Fender's Poker Blog

7/31: Council-Tucky, Omaha, Vegas, and Other Ramblings

2011-07-31T17:36:00.000-07:00

I think that this whole 'blog' thing is now basically a quarterly ordeal.

Work Update:

As I sit here in the beautiful Homewood Suites in Omaha, my final day of a 30 day stint for the Missouri River Flood Fight is looming. There is much to be said about "decency of good men". A major and damaging flood has hit the Missouri River Basin from South Dakota down through Iowa. The event experienced had a 1 in 500 chance of happening in any given year. Finishing the inspections, recommendations, and fast-track designs the area of Council Bluffs, IA and Omaha I have witnessed that people, for the most part are stubborn idiots. You tell someone to leave, they say thats nice and tell you to GTFO. But all that aside, I have enjoyed my time in this area of the country and the career experience. A big thanks goes out to the following: beer, decent food, and meeting another forum member. Hi Stacker :waveyguy:

Aside on the Midwest:
I had never been to the midwest I have discovered a few nuggets of wisdom.

1. What's with all the Mountain Dew consumption. That shit is poison.
2. Freeways are knows as interstates.
3. People think California is some far off land full of surfers, dopers, millionaires, and that there are only 2 cities. LA and SF.
4. When a midwesterner asked another midwesterner where they are from, they respond that they are from 'X' county. This concept baffles me.
5. Dentistry is meerly a suggestion.
6. Most people are nice, courteous, and helpful.
7. Learn to drive, seriously. Traffic in the midwest is like a 2am drive in California.
8. Where are the Chinese, Mexican, Vietnamese, and Korean restaurants.

On the positive note, the population density is not so bad at all. In all, I ended up mingling with some locals in Council Bluffs at the Horseshoe Poker Room for some limit holdem action. I was a foreigner to them, most people were very curios as to why/how I had made it out here and why? It was almost a land of xenophobes.

Life Update:

The wedding is fast approaching, hooray for marrying up. I learned from the best big ups to: P2, Shifty, Shabba, and Luske. There will be a "Very 67 Wedding" Thread as 3 members from the forum are in my wedding party: Nik Santi, superdonk, and poker superstar acbarone. Should be fun. The batchelor party agenda has been confirmed. Tailgate, Giants v. Dodgers at AT&T, Brewery Tour, and dinner. Teh pokers may or may not be involved. Sounds like a kick ass time. All parties welcome.

Oh and no more tests for me. The State of California obv screwed up and gave me an engineering license. gg tests.

The house is for sure coming together, backyard is done and the painting is getting there. We also have a line on a contractor that the wifey knows. Hooray for remodeling.

Upcoming trips planned: Cabo for Honeymoon in November, Vegas with 67 in January (hopefully work doesn't bend me over on this one), Belize in March, and then back to Vegas in June. #verylucky

Vegas/Poker Update:

More than half the year has been gone and I think that I am somewhere in the vicinity of where I want to be profit wise for someone who plays as little and infrequent as I do. My monetary goal I set at the beginning of the year is definitely achievable. I am excited about that for sure, but waaaay more excited and motivated about the trend and style that play is going. The biggest month of the year for me was March by far. Since about that time, I started looking at the game in a whole different light thanks to the guys of 67. I am looking at you Nik, AC, Shifty, Deuce, Shabba, and Tommy. I don't want to go into detail as to what I have changed and how much differently I play in certain spots as compared to a skant year ago. Lets just say that I love the 'fuck-you' turn raise, and it is hard to make hands, so make other people have the tough decision. Basically I have upped the aggresion...in non-forum games.

Vegas was awesome as usual. No detail more needed. You know the drill. Drinking, poker, railing craps, snipers, robberies, overall a wholesome good time. No names and specific activities needing to be mentioned.

Thats it for now. I leave 2 days from now and return to Sacramento, the mecca of limit holdem and levee problems.

4/1: April Foolishness - A Recap of the 1st Quarter of 2011

2011-04-01T21:22:00.000-07:00

This is gonna be a half and half blog. Half results up to this point, half a little monologue about the June 67 Vegas Trip.

Part One: Pokers

So, tbh after shitting the bed last October for the PE exam, I have put in shit hours live. Out side of the January Vegas trip, I think I played 2 times. The President's Day weekend when the Sac Town Crew met up w/ Barone, Luske, and Oak, and a couple other times outside of that.

Short story is that I have had a couple decent size sessions where I booked a win, and one where I got smoked, and ran like shit.

Oh well, that is life I am up almost 6 racks at 4/8.

And the other side of this thing is that I have been play more than usual online. Mostly LHE on Stars and FTP (standard), and some micro-NL on AP. So I really don't make a habit of keeping a lot online so i cashed out a bit which just hit my account, sweet.

From the other games category, I am really gonna hit the books hard and study up on Omaha 8/b. Its pretty much a good transition game from LHE. I feel that I have progressed to a point where I can say I have a pretty solid understanding of limit concepts and I can make the transition fairly well.

Enough of this poker shit....

Part 2: Monologue

Your legs have warmed up the most comfortable, familiar point...
You are sitting with bunch people from an internet poker forum
You aren't drunk (unless you are shifty, and that's an under-statement)...
"Waitress, 3 kamakaze's, 7 Newcastles, 2 Colorado Bulldogs, a cawfee w/ milk, skim milk, side of bacon well done, chicken parmesan w/ scampi."
"So what's in the mix????"
"Limit, Crazy Pineapple, O8, NL????? Nah"
"Tree bets"
"You are the worst."
"2 pair, 8 high?"
"Mbn!"
"Aye Yahhhhhhh"
Raise, 2-4-6-8-10-12-14-16
Video Pokers
Booths at Sapphire

Can you feel it??

Your bag is packed, it waits by the door. You make sure to check in to your southwest flight not 1 second late, you get the taunting txts from the first arrivers in vegas, you figure a cocktail will ease you tension. well lets be honest, maybe 2 or 3. The countdown continues. You get to work the next day. At this point time has seized, and your skin is crawling with anticipation and angst. Lunch time, hits, fuck finally you think only 4 more hours. Meetings, co-workers, and any resemblance of a productive thought have long since left your mind. You have officially transitioned into Vegas Mode.

Deuce's flight is delayed, shifty is shipping w/ 2 overs and a frush draw, rambler & turtle are being new yorkish, abbahs and his close friend shabba have checked in to a baller suite, santi and superdonk have touched down, reb is driving up w/o an ipod, eric has been 86'd from the wynn for no reason, dd and his accent are donutting their way across the country, ac is looking for love whilst in the cab from McCarran to flamingo w/ a random, oak has toted his Black's Law dictionary from nocal, fender has now landed and gone to bed... (sorry slinger, you haven't made a trip yet, you don't qualify)

But where are you???

That's right, its that time again. Vegas. Yup, it will be epic. I wish I could explain more, but I can't. You have to go.

At first, it was kinda about the moneys, then it was about the needles, then it was the food, and lastly and what it has evolved to, the most important thing, its about the experience and awesomeness that will ensue.

This is the big trip of the year, during the series. Here is bullet list of what will go down.

- Limit Mix Games
- Alcohol
- Tittays
- Bacon
- The Lux
- Stupid Randoms
- Ignorant Sports Betting
- Lodden Thinks
- Ball Busting

Did I forget anything??? Most likely.

Bottom line, get the fuck to vegas.

/this has been fender403 for 67suited vegas trips.

WBCOOP

2011-01-19T08:05:00.000-08:00

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1/9: So this is the new year???

2011-01-09T18:47:00.001-08:00

So, I will get to it.

Vegas in 3 days !!!! This is gonna be the shit.

Lots of pokers, profuse amounts of tittays, exorbitant portions of bacon, french toast, and luxe, and of course all the guys from 67.

Ended up the final tally for 2010 up a decent sum (roughlt $4k) and played quite a bit at the end of the year which attributed to 25% of the profit. I felt that my play has improved quite a bit just over this year alone.

I played about 4hrs of 6/12 on Saturday and ended up swinging from +180 to -180 loser on the night. It was extremely slow, started off well had 3 winners in the first hour but then just didn't pick up a had for the next 3 literally.

I did try to iso some weaker players using my fucking nit image due to card deadedness and that completely backfired horribly.

Basically, it might have came off as spew but w/e. If I can't iso 3! from the button against a early position open from a loose player and not get there WTF right. I felt that this was the correct play at the time. Short story was I 3! from the button a against loose/weak ish player to knock out the blinds w/ KQ of clubs, well, that didn' t happen one of the blinds (kelly-douchey oaf) capped it, and I whiffed the flop of 456 all diamonds and called one and whiffed the turn as well.

I did kinda get a little spewey w/ 99 in a 3 way pot in position on a board of A84 rainbow. Snap raising one of the other 2 who donked out. I continued on the turn both called :-(. and the river is an Ace where I got to show it down of course one of them has the Ace. I guess that I pretty much have to check behind the turn after the other person calls 2 cold out of position, that almost always means weak or mid strength ace.

So I learned a bit more and just gotta not make those -EV plays like betting the turn w/ the 99.

Amped, for LV, can't wait bitches.

12/23: Fa Ra Ra Ra Rahh, Ra Ra, Ra Rahhh

2010-12-24T08:18:00.000-08:00

Ho, Ho, Ho!!! Merry LHE Christmas!

So its Christmas time and the poker games seems to be steadily gaining momentum towards the end of the year. Capitol is now running a couple of promotions with their new players card system which gives $1/hr comps which should be pretty good for food over the upcoming sessions. They are giving away a 2011 Ford Mustang, 3 Poker Cruise Packages, and a bunch of cash. The drawing is 2/19/2011. You qualify for a ticket when you have a full house or better. Personally, I would just like to see them go back an add $1k to the BBJ everyday instead of saving up for this promotion. But w/e I hope I/Nik/SD win some portion of this.

I did sneak in a small blargh session last night for like 4ish hours. Nothing really to report. I only played no joke 6 hands preflop. QQ 2x, AK 2x, A9s, and TT. Thats it. I did have a pretty awesome 4/8 table it started out with lots of limps pre followed with lots of maniac-type flop and turn play.

As the night went on there, the flop play was transferred to pre-flop and it was just crazy. There were roughly 4 straight maniacs, which is 2 too many imo. I usually like 2 maniacs because they usually clash with each other, but with 4, that is kinda nuts.

Well, all in all I ended up dusting off a rack due to 1 pot where I got rivered in a kill for a $200 pot, aye yahhhh. I might make an appearance tonight when Nik and SD are playing till tomorrow morning, fucking degens, lolz.

TP: -$96
TSP: 4hrs
BB/hr: -3BB/hr.

Merry Christmas, and it is Christmas and not Happy Holidays.

12/18: "This is the greatest LHE game in the world!"

2010-12-19T11:52:00.000-08:00

So after taking the dog to the vet and finding out he had a case of "buffet stomach" from eating shit-tons of food because his food bag was open, I made it down to Capitol to play some limited hold'em. I had txt'd both Nik and SD earlier in the day and put the word out. Tommy said he would def be down to play, Nik was 50/50.

I walked into the cardroom and who'd a thunk it, they were both there. Tommy at 4/8 and Nik at 6/12. Nik looked meh, and he said he was stuck a bit and grinding it out. Tommy said the same at his table. A new table opened shortly and I took my seat with a bunch of LPPs and some reg's which I have put in some hours with in the past. need less to say I was very comfortable with my table lots of limping and check calling flops. All in all the table make up was OK, not great, not terrible. I played there, as I was fully intending to play 6/12 for a good while.

I think I chopped 1 pot and won another and after about an hour I was roughly even minus my omelet. I was 2nd on the 6/12 and was hoping to be called soon. Observing Nik's table it was pretty prime. A couple spazzes, an off shift dealer, a white laggy guy who would make some odd plays, Nik, older women who like to pay people off with all sorts of hands and then Davin Anderson. Davin is a pretty decent guy, for those of you who don't remember, he is the dude who was on the intro of the WSOP ME coverage who says, "This is greatest tournament in the worrrrrrrld!!!!"

Davin finished 25th in the 2004 WSOP Main Event and had been playing professionally in AC for quite sometime before coming to the west coast. Neat guy, kinda crazy, opened J8os in EP vs a straddle. But none the less he is definitely a solid player.

I take the 5 seat, to the left of Davin, Nik and this older guy Wayne who plays really good, or really bad. I haven't seen an in between with him. I loved my position at the table. It was a slow day and I either had premium hands or shit hands. Early on, I held with KK in a capped 5 way pot.

After that I had AA firmly planted in my anus by the laggy white guy who CR'd the turn on a paired board or KQ7K. From the looks of things, Nik was not holding at all and he finally was starting to turn it around and won some really nice pots finally hitting some draws and holding against the minefields.

At this point I am up about 70ish and get dealt AK of diamonds UTG and open, Suzanne the quite attractive off shift dealer calls 2 cold, and it is folded to Davin on the button who 3-balls, blinds fold I cap, and both Suzanne and Davin call.

I have played with Suzanne, and she plays any decent hand for a raise so and pocket pair, and hands like ATs, JT+ and any two face cards are definitely in her range. Davin, definitely had noticed that I wasn't playing too many hands at all so for him to 3-bet I am pretty sure he is not having trash in his range. I put him on 88+ and AJ+ which is less likely because I hold an ace.

So the flop comes J7x w/ 2 diamonds. I lead the flop and both call. I am particularly worried about Suzanne, but Davin I am concerned with. with the flop being containing the flush draw I would expect him to raise with an overpair or a set here. Him just calling makes me think that I am going to get popped on the turn if a diamond doesn't come off.

The turn is the T of diamonds making me the nuts, I bet again and am only called by Davin. the river brings an offsuit Q which does make some straight and I was hoping this maybe hit him and he would raise. That was asking too much, he just calls and says this is probably a bad beat. He did flash Aces to Nik and then mucked. I didn't expect that at all. I really figured he would raise an overpair and sandwich in the 3rd player.

After that there was really not much to report from the 6/12 game. Nik ended up leaving to go to work about 30 minutes later. I shipped him his secret santa gift of Red Dead Demption - Undead Nightmare and a 12-pack of...

Tommy text me and asked me to come sit with him a 4/8 for a bit so I did. The 6/12 game was getting a little slow because 2 people were eating and a few people were just kind of milling about not really playing any hands. I said fuck it, and racked up my $130+ profit and took the seat immediately on Tommy's left.

Tommy looked to still be hovering about a rack down at this point and just couldn't hit a hand. Well that was about to change. After me losing with JJ against 2 opponents on a Q-high board which I got to show down for free on the river which was nice, Tommy, a few others and I got involved in a 4 way capped preflop pot where I flopped top two w/ AK and then got turned by Tommy when he hit is set of jacks, oh well. Nice hand, if you were wondering he was getting 21:1 there, basically warranting a call with a gum wrapper and a uno card.

After that hand, I had blasted through close to all of my profit at 6/12. I was about to leave when I mistakenly raised TT UTG in a kill pot and got called by 4 people which was nice. I bet all the way and was good so that brought me back to even for the 4/8 session.

Tommy has been on a bit of a downswing lately and has needed to run better. He finally did just that and had some hands hold and eventually posted a winner for the session. I racked up an orbit later after getting 67suited snapped off by a turned 2 pair when I flopped top pair and a flush draw oh well, that's life.

Totals for the day were:

TSP: 6hrs
4/8: -$55
6/12: +135
TP: +80.

See you all next week, I only work 3 days, wooooot!!!

Short aside, its called a Christmas Party, not a Holiday Party don't ask me if I am going to a Holiday Party, I will tell you to fuck off.

-Out

12/11: Cool Stories Bro, No.

2010-12-11T17:14:00.000-08:00

First off I will come back in a day or so and do the full update. But anyways, this douche, name Jay wouldn't shut the fuck up about lots of things during my session yesterday. Apparently, according to him I am no good at poker and play badly.

And ftr, I just let him go on and on about stupid shit.

Spoilers: I ran well, value bet lots and made some money. I will add in some interesting hands for your reading pleasure.

-Out till tomorrow.

----And we're baaaaaack

So, to the action. I got to Capitol after a fantastic run at Chipotle always delivers. Sidenote: if you have to ask for a menu at Chipotle, you are doing it wrong. The 2 people in front of me both asked to see a menu, WTF, seriously. The answer is burrito. Always, even if you think its not, the answer is burrito. No tacos, or quesadillas, burrito.

Ok, so I walk in to Cap and to my dismay I see that there is no 6/12 running and only a list. So I add myself, and wait to be called for the new table of 4/8 that would open shortly. I sit in the 4 seat and am joined by a bunch of regs, mostly LPPs, and 2 kinda LAG spew types both black dudes one looking like Hancock with the beanie and sunglasses (definitely a necessity at 4/8, I don't see how you could win w/o them tbh). We got involved in a few hands which came out about even for me.

The other LPPs at the table were a smattering of pretty straight forward middle aged guys, and one older lady who was primed to hit and run which she pulled off nicely after hitting a 3 outer in a huge pot (7ways capped pre, and capped 4 ways on the flop).

So, as I said I am in the 4 seat and Hancock is in the 8. The first hand we got involved in was a pretty big pot in the end. I raised ATos after he limps UTG, and seats 1 and 3 limp behind both blinds and everyone else calls. Flop comes AT6 rainbow. Checks to me in position, I bet, bb calls, Hancock check raises seat 1 calls 2 cold, and the other limper folds. I 3-ball, bb folds, Hancock caps it and the other guy calls. I am pretty sure I have the best hand although, I am kinda more worried about the other guy in the hand. What the fuck could he have? I later learned that this guy, an older Greek guy wasn't really all there and wasn't necessarily of a sane mind. So the turn is a 5 putting a heart flush draw out, and Hancock checks, if I am behind I am gonna find out now, the old man does as well, and I fire. Hancock just calls and the old man folds, hmm?

At this point, I am sure I have the best hand. River is an offsuit T making me tens full. Check, bet, call. I show, he mucks A6os. Nice pot there.

We went on to get involved in some other hands with similar action. In one, I have Aces in the SB and raise a family preflop, put in 3 bets against him and 2 others, on a board of 754 rainbow. Turn was a 7, I lead, she calls, he now raises and 1 guys calls in between and I think for a while and decide to fold. I am pretty sure I am beat here most of the time and my 2 pair is no good against 3 opponent and I am drawing to 2 outs. Turns out that, the old lady had TT, he has T7os for turned trips and the other guy had a naked 6. Thoughts on this, it is probably a call, but I didn't really see him bluff raise at all.

I might have been giving him too much credit but it was the correct play for this hand, and probably not in the long run.

Now about 1 hour into my session, Nik texts me and says he is on his way down to join in the fun. I am up about 10ish bets at this point and then this hand goes down. The very next hand after the Aces hand. I pick up JT of spades on the button and 2 people limp, Hancock, and this Indian (7/11, not peace pipe. Remember, realist, not racist there is a difference). I hesitate and just call instead of raising. I have been getting into the habit of raising these types of hands for straight value here, thoughts???

So we see a flop 5 ways with the sb, and bb coming along for the ride. I flop the fucking world w/ KQ9 and the King and Queen both being spades, nuts with OESFD to the Royal weeee, checks to the Indian guy who bets out, I snap raise, folds back to our beanied friend who calls 2 cold (I put him on a weak King type hand or maybe a small flush draw). Turn is a red 4, great card. Checks to me and I bet, both call. WTF, I am supposed to hit the royal right???, River is a T basically killing the action, and hancock leads out, yada yada yada we end up chopping. FTR he had QJ of hearts.

Continuing on, I get AK shoved up my ass on the turn in a pretty big pot and I am up around $40 when Nik is moved directly to my right in the 3 seat. He sat down and had a couple hands snapped off by some pretty sick running beats in monster pots. Say it with me ayeeee yahhhh.

I guess Nik kinda turned on the boomswitch for me and I picked it up. QQ flops a set in a kill pot and holds. 88 flops a sets and gets paid on 3 streets. KJ gets 3 streets 2 ways w/ 2 pair and an extra bet on the river vs. a smaller 2 pair. I also value bet 2 hands that made me 2 extra BBs on the day. Once w/ AJ on a board of J84K3, pretty standard, and once w/ Q2 suited on a board of JJ294 but that really doesn't qualify because the guy folded but I did get the bet on the turn though.

After those hands and a $1 Fat Tire, I am up about $240ish and am poised for a bigger run. Nick takes a break and we get short. I open 22 flop a set and river a boat getting 3 streets 2 ways. Then I make top 2 purrrr with AQ and get paid on 3 streets by 1 guy.

Our table ends up breaking and Nik takes the 6/12 seat in the Pai Gow room, and I am first up on the that list. I am moved to another table with this guy Jay. To start out, we really don't have any history, he is not very attentive to who he is playing against but claims that he plays great (allegedly a 2+2er) and makes a point to tell people that they are doing things incorrectly. Word to the wise, don't do this ever, ever. And for what ever reason, if you are an ass and just have to do this, it helps to have a decent amount of chips in front of you. (I had like 500, he had 40)

He went on and fucking on about "I made 3k playing 3/6 in Reno at the Sands Regency." Then it was, "I called an all in river bet w/ JT high because I knew it was good and I knew this guy had nothing at a no limit game a couple weeks back." /coolstorybro.

It doesn't help that this guy looks like an out of work high school math teacher but smells like an ashtray. Seriously, I would rather you smell like straight shit, than Marlboro. Mix in a breathe mint bro.

I end up putting him all in, in a kill pot when I held AQ high at then end and basically my turn bet forced him to call it off, big deal. I show, I am good. He then starts his little hissy fit. I don't understand how you can be the turn (board is T552, and AQ is a pretty strong hand here, imo), what did you think I called your bet on the flop with. I wanted to say something but I was pretty obvious that he had AJ or something to that effect. I just play it coy and say I don't know, I thought you fold or something like that.

After, he reloads, we get involved in a multiway pot. Basically UTG raises, 2 calls, I 3! with red Tens, he calls 3 to the face, ok, that is AQ obv. and it ends up getting capped 4 ways pre. Flop is 974, w/ 2 spades, UTG leads, 1 call, I raise, Jay disgustedly folds, saying, "you probably have Ace high here too, great play." tyty. Anyways, UTG 3-bets and I am pretty sure I am behind to an over pair here. Until the turn...the T of spades. UTG leads, 1 call in between, I raise both call. River is a low card and I get 2 more BBs for that 2-outer vs UTG's JJ.

Fuck this has gone waaaay long. I am gonna wrap this shit up. I kinda spewed w/ KQ against a nitty guy where I felt I could get some free cards in position, it worked, I could hit any of my outs though.

Jay berates me again for raising pre w/ KJos in a kill pot and double barreling in a pretty decent spot. Oh well, w/e I got in a few more winners and racked up.

Final tally for the day in 6hrs-ish of play, I came up $380, weeeeeeeee.

I look to be back next week sometime possibly next Friday night.

-Out.

12/3: 2 Small Sessions

2010-12-05T09:57:00.000-08:00

Part 1 - Someone Gets Locked Out...of the House

Yeah, so the original plan was to leave work around 330pm, have a pint at Brew It UP, then make it to Capitol for some 6/12. I didn't end making it down until 5, oh well Nik put me on the list as he was already playing.

I arrived at Cap and didn't even notice that they had 2 tables of 6/12 going which meant the game should be pretty awesome. I take my seat opposite Santi in the 9, he in the 6 seat. We really didn't clash at all during small amount of time we played to together. Only sat at the same table for roughly 1 hour or so.

So, hands. Nik was a up a bit when I sat down maybe a rack or so, so things were going swimmingly to start off for him. I started off pretty slow, watching Nik value town a couple guys an iso-raise pre w/ KTos and get a couple streets of value.

I raised a couple hands and took it down on the flop w/ a C-bet to keep me at even. First off, this next hand isn't anything special at first, its a chop for ffs but Nik and I were talking later, there were a bunch of ways the villain could have played the hand.

I open JT of hearts from MP, SB & BB call. Flop comes AT8 w/ 2 clubs. Checks to me I fire, SB calls, BB folds. Turn - 4 of clubs. SB checks again. I fire. The SB now, laboriously calls.

This turn play by him, I think he was a few possible hands. Now, basically w/o getting in to it, if he has a T and a club here he should CR the turn for a couple of reasons.

1- His hand has lots of showdown value HU if he has an Ace or a Ten w/ a good kicker.
2- He can put me in a real tough position w/ a hand like JJ-KK or a T w/o a club redraw.
3- If he is behind to me, and I call he still has outs.
4- He finds out if he is already beat by a flush or up against a better hand.

So back to the hand. River pairs the 8 (no floosh). He checks, I think about value betting here but I am pretty sure that I am only getting called by something better at this point, so I decide to check behind.

He tables JTos w/ the J of clubs. We chop it up. Oh well, kind of an interesting hand at second glance.

A couple orbits later, I raised AK form the SB and took 5 people to the flop, flop TPTK, and somehow I hold w/ 1 pair and get paid off by Clark (he is the owner of Capitol Casino) w/ a weaker Ace, and that was a nice pot and I am up a bit.

I whiffed a few other hands and then the phone calls started. Well, obviously, someone locked themselves out of their house and didn't remember my phone number, and didn't have a cell phone and is stuck at the neighbors :-( Supernit to the rescue.

Not before leaving this hand comes up. Feliz and Gloria have joined us now. Feliz is probably one of the more decent players at Cap and has been playing for a living for the last 2 years, I like the guy. Although he is a Dodger fan w/e we all have flaws.

So I pick up AQ of hearts in the BB in a Kill and I nit it up and don't raise pre and we are 4 way to the flop. God I suck. Flop comes Q 8 6 w/ 1 heart. Gloria checks, I bet, Feliz raises, Gloria calls 2 to the face, rut rho, weak 2 pair? I 3-bet and all call. Turn is the 3 or hearts great card. Gloria checks, I fire, Feliz now folds, maybe a hand like 99 or something like that??? Gloria still calls. river is and offsuit 5, Gloria checks, and I fire again and she tank calls, I am good. She flopped an open ender w/ 75 and paid off the river w/ a 5 nice.

That was pretty much my entire session, I left up about $155, went home, let the gf back in the house. Came back to Cap primarily for dinner w/ Nik. Sat for a little bit and made another $10 or so. Had the Kung Pao Combo for dinner, talked angle-shooting by people at tables and then took off. Nik ended up staying and playing for another few hours.

Total for the short night was $165 up in about 3 hours. I absolutely hated leaving that awesome of table but w/e life happens sometimes.

Hopefully, I won't be working next Friday and get to play some more 6/12 at a good table.

-Out

11/30: Um, Well, November Wasn't Quite Over

2010-11-30T22:58:00.000-08:00

After my last blog, I didn't think I would get out to play until the weekend. I was incorrect.

I made it down to Cap around 630ish and quickly ordered the Double Mushroom Chicken and Steam Rice prior to sitting down, which is delicious btw. My new table was opened shortly, and I drew bad as usual and posted the BB.

Hey, look at that, 1st hand I get red Jacks and raise 6 people, yay!! And we are off, unfortunately the flop is Q-high, mono-suited (clubs) and I bet the flop 3 calers and the turn is a 4th club effectively ending the hand for me. So much for a good start.

Next hand I end up rivering a weird straight and getting paid off for a little profit to get me back to even...

Here is where the night took off. I raise 4 limpers in a Kill-Pot w/ KK and be the whole way and get paid off on an all unders board. Weeee, nice pot there. A few hands later, I raised red Nines UTG, get 3 bet by the button, the SB caps it, BB calls, and all call. Flop is 9-high (mbn) and get paid off by 1 person who was all-in at the river decent start :-)

Then, I felt a rumbling...Aces hold in a 4-way pot for a sick pot. AK flops hard in a kill pot and holds. I make a play and get there w/ a rivered flush against SK (see Nik's blog).

More thunder and lightning. 88 goes runner-runner for tilt factor against some guy who full on berates me, I fucking love it. I win another hand him w/ AK in a big multi-way pot. And, I am just gonna say it, God-Mode Engaged.

We played 6 handed for like an hour and a half were I made some good plays, like semi-bluff raising and getting there with a big combo draw. And then just straight snap raising a guy w/ A-high, barreling the turn w/ the flush/over card hit, and hitting an Ace on the river. Aces flop a set and hold again. Weeeee....

When all was said and done the result looked like this.

I enjoyed that configuration :-)
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I ran awesome. Came up +$450.

**Updated end to the Month.

TSP: 17hrs
TP: +850
Hourly: 6.25BB/hr (yeah, that's nuts, lol definitely sustainable)

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More updates to come. I might come back and post some strat on 1 hand where I barreled and got there.

-Out.

11/29: End to November

2010-11-28T20:26:00.001-08:00

So after a terrible last session this past Saturday, I tallied up my results. Overall I ran pretty well for the month.

TP: +$400
TSP: 13hrs
BB/hr: 3.8BB/hr

Hopefully with the holiday approaching and the nights getting longer, I will be able to put in some work and have some long sessions and really push my game and though processes up to another level before Vegas in January.

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Online, I haven't really been playing that much at all. It goes in waves for me, sometimes I feel like I want to fire up a few tables, but I just can't stand not playing live. It is more fun and entertaining to me.

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On the strategy front, particularly I have found that turn aggression has been a little suspect in my game. I have turned it up quite a bit. I have gone for some raise/fold lines on the turn in spots where I felt that I could be showdown (semi-bluff) raising with the best hand and got burned for it. ROT? most likely but I like those plays sometimes.

Standard example:

Hero limps behind 2 limpers in LP w/ A6 soooted (raise pre???). 5 to the flop.

Flop: 862 (1 of my suit)

Checked to me in position, I bet w/ 2nd pair. 2 calls.

Turn: 3 (of my suit, I pick up nut frush draw).

1 Limper bets, 1 call, Hero???

Call? Raise? Fold???

I found myself in these situations at least 4 times the last 2 sessions. I kinda like to raise here w/ the NFD and there is only a 1 liner to a straight out there. Its possible we have the best hand, 1 limper in between might fold an 8 and we can showdown 2nd pair or hit our flush etc.

This might (most likely) is way off, but I just wanted to put it out there.

What do you think?

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I want to hit Cache Creek soon, or Cordova w/ the $200 Aces cracked that runs for 6 hrs everyday and $100 for the other 18 hours.

See you at the tables.

-Out.

11/26: Belch

2010-11-26T20:22:00.000-08:00

Puked on myself...
Kicked in the groin...
Overall just flat got slapped around...

Well, after all the turkey had made its way through my system, I decided to join Nik down at Cap for what I thought would be a good day for some 6/12, however the must move was shit and I decided to play 4/8.

Oh well, that might have been a good decision. I hate playing in a bad game with the possibility of getting stuck and then being faced with the task of having to grind back at a lower stake game.

I will just say this will be a short blog as I only won 2 hands, both without showdown. Its pretty difficult to win monies when you are card dead and don't hit a flop. As is life, that is how it goes some times.

I did manage to value town someone my first hand with 2nd pair in a kill pot getting 3 streets in against a weaker 2nd pair. But that was about it. I had to fold an over pair on a 4-flush, paired, and 4-staight board, which would have been good but there was a bet on the river and 2 callers in between, so I am obv not good right, wrong, lol live pokers I guess.

No big deal, as the session went I got turned a lot and had to lay down some decent hands to turn check raises.

No real hand histories to report just that I got outflopped 2x in some big multiway pots and got to showdown some hands and not call a river bet.

That is all.

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Oh, yeah, read Nik's up coming blog, you will see what it is like to have everything go right and just straight CRUSH a table.

MBN right?

Sick, sick day at 6/12 for him.
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In other life news, (prepare for brag post).

Brag: New position should be opened up for me which that comes along with about a 15% raise. I say should because of the organization that I work for is known to take months to get on shit like this.

Beat: More worthless meeting, and middle management type crap that I have no business being involved with at my level of experience. Yay for upcoming mistakes, lol?!?

Variance: This is wouldn't be taking place until August of 2011 :-(

11/21: Wait I had a blog???

2010-11-21T09:01:00.000-08:00

Well, obviously, there is a a BLOG in here...

Where the hell have I been??? Well, to be honest, lots of fucking places in the last 6 months since my last blog entry.

I'll give a little Cliff Notes of what went down my last 2 Vegas trips, trip to Europe, P.E. Exam, and oh yeah teh pokers.

So starting off at the top the June Vegas 67 trip was my longest time spent in Vegas ever, 7 days, 6 nights. That is a long-ass time. Dare I say, too long. It went awesome though. Now since all of the guys on 67 are IRL friends, we found lots to do and talk about outside of degen'ing at the worlds most skill-related poker game...Cap NL Omaha, what a fucking swongfest. The world cup was in full swing, England lost, US won so that made us all happy except for AlbinoKid, who disappeared for a day following England's atrocious performance against Algeria, or Kazakhstan, of Tahiti. Oh, those damned Tahitians what a soccer powerhouse.

As for the poker, it has now pretty evident that the poker economy has evened up with the world economy in that the good 10/20 games of a couple years ago have dried up, and the 8/16 game at Venetian which was semi-decent last January, is now becoming a nit-fest and only a few live ones wanting to gambooool up. I think total overall for the trip, I had a slight loser like $400-$600, mostly from being hit w/ the run bad and card-deadedness the entire trip.

Greatest moment of the trip: Rambler losing CCR at the deli. Like 20 people in unison screaming "Yahhhhhhh!!!" at 3am in the middle of a packed Carnegie deli, soooo epic.

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On to my next trip, after returning from the dumpster fire that is Jacksonville, FL, I went to a bachelor part for 2 people. Pokers: +/- $0, meh, Sapphire was epic. It will definitely on the docket for the January trip weee. Everyone had an awesome time I a pretty sure of that. Shifty and my other buddy Nick are now married so big congrats to them.

/bachelor party trip
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Europe: Where the history comes from.

Well, 2 days after returning from the bachelor party trip, the gf and I boarded a plane for Europe and a hosteling adventure. A quick run down of awesome points/cliff's on the trip along with the place we visited.

Land in Dublin: Proposed to Girlfriend, she said yes :fistpump:

London: Sick ass place, possible site of future 67suited forum meet, so clean, easy to get around, great eats/beer. Met up w/ Albino Kid and HG. Such great times. Thx guys for making it down to London.

France: Calais & Paris. FUCK YOU FRANCE...in the words of ahhhhhsht, "I hope you all get cancer of the dick and die." Worst.Cuntry.Ever.

Switzerland: Lausanne. Holy fuck this place is awesome, expensive as shit. How expensive you ask??? About $30 at a McDonalds expensive. I love Lausanne, it is incredible, right on Lac Leman, and great people.

Italy: Rome, Florence, Venice. Rome-cheap, dirty, great food, can be seen in a day. Florence, one of the greatest places on earth, best food I have ever eaten, very intimate setting but has the gypsy. Venice, a great place to get lost, and drink lots of cheap wine from a bag.

Austria: Innsbruck. Just like Davis, CA. College town, great breweries, strip clubs galore, and live gambling everywhere. Kick ass zoo as well.

Germany: Augsburg, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Cologne, Munich. All amazing places, met up w/ a friend from SLO, Thomas at Oktoberfest, just like beerfest the movie btw. Rothenburg, medieval village with walls still in tact, great night watchman tour. Cologne, stopped there for a bit, got to see the Dom, such a goth cathedral and pretty sick place.

Belgium: Brussels, Brugges. Waffles, beer, waffles beer, dutch people. Brussels in a town that doesn't wake up until about 11am and doesnt turn off until about 3am. Brugges was kinda meh to be quite from.

Dublin one more time for emPHAsis: Guinness factory tour, drunkards peeing on buses, and more beer.

Fly home. Amazing trip.

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Well Europe was pretty much all of September, October was pretty much a polar opposite. I studied for 1 month straight for the Professional Engineers exam. Pretty fucking hard test. We will see how I did in like 3 months.

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Pokers: SD and I had been playing pretty regularly up to the time of the bachelor party trip and I had been doing pretty alright. Took all of September & October off, and finally made my return to the LHE arena a couple weeks ago. November is going decent.

After looking at my records, it looks like I am up an OK amount for the year (for someone who doesn't really play all that often), somewhere in the neighborhood of 2.5-3k. My hourly is about 1.85BB/hr, not Santi like, but I'll take it. I am really looking to start playing more, and improving my game. I really feel that I am looking at the game in a different light and that I am evolving as player, pushing edges in marginal situations where I was pretty unimaginative before.

So, I am going to try and get the blog going again on a pretty regular basis and posting strats at 67.

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Vegas in a 7 weeks bitches.

/blog

Can You Feel It???

2010-05-31T18:31:00.000-07:00

Ahhhhh shit. Get yo bankrolls 67sooooted 'bout to tear up Bellagio, Encore, Wynn, and Venetian too!!!

We on a plane,
We on a plane.

It only feels like yesterday when AC & Shifty were staring longingly into each others' eyes over a gelato at Trevi. A scant 6 months ago, Shabba was found on top of a mechanical fallus at a convention for porn. Mr. Shit placing his 67suited hat in some working whores' ass cheeks, Superdonk was in search of tentacle porn, Deuce was finding ways to get out of going to the deli and Santi was being Santi.

So, in :countdowncheck: 14 short days, a huge crew from 67 and CP will be headed out to vegas for the June Forum Trip. Oh the douchbauchery that will ensue. Might I mention that left to our own devices we will be playing lots of poker.

Congrats to Paddy, and :cough cough: the 23yo virgin for winning Main Event Seats, Paddy will be playing and obv winning w/ a 67 patch on his shirt. Rambler will be ducking us in the mix games but playing a $2500 HA tourney at the series.

Here is the list of who will be in attendance and where we all are staying:

Deuce (Wed 6/16 - Mon 6/21) - Venetian
Panti (Tue 6/15 - Mon 6/21) - Harrahs
Shabba - (Wed 6/16 - Sun 6/20) - Encore
Superdonk (Tue 6/15 - Mon 6/21) - Mirage
Fender (Tue 6/15 - Mon 6/21) - Harrahs
Shifty (Tue 6/15 - Mon 6/21) - IP
Turtle and his never touched a pussy ever friend(Wed 6/16 - Mon 6/21) - Harrah's
ACbarone (Thur 6/17 - Sun 6/20) - Transexual Flamingo
ttthomas (Wed 6/16 - Sun 6/20 ) - IP Deluxe room bitches
Oak (Thur 6/17- Sun 6/20)- IP
Asshat (Wed 6/16- Tues 6/22)- Wynn
Ashley and her boyfriend (Thurs 6/17 - Mon 6/21) - Venetian
Pika (Fri 6/18 - Mon 6/21) - IP
minnesotasam and texansocer7 (Sat 6/19 - Tue 6/29) - House 6 miles from the strip that will smell like buttsex
DD AKA "Ron Paul's Fluffer" (Thur 6/17 - Mon 6/21) -Venetian
Ryansphoto AKA "Brokedick inbred" (Thur 6/17 - Mon 6/21) - Venetian
Luske (Tue 6/15 - Fri 6/18) - Encore
DanMcw (Fri 6/18 - Wed 6/23) - IP
Albinokid - Somewhere

Its gonna be an amazing turnout. It looks like we will have a waiting list to get into our private game which will be held in the the Ivey Room at Aria, lol (not really, but we will be playing an assortment of cash games w/ each other)

Just a short post about how this all works for 3T.

-Arrive in LV
-Degen Pit Games
-Go to eat at Deli
-Play pokers w/ 67suited members
-Eat at Luxe
-Nap (for deuce obv)
-Play cards w/ tourists and take their monies
-Eat at Luxe
-Play more pokers
-Win Monies
-Sleep

Lather, rinse, repeat 6-7 times.

/vegastrip

And that is how we do it.

glglgl to everyone going, may we all make lots of monies, and ice each other lots.

-out

Las Vegas: Poker and Porn - Trip Report

2010-02-02T19:31:00.000-08:00

So, once again Vegas has come and gone. I will keep this TR short and bulleted as all the stuff is on the forums.

Day 1:

- Listened to TSA about getting to airport early (beat)
- Get to Vegas on time look at houses. They were pretty sick and not too pricey.
- Check into Imperial Shithole way in the back not even in the main tower.
- Meet up w/ the 67suited crew (Shifty, Shabba, Nik, Deuce)
- Deli Trip No. 1 (the gf had never been)
- Get hammered at IP playing Chinese w/ 67suited meet up w/ Ahhhhhsht
- Woken up at 4am by broken glass a couple rooms down from us. Had to switch rooms

Day 2:

- Porn convention Day 1
- SD arrives with a bevy of hoes in toe
- Watch lots of skank bitches flaunt their wares
- Find out the gf has friend in porn lolsmallworldaments
- Deli Trip No. 2
- Reb arrives w/ gf (ty reb)
- Walk to Aria to play O8
- Not win a Single Hand at al
- Drunk Shifty, and Drunk Eric are pretty awesome to be around
- Barone arrives - Jack Russell Terrier in human form. AC's hilarious.

I will pick it up now.

Day 3, 4, 5:

- More Porn convention stuff
- Shabba rides a mechanical cock
- 67suited hat goes in pornstar's ass
- Play lots of LHE
- Run lame at 8/16 w/ the Iceman (I did snap him off in a decent pot)
- Run good at 4/8 at B w/ Aaron and TFong whilst drinking Bacardi & Coke
- Not go to LAX
- The Lux is the Nuts
- Watch the J E T S Jets Jets Jets beat Ocho no show
- Dinner at Trevi where Shifty and Barone shared a loving embrace over some Gelato
- Watch Cardinals win in OT
- Play more LHE - run bad

Day 6:

- Tell everyone to fuckoff and seem them on the internets
- Play Videogames at Gameworks w/ SD, Santi, and gf
- Go to airport, talk about the next trip.

It was a great time, big thanks to all who attended.

Next trip is already on the schedule. June 16-21 for the WSOP trip.

There were many quotes from the trip, but you just have to go.

Stop It!!

Pictures possibly to come. Who am I kidding, that is not happening tough shit fuckers.

12/6: Capitol 6/12 - "Steve, you are a prop now?"

2009-12-06T20:23:00.000-08:00

I got out this Sunday to go and play some 2-Card poker (LHE) and it was an interesting day.

The table had 2 maniacs that played every, I mean every hand for the first hour and a half of my session. Every hand was at least 3 bets preflop, kill pot or not. LOL live limit hold'em. Gotta love.

Well I really didn't win any hands at all for the first couple hours until 1 of the maniacs left. Then I made back the half rack that I lost earlier in the session trying to set mine w/ 6's 4's and 5's in capped pots preflops.

TSP: 3 Hrs
TP: +$110

No really interesting hands, flopped 2 sets that held, turned a straight in a kill pot and didn't get paid off on the river. I did over play a hand where I think I got a little bit out of live w/ a 1 card straight flush draw which rivers a straight but loses to the flopped nut straight.

And in other news, Steve from Cache Creek who mildly resembles Kyle Gass from Tenacious D is now a prop player at Cap. He plays pretty solid, and is a pretty fun guy to bullshit with while playing. We didn't get into many hands together.

Next weekend I will be playing...guitar with Wigs and Ties live in San Luis Obispo. I will post the setlist as a trip report when I get around to it.

Woooot 80s rock.

11/27: Black Friday 6/12

2009-11-29T14:46:00.000-08:00

Ok, so this is just going to be a blog tease. Will be back later to write about my session.

Spoiler Results:

TSP: 4 Hrs
TP: +$155

-Missed BBJ by Villian not having QQ
-Made $13.50 on selling Hi-Hand to Feliz

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Opinions to come on this Isildur1 character and this ridiculous action that he is giving/getting to all comers including the newest Full Tilt Pro durrrr.

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Ok, so I am back to give some quick thoughts on durrrr vs. Isildur1. Speculative information that we know of:

-Swede Viktor Blom "Blom90" on iPoker (Euro Site) has been outed by Ziigmund et al.
-At one point during the month of November he was up close if not above $6 Mirrion.
-At the end of November he was listed to be up only over $1M.

-The majority of his profits came from newly inked Full Tilt Pro Tom "durrrr" Dwan.
-PTR & High Stakes DB tracked Isildur1 to have taken roughly $5M from Dwan.
-A few months back there was a new kid at the nosebleeds, "Martonas' also a Swede has been rumored to be Isildur1's neighbor; w/e if for some reason this is true that is a bad play by these two. It would be hard to imagine that no information was passed between the two.

All that information as side the railtards, me included have been watching this intermittently. And as I am writing this right now Isildur1 and durrrr are 6-tabling 300/600 with Isildur1 up about 1.2 on the day taking close to $900k from Brian Townsend and is up about $150k on durrrr. Soooo ridiculous.

More speculation has been put on the amount that durrrr has lost than anything else and the validity of the tracking sites. I would have to think that they are quite accurate because so few players can play that high it would be hard for them to miss a hand. No one really knows what is the state of durrrr's BR and what his deal w/ FTP entails, but whether or not he had all of himself in the last matches vs. Isildur1 the $5M has got to hurt somewhat.

Short history of Isildur:
He first appeared on FTP in October playing 25/50 and ran up his BR a good amount then sat down w/ Patrik, Gus, Degenamine, CTS, Haseeb Quershi, Phil Galfond. Then he proceeded to absolutely facefuck durrrr in both PLO and NL for $5M+.

All that aside this last month has been historic for FTP and the online poker world.

Since his downswing Isildur1 has been rumored to be broke; that is probably not true. And if he keeps up what is going on right now he will finish the day up more that 1M.

On the other side of things for durrrr he has since comeback a little bit winning roughly $2M in the 7-game and 200/400 PLO and 300/600 NL.

Many people have thought that durrrr should move back down and rebuild a little bit which he has done quite nicely.

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As I just typed, this here is the chat posted at the end of their NL session:

Isildur1: i am to tired to play 36 now
durrrr: i have 45min more
durrrr: les play here for that?
Isildur1: i can play 5001k
Isildur1: any game
durrrr: k
durrrr: come 5001k plo
Isildur1: k
durrrr: jus 45min hto
Isildur1: ok

So they are 6-Tabling 500/1000 PLO. How is that for BR management Mr. Ferguson.

-Later

11/22: Atlantic City

2009-11-22T20:19:00.000-08:00

So, the warmup forum trip has come and gone. Good night Atlantic City, you're beautiful. Actually it was. Really, I had my preconceptions about what the East Coast in particular AC was going to look like, and I was completely wrong/

I didn't see the troves of Italians cursing, profuse smokers, and that annoying Jersey accent (sorry Deuce) was drowned out buy the mass of opulence that was the Borgata Poker Room. 85 tables all going at the same time, awesome.

A quick thanks to Shabba for picking Nik and I up in Philly, chauffeuring us to AC, and the return trip was equally appreciated.

So onto the live forum games. Well, what's new??? Shifty fucking owned as expected to the tune of about +8k. Shabba finished the trip up 2k. Rambler lucksacked his way to a great trip scoring +1.5k. Nik made $700. Deuce I think was down a little bit. Dennis was even. Loretta, well we all know what happened there he probably was the big winner imo.

And then there is me... I played NL for the first time live. It wasn't bad, or good for that matter. But I have to say that it is pretty slow moving as compared to limit, and for some people that is fine but I haven't got into it yet.

Summary and 1 HH.

7.5/15: -300
1/2 NL: -200
Pai Gow: -100
1/2 HA (Half NL, Half PLOrly): +600
Total: +/- Even :facepalm:

So the trip started out on a good note and I made about 200ish at 1/2NL, and then proceeded to give back that profit in the 67/CP Pink Chip Game to the tune of a $500 down. And Pai Gow is no good for me or Loretta for that matter.

So my trip came down to 1 hand that got me back to even. The CP/67 Crew made it back to Harrahs about 3:30 Friday Night and decided to get a mix game going. 1/2 HA, half hour rotations. Rambler decided to leave his tampon in and spectate being content w/ his 1.5k upswing for the trip instead donating to us obv :-)

I was needless to say playing pretty tight and was pretty card dead.

HH:
Shifty (covers)
Shabba ($275-ish)
Hero (&275-ish)is dealt KKJ7 double soooooted in hearts and spades
Nik (n/a)
Deuce SB (n/a)
Dennis BB (n/a)

Shifty - Pots UTG to 10, Shabba calls, Hero calls, Deuce calls, Dennis folds - ($40)

Flop: K89 (top set, all money is obv going in)

Checked to Shifty, who leads for 30, Shabba calls 30, Hero makes it 120 straight. Folds back to shifty, who effectively shoves me AI, Shabba calls, and I call all in.

Pot is now $800 and change.

With the cards turned up, Shifty shows 8976 for bottom 2 + a open ender, Shabba shows the low 13 card wrap, and I show top set w/ blockers.

So, the turn brings the 9 giving both Shify and I boats, Shabba is drawing dead. Leaving only 1 win in the deck that doesn't show up on the river.

I douche-ingly exclaim "Ship it all!!" and rake in a niiiiice pot to bring my trip back to even.

So that was AC; fun, fun, fun.

Later in the week I am gonna get into the carnage that has been endured by durrrr's bankroll, Isildur, Patrik, and Phil. Along with some small stakes musings from the Cap NL realm.

-Cheers

10/30: Upcoming Trips...

2009-10-30T14:44:00.001-07:00

“I come all the way to Atlantic City to see your Mugs…”

“Welcome to Las Vegas East…”

Well, not exactly. For the interim forum trip this year, Santi, myself, and hopefully the Superdonk will be venturing to Atlantic City. Seems fun and is shaping up to be a short but badass trip.

I, having never been to the East Coast before, have this mental picture painted in my head of what AC/Philly will be like:

Things to look for would include but are not limited too:

-Degen Pai Gow w/ Shifty where he will inevitably own the game
-East Coast Accents
-Lots of Italians
-Coffee and Milk
-Yankee/Philly Fan
-Deuce commenting on who’d “Get it.” And making advanced plays at 4/8
-People burning heaters one off of another
-Cursing
-Overall Hatred of People from the Left Coast
-Orange Faced broads from Staten Is. / Long Is. / North Jersey
-Turtle from Entourage
-Wrestling Talk
-Live MFK Game
-Shabba commenting on how gross a play was, and that he is “face-fucking” insert name of poker game here

I think that about covers it.

Oh yeah, there will be poker in there somewhere with the famed game “Johnny Lodden Thinks” and Limit Hammer throwing, etc., Now if only there was a Carnegie Deli.

The games should be pretty juicy so said Deuce/Rambler. I am looking forward to the ‘Pink Chip Game’ (7.5/15) and the 10/20 at the Borgata which has a spectactular room.

Santi and I are red-eying out to Philly Tuesday night, kickin it in the city of brotherly love to get steaks Wednesday, and then being politely chauffeured to the entrance of Harrah’s AC by Shabba. (Thanks again man)

So its only 2+ weeks away, woot.

And then a short 8 or so weeks after then we get back to the ol’ stomping ground of Southern Nevada where the ‘Sand turns to Gold’ wait wrong description but w/e.

Poker and Porn II will commence in the first week of 2010 highlighted by a great turnout which already includes:

Santi, Deuce, Shabba, Shifty, Reb, AC, Superdonk, Me, KL, Ahhhhst, and other’s still yet to confirm. I am sure that there will be long periods of bedlam involving busted hoes at the Convention as well as ridiculous antics at the tables.

PLO/LHE/O8/NL Mix game has already been discussed…It just needs a name…

More details to come on this.

Also I am posing a BIG question to the US readers involving a overseas trip. Would anyone want to me the man, the myth, the accent that is Doyle?

What do you think about a 2011 WSOP Europe Trip? Could be fun.

And a short side note on poker- I have played only 3 live sessions since Vegas, and have posted positive sessions all 3 times. I have been putting time into learning NL and have been playing 10NL online.

-Later

CP3: Belated LV Blogs...In before tl;dr

2009-07-18T23:45:00.000-07:00

Wednesday June 10

After landing the Santi and I cabbed it to Harrah’s and checked our bags to wait for the crew to arrive in town. Kid, Rambler, Dennis, Trey, Trey’s wife and Shifty were already in LV and we came to find out that Shifty had already satellited into the $1500 NLH WSOP tourney to start on Thursday. We all eventually met up at Venetian and got some food w/ Ramble, Dennis, Shifty, and the Shabba.

Sidenote: the Mexican place in the Venetian food court has delivered 2x now.

After some food we all make our way over to Mirage and meet up w/ Pika and Deuce. From then on we basically played some 4/8 (lol minibetaments as Shifty would call it) with a mandatory straddle and sometimes restraddle, as well as Hammer Throwing (7-2 Game) was on, obv. This time we only ran off 3x tourists. It was slightly down from last trip.

I think that I came up like a rack at this game after boating w/ TT against Nik when he attempted to throw the hammer at me with a turn CR. I felt kinda bad for Pika because when Nik left to go check into the room, Pika got a seat and Rambler threw the hammer 2x and I did once so Pika was down $15 without even being dealt a hand (move to LOL Live poker).

We hit the deli for round 1 of the trip after the short 4/8 session and I just chilled for the rest of the night.

Thursday June 11 – Santi Day

After a semi late awakening, I headed over to the Deli and had some French Toast shipped my way. The Deli is a always kick rainbow, btw. After eating with Pika and AK and Rambler, we decided to join Nik and Deuce at B. As a sidenote, Bellagio no longer spreads the 8/16 game only failed interest lists right now. Its either 4/8 or 15/30 gay gay gay.

Jason (Pika), Kenny (Rambler) and I got on the 4/8 list and railed Deuce who ended up running pretty bad in the 30/60 game but the action in that game was pretty juicy. Nik looked to be maintaing at the 15/30 but nothing really of note. I think that he ended the day down a little bit. There wasn’t much to say for the 4/8 session except that I think I came up a little over a rack after sitting w/ Pika and Rambler and some other random douches that just wouldn’t STFU.

After a mildly amusing session Deuce, Shabba, Nik, Rambler, Pika, and I headed for the Rio to rail Shifty in the $1500 NLH event. Shifty looked to be running pretty decent and at the end of Day 1 he had roughly 26k in chips. It looked pretty promising that he would cash in the event with like 100 to the money bubble.

We did end up seeing some notables one Phillip Hellmuth Jr. who ended up busting out before Shifty, that’s right suck it Phil. The Chark, The Mouth, Roland de Wolfe, Kido Pham, and Chino Rheem to name a few.

But the highlight of the night by far AINEC was Deuce proceeding to own Shabba in the WSOP HU video game that the Rio had in the halls outside the Amazon Room. As I recall it K2 > A4 100% of the time. Of course the cab ride back to the Mirage for the Deli was priceless. Shabba just ripping Deuce up “King-Deuce is the nuts” the whole way back. FTR, Deuce is 3-0 in this game after owning some random chick who we thought to be a hooker but obv., we were wrong.

An aside, the cab talk this trip was tops over any other trip. Shabba commenting as we walk into the Rio about how some story about a guy who had some chicks staying in his room and not banging then and what the Cabbie must have thought of us the entire ride.

So if you are keeping track 2x to the Deli today.

Friday June 12 – Check Raising Dr. Buss

So as Nik and everyone else on the forum has mentioned we did get to play H.O.R.S.E. with Dr. Jerry Buss owner of the Lakers. Superdonk, Nik, and I being from Sacramento had to hold back our comments that regarding the Lakers and anything that may have happened in the playoffs (cue Luske).

But anyway, Dr. Buss was directly on my left, great. All in all he was a pretty chill guy. It was pretty funny when he was trying to explain to his girlfriend easily 18 years old what Stud 8 was. I think that she was more enthralled with he bejeweled phone that anything that was going on at the table. He also mentioned that he wouldn’t be going to Game 5 in Orlando, instead he was going to play in the $1500 H.O.R.S.E. event at the Series.

I pretty much owned the H.O.R.S.E. game, I came up a little under $300. I did pretty well only understanding 4/5 games. I still have no idea what I am doing in Stud 8. I smoked the hold’em rounds and ran pretty good in the Stud Hi rounds as well.

I gotta give one hand history. I am in the BB w/ T8os and Dr. Buss is UTG he raises, Nik calls on the button, Superdonk called in the SB, and defend in the BB. Flop comes Q97 rainbow. Superdonk checks, as do I, fully intending to check raise anybody who bets the flop. Jerry bets out, Nik folds along with the Superdonk, and I check raise. Jerry just calls. Pretty obv that he has AK here. A 3 hits the turn and I lead and he folds. Yep, I check raised Dr. Buss and took it down. I had some suspicion that he felt bad for us and just folded and let us play our game and didn’t our mere pocket change.

Reb (67) eventually took SD’s seat in the 2 and we BS’d a while and I got up and then just continued to drink Grey Goose and Hypnotic. Somewhere around 2 or 3 I called it a night and headed back to Harrah’s.
Also Shifty cashed up a level for some where around 3.5k and then took down the $175 SNG for another 1k. Shifty is owning LV so far (recurring theme of the trip).

Saturday June 13 – 6 Hours of 10/20 and Life Failing at Horse Betting

After French Toast at the Deli for the 2nd time, Shabba, Nik, Pika, Deuce, Shifty, and I each shipped the Mirage Sports book $20 for some degen horse betting. Oh well it was an interesting way to spend 2 hours.

It was classic to hear Shabba screaming, “For the Love of God Goooo.” Repeatedly as our horse fell back in the pack every single race, lol horse betting I guess.

After the burning of the $20, all the guys except me decided to go play the Venetian $120. I stayed at the Mirage and play the 10/20 for about 6 hours. What really sucks about the Mirage is that they had 3 tables of 10/20 going at one point. A must must move, into a must move, into a main game. I played at the must move table for about 5 hours and was up about $350 or so but once I got moved to the main game it was with a bunch of old nits and I just whiffed for an hour and came down to up only $35 for 6 hours, gay gay gay.

The middling limit games like the 10/20 there was not a lot of live ones in the main game. At the must move there was probably 4 bad players who donated and then got stacked and left which was unfortunated.

1 HH for the session it was pretty weird I was pretty much abusing my image of being pretty TAG although I was blind stealing pretty liberally and opening fairly light in position of course.

Folded to me in MP w/ two black 5’s I raise, and am called by the button SB, and BB. Flop comes AJ4 all check to me, I fire, button folds, as does the SB and the BB calls and obv says the std. one time. I am thinking that he has me beat probably with 77 or is just hoping to see another 4 hit the turn. The Turn ends up being a 6 which is a safe card for me. I didn’t see the BB hitting that so I figure to fire the turn, he tanks and eventually folds and I take it down.

That was about it for the 10/20 session. I eventually met up with the guys at B and played some 4/8 w/ Rambler and Nik for a bit then walked back to Harrah’s around 3 or so.

5/20: A Belated 6/12 Session

2009-05-28T10:44:00.001-07:00

So, after a bunch of procrastinating I am finally getting around to posting a blog about my last session.

Last Wednesday (5/20) I met the Superdonk and Nik down at Cap for some 6/12 action. After donking it up at 4/8 and losing about $40, I was called and took the 6 seat to the right of the Superdonk.

I ran pretty cold for the most part and got involved with some hands that I shouldn’t have been in. One being where I raised w/ A6 of diamonds after a couple limper including an off shift dealer who limp re-raised from UTG. It was elected not to peel on an all black board that came J93 (2 spades) but what ever. I also whiffed some over cards before my move to Seat 1 on the right of Nik, uggg. Weeeeee, 2 TAGs right next to each other.

Things started to look up, at least in card quality. I had KK 2x, and QQ once, none were able to hold on a drawy boards and ones that had over cards.

I did have a couple notable hands after that. The first being in a pot where it was limped in 3 spots and I limped on the button w/ KJos, which I probably should have raised but w/e. Nik was in the SB and raised it up, the BB and everyone else called. Short story was that I flopped broadway and Nik flopped a Set of Aces. He didn’t pair and I took a nice sized pot. He was also pissed I didn’t raise preflop 

The next hand of note was where I raised red 7’s after 2 limpers and gained position, and had only the BB along with the other limpers call. The flop came Q63 and it was checked to me, and I bet called by Bill, a loose player who typically called with ATC and another person. Turn was an offsuit Ace both the caller and Bill checked to me, and I bet again. I am probably behind but I am planning on getting to show this hand down. The river paired the 6 and Bill checked and I checked behind and showed 77 to win; Fwiw Bill mucked JTos.

I won another hand where QQ held on a drawy heavy paired board, and a hand where I rivered a set of 5’s vs. some chick’s top pair and busted flushed draw. She had been your typical station calling my raises w/ crap. In that hand I opened 55 in MP and bet the flop, checked the turn where she didn’t bet and I would have insta-mucked, obv. And then I donked the river where she looked me up with top pair.

And my most crusher hand of the session was in a kill with JJ. Against the UTG guy who looked a lot like Johnny Chan and had opened to $24, I was UTG+1 and 3-Bet to $36. All folded back to him, and he capped it. Flop came Ten-High he checked, I bet. I knew at this point I was probably way behind to QQ-AA. Usually these guys donk go crazy in kill pots without QQ-AA. So, when a 6 hit the turn, I just planned to check and call a river bet. I checked the turn, and you know what, a jack hit the river. So I obv, bet the river. UTG begrudgingly called and said if I hit my Jack I was good. He mucked KK.

That was pretty much it. I came up $70 after the loss at 4/8 and the downswing during the first part of my session at 6/12; it feels good to put one in the win column after the last 2 sessions.

Hopefully I will be putting some major sessions next week as I will be put on stand by here at work, wooooot and boooo at the same time.

Vegas is little under 2 weeks away!!! Gogogogogo.

Down and Down - 6/12

2009-05-16T18:08:00.000-07:00

Short blog, lost close to 2 racks this weekend, running really bad and card dead but w/e. Just have to start holding and fading those draws/gutters.

After talking to Santi, the simple only cure is to run better.

OK, I will work on that.

Look for more updates next week.

5/9: Superdonk Birthday - 6/12 Bash

2009-05-10T10:27:00.000-07:00

First off, a Happy B-day to the Superdonk. No real telling what his age is; Nik mentioned that instead of assigning an specific age, you should assign a range to him. That being said we think that the Superdonk is anywhere from 21 to 40 years old.

Enough of that business down to the action. After talking to TFong on Friday he said he would be playing at Cap on Saturday during the day, so I showed up around 2 and put both of us on the list. After a small wait I was called for a 4/8 Kill seat where I sat for about 30 min before they opened a new 6/12 game. During this time, the SD said Nik would be joining us so I added him to the list.

By the time that the new 6/12 started the table shaped up like this:

1 - Sagtard Azn Female
2 - LPP older Mediterranean looking dude
3 - SAG
4 - Superdonk
5 - SAG (Tuan) He plays there alot and I have played with him for about 20+hrs he is pretty loose
6 - Wilson - Cap prop player now, who usually plays pretty well
7 - Some half mexican looking dude with a wolverine haircut and a goatee :)
8 - Older lady who plays pretty tight but always seems to hold good cards
9 - Me

Overall the session at both the must move, and main 6/12 went well, I ran I would say better than average. And was a bit more aggro pre-flop. Although I did miss 2 value bets (once w/ QQ, and once w/ AJ) which Nik let me know about and I added that to the knowledge bank and will start doing more and more often in the upcoming sessions.

I will give a quick rundown of some hands.

33 > AQ I open raised in LP and got called down on a board of Q53T8
TT > AQ Nik limped AQ UTG in a Kill, I raised black tens and the flop comes T-High, He didn't peel
AQ > ?? I capped pre-flop and turned the Nut flush and don't get looked up on the river.
QQ > ??
KK > K7os Some donk at main game block bet into me when a 3 flush hit the turn, I called and we check-check the river
AQ > ?? I rivered a straight after flopping Top pair
55 > Some flush

So with all that said, I want to talk about this hand and the game structure when there is a no-post kill game. You might think that it doesn't change things but that is not true this structure totally changed my play in this hand.

There had been some discussion a while back about limping into a kill pot in EP when you are first to act because there is no real reason to raise to win 2 chips. But obviously had there been a kill-blind, I raise 100% of the time in this spot.

Kill-Pot

Hero is UTG w/ AQos and limped in planning to limp-reraise as Santi and I had discussed earlier in the session

Called by the guy directly to my left in the 9 seat the SB and the BB.

Flop: AJ7 rainbow.

Checked to me I bet called by everyone ut oh. I was only betting the turn if a safe looking card comes.

Turn: T, hmmmmm

SB Checks, BB thinks for a bit and bets out. I have played with him enough to know that he isn't betting the turn with at least 2 pair, and I was somewhat disturbed that everyone called on the flop with a board like that.

I fold the turn, I just didn't make any sense at this point, and to be honest I was pretty lost.

The hand plays out like this. Seat 9 calls, the SB check-raises, the BB 3bets, Seat 9 folds SB calls.

River T.

Check, bet, call. The BB turned a straight with T9, and the SB flopped two pair w/ J7os.

All in all, that was a pretty interesting hand and you can see that the no post kill blind totally changed the play during that hand.

Just for fun, 1 more hand.

Hero is in the HJ w/ 55 and it is limped in every spot, and I limp as well. I think that only the CO folded this hand.

Flop: J65 rainbow (1 heart)

SB, and BB (Superdonk) both check UTG leads out, 1 call, and 1 fold to me, I raise called everywhere.

Turn: 6 of hearts

Checked to me I fire w/ the boat and I see the Superdonk almost getting ready to raise but he just called and so did the guy in seat 6.

River: T of hearts

Superdonk thinks for a bit and bets out, and the dude in seat 6 tanks then folds, I raise and he calls.

I show the 5's and rake in a nice pot.

He went runner-runner flush, just a bad spot for running hearts.

Thanks for reading. I will be at Cap next Friday for more 6/12, see you all there.

-Out

Eeek, Card Deadedness, Again

2009-05-02T11:41:00.000-07:00

I got in 6 hours or so of action down at Cap. It was a pretty dull day though. I was just card dead as all hell, even worse that 3 sessions ago. But hey, that is life sometimes. Of the small percentage of hands that I did play, I couldn't hold at all.

There were no real hands to talk about.

So I guess I can just chalk this one up to experience and look to run better next time.

Overall for the day:

4/8: -$60 (.5 hr)
6/12: -$120 (6 hrs)

On a side note, I will be becoming a live grinder at least for a little while as it looks from the work stand point. Unemployment, and live poker, lets give that a shot.

Capitol Casino: 4/25 - 4/8 & 6/12 Kill

2009-04-26T12:01:00.000-07:00

So I had a some time to play during the afternoon on Saturday before dinner, and rolled into Cap around 3pm. I was 3rd on the 4/8 Kill list and 7th on the 6/12 list ugg. As I reconized that the 6/12 game had Wilson, Tom, a spewey Azn guy, and some other random gamblers.

I ended up getting called for the 4/8 seat in about 10 minutes and took my place in the 7 seat next to an old soccer ref and a field of other random donks.

Both my 4/8 and later 6/12 tables didn't seem too tough at all, but I was pretty much card dead the entire session. I did see Aces once for a small win, AK for a semi nice pot after capping HU with a guy who had 99.

The only hand of note, went as follows:

Hero has the button and is deal AJ of clubs. It limped in 4 spots, and I raise, the blinds fold and UTG limp re-raises his last 4 chips, and we all call. Does anyone cap here?

Flop: J52 (2 of clubs)

Pretty sweet flop IMO. Checked to seat 4 who donks, 1 call in between and Hero raises, all call.

Turn: A of spades.

Checked to me again, I fire, all call. 4 to the river.

River A of diamonds. This turned out to be a sick, sick card.

Check to seat 4, who fires, 1 fold in between, and I raise all fold back to seat 4 who just calls.

I show AJ and rake in a monster. Turns out seat 4 flopped a set of deuces and I went runners FTW. I run gooooot!

After a while of waiting I got called for the 6/12 and sat in the 4 seat where I continued my card dead streak and didn't play a hand for 3 orbits or so outside my blinds.

I only ended up winning 1 pot before I took off in an interesting hand where I completed from the SB w/ Q4 of clubs after 4 people limped and the flop came T98 w/ the T9 of clubs. Got a bunch of bets in on the flop which was pretty std. but I really want to know is your opinion of my turn play. I will post this on CP & 67 to get some feedback.

But the short story is that I turn the flush w/ the J of clubs hitting the board. I ended up leading into the field. It would look weird to just check after playing the flop fast.

Does anyone check in the SB and hope that a Q fires the turn and go for the check raise?

Anyways, I do fire the turn and all 3 people call except the button. The river is kind of a scary card pairing the board w/ a T. I ended up nitting the river and just check calling in case some one rivered the boat.

But yeah, all in all after my session Wednesday night and Saturday afternoon, it was a pretty good week at Cap.

I finished the day:

4/8 Kill: +$130
6/12 Kill: +$70

Ain't no telling if Cache Creek will be happening this week it kinda depends on work. Otherwise, the 4/8 Superfriends, and I will be looking to put in a big session at Cache on Friday.

-Late

Capitol Casino: 4/22 - 4/8 & 6/12 Kill Wooot!

2009-04-24T22:55:00.000-07:00

It was an interesting day down at Cap and people were in the mood to throw some chips around the felt.

I ended up having a 2 part session after a false alarm put a halt the 4/8 portion of my day and I had to take off for home. I had intentions of coming back if the 6/12 game was good, as confirmed by the 4/8 Superstar via TXT.

4/8: +90 3hrs
6/12: +140 2hrs

So I made some time to play last Wednesday after work and met The Santi down at Cap around 6 to find him already seated at 4/8 just putting along.

So, not too many hands of note besides the fact that there were 2 drunk off shift dealers that proceeded to try and spew chips to everyone. One female Azn dealer in particular, open raised alot and every time that she did I turned up with a monster. I had Aces twice, QQ once, AK once, and AQ once, all holding for the day.

I will only talk about 1 hand from my 4/8 session. I am in MP w/ two black Aces, its limped in 3 spots, I raise, folded to button who raises all in for 3 more and all call. The flop comes A68 all hearts, checked to me I fire all call. Turn is the J of spades, checked to me I bet all call. River is a diamond...the Ace of Diamonds. Checked to me I bet my quads, and get 1 caller. Turns out the button flopped a queen high flush and the caller flopped 2 pair w/ 68os. So that was a nice pot.

After I returned from what I will call an extended bathroom break, I returned intending to meet Santi for some food. However I ended up playing 6/12 instead as the game got real fishy w/ two players who were complete tards and like to call 3bets cold w/ Q5 and things of that nature so it was a great game.

I will just give a greater than less than because I have no patience right now.

AT > ?? HU pot

55 > 3 players when I didn't bet the flop & turn after the SB raise and it checked to me

AK < Q5 Maj called three bets cold and raised the flop after hitting his queen.

AJ < T7 in a Kill pot where I held off a straight draw.

99 > Ax (2x) I flopped a set, after opening UTG+1 and got three bets in on the flop, and bet it the whole way down.

That is all for now, I might make it out to Cap tomorrow late afternoon-ish. If there is no blog on Sunday, look for a blog next Thursday night after a hopefully lengthy Cache session which will include some Aces Cracked Action, Woooooot.

-Out

Capitol Casino: 4/10 - Running Awful and Card Dead, What a Pair!

2009-04-10T21:44:00.000-07:00

Well it was a wonderful day in Sacramento today, birds singing, trees around the outside of the office reaking of dank twat, and charging only to overhead the entire weak gotta love it. Since the last blog I had to actually put my BR back in the bank for a time, didn't want to have random amount of cash lying around the house.

So I hit Wells Fargo after a bowl of Mongo w/ Santi, a Friday tradition <3 Mongo. And as a plus, the Superdonk made it out, woot.

But enough of this shit on to the awesomeness that is/was/will be live low limit hold'em.

So, the story begins in the 6/12 game with a huge amount of older tight players. Chop, chop, chop and steal. Not my kind of game. I only sat at the 6/12 for about hour when people started to leave, on a Friday nonetheless, wtf??? Didn't take one pot, and the table was going to break leaving me last on the waiting list. So, instead of waiting, I mozied on over to one of the 4/8 Kill games.

It is really evident that the economy is taking a dump when there is no list for a 4/8 Kill game at Capitol on a Friday night at 6pm.

Oh well, let the games begin.

I really won't tell you the hands that I won, AQ once in a HU pot, KK 2x both in kill pots and draw heavy boards. And that was really about it. And of less we forget the KQos top 2 pair hand, no big deal right.

So I was even-ish and I sat in what was a really profitable table if you could run good. And obv, by the title of the blog, I didn't and couldn't. But oh well, that is a part of limit hold'em.

As an overview of the table:

1 Seat: Hero
2 Seat: Donk old guy who looked like Schmee from Cpt. Hook, Doppelganger ftw.
3 Seat: Korean Donk who I joked a lot with the entire night.
4 Seat: Random Azn Donk
5 Seat: Horace, older man who couldn't hit a flush to save his life, he whiffed 6x that I saw.
6 Seat: Overweight old, white, Tight Passive player.
7 Seat: Random Azn Donktard
8 Seat: JPizzle esque in personality, White, NL player who ran god like, but couldn't play limit very well at all and dumped 5+ racks to the table.
9 Seat: A Bevy of random donks et. al.

Here are some awesome beats that I took, not really bad just frustrating as all hell. In before captain obvious blast.

Hand 1:

JsTs in the SB limped in 3 spots, I completed, BB checks. Flops comes: T52 (2 spades), Hero leads, called in 2 spots, button raises, I 3! Bet, and all call, Wtf? Am I good here probably not. Turn: 4 of Spades, Boom???? I lead, and get 1 fold, and the button raises, uggggg. I just call, probably should have 3!'d again but w/e, I really thought that I might be up against a better flush. Too nitty? River comes the T of Clubs, and I check call, with another caller in the middle.

Turns out Seat 8, the NL player had the Q7 of spades, and the other caller had flopped 2 pair w/ T5, so that didn't surprise me at all. Moving on.

Hero is dealt ATos UTG and I raise, called by HJ, Button old guy donk just terrible, SB and BB.

Flop comes: AT4 rainbow, great right?? You would think it goes two checks, I fire, called by HJ and BB. Turn brings a 3, BB checks, I fire again, HJ calls and the BB raises, fuck? Am I beat? I just call and the HJ folds, river is a 9, and the BB bets out and I call. He rolls over 52os for the dirty gutter ball!! Wooot gotta love it.

That hand really got me more that somewhat irritated, but he was a bad player and I didn't want to piss him off, I just rapped the table and said, "Nice hand."

So yeah, there was one more hand where I was in the BB w/ A3os and the flop comes 433 with 2 hearts and I fire the flop and turn and 5 people see the river which comes a J...of hearts and I lose to Q7 of hearts somewhere in mid-position. That was a great size pot 15BBs+ but hey, that is the swingy-swongy world of limit hold'em.

For the most part, the hands that I did play I played well, and didn't get too crazy, which can be expected from the Supernit. But, I just was card dead the entire night. KK 2x, TT 2x, 88 & 77 1x and AK 1x AQ and AJ 1x, other that that it was slim pickens (+1 for the Blazin' Saddles Ref) for the entire night. I think that qualifies as somewhat card dead.

I saw that Capitol took away the wheel spin and Aces Beat, so there is no real incentive to play there when Cache is just 45 minutes away during the week and they still run Aces Cracked.

I should be able to get down to Cap tomorrow afternoon/evening for some more awesome action. Just gotta run better that is all.

Off to INK Cafe downtown for some filet sandwich and, yup, its gonna be a Makers and Coke night, yeah, definitely.

-Out

Life/Poker Update (December to March)

2009-03-20T09:34:00.000-07:00

So its been about 4 months since the last entry and lots have changed in the land of the Supernit. I will get you all updated on the state of poker here in No-Cal.

Here are just a smattering of the happenings of my last 6-ish sessions:

- Played 4 times at Cache and made a fair amount of money, all the hands have escaped my brain now but w/e.

- Capitol finally answered the call and instituted a 6/12 Full-Kill Game which is awesome. I played that a couple times for about 10 hours and came down a bit. Basically its just a bunch of 4/8 players ready to spew out stacks and stacks $2 chips. <3 Live Poker

- Booked for Las Vegas and the CP Trip Vol. 3 (6/10 - 6/14). In attendance: Nik, Deuce, Shabbs, TFong, Rambler, Pika, AlbinoKid, Shifty, Dan and Reb to name a few.

- This time will be a bit different. Nik, Deuce, and Shabbs will be playing one of the limit events at the Series. I will have roughly 30% of Santi's action. So, when he takes home the braclet, I will be a very rich dude. Also there is a steak dinner to any of those three who knock out Daniel Negreanu.

Haven't really played much live poker lately because....

I bought a house and that takes up most of my time at the moment. Painting, neglecting the neighbors, you know all those great things that come with the house ordeal.

I hopefully look to start the live game up again some time in April to gear up for the Hi-Stakes 4/8 game that will be taking place in Vegas w/ Nik, Deuce, Shabbs, TFong, and Reb (but mostly for the 8/16 at Bellagio and the 10/20 at Mirage.

That is all for today. I have been hitting up Mongo pretty regularly, I should start a food blog.

On a separate note, the 67 weight loss/strength training bet is awesome. I have gained lots of strength and am 10 lbs away from being able to bench my own body weight (165), lame I know but I am a skinny fucker.

-Out

Cache Creek: 12/6 - 4/8 Kill

2008-12-14T22:23:00.000-08:00

Yeah, so a night after the 4/8 Superstar made his triumphant return to Cache, I ventured up by myself (degenerate gambler status) for some 4/8 action. The Superdonk would be joining me sometime later. So I didn't feel like a complete unsocial dreg of society.

I called a few friends from work and my other job (baseball instructor) to meet me up there as well. As I heard later from them, they all did pretty decent.

Anyways, on to the action. My session started off pretty slow as I dropped roughly a rack whiffing and having the older Mexi-Gambler with a cowboy hat call my raise w/ 32os and trip up on the river against my 99 in a kill pot. For the first hour or so I just shot the shit w/ Steve (guy who reminds me of Kyle Gass of Tenacious D fame) about O8 and other random things.

After that, I noticed that my table was getting pretty short in chips and I decided to call for a table change which worked out pretty well as there were a lot of gamblers and more money on the other table. I ran pretty well, after losing the first two pots I was in. Then this hand came up:

Hero in HJ w/ AKos.

UTG raises, called by 2 including SAG w/ sunglasses (I took lots of chips from him by the end of the night for his stupid aggro-donk plays, LOL), folded to me and I 3-bet, button calls as does everyone else.

Flop: 952 rainbow (swing and a miss)

Check to me, I fire, everyone calls.

Turn: K completing rainbow.

Checked to me, I fire, folds back to SAG w/ glasses and he tanks for a bit and announces raise. I insta-call, obv not giving him any respect whatsoever.

River: T

SAG bets, I call.

I show AK thinking it was no good expecting to hear a repugnant “Two Pair.” He shows K4os. <3 Live Poker.

In the following hours TFong showed up ended up playing for a good 8 hours deep into the night. After which he was hassled by a waitress funny story, you got to hear him tell it.

So yeah, like I mentioned earlier, that SAG w/ glasses tried to limp reraise me 3x through out the night. It just so happened that I had AA, KK, and QQ each time all which held in monster pots. Especially the KK hand where I flopped top set, and was called to the river by 4 people, and then boated up.

Stats:

12/6: TP: +$250 TSP: 5.5 Hrs

All in all pretty good night. Thx to TFong, Dave, and Steve for making it out.

Played Cache again on 12/12 w/ the 4/8 Superstar during the day for some Aces Cracked Action. Spoiler alert, I hit it twice!!! But would it be enough for me to post a winning session and fend off the various limit monkeys at Cache.

Good Nite Now!

Cache Creek: 11/22 - 4/8 Kill

2008-11-23T11:40:00.000-08:00

What???

Cache Creek???? Really?

Yeah so I haven't played the Creek in like 5 months and now that gas in around $2/gal it is in reach.

Recap of how the day went:

2:00pm - Receive txt from TFong that he is down to play at Cap some time around 5.
5:00pm - Arrive at Cap still waiting for TFong and add both of us to list. 4 & 5 Respectively
5:45pm - TFong arrives and we still haven't moved on list
5:50pm - TFong and I decide that we should make a run to the Creek
6:50pm - Arrive at the Creek, this is where the story begins

So I sat in the 1 seat and had 2 racks brought, std. As the I was unracking my chips, I noticed some sort of switch like apparatus on the rail of the table. So I figured, fuck it, I might as well flip it and see what happens.

Turns out it was the GOD Mode switch and I ran like Usain Bolt.

It was a great night, held in every major pot, and had some sort of tri-level stack working. TFong and I were at the same table and basically were in awe of the difference of the Creek compared to Cap. It has been so long, the speed of the game at Cache is a little slower that at Cap, so the comfort level was a bit higher.

At the end of the night, I racked up $400 and change. Fwiw, I am still looking for one of those Santi-esque days of $600+.

Thx to TFong for persuading me to hit up the Creek.

In other news, I will be leaving West Sac, and moving into the Flood Plain of North Natomas. Bought a Bank-Owned House, foreclosures FTW!!!

Details to come, house warming party obv.

Capitol Casino: 11/14 - 4/8 Kill

2008-11-23T11:36:00.000-08:00

11/14: TP: +$260 TSP: 6 Hrs

Don't really remember anything about this session except, I ran really well and held a bunch in some huge pots.

Still haven't gotten to spin the bad beat wheel yet, which I guess is a good thing. But I do love seeing the NL players, excuse me, NL shovetards walking over to the wheel in disgust to try and win back some of that money they just shipped with bottom pair, LOL.

In other news, Cap has some new TVs and will be getting 4 more tables starting in 2009, woot.

-Out

Vegas Recap 67-Meet (10/15-10/19)

2008-11-23T11:26:00.000-08:00

So Vegas came and went again. It was a great time. Seeing random chumps get floored by some white trash people out side Mirage, getting check raised every hand by Deuce at the toughest 4/8 table ever known to man, the 72 game, Santi pwning Deuce w/ T7soooted, a drunk Maj explaining every hand he won in 1/2NL, Shabba calling a certain person who came to the last trip "rather cunty", and walking back from In-N-Out. Ah all good times.

On to the poker:

O8: +$50 (5 Hours played)
10/20: -$700 (8 Hours Played)
4/8: +$600 (12 Hours Played)

The trip basically went like this:

Days 1-3: Run awful, drop 700, eat lots as the Carnegie Deli
Days 4-5: Kill the 4/8 at Bellagio for $600, not eat as much at the Carnegie Deli

Maybe I shouldn't eat so much at the Deli, LOL.

Trip was a blast, I look forward to seeing the look on the poor tourists faces when they sit down at a table with: me, Santi, TFong, Deuce, Maj, Shabba, and Reb.

I won't be in attendance for the Poker 'n Porn CP Trip upcoming in January...Cabo FTW! I hopefully will be able to make it for CP3 in June.

-Out

Vegas Mindset: Upcoming Trip (Rounders: Getting People Amped)

2008-09-30T22:22:00.000-07:00

Mindset for upcoming Las Vegas trip, LOL:

Hey listen, I put it on the line. It wasn’t a bad beat. I wasn’t unlucky. I got outplayed that time. But I know I am good enough to sit at that table. It’s not a fkn pipe dream.

I’ve never told anybody this, about eight, nine, weeks ago I am down at Capitol and its late. And I see Nik Santi walk in fresh off In-n-Out Burger. And he goes and sits 15/30, and ya know the whole place stops. ‘Nik Santi walks in’ everyone puts an eye on him.

I mean after a little while, there wasn’t a Pai Gow game going ‘cause all the Sick Azn Gamblers are over there watching. And some of them are sitting there playing with him, they’re giving away their money to the 15/30 superstar, just to say ‘Oooh, I played with the Santi.’

And you know what I did?

I sat down.

I would need about half to one grand to play right in that game. Well, I had $300.

But I had to know.

So this is what happened?

I played tight for an hour, I folded mostly. Then I made a score.

Aces or Kings?

Rags, I had 73 sooooted and the button, I had nothing.

But the Santi raised UTG, and was called by like 3 Azn gamblers, std. I just decided, you know, I have the button, and I don’t care about the money, I am just gonna outplay the this table, this hand. I re-raised.

So you played right back and the whole table, huh?

And the Santi comes right back over the top of me, trying to bully me like I am some fkn 4/8 donktard. The Azn gamblers fold, and I hesitate for like 2 seconds. I’ll re-raise.

The Santi makes a move for his checks and he looks at me, and then he makes a move toward his Coke, and then at his cards. And he looks at me again. And he mucked it, I took it down.

‘Did you have it?’

‘I’m sorry Nicholas, I don’t remember.’

I got up and walked to the cashier.

I sat with the best in Capitol, and I won.

I put a fkn move on the Santi, I am an SOB.

So that’s why I made all those runs to Mongolian BBQ/In-n-out/Pho.

And I’ll do it again if I am hungry, lol.

Basically, just up the aggression in the upcoming weeks.

Capitol Casino: 9/25 & 9/30 - 4/8 Kill

2008-09-30T21:49:00.000-07:00

9/25: TP: +$100 TSP: 3 Hrs
9/30: TP: -$150 TSP: 3 Hrs

Continuing with the theme of September, up and down, up and down.

Ran decent one session, and then couldn't hold in another.

Nothing much else to report, I had the nut flush hold tonight on a double paired board. Ugg, I really wanted to spin.

We will see what October brings.

Vegas on the 15th w/ Nik, Shabba, Duece, and possibly the Superdonk.

-Cheers.

Capitol Casino: 9/12 & 9/18 - 4/8 Kill

2008-09-20T09:51:00.000-07:00

To start some results:

9/12: TP: -$100 TSP: 6 Hrs
9/18: TP: +$120 TSP: 4 Hrs

Continuing with the theme of September, alternating sessions have been a loser and then a winner respectively.

I have done some reflecting on my play particularly in the losing sessions, and I found that I have become a tab bit less aggro, booo. Also, on that same note, I noticed that I may be folding my borderline playable hands from the SB against a raise and a caller. In particular hands like the J9s-QJs, and the KJos hands.

To remedy this, and to prepare for the upcoming Super Friends (Star, Donk, & Nit) Poker Classic, (also starring Duece, and Shabba), in Vegas I played a little more online and threw some chips around. Same thing with the last live 4/8 session that I played.

I won't really go into detail about the 9/12 session, I played bad, and I knew it. Basically I had to remember what the Superstar told me a long time ago, "If there is a question of 'should you raise?' the answer is always yes." So I re-adapted this mantra and told myself just to work on the aggro again.

So with this in place I hit the tables at Cap after the new Curry Beef Stir Fry Dish (+1 to the Capitol Kitchen), and adding Nik to the 9/18 list I was called of course to the Pai Gow room. As an aside, Cap has wheel spin in place now if you have Trip Tens or better beat (not including straights). There was a guy on my table that spun 2x in 10 min for a total profit of $550; too bad he probably gave at least half of it back that same night, LOL.

The first three hours were pretty lame have a couple hands hold in medium sized pots which floated me at or above even until I was moved into the main room to another 4/8table where I had trip dueces snapped off in a monster pot by another guy who hit his 6 kicker to fill up on the river. Fwiw, I had 72os in the BB, I run goooooot.

I didn't really get involved in a massive pot until I was moved to the Kill table with many familiar faces including Sue, Tina, Vo (Azn guy who hero called me down a few weeks ago, decent for Cap player), and antoher Filipino cat who is OK put seemed to piss me off for going running two pair vs. my over pair w/ J3os UTG mind you, w/e though.

The hand summary went ah-lika-ah dis:

Hero raises w/ KQos after 3 limpers, folded to Sue on the button who calls. Flop is Q-high with 2 diamonds (I have none), Flop is capped 5 ways, I bet the turn called by 3, but the diamond hits the river and Sue makes her flush w/ 96 of diamonds, oh well, that is std for live 4/8.

An orbit later:

Hero is dealt A9 of diamonds in mid position.
UTG, UTG+1, and the Guy immediately to my right limp in, Hero raises, Called by Sue in the SB, Tina in the BB, and everyone else.

Flop: T:d:4:d:8:s:

Sue leads out, Tina Raises, UTG, and UTG+1 call 2 cold, guy folds, Hero 3-bets, Sue Caps, and all call.

Turn: 5:s:

Sue leads, Tina, and everyone including Hero call.

River: 8:d: (boom)

Checked to Hero who bets, all call. Hero rakes.

That hand put me at about even for the night. It was getting late (for the Super-life-nit) so I told myself 1 more orbit when this hand came up:

Hero in MP w/ AQos, and Vo posted behind me.

Limped in 3 spots, Hero raises, called by Vo, the Button (Filipino guy), SB, BB and all limpers.

Flop: AxT:s:9:s:

Checked to BB who donks, called by limpers to Hero who raises, Vo insta-3bets, folded back to BB who caps, all call.

Turn: A:c:

Checked to hero (wtf?) who bets, called by everyone. Now I know I at least get a wheel spin if someone gets a goofy straight/flush/boat but w/e.

River: Q:d: (Glorious)

Checked to Hero who bets out, Vo folds, BB, and one other limper calls.

Hero shows Aces full of Queens and rakes. The BB claimed to have AJ but, yeah that was a bunch of crap so. I had 2 more hands, which folded; then confirmed Mongo Reservations with Nik for Friday (std) and then took off.

Thanks for reading.

On a unrelated note, if Tim Lincecum doesn't get the Cy Young this year the writers and voter need to be shot.

-That is all, out.

8/29 & 9/3 Capitol Casino: 4/8 Kill

2008-09-11T20:48:00.000-07:00

So the last two sessions have been an up and a down. Last week I was on a sick heater to start the night; at one point I was up $440. But of course god mode went off and I ended the night up $260

The week prior was just bad game selelction and I dropped $220

In other news I won a home game tournament for $50 last Sunday. Also I took second in the weekly URS pick em pool for a modest win of a 3 x 3 Combo Animal Style obv (also known as $6) LOL.

I also made a horrendous play with TT last session that both the 15/30 Superstar and the Superdonk let me have it for.

Hopefully should make it down to Capitol tomorrow night or saturday for some low stakes action

Also next week the Casino Royale opens, hopefully they spread a 6/12 game for those of us who can't swing they 15/30

-Out

8/21: Capitol Casino - 4/8 Kill

2008-08-21T23:29:00.000-07:00

4/8 Kill: TSP - 4.5hr. TP: +$260

Dam, Cap was jumping tonight. Lots of money in the room. When I rolled up, I noticed that they now spread a 5/10 blind NL game with a $1k max buy-in. It produced some sik, sik, action. I witnessed some $2500+ pots, truly shovetastic. They also had the 15/30 going not as the main game though.

Just as the Superstar and I were chatting earlier in the week regarding table manners and etiquette, i.e. me getting angry at players at the table; the exact thing that he mentioned happened.

Long story short:

Flopped a set of 2's in a 6 way pot, turned a boat, and then had a guy hit a higher boat on the river w/ 77, std.

Then 2 hands later (not really sure but it doesn't matter):

5 way, 3 bets preflop w/ KK on all unders board: J926, villain 2-outs with QQ on the river, and that sent any profit that I had (+120ish) at that point to even.

Until this hand comes up (God-Mode...For 1 hand at least)

Hero is UTG w/ K:d:K:h:

Hero raises, UTG+1 3-bets, all call to button who caps, blinds folds, Hero calls.

7-way capped preflop, sweet:

Flop: K:s: 6:h: 5:s:

6-way capped on the flop, to the turn.

Turn: 6:s: (BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!)

Best card in the deck.

Hero leads, UTG+1 Raises, 2 other call, I 3-bet, but apparently the dealer didn't hear me indicate raise and wanted me to take my chips back for "acting before another player's hand hit the muck." But fuck it his cards were over the line anyway. So I just called.

4 handed to the river,

River: J:s:

Even better for me. Now I know that the Q:s: and the A:s: are looking me up.

Hero bets, called by UTG, and someone in mid-position.

I show Kings for and rake in a monster, I 2-outered the guy (UTG+1, who rivered my 2's full hand) w/ A:d:A:s:. FWIW, the other caller had Q:d:Q:s:

Final tally: 14BB's preflop, 12BB's on the flop, 8BB's to the river, and 3BB's on the river = 37BB's, sweet! I <3 live poker!

And then of course, God-mode went off, and I ran normal and picked up some smallish pots, the left for the night.

Thoughts?

Might make it down to Cap again before we take off for Kings Canyon tomorrow, but we'll see.

GL to the Superdonk, and Superstar tomorrow and the upcoming weekend.

-Cheers

Las Vegas Trip Report: McCarran Airport

2008-08-10T13:38:00.000-07:00

Well so Vegas has come and gone again... And this time wasn't as fruitful of trip as the last. Needless to say that I am still running bad.

Here are the irrevelent stats:

4/8: +120 TSP: 2hrs
8/16: -340 TSP: 2hrs (game broke on a Friday night at 8pm WTF?)
10/20: -300 TSP: 4 hrs (ran into some big hands and couldn't hit any draws)

Didn't get to play as much as expected, standard for trips with lots of people involved. But that is the way it goes sometimes.

Look for some hands on CP later in the week

Later.

8/7: The Wait...Off to Las Vegas

2008-08-07T07:39:00.000-07:00

Well, all is quiet on the work front right now and the ETA for Las Vegas and sis's birthday celebration/poker trip is exactly 12 hours.

Look for periodic updates hopefully with some sessions of 8/16 & 10/20 and possibly some O8 sprinkled in for fun.

GL to the crew here in Sacramento this weekend at Capitol.

-Out

7/11: Capitol Casino - 4/8 Kill & 9/18 - "Where the Money Comes From"

2008-07-11T19:28:00.000-07:00

4/8-Kill: TP = -$140 TSP = 3.5 Hrs
9/18: TP = -$220 TSP = 2.5 Hrs

It wasn't a winning day down at Capitol. It was one of those days that you tell yourself, "Man, if I just could hold one time, that would be fukin' great."

The session started off pretty well at 4/8 and I was up a smooth rack in about the first hour, when I turn a set, had it capped 4 ways to the river. But after that glimmer of awesomeness, it was all down hill from there. I found myself whiffed down to +$20 and then I was called for the 4/8 Kill.

A few hands that led in my downswing were are follows:

Hero has K8s in the BB and 6 players see the flop which comes 8-high, so I lead, and am called by everyone. The turn brings another 8, sick, I fire again, the UTG player immediately raises and says he has a boat and has to raise, then the button calls, and the small blind, hmmm. There was 1 possibility for a straight out and now 2 flush draws. For some reason I just called like an idiot (was eating). The river is a 6, and I am perfectly content about check calling the river. I check, UTG bets button and SB fold (wtf?) and I call, he says well I guess I got there and shows 86os for the rivered boat. That is what I get for not 3-betting the turn.

When I moved to the Kill game, I can safely say that I only won 1 hand in 3 hours, pretty standard for the type of day I was having. I won't go into detail about the hands were I got rivered after check raising 5 people with TPGK and having someone with bottom pair no kicker call 2 cold and river trips on me, whatever.

Overall, I just ran extremely cold. This session was very similar to one up at the Creek last year where I just folded for about 5 hours and whiffed everthing. It was terrible, I haven't run that horrible in a long, long time. But hey, that is why we have bank rolls.

Onto the 9/18, and yes they did get it going around 4:30 sweet. The Superdonk showed up after work and sat to my right until he had to leave, he finished about even for the day.

My general comments on the game:

-Great Blind Structure
-Players are still the same terrible ones who play the 4/8
-After the first 2 orbits everyone wanted to gamble
-Saw some ridiculously terrible plays by all the SAG-tastic Donks
*Calling 2 bets cold w/ T7os 2x
*Calling 2 cold w/ 67os
*And other terrible plays

This game, if it runs consistently will my game of choice, no one impressed me at all, I just couldn't find cards or hold the few times that I did have a hand.

Best hand:

Uber SAG-Tard to my right is UTG and limps
Hero has Black Queens and raises
Called by Button, SB and BB all terribly loose players

Flop: 933 rainbow

Checks to UTG who donks, I raise, folded to BB who calls, UTG SAG-Donk 3bets, at this point I know that she doesn't have a 3, because she isn't that dumb so I elect to call and raise the turn regardless the card that comes off.

Turn: 9

Whoops, so much for that idea, that just fucked my whole plan up. BB checks as does the UTG SAG, so I now I know at least one of these players has a 9 or a 3 for that matter, and I need the Q to take it down

River: 7

BB checks, UTG bets, I reluctantly call, BB folds and UTG show T9os, standard for the turned boat.

Thoughts on the flop play?

I had seen her play her top pair hands really fast like that, and I knew that I was ahead on the flop.

Anyways, I love it when people limp 86os UTG, and call raises with T7os and all assortments of crap, its great.

I am out, till next week. I should be able to get some 4/8 Kill in at the Cap next Thursday. Hopefully I can find the Santi-Kenyan-On-Crack-God-Mode Switch.

Later.

7/3: Capitol Casino - 15/30 (wtf?) and 4/8 Kill

2008-07-06T21:19:00.000-07:00

What the hell? Yeah you read right. The Supernit played 15/30, but only for an hour, because I am the Supernit.

15/30: TSP - 1 hr. TP: -$100
4/8 Kill: TSP - 2.5hr. TP: +$100

Prior to talking about the short time of 15/30, the 4/8 Kill was cool, made some hands hold and ended up a rack from that; not anything of note to mention.

So yeah, in lieu of the 9/18 Kill game at Capitol, they have started spreading a 15/30 game which is hugely out of my bankroll. They only reason I played the 15/30 was because I was railing it, and I saw countless 4/8 plays. People coldcalling 2 bets with shit, playing uber loose, and just making horrible plays. I figured fuck it, why not put my name on the list it will never get called, Whoops. The wait at Capitol was horrendous, the 4/8 list was about 15+ deep and I didn't end up getting called until an hour of the 15/30 game.

So quick rundown of my experience:

-The 2/3 blind structure makes for looser completing requirements.
-The players were a tiny bit better, but not amazing, definitely noticeable
-Knew when to lay down Aces.

A quick HH:

Hero is UTG+2 w/ the black AA.

UTG open limps.
Folded to Hero, Hero raises.
Called by HJ, Button, both SB, BB and UTG.

Flop: 854 rainbow

SB checks, BB donks, UTG calls, Hero raises, folded back to BB who 3-bets, UTG calls, Hero caps all call.

Thoughts???

With the BB donking,I thought two pair, or even a set. The thing that really made me think. What was the UTG guy calling 2 bets cold back to him, crazy?

Turn: 6

Shit, that pretty much killed my hand. BB leads out, UTG calls, Hero folds.

River was a King.

Showdown went like this:

BB had 67 for the flopped nut straight, and UTG showed 57os for the turned gutty to tie.

That was all dirty, but gotta lay em down when you are beat.

So, when I get rolled, like in 2 years, I will be frequenting this game.

Hopefully, the 9/18 game will be running of Friday and I will get in about 5 hours.

And, this just in; my sister, (easy Nik), turns 21 in August and there is another trip to Las Vegas and the Mirage in the works.

-Out

7/5: Blog Neglect and Las Vegas Round 1

2008-07-06T20:59:00.000-07:00

Well, where the hell have I been???? Its been a blur of the last 3-plus months. Here is a little update of what has happened in the life of the Supernit:

-Graduated w/ B.S. in Civil Engineering from CSU Sacramento (good bye to school)

-Started full time (pay raise woot) w/ URS (U Really Suck Engineering Inc.)

-Girlfriend (Vanessa) has now moved into our apartment

-Visited Las Vegas to meet the CP crew (ups to Duece, Pika, Shabba, Luske, and Eusebio all were chill cats)

Oh yeah....

Played lots of poker that I have neglected to blog about so here it goes.

For the months leading up to graduation, the Superstar and the Superdonk played countless sessions at Cache Creek and Capitol Casino. From every single session I found myself learning a ton about leaks in my game and spots where I need to be betting and taking down pots that no one wants.

On that same note, there were not that many things to note of from the sessions that I played in California. Las Vegas was a whole other ball game. The game in LV is, as the Santi said, a little softer than that of the casinos and cardrooms here in CA.

As was the plan, I stepped up to 10/20 all at the Mirage and found out the game is not any different from the 4/8 Kill that I usually play. It was a great experience, and I can't wait to go back soon.

All in all, the LV trip boasted a total profit of $430 from roughly 22 hours (mixed 4/8 half-kill, Omaha 8-or-Better, and 10/20) of play which payed for the trip and the nights out later in the week that Vanessa and I had.

-Cheers

Whatever the Session Numbers were for the Month of May

2008-05-17T17:32:00.000-07:00

Well, I have been having a pretty good run up at Cache the past 4 sessions....

Excluding today.

Whiffed alot, got sucked out on a lot, whiffed some more, played pretty well in spite of everything, and dropped 2 racks.

Lots of good things to take away from this session, will blog it up later.

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Yeah, so as I was saying, ran pretty atrocious, but that would be an understatement. It was more of running bad and cold at the same time; didn't play too many hands, and when I did, I could make them hold.

Short summary:

TT gets 3 outered on the River.
KK gets 3 outerend on River.
KK can't fade a flush draw and over card.
AA gets 2 outered by 66.
AK, AQ, AT, etc, whiffs every time.
Hit no flush draws, didn't flop and sets.
Saw AA (1), KK (3), QQ (1) TT (1) and 44 (1).
Got to lay down kings on all unders board on turn, boo (2 bets to me on turn)
Ran QQ in KK who limped in UTG.

So all in all pretty craptastic day. Oh well, we can't run Santi-like all the time.

Probably will see the creek on Thursday.

-Late.

Session No. 34 Capitol Casino (3/4)

2008-03-04T23:36:00.000-08:00

4/8-Kill: TP = +$130 TSP = 4 Hrs

Got to play a little today, and let me just say that Cap was in extreme GAMBOOOOL Mode, at least at my second table. It was so great. My table had My Grandma, a younger black female, a couple younger Azn donktards, and Tina, the middle aged Latina woman who plays somewhat solid, and an older Filipino Donk.

Anyway, I really didn't run too great and had to hit the flop with some interesting cards. I saw TT once, and QQ once, AQos once, and AJ once.

TT<99 in 5 way capped preflop pot.
QQQJ>KK in 4 way pot, flopped trip Q's and rivered a boat.
K6s turns flush and 2 people call down.
85>99 rivered quads.
KQos gets there against flopped two pair by turning flush.

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Ok I will post the more interesting hands that I lost first:

Last Hand I played:

Hero (Seat 8) is UTG and raises w/ QQ (clubs and diamonds), UTG+1 3bets, Seat 1 calls 3 cold hmmm, folds to SB who calls 2.5, and Sue calls 2 more, Hero Caps and all call. ($80)

Flop: Ts 9s 6s (Ugg not really a good flop for QQ but what the hell right)

Checks to Hero, who bets out, UTG+1 calls, Seat 1 Raises, SB calls 2 cold, as does Sue, Hero calls (right play does anyone 3bet????), UTG+1 Calls. ($120)

Turn: 9c

All check to Seat 1 who bets, SB calls, Sue calls, Hero calls (comments), UTG+1 calls.

River: 6h (Fuck)

I was planning on making a crying call on the river due to the pot size but that just got shot to hell.

SB checks, Sue bets out, shit I am way beat even more that before, UTG+1 Folds, Seat 1 Calls, and SB calls.

Showdown:

Seat 1- K3 of spades flopped flush
Sue has 86os for 6's full of 9's
SB takes it w/ 98os for 9's full.

Wow, gambooooool!!!!

Hand 2:

Hero is in SB w/ TT

Folded to Filipino Donk (Seat 3) in MP who raises, Seat 4 calls, Seat 5 3bets, folds to hero who caps it, BB calls, and all others call.

Flop: 9 5 2 rainbow (Good I think)

Hero leads out, BB folds, Seat 3 raises, Seat 4 folds, Seat 5 calls, Hero just calls (knew I should have capped it fuck)

Turn: A

I figure to donk bet and get the other 2 people at the table out of the hand and for that fact that the Filipino Donk had 9 chips in front of him. Well that doesn't work, he goes all in for 9 and then Seat 5 calls also.

River: 3

Bleh, Hero check and all check:

Showdown:

Hero Show TT
Seat 5 mucks
Filipino guys shows 99 for a set.

Oh well, should have 3 bet the flop for sure now in retrospect.

Here is my favorite hand of the night:

Earlier on CP the Santi and I had a little convo about raising with suited connectors well here it goes:

Hero is in Hi-Jack w/ 67 of clubs:

Were are 7 handed at this point.

UTG limps, Sue limps, Black female limps, Hero raises (thats right), CO calls and button folds, SB calls as does the BB, Sue and the Black female.

Flop: Q:c: 9:c: 3:c: (Boooom!!!!)

Checked to Hero who bets and CO calls, BB calls, and Sue calls.

Turn: K:d:

Check to Hero who bets, and same story. Don't put up another club.

River: A:s:

Sweet, Checked to Hero who fires again, and all fold giving me a nice pot.

This was a little better situation than the 98s hand that I raised with on Saturday for couple reasons: 1- Position 2- the players behind me were very passive and I could try to at least get position on the table to be able to check behind if a couple face cards hit the board.

Well, it was a good short session.

In other news my new bed arrives in a couple days, California King FTW!!!!!!

GL to the Superstar and Superdonk at Club CC on Thursday.

-Good Nite Now.

Session No. 33 Capitol Casino (2/22 & 2/23)

2008-02-26T22:23:00.000-08:00

4/8-Kill: TP = +$200 TSP = 10 Hrs

Well at the Superstar's request I am updating. I am just busy with graduating and having no luck putting off becoming an adult. Adulthood = Bad. With Graduation a short 3 months away I gotta get in some awesomeness before life officially starts (to suck).

College = Great :-)

But I digress... After a No. 1 and No. 2 Animal Style at the new In-N-Out the Santi and I figured there was nothing better to do than play some cards in the afternoon on a Friday, and we headed down to Cap and were seated at about 2:30 and minimal waiting time.

I was quickly off to an ospicious start running decent hands into the nuts and calling down. And whiffing some overs, and having no draws hit.

Here is a hand where I thought played badly:

Hero in in Hi-Jack w/ AsTs

UTG limps, someone in MP limps, Hero Raises, Button folds, SB calls, BB calls, and rest call.

Flop: A Q J Rainbow

Checked to Hero who bets, SB folds, BB raises (2 pair?), UTG folds, MP calls (put him on weak ace), Hero calls.

Turn: J

BB leads, UTG folds (wtf???? 99 maybe), Hero Calls (I figured that if he had the straight, I can tie/win with 6 cards, weak move pretty much committed myself to calling the river)

River: 3 bah

BB bets, Hero Calls.

BB tables KTos. Hero mucks. Oh well should have laid it down on the turn. Didn't really have a read on the guy so far, he seemed to play tighter than most at Cap.

After that I lost some kill pots w/ AK twice, and AJ once. Before I knew it I was reaching for the 3rd hundred in the wallet, and an orbit or so later this hand happened:

Hero UTG w/ 99 (getting no raises respected at this point sweet!! <3 Live Players)

Hero raises, called by someone in MP, and CO, SB calls, and BB calls (5 to the flop)

Flop: 9 6 5 rainbow

Checked to Hero who bets, called by MP, and CO, SB folds, BB calls. (great I gotta fade some straight draws)

Turn: 4 (Ugly card, 2 flush in diamonds out also)

Checks to Hero, who bets, MP folds, CO raises, BB folds, Hero calls. (Shit, 1 time pair the board)

River: 4 Booooooom!!!

Now I gotta Donkbet so I can at least get 1 more bet from some guy overplaying his 2 pair, or straight.

So Hero donkbets, CO pauses and says "Raise", Ha Ha!!! 3-Bet FTW. CO calls.

I hear Santi go, " 9's full FTW " Yup.

CO shows 87os for the flopped straight. Gotta love when your UTG raises are called by offsuit connectors :-)

I rake in a healthy pot, and then proceed to make 99 a winner over KK with a straight flush against an all-in Reggie Jackson looking Filipino man who ran absolutely horrible the entire day. Then rivered the nut straight in a medium pot, and had a couple 2 pair hands w/ 97s and A6s not got to showdown and I found myself up close to 120 after being down almost 300.

Then this hand occured where I went into life nit mode:

Hero is OTB w/ KsQs.

1 limper, Santi Raises from Hi-Jack, CO calls, Hero calls, SB folds, BB calls, and limper calls.

Flop: Q T (rag)

Checked to the Santi who bets out, CO folds, Hero raises, BB folds, limper folds, Santi 3-bets, Hero calls. (At this point, I think I might have the same hand as Nik, but unlikely, He most likely has AA-KK, AQ, or TT)

Turn: 7

Santi bets, Hero folds. Later he tells me he had AQ, I should have been able to showdown top pair their, but hey I am the Super-Nit.

Had another hand against the Disabled guy in the wheel chair where I had AK in a kill pot flopped an Ace and bet flop but not the turn cause flush got there. Same thing happened when I flopped a King w/ KTos from the SB and flush and straight got there on the turn so I didn't bet, and it was heads up. Live and learn/bet.

After finding trips on the river against the Superstar, we decided to call it a night and I left up $140, and Nik just didn't run good at all and dropped a little bit.

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About 24 hours later, bored and recovering from getting hammered w/ the lovely Vanessa, Mike and Shawn the night before, I hit up the SuperDonk to see if he was interested in a little Capitol action.

Dam the waiting time at Capitol on a Saturday night, it sucks!!! I got there about 8 and proceeded to read War and Peace, eat a club sandwich, call Alycia, solve world hunger, and hate waiting more.

Didn't get seated until 10:15 or so atrocious 2+ hours of waiting?????

After hearing from the SD, he mentioned he was gonna be late and didn't show up until 12:30 or so , but oh well.

Played pretty standard most of the night (4 hrs 10:15-2:15) and even got some flushes to hold only a couple hands of note.

As side from the fact that there was a guy on the SD's table who had 1600 in chips. Are you shitting me???? NO! This guy had a sick rush, every hand he was in he won. His wife was 2 seats on my left she was LAGGY as shit but hit every dam hand, couldn't believe it.

Here is a good hand:

Hero is in BB w/ Qc2c.

5 see the flop including (Sue a.k.a My Grandma a.k.a "Queen High Ship It")

Long story short:

I flop frush, turn gives Sue Top Pair Nut frush draw, I raise turn, 2 people call down!

Nice.

Well, I am out.

Might, and I say Might play Friday w/ El Santi.

-Out

Session No. 28 & No.31/32 Cache Creek and Capitol Casino (2/6 & 2/12)

2008-02-15T14:31:00.000-08:00

4/8-Kill: TP (at both Places = -$70 TSP = 12.5 Hrs

Cache 4/8 Kill: TP = $85 TSP = 7.5 Hrs
Capitol 4/8 Kill: TP = -$155 TSP = 5 Hrs

Obviously still not running well. I need to find the cheat to unlock the Santi-esque God Mode like in Doom and Duke Nukem.

I really learned a ton a Capitol the other night and will blog about that later.

So here is you dam blog update superstar; stay tuned for something later about the AQ of spades hand, and the Red Aces hand as well as me continually getting into it with other players at the table.
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Session No. 28 & No.29/30 Cache Creek and Capitol Casino (1/30 & 2/1)

2008-02-01T18:18:00.000-08:00

4/8-Kill: TP (at both Places = -$100 TSP = 9 Hrs

Boooo. I am in a little bit of a down swing at the moment, looking to make the month a lot better than the atrocious month on January.

Any way, not anything to big to report except:

In both sessions I ran Kings into Aces, nice.

Got 3bet by 36os, T6os, and an assortment of other random crap that of course hit.

I am just waiting to run better. I know that I am not playing badly, just running bad.

I did get to hit a pretty sick 2 outer today at Capitol HH to come later.

Session No. 28 Capitol Casino (1/26)

2008-01-27T22:07:00.000-08:00

4/8-Kill: TP = +$60 TSP = 5 Hrs

Got up to $140 at about the 4th hour mark it was a little better day even for Capitol.

My table was pretty loose and mildly aggressive. Flopped a couple of sets and they held. Had a couple of boats, and a few straights.

Not too much to really blog about.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot. I got into it with some Momma when she donk bet into me. Things were said, and more things were said. Basically went like this.

I ended up pointing out that she donk bet, and then she questioned my raise etc., and then she said that I play bad and show go play no limit as, I was up $140 at the time, I could care less.

It was great she thought that she was good, and I saw her limp 54os UTG and cold call a couple raises with such stupendous holdings as K6s and T7os. But, what do I know, I am a bad player.

See you all at the Creek at about 2:30 on Wednesday.

-Out

Session No. 27 Cache Creek (1/23)

2008-01-27T21:59:00.000-08:00

4/8-Kill: TP = -$40 TSP = 6.5 Hrs

Very slow swingy day at the Creek. Got there at about 5:15 and was seated shortly after.

I proceeded to go on a mini heater where I only played 5 hands before our table broke and I was moved to the SD's table.

I ran down a boat on a guy who had bottom two, and I turned top two, and rivered the boat. Then two hands later I got aces cracked in a kill pot.

After that it was just slow, didn't have any hands of note, just didn't run to terribly well.

Ended up down 40, not much to say. Just missed a couple 15 outers and on 4 OESD's, but that is poker.

Session No. 26 Cache Creek (1/10)

2008-01-15T12:23:00.000-08:00

4/8-Kill: TP = -$230 TSP = 5 Hrs

Ran atrociously, not even cool, I suck at life.

Lets see where to start, I was reviewing my play along with the Superstar, and I didn’t play bad except in 1 spot. Other than that I just got unluckly and couldn’t get a hand to hold.

Here is a little run down of the hands.

AK soooted < KQ: Flopped TPTK, and got in a raise on the flop, Momma turn is a Q and donk bets into me, I call down.

KQ soooted < AT: Flopped top two (board K Q T), flop was capped w/ “Queen High Ship It”, turn A, got to check it down cause I mentioned that I got her beat.

KK < A4s in Kill Pot: Villain Random Asian Gambler (RAG) turned nut flush and didn’t raise.

And my personal favorite-

Dominic (ooh, Middle Aged Persian Man, who called me eh-Scrooge, and hates me) Got involved in a hand along with another person)

Here is the hand:

Hero is in BB w/ T3 of spades, Dominic is UTG. 4 to the flop.

Flop: T 3 2 (2 hearts) Sweet

SB Checks, Hero bets, Dominic Raises, everyone folds to Hero, Hero 3 bets, Dominic Caps.

At this point I am either way ahead or way behind, and I feel that he has a vulnerable hand, maybe a draw, or even a huge hands like a set of deuces.

Turn: K

Hero checks, Dominic bets, Hero calls. (I ask, “Do you have a set?” Knowing very well that he doesn’t have tens, or a set of threes (very unlikely)

River: 2 of Hearts

Hero checks, Dominic bets, Hero calls.

Dominic immediately says, “Full House.” Like an asshole, I figured to set pocket 3’s but of course, what do you think he had…

Exactly T2 sooooted FTW, nice 2-outer fuckboy. Wow I wish I could limp T2 UTG like that, but hey I play bad.

Its okay though, the Superstar got him back in a Kill Pot. Can you say, “Captain 1-Outer”?

It was so sick. Dominic flopped a full house, got in a raise on the turn, and the Superstar rivers quads. HA HA HA!!!

But yeah, I can’t run good all the time, that is poker.

The hand I played bad was where the SD raised UTG w/ AT, folded to me, w/ QQ I 3-bet, Xue (Sue) Caps. All call, and the flop was TT4.
We capped the flop, all call down. Whoops. Should have folded the turn. The SD only has 1 hand here, he isn’t check raising the flop at that with out a ten.

In other news, I moved out, WOOOT!, won’t probably be playing this week, maybe Saturday downtown w/ the Superstar but that is about it.

Apartments rule.

-Late

Session No. 25 Cache Creek (1/1)

2008-01-05T11:07:00.000-08:00

4/8-Kill: TP = $25 TSP = 5 Hrs

Happy 2008!!!

GG to the Superdonk who came up $270 or so. I run so bad... I run so bad. Must be tough when you have the nuts and the 2nd nuts wants to cap every street with you. Ha Ha Ha. Nice work T.

Ugggggggggggggggggggggg. Not too much to talk about, was pretty card dead the entire session and only played 11 hands out of the blinds or so "Life Nit". It was bad really. Was up 70 at one point and then I missed w/ some over and the didn't have any of my pairs hold. Oh well.

Thanks to the Superstar for Panda, which is horrible by the way. Now it is Pick up Stix FTW!!!!

In other news, I "Fendered" my way to talking 2nd in the CP Forum Olympics Event No. 8 a 6-Max NL Freezeout for $40. I had two fairly sick hands; a 3 outers in the first level, and a 2 outers when I already was ITM.

AT > AK soooooted
66 > 77 sorry Cas.

And then I went busto heads up when my A7 < Cas's K7 sooooted both flopped a 7, and he rivered the K. Oh well, I a huge NL donk but it was fun.

Maybe the Creek tonight w/ JP, the Superstar, and the Superdonk but who knows depending on the weather.

Session No. 24 Cache Creek (12/27)

2007-12-28T07:55:00.000-08:00

4/8-Kill: TP = -$97 TSP = 5 Hrs

Ran pretty horrible (true statement)

I played pretty terrible in the first half of the session as well, try to push people around and was just looking like a maniac. It was bad. I think all and all, I learned a bunch for this session more than I have in a real long time, though:

1.I need to talk more at the table.

2.I just need to be a lot more friendly and cheerful by saying some goofy shit while
playing.

3.“Win with grace, lose with style.”

I won’t talk about most of the hands where guys just straight out-flopped me but I can say that I did get 2-outered and 1-outered tonight. Sick

So in my 3rd hand of the night, right when the Superstar and I arrived, I get 99 UTG. Here is the HH:

Hero raises, called by the button and SB, and BB.

Flop: Q96 (2 hearts) Good flop, I think.

SB checks, BB donk bets, Hero raises, button calls, SB folds, BB 3 bets, Hero Caps, and button calls 2 more and is all in.

Turn: 4

BB donk bets again, Hero raises, BB calls. I know that I am way good here and I think this guy flopped 2 pair.

River: Q

Fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BB bets out, Hero just calls.

BB Donk shows Q6os for the rivered 2 outer. Hero shows 99 :-( Sucks to be me.
And the worst part was he didn’t even know that he had won the pot. He tells me, “Ooo, nice hand,” and I sheepishly reply, “Yeah, you won though.” Ouch, so in 3 minutes, I was already in a 60 hole. Great way to start off the night.

I then progressed to not run like the Santi and kill the table. Oh well, its all good.

Happy New Year!

See you all in 2008.

Session No. 23 Capitol Casino (12/23)

2007-12-25T14:21:00.000-08:00

4/8 Kill TP = +$212 TSP = 3 Hrs

This was the most aggresive (preflop) session to date. On the advice of the Superstar, and in an effort to be less exploitable, I adapted the mantra of "If it is folded to me, I would raise to play, regardless of the cards." Obviously they had to be playable.

I had a huge range today, and I was running really well. Here are the hands that I raised when folded to:

T9s in MP, JTs, KTos in LP, and on a straight steal attempt QTs UTG+1, and my personal favorite 66 UTG.

Here is the HH for that hand:

Hero is UTG w/ 66:

Hero raises, called in 2 spots and the blinds call. (5 players)

Flop: 5 6 7 rainbow (Boom???)

Checked to hero who leads, folds back to the SB who Check raises, then the BB 3 bets, Hero caps.

Turn: A (2 hearts).

SB checks, BB leads, Hero raises, SB folds, BB 3 bets, Hero calls. Pretty sure I need to pair the board now and the aggro tard BB has a a straight but I didn't give him any credit at all. He was the same guy from the session that The Superdonk, Santi, and I were on the same table and he donked away $600+ in a little more that 2 hours.

Anyways, River: 7 (Boom!!!!!)

BB leads, Hero Raises, BB 3 bets, Hero Caps, BB calls.

Hero shows Sixes Full of Sevens, and BB shows 34 of hearts for the flopped straight.
:-) I run goooooooooooot!!!!

That was a huge pot.

The table was really loose and I was able to limp behind in LP w/ the gap connectors, 57s-68s, and the T7s it I made some goofy two pairs, and flushes.

See you at the Creek on Thursday.

-Merry Christmas!!!!!

Session No. 22 Capitol Casino (12/22)

2007-12-23T13:28:00.000-08:00

4/8 Kill TP = +$112 TSP = 4 Hrs

I ran decent, but also missed some huge combo draws and whiffed and aggro/blinded myself down from up $250 to up $110. Can't Complain.

I told myself that I was going to work on my agression today, and I didn't I can recall 3 spots where it was folded to my in MP and LP and I raised it up w/ QJos, 87s OTB, and 55 in the HJ. Gotta do it to be less exploitable.

Here is a huge hand:

Hero is somewhere in MP w/ KQ of spades.

Kill Pot 8/16 limped in 3 spots, Hero raises to $16. Folds to BB who calls, and limpers call.
Flop: A T 6 ( T and 6 of spades, I am praying someone has an ace and will Creck raise because this was a live table, but that didn't happen )

Checked to me, I fire called in 3 spots.

Turn: J of clubs, BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!

Checked to me, I fire out $16 again, folds back to some guy in MP who check raises. Can you say snap double-fist??? I 3-bet and he just calls.

Cue Tom Petty - And I'm free, free rollin'....

River: 2 of spades.

Checked to me, I fire $16 again, and other guy just calls, I show the 2nd flush, He flopped a set of tens. Man, that would have been interesting to see how much more we could have got in on the flop had he check-raised me.

That was a nice $200+ pot.

Not too much more to talk about, next week the Star, Donk, and the Nit will probably be back up at the creek.

-Good nite now.

Session No. 21 Cache Creek (12/20)

2007-12-23T11:45:00.000-08:00

4/8 Kill TP = -$39 TSP = 7.5 Hrs

Ugggggg.............. (The night of playing AK from the SB 7 times)

Dam this was a atrociously slow night for me. The Superdonk and I rolled in to the Creek about 6:30 and sat down at 1 of the 2 4/8 Kill tables that they had running instead of eating :(

The night started off pretty dismally, and I was running cold, BRRRRRRRRRR. I think I won 2 small pots that sufficed to buy my blinds for about the first hour and a half. The SD was running alright and was taking down some pots, and got Aces Cracked to put him up a bit in the first 2 hours. After running cold for a while and waiting for the Superstar to bust in the CP-Forum Olympics PLO H/L tourney (gg 3rd btw), I took a table change and won a small pot against my ex-neighbor where I turned 2 pair, and was behind hugely Preflop and on the flop but no one let me know, (QJos behind to KQs until turn).

And then the next orbit I get AK of spades UTG and, I felt a little lost in this hand, there was a laggy guy in the big blind who I had seen play every hand but 2 in 2+ orbits so I thought that he was extremely loose. Can you say blind sided?

Here is the HH:

Hero has AK of spades UTG and raises.
Folded to button who calls, SB folds, BB 3-bets, Hero Caps, button folds.

Flop: T 8 7 rainbow.

BB leads out, Hero takes on off to re-evaluate on turn. Here is where my play went wrong:

Turn: K

BB leads out again, Hero flat calls, whoops mistake. After discussion with the Superstar, I should have raise/folded to a 3 bet on the turn. So I just called anyway.

River: 7

I really thought that he had Aces or queens here. So, he led out again, Hero calls w/ Kings up, and the BB shows 88 for the flopped set, and rivered boat. Wasn't expecting the 3-bet to be from 88. In retrospect, that is a pretty good play for pot control and lead aggression.

After a few other losing hands and whiffing some overs and draws, I was down close to $160 or so, and I rebought. Then the Santi showed up, and I moved back to the other table w/ the SD to my right and Nik over 2 seats to my left.

Nik was on fire with some great lines throughout the night, as is usual for him, the table talk master.

"I guess I'll cap it." With KK in the SB after the Superdonk 3 bets from LP, and of course he flops a set of Kings, gg.

"This is a Phan loves me call." And she does love him... More than the SD (jack pot smack, $1700 dollars for the SD to throw a chair at the Santi. Oh but wait that $1700 didn't happen.)

"Are you sure you want to do that? I have some back door draws." And in true Santi fashion, he goes runner-runner flush. Nice.

So I found myself able to pick up some decent sized pots have AK, AQ, AJ and other random assortments hold, save for my 2 sets. 1 that I flopped and some guy just calls w/ a gutty and rivers it, uggh. I turned another one against the Superdonk but is doesn't hold.

Hero has TT utg, and raises, called in 2 spots or whatever, SB calls as does the SD.

Flop: K 9 8 (2 spades)

Checked to me I fire it, called in 1 spot and then the SD check raises, I call as does the guy in the hand.

Turn: Offsuit T, (boom????)

SD leads out, Hero raises, other guy folds, SD calls. All right I know his hand now,I just have to dodge a spades on the river and I scoop.

River: 2 of spades, RIGGGGED!!!!!

He leads, thanks to Superdonk for that. I call, he shows KJ of spades. Nothing that I could do, nice hand to SD.

From then on, the Santi started to free fall, as did the SD who was up about +$240 or so until, he got rapezorded in a kill pot w/ a set of threes vs. the nut straight, vs. the 2nd nut straight. PAIR THE BOARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That was a $300+ pot.

After I flopped 2 pair twice, I found my self even at about 1 a.m. Then fell off a little bit and we all decided to make a run at the truck stop for some chicken fried steak and eggs, and a tuna melt. Yeah, I am life-nit I had the tuna melt. ("Dude don't be such a Vagine, I gotta get a red bull before class.")

Thanks to the SD, and the Superstar for chauffeuring to and from the Creek of Cache.

Hopefully next week some time we will return and hit up the Aces Cracked extravaganza for about 6 hours.

-Late

Session No. 20 Cache Creek (12/13)

2007-12-16T17:40:00.000-08:00

4/8 Kill TP = +300 TSP = 5 Hrs

Made the 4/8 Superstar and I ventured up to the Creek and were seated at an almost broken 4/8 Kill Table. We played 5 handed for about and hour or so, and Nik and I played pretty aggro just like 6-max online.

The Persian man, Dominic, who was in seat 6 and was feeling like he was in the mood to donate, and got pissed when I didn't show at his request. I guess I shouldn't pissed off the fish and just showed him. Hopefully I will be able to incorporate the upcoming concepts from the "Don't tap the Glass: How to keep the fish at the table," by the Santi.

Anyways, I have to say that I ran pretty well and the opposite side of the table was donating all its chips to our side. Seats 1-4 were pretty solid the whole night with Chili (who made $2500 for rivering quad 3's), the 4/8 Superstar, myself, and Pat, a solid player who liked to gamble. All of us didn't clash to much through out the whole night. Chili got me once when he flopped a boat w/ JT and I just had TPTK. Oh well.

There was a guy that just kept paying off, and paying off, and paying off. Jason, who tried to bluff waaaaaay to much on pretty much every hand. It was great, I probably made about $60 solely off of him.

Big hands of the night:

QQ flopped set turned boat. Called down in 2 spots
AK in Kill Pot
K-rag OS - Rivered 2nd nut flush
Q-rag OS - ""
KK holds in big pot
Another had that I can't mention, that I will never play like that again. The Superstar know what hand this is.

I took down many many small pots w/ just a cbet and aggression.

The only hand that I will post a HH about is a TT hand solely from the reason that I felt a huge improvement in my game.

Hero in Hi-Jack w/ TT

Limped in 1 spot, folded to Hero who raises
Called by Button, blinds, and limper.

Flop: A 9 4 rainbow.
Checked to me, I fire called in 2 spots

Turn: A puts 2 flush out
Checked to me I fire again. Called only by button. At this point, I felt that I was good here and he didn't have the Ace, this is about one of the safest cards that I felt could come off at this point, or obviously another ten.

River: 2
So, I figured just to check call to, on the off chance that he had the Ace it would only be $8 instead of $16.

This is just a point that I would have gave up and fold to a bet on the turn. But times have changed.

Thanks to the Superstar for coming out. Most likely there will be another trip up to the Creek next week some time.

-Cheers

Session No. 19 Capitol Casino Tues (12/11)

2007-12-12T00:40:00.000-08:00

Capitol Casino: 4/8 Kill TP = +170 TSP = 5 Hrs

Well this was a pretty fun night I think for everyone at the table, we had the 4/8 Superstar in seat 3, the 4/8 Superdonk in seat 4, and then yours truly, the 4/8 Supernit in seat 5. Oh and might I add, we had the 72 Prop Bet going the whole night, some fool did get it, I don't quite remember who it was. This night could have seen me up about $300, had I not ran a set into a flush, and AK w/ TPTK into QQ for a set, oh well that'll happen.

Thanks to the Superstar and the Superdonk who came out to Phó Bác for food.

My night started off pretty slow as I as placed in a straight 4/8 game with some capitol regulars, a man who resembled Hubie Brown, and of course some other guys who were your typical Capitol players. I think I ended up chopping only 1 hand with a straight in 3 orbits, and then I was moved to the Kill Table where all the fun started.

I found myself being able to change gears a little bit, I was getting super aggro (for me Santi), and I was open raising w/ A6s, raising limper w/ A5s, playing very loose from the SB and late position w/ your assortment of suited semi connected cards etc. Even pulled out a ten-high bluff on 2 people towards the end of the night to get my only kill of the session.

Man this was a fairly aggro-table, there were a couple people just willing to gamble and raise any two cards and then play them way to far. Gotta love that kinda stuff. My first hand of any was AQs over a weaker Ace and I took down the pot. Then after the Superstar, and the Superdonk were moved to my table, I had a fairly interesting hand:

Kill Pot 8/16
Hero has 66 OTB

Folded to Hero who open limps, meh. Probably a bad play in retrospect should have just popped it. Douche with the kill button in the big blind calls. Flop comes: 5 4 2 rainbow nice. He checks I bet, he calls. Turn 2, great card, he checks I make it 16, he calls. River J, uh good??? Then the douche leads out. Fuck there just went $48. I say this a terrible call, and of course call and ask him if he got there and he said no. Sweet, and I scoop the pot. NO HERO CALLS!!!!

An orbit or two after that, the older gambling man live 8's and then the cool Azn cat in seat 1 makes it 3 bets to go, and I look down at JJ, nice, so I do as taught, make it 4 to go, and I think that I am way ahead of anybody right now and pray for a jack to flop. So the flop comes K 8 5 rainbow, eek, checked to me and I fire and of course everyone calls, oh well. Turn 2 harmless, so I really didn't believe anyone to have the king at this point so I decided to double barrel it and i worked and they all folded, and I scoop the pot.

Ah, now this hand is just staight up 6-max online strategy. It was limped in 3 spots and the Superdonk limped on the button. I complete in the SB w/ K5 of spades. Flop comes 7 6 3 with two spades, and I lead out, apparently no one wanted any of that accept the Superdonk, he just called. This sent out that he has some sort of straight draw or TP. Had he raised, I would have thought for sure, flush draw. But I digress, Turn a red T, and I fire again, thinking that he will give up on his goofy draw or top pair now with the overcard. The Superdonk just calls again. Hmm, now I am lost, I really thought that he had K7 or something like that. River A of diamonds, now I now that I am good, I don't know why. I just went for my initial assumption of putting him on the straight draw that didn't get there. I fire again, and he folds. Of course, to rub it in, I show my busted flush and straight draws, he he he.

And for the last hand that I got sooooo, lucky on, we will just call it Rapezord!!!!

HH:

Hero has 43os in the BB.
Limped in 2 spots, then folded to Superdonk in the SB who completes and I check my option.

Flop: 6 5 2 rainbow. Ship it!!!!!

SD checks, I check, seat 8 bets out, 1 caller, SD calls, I call.

Turn: K of spades

SD leads out, I can't wait any more I raise it up, other limpers fold, and he calls

River: Q (no flush)

SD checks, I bet, he calls. He says, "Two pair." And just as fast as he said that, I said, "Straight." He goes what???? Big Blind Special, yup.

In reality I probably should have just smooth called the turn and raised the river two get the extra bets from the other limpers, but I thought that the king hitting on the turn and the SD leading out, they wouldn't call anyway.

Might come back a little later to talk about, how I somehow faded like a bajillion outs on the Santi when I had bottom two pair FTW!!!

-Late.

Session No. 17 & 18 Capitol Casino Tues/Sun (11/20-11/25)

2007-11-26T13:29:00.000-08:00

4/8: TP = +$90 TSP = 4 Hr

Both of these were pretty slow sessions and I went down to Capitol during the day on Tuesday to see what it was like. Can you say passive, passive, passive? It was like if anyone raised, no one would call. Except me, they must have thought that I was a action player because I was bullshitting alot with all the dealers and the older guys who know me a little bit now.

No really notable hands except one hand from yesterday when I played it less that optimal. See HH:

Hero is somewhere in MP w/ 44

UTG and UTG+1 limp, I call, and everyone calls (9 players) ($36)

Flop: K 4 6 rainbow (Booooooom!!!)

Checked to Hero who bets out. 5 of the 8 remaining players call. 6 to the turn. I am thinking please put up and Ace or some sort of paint. ($60)

Turn: 2h completes rainbow. I remember thinking that 53 got there but oh well.

Checked to me again, I fire, called in 2 spots. ($84)

River: 10

I bet again and am called by one player, I show and take the pot. ($100)

Dam, I really wanted to play that differently but I felt that with 4 players left behind me containing 2 aggro-asians and a action SB who loves to go for the Check-Raise, I was thinking that there was a good chance that it would get raised behind me. But then when they just called I knew that I had to straight fire the turn and not go for the CR.

Any way that was a pretty nice pot.

In other news, I have moved up online and am now playing $0.50/$1.00 full ring, the action is pretty sick, and I feel that I can play my tight game and do all right.

Session No. 16 Capitol Casino Sunday 11/18

2007-11-19T10:16:00.000-08:00

4/8 Kill: TP = +$40 TSP = 3 Hr

Ugg, this session was ugly. Was up $120 and then I proceeded to whiff/set mine away $80 having 6 low pocket pairs in one orbit, and another orbit where I seemed to have A9s 4 times and AJs once.

The AJs hand was typical Capitol. Limped in 1 spot, then folded to me in the Hi-Jack I get AJ of clubs and raise it up, the CO 3 bets, then SB calls 3 bets and the BB calls, then the first limper caps, so we all call.

Flop is 6 3 2 All check.

Turn 8 all check

River 10

All check to CO who bets sb, bb fold limper calls, I fold.

CO has AK, limper has 44 to take the pot. Nice to limp-cap w/ 44!!! Capitol!!!

Session No. 15 Capitol Thurs Night (10/25)

2007-10-25T23:28:00.000-07:00

4/8 Kill: TP = +$100 TSP = 4.5 Hr

I ran pretty well and had most of my big hands hold, save for a set of Kings that got ran down by 73s rivering the flush, and a certain AK of spades hands that was pretty nasty :-). But hey, got to play with the Santi and my friend JP. Thanks to TFong for coming out for dinner.

There is a lot to talk about, will update this weekend. This will basically be focused on my suffering from a case of FPS (Fancy Play Syndrome), and a couple spots where I felt that I made bad plays.

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Yeah well as I was saying after some neglect to my blog, I ran pretty well had all assortments of playable hands. I also made one huge mistake:

Hero is OTB w/ the red Jacks

Hassan in seat 5 Live 8'd then it was folded to seat 9 who raised it up and then it folded to me, I re-raised, the BB calls, Hassan calls, and then seat 9 caps and all call.

Flop: 99T rainbow

BB checks, Hassan leads out, Seat 9 calls, I raise it up, BB folds Hassan 3 bets, Seat 9 calls, and I call.

Turn: Q puts to hearts on the board.

Hassan leads out, Seat 9 calls and I for some reason thought that I was way behind, and It wasn't worth the $8 on my 10 outs.

River blanks out. Hassan leads and Seat 9 calls w/ AT, Hassan shows 95os.

I made a terrible mistake will not do that again.

Other than that, outside of the 72 of hearts hand that the Santi snapped my AK of spades by turning two pair and dodging 9 spades on the river, I'd say that I played pretty well.

Just played Capitol again this weekend for about 4 hours and came down $30, so no big deal.

I did how ever get to maximize a couple hands, something that I haven't been able to do up to know in my game.

I flopped a set of deuces on a drawless board with 5 people in the pot and I waited until the turn to raise. It was f-ing sweet.

Also, before this I missed a chance to go for an over call when I turned a boat and the flush had hit, fuk, I should have just called and then raised the river.

Oh well, thats life.

Session No. 14 Capitol Casino Sunday (10/21)

2007-10-21T16:53:00.000-07:00

4/8: TP = +$73 TSP = 2 Hr

Just a quick blurb, before I get to watching the game. Dam, did I play absolutely fucking atrocious. I had my head so far up my ass that it was difficult to breathe. I made two stupid moves that I just want to beat my head in for.

I feel that I am about to get owned by the Santi:

1: I have J8os in the BB and flop comes Jack high w/ 6 players, and a 2 flush on the board. Everyone Check, the turn is a 2 that pairs the boards and the SB immediately leads out. I fold, and only 2 others call. I knew that I was good and needed to make the call. But the way that the SB (uber donkish) bet out screamed I just made trips. Some ROT, I win the hand w/ Jacks up but whatever, I think that I made too much of a nitty play.

2: Here it is get ready to be owned. I have AsQs the next hand after I just survived dueling flush and straight draws w/ red Queens to make two pair on the river when the flop was capped and the turn was raised once. I was never behind in that hand but one player bet out, another raised a 8 high flop, I 3 bet and then It got capped. Etc, but I digress. Huge pot worth about $120.

Back to the action, I have AsQs, and raised it up. I get called in 5 spots. Flop comes Jx Ts 8c all right now I have a double gutty and a backdoor nut flush draw, and two overs. Prepare for ownage: SB leads, BB raises (extremely nittly) UTG calls, I fold. God dam it, just made a huge mistake, and didn't even think when I did it. Here were the odds: 7.5 to 1 on my roughly 10 outs. God dam I am a nit. Mde a huge mistake, and of course I gut it out and would have end up making the straight.

But I did manage to make a couple good plays and got called down by some weaker hands, that made my some money. I also couldn't hit a flush draw to save my life. I had 3 K-high flush draws go down the tube w/ a 2 flush on the flop. Oh well.

Let me have it. Gotta go, first pitch in 10 min.

Probably playing at Cap or Cache at night during the week depending on how my truck is doing with the check engine light.

Show some love. Late.

Bringin' It Back: Major League with Major Leaguers

2007-10-19T11:03:00.000-07:00

Boredom breeds creativity, sometimes:

If Major League was to be played by actual Major League ball players who would be on the roster?

Center Field:
Willie Mays Hayes – Kenny Lofton

Catching:
Jack Parkman – AJ Pierzenski
Rube Baker – Doug Mirabelli
Jake Taylor – Gary Carter

Third Base:
Roger Dorn – Chuck Knoblauch, or A-Rod

Left Field:
Hiroshi Kazahiro Tanaka – So Taguchi Obviously

Right Field:
Pedro Cerrano – Manny Ramirez (Because he had a slow start, and then brought it on later in the season)

Wild Thing Rick Vaughn:
Rick Ankiel (when he first came up with the lack of control), Trevor Hoffman (when he lost his velocity), and finally Rod Beck, RIP, (with the shooter mentality, and the crazy haircut).

Eddie Harris:
Jamie Moyer (the thumber, who can toss all kinds of crap up to the dish). Also considered, Gaylord Perry because of the KY-Balls, Vaseline curveballs, and sandpaper splittys.

Shooby (The Slow Lefty Guy):
Rick Ruschell. Big Daddy, fat, slow, and garbage.

Clue Haywood:
No question, John Kruk in the prime of his Phillies career, with the huge-ass dip and gut.

Post a comment if you have improvements to my shabbily put together list.

Session No. 13 Capitol Casino (10/13)

2007-10-15T14:35:00.000-07:00

4/8 Kill: TP = -90 TSP = 3 Hrs

Blah. This was pretty lame. Ran pretty cold the whole day, only playing 3 hours. I wanted to play for about 6 hours but I was getting bored and wasn't getting any playable hands and decided to go home.

Made 2 mistakes:

1) Not calling down w/ TPGK AQ vs. AK on an Ace high flop. That was a mistake that was just too nitty.

2) Leading into the field w/ JTs w/ a couple back door draws and top pair probabaly was a stupid move.

The table was completely dead, and I was card dead.

Oh well. Not much more to say.

Session No. 11 & 12 Lucky Derby and Capitol Casino

2007-10-06T10:00:00.000-07:00

4/8 1/2 Kill: TP = +40 TSP = 4 Hrs (Last Weekend 9/30)
4/8 Kill: TP = +$100 TSP = 3.5 Hrs (Friday Night 10/6)

Had a pretty swingy session both days. Will get more into the Capitol Session later, I felt that I played pretty solid and ran decently well, just got ran down in two big pots.

Hand I felt that I played ok but could have got a lot more value out of:

Hero is UTG+1 w/ Black Aces
Uber Donk UTG w/ K4os
Solid Female LAGish (Tammy) to my left w/ AKos

Preflop:
UberDonk limps, Hero Raises, Tammy 3bets, Some other idiot in LP calls,Uberdonk calls, Hero caps, All Call

Flop: 2dAh5d BOOOOM!!!

Checked to me, I lead, Tammy Raises, LP folds, Uberdonk calls, I 3bet, Tammy caps.

Turn: 4h

Checked to me I fire, Tammy just calls, Uberdonk calls,

River: 4d BOOOOM!!!

Checked to me, I fire again, called in both spots.

I rake it in ($176 pot)

How would you guys have played it? I played it this way because it was very easy especially the uberdonk to have 2 diamonds here and I wanted to get in the most value if he didn't hit.

I guess that I could have just called Tammy's flop raise, and check raised the turn and hope that she 3 bets, but that might not have happened.

What do you think?

I will talk about some other nicely played hands later.

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From that last Capitol Session I played another hand exceptionally well, but I did end up gettin lucky. Turned trips vs. top pair when I raised pf w/ AJs and flop came king high.

I snapped QQ from the BB w/ As8s.

Flop comes Ace high I and CR'd the crap out of this woman who just calls down w/ 2nd pair. Thanks :-)

I made 2 mistakes that I can remember.

1.) Check raising w/ TPGK against a pf three bet in late position.
-Hand AsTs UTG and I raised it, gets called in 3 spots, then the button 3 bets. All call. Flop comes AK6, all check to raiser who bets, I then CR'd, 2 call, button 3 bets, I call hoping to pick up some sort of draw, and then check fold the turn. He ended up showing AK to top two.

Does anyone else play this hand like that? It was the second hand that he played at the table and I didn't have his range down yet.

I did learn, however, that he was the type of player that only would bet/raise w/ TP or better. So I guess that he played somewhat optimally minus being aggressive w/ draws.

2. Versus that same button player, action gets folded to him and he open raises, I am dealt AQos in the BB. I knew that he could have any hand like A9+ so I should have 3bet for value to define my hand.

Comment, complaints, concerns?

Session No. 10 Cache Creek Friday Night (9/22)

2007-09-22T11:36:00.000-07:00

4/8 Kill: TP = +$140 (5.83 BBs/Hr) TSP = 3 Hrs

Tonight was a pretty short night for me at the Creek, boo. I had originally planned on playing until 2am and meeting up with the 4/8 Superstar (Nik Santi), and the 4/8 Super Donk, to get a 5 hour session in, but I became very mad, not at the table, and I figured that it would be better for me to just get up and leave.

The table last night was your typical assortment of LAGs and mostly LPPs, and a couple of guys who thought that they could bluff, and of course yours truly.

After getting moved from the 3/6 table, where I basically chatted it up with my friend from school and Cache Creek Dealer, Jon Olson, I proceeded to get dealt AQ of clubs my second hand and fire all the way down and pair my Q on the river and then I get bluff raised, but I call and the guy mucks and I don't show.

I feel that I am getting a more aggressive at the table, and feeling like that I can play a little bit better after the flop.

I won a couple big pots, 2 other little ones with AQ, and then I won a 8 way capped pre-flop w/ JJ. ($128 pot preflop) and of course the flop is AKK, and I lead out, then 2 people end up going all in, one had the K and the other 2 players missed their flush draws and I take 80 of that pot.

Best hand that I played of the night:

Hero is in the Hi-Jack w/ TT

Pre-flop: Folded to UTG+1 who raises to 8, UTG+2 cold calls, folded to Hero, Hero 3-bets, all fold and both the UTG+1, and UTG+2 call.

Flop: Q 7 5, or two other rag-like cards

UTG+1 Donk bets out, UTG+2 calls, Hero Raises to see where I am at, both call.

At this point I figure that I am in a good spot to take down the pot w/ a turn bet but then:

Turn: A, shit, I wanted bet again had a safe looking card came off.

It gets checked around.

River: 2

Again it gets checked trough, and Hero shows TT, UTG+2 shows 99, and UTG+1 shows KJs. That was a nice pot and but I still really wanted to bet that turn.

I feel that I am a little more comfortable playing some suited Aces in MP and hoping to flop a big hand, or strong draw.

So who knows for today, maybe I will return back out to Lucky Derby for about 6 hours.

Comments, questions, concerns?

Limelight and Lucky Derbry: Two Short Sessions

2007-09-16T23:38:00.000-07:00

Lucky Derby: 4/8 Half-Kill: TP = +$40 TSP = 2 Hrs
Limelight: 3/6 Half-Kill: TP = +$20 TSP = 1Hr 30 Mins

Well I haven't been playing live since my last trip to Cap a few weeks back, and I thought that this week I would check out some of the other Cardrooms in Sacramento.

Overall opinion of these places:

Limelight: The players were soooooo aggressive and terrible. I actually saw one just 3-bet pre-flop with K5os vs my TT, and of course he won. But you pretty have to go to showdown with the nuts, because I have never seen players just call w/ and Ace and try to hit, or just look for that wicked two pair draw. Didn't really like the structure, tooo small, it was pretty boring to me.

Lucky Derby: This was the opposite end of the spectrum. The players were sooo passive. Everyone limped around and just was passive as all hell. When I was first moved to the table from the normal 4/8 game, I was dealt AK and raised it up, everyone said wow woah woah??? What you doing that for??? As I got 5 callers and took down the pot with a C-bet. Not one pot was 3bet pre-flop, that pissed me off. The structure of the game is pretty odd, they have no Small Blind, wtf? But I might make another trip back there.

As for the issue of my play. I got a little to loose in MP w/ a suited Ace at LL and lots a couple bets in a pot that I shouldn't have been involved in. I ran TPTK into a set and had to call down against a prop player at the Derby. But all in all I feel that I played fairly decent and stayed disciplined. I played pretty straight forward and didn't go for the unsure CR.

At Lucky Derby I was up about 85 at one point but I blinded and whiffed my way down w/ overs and AK/AQ to +40 but that is way it goes. I had one huge combo nut flush straight draw that didn't come in which would have been a huge 100+ pot but oh well...

I give the Limelight a 5 out of 10, and Lucky Derby a 7.5 out of 10.

Session No.9 Saturday Capitol Casino 9/1

2007-09-02T14:22:00.001-07:00

It was a losing day not too bad at Capitol Casino for me; not a pleasant welcome back to live poker. I hate live poker right now, I mean Capitol. Plus I am running mediocre at best. Running KK into AA, 2 pair into straights, I can't hit 1 draw to save my life; it is just soo frustrating to say the least.

This session was just atrocious on both other players part and my part as well. I made 3, really 2 mistakes.

For the first time at Capitol I saw a player that played Santi-like very TAG and was running just the Santi was running a few months back hitting 3 nut flush draws, and catching up when behind to top pair. He was a 20 something Filipino guy who who had good table talk. We didn't clash much save for 1 hand where he completed the SB w/ 85s and I limped behind a couple of people w/ AJos and flop cam J88, first limper leads, I raise, Filipino guy Check 3bet and I call/folded the turn.

Quick Recap:

QJ < 75s
98 > JT (Rivered Boat!)
KQ < 84s (Douche goes runner-runner flush of course)
KK < AA (All-In) I won the side pot w/ Kings up vs. another player who flopped 2 pair)
AA < TT (Capped 4 way preflop) That just sucked that I couldn't hold
AK > KT (Older Chicano man w/ Sombrero live 8'd and I obvisouly 3 balled it called in 4 places)

I lost a ton on missed draws today. I couldn't hit one!!! In other news, I haven't hit a set since the Clinton Administration and my premium hands can't get any action.

Mistakes.

1. Not betting the river w/ TPTK when the flush hits on the river with position (1 BB missed)

2. Not raising the AJos after a couple people limped into the pot vs the Filipino cat. (ROT possibly)

3. The KQ hand w/ TPGK and the guys went runner runner and I led out on the river and of course he raised, I called. Didn't really have him on a flush draw. Had him more on a weak King.

4. The KK vs. AA vs. Flopped 2 pair hand. This is the hand that really bothered me and I wanted to kick myself for it.

HH

Capped PF. I am in MP, AA in EP (all in PF), other AZN guy calls 3 bets cold w/ Q8os, nice.

Flop: Q 8 4 rainbow, the AZN and myself capped the flop.

Turn: 4 Not I am thinking, wtf? I checked, he bet, I called.

River: Blank of some sort, I checked, he bet, I called.

I knew that on that turn, I was good and should have CR'd, I just I had no Idea what that guy would call 3 bets cold w/ PF. I honestly thought that he had 88.

What do you guys think??

As a vow to myself, I am not going to play until I run my online roll to double what it is right now, and I feel that am more comfortable w/ playing certain hands from LP.

Quick question about Blind defense and hands to play from the small blind:

What hands do you defend with against a raise, and what hands can you complete with in the SB?

Also how do you feel about K9s-K2s in LP??? I just fold the crap out of them, Is this wrong? Maybe a little too tight?

Taking a Break/Vacation

2007-08-05T22:57:00.000-07:00

Well, tomorrow I will be vacating the US for Ocotlan, Jalisco MEX for the first time... It will be awesome.

"No bosses droning on and on about mission statements, etc." And no I will not have a case of the "Luneses," sometimes the espanol no se tranducir. Pero en este momento, yo voy a, sorry I hit the SAP button there for a second. And we're back...

But anyway, I am gonna take a little break from online which I have just don't absolutely atrocious at. I have been running sooooo very cold and horrid I can't explain. It seems like I have been getting 2-outed on the river and people chasing me and hitting all the time. I have been getting my sets cracks, flushes cracked (the few that I actually hit), gutter balled like no other, it is really sik, and yes Santi I now hate the word sik. All this in the course of the last 2 weeks or so. PT says that I have only turned 6/30 winning sessions, I know I suck.

I have reviewed the sessions and I am not playing any differently, I am just getting sucked out on, a lot!!!

My favorite is I get AK in the BB flop TPTK on a board of A 7 8 no flush and 45 is calling me down to River star the straight.

And live I am just the iceman. But I think that a little R and D and R (Recreation, Drinking, and Rest), is what I need. And a change of scenery when I get back. Don't know if I will be hitting up the Derby or back to Cache. But all I know is that I just have been running so incredibly cold at Capitol the last few sessions that I just need a little difference.

I think that Labor Day weekend will be the next time that I play. Will be reading SS for the first time in MX maybe SS2 just for the limit section.

To the 4/8 Superdonk and Nik, the only 2 people who know that I have a blog, buenas suerte!!!!

Session No. 8 7/29 Capitol Casino

2007-07-29T22:05:00.000-07:00

4/8 Kill: -$120 TSP = 4 Hrs 30 Min BB/Hr: -3.33 BB/Hr
Overall 4/8K & 4/8 (since 5/8): +$476 TSP = 36 Hrs 0 Min BB/Hr: 1.65BB/Hr

-Blahhhhhhhhhhh

Played with some of the worst players that I have seen yet. Most notably, an older Asian woman who would play every, I mean every hand, no joke, and draw to 4 outers like nobody's business. I counted that she hit 6 gutterballs; of course one against yours truly.

A:d:Q:d: < K9os

I was on the button in a kill pot. Limped in 3 spots, Hero raises, BB and all call.

Flop; J 4 3 rainbow

All check to Hero who bets, 1 fold, others calls

Turn: Q (85 % to win)

All check to Hero who bets, 2 fold, old Asian bitch (AB), I mean woman, calls

River: T

AB leads, Hero calls w/ TPTK. AB shows K9 for runner runner straight.

LOL. I told her, "The was an outstandingly egregious play on your part, Nice Hand."
"Keep playing like that, please." I don't know why, but this woman just pissed me off to no end the whole night. But I really hope that she is at my table next session, playing every hand, paying off trying to run down 4 outers.

That was the only hi-light errr, low-light of the night; other than the fact that I couldn't hit a straight or flush draw to save my life. But hey, that's poker.

I can, however, see the silver lining in my game:

1. It is all just bets now, not money. Finally took me a while to get out of that mentality.

2. I have seen myself have the ability to use aggression to buy free cards and gain information against weak foes now.

3. Way more aggressive w/ flush and straight draws even when I am not hitting.

4. I am not changing the way that I play even when the session is going good or bad for that matter.

5. I have improved my hand reading skills. It was pretty sick today, I could tell probably %60-%70 of the time what players were holding.

6. I am just getting that sense in the way that people are betting (physically and concretely) of what they hold. I picked off a couple guys today when I held middle pair and they held AK and AQ. The flop would blank on them but they would C-bet anyway and I would pop them with a raise, they would call and then check fold the turn.

What I am trying to say is that the results will come, I am feeling my self improve other aspects of the game beyond Pre-flop holdings, and when to slow play etc. It is those gray areas that I need to improve upon.

Maximization

2007-07-18T22:11:00.000-07:00

Well after tonight's session at Capitol I realized that I apparently suck at maximizing my good hands and betting for value on the river when a scare card comes. I can recall 2 similar situations where the river made a 3-flush and I had TPTK and just checked instead of betting.

That right there was 2 BB's missed and they do add. If that happens 2 a session for 3 sessions that a good amount of money lost.

I guess that I just need to fire it out there when the scare card comes and hope that the villain didn't make the flush or straight. That is part of my game where I need to improve.

The other I need to work on is playing aggressively with marginal made hands w/ isolation raises. I haven't really done this at all and will be looking into this when I practice online.

I will be re-reading the SSHE section on betting for value on scary boards and focusing on that aspect in practice online.

Santi: Anything else that I need to work (yes I know raise more) on off the top of your head?

Session No.7 7/18 Capitol Casino

2007-07-18T21:46:00.000-07:00

4/8: +$20 TSP = 3 Hrs 30 Min BB/Hr: 0.71 BB/Hr
Overall 4/8K & 4/8 (since 5/8): +$596 TSP = 31 Hrs 30 Min BB/Hr: 2.37BB/Hr

Uhhhggggg...

Recap:

AT > 88
77 > 55 Set over Set Capped Flopped got called down in 2 spots.
AK > K9
99 > ??
AA > ?? Flopped boat checked flop, no takers on the turn.
A5 > Some sort of Flush. Flopped 2 pair, villain turned flush, Hero luckboxes the boat.
KK < A6os

KQos < QTos Flopped TPGK, LAG villain CR'd, I got nitty and just called; mistake should have 3bet but didn't have a read on him b/c it was his first hand at the table, turned blanked, villain rivers 3 outer for top two pair. :(

Well tonight was pretty slow. Got to Capitol around 5:30pm and started playing 15 mins after. I recognized about 3 players from previous sessions and they weren't that talented very loose passive

Also, I saw one other semi-solid player. He looked like an Asian version of Mike Santi with a receding hair line. I was talking with him and found out that he is a NL player that plays at Lucky Derby and Limelight. So that automatically made me think that he was a LAG, and he was. He left up about $150+ or so. I saw him make so pretty smooth plays to not lose players when he had a monster. Like waiting till the river to raise w/ the flopped nut straight w/ 5 people in the pot. Sneaky play but he was catching a pretty good rush of cards.

As for my play, I flopped 3 sets, and a boat, and only got paid off on one of those hands. That was unfortunate, but hey that is gonna happen somedays. I attribute this to the fact that my table was in the Pai Gow room and no other hold 'em games were going on so it was a subdued atmosphere.

I didn't run too great preflop (not too many SCs or mid PP or suited Aces in LP), and had no flopped no major draws. I played somewhat tight most of the night but I had to.

Could possibly be playing this weekend in SLO in a 4/8 Half-Kill Game but who knows...

Found a major flaw in my game which I haven't repaired or worked on that much. See the next post.

Session No. 6 7/15 Capitol Casino

2007-07-15T15:23:00.000-07:00

4/8 Kill : -$10 TSP = 3 Hours BB/Hr: -0.42 BB/Hr
Overall 4/8K & 4/8 (since 5/8): +$576 TSP = 28 Hrs BB/Hr: 2.57 BB/Hr
Overall (since 5/8): +$576 TSP = 28 Hrs $/Hr: $20.57/Hr

Fairly short session, but I had to go.

Quick Recap:

55 < 62s < 83s Flopped bottom set capped flop, got ran down by flush on river.
AJ < JJ Some guy slowplayed his top set, CR'd turn I called down.
AA > ?? in Kill Pot
QQ > ?? in Kill Pot
AK > AT Filled the Boat on turn
Hit a couple BB specials

Was down $80 until my last hand UTG in a Kill Pot.

Hero UTG w/ A:s:A:h:

Hero raised to $16, called in 3 spots ($64)

Flop: was 967 rainbow

Hero leads called in 2 spots ($88)

Turn: 6 still rainbow

Hero leads called in 1 spot ($120)

River: 2

Hero leads, doesn't get called. ($80 profit)

Players were horrible again. Saw one guy who was a solid LAG, but for the most part the table was loose passive.

Might play later on this week before I take off for SLO.

Session No. 5 7/8 Capitol Casino

2007-07-08T18:44:00.000-07:00

4/8 : +$154 TSP = 6 Hours BB/Hr: 3.21 BB/Hr
Overall 4/8K & 4/8 (since 5/8): +$586 TSP = 25 Hrs BB/Hr: 2.93 BB/Hr
Overall (since 5/8): +$586 TSP = 25 Hrs $/Hr: $23.44/Hr

Well let me just start out by saying that today could have been a huge, huge, day for me... There was a random assortment of LPP's, at the table, not really anyone that was two terribly talented.

However, Captain Four/Two Outer made a whirl wind tour into Capitol Casino and ran me down in 3 big pots.

Didn't run Santi-like, but decent run none the less.

I got laid some pretty sick beats, Aces got cracked twice; once by Q8os, and once by 68os who called 3bets cold preflop.

Hands of note:

JJ > AA Flopped set
QQ > AJ Flop was Jack-high
62 > ?? Douche Bag called river and then mucked
KQ > AQ Made straight on Turn

Won numerous smaller pots by aggression and w/ TP in the beginning of the session but towards the end the C-Bets were getting called.

Now on to Captain 4/2-Outer. He took two forms today, 1st in seat 8, and then later to my direct left in seat 5.

First 2-Outer.

Hero is in BB w/ Black AA

Pre-flop: 2 folds, Captain-2-Outer Calls, 1 caller, folded to SB who raises, Hero 3-bets, Captain-2-Outer Calls, Limper callers, SB caps, All Call. (8 BBs)

Flop: Q:s: T:d: 6:h:
SB leads, Hero Raises, Captain-2-Outer Calls, limper folds, SB just calls. (11 BBs)

Turn: T:c:
SB Checks, Hero bets, Captain-2-Outer calls, SB calls.

River: Q:d:

SB Checks, Hero Bets, Captain-2-Outer just calls WTF???, SB calls (14 BBs)

SB shows KK :(
Hero Shows AA :(
Captain-2-Outer Shows Q8os.

2 orbits prior to this hand Seat 5 (Captain-4-Outer) rivered a gutterball vs. my top two pair and slow-rolled the table not showing until the dealer was shoving me the chips. What an ass goblin!!!

On to the action:

Hero is in the CO w/ A:s:3:s: I love suited Aces in LP for cheap

Preflop: 2 players limp, Hero calls, Captain-4-Outer calls on the button, SB completes, and BB checks option. (6 players WoW, hit me some spades!!!) (3 BBs)

Flop: 9:s: T:s: 5:s:

Prayer answered.

Check to player to my right who bets out, before acting I saw Captain-4-Outer reaching for chips to raise so I decided to flat-call then 3bet and trap the fuck out of the table.

Captain-4-Outer raises, only one limper calls and guy to my right calls, Hero 3-bets, Captain-4-Outer just calls as does the limper and guy to my right. (9 BBs)

Turn: 4:c:

Check to Hero who bets, both call. (12 BBs)

River: T:c: Ah, fuck.

Player to my right checks, Hero bets, Captain-4-Outer Raises, Guy to my right calls, and Hero just calls. (18 BBs)

When he raised, I said, "Dam, you just caught a 2 outer on me didn't you??? Great catch."

Of course

Hero shows A3 of spades for the nut flush :(
Guy to my right shows Q7 of spades for 2nd nut flush :(
Captain-2-Outer shows T9os for tens full

I guess that I can't blame him, he did have top-two pair on the flop. I guess that I just blame the deck.

I beg of you, please keep calling me when I have two-pair, and the nut flush trying to hit your two and four outers.

I was a 90% favorite to win that hand, oh well.

Maybe more later. Not too much to talk about.

Session No. 4 7/4 Capitol Casino

2007-07-04T17:59:00.000-07:00

4/8 : +$200 TSP = 4 Hours BB/Hr: 6.25 BB/Hr
Overall 4/8K & 4/8 (since 5/8): +$432 TSP = 19 Hrs BB/Hr: 2.84 BB/Hr
Overall (since 5/8): +$432 TSP = 19 Hrs $/Hr: $22.72/Hr

First trip to Capitol, scouted a bit last night and felt it could be profitable. So I sat down just after 1 pm and played a little past five.

The play was very-very loose passive at this table, and people were showing down all kinds of junk. I can't say how many time I saw someone play T4s UTG and rationalize it by saying it was suited. My kind of players. Wouldn't mind making another trip back down there.

The 4/8K game looked a little bit more wild that the one at Cache on average 6 to a flop. Don't quite think I am comfortable w/ that one at Capitol yet. Should be playing Cache Creek on Sunday during the day.

Quick Recap:

TT > 68 - Flopped top set, villain (LAG) flopped middle pair and called down
QQ > KK and Other random hand - Capped pre-flop, 3-bet flop faded out the flush draw.
AKs > AQos - Flopped TPTK, Made two pair on turn kept firing.
77 > ATos - Flopped middle set, villain flopped TPTK
KQ > ATos - Flopped OESD, Hit Nut straight on turn when villian made two pair

Other not so good hands:

AKs < 87os Flopped nut flushed draw on board which made villain trips, and turned quads.

Oh might I add, I raised on the button, BB 3-bet, douche-bag w/ 87os calls 2 cold and I cap that bitch. I knew exactly what she had when she donk bet into me and I still raised her any way.

QJ < AQ Flopped TPGK. Middle aged man didn't raise PF even and I wanted to fuckin' slap this guy when he showed down AQ on the river.

KQ < KT < ATs It was five handed, so I raised in MP got 2 callers. Flopped TPGK, KT douche goes runner-runner straight, and ATs goes runner runner flush. Of course I was praying for a deuce on the river.

KJ < A4os Both villains checked flop w/ and Ace I catch a king on the turn a

Made a 2 bet mistake when I called turn and river. Maybe a little to aggressive w/ 2nd pair.

Will post some HH's later. For the most part the hands I took down were standard.

_______

Some quotes and evidence of stupidity:

Seat 4 a douchey woman who was a regular at capitol, and donked off 1 buy-in in 1 hour.

“Well, I guess I would play J3, if it was suited.” Seat 2, “Of course I’d play that, its suited.”

Quick HH (5-handed) Got a little aggressive with this hand, but hey gotta do it when SH’d.

1 fold to Hero in MP w/ K:s:Q:d: who raises to $8, 1 fold, and both Hi-Jack and CO call. (3 BBs)

Flop K:h: 6:d: 7:s:

Hero bets $4, both Hi-Jack and CO call (4.5 BBs)

Turn 8:d: Blinds check, Hero bets $8, Hi-Jack and CO call (7.5 BBs)

River 9:d:

I was thinking “Shit, I just got runner-runnered, dam.”

Hero checks, Hi-Jack bets, CO calls, Hero Folds. (9.5 BBs)

CO shows KTos for runner-runner straight
Hi-Jack shows A:d:T:d: for runner-runner Flush

So after the hand, Seat 4, who had the straight, asked me what I had and I said, “I had both you guys until the river.” She says, “I had top-pair, and a straight draw on the flop.”
I respond, “Yeah, well I still had the lead going to the river.”

Please keep calling me down w/ TP medium kicker, and try to hit your runner-runner straight. Your chips will be in my stack more often than you will take mine.

And, I guess that moron w/ AT of diamonds was calling cause he had an overcard, but still that is just a horrible play.

HH:

This was my second orbit at the table and I am in the CO and have A:s:K:c:

1 fold, UTG+1 raises to $8, gets two callers, Hero 3-bets, both blinds call, and original raiser and all callers throw in the extra bet. Holy hell, 6 to the flop (6 BBs)

Flop K:s: T:c: 6:c:
All check to UTG+1 who donk bets, 1 fold, 1 call, Hero raises to $8 just BB, UTG+1 , and MP calls. (10 BBs)

Turn 6:s:

All check to Hero who bets $8, BB folds, UTG+1 and MP calls (13 BBs)

River 4:d: Ha, just faded the flush draws!!!

All check to Hero who bets $8, only UTG+1 calls

UTG+1 shows KJos for TPGK
Hero shows A:s:K:c: for TPTK and wins (15 BBs)

Last HH:

Hero in OTB w/ QQ

2 limpers, folded to Hero who Raises to $8, SB 3-bets, all call to Hero caps, all call. (8 BBs)

Flop A Q 6 rainbow

SB bets, 1 fold, 2nd limper raises, Hero 3-bets, both call (12.5 BBs)

Turn 4 (rag) all check to Hero who bets $8 both call (15.5 BBs)

River A blank low card, all check to Hero who bets $8, only SB calls (17.5 BBs)

Biggest pot of the day.

Hero shows QQ for a set of Queens
SB shows KK for second Pair.

Session No. 3 Sunday (6/10/07)

2007-06-12T17:17:00.000-07:00

4/8 Kill: +$4 TSP = 6 Hours BB/Hr: 0.083 BB/Hr
Overall 4/8K (since 5/8): +$232 TSP = 15 Hrs BB/Hr: 1.93BB/Hr
Overall (since 5/8): +$232 TSP = 15 Hrs $/Hr: $15.46/Hr

As for my play lately I feel that I am playing at maybe 2.5 BB/hr not so much as the actual 1.7 BB/hr, hopefully I can improve this and get to an even 2 BB/hr.

Well, this was a pretty slow session, played for the longest time in a while. There were a lot of ups and down, but being that I didn’t run as spectactular as I did last session, (got ran down a couple of times at the end of the session that brought me down to +$4, was up about $50).

As far as mistakes go, yeah I still got a little bit nitty with 99 and the table was 5-handed. Nick was kinda steaming cause he wasn’t hitting with a couple big hands and I limped in UTG+1 w/ 99 Santi raised w/ AJ os and 4 callers. Flop was a bunch of blanks gets checked to the river and I should have raised PF and took the lead. I am still learning to translate the online to live. I have learned something new the last three sessions and I am feel that I am slowly but surely turning up the aggression.

Evidence of turned up aggression. I was giving no respect everyone’s (except Nick) raises PF.

Hero in Hijack w/ K:h:J:c:

PF:

1 limp, Hero limps, folded to SB who completes, BB raises, all call. (4 BBs)

Flop: 8 J 4 rainbow

SB checks, BB bets, 1 fold, Hero Raises, SB folds, BB calls. (6 BBs)

Turn: T (puts 2 flush on board)

BB checks, limper checks, Hero bets, BB calls, limper folds.(8 BBs)

River: 6 blank

BB checks, BB bets, BB calls (10 BBs)

Results:

BB shows A:s:8:s: for Pair of 8’s
Hero show K:h:J:c: for Pair of Jacks, and wins
Guys raised PF but he was a total donk and I wasn’t about to respect his range, he was the kind that over values the Ace-Rag.

Hand 2: More Aggression

Kill Pot Stakes are 8/16 now

Kill Blind is UTG, hero is UTG+1 w/ J:s:J:c:

Pre-Flop:

Hero first to act and raises to $16, Santi folds saying woah, 2 folds, Jordanian thin man calls, folded to BB who calls, and Kill Blind Calls. (4 BBs $64)

Flop: 8:c: K:d: 8:s:

Checked to hero, who bets $8, all fold.

Hero wins pots of (4.5 BBs) $72.

Played this hand sort of aggressive and it payed off. Obviously not the type of flop that favor JJ but I figure 1 of 2 things would happen: 1) I C-Bet and Get Raised, then Call hoping to snap a Jack on the turn, if not, check fold. Or 2? 2) I C-Bet and all fold, I rake it in. Luckily the latter happened.

I played another hand I guess sorta questionable, maybe a little too loose, but I figured it was early enough in the session that if I had to show down I would get a looser image and the table, namely Renato, the drunk guy in seat 3, point this hand out to the table.

Hero is in Hijack w/ A:h:5:h:

Pre-Flop:
2 flops, 2 limps, Hero limps, Santi Folds, SB folds, BB checks option. (4 SBs)

Flop: Q:h: 3:h: 5:c:

BB bets, limpers call, Hero raises, all call. (6 BBs)

Turn: 4:s: Now I have 3 outs to two pair, 2 out to trip 5s, 3 outs to the wheel, 9 outs to the nut flush. I figure roughly 15 clean outs, maybe the ace would give some one a higher two pair.

Check to hero who bets $8, BB calls, 1 fold, other limper calls.(9 BBs)

River: Blank don’t remember think it was a 9 or something like that.

All check, Hero shows A5 for a pair of fives, BB showed Ace high, limper mucked.

Was this too loose Pre-Flop?

Other Hands of Notes:

A:d:K:h < K8os runner runner straight.
A:c:Q:c: > 67os hit gutter on turn
A:s:K:s: < ?? Whiffed flop, folded turn in kill pot.
A:c:K:c: < T:s:8:s:
K:c:T:c: > Flop A:s: Q:c: J:c: turned flush w/ opened straight flush draw to royal. Jordanian man turned two pair.

But yeah, I guess pre-flop I ran fairly well, just couldn’t get any significant hands to hold. That AKos hand would have put my up 85 for the night instead came down to 4 bucks up.

Still gotta practice a bit more with the aggression and the questionable raising hands.

Next time, if I get a questionable hand like the 99 in MP raise, raise, raise.

Might play next week sometime don’t know when though. Possibly a trip to Silver Fox with my nine, or might make my first trip to Capitol which I have heard the swings are ridiculous.

$300 at Silver Fox for Aces Cracked. Enough Said. Probably not but we’ll see.

Apologies to Santi for biting his format, its just looks so clean.

Forgot profit from 5/8 session. (Quad 8s)

5/30 4/8 Kill Session: Running Better

2007-05-30T23:41:00.000-07:00

So, as I had stated before I just wanted to run a little bit better, catch a few better starting hands. That ended up happening today.

As for my general thoughts on the session and my overall play: I like playing during the daytime, my session lasted 4 hours (2pm - 6pm) and I just felt awake and more in the game than when I play at night. I found that I shouldn't listen to music that much when I am playing because I distracts me too much, even when I am not in a hand. I originally thought that I was going to use the iPod today, however I decided to do more important things like constantly get inside the other player's heads to play along with them and adjust their starting hand range.

The players during the daytime, at least today, were very very passive and extremely loose. I don't know how many times that I saw someone limp with AKos, TT, AQs, AA, KK, and countless other premium preflop holdings. Although it was a little frustrating at first, I then became accustomed to this style of play.

My session was characterized by my big hands holding in a three kill pots, and my other hands hitting, and sometimes just picking up a pot with a C-Bet. All in all, I felt my play improving. Played my hands pretty fast, against these passive players, I felt like if I gave them the chance of checking they would take it, so the check raise was a little dulled by this.

A quick recap:

AA>KJ in Kill Pot Flop came Jack high, kept firing, never got raised

QQ>QJ in Kill Pot board was Jack high, kept firing, got paid off by river top pair

AA>KK in Monstrous Kill Pot Flopped Set of Aces, Turned a boat, Raised turn, got paid on river

J5os>KJ in Kill Pot, At this point I ran the table over for about 20 minutes, kept the kill going for 4 hands in a row and 6 hands total during this span.

33>JT Flopped Set villain rivered 2 pair

KQs>KQ Turned Flush, Flopped top pair w/ 2 flush, turned the flush, didn't get called

This was not without error however, I made a couple of mistakes which I semi-reget.

Mistake 1:

Hero is in CO w/ Ah8h two players limped in so I limped, button folds SB completes, BB checks option.

Flop: Ac 6h 4d

SB leads out, called by one limper, Hero calls

Turn: 7s

SB leads, limper calls, Hero calls,

River: 7d

SB leads, limper folds (had no clue what this guy was playing), Hero calls.

Results: SB shows Ad7h for full house.

I guess that I should limp A8s in with position, I should have raised the flop.

Was this standard? Do I have to call this down. I put him on any Ace, and with the river pairing, I thought that Aces up was good.

Mistake 2: Was this a mistake or am I just married to the hand.

Villain 1: is younger Asian girl who has a pretty good stack and has been pretty lucky all session hitting two pair, and rivering straights and flushes like they were going out of style.

Hero in BB with 9h8d

1 limper, Villain 1 limps, folded to CO who calls and Button who calls, SB completes, Hero checks option.

Flop: 9d 8h 5s

SB checks, Hero bets $4, first limper folds, Villain 1 calls, CO calls, button and SB fold.

Turn: Tc

Hero (now worried) bets $8, Villain 1 raises to $16 CO folds, Hero calls,

River: 3c

Hero checks, Villain 1 bets $8, Hero calls.

Results:
Villain 1 shows QsJs for straight
Hero shows 98 for two pair

Came to realize that she didn't raise as a semi-bluff, or when she was drawing, which was great. That meant that I could throw a away a hand against her I if felt that I was beat. I did end up doing so later on in the session.

Here are some HH's:

Kill Pot (8/16)

Hero is in BB w/ AsAc

Preflop:

Villain 1 is older Asian man kinda passive, plays solid starting hands though.
2 limpers, Villain 1 in CO calls, SB completes to $8, Hero raises to $16, all call. (5BBs)

Flop: Ah Kh 9s

SB checks, Hero bets $8, 1 limper calls, Villain 1 calls, SB calls. (7BBs)

Turn: 9c

SB checks, Hero bets $16, limper folds, Villain 1 raises to $32 (thought he might have 99 but Aces Cracked was still running), SB folds, Hero re-raises, Villain 1 calls. (13BBs)

River: 4s

Hero bet $16, Villain 1 calls after debating for a while. (15BBs)

Results:

Villain 1 shows KK for Kings full of nines
Hero shows AA for Aces full of nines ($240 pot)

Actually got a cool picture of my stack as well, which was a first for me.

Ended the session up $400 @ 12.5 BB/hr. Just gotta keep running gooooood!!!

Feeling I am Ready to Run Better

2007-05-29T14:13:00.000-07:00

Well, the last few session have be marred by cold cards and bad plays, hopefully tomorrow I will venture up to the Creek and play a bit. I have always wondered what would happen if I started to run better/well. I am hoping to hit an upswing.

I have been playing fairly well online, making money at the micros, and the same types of players are at the 4/8 table. I just want to be able to translate what I do online into live play.

Hopefully I can start an upswing tomorrow and have my good hands hold and my draws come in.

Basically what I am saying is that I feel that I am capable of playing way better, just hope I can get the cards to do it.

Welcome to Antarctica: Not Running So Good (5/18)

2007-05-19T11:36:00.001-07:00

So last nite was a bit of a waste. 4/8 Kill was no good to me. All I can say is that I have never, ever ran so f-ing frigid.

I am not exaggerating when I say that in 5 hours I did not win one pot. That's right I went "O-fer". Against all those horrible players at my table, I am not happy to say the least.

I played a total of 5 friggin hands outside of my blinds in 5 hours and all of them got cracked. Yeah not even 1 Big Blind special, what the hell? At this table full of super donks, one extremely tight player, I am talking extremely tight, and I sort of TAG-ish guy, all I need to do was hit one hand I would be paid off. It seem that everyone was calling down w/ their missed draws and bottom pair on their 2 pair draw.

Am I just a slave to variance? I have never seen cards with icicles attached to them, or coming out of the dealers hand with a Hungry Man Mega Meal Frozen dinner stuck to them.

I am friggin heated. TFong, now, in retrospect, I am pissed. I am still in shock. My bankroll took a hit. But look at it this way, I didn't make stupid plays OOP, cold call any raises, or get frustrated and start playing cards that I shouldn't. What I am trying to say is that I kept my discipline and tried to wait it out, it just didn't happen last night.

JJ < QJos for a straight, TT<62os for flopped trips (on button), AKs < QTos for a straight, AKos whiffs flop < 75os for bottom pair. KQs < J5os for bottom pair.

Yeah so that was my night. I didn't run ridiculously well like Mr. Santi, nice work.

But I will use this as learning experience and capitalized on my failures.

Things that I learned from my session.

2 Watered Down Cokes - $2
Wasted time waiting for cards w/ Uber-donks - 5 hours
Little Hit to Bankroll
Learning the phrase "Table Change" - Priceless

I don't want to become one of those superstitious players, it is just something that you have to do sometimes. Just change it up a little bit. Maybe open my range of starting hands just a little bit. Hell, I might even try a new venue.

As for playing live, I am done for now, partly because I am sooooo pissed at myself, and at the cards. I will be working on my game online for the next month or so, trying to get another 5000 hands under my belt.

Yeah, so now I have a new rule to added to my game: "If I haven't won a pot in 1 hr, I want a table change."

Seems fair don't you think.

So, this is the Iceman signing off.

And for you clones out there...

"GOOD NIGHT NOW!!!!"

Adjusting to Live Play 6 Months Removed

2007-05-10T19:10:00.000-07:00

Well, so it has been 6 months since I had last played live in a cardroom and dam I sucked it up pretty bad. Although I had a winning session, I made three horrible plays. Basically this post will be me bashing myself in the head for some all the stupid plays that I made and the money that I could of won.

For the last 5 months or so I have been strictly an online player due to school constraints and time restrictions in the like. I have taken the time to learn/get a grasp on the micro-limits on PokerStars. I have only 5000 hands under my belt and I have improved my play drastically so I thought I would try to translate this to live action.

However, last Tuesday (5/8), I made my first trip up to the new poker room at Cache Creek which was my first live session since last Thanksgiving a Chumash Indian Casino in Solvang, CA. Nice room, terrible players. I vegetated for 2 hours, dragged 1 pot with TPGK and then left down 1BB. Anyways, I digress. Upon arriving, I sat 3/6 for 1 orbit before I was called for 4/8 Kill.

I sat down and made the mistake of not telling the dealer that I was going to wait for the button so I posted the into the BB. Dumb move, save $6 next time.

Drastic Error No.1: Being a NIT. Quad 8's
It was my third or so orbit at the table and it was pretty loose with Nick (TAG) in seat 6, TFong (TAG) in seat 1 and Brian the Echopheen guitarist in seat 7 (LAG-MANIAC)
I am not going to run down hand I will direct you to Nik's Blog:

http://niksanti11.blogspot.com/2007/05/session-no-6-tuesday-night-58-part-iii.html

I played like the girl on the cover of the Swiss Miss box. Flopped bottom set vs. top two pair vs. 2 flush draws as well as a straight draw and failed to raised the turn when a blank hit. "Take that shit to Valuetown." I could have easily taken 4-6 more BB's on that hand and then when I made quads on the river another 3BB's at least. Yeah so I suck.

Drastic Error No.2: Not Value Betting w/ Top Two pair and a Flush Board

AQos in the CO and I raise preflop get 2 callers. Flop is A73 rainbow (1 diamond) check to me and I bet 2 calls. Turn is the Qd checked to me and I bet 2 callers. River is another diamond checked to me who checks to showdown top two lame. Another value bet missed.

Drastic Error No.3: Making a Hero Laydown

Had no clue what these were until Tuesday, thanks to Santi. In the CO again w/ KJos and it is folded to me so I open and get 3 callers. flop is Jack high w/ 2 spades big blind bets out gets folded to me I pop it, big blind (Feliz) just called turn is another spade Feliz checks I bet he calls. River is another spade he bets out and I fold it like an idiot. He used my own style of play against me know that I wouldn't call if another spade hit on the river. I should have called and showed it down. If he had the spade then oh well I lose 1BB, but by folding I lose all the bets in the pot. Stupid move.

For next time I will play more like a play online, more aggressive be a little more liberal with my calls from the Big Blind w/ suited cards especially gap suited connectors.