Since my last post (two posts ago technically) (Not yet updated)
Tournaments: -$681.75
Online Cash Games: -$704
Live Cash Games: $0
Net since last post: -$1,385.75
Winnings this year to date.
Live Cash Games: +$3,069
Online cash games: -$1,052.07
Online Tournaments: +$2473.32
Net winnings this year: +$4,490.25
My title of this post is sadly accurate.
My online bankroll is currently $0.
Almost no tilt. Yet I have run so bad, I somehow managed to drop nearly $2k at microstakes online. I lost with sets, against sets, with combo draws, against combo draws, and so on.
According to the software I use, I am running about $500 below expectation in all in situations. That's 20 buyins at the game I play.
And that's only in all in situations. That doesn't count all the times, I miss draws more often than I should, my opponents flop top pair more often than expected, and when an overcard always hits to my pocketpairs without fail. Unless they flop a set.
It's been absolutely brutal. I have had the worst run of my life in these past 2 weeks. I would sit down and play 25nl and drop double digit buyins nearly every day.
I'm gonna take a break for a while. Finals are coming up anyways, so I'm gonna take a break and study for a bit. I need to relax and get away from poker right now.
I might still blog on strategy and stuff, but for now I'm taking a break from playing. I'll keep coaching, the people I'm coaching seem to be doing well. I walked Todd through the end game of a tournament for him to get 15th place. He decided not to listen to me in one spot, where I suggested he move all in, because I was quite certain he was best. He would've won a big pot, and it might've changed the outcome. You never know.
I was talking to Flanagan. He made me feel better by pointing out I was still up 4-5k on the year, and that's still pretty good. He is still down on the year, and I know he's a solid player. I appreciate all the support I've been getting from my friends.
Signing off.
This time, I won't be seeing you across the felt for a few weeks.
- Bryce
Leviathan101
Modoaddict
Friday, April 18, 2008
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Progress Post #13.2: Trip Report #2 and taking a beating online.
Since my last post (two posts ago technically) (Not yet updated)
Tournaments: -$147.95
Online Cash Games: -$1,148.32
Live Cash Games: +$725
Net since last post: -$571.27
Winnings this year to date.
Live Cash Games: +$3,069
Online cash games: -$348.07
Online Tournaments: +$3155.07
Net winnings this year: +$5,876
I've been getting brutalized online. I manged to satalite in the FTP 750k and busted with AKo <> just called. But there is really no point. The only way I fold postflop is if an AQJ hits the board. But if I truly feel he has AA, I should fold preflop. I feel he could have other hands, I'm better off pushing preflop. He's isnt folding his hand after putting 1/3 of his stack in preflop, so there is really no difference.
Anyways, it folds back around to the rock, who dutifully puts in the remainder of his stack. Before the flop even comes out, I tell him "You have aces, I just can't fold this hand."
The flop comes out Q74, which means I lose to QQ now too. It didn't bother me much, I was pretty sure I was already beat. The turn and river brick and sure enough he showsdown AA, and scoops the pot.
I reload $500 more, and then Rob lends me $200. So I'm in for 8 bills now.
I ended up running card dead for about another 4 hours. It's about 2 AM and we are playing 5 handed. It's been slow because there is now Rob, the fish who doubled me earlier, the LAG, me and some random tight guy. We're all gunning for the fish, but I keep getting bad beat, or blown off my hand, so I'm down to about $500.
Finally the LAG leaves, the tight guy leaves, and a bunch of fresh players come in. It's like 3:30AM. They seem happy and full of gamble and just like that, the table shifts from being a bad table to a great one. Rob quickly gets it all in with AK vs QQ on a Kxx flop. It was pretty funny. Rob checked it, the guy bet $150 into an $80 pot. Terrible play. Rob check raises all in, and covers the guy's $500 stack. The guy snapcalls (another terrible play) and loses. Rob is now up $600 and gets up to go to Starbucks. I wait around for cards. I get KK and make it $30 and end up with 5 callers! The flop came out Q77. I keep seeing small bets on every street and make crying calls. The fish has K7 and the other guy had AQ. The fish never once bet or raised his trips. It sucked.
I brick with a bunch of hands and keep getting laughed at by this guy. He's really bad, but he's starting to tick me off. Justice is served as I proceed to stack him with my flush draw. I'm up to about $500 again, and immediately, I lose $200 back to a maniac. The TAG on my right calls a minraise on the btn and I call with 97o in the SB. Flop comes out Kc8c6s. I c/c against the tag and spike a T. I check/raise him all in, and he has K8 and I hold up. I keep missing my other hands and I get back down to $300 again.
One of those brutal hands is when I 3bet to $90 with QQ against the maniac. I'm in the SB and of course I get three callers. That's fine. The calling station limp/calls a reraise, the maniac tags along, and the bad TAG on the btn calls. The flop, of course, comes out AK6r.
I check, and everyone checks behind. Now I'm feeling a lot better about my hand, but I still have to be careful. The turn is a 2 making the whole board rainbow. I check again, the calling station checks, and the maniac of course bets out $200. The TAG moans then folds. I think a long time. I have $400 about, so my check raise is practically an auto call if he has anything. I'm beat by a king and ace and set. I feel the A and set are very unlikely and he is very bluffy, so likely I'm ahead. However the calling station behind is so ready to put the rest of his chips in the middle, I decide to fold.
They have 67o and 99. I would've scooped a pot pushing $1.2 k. =/ Well I was right with my hand reading.
Finally around 6AM, I get my break. I call a reasonably small raise, and then c/r all in with A8c on an 8 high flop. Well apparently the maniac woke up behind me, and crammed for over $1k on top. The tag folds KK! And the maniac shows QQ. I spike an ace and scoop a $800 pot.
Then I get QTs and flop top pair on a T high flop. The aggresive asian kid who was laughing at me had reloaded at this point. He bet the flop, and both the calling station and I called. The turn bricks, and he pushes all in. Both the calling station and I call again. The river is a 3rd diamond and I'm not happy. The calling station checks, and I check behind. The calling station shows A6 for a pair of sixes and the kid shows 99. I scoop another $600 pot and I'm gone and out the door with a net win of $575. I got my car washed at Morongo for $6 and then we drove home.
I got home around 10 AM and slept.
Lately I've started to get back into Limit Hold'Em. I forgot how much fun it is to play different games. Poker is still about fun to me, and for most people it's good to mix up your games sometimes.
See you across the felt.
Bryce
Leviathan101
Tournaments: -$147.95
Online Cash Games: -$1,148.32
Live Cash Games: +$725
Net since last post: -$571.27
Winnings this year to date.
Live Cash Games: +$3,069
Online cash games: -$348.07
Online Tournaments: +$3155.07
Net winnings this year: +$5,876
I've been getting brutalized online. I manged to satalite in the FTP 750k and busted with AKo <> just called. But there is really no point. The only way I fold postflop is if an AQJ hits the board. But if I truly feel he has AA, I should fold preflop. I feel he could have other hands, I'm better off pushing preflop. He's isnt folding his hand after putting 1/3 of his stack in preflop, so there is really no difference.
Anyways, it folds back around to the rock, who dutifully puts in the remainder of his stack. Before the flop even comes out, I tell him "You have aces, I just can't fold this hand."
The flop comes out Q74, which means I lose to QQ now too. It didn't bother me much, I was pretty sure I was already beat. The turn and river brick and sure enough he showsdown AA, and scoops the pot.
I reload $500 more, and then Rob lends me $200. So I'm in for 8 bills now.
I ended up running card dead for about another 4 hours. It's about 2 AM and we are playing 5 handed. It's been slow because there is now Rob, the fish who doubled me earlier, the LAG, me and some random tight guy. We're all gunning for the fish, but I keep getting bad beat, or blown off my hand, so I'm down to about $500.
Finally the LAG leaves, the tight guy leaves, and a bunch of fresh players come in. It's like 3:30AM. They seem happy and full of gamble and just like that, the table shifts from being a bad table to a great one. Rob quickly gets it all in with AK vs QQ on a Kxx flop. It was pretty funny. Rob checked it, the guy bet $150 into an $80 pot. Terrible play. Rob check raises all in, and covers the guy's $500 stack. The guy snapcalls (another terrible play) and loses. Rob is now up $600 and gets up to go to Starbucks. I wait around for cards. I get KK and make it $30 and end up with 5 callers! The flop came out Q77. I keep seeing small bets on every street and make crying calls. The fish has K7 and the other guy had AQ. The fish never once bet or raised his trips. It sucked.
I brick with a bunch of hands and keep getting laughed at by this guy. He's really bad, but he's starting to tick me off. Justice is served as I proceed to stack him with my flush draw. I'm up to about $500 again, and immediately, I lose $200 back to a maniac. The TAG on my right calls a minraise on the btn and I call with 97o in the SB. Flop comes out Kc8c6s. I c/c against the tag and spike a T. I check/raise him all in, and he has K8 and I hold up. I keep missing my other hands and I get back down to $300 again.
One of those brutal hands is when I 3bet to $90 with QQ against the maniac. I'm in the SB and of course I get three callers. That's fine. The calling station limp/calls a reraise, the maniac tags along, and the bad TAG on the btn calls. The flop, of course, comes out AK6r.
I check, and everyone checks behind. Now I'm feeling a lot better about my hand, but I still have to be careful. The turn is a 2 making the whole board rainbow. I check again, the calling station checks, and the maniac of course bets out $200. The TAG moans then folds. I think a long time. I have $400 about, so my check raise is practically an auto call if he has anything. I'm beat by a king and ace and set. I feel the A and set are very unlikely and he is very bluffy, so likely I'm ahead. However the calling station behind is so ready to put the rest of his chips in the middle, I decide to fold.
They have 67o and 99. I would've scooped a pot pushing $1.2 k. =/ Well I was right with my hand reading.
Finally around 6AM, I get my break. I call a reasonably small raise, and then c/r all in with A8c on an 8 high flop. Well apparently the maniac woke up behind me, and crammed for over $1k on top. The tag folds KK! And the maniac shows QQ. I spike an ace and scoop a $800 pot.
Then I get QTs and flop top pair on a T high flop. The aggresive asian kid who was laughing at me had reloaded at this point. He bet the flop, and both the calling station and I called. The turn bricks, and he pushes all in. Both the calling station and I call again. The river is a 3rd diamond and I'm not happy. The calling station checks, and I check behind. The calling station shows A6 for a pair of sixes and the kid shows 99. I scoop another $600 pot and I'm gone and out the door with a net win of $575. I got my car washed at Morongo for $6 and then we drove home.
I got home around 10 AM and slept.
Lately I've started to get back into Limit Hold'Em. I forgot how much fun it is to play different games. Poker is still about fun to me, and for most people it's good to mix up your games sometimes.
See you across the felt.
Bryce
Leviathan101
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Progress Post #13.1: Maniacs and Madness, More Craziness at Morongo.
Since I'm heading out to Morongo again this weekend, I'll just wait till I come back to update my winnings.
So I went out last week. Todd came along, and we met Derrick out there. Derrick and his buddy were playing blackjack.
It took us almost 3 hours to get there. Traffic was very bad. As in like you just got all in set over set bad.
Anyways, by the time I get there, Derrick is up $500 in blackjack. I'm pretty impressed. SK, I found who you need to learn from.
I get on the 2/5 list and get a seat pretty quickly. Morongo had a few dealers call in sick, so they had to call someone off break to get a table started. I sit down and look around at what people are buying in for. There are two people who buy in for 1k, several $500s and a few smaller. I think a bit and buy in for $500, of the $1,000 I brought, I wanted to see how people played before putting myself into a tough spot against unknown deepstack opponents.
I start off poorly. Seat 2 proves he's a maniac without a care in the world about money. He is hyper aggresive and much of his betting is uncalled for. The table dynamics shift as people look to get into pots with him.
I end up losing a good sized pot when another deepstack called me down light with a weak top pair. I'm down about 200, so I load up $400 more. I want more in case I get it in with the maniac.
Unfortunately the best plans often go awry. I was sent away to another table after losing another $100.
At the new table, it was much more calm. I sat down and tried to run the table over. However, I kept missing flops and people kept catching against me. It made it really hard. After not too long, a bad player opened to $25 in middle position. I decided to flat call with JJ on the button. I wanted to underrep my hand, cause I felt it would be easy to extract postflop, and I felt 3betting would fold out everything I beat, and get hands I flip with or are dominated to call/raise. Both the blinds call, which kind of ruins my plans. The flop comes out a nice 997 rainbow. Both the blinds check, and the bad player bets $50. I call with my JJ, planning to extract a lot of money out of lower pocketpairs, which I felt was most of his range. I expected a bigger bet from an overpair. Both the blinds fold, which was a great sign. The turn is an 8 and the guy thinks, then says all in. He pushed for $250 about, which is a little over a pot sized bet. I didn't really like the sound of that, but I thought his range was still mostly composed of hands I beat. If I am beaten, I probably have 6 outs to a gutshot or set, unless he had a made boat. I didn't think a boat was likely unless he just turned it. So I called, figuring I had around a decent chance I was ahead of like 22-66, behind 77+, and beating some random pairs.
He shows me 88 for a turned set. Gotta say I was dissapointed.
I was down to about $130 after that. I got AJs, made it $25 to go. The tightest player on the table pushes all in over me. I died inside, cause I knew she had me beat, but it was only $35 more. I called and she shows QQ. I whiff again.
I'm down to $60. Todd lost a huge pot to the maniac on the other table. Nut flush vs a rivered boat.
I say hell with it. I live straddle and pick up 54o. 4 calls (which is really funny, since I think it's pretty off what I'm doing.) I did infact push. The SB calls me with ATo (perfectly reasonable). I catch two pair and triple up almost. I apologize and say, I was just going home if I lost.
In the BB I pick up 92o. I checked and the flop came out 982. I bet out $30 or so, and the tight girl raises to $70. I puke. I figured she could be going nuts with a draw or maybe TT or A9. either way I'm not really folding two pair this short. I put her in and she has 99 and I'm drawing practically dead.
I wait around for a while then straddle again. This time I get K3s and with $130 behind. I make it 50 to go over 4 callers. The calling station limp/reraises me all in. I call (priced in), and she has AQo. A on the flop and I catch running spades for a flush. I apologize again, with the exact same excuse.
The maniac sits down at our table. I find out his name is "Frank." I dunno if that's actaully his name, but that's what I'm calling him. Anyways he blind raises to $100 like every other hand. It's hilarious cause people keep calling, and folding to his flop bet of $100-$500. Eventaully he opens to $100 blind, I get KQo and push over. The guy on the BTN pushes over me for another $50 or so, and I'm like fuckkkkkkk, I'm crushed by his range. The maniac shows J5o and folds it. The BTN has TT! A Queen on the flop puts me ahead and I win a $700 pot. The irony is the board comes out AQ243 and the maniac would've beat us both if he called.
Now with $700, I wait around and wait for good spots to get in against Frank.
He loaded up over $6,000 more, when the guy on his left bought in for $2,000 more.
I call his $100 with 99. The flop comes out K77 rainbow. I check he bets $200, I push in for another $400 and he folds his 8 high. This pushes me up to around $1,000.
He ends up taking $300 off me, when I river top two pair and he catches a gutshot. He berates me for calling, but I don't really care.
Frank is constantly getting his money in bad, and talking lots of trash. I just laugh inside, because he is free money against any decent player.
I lose some money waiting for a while, then get AJ and reraise to $300 over his $100 blind raise. He calls. The flop comes out AJT, he checks and I push all in for $600 or so. He folds. I've seen him call with gutshot draws and middle pair so I felt it was ok.
I call a small raise from his this time $35, which is quite small compared to before. I had Q9d and position on him. The pot goes 4 way and the flop comes out JT8! Catching the nuts is nice. Frank checks for once, (of course the only time I catch something.) I check also, trying to induce a bet from someone. The turn is a K giving me second nuts now. Frank checks AGAIN, so I have to bet now. I make it $100, and the calling station pushes all in over that for another $200 or so. Frank folds and I call. We're all in and she's drawing dead with K7. I'm up almost $500 now. Pretty good from being at $60 from my $900 buyin.
The maniac leaves with his buddy to get food.
The table calms down a bit. I get caught bluffing a few times, and get drawn out twice.
This was a sick hand. 3 limpers, and the tight player on my right limps. He's unimaginative and tends to be quite conservative postflop. I complete T9o and we're off 5 way. The flop is QsJx4s. It checks through, and the turn is the 8s. I have the Ts in my hand, so I fire out about $30. The calling stations calls (obviously), and the player on my right calls. I have the calling station on a pair of some variety maybe with a spade draw. I figure the guy on my right to have a high spade, maybe KT with the Ks, or a Queen with a spade. The queen falls on the river, which is what I felt was a great card. I felt it was unlikely someone had a boat, so I valuebet $50 on the river. The calling station calls, and then the tight old guy on my right raises to $200! I just stared at him. I couldn't believe it. I had him on exactly 88 when he made that play. MAYBE Q8. But I was feeling 88. I puked, and mucked my hand. I'm glad I thought long enough to revaluate my analysis. Otherwise, I might've stacked off. The calling stations calls with Q7, and the old man did infact have 88.
When I'm around $900 again, I get ATo. The calling station reloaded again. She raises to $15, I call on the CO. The BTN also calls. He is pretty decent, but again unimagnative and pretty straightfoward (meaning he's easy for me to read). The flop comes out AdQs5s. The calling station bets $25, I call and the BTN calls. The turn is the Ts! That probably one of the best cards in the deck for me for improving my hand, but it could also improve me to a strong second best hand. The calling station bets out $25 again, and I think. I think the BTN won't 3bet my raise with a flush or straight. I felt he would just call and try to trap. I raise to $60, just enough to try to freeze action with my big hand. The BTN indeed just calls, and I instantly put him on a made flush or straight. The calling station folds. The river brings my gin card, a Tc. I think and bet $200 which is close to a pot sized bet. He thinks and thinks and then calls with J6s. I felt like I read the hands perfectly although if I realized how much was in the pot, I would've bet more on the river. The calling station said she had QTo. Too bad she didn't stay in.
Anyways, in the end Todd lost a lot of money. I came up $150 total.
Hilarity ensued, when a guy on another table had an issue with something that happened in a hand. He kept arguing with the floor and the dealer. The security was called in and he was forcibly removed from the casino. I don't really know what was going on except the whole card room froze as everyone got up and watched. It was pretty funny.
I'm heading back out there again on Saturday. Hopefully, I'll run good. As a side note, Rob, Winston, Nate and I are working on a new project called Degenerate Gamblers. We plan to have a website that provides poker related content that is entertaining and educational. Keep an eye out for it.
So I went out last week. Todd came along, and we met Derrick out there. Derrick and his buddy were playing blackjack.
It took us almost 3 hours to get there. Traffic was very bad. As in like you just got all in set over set bad.
Anyways, by the time I get there, Derrick is up $500 in blackjack. I'm pretty impressed. SK, I found who you need to learn from.
I get on the 2/5 list and get a seat pretty quickly. Morongo had a few dealers call in sick, so they had to call someone off break to get a table started. I sit down and look around at what people are buying in for. There are two people who buy in for 1k, several $500s and a few smaller. I think a bit and buy in for $500, of the $1,000 I brought, I wanted to see how people played before putting myself into a tough spot against unknown deepstack opponents.
I start off poorly. Seat 2 proves he's a maniac without a care in the world about money. He is hyper aggresive and much of his betting is uncalled for. The table dynamics shift as people look to get into pots with him.
I end up losing a good sized pot when another deepstack called me down light with a weak top pair. I'm down about 200, so I load up $400 more. I want more in case I get it in with the maniac.
Unfortunately the best plans often go awry. I was sent away to another table after losing another $100.
At the new table, it was much more calm. I sat down and tried to run the table over. However, I kept missing flops and people kept catching against me. It made it really hard. After not too long, a bad player opened to $25 in middle position. I decided to flat call with JJ on the button. I wanted to underrep my hand, cause I felt it would be easy to extract postflop, and I felt 3betting would fold out everything I beat, and get hands I flip with or are dominated to call/raise. Both the blinds call, which kind of ruins my plans. The flop comes out a nice 997 rainbow. Both the blinds check, and the bad player bets $50. I call with my JJ, planning to extract a lot of money out of lower pocketpairs, which I felt was most of his range. I expected a bigger bet from an overpair. Both the blinds fold, which was a great sign. The turn is an 8 and the guy thinks, then says all in. He pushed for $250 about, which is a little over a pot sized bet. I didn't really like the sound of that, but I thought his range was still mostly composed of hands I beat. If I am beaten, I probably have 6 outs to a gutshot or set, unless he had a made boat. I didn't think a boat was likely unless he just turned it. So I called, figuring I had around a decent chance I was ahead of like 22-66, behind 77+, and beating some random pairs.
He shows me 88 for a turned set. Gotta say I was dissapointed.
I was down to about $130 after that. I got AJs, made it $25 to go. The tightest player on the table pushes all in over me. I died inside, cause I knew she had me beat, but it was only $35 more. I called and she shows QQ. I whiff again.
I'm down to $60. Todd lost a huge pot to the maniac on the other table. Nut flush vs a rivered boat.
I say hell with it. I live straddle and pick up 54o. 4 calls (which is really funny, since I think it's pretty off what I'm doing.) I did infact push. The SB calls me with ATo (perfectly reasonable). I catch two pair and triple up almost. I apologize and say, I was just going home if I lost.
In the BB I pick up 92o. I checked and the flop came out 982. I bet out $30 or so, and the tight girl raises to $70. I puke. I figured she could be going nuts with a draw or maybe TT or A9. either way I'm not really folding two pair this short. I put her in and she has 99 and I'm drawing practically dead.
I wait around for a while then straddle again. This time I get K3s and with $130 behind. I make it 50 to go over 4 callers. The calling station limp/reraises me all in. I call (priced in), and she has AQo. A on the flop and I catch running spades for a flush. I apologize again, with the exact same excuse.
The maniac sits down at our table. I find out his name is "Frank." I dunno if that's actaully his name, but that's what I'm calling him. Anyways he blind raises to $100 like every other hand. It's hilarious cause people keep calling, and folding to his flop bet of $100-$500. Eventaully he opens to $100 blind, I get KQo and push over. The guy on the BTN pushes over me for another $50 or so, and I'm like fuckkkkkkk, I'm crushed by his range. The maniac shows J5o and folds it. The BTN has TT! A Queen on the flop puts me ahead and I win a $700 pot. The irony is the board comes out AQ243 and the maniac would've beat us both if he called.
Now with $700, I wait around and wait for good spots to get in against Frank.
He loaded up over $6,000 more, when the guy on his left bought in for $2,000 more.
I call his $100 with 99. The flop comes out K77 rainbow. I check he bets $200, I push in for another $400 and he folds his 8 high. This pushes me up to around $1,000.
He ends up taking $300 off me, when I river top two pair and he catches a gutshot. He berates me for calling, but I don't really care.
Frank is constantly getting his money in bad, and talking lots of trash. I just laugh inside, because he is free money against any decent player.
I lose some money waiting for a while, then get AJ and reraise to $300 over his $100 blind raise. He calls. The flop comes out AJT, he checks and I push all in for $600 or so. He folds. I've seen him call with gutshot draws and middle pair so I felt it was ok.
I call a small raise from his this time $35, which is quite small compared to before. I had Q9d and position on him. The pot goes 4 way and the flop comes out JT8! Catching the nuts is nice. Frank checks for once, (of course the only time I catch something.) I check also, trying to induce a bet from someone. The turn is a K giving me second nuts now. Frank checks AGAIN, so I have to bet now. I make it $100, and the calling station pushes all in over that for another $200 or so. Frank folds and I call. We're all in and she's drawing dead with K7. I'm up almost $500 now. Pretty good from being at $60 from my $900 buyin.
The maniac leaves with his buddy to get food.
The table calms down a bit. I get caught bluffing a few times, and get drawn out twice.
This was a sick hand. 3 limpers, and the tight player on my right limps. He's unimaginative and tends to be quite conservative postflop. I complete T9o and we're off 5 way. The flop is QsJx4s. It checks through, and the turn is the 8s. I have the Ts in my hand, so I fire out about $30. The calling stations calls (obviously), and the player on my right calls. I have the calling station on a pair of some variety maybe with a spade draw. I figure the guy on my right to have a high spade, maybe KT with the Ks, or a Queen with a spade. The queen falls on the river, which is what I felt was a great card. I felt it was unlikely someone had a boat, so I valuebet $50 on the river. The calling station calls, and then the tight old guy on my right raises to $200! I just stared at him. I couldn't believe it. I had him on exactly 88 when he made that play. MAYBE Q8. But I was feeling 88. I puked, and mucked my hand. I'm glad I thought long enough to revaluate my analysis. Otherwise, I might've stacked off. The calling stations calls with Q7, and the old man did infact have 88.
When I'm around $900 again, I get ATo. The calling station reloaded again. She raises to $15, I call on the CO. The BTN also calls. He is pretty decent, but again unimagnative and pretty straightfoward (meaning he's easy for me to read). The flop comes out AdQs5s. The calling station bets $25, I call and the BTN calls. The turn is the Ts! That probably one of the best cards in the deck for me for improving my hand, but it could also improve me to a strong second best hand. The calling station bets out $25 again, and I think. I think the BTN won't 3bet my raise with a flush or straight. I felt he would just call and try to trap. I raise to $60, just enough to try to freeze action with my big hand. The BTN indeed just calls, and I instantly put him on a made flush or straight. The calling station folds. The river brings my gin card, a Tc. I think and bet $200 which is close to a pot sized bet. He thinks and thinks and then calls with J6s. I felt like I read the hands perfectly although if I realized how much was in the pot, I would've bet more on the river. The calling station said she had QTo. Too bad she didn't stay in.
Anyways, in the end Todd lost a lot of money. I came up $150 total.
Hilarity ensued, when a guy on another table had an issue with something that happened in a hand. He kept arguing with the floor and the dealer. The security was called in and he was forcibly removed from the casino. I don't really know what was going on except the whole card room froze as everyone got up and watched. It was pretty funny.
I'm heading back out there again on Saturday. Hopefully, I'll run good. As a side note, Rob, Winston, Nate and I are working on a new project called Degenerate Gamblers. We plan to have a website that provides poker related content that is entertaining and educational. Keep an eye out for it.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Progress Post #12: I'm selling lightning in a bottle, Chip Richie cleans up Anaheim
Since my last post
Tournaments: -$538
Online Cash Games: +$232.35
Live Cash Games: +$1,200
Net since last post: $894.35
Winnings this year to date.
Live Cash Games: +$2,344
Online cash games: +$800.25.
Online Tournaments: +$3303.02
Net since the beginning of the year: $6447.27
I was talking to Todd, and he and Brandon were at Hawaiian Gardens. They were invited to a home game, and managed to get Rob and me an invite. We drove to a company building and someone runs out to let us in. The business is run by Eddie. He's been hosting home games for years now, but they told me it's gonna be ending soon since he sold his business. Too bad it's a nice set up. Anyways, Eddie is a cool guy and apparently he gets about 30 people showing up on a weekly basis.
There was a $100 tournament. Rob and I got there too late to play, but whatever we prefer cash games anyways.
The cash game starts up when enough people busted. They had an all time dealer set up who began shuffling the cards. We sit down at that table. Their whole set up was quite nice. 4 tables spaced comfortably, with nice chips and cards. Drinks in a fridge in the corner and various snacks on the counter.
The cash game was $1/$2 with up to two live straddles. We start 6 handed with Rob on my right. I know Rob plays tight, so I know when he gets into a pot, I should stay out. I ended up playing my usual LAG game to take advantage of the weaker players. Since the cash game is starting with the people who busted in the tourney, I figured many of the people we were starting with were bad.
My first hand is KdQd, and I push it up to $7. The BTN and SB calls me with about $100 behind. Flop is Kxx. The SB bets into me and I call. The BTN folds. The turn is a Q, he checks and I bet. He calls. The river is a blank and I fire a $60 bet out there into about a $100 pot. He folds after showing a K. I show him KQ and gain some respect. I had planned to abuse it later, but not all goes according to plan.
I ended up running too hot to bother bluffing. I had a real hand so many times, I never actually got a good spot to bluff. I made 4 straights, a flush over a straight, and two sets against top pair and got paid on all of them.
Like I attempted to check/raise my OESD. But since I only put in one chip, they said its a call. I'm like fine whatever. And I turned the straight and got paid off, since he didn't put me on that.
Todd decided he would try to play poker against me and got burned. I took about $100 off him when he didn't give my river bet any credit and called with a bad top pair. Then I stacked him when I flopped top two with QJ when he limped AQ.
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I told him I wasn't playing back at him. Whatever. His loss.
Some guy kept calling me Chip Richie because I kept collecting all the chips. I said I preferred to be called Chip Reese, but he was like, he's six feet under.
I thought to myself, well I didn't say I want to be Chip Reese.
The same guy kept saying he wanted to stack me whenever I left the room. (Rob told me this) And Rob now wants to stack him. What a great friend. So Rob decided to have some fun and raise with Td9d. Not really a big deal, I do it all the time. The guy reraises from $7 to $45. All right it's time to fold'em, but Rob calls and the guy only has like $60 more behind. The flop comes out 9 high, the guy pushes. Rob calls and the other guy shows JJ. Rob catches a T and WOW I was laughing my ass off.
I ended the night up $1,500. I only played for about 3 or 4 hours and I won more than the guy who got first in the tournament. I also cashed out more than everyone else on the table combined. It was pretty nice. Rob won like $300 as well.
Overall, the players were very nice. They weren't very good, some were terrible and only a small handful were decent. Eddie says since he's selling his business, he wants to get in our games. We'll see. I don't think we'll mind, it's just we don't have enough space. Although I don't really know how happy they will be to play with us, seeing how bad Rob and I cleaned them out.
I ended up dropping $300 at Winston's home game the next day. I ran KK into AA on Winston's straddle (obviously) and then flopped a straight vs top two and he filled up.
Tournaments: -$538
Online Cash Games: +$232.35
Live Cash Games: +$1,200
Net since last post: $894.35
Winnings this year to date.
Live Cash Games: +$2,344
Online cash games: +$800.25.
Online Tournaments: +$3303.02
Net since the beginning of the year: $6447.27
I was talking to Todd, and he and Brandon were at Hawaiian Gardens. They were invited to a home game, and managed to get Rob and me an invite. We drove to a company building and someone runs out to let us in. The business is run by Eddie. He's been hosting home games for years now, but they told me it's gonna be ending soon since he sold his business. Too bad it's a nice set up. Anyways, Eddie is a cool guy and apparently he gets about 30 people showing up on a weekly basis.
There was a $100 tournament. Rob and I got there too late to play, but whatever we prefer cash games anyways.
The cash game starts up when enough people busted. They had an all time dealer set up who began shuffling the cards. We sit down at that table. Their whole set up was quite nice. 4 tables spaced comfortably, with nice chips and cards. Drinks in a fridge in the corner and various snacks on the counter.
The cash game was $1/$2 with up to two live straddles. We start 6 handed with Rob on my right. I know Rob plays tight, so I know when he gets into a pot, I should stay out. I ended up playing my usual LAG game to take advantage of the weaker players. Since the cash game is starting with the people who busted in the tourney, I figured many of the people we were starting with were bad.
My first hand is KdQd, and I push it up to $7. The BTN and SB calls me with about $100 behind. Flop is Kxx. The SB bets into me and I call. The BTN folds. The turn is a Q, he checks and I bet. He calls. The river is a blank and I fire a $60 bet out there into about a $100 pot. He folds after showing a K. I show him KQ and gain some respect. I had planned to abuse it later, but not all goes according to plan.
I ended up running too hot to bother bluffing. I had a real hand so many times, I never actually got a good spot to bluff. I made 4 straights, a flush over a straight, and two sets against top pair and got paid on all of them.
Like I attempted to check/raise my OESD. But since I only put in one chip, they said its a call. I'm like fine whatever. And I turned the straight and got paid off, since he didn't put me on that.
Todd decided he would try to play poker against me and got burned. I took about $100 off him when he didn't give my river bet any credit and called with a bad top pair. Then I stacked him when I flopped top two with QJ when he limped AQ.
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I told him I wasn't playing back at him. Whatever. His loss.
Some guy kept calling me Chip Richie because I kept collecting all the chips. I said I preferred to be called Chip Reese, but he was like, he's six feet under.
I thought to myself, well I didn't say I want to be Chip Reese.
The same guy kept saying he wanted to stack me whenever I left the room. (Rob told me this) And Rob now wants to stack him. What a great friend. So Rob decided to have some fun and raise with Td9d. Not really a big deal, I do it all the time. The guy reraises from $7 to $45. All right it's time to fold'em, but Rob calls and the guy only has like $60 more behind. The flop comes out 9 high, the guy pushes. Rob calls and the other guy shows JJ. Rob catches a T and WOW I was laughing my ass off.
I ended the night up $1,500. I only played for about 3 or 4 hours and I won more than the guy who got first in the tournament. I also cashed out more than everyone else on the table combined. It was pretty nice. Rob won like $300 as well.
Overall, the players were very nice. They weren't very good, some were terrible and only a small handful were decent. Eddie says since he's selling his business, he wants to get in our games. We'll see. I don't think we'll mind, it's just we don't have enough space. Although I don't really know how happy they will be to play with us, seeing how bad Rob and I cleaned them out.
I ended up dropping $300 at Winston's home game the next day. I ran KK into AA on Winston's straddle (obviously) and then flopped a straight vs top two and he filled up.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Progress Post #11: Return from the dead, a month all at once
The update first for the people who only care about that.
Tournaments: -$821.38
I've played probably close to 50 tournaments since my last post. I made a few three figure cashes, but haven't hit any four figure ones. I've bought into almost $1,400 worth of tourneys since my last post.
Live Cash Games: +$1,600
I won about $2,100 at Morongo, and then lost some here and there. Most of this post is about the Morongo trip.
Online Cash Games: +$208.03
Net since last post: +$1808.03
Although I'd say about $200 of expenses were incurred during the trip.
Winnings this year to date.
Live Cash Games: +$1044
Online cash games: +$567.90.
Online Tournaments: +$3841.02
Net since the beginning of the year: $5,452.92
All and all not bad. I was planning to hit $25k by the end of the year. I'm about 3 months in, so I'm behind a bit. It's ok, I expect it to pick up during the summer. I should have more free time to play then.
Let's start with the trip to Morongo
By the way, I started this during the weekend, then let it sit for two weeks. So if the past and present tense seem a little mixed up that's why.
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This weekend was incredible. SK has defined a new level of degeneracy. We all went to Morongo. SK is down over $1,000 on the weekend.
In blackjack.
I told him he's an idiot.
Day 1
Run Like The Sun
SK and I wait around for Winston to ride with us. We hit up King's Kabob and then bail cause Winston is still asleep. Anyways, it takes us over 2 hours to get out there. I get on the wait list for 2/5. SK goes to play blackjack.
6 hours later, I'm up nearly $2,500 killing the 2/5 and SK is into me for $900. I make some nice plays like checking AQ with top pair on the flop and extracting a few hundred out of TT on turn and river. It helps I am connecting with just about everything. I leave early and get us a room a Super 8 Motel. SK mentioned he thought he might get shot on the way in. I doubt it. Everyone who got a room still owes me $30 btw. SK that includes you. Yes, yes it does. (He's watching me write this.) Update, I am now continuing this at home. He got me the $30. As did everyone else, except Zack, who I'm letting slide on it.
Generally playing at casinos, your strategy isn't to get all in. This is because the range of hands they get all in for 100bb+ with is usually pretty strong. However, it's very easy to extract 15-20bb bets out of them with weak hands. So you should generally try to go after more of their range, then play for big all in pots.
Anyways, SK managed to make a recovery on my loan and ships me back $800. As we leave I notice this Armenian guy who is smiling after just winning a big pot. He has like 4 racks in front of him. I wished I got to play with him cause he seemed really bad. (foreshadowing!!!)
I get to the Super 8, get us a room and crash. I'm tired.
Day 2
A Downswing of the Epic Variety
It's probably more exciting if I start with the end result. At the end of Day 2. Sk is no longer in debt.
I am now into SK for $200.
The morning started with a continental breakfast, then going to Morongo. I play the 1/3 with Zack (who got zero sleep) and dump $200. I can't beat that game. It's impossible.
I play some blackjack and win $150 back. LOL. Blackjack.
Zack ended up losing like $200 at the 1/3 also and wants to go play blackjack as well. I am kinda against it, since I just won $150 there. But I go with anyways. I end up dumping back $250 to the casino. Figures. So I'm -$300 at this point.
I finally got a seat at the 2/5.
The same Armenian guy is sitting at the 2/5 game the next morning. I thought to myself, well I guess I get to play with him. There were a few other people from the previous night still there. Since I got some sleep, I was fresh and feeling good about my chances. I sit down with $1,000.
The Armenian guy takes me out for $1,800, and Zack for like $600 over the course of the day. I felt the full force of varience at it's worse. I got backdoor straighted 4 or 5 times. He caught a gutshot against my top two pair. He rivered trips against my two pair. He caught flush after flush. Then finally when he stops catching with rags he picks up pocket kings. He has the entire table disgusted at how lucky he is getting. He quickly builds a monsterous stack that is pushing $5,000 at the table's expense. Yea, he's getting lucky against the entire table. Like when his 95 called a $50 reraise against pocket Kings and flopped a boat.
Later, that day we had something interesting happen. SK just announced his last hand. The black guy UTG raises to $10, I call with 66, SK makes it $35 to go. The armenian guy calls in the SB, the BB calls (he is a chill guy and we play with him on Day 3.), and the black guy calls. I look down at the menial $150 in my stack and say what the hell and push all in. SK is looks at me in disbelief. I'm like "How hard can it be, if you got a big hand, you should raise." I didn't realize the impact my words would have. The BB immediately calls us on "teamplay" or collusion. The aremenian guy doesn't look happy about a reraise either and quickly agrees with the BB. UTG said we should call the floor. As usual when there is an arguement one side is heatedly argueing with the floorman. SK and I on the other hand we're kinda like. That's collusion? I suppose it's kinda borderline, but I'm so used to playing our home games, that I guess I picked up some bad habits. Anyways, the floor eventually rules, it's not collusion, but it's still questionable. She says SK can't reraise, but can call and gives us both a warning. SK ends up really questioning what to do and folds after a few minutes.
He has KK.
His logic is that he doesn't want to risk the $1,000 of profit he just won. He was just about to leave anyways. Instead of getting into a 5 way protected pot, he decides that it's better to just fold to avoid making an expensive mistake. It's a pretty weak play, but he was playing scared money, so I can see it.
The aremenian guy folds, the BB calls me and UTG folds.
BB has QJh.
Terrible call IMO. It's nice for me though. I love coinflipping with 2:1 on my money.
The flop comes out 784r which looks stellar for my 66. The turn is a 7, and the river is an 8. And I'm like, hmm I have 6 high now.
His queen high scoops the pot.
I just laugh. Perfect ending to my day.
After that I visited the Casino near Crush's pad. I lost another $300 there playing Omaha. It was just a bad day. I played some poker online and won $100. Not much of a recovery.
The Pheonix that Rises From The Ashes
Since I lent out some money, I hit the ATM and bought in for $500 at the $2/$5 game. As of right now I exactly net $0 in poker (and blackjack) on the weekend. Zack and Crush are still sleeping, so SK and I head out to Morongo on our own. It's like 10AM. The casino is pretty empty. There are 4 people on the 2/5 wait list. We get on the list, then we sit at an open 1/3 table. I lost another $20 at 1/3 (I CAN'T BEAT IT, IT'S IMPOSSIBLEEEEEEEE). Sk wins like $20.
The 2/5 starts up. We begin playing 5 handed. I play aggresively and quickly win a few hundred dollars by stealing a few pots and catching good cards. SK bought in for $200 and is up to about $250-300. The two players between us were donating to the rest.
The old guy on my left, is a regular. He plays pretty solid all round good tight aggresive poker. He takes out another guy who apparently is a reg for a $1k pot. Two pair over two pair, the guy on my left fills up. So now he has a boat over the other guy's two pair. The other guy pays off way too much, because he figured "he never has an 8 there."
Seats are numbered from right to left in a circle. The table is structured like this.
Seat 1: Me
Seat 2: Old guy with Cowboy hat.
Seat 3: SK
Seat 4: Empty
Seat 5: Empty
Seat 6: Empty
Seat 7: Empty
Seat 8: Old guy who stacks off to seat 2
Seat 9: Older guy who is the worst of the five us.
Slowly the table fills ups. I slowly start to build a stack. I am playing extremely well in my opinion. I am focusing really well, and managed to earn the tables respect. I call down with middle pair against this other young guy (sits down in Seat 7) and showdown the best hand, I extract value with top pair no kicker, and keep showing down the best hand. Whether or not, I had a good starting hand was mostly irrelevant because I tend to go to showdown with winners. They start getting scared of me, which in turn let me loosen up and steal a ton of pots.
The older guy on my left gets up, and leaves. He's up about $800 which is pretty solid. One of the guys we were playing with last night sits in his seat and we start chatting.
I was playing tight (for me), which means playing about 25% of my hands. I felt I was extracting near max value out of them though.
SK and I had an unspoken agreement not to play big pots together and he folded ATo to my raise when I had KQs. The flop came out KQJ LOL, I would stacked off for sure. SK manages to get it up to $400 for a $200 profit and gets off. The asian guy who takes his seat, gets AQo on the first hand and flops the broadway straight and doubles up LOL. SK is like ... damn it.
Next hand the asian guy gets T9o calls a reraise and flops the nut straight again and doubles through KK. Sk is like... wow I would've had like 1.5k now.
The asian guy is actually really bad. He plays extremely aggresively, but doesn't hand read, so he ends up lighting money on fire. He ends up dumping $900 or so by the end of the day.
One of my favorites was when I raise with 99 on hte button. I make it $30 to go. He calls in the BB and the limper folds. The flop came out K32r. He bets $25 into me. I don't really think his range is beats mine, so I call. On the turn, another 2 falls and he fires $75 more. I still don't believe him and call. The river is a 3. I beat nothing except like 44-88 and pure bluffs. He fires $200. I think and call. He MUCKS HIS HAND and says nice call. I put a huge smile on my face and pass my hand towards the muck. The guy to my left who I was playing with last night, calls out to see both hands. (He's a nice guy, we chatted a lot and he was fun to play with. Sorry I forgot his name. Brandon maybe? SK lemme know if you remember.) I say OK, and proudly flip over 99. He shows 84o. Almost everyone at the table was like wow. I can't beleive you called that. I talked to SK about it, he said he felt he was bluffing too, but didn't know if he could pull the trigger with 99.
I texted out this picture midday. It was a brag. I was up about $2,000 and feeling real good.
Red Chips are $5 each. Those racks each have 100 chips in them.
The stacks in front of the racks are stacks of 10. The green chip is $25. The shortest stack are all blacks. Most people recognize black chips as $100. The far right is everything else. Browns are $2. I have about $25 in that stack.
And yes the money is all benjamins. Cash plays at the $2/$5.
Thats about $2,500 there. Maybe a hundred or two less.
The day is approaching a close, and the casino is just starting to pick up.
SK sat back down. Played really tight. Got AA and some idiot paid him off.
He played like 5 hands the whole day and won like $400. Standard.
This crazy asian kid sat down in seat 6. He ends up winning huge pots getting money in bad wiht draws over and over. He pushed all in with flush and straight draws (acceptable), and called all in with flush and straight draws (unacceptable, most of the time anyways).
When he almost took me out for $800 with a draw, I figured it might be time to leave. (He didn't because I decided not to call him with a pair of fours... but I did have the best hand.)
I shook hands with some of the guys I talked with, wished everyone luck and hit the chip changer. I have to say I was proud. I couldn't close my wallet. It was too full.
We went back to Crush's place. I donated $100, so Zack and Crush could buy alcohol. I had two screwdrivers and mimosa. Then we watched Wedding Crashers and Just Friends, because apparently that's what was available.
I go to sleep later.
SK and I wake up and decide to hit the Cabazon outlet, because the money is burning a hole in my pocket. We go around and SK ends up spending more than I do. LOL. Not hard. I didn't buy anything.
All and all, it was a BLAST. I think Winston came up a few hundred, Nate dropped like 1, and Zack came out brutalized. -$1,000 I think? Rough man. SK actually managed to come out with like $600 profit which is pretty impressive considering how much he lost in blackjack.
I'll try to get my next post out sooner.
I'll see you across the felt.
Bryce
Leviathan101
Modoaddict
Tournaments: -$821.38
I've played probably close to 50 tournaments since my last post. I made a few three figure cashes, but haven't hit any four figure ones. I've bought into almost $1,400 worth of tourneys since my last post.
Live Cash Games: +$1,600
I won about $2,100 at Morongo, and then lost some here and there. Most of this post is about the Morongo trip.
Online Cash Games: +$208.03
Net since last post: +$1808.03
Although I'd say about $200 of expenses were incurred during the trip.
Winnings this year to date.
Live Cash Games: +$1044
Online cash games: +$567.90.
Online Tournaments: +$3841.02
Net since the beginning of the year: $5,452.92
All and all not bad. I was planning to hit $25k by the end of the year. I'm about 3 months in, so I'm behind a bit. It's ok, I expect it to pick up during the summer. I should have more free time to play then.
Let's start with the trip to Morongo
By the way, I started this during the weekend, then let it sit for two weeks. So if the past and present tense seem a little mixed up that's why.
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This weekend was incredible. SK has defined a new level of degeneracy. We all went to Morongo. SK is down over $1,000 on the weekend.
In blackjack.
I told him he's an idiot.
Day 1
Run Like The Sun
SK and I wait around for Winston to ride with us. We hit up King's Kabob and then bail cause Winston is still asleep. Anyways, it takes us over 2 hours to get out there. I get on the wait list for 2/5. SK goes to play blackjack.
6 hours later, I'm up nearly $2,500 killing the 2/5 and SK is into me for $900. I make some nice plays like checking AQ with top pair on the flop and extracting a few hundred out of TT on turn and river. It helps I am connecting with just about everything. I leave early and get us a room a Super 8 Motel. SK mentioned he thought he might get shot on the way in. I doubt it. Everyone who got a room still owes me $30 btw. SK that includes you. Yes, yes it does. (He's watching me write this.) Update, I am now continuing this at home. He got me the $30. As did everyone else, except Zack, who I'm letting slide on it.
Generally playing at casinos, your strategy isn't to get all in. This is because the range of hands they get all in for 100bb+ with is usually pretty strong. However, it's very easy to extract 15-20bb bets out of them with weak hands. So you should generally try to go after more of their range, then play for big all in pots.
Anyways, SK managed to make a recovery on my loan and ships me back $800. As we leave I notice this Armenian guy who is smiling after just winning a big pot. He has like 4 racks in front of him. I wished I got to play with him cause he seemed really bad. (foreshadowing!!!)
I get to the Super 8, get us a room and crash. I'm tired.
Day 2
A Downswing of the Epic Variety
It's probably more exciting if I start with the end result. At the end of Day 2. Sk is no longer in debt.
I am now into SK for $200.
The morning started with a continental breakfast, then going to Morongo. I play the 1/3 with Zack (who got zero sleep) and dump $200. I can't beat that game. It's impossible.
I play some blackjack and win $150 back. LOL. Blackjack.
Zack ended up losing like $200 at the 1/3 also and wants to go play blackjack as well. I am kinda against it, since I just won $150 there. But I go with anyways. I end up dumping back $250 to the casino. Figures. So I'm -$300 at this point.
I finally got a seat at the 2/5.
The same Armenian guy is sitting at the 2/5 game the next morning. I thought to myself, well I guess I get to play with him. There were a few other people from the previous night still there. Since I got some sleep, I was fresh and feeling good about my chances. I sit down with $1,000.
The Armenian guy takes me out for $1,800, and Zack for like $600 over the course of the day. I felt the full force of varience at it's worse. I got backdoor straighted 4 or 5 times. He caught a gutshot against my top two pair. He rivered trips against my two pair. He caught flush after flush. Then finally when he stops catching with rags he picks up pocket kings. He has the entire table disgusted at how lucky he is getting. He quickly builds a monsterous stack that is pushing $5,000 at the table's expense. Yea, he's getting lucky against the entire table. Like when his 95 called a $50 reraise against pocket Kings and flopped a boat.
Later, that day we had something interesting happen. SK just announced his last hand. The black guy UTG raises to $10, I call with 66, SK makes it $35 to go. The armenian guy calls in the SB, the BB calls (he is a chill guy and we play with him on Day 3.), and the black guy calls. I look down at the menial $150 in my stack and say what the hell and push all in. SK is looks at me in disbelief. I'm like "How hard can it be, if you got a big hand, you should raise." I didn't realize the impact my words would have. The BB immediately calls us on "teamplay" or collusion. The aremenian guy doesn't look happy about a reraise either and quickly agrees with the BB. UTG said we should call the floor. As usual when there is an arguement one side is heatedly argueing with the floorman. SK and I on the other hand we're kinda like. That's collusion? I suppose it's kinda borderline, but I'm so used to playing our home games, that I guess I picked up some bad habits. Anyways, the floor eventually rules, it's not collusion, but it's still questionable. She says SK can't reraise, but can call and gives us both a warning. SK ends up really questioning what to do and folds after a few minutes.
He has KK.
His logic is that he doesn't want to risk the $1,000 of profit he just won. He was just about to leave anyways. Instead of getting into a 5 way protected pot, he decides that it's better to just fold to avoid making an expensive mistake. It's a pretty weak play, but he was playing scared money, so I can see it.
The aremenian guy folds, the BB calls me and UTG folds.
BB has QJh.
Terrible call IMO. It's nice for me though. I love coinflipping with 2:1 on my money.
The flop comes out 784r which looks stellar for my 66. The turn is a 7, and the river is an 8. And I'm like, hmm I have 6 high now.
His queen high scoops the pot.
I just laugh. Perfect ending to my day.
After that I visited the Casino near Crush's pad. I lost another $300 there playing Omaha. It was just a bad day. I played some poker online and won $100. Not much of a recovery.
Day 3
The Pheonix that Rises From The Ashes
Since I lent out some money, I hit the ATM and bought in for $500 at the $2/$5 game. As of right now I exactly net $0 in poker (and blackjack) on the weekend. Zack and Crush are still sleeping, so SK and I head out to Morongo on our own. It's like 10AM. The casino is pretty empty. There are 4 people on the 2/5 wait list. We get on the list, then we sit at an open 1/3 table. I lost another $20 at 1/3 (I CAN'T BEAT IT, IT'S IMPOSSIBLEEEEEEEE). Sk wins like $20.
The 2/5 starts up. We begin playing 5 handed. I play aggresively and quickly win a few hundred dollars by stealing a few pots and catching good cards. SK bought in for $200 and is up to about $250-300. The two players between us were donating to the rest.
The old guy on my left, is a regular. He plays pretty solid all round good tight aggresive poker. He takes out another guy who apparently is a reg for a $1k pot. Two pair over two pair, the guy on my left fills up. So now he has a boat over the other guy's two pair. The other guy pays off way too much, because he figured "he never has an 8 there."
Seats are numbered from right to left in a circle. The table is structured like this.
Seat 1: Me
Seat 2: Old guy with Cowboy hat.
Seat 3: SK
Seat 4: Empty
Seat 5: Empty
Seat 6: Empty
Seat 7: Empty
Seat 8: Old guy who stacks off to seat 2
Seat 9: Older guy who is the worst of the five us.
Slowly the table fills ups. I slowly start to build a stack. I am playing extremely well in my opinion. I am focusing really well, and managed to earn the tables respect. I call down with middle pair against this other young guy (sits down in Seat 7) and showdown the best hand, I extract value with top pair no kicker, and keep showing down the best hand. Whether or not, I had a good starting hand was mostly irrelevant because I tend to go to showdown with winners. They start getting scared of me, which in turn let me loosen up and steal a ton of pots.
The older guy on my left gets up, and leaves. He's up about $800 which is pretty solid. One of the guys we were playing with last night sits in his seat and we start chatting.
I was playing tight (for me), which means playing about 25% of my hands. I felt I was extracting near max value out of them though.
SK and I had an unspoken agreement not to play big pots together and he folded ATo to my raise when I had KQs. The flop came out KQJ LOL, I would stacked off for sure. SK manages to get it up to $400 for a $200 profit and gets off. The asian guy who takes his seat, gets AQo on the first hand and flops the broadway straight and doubles up LOL. SK is like ... damn it.
Next hand the asian guy gets T9o calls a reraise and flops the nut straight again and doubles through KK. Sk is like... wow I would've had like 1.5k now.
The asian guy is actually really bad. He plays extremely aggresively, but doesn't hand read, so he ends up lighting money on fire. He ends up dumping $900 or so by the end of the day.
One of my favorites was when I raise with 99 on hte button. I make it $30 to go. He calls in the BB and the limper folds. The flop came out K32r. He bets $25 into me. I don't really think his range is beats mine, so I call. On the turn, another 2 falls and he fires $75 more. I still don't believe him and call. The river is a 3. I beat nothing except like 44-88 and pure bluffs. He fires $200. I think and call. He MUCKS HIS HAND and says nice call. I put a huge smile on my face and pass my hand towards the muck. The guy to my left who I was playing with last night, calls out to see both hands. (He's a nice guy, we chatted a lot and he was fun to play with. Sorry I forgot his name. Brandon maybe? SK lemme know if you remember.) I say OK, and proudly flip over 99. He shows 84o. Almost everyone at the table was like wow. I can't beleive you called that. I talked to SK about it, he said he felt he was bluffing too, but didn't know if he could pull the trigger with 99.
I texted out this picture midday. It was a brag. I was up about $2,000 and feeling real good.
Red Chips are $5 each. Those racks each have 100 chips in them.The stacks in front of the racks are stacks of 10. The green chip is $25. The shortest stack are all blacks. Most people recognize black chips as $100. The far right is everything else. Browns are $2. I have about $25 in that stack.
And yes the money is all benjamins. Cash plays at the $2/$5.
Thats about $2,500 there. Maybe a hundred or two less.
The day is approaching a close, and the casino is just starting to pick up.
SK sat back down. Played really tight. Got AA and some idiot paid him off.
He played like 5 hands the whole day and won like $400. Standard.
This crazy asian kid sat down in seat 6. He ends up winning huge pots getting money in bad wiht draws over and over. He pushed all in with flush and straight draws (acceptable), and called all in with flush and straight draws (unacceptable, most of the time anyways).
When he almost took me out for $800 with a draw, I figured it might be time to leave. (He didn't because I decided not to call him with a pair of fours... but I did have the best hand.)
I shook hands with some of the guys I talked with, wished everyone luck and hit the chip changer. I have to say I was proud. I couldn't close my wallet. It was too full.
We went back to Crush's place. I donated $100, so Zack and Crush could buy alcohol. I had two screwdrivers and mimosa. Then we watched Wedding Crashers and Just Friends, because apparently that's what was available.
I go to sleep later.
SK and I wake up and decide to hit the Cabazon outlet, because the money is burning a hole in my pocket. We go around and SK ends up spending more than I do. LOL. Not hard. I didn't buy anything.
All and all, it was a BLAST. I think Winston came up a few hundred, Nate dropped like 1, and Zack came out brutalized. -$1,000 I think? Rough man. SK actually managed to come out with like $600 profit which is pretty impressive considering how much he lost in blackjack.
I'll try to get my next post out sooner.
I'll see you across the felt.
Bryce
Leviathan101
Modoaddict
Friday, February 22, 2008
No Limit Strategy #2: Sizing Bluffs Effectively
Bluffing is a critical skill in poker. And misunderstood by most players.
When people think of No Limit Hold'em, they often think of the WPT or WSOP where they see professional making daring bluffs with 6 high for their entire stacks, or make a loose call on the river to snap a bluff off. Then the people watching go out and play and lose their entire stack.
They often wonder why. They think "Well, it worked for them. Why not me?"
The answer to that question is so incredibly complex. The things that affect the success of a bluff could fill a book.
I think bluffing is the most complicated part of poker in No Limit Hold'em. And one of the most critical skills.
It's easy to beat someone who never bluffs. Whenever they check, they will fold every time they have nothing. Anytime they bet you just fold. If you have an extremely strong hand, you know they have some sort of hand, so it's easy to extract value. A person who never bluffs is extremely exploitable. And the basis of the game is exploiting suboptimal play in order to win money.
Bluffing is a very simple concept. You try to represent a strong hand in order to get your opponent to fold a hand better than your own. Still it's a bit more complicated then that.
The goal of a bluff isn't necessarily to win the pot. It's to turn a profit, and you will only need to win the pot a certain percentage of the time to make that work.
If the goal was just to win the pot, the most effective way to do that would be to push all in (most of the time). However, doing that will actually cost you money in the long run.
Bluffing makes money by forcing them to fold a hand that has equity. When you do this you make a profit, because all of the equity they would normally have goes to you. Sometimes you actually want a worse hand then yours to fold, because they actually have the correct odds to call you and attempt to draw out. For example say you have AA and they have a gutshot straight flush draw. They have 1.5:1 odds to see the next two cards. Despite being a favorite you actually prefer them to fold, so you receive the entire pot, as opposed to only part of it. (The part that your equity would entitle you to, if you ran it an infinite number of times)
The profitability of a bluff is rather straight forward. I am going to ignore future table image (known as metagame) in your expected value calculation.
Bluff size = $B
Current Potsize = $CP
net profit when called after bluff = $AP
Profit = ($CP) x (% chance your opponent folds) + ($AP) x (% time your opponent calls) x (% your equity when your opponent calls) - ($B) x (% time your opponent calls) x (% your opponent's equity when your opponent calls) - ($B) x (% chance your opponent raises)
In layman's terms. The profitability of a bluff is determined by how often your opponent folds, how often they call and you win anyways, and how often they raise. (assuming you fold when they raise)
Of course a river bluff is simpler. Either it works or it doesn't.
Profit = $CP * (% of time opponent folds) - $B*(% time opponent calls)
Because of this lack of equity on future streets, river bluffs need to be more succesful than ones made on the flop or turn. However since the pot is larger it does tend to work well, especially if you have been betting earlier.
Example time. Let's say you have a flush draw with exactly 20% chance to win on the river.
You make a pot sized bet of $10 into a $10 pot. There will be no action on the river.
You win $10 immediately when it succeeds. You think this will happen about 50% of the time.
You will win $30 when the flush comes in which will be 20% of the time. But you are only called 25% of the time.You will be raised 25% of the time and will fold when raised.
So.
When your bluff succeeds, you win $10 immediately. This happens 50% of the time.
When your bluff is raised, you lose $10 immediately. This happens 25% of the time.
When your bluff is called, which it will be 25% of the time, you will win net $20 20% of the time, and lost $10 the other 80%.
$10*0.5-$10*0.25+$20*0.25*0.2-$10*0.25*0.8 = $1.5
Your bluff will show a $1.50 profit each time you make it.
Now, these numbers were just picked out of thin air. The real skill in bluff is determining what the numbers really are. The best you can really do is estimate, but the better you estimate the more you will win.
There is of course another entire realm to bluffing, your opponent. But this part is important. Because if you think your opponent will fold his hand to a bluff, that doesn't mean a huge overbet bluff is profitable. The size of our bluff is just as critical as when you decide to bluff. The two parts together are what bluffing is really about. And the one I just showed you is the easy part to learn.
See you across the felt.
Bryce
When people think of No Limit Hold'em, they often think of the WPT or WSOP where they see professional making daring bluffs with 6 high for their entire stacks, or make a loose call on the river to snap a bluff off. Then the people watching go out and play and lose their entire stack.
They often wonder why. They think "Well, it worked for them. Why not me?"
The answer to that question is so incredibly complex. The things that affect the success of a bluff could fill a book.
I think bluffing is the most complicated part of poker in No Limit Hold'em. And one of the most critical skills.
It's easy to beat someone who never bluffs. Whenever they check, they will fold every time they have nothing. Anytime they bet you just fold. If you have an extremely strong hand, you know they have some sort of hand, so it's easy to extract value. A person who never bluffs is extremely exploitable. And the basis of the game is exploiting suboptimal play in order to win money.
Bluffing is a very simple concept. You try to represent a strong hand in order to get your opponent to fold a hand better than your own. Still it's a bit more complicated then that.
The goal of a bluff isn't necessarily to win the pot. It's to turn a profit, and you will only need to win the pot a certain percentage of the time to make that work.
If the goal was just to win the pot, the most effective way to do that would be to push all in (most of the time). However, doing that will actually cost you money in the long run.
Bluffing makes money by forcing them to fold a hand that has equity. When you do this you make a profit, because all of the equity they would normally have goes to you. Sometimes you actually want a worse hand then yours to fold, because they actually have the correct odds to call you and attempt to draw out. For example say you have AA and they have a gutshot straight flush draw. They have 1.5:1 odds to see the next two cards. Despite being a favorite you actually prefer them to fold, so you receive the entire pot, as opposed to only part of it. (The part that your equity would entitle you to, if you ran it an infinite number of times)
The profitability of a bluff is rather straight forward. I am going to ignore future table image (known as metagame) in your expected value calculation.
Bluff size = $B
Current Potsize = $CP
net profit when called after bluff = $AP
Profit = ($CP) x (% chance your opponent folds) + ($AP) x (% time your opponent calls) x (% your equity when your opponent calls) - ($B) x (% time your opponent calls) x (% your opponent's equity when your opponent calls) - ($B) x (% chance your opponent raises)
In layman's terms. The profitability of a bluff is determined by how often your opponent folds, how often they call and you win anyways, and how often they raise. (assuming you fold when they raise)
Of course a river bluff is simpler. Either it works or it doesn't.
Profit = $CP * (% of time opponent folds) - $B*(% time opponent calls)
Because of this lack of equity on future streets, river bluffs need to be more succesful than ones made on the flop or turn. However since the pot is larger it does tend to work well, especially if you have been betting earlier.
Example time. Let's say you have a flush draw with exactly 20% chance to win on the river.
You make a pot sized bet of $10 into a $10 pot. There will be no action on the river.
You win $10 immediately when it succeeds. You think this will happen about 50% of the time.
You will win $30 when the flush comes in which will be 20% of the time. But you are only called 25% of the time.You will be raised 25% of the time and will fold when raised.
So.
When your bluff succeeds, you win $10 immediately. This happens 50% of the time.
When your bluff is raised, you lose $10 immediately. This happens 25% of the time.
When your bluff is called, which it will be 25% of the time, you will win net $20 20% of the time, and lost $10 the other 80%.
$10*0.5-$10*0.25+$20*0.25*0.2-$10*0.25*0.8 = $1.5
Your bluff will show a $1.50 profit each time you make it.
Now, these numbers were just picked out of thin air. The real skill in bluff is determining what the numbers really are. The best you can really do is estimate, but the better you estimate the more you will win.
There is of course another entire realm to bluffing, your opponent. But this part is important. Because if you think your opponent will fold his hand to a bluff, that doesn't mean a huge overbet bluff is profitable. The size of our bluff is just as critical as when you decide to bluff. The two parts together are what bluffing is really about. And the one I just showed you is the easy part to learn.
See you across the felt.
Bryce
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Progress Post #10: The most degenerate home game ever! Courtesy of Winston
I wrote this as I was playing, and then put it online at a later date. If my thoughts seem a bit jumbled that's why.
February 21st - Update. I played a home game last night. I won $237. Nothing extremely notable, I caught a 2 outter on Winston for a good sized pot (JUSTICE!), and Nate and Rob were stacking chips. I got pretty lucky I also outflopped AA with 88 in a huge preflop pot.
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I'm at the home game right now. Mike, Marshall and other people are making fun of me for writing this. lol, they'll probably end up reading this anyways. Nate is whining he still hasn't gotten mentioned. Congratulations Nate, read the line previous to this one.
I'm not playing right now. I took a break and got some food. Chipotle obv.
It's been a pretty swingy month so far. I was down about $1,000 then I took down another tournament. This time on FTP. $24+2 6m KO NLHE tourney. $2,795 for first. I got 10 KOs along the way for another $40. Jeff was complaining that me winning that took my bankroll above his. lol, out of everyone sweating me on the final table he was the only person who was rooting for me to lose.
Since my last post, Updated as of February 21st.
Live Cash Games: -$127
Online cash games: +$382.14
Online Tournaments: +$2244.4
Winnings this year to date.
Live Cash Games: -$556 (I swear one of these days, I'll actually win a monster pot when I'm a monster favorite. Wait till you see this one.)
Online cash games: +$359.87.
Online Tournaments: +$4662.4
I ran pretty good in the tournament. I plan to withdraw about $2,000.
LOL Nate just overbet pushed the flop with AA and got called by top pair and held up. Nice play Nate, nice play. Excellent value push, being drunk is definitely +EV.
Our group for tonight includes:
SK Winston
Mitch Stephan
Nate (the drunk guy) Zach
Another Nate Alex
Marshall Jeff
Mike Me
Aki is watching as always, and Rob decided to just deal tonight.
As usual the game has turned into a degenerate drunken fest of gambling. Who am I kidding?
It starts that way. Nate and I played Ro-Sham-Bo for $5 while we were waiting for the game to start. I trashed him 3-1 best out of 5.
I'm playing again now. Mitch had to go back and work in SK's spot. What a degen. Lol.
I get TT vs 99 vs AA on a T9x flop. I triple through Winston and Marshall and propel my stack up to over $200. I'm only in for $40.
Oh man, I got him.
I just won a 9.5 buyin pot of Winston. With K3o. Preflop.
I straddled, there is some action and then Winston makes a monster push for like $200+.
It's folded around to me and I have a sick feeling I'm good here. I think about his hand range. He doesn't tend to push in unraised pots at all, but I doubt he do it with AA. The 72o rule is in effect, so I have to consider that. He also loves 93o (cause he bluffed with it against me before). 63o (cause he keeps hitting straights with that hand), and T8o (the Chuck Norris). I figure there might be some other random chaff, but I think since I dominate 2 of the 4 hands I think are most likely, I decide to call. He also told me he'd give me $25 to call him, which makes me think he was trying to convince me to fold. I probably shouldn't have wrote that. Now, it's gonna be a stupid mind game next time he does it.
I hold up, he has 72o, and I scoop a huge pot.
Some action goes down, SK makes some sick plays that will be described in detail later.
I just folded AQs with the nut flush. Wow. I am really playing on it tonight. I think my hand reading skills are like really good at the moment.
Winston straddled, Nate minraises, I decide to flat call on the button. Winston calls. The flop is Th7s6s. Winston bets out for $5, Nate calls, I call. Turn is the 5s, and I'm like nice, I got there. Winston bets $15, Nate raises to $50, and I get a sick feeling that I'm no good here. I can't just fold my hand and just calling seems terrible there, so I raise to $100 which puts Nate all in. Winston thinks and calls.
I immediately put him on a straight flush.
I can't explain it. I mean 9s8s makes perfect sense given the way he played it, it's just so sick. How can I put him on one hand?
Nate calls all in.
The river is a 6h pairing the board. Winston pushes for $300+ and I fold my cards face up. I call out Winston with a straight flush. Winston flips over 9s8s, Nate has JsTs.
Megacooler much?
Ugh, Winston got me again. Reraised pot I have AJs, he has AQs. Flop is AJ5. Turn is Q.
Winston: Standard.
He's watching me type this now.
and... this is the big hand of the night. I open to $3 with KK. Winston reraised to $8, and I decided to just call to try to trap him. The flop comes out Kh Jh 5d.
I check.
Winston bets $15.
I raise to $45
Winston reraises to $75.
I reraise to $275.
He thinks for a while and finally calls.
I consider pushing all in in the dark. I probably should've.
The turn is an Ace. I push for another $325. Winston thinks and thinks and thinks. He says he has AK. I don't say anything. He eventually calls.
Me: I got you beat for now.
Winston looks at the river card.
Winston: Ship it.
Me: Fuck.
He scoops a $1,200 pot in a $0.25/$0.50. So sick.
Rob wants me to say he practically pissed his pants when he heard me go off.
Winston feels sorry, so he gives me $200. But he says he's gonna take it all back. And he does, 3 hands later.
SK gets an entire paragraph dedicated to him.
First he folds 98 on a JsTs7h. The sick part is Winston would've caught on him if he played it out.
Then I read him perfectly, and he shows me QQ on a KQQ flop. I folded KJ lol.
Then he makes a terrible laydown and check/folds AK to me on an Ace high flop. I would've runner runnered him. Somehow he manged to come out up some money anyways.
Awards for the night:
Sickest fold: SK folding 98o with the nutz. LOL
Runner up goes to me for folding the nut flush.
Biggest bad beat: Winston Clearly.
I gotta say despite what happened, I felt I played extremely well. Near perfect. I got away from lots of second best hands and snapped bluffs. IMO, I feel I should've left with like 1200+, but the forces of the universe conspired against me. Well there is always tonight. I got midterms coming up, so I won't have an update for a while.
February 21st - Update. I played a home game last night. I won $237. Nothing extremely notable, I caught a 2 outter on Winston for a good sized pot (JUSTICE!), and Nate and Rob were stacking chips. I got pretty lucky I also outflopped AA with 88 in a huge preflop pot.
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I'm at the home game right now. Mike, Marshall and other people are making fun of me for writing this. lol, they'll probably end up reading this anyways. Nate is whining he still hasn't gotten mentioned. Congratulations Nate, read the line previous to this one.
I'm not playing right now. I took a break and got some food. Chipotle obv.
It's been a pretty swingy month so far. I was down about $1,000 then I took down another tournament. This time on FTP. $24+2 6m KO NLHE tourney. $2,795 for first. I got 10 KOs along the way for another $40. Jeff was complaining that me winning that took my bankroll above his. lol, out of everyone sweating me on the final table he was the only person who was rooting for me to lose.
Since my last post, Updated as of February 21st.
Live Cash Games: -$127
Online cash games: +$382.14
Online Tournaments: +$2244.4
Winnings this year to date.
Live Cash Games: -$556 (I swear one of these days, I'll actually win a monster pot when I'm a monster favorite. Wait till you see this one.)
Online cash games: +$359.87.
Online Tournaments: +$4662.4
I ran pretty good in the tournament. I plan to withdraw about $2,000.
LOL Nate just overbet pushed the flop with AA and got called by top pair and held up. Nice play Nate, nice play. Excellent value push, being drunk is definitely +EV.
Our group for tonight includes:
SK Winston
Mitch Stephan
Nate (the drunk guy) Zach
Another Nate Alex
Marshall Jeff
Mike Me
Aki is watching as always, and Rob decided to just deal tonight.
As usual the game has turned into a degenerate drunken fest of gambling. Who am I kidding?
It starts that way. Nate and I played Ro-Sham-Bo for $5 while we were waiting for the game to start. I trashed him 3-1 best out of 5.
I'm playing again now. Mitch had to go back and work in SK's spot. What a degen. Lol.
I get TT vs 99 vs AA on a T9x flop. I triple through Winston and Marshall and propel my stack up to over $200. I'm only in for $40.
Oh man, I got him.
I just won a 9.5 buyin pot of Winston. With K3o. Preflop.
I straddled, there is some action and then Winston makes a monster push for like $200+.
It's folded around to me and I have a sick feeling I'm good here. I think about his hand range. He doesn't tend to push in unraised pots at all, but I doubt he do it with AA. The 72o rule is in effect, so I have to consider that. He also loves 93o (cause he bluffed with it against me before). 63o (cause he keeps hitting straights with that hand), and T8o (the Chuck Norris). I figure there might be some other random chaff, but I think since I dominate 2 of the 4 hands I think are most likely, I decide to call. He also told me he'd give me $25 to call him, which makes me think he was trying to convince me to fold. I probably shouldn't have wrote that. Now, it's gonna be a stupid mind game next time he does it.
I hold up, he has 72o, and I scoop a huge pot.
Some action goes down, SK makes some sick plays that will be described in detail later.
I just folded AQs with the nut flush. Wow. I am really playing on it tonight. I think my hand reading skills are like really good at the moment.
Winston straddled, Nate minraises, I decide to flat call on the button. Winston calls. The flop is Th7s6s. Winston bets out for $5, Nate calls, I call. Turn is the 5s, and I'm like nice, I got there. Winston bets $15, Nate raises to $50, and I get a sick feeling that I'm no good here. I can't just fold my hand and just calling seems terrible there, so I raise to $100 which puts Nate all in. Winston thinks and calls.
I immediately put him on a straight flush.
I can't explain it. I mean 9s8s makes perfect sense given the way he played it, it's just so sick. How can I put him on one hand?
Nate calls all in.
The river is a 6h pairing the board. Winston pushes for $300+ and I fold my cards face up. I call out Winston with a straight flush. Winston flips over 9s8s, Nate has JsTs.
Megacooler much?
Ugh, Winston got me again. Reraised pot I have AJs, he has AQs. Flop is AJ5. Turn is Q.
Winston: Standard.
He's watching me type this now.
and... this is the big hand of the night. I open to $3 with KK. Winston reraised to $8, and I decided to just call to try to trap him. The flop comes out Kh Jh 5d.
I check.
Winston bets $15.
I raise to $45
Winston reraises to $75.
I reraise to $275.
He thinks for a while and finally calls.
I consider pushing all in in the dark. I probably should've.
The turn is an Ace. I push for another $325. Winston thinks and thinks and thinks. He says he has AK. I don't say anything. He eventually calls.
Me: I got you beat for now.
Winston looks at the river card.
Winston: Ship it.
Me: Fuck.
He scoops a $1,200 pot in a $0.25/$0.50. So sick.
Rob wants me to say he practically pissed his pants when he heard me go off.
Winston feels sorry, so he gives me $200. But he says he's gonna take it all back. And he does, 3 hands later.
SK gets an entire paragraph dedicated to him.
First he folds 98 on a JsTs7h. The sick part is Winston would've caught on him if he played it out.
Then I read him perfectly, and he shows me QQ on a KQQ flop. I folded KJ lol.
Then he makes a terrible laydown and check/folds AK to me on an Ace high flop. I would've runner runnered him. Somehow he manged to come out up some money anyways.
Awards for the night:
Sickest fold: SK folding 98o with the nutz. LOL
Runner up goes to me for folding the nut flush.
Biggest bad beat: Winston Clearly.
I gotta say despite what happened, I felt I played extremely well. Near perfect. I got away from lots of second best hands and snapped bluffs. IMO, I feel I should've left with like 1200+, but the forces of the universe conspired against me. Well there is always tonight. I got midterms coming up, so I won't have an update for a while.
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