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
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Friday, October 30, 2009
10/30: Upcoming Trips...
“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
“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
Saturday, July 18, 2009
CP3: Belated LV Blogs...In before tl;dr
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.
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.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
5/20: A Belated 6/12 Session
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.
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.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Down and Down - 6/12
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.
After talking to Santi, the simple only cure is to run better.
OK, I will work on that.
Look for more updates next week.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
5/9: Superdonk Birthday - 6/12 Bash
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
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
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Eeek, Card Deadedness, Again
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.
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.
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