Session No. 10 Cache Creek Friday Night (9/22)

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

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

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?