo
Thanks to Leafs (Steven) for the rail in my MATH run, and thanks to Duke for pointing out these lovely hand replayers.
Cya next time
That made way for the MATH. I got a bunch of cards early, and played them pretty fast. And one player gave me waaay too much credit. Once he raised in the CO with what he claimed was AK. I also had AKs in the SB, and I 3b pretty hard. He folded. Clearly he's not up to date on how most people play AK in shorthanded NL... A while later he raised from OTB and I was in the BB with AQo. I 3 bet him again pretty hard, and he called. The flop came something like JT7, all diamonds. I made a hard c-bet, and he thought for a long time before folding what he claimed to be QQ with no diamond. I'd probably call it a bad fold, but I did have a lot of outs. I had the Q of diamonds, so 3 K, 2 A, and 9 diamonds (Including Ad, Kd). Woulda been interesting if he called.
I ended up busting in a huge pot with around 14 players left. The winner of the hand ended up taking the tournament. Oh well.
Later I played another double heads up token satellite, and after winning the first match handily, the second match ended like this:
Pretty rigged imo
Thanks to Leafs (Steven) for the rail in my MATH run, and thanks to Duke for pointing out these lovely hand replayers.
Cya next time
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Ship!
Finally a take down. I ran pretty good at the end. Figures that just after I give up holding out on a W ..... haha
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