The Check-Behind Trap. (CBT)
I wanted to discuss what I'll call CBT w/o having searched around extensively, but from what I've found, I haven't seen this discussed a whole lot really while I use it effectively often. This is a variation of the usual situation in which you might check behind a player on the turn while you had continuation bet the flop with a mediocre hand and got called - planning to call a river bet and keep the pot small. There are of course several other spots..
The CBT is checking behind or in front of another player on the flop (or extended to even the turn in some specific cases) with a strong or mediocre hand intending to get more value from an either immediate bluff attempt (when out of position) or a later street bluff attempt (both in and out of position), or when someone connects with a worse hand they think is good in part because of your check. This is definitely most effective in heads up or sometimes 3 way confrontation's, and usually should be thrown out the window when facing any more players (or actually could be employed for different reasons [ie. pot control], although I'd usually bet out and take control in these more multiway spots).
As an example of a bit more borderline scenario you could do this in - Say your heads up with Q8 and the flop comes out Q-9-4 Rainbow and you are checked too. You could bet out and take the hand in position here or check behind aiming to create value later in the hand weighted against the additional small risk of your single opponent drawing out on you with a Kx, Ax, or even 8-10 type hand when a jack comes (Note: that this risk is heavily increased w/even one more player involved). Here, I argue that depending on the player's aggressivity and situation this will generally lead to more overall value than simply betting the flop in which case you will usually take it down there on the flop (the safer/secure standard route, but were considering overall value weighted against risk here.) Checking behind will often encourage additional action on the turn in which the opponent will either bet trying to steal the pot from you on a complete bluff, or may think his lower pair is now good. You can now call behind allowing him to bet the river, or raise it here. Generally, although very read dependant - I'd recommend the safer route of calling. If the opponent checks, you can now fire a bet on the turn, and they may call with Ace high or a low pair thinking your trying to take the pot. I will often do this with middle pair's even, and play defensively post flop just trying to maximize or squeeze additional value out of the hand.
Now for more optimal scenarios: This move is best applied when you have a Ax, or Kx and hit your top pair on the flop w/no overcards in the case of a king. Say you have 1 or 2 opponents before you. you either limped or raised with A4s, A5, A7.. Anything along those lines preflop and had two callers. Now the flop comes 2 T A rainbow. Both players check to you. If you feel confident in your reads check behind. If you bet - only players with an Ace, or that have you beat will generally call. Otherwise someone with something like K-10 may later lead into you on the the turn when a lower card then ten hits eliminating the Ace from his perceived range of your hands. There is a small danger of someone pulling out an inside straight (w/QJ, KJ, KQ) or two pair on you which is being measured against the value of you getting additional money in on later streets when someone try's to bluff at the pot, or thinks there mediocre hand is good. This may not seem worthwhile, but I promise with experience and being able to identify good spots it can be used quite valuably.
However, I think and have seen a number of times, while letting time dwindle down a bit like I'm thinking of the hand and then calling the turn - more aggressive players (in specifically 20$ or less SNG's or Tourney's) will often just push an absolute bluff on the river trying to take you off of a hand thinking your scared of the ace or thinking your just floating them since it was checked on the flop. Either way you can value bet the river if they check to you and maybe make an additional bit on both the turn and the river now whereas they would of just folded to your more standard C-Bet (continuation bet) on the flop. Against your tricky opponent, they may just check raise you all-in if they overthink the hand.
Does this work 'Out of Position?'
Yes - An example from a recent live tourney at the Bike's mini-series of poker deepstack event where I doubled up once and used two other times effectively:
First hand was with KK and preflop play was very standard against a poorer LAG (loose-aggressive player). I had seen this guy make a large raise twice so far the first 40 min in position after several limpers were in other hands bet and then bet aggressively when checked too. Preflop from the SB I reraised his 5x bb raise after one limper to 1500 from SB. (*MLT Tip: It's a good idea to note players styles that stick out as very aggressive or very tight as they often have a tendancy to assume other players are thinking and acting the same way as themselves when making moves. Before betting, raising, or checking against such a player - ask yourself what a bet, raise, or check coming from that player in your position would mean. Consider this prior to making the move and use it. ) The player pretty quickly called me in this case. The flop came out J 5 2 with two spades I believe. The only hand I'm really worried about here is JJ - but I'm definitely getting all my money in against this specific player minus the appearance of an Ace.
-- Here now I have two primary options; bet and protect my hand and probably take down the 3250 ish pot, or check behind. We still each have around 4k in chips behind and well 8250 just sounds a little more juicy too me than 3250.
I opt to check behind, but not only check behind - live - I reach for my chips kinda quick look up for a second and make a subtle smirk. I stop and sit and think for a little while (this is almost all act and based on particular players and my feel of their corresponding reads and views on me. Generally - try to have your whole hand planned out preflop - if the players bets/checks, etc, what will you do? but giving yourself time to make decisions is always wise when unsure. Think of how to maximize hand value) and finally check. He fairly quickly leads out for an almost pot sized bet of 2800 commiting almost 3/4's of his remaining stack. I didn't wait any longer and just moved in here at this point thinking he was commited and calling anything he made this bet with. He shows 88, and my Kings hold to take the 8350 ish pot. Admittedly, players this LAG-donkish (as not to be mistaken for a good LAG player) may call on the flop depending on bet size, acting, etc.. but it is much less likely in scenario's like this than simply checking to them...
Another hand was smaller but another example... I had flopped two pair in a 3 way pot and opted to check behind in last position. The turn goes player 1: check, player 2: bet pot, and I thought and called. First position folds. River is a blank and player 2 checks, and I decide to make a 1/3ish pot value bet as it now looks like he entirely bluffed the turn or is weak. He seemingly frustrated folds showing that it was a complete bluff on the turn and I collect what would of almost for sure have been double what I would have otherwise collected by betting the flop.
One warning: Keep in mind the added danger of potentially getting outdrawn on and use this move as a double edged sword, keeping a defensive stance, while maximizing value - not blindly pushing aggressively on the turn/river. Of course, with improved hands (two pair+;) consider raises, particularly on safer (non flushy/straight type boards). Consider ways to get max value by raising while putting your opponent on specific ranges and guesstimating what they'd call, or just pushing in spots where they lead into you and you have within 2.5-3x the total pot or less of your chips leftover with two pair (one being top pair on a non flushy/straight board). This will look like a bluff enough to a lot of opponents to get called just about as much as a normal value raise which actually looks stronger to a lot of players. (I'd say use this more in 30$ online or less, or 200$ live or less SNG/Tourney's while considering value raising more depending on your opponent in larger buy-ins) Once in a great while your opponent may have picked up a set here, but overall you will be yielding much more value from this play in the rare cases this happens.
This move can be used effectively in many situations - experiment with it a little if you haven't used it already. Let me know how it works for you.
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Upcoming for the Blog.
I plan on re-investing some more time into this blog into the future. Bringing it back from the dead if you will. Here's a brief overview of some quick ideas:
More tips/strategy. Multi-tabling, quick tips, and guides, and site/product reviews and Video's. I definitely want to start throwing some video's in the mix identifying tips/strategies being discussed and intend to shortly.
Particularly, I plan on covering more multitabling strategies, ideas, and tools to maximize profit as I've recently been multitabling 12 tables much more frequently and successfully. You can do a sharkscope search for akashra777 at anytime to see my progress. As I improve my game I aim to help you improve yours.
Also, I will cover the usual thoughts/flow of tournaments I particupate in as in the past. Guiding you through Tournament situations and thought process firsthand as I play both live and online.
Also, I welcome any ideas, and/or anything anyone reading would like to see or have answered - feel free to ask.
More tips/strategy. Multi-tabling, quick tips, and guides, and site/product reviews and Video's. I definitely want to start throwing some video's in the mix identifying tips/strategies being discussed and intend to shortly.
Particularly, I plan on covering more multitabling strategies, ideas, and tools to maximize profit as I've recently been multitabling 12 tables much more frequently and successfully. You can do a sharkscope search for akashra777 at anytime to see my progress. As I improve my game I aim to help you improve yours.
Also, I will cover the usual thoughts/flow of tournaments I particupate in as in the past. Guiding you through Tournament situations and thought process firsthand as I play both live and online.
Also, I welcome any ideas, and/or anything anyone reading would like to see or have answered - feel free to ask.
Monday, July 31, 2006
Wow a new blog...
It's been awhile.. since I've written anything here.
That's partially due to the fact that I had been on such a bad run I' had stopped playing for a little and refocused on some other things. Actually was researching various internet-based income ideas, marketing, affiliates, seo, ppcmm, etc.. etc..
Ok enough of that.. back to POKER.. that is what this blog's supposed to be about right. Anyways.. Seem to be getting back on track finally. About fing time. ; ) .. I played 4 tournaments over the last week. One FPP Satellite to the 200$ Sunday event on PS (I donked away all my money as mentioned above) .. I placed in this tourney and got a seat in the 200$ event which I bubbled out on.. So nothing great there.. I was just happy w/the play, and flow, and no insanely ridiculous streaks of river BB's driving me crazy : ) ..
Anyways.. I finally got sick of not having any money in my poker accounts for the first time in a long while, and threw in an extra 50 bucks.. Played a 10$ Stud H/L tourney w/95 particupants that night (a few nights ago) on Full Tilt and finished 2nd for $190... Which was pretty disapointing going in HU since early on HU I took a 109k to 36k chiplead. Blinds were huge though, and the first hand I had a nice low + flush draw turned to midpair w/no low or flush.. Opponent is showing crap and i'm in position calling him down through most of the hand, as he's been picking up his aggression recently... Anyways he ends up with a concealed set as he raises me on the river and my hand never improved beyond a pair from a flush/low draw on fourth.. I held chiplead through most of the tournament, and was my first stud h/l MTT actually I think ever... Could be wrong.. At least anytime since I've had any decent set of skills : ) ..
Yesterday, I played in a 24$ DS 615 Entrant NL Tourney also on Full Tilt. My 2nd hand I double up w/AK w/top pair against someone w/a lower kicker.. K10 I believe he had.. Worried a bit he had hit a set or something similiar, but play dictated otherwise for the most part, and either way at least it was the 2nd hand in and I wouldn't of had to waste my time getting eliminated several hours in.
Shortly after this.. within the next half hour or so.. I played decent.. but what I felt was like shit honestly when I had two nice opportunities to knock people off their whole stacks if played better. one came up 3 way w/Jack high on the flop. I' flopped a set of deuces against two oponents - BB in with J3, and MP+2 in with JQs, while I'm sitting on the button with a set of deuces on 2 diamond board though. One of my deuces is a diamond. EP bets small amount.. MP raises min, and for some reason I reraised min here... Not sure why... Figured the original better would call down.. Hoping he had two small pair, or a flush draw and would call down or reraise, while I put the MP on something along the lines of KJ/QJ/J10/AJ, etc.. The 2 diamonds partially created the minraise which is still silly, .. I should through in some more value in the pot if i was a bit concerned there.. Anyways.. MP calls. turns random unsuited 7 or something similar.. he bets out half pot, and i min raise again. meh. river is another jack.. He puts out an amount similar to his last half pot, but like less than a quarter or so of the current pot. I min raise again. wtf.
Anyways I picked up a decent pot.. Just thought I could of took more from the both of them if played differently. Another similar situation came up a couple hands later in which if played better I think I could have taken them off their stack... No wonder I've been doing so bad lately -- Anyways.. now since I'm seeing how lucky I seem to be today, I kick everyone out of my room that's buggin the shiet outta me and go back to poker .. A while later I f myself royally off of over half my stack with a horribly played AK on a QJ2 bored. Sickly played..
hah.. ok . . So noww... I slow down a bit until this hand comes up: I make a min raise from MP+2 w/89s preflop.. Call a small flop bet w/a flush draw, turn the flush, and at the same time villain hits his Ace high straight with Ace of spades.. (he was holding As10x ..) I check raise villain on the turn AI and he hesitates for awhile and finally calls, to turn over the straight w/nut flush draw. -- He doesn't hit and i'm doubled up again... and back to a little below where I was after the 2nd hand of the tourney. I change my game up and play an aggressive game trying to sneak in a lot of pots from position w/random hands I think I can make due w/when the price is right and build myself back up to 10k pretty quickly. I lose most of my stack again when someone calling w/a non highcard (didn't beat the boards highpair) PP (after seeing me turn up the aggression for a bit -- I had top two pair in this case) rivers a set.. i'm down to 3.5k and change up my game again to tight - conservative, waiting the right opportunities to double up again. ..
I remain shortstacked like this for the next 2-3 hours.. around half way from nothing to average the whole time, until it starts to get in the money w/63 players... Can't remember the exact hands, but now over the next hour in one hand I trippled up, and than with more chips knocked out another player -- Still keeping to a more tight/conservative style of play now, waiting for the right moments to attack though... I manage to move up to 4th place overall with about 20 people left.. with 13 i'm still in 4th place... Gets to the final table, and I haven't played anything since about 13th place as I haven't gotten anything and now i'm about 7th place. Basically.. I knock the first guy out at the final table with pocket jacks against his AK on a AJ5 (all spade flop -- neither of us had any) .. (wtf.. i really needa save HH's .. would be so much easier.) .. anyways somehow i end up hurting again in 7th place or so after a few hands.. oh i recall.. I had J8o on something like a QhJh5 flop HU against a non-raised SB (i'm in bb) AQ and getting rope-a-doped until the river when I checked behind. Thought he might of been on a draw or just hit jacks, or 5's .. etc, but slowed down when i made a decent turn bet and he called again..
Anyways... I haden't played anything for awhile again... In the meantime there's somethin ridiculous like 5 split pot all-in's in a row... Everytime it seems like someones gonna get knocked out the river creates a split pot.. Seriously ridiculous... Anyways finally I have the best hand on I've seen in three rotations.. Ducks! .. wo0t. pocket 2's.. lol.. I still have 95k w/5-10k blinds, 1k ante's... and get one mid position caller.. So here goes' my tight, strong, leaks finally plugged (prior to early on in the tourney that is..) game, and I push.. which in my mind wasn't too bad.. I had been being shown respect for awhile as I had been barely playing any hands.. Last two shown down was AK against AJ, and JJ against AK ... which I had won both... I haden't played any hands now in at least 3 rotations and was on the button with one limper and 2 mid-low stack blinds.. The problem here is that I didn't bother to note the limper was the chipleader by a comfortable margin, and thought about it for maybe 7-8 seconds and called. He flips QK and flops a queen. Sure I could of waited a bit longer for something better than deuces here, but I was more disapointed with my negligence in not paying attention to the stack size of the limper -- I already had the blinds sizes and their past play (and most recent play noted in my head - and was thinking of pushing minus any raises pre when it got to me) but (w/o paying close attention to his stack size) believe he was to weak to call my AI -- which I imagine would of held up to be true with almost any other stack at the table particularly since the action at this point for the most part is just folding around the table... I actually dont' mind my push their that much - the stack size leak.
Sorry for the lack of HH. I'll fix it. !
That's partially due to the fact that I had been on such a bad run I' had stopped playing for a little and refocused on some other things. Actually was researching various internet-based income ideas, marketing, affiliates, seo, ppcmm, etc.. etc..
Ok enough of that.. back to POKER.. that is what this blog's supposed to be about right. Anyways.. Seem to be getting back on track finally. About fing time. ; ) .. I played 4 tournaments over the last week. One FPP Satellite to the 200$ Sunday event on PS (I donked away all my money as mentioned above) .. I placed in this tourney and got a seat in the 200$ event which I bubbled out on.. So nothing great there.. I was just happy w/the play, and flow, and no insanely ridiculous streaks of river BB's driving me crazy : ) ..
Anyways.. I finally got sick of not having any money in my poker accounts for the first time in a long while, and threw in an extra 50 bucks.. Played a 10$ Stud H/L tourney w/95 particupants that night (a few nights ago) on Full Tilt and finished 2nd for $190... Which was pretty disapointing going in HU since early on HU I took a 109k to 36k chiplead. Blinds were huge though, and the first hand I had a nice low + flush draw turned to midpair w/no low or flush.. Opponent is showing crap and i'm in position calling him down through most of the hand, as he's been picking up his aggression recently... Anyways he ends up with a concealed set as he raises me on the river and my hand never improved beyond a pair from a flush/low draw on fourth.. I held chiplead through most of the tournament, and was my first stud h/l MTT actually I think ever... Could be wrong.. At least anytime since I've had any decent set of skills : ) ..
Yesterday, I played in a 24$ DS 615 Entrant NL Tourney also on Full Tilt. My 2nd hand I double up w/AK w/top pair against someone w/a lower kicker.. K10 I believe he had.. Worried a bit he had hit a set or something similiar, but play dictated otherwise for the most part, and either way at least it was the 2nd hand in and I wouldn't of had to waste my time getting eliminated several hours in.
Shortly after this.. within the next half hour or so.. I played decent.. but what I felt was like shit honestly when I had two nice opportunities to knock people off their whole stacks if played better. one came up 3 way w/Jack high on the flop. I' flopped a set of deuces against two oponents - BB in with J3, and MP+2 in with JQs, while I'm sitting on the button with a set of deuces on 2 diamond board though. One of my deuces is a diamond. EP bets small amount.. MP raises min, and for some reason I reraised min here... Not sure why... Figured the original better would call down.. Hoping he had two small pair, or a flush draw and would call down or reraise, while I put the MP on something along the lines of KJ/QJ/J10/AJ, etc.. The 2 diamonds partially created the minraise which is still silly, .. I should through in some more value in the pot if i was a bit concerned there.. Anyways.. MP calls. turns random unsuited 7 or something similar.. he bets out half pot, and i min raise again. meh. river is another jack.. He puts out an amount similar to his last half pot, but like less than a quarter or so of the current pot. I min raise again. wtf.
Anyways I picked up a decent pot.. Just thought I could of took more from the both of them if played differently. Another similar situation came up a couple hands later in which if played better I think I could have taken them off their stack... No wonder I've been doing so bad lately -- Anyways.. now since I'm seeing how lucky I seem to be today, I kick everyone out of my room that's buggin the shiet outta me and go back to poker .. A while later I f myself royally off of over half my stack with a horribly played AK on a QJ2 bored. Sickly played..
hah.. ok . . So noww... I slow down a bit until this hand comes up: I make a min raise from MP+2 w/89s preflop.. Call a small flop bet w/a flush draw, turn the flush, and at the same time villain hits his Ace high straight with Ace of spades.. (he was holding As10x ..) I check raise villain on the turn AI and he hesitates for awhile and finally calls, to turn over the straight w/nut flush draw. -- He doesn't hit and i'm doubled up again... and back to a little below where I was after the 2nd hand of the tourney. I change my game up and play an aggressive game trying to sneak in a lot of pots from position w/random hands I think I can make due w/when the price is right and build myself back up to 10k pretty quickly. I lose most of my stack again when someone calling w/a non highcard (didn't beat the boards highpair) PP (after seeing me turn up the aggression for a bit -- I had top two pair in this case) rivers a set.. i'm down to 3.5k and change up my game again to tight - conservative, waiting the right opportunities to double up again. ..
I remain shortstacked like this for the next 2-3 hours.. around half way from nothing to average the whole time, until it starts to get in the money w/63 players... Can't remember the exact hands, but now over the next hour in one hand I trippled up, and than with more chips knocked out another player -- Still keeping to a more tight/conservative style of play now, waiting for the right moments to attack though... I manage to move up to 4th place overall with about 20 people left.. with 13 i'm still in 4th place... Gets to the final table, and I haven't played anything since about 13th place as I haven't gotten anything and now i'm about 7th place. Basically.. I knock the first guy out at the final table with pocket jacks against his AK on a AJ5 (all spade flop -- neither of us had any) .. (wtf.. i really needa save HH's .. would be so much easier.) .. anyways somehow i end up hurting again in 7th place or so after a few hands.. oh i recall.. I had J8o on something like a QhJh5 flop HU against a non-raised SB (i'm in bb) AQ and getting rope-a-doped until the river when I checked behind. Thought he might of been on a draw or just hit jacks, or 5's .. etc, but slowed down when i made a decent turn bet and he called again..
Anyways... I haden't played anything for awhile again... In the meantime there's somethin ridiculous like 5 split pot all-in's in a row... Everytime it seems like someones gonna get knocked out the river creates a split pot.. Seriously ridiculous... Anyways finally I have the best hand on I've seen in three rotations.. Ducks! .. wo0t. pocket 2's.. lol.. I still have 95k w/5-10k blinds, 1k ante's... and get one mid position caller.. So here goes' my tight, strong, leaks finally plugged (prior to early on in the tourney that is..) game, and I push.. which in my mind wasn't too bad.. I had been being shown respect for awhile as I had been barely playing any hands.. Last two shown down was AK against AJ, and JJ against AK ... which I had won both... I haden't played any hands now in at least 3 rotations and was on the button with one limper and 2 mid-low stack blinds.. The problem here is that I didn't bother to note the limper was the chipleader by a comfortable margin, and thought about it for maybe 7-8 seconds and called. He flips QK and flops a queen. Sure I could of waited a bit longer for something better than deuces here, but I was more disapointed with my negligence in not paying attention to the stack size of the limper -- I already had the blinds sizes and their past play (and most recent play noted in my head - and was thinking of pushing minus any raises pre when it got to me) but (w/o paying close attention to his stack size) believe he was to weak to call my AI -- which I imagine would of held up to be true with almost any other stack at the table particularly since the action at this point for the most part is just folding around the table... I actually dont' mind my push their that much - the stack size leak.
Sorry for the lack of HH. I'll fix it. !
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
PS Bloggers Championship
I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!
This Online Poker Tournament is a No Limit Texas Holdem event exclusive to Bloggers.
Registration code: 2237452
Friday, June 02, 2006
Sigh... Can't seem to catch a break.
..First was $3.2k here (1222 starting players)... These are the last 2 hands I played one right after the other... A little after 5 hours, IGH in 43rd for 48 bucks. GG.
******* Hand 1 ********
Poker Stars
No Limit Holdem Tournament
Blinds: t8000/t16000
(Ante: t800)
9 players
Stack sizes:
AJKHoosier1: t178424
UTG+1: t266458
MP1: t224704
MP2: t128424
MP3: t155296
pocaine: t137603
akashra777: t239715
SB: t175464
BB: t185994
Pre-flop: (9 players) akashra777 is Button with J♣ J♠
5 folds, pocaine raises all-in t136803, akashra777 calls t136803 (pot was t160803), 2 folds.
AJKHoosier1 said, "oops"
Flop: 7♥ 6♣ T♥ (t304806, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: t304806)
Turn: 2♠ (t304806, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: t304806)
River: A♥ (t304806, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: t304806)
Results:
Final pot: t304806
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 304806 | Rake 0
Board [7h 6c Th 2s Ah]
Seat 2: pocaine showed [Ad 5d] and won (304806) with a pair of Aces
Seat 3: akashra777 (button) showed [Jc Js] and lost with a pair of Jacks
AJKHoosier1 said, "OOPS"
******* Hand 2 ********
Poker Stars
No Limit Holdem Tournament
Blinds: t8000/t16000
(Ante: t800)
9 players
Stack sizes:
UTG: t265658
UTG+1: t223904
Fallan44: t127624
MP2: t154496
pocaine: t304806
akashra777: t102112
Button: t166664
GenghisCM: t169194
AJKHoosier1: t177624
AJKHoosier1 said, "FILTHY"
Pre-flop: (9 players) akashra777 is CO with J♦ A♦
5 folds, akashra777 raises all-in t101312, 2 folds,
akashra777 said, "..that JJ kinda hurt."
AJKHoosier1 calls t85312 (pot was t125312).
Flop: 6♣ 8♠ 4♣ (t217824, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: t217824)
Turn: T♥ (t217824, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: t217824)
GenghisCM said, "oh no"
Fallan44 said, "no way"
River: Q♦ (t217824, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: t217824)
Results:
Fallan44 said, "omg"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
AJKHoosier1: shows [4d Kh] (a pair of Fours)
akashra777: shows [Jd Ad] (high card Ace)
akashra777 said, "c'mon guys"
AJKHoosier1 collected 217824 from pot
pocaine said, "see ya"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 217824 | Rake 0
Board [6c 8s 4c Th Qd]
Seat 3: akashra777 showed [Jd Ad] and lost with high card Ace
Seat 6: AJKHoosier1 (big blind) showed [4d Kh] and won (217824) with a pair of Fours
******* Hand 1 ********
Poker Stars
No Limit Holdem Tournament
Blinds: t8000/t16000
(Ante: t800)
9 players
Stack sizes:
AJKHoosier1: t178424
UTG+1: t266458
MP1: t224704
MP2: t128424
MP3: t155296
pocaine: t137603
akashra777: t239715
SB: t175464
BB: t185994
Pre-flop: (9 players) akashra777 is Button with J♣ J♠
5 folds, pocaine raises all-in t136803, akashra777 calls t136803 (pot was t160803), 2 folds.
AJKHoosier1 said, "oops"
Flop: 7♥ 6♣ T♥ (t304806, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: t304806)
Turn: 2♠ (t304806, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: t304806)
River: A♥ (t304806, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: t304806)
Results:
Final pot: t304806
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 304806 | Rake 0
Board [7h 6c Th 2s Ah]
Seat 2: pocaine showed [Ad 5d] and won (304806) with a pair of Aces
Seat 3: akashra777 (button) showed [Jc Js] and lost with a pair of Jacks
AJKHoosier1 said, "OOPS"
******* Hand 2 ********
Poker Stars
No Limit Holdem Tournament
Blinds: t8000/t16000
(Ante: t800)
9 players
Stack sizes:
UTG: t265658
UTG+1: t223904
Fallan44: t127624
MP2: t154496
pocaine: t304806
akashra777: t102112
Button: t166664
GenghisCM: t169194
AJKHoosier1: t177624
AJKHoosier1 said, "FILTHY"
Pre-flop: (9 players) akashra777 is CO with J♦ A♦
5 folds, akashra777 raises all-in t101312, 2 folds,
akashra777 said, "..that JJ kinda hurt."
AJKHoosier1 calls t85312 (pot was t125312).
Flop: 6♣ 8♠ 4♣ (t217824, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: t217824)
Turn: T♥ (t217824, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: t217824)
GenghisCM said, "oh no"
Fallan44 said, "no way"
River: Q♦ (t217824, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: t217824)
Results:
Fallan44 said, "omg"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
AJKHoosier1: shows [4d Kh] (a pair of Fours)
akashra777: shows [Jd Ad] (high card Ace)
akashra777 said, "c'mon guys"
AJKHoosier1 collected 217824 from pot
pocaine said, "see ya"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 217824 | Rake 0
Board [6c 8s 4c Th Qd]
Seat 3: akashra777 showed [Jd Ad] and lost with high card Ace
Seat 6: AJKHoosier1 (big blind) showed [4d Kh] and won (217824) with a pair of Fours
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Vegas, Vacai, Heads Up, and 500k FreeRoll Play...
Sup Party Peoples?
Haven't posted here in awhile, so felt I should.. Really though, you can probably safely corelate my lack of posting to my lack of play as of late. Which isn't by choice, but by circumstance... Lot of other things going on at the moment interferring with my playtime. Oh wells.. When I have been playing, I've been finding myself in the BoDog Limit HU games frequently lately it seems..
I had been running quite well in these, leaving up in my last 7 or 8 sessions (Up in each individual match) at the 2/4-3/6 level and one 5/10 until yesterday... I started out @ 5/10 yesterday .. Played against some random guy (can't recall the name) and was up a little until he rivered a flush on me w/a lot of action prior.. he left up 40 or so after that hand. A new guy bought in for just 50$ which is a pretty low buy-in here obviously (300$ being default/avg).. DogBoy, OldDog, or something like that.. meh.. can't recall for sure - his pic is of some bum : p. So anyways.. I take his first 50, his second 50, and get him down to 20 on his 3rd while GF's asking me to go get food, and I'm hungry too.. Planning to go after I break this last 50 when he Rivers me with a king after getting all his chips in w/my pocket 10's (Overpair to the flop), and he's holding something like K2o and rivers his king.. I should of just left then... What continued though seemed like a never ending onslaught of Rivered hands that I let get to me. meh. I'd continue sweetening the pots for myself, starting off with what would be and continue to be the best hand until the river over and over and over again.. After this happened about ~80% of the next 10-12 or so hands...I got upset. lol. getting upset here != (does not equal) +EV. I just couldn't believe it over and over again.. Anyways he left up on me quite a bit after I started playing like a complete jackass. I got up walked around a little, MF.. MF, I can't believe this sh@! to myself a few times silently... Pounded a little bottle of "TAO" (French Vodka/French Brandy Mix), asked myself why it's "French", and made back 100$ in around 20 minutes at a 1/2 shorthanded NL game, which was about 1/3 of what I had just lost HU. I bought in for 50 here, and one of the first few hands in here I'm all-in after ending up w/ close to 2/5ths my chips in after positionally raising a flopped nutflush draw, inside straight draw, small pair, w/an Ace kicker, Was something like me: Ac4c, Board: 2c 4h 5c. This resulted in someone comeing over the top of me for the rest of my chips.. Well was ez call for me here as I was in a rampaging sort of mood + great odds + I just didn't feel real strength.. Thought he was more likely bluffing than holding a set, etc.. (wanted multiple callers, or I might of pushed the flop). My hand held up w/o improvement to his Jack high flush... Anyways made a few other steals w/Air and left w/the anxious GF to get food. Went and grubbed @ a kinda sports/pizza place down the street, watched a bit of the clippers/pheonix game, drank, and I owned her at some gun game... heh : ) .. serious. She sucks at that. She'd trade me guns after she'd lose some of her lives and than would be out before I lost anymore of hers. d'oh : ) .. <3'z : p .. Although, We went to another pizza place.. the weekend before (friends bday).. Had a series of first to win 5 games wins.. and she took it.. Was up 3-1 playing that game where you can choose to play different trivia, strategy, or card-based games w/up to 4 players that they have in bars or pool halls sometimes.. Anyways... She put me on tilt when she picked Pinball which I'm usually quite good at.. My ball seems to have a magnetic attraction to the side lanes here and I lose twice in a row...Man Last time I played I hit two free games after beating the free game/high score on another machine too like a month or so before.. So now were tied.. We play that golf game, and I'm up until the last hole where I play like a maniac and we end up tying.. Back to the multi game.. She picks the game since I picked golf, and she wins.. I pick some other game neither of us have played on the same multi-game thing and she owns me. GG GF. Next time. ; p.
Oh ya, On the way to the pizza place.. Was listening to 95.5 KLOS.. Classic Rock type station.. Anyways.. Here something on the radio about the next callers winning an all-expense paid trip to vegas to stay in a 5-star suite for 4days, 3nights.. If you can answer some question about the Beatles.. Was an a,b,c,d type answer.. Called in, forgot the question and answers, the GF said, say "A", so I did... They said A. yes Paul Mcnartney recorded this song in this year (or whatever), yes you are correct.. blahblah .. Took my # down and said they'd call me back in the next 25 minutes. They called and tell me I win a: 5star room w/a hot tub & patio, 200 in gambling chips, and various passes to vegas shows/nightlife, and some sort of tour of vegas.. Thinking it sounds all good, but than they tell me I need to make a 99$ fully refundable deposit... I'm obviously like well wth, I won a free-all expense paid trip that I have to pay for? I question them quite a bit.., He makes a good point of it being broadcasted on a well known national radio station.. and I buy-into it. Hey, I've been missing Vegas : ). Spoke w/3 different people gathering and verifying my information though, and sounded valid enough w/everything else. I think I made the correct read.. Let's just hope I still have a dollar in my account next time I check.
My Birthdays May 29th, and the GF's is May 28th, (along w/the other 8 or so birthdays w/in a couple weeks of this time.. Sis is 28th too, and other sis is 25th) .. Anyways, Were getting a beach type house in Dana point for a few days, camping a night out on the beach and than if that package comes through in time (not sure..) wanted to goto Vegas.. Otherwise, we can get a timeshare there too : p .. Damn, she needs a fake ID.. 20. Oi. : ) Guess, that's not much fun sitting around in the hotel while I'm playing half the trip huh? + I gotta feel guilty about it. bah. Anyone know a good place where they can change 86 to 85 on her ID? : )
500k. Lol.., well it rhymed. + Was just looking over a mail about the Noble 500k this weekend, and thought I'd do a freeroll today and win my way in. Nothing special there really.. Just on the top of my head. $100,000,000 to; what at first I heard making a royal flush, than a royal flush of spades, than a royal flush of spades at the final table of the yet to be disclosed 'secret' location. Wow. Some nice odds there. Lol, but sure it helps the advertising, and even nicer if someone was actually fortunate enough to hit it. They do at least have a few other hands that are a nice added incentive although still very improbable, but not impossible: 750k for a straight flush, or 500k for Quad 10's through Aces. Nice to be thrown in all the same. Anyways plan on making it in to this tournament today : ).
Also, Made it up to the final four on the RGP HU Challenge:
http://www.mindoasis.com/doug/ 4 down and just 2 more to go.
Haven't posted here in awhile, so felt I should.. Really though, you can probably safely corelate my lack of posting to my lack of play as of late. Which isn't by choice, but by circumstance... Lot of other things going on at the moment interferring with my playtime. Oh wells.. When I have been playing, I've been finding myself in the BoDog Limit HU games frequently lately it seems..
I had been running quite well in these, leaving up in my last 7 or 8 sessions (Up in each individual match) at the 2/4-3/6 level and one 5/10 until yesterday... I started out @ 5/10 yesterday .. Played against some random guy (can't recall the name) and was up a little until he rivered a flush on me w/a lot of action prior.. he left up 40 or so after that hand. A new guy bought in for just 50$ which is a pretty low buy-in here obviously (300$ being default/avg).. DogBoy, OldDog, or something like that.. meh.. can't recall for sure - his pic is of some bum : p. So anyways.. I take his first 50, his second 50, and get him down to 20 on his 3rd while GF's asking me to go get food, and I'm hungry too.. Planning to go after I break this last 50 when he Rivers me with a king after getting all his chips in w/my pocket 10's (Overpair to the flop), and he's holding something like K2o and rivers his king.. I should of just left then... What continued though seemed like a never ending onslaught of Rivered hands that I let get to me. meh. I'd continue sweetening the pots for myself, starting off with what would be and continue to be the best hand until the river over and over and over again.. After this happened about ~80% of the next 10-12 or so hands...I got upset. lol. getting upset here != (does not equal) +EV. I just couldn't believe it over and over again.. Anyways he left up on me quite a bit after I started playing like a complete jackass. I got up walked around a little, MF.. MF, I can't believe this sh@! to myself a few times silently... Pounded a little bottle of "TAO" (French Vodka/French Brandy Mix), asked myself why it's "French", and made back 100$ in around 20 minutes at a 1/2 shorthanded NL game, which was about 1/3 of what I had just lost HU. I bought in for 50 here, and one of the first few hands in here I'm all-in after ending up w/ close to 2/5ths my chips in after positionally raising a flopped nutflush draw, inside straight draw, small pair, w/an Ace kicker, Was something like me: Ac4c, Board: 2c 4h 5c. This resulted in someone comeing over the top of me for the rest of my chips.. Well was ez call for me here as I was in a rampaging sort of mood + great odds + I just didn't feel real strength.. Thought he was more likely bluffing than holding a set, etc.. (wanted multiple callers, or I might of pushed the flop). My hand held up w/o improvement to his Jack high flush... Anyways made a few other steals w/Air and left w/the anxious GF to get food. Went and grubbed @ a kinda sports/pizza place down the street, watched a bit of the clippers/pheonix game, drank, and I owned her at some gun game... heh : ) .. serious. She sucks at that. She'd trade me guns after she'd lose some of her lives and than would be out before I lost anymore of hers. d'oh : ) .. <3'z : p .. Although, We went to another pizza place.. the weekend before (friends bday).. Had a series of first to win 5 games wins.. and she took it.. Was up 3-1 playing that game where you can choose to play different trivia, strategy, or card-based games w/up to 4 players that they have in bars or pool halls sometimes.. Anyways... She put me on tilt when she picked Pinball which I'm usually quite good at.. My ball seems to have a magnetic attraction to the side lanes here and I lose twice in a row...Man Last time I played I hit two free games after beating the free game/high score on another machine too like a month or so before.. So now were tied.. We play that golf game, and I'm up until the last hole where I play like a maniac and we end up tying.. Back to the multi game.. She picks the game since I picked golf, and she wins.. I pick some other game neither of us have played on the same multi-game thing and she owns me. GG GF. Next time. ; p.
Oh ya, On the way to the pizza place.. Was listening to 95.5 KLOS.. Classic Rock type station.. Anyways.. Here something on the radio about the next callers winning an all-expense paid trip to vegas to stay in a 5-star suite for 4days, 3nights.. If you can answer some question about the Beatles.. Was an a,b,c,d type answer.. Called in, forgot the question and answers, the GF said, say "A", so I did... They said A. yes Paul Mcnartney recorded this song in this year (or whatever), yes you are correct.. blahblah .. Took my # down and said they'd call me back in the next 25 minutes. They called and tell me I win a: 5star room w/a hot tub & patio, 200 in gambling chips, and various passes to vegas shows/nightlife, and some sort of tour of vegas.. Thinking it sounds all good, but than they tell me I need to make a 99$ fully refundable deposit... I'm obviously like well wth, I won a free-all expense paid trip that I have to pay for? I question them quite a bit.., He makes a good point of it being broadcasted on a well known national radio station.. and I buy-into it. Hey, I've been missing Vegas : ). Spoke w/3 different people gathering and verifying my information though, and sounded valid enough w/everything else. I think I made the correct read.. Let's just hope I still have a dollar in my account next time I check.
My Birthdays May 29th, and the GF's is May 28th, (along w/the other 8 or so birthdays w/in a couple weeks of this time.. Sis is 28th too, and other sis is 25th) .. Anyways, Were getting a beach type house in Dana point for a few days, camping a night out on the beach and than if that package comes through in time (not sure..) wanted to goto Vegas.. Otherwise, we can get a timeshare there too : p .. Damn, she needs a fake ID.. 20. Oi. : ) Guess, that's not much fun sitting around in the hotel while I'm playing half the trip huh? + I gotta feel guilty about it. bah. Anyone know a good place where they can change 86 to 85 on her ID? : )
500k. Lol.., well it rhymed. + Was just looking over a mail about the Noble 500k this weekend, and thought I'd do a freeroll today and win my way in. Nothing special there really.. Just on the top of my head. $100,000,000 to; what at first I heard making a royal flush, than a royal flush of spades, than a royal flush of spades at the final table of the yet to be disclosed 'secret' location. Wow. Some nice odds there. Lol, but sure it helps the advertising, and even nicer if someone was actually fortunate enough to hit it. They do at least have a few other hands that are a nice added incentive although still very improbable, but not impossible: 750k for a straight flush, or 500k for Quad 10's through Aces. Nice to be thrown in all the same. Anyways plan on making it in to this tournament today : ).
Also, Made it up to the final four on the RGP HU Challenge:
http://www.mindoasis.com/doug/ 4 down and just 2 more to go.
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
5/6 SNG
..Hrm .. I've played 6 6-person SNG's since yesterday.
1 10$, 2 20$, 2 30$, 1 50$
and finished first in all of them except for 1 30$, which I accidentaly made a large raise commiting half my chips preflop when trying to switch windows (ewps) -- Played 2 sets of 3 SNG's at a time and was running Poker Office (Gets a little clustered sometimes...)
Signed up for Bodog and Pokershare yesterday to bonus whore it up a little through Pokersourceonline.com ... Going for tre books: HOH3/Harrington 3, 2+2 Advanced Hi/Lo Stud/Omaha, and Theory of Poker (I haven't actually read this yet...). The other bonus is for the Nevada Jacks Chipset.
1 10$, 2 20$, 2 30$, 1 50$
and finished first in all of them except for 1 30$, which I accidentaly made a large raise commiting half my chips preflop when trying to switch windows (ewps) -- Played 2 sets of 3 SNG's at a time and was running Poker Office (Gets a little clustered sometimes...)
Signed up for Bodog and Pokershare yesterday to bonus whore it up a little through Pokersourceonline.com ... Going for tre books: HOH3/Harrington 3, 2+2 Advanced Hi/Lo Stud/Omaha, and Theory of Poker (I haven't actually read this yet...). The other bonus is for the Nevada Jacks Chipset.
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Changing Tide?
..Is the downward spiral finally reversing again? Too soon to know...
Last week/2 weeks have been horrible. My focus/confidence has been off and so has my poker game. I'm at about -1500$ for the last week and a half.
The whole no poker, sex, drinking, smoking.. Well poker lasted the shortest = 2 days, sex = 3 days, and drinking + smoking = 5 days..
Sunday played in a Live limit tourney with the GF. Her first live tourney, + she's been playing NL tourney's online so was proud of her in this -- She finished 2nd to last table -- Right before me. This is a 5$/buy-in 10 full-table, W/unlimited 10/20 rebuys first hour... 5$ buys you 500 chips w/25-50 starting blinds which escalate quick-- yes obviously have to rebuy... 10 dollars gets you 1k, while 20 gets you 2k... add-on gets you 4k .. I rebought for 20 first, and 10 later, and folded Pocket Kings preflop the hand before add-on w/400 chips left (just enough to call BB preflop...). She rebought once for 10$ and did the add-on for 20.
50/100 level I get AKs ... Raise from UTG+2, and get 3 callers behind... Flop comes A86 (2 spades, none of my suit) .. I bet out.. everyone and their mom calls and the button raises. ..I call.. Turn's a 2 .. I bet out again (thinking maybe the button was on a flush draw.. and would see here.) .. calls, calls, button raises.. I fold. Enough of that... bah. he has trip 6's.
Next hand I play.. QKclubs. I call a relatively loose players raise from cutoff. 3-way. Flop = Qh 10c 7c. the blind player bets.. initial raiser calls and I raise.. Call, Raise All-in, call... Well. I don't hit clubs, and lose to J9(BB) when I get top two on river.. GAH..
GF reported she was doing well (Actually chip lead at her table for sometime), but right before add-on she lost her Aces HU against some donk playing 10-2 thinking he was brunson w/nothing but a pair of two's on the flop and turn -- he bet, and she raised his bets into her on both the flop and the turn while he called, only for him to pull a river 2 out of his a$$ to make trip 2's. (no he didn't make some odd read like she was overplaying AK etc.. She said he had to have rebought in at least 7 times.. just a donk w/a lot of money to blow apparently...) She ended up joining my table w/two left to go.. Blinds are ridiculous at this point, the game changes to NL (house rules on final two tables, and was close enough to NL anyways with the blinds...) Blinds are 2k-4k .. She has 8.5k in chips and is in BB... She gets one middle position caller (K6s - donk) .. I fold A8s in MP2.. SB calls, and she raises all in for her last 9 500 chips... She shows 10-10 and the donk With K6 calls and rivers a 7 high straight on her. ... I made a little chips finally before she joined my table - with an all-in after my Add-on w/AQ.. I raised and your basically pot commiting yourself on most flops w/these blinds which sucks... The whole structure is horrible, but only one she can play since she's barely turning 20 this month (Only have to be 18 here.. Cabazon..).. Anyways Sucked out on AK and 88 on the river w/my AQ : ) .. Finally, a dealer that sucksout in my favor : ) Than they go and change her right after.. sigh..
So now, Next hand after the GF gets eliminated - I Raise with AQ to 8k (which I'd say is roughly as scary to most semi-intelligent players here as a 3-5x raise under other blind/tourney structures considering the slim difference in blinds to stack ratio's..) .. Folds around to BB who raises all in.. This is about 5k more for me to call, and I have 8k Commited, but this leaves me with only 4k chips left if I call and lose... But I do w/the odds and figuring he could have a wider range of hands trying to protect his BB as it's a good 2/5ths or so of his remaining chips... He flips JJ and it holds up against my AQ. Very next hand I once against have AQ(suited this time..) .. I push again w/blinds coming back around - this is an easy push.. and I go home empty.. I can't even recall by what hand now, but didn't connect w/anything again .. .. Afterword we stopped and had some Italian food and checked out "The Sentinel" I believe it was called. Was a pretty good movie, I liked it.
Well, Yesterday.. Early morning.. I dusted off the last of my poker stars bankroll .. lol.. playing in a 5dollar MTT and an 11 45-person SNG... The 11 dollar.. I lost almost all my chips raising 5x w/JJ and having one caller on a 3 5 8 flop... I made a decent bet .. He calls.. turn is another 5 .. I make a decent bet, he makes minimum raise.. Could of played this different but it was a smaller buy-in.. i'm frustrated, and well I pushed.. he shows 25s. .. fcking 25 he called my raise with. oh wells. : ) .. This type o shit has been the story of the last couple weeks tho.. grown used to it..
Yesterday... The GF was sick overnight.. woke up sick and dizzy for awhile.. and the alarm wasn't set right, so I ended up oversleeping quite a bit and just called in for work (it was already later than the time i was supposed to be in and takes me about an hour to get in).. I woke up and donked the last of my 20 dollar or so bankroll away as mentioned above.. was over 1k just over a week ago... Haven't yet had to redeposit on pokerstars since my first initial deposit - sad... The bright side.. We went out to eat.. was a nice warm day.. went and worked out a bit and went swimming..
..After swimming we laid out awhile, and I felt good.. fresh.. breathed in some sunlight.. some RA and let it flow through my system a bit in a sort of meditative state : ) .. Came back.. and played 3 SNG's .. one w/my last 10 on UB, and one 20, and one 30 on Noble simulataneously.. I finished first in all of them. Games just flowed correctly as they should. Everything fit. I didn't play the rest of the day.. So now, that's where I am .. Hopefully, it's over?? .. hrmm, we'll see.. .
Last week/2 weeks have been horrible. My focus/confidence has been off and so has my poker game. I'm at about -1500$ for the last week and a half.
The whole no poker, sex, drinking, smoking.. Well poker lasted the shortest = 2 days, sex = 3 days, and drinking + smoking = 5 days..
Sunday played in a Live limit tourney with the GF. Her first live tourney, + she's been playing NL tourney's online so was proud of her in this -- She finished 2nd to last table -- Right before me. This is a 5$/buy-in 10 full-table, W/unlimited 10/20 rebuys first hour... 5$ buys you 500 chips w/25-50 starting blinds which escalate quick-- yes obviously have to rebuy... 10 dollars gets you 1k, while 20 gets you 2k... add-on gets you 4k .. I rebought for 20 first, and 10 later, and folded Pocket Kings preflop the hand before add-on w/400 chips left (just enough to call BB preflop...). She rebought once for 10$ and did the add-on for 20.
50/100 level I get AKs ... Raise from UTG+2, and get 3 callers behind... Flop comes A86 (2 spades, none of my suit) .. I bet out.. everyone and their mom calls and the button raises. ..I call.. Turn's a 2 .. I bet out again (thinking maybe the button was on a flush draw.. and would see here.) .. calls, calls, button raises.. I fold. Enough of that... bah. he has trip 6's.
Next hand I play.. QKclubs. I call a relatively loose players raise from cutoff. 3-way. Flop = Qh 10c 7c. the blind player bets.. initial raiser calls and I raise.. Call, Raise All-in, call... Well. I don't hit clubs, and lose to J9(BB) when I get top two on river.. GAH..
GF reported she was doing well (Actually chip lead at her table for sometime), but right before add-on she lost her Aces HU against some donk playing 10-2 thinking he was brunson w/nothing but a pair of two's on the flop and turn -- he bet, and she raised his bets into her on both the flop and the turn while he called, only for him to pull a river 2 out of his a$$ to make trip 2's. (no he didn't make some odd read like she was overplaying AK etc.. She said he had to have rebought in at least 7 times.. just a donk w/a lot of money to blow apparently...) She ended up joining my table w/two left to go.. Blinds are ridiculous at this point, the game changes to NL (house rules on final two tables, and was close enough to NL anyways with the blinds...) Blinds are 2k-4k .. She has 8.5k in chips and is in BB... She gets one middle position caller (K6s - donk) .. I fold A8s in MP2.. SB calls, and she raises all in for her last 9 500 chips... She shows 10-10 and the donk With K6 calls and rivers a 7 high straight on her. ... I made a little chips finally before she joined my table - with an all-in after my Add-on w/AQ.. I raised and your basically pot commiting yourself on most flops w/these blinds which sucks... The whole structure is horrible, but only one she can play since she's barely turning 20 this month (Only have to be 18 here.. Cabazon..).. Anyways Sucked out on AK and 88 on the river w/my AQ : ) .. Finally, a dealer that sucksout in my favor : ) Than they go and change her right after.. sigh..
So now, Next hand after the GF gets eliminated - I Raise with AQ to 8k (which I'd say is roughly as scary to most semi-intelligent players here as a 3-5x raise under other blind/tourney structures considering the slim difference in blinds to stack ratio's..) .. Folds around to BB who raises all in.. This is about 5k more for me to call, and I have 8k Commited, but this leaves me with only 4k chips left if I call and lose... But I do w/the odds and figuring he could have a wider range of hands trying to protect his BB as it's a good 2/5ths or so of his remaining chips... He flips JJ and it holds up against my AQ. Very next hand I once against have AQ(suited this time..) .. I push again w/blinds coming back around - this is an easy push.. and I go home empty.. I can't even recall by what hand now, but didn't connect w/anything again .. .. Afterword we stopped and had some Italian food and checked out "The Sentinel" I believe it was called. Was a pretty good movie, I liked it.
Well, Yesterday.. Early morning.. I dusted off the last of my poker stars bankroll .. lol.. playing in a 5dollar MTT and an 11 45-person SNG... The 11 dollar.. I lost almost all my chips raising 5x w/JJ and having one caller on a 3 5 8 flop... I made a decent bet .. He calls.. turn is another 5 .. I make a decent bet, he makes minimum raise.. Could of played this different but it was a smaller buy-in.. i'm frustrated, and well I pushed.. he shows 25s. .. fcking 25 he called my raise with. oh wells. : ) .. This type o shit has been the story of the last couple weeks tho.. grown used to it..
Yesterday... The GF was sick overnight.. woke up sick and dizzy for awhile.. and the alarm wasn't set right, so I ended up oversleeping quite a bit and just called in for work (it was already later than the time i was supposed to be in and takes me about an hour to get in).. I woke up and donked the last of my 20 dollar or so bankroll away as mentioned above.. was over 1k just over a week ago... Haven't yet had to redeposit on pokerstars since my first initial deposit - sad... The bright side.. We went out to eat.. was a nice warm day.. went and worked out a bit and went swimming..
..After swimming we laid out awhile, and I felt good.. fresh.. breathed in some sunlight.. some RA and let it flow through my system a bit in a sort of meditative state : ) .. Came back.. and played 3 SNG's .. one w/my last 10 on UB, and one 20, and one 30 on Noble simulataneously.. I finished first in all of them. Games just flowed correctly as they should. Everything fit. I didn't play the rest of the day.. So now, that's where I am .. Hopefully, it's over?? .. hrmm, we'll see.. .
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