I failed to mention that on my way to the 3rd place finish in the aforementioned $50 live tournament that I sucked out majorly at two key times. First wasn't a huge suck out as I moved ai overtop of what I thought was a midpair raise while I was in the bb. SB was the raiser and a woman player I have known for many years who is pretty solid. She had 99 and I had AKs. Lucky A on flop and suckout number one was complete.
The other suckout was a major one. But couldn't have played it any differently. I was UTG and had KK and raised 2/3 of my stack. Clearly this shows huge hand and I want action from all but one hand...... course that would be the hand that methodically reraised from late position but didn't shove, which totally screamed AA. And he had the two red Aces. But the K on the river was a killer. We were already down to either 5 or 6 players and we were already in the money.... no way I could lay it down after my utg raise. That suckout propelled me to 2nd in chips... maybe even first for awhile.
Just figured I should not forget my suckouts to make up for all the times I whine about suckouts against me.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Ok... ok.......I am horrible
Well I am horrible on two fronts these days......
First, I am horrible becuase I spend too much time reading tons of other blogs and ignoring mine. LOL Course that is easy to do.
Secondly, my play has continued to slide and I am feel like I am becoming even more of a Superfish.
With my constant obsession (ok really can't afford anything but) freerolls, I make calls I would never think of making normally. And I am noticing that it is flowing into my cash buy in tournaments... both live and online. Not a good thing.
I made two snap calls of all ins last night that I would normally have thought much more about. One was a call of an ai from UTG while I was bb for T$400. I called T$3k more with AKs withouth a even a slight hesitation. I should have at least thought about it. Then another snap call while I was in sb when button shoved and I had AJ.... he had AK. It was for almost half my chips. I should have thought the plays through. Not saying I would have changed the plays.... but the insta call is poor on my part and I used to never do that. Hell I have layed down KK preflop for half my stack before in a $20 tourney!!
Also made another questionable call when we were down to the final 3 against an all in move over my bb. Was a $50 tourney with 78 players starting so I should really have thought about it. But I fairly quickly called T$19k more (BB=T$16k) with J8s. He had AQ and no luck for me. I still had chips but next hand I am ai with Q8s and he calls with J2o.... and hits. Can't blame him as it was only T$14k more to call. He ended up chopping with chip leader after a few hands and that was almost double what I got.
As for online, still not having any luck on Pokerstars. Just holding my own. Account had been going down because I tried a few too many $4/180man SNGs. LOL Tried to be aggressive and it didn't worked. They played too conservatively early and missed some huge hand that would have put me in a better position in the middle of the tournament, so that didn't work. Went out in the 20s and 30s a couple of times and two other times in the mid 60s. Played a few freerolls and cashed for not much and also a couple of $1 MTTs. Cashed but nothing great in those either... so just kinda treading water on Pokerstars.
Fulltilt has been such a frustrating thing lately. I can't seem to cash or make a ft lately. Course I am only playing in the freerolls but I used to at least make a few freerolls of their 180man SNGs and 360man SNGs. The freerolls I can't get beyong the 50s and they only pay 27 out of either 2400 or 2700. I only have $4 on there and want to get it to $10 before I play in any cash tournies.
Greyhound poker. Well I am finally up to $10 from their $25 hourly freerolls. Many times only winnning .30. LOL So it took awhile. But the freerolls are easy to cash in. Not alot of traffic on this site but so far free money... how can I turn that down.
First, I am horrible becuase I spend too much time reading tons of other blogs and ignoring mine. LOL Course that is easy to do.
Secondly, my play has continued to slide and I am feel like I am becoming even more of a Superfish.
With my constant obsession (ok really can't afford anything but) freerolls, I make calls I would never think of making normally. And I am noticing that it is flowing into my cash buy in tournaments... both live and online. Not a good thing.
I made two snap calls of all ins last night that I would normally have thought much more about. One was a call of an ai from UTG while I was bb for T$400. I called T$3k more with AKs withouth a even a slight hesitation. I should have at least thought about it. Then another snap call while I was in sb when button shoved and I had AJ.... he had AK. It was for almost half my chips. I should have thought the plays through. Not saying I would have changed the plays.... but the insta call is poor on my part and I used to never do that. Hell I have layed down KK preflop for half my stack before in a $20 tourney!!
Also made another questionable call when we were down to the final 3 against an all in move over my bb. Was a $50 tourney with 78 players starting so I should really have thought about it. But I fairly quickly called T$19k more (BB=T$16k) with J8s. He had AQ and no luck for me. I still had chips but next hand I am ai with Q8s and he calls with J2o.... and hits. Can't blame him as it was only T$14k more to call. He ended up chopping with chip leader after a few hands and that was almost double what I got.
As for online, still not having any luck on Pokerstars. Just holding my own. Account had been going down because I tried a few too many $4/180man SNGs. LOL Tried to be aggressive and it didn't worked. They played too conservatively early and missed some huge hand that would have put me in a better position in the middle of the tournament, so that didn't work. Went out in the 20s and 30s a couple of times and two other times in the mid 60s. Played a few freerolls and cashed for not much and also a couple of $1 MTTs. Cashed but nothing great in those either... so just kinda treading water on Pokerstars.
Fulltilt has been such a frustrating thing lately. I can't seem to cash or make a ft lately. Course I am only playing in the freerolls but I used to at least make a few freerolls of their 180man SNGs and 360man SNGs. The freerolls I can't get beyong the 50s and they only pay 27 out of either 2400 or 2700. I only have $4 on there and want to get it to $10 before I play in any cash tournies.
Greyhound poker. Well I am finally up to $10 from their $25 hourly freerolls. Many times only winnning .30. LOL So it took awhile. But the freerolls are easy to cash in. Not alot of traffic on this site but so far free money... how can I turn that down.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Freerolling and Micro Limits
Wow, how times flies.... been meaning to create a new post but keep not finding the time (ie lack of effort) to do so.
I think my poker career (LOL) or at least highlights will forever be limited to freerolls and micro limits.
Each time lately when I enter anything other than a freeroll or $1 tournament I fail miserably. Now perhaps that means I am just such a huge donk (hence the name Superfish) that I can only do fairly well at freerolls or.... well I just don't know what. LOL
It is sad to think that I have actually regressed in my playing abilities... definitely in the results. In 2006 I had a very nice year online (prior to the idiots in congress making their wonderful move to protect us). For me a nice year is nothing like most have in one week. LOL But I had a pretty good sized profit. This year I showed a profit but have nothing to show for it and it was about 1/5 of 2006's. I have less than $150 online total. Yet at little as 4 or 5 months ago I had around $1k. I made the huge mistake of playing limit poker on UB shortly after having placed well in two different $5 MTTs. Had won about $700 and thought I could make a little more at the cash tables since I play live limit ring games and do ok. I lost all of that profit in the course of 3 weeks. Hell I play $10/$20 live but couldn't beat the $2/$4 limit games online. I just spewed chips for those 3 weeks and kept telling myself it would turn around......... I was so wrong. So now I am stuck in Freeroll land and micro limits. I am too stubborn to deposit more and with the way I have been running it is probably better I don't. LOL
Have actually been doing fairly well in very large fields. Have made two final tables in fields of 5064(PS) and 5000(UB)! Of course both were freerolls. Also bubbled final table out of a field of 3050. Bad play on my part and my opponent set me up perfectly. It was a $1 tourney so was really hoping to make final table. Figured if I could get there I could at least get 6th place or better. Was very disappointed.
I have still been playing lots of freerolls on Fulltilt but haven't been able to cash lately. Made it pretty deep in the FT freeroll for a "Phil Gordon Final Table DVD". Only pays first place though, out of over 2600! What the hell do you need the DVD for if you can win it! LOL
Recently started playing on Greyhound poker also. They are strictly a flash based server so you do not actually have a program running on your computer. It is all done through IE. Plenty of drawbacks to it but they have a $25 freeroll every hour on the half. Usually fields are anywhere from 350 to 800 (max 1000). Top 18 are paid. Not too tough, just have to be patient and a little lucky. Have cashed twice. Going to keep hitting them up till I win over $10 then play a few SNGs.
Other than the freerolls just been pounding on the .50 and $1 SNGs on UB. LIke playing the 30man and 50man 50 cent tournies. I seem to do better in those than the single table SNGs. Have also made a couple of final tables in the 100 player SNGs.
I think my poker career (LOL) or at least highlights will forever be limited to freerolls and micro limits.
Each time lately when I enter anything other than a freeroll or $1 tournament I fail miserably. Now perhaps that means I am just such a huge donk (hence the name Superfish) that I can only do fairly well at freerolls or.... well I just don't know what. LOL
It is sad to think that I have actually regressed in my playing abilities... definitely in the results. In 2006 I had a very nice year online (prior to the idiots in congress making their wonderful move to protect us). For me a nice year is nothing like most have in one week. LOL But I had a pretty good sized profit. This year I showed a profit but have nothing to show for it and it was about 1/5 of 2006's. I have less than $150 online total. Yet at little as 4 or 5 months ago I had around $1k. I made the huge mistake of playing limit poker on UB shortly after having placed well in two different $5 MTTs. Had won about $700 and thought I could make a little more at the cash tables since I play live limit ring games and do ok. I lost all of that profit in the course of 3 weeks. Hell I play $10/$20 live but couldn't beat the $2/$4 limit games online. I just spewed chips for those 3 weeks and kept telling myself it would turn around......... I was so wrong. So now I am stuck in Freeroll land and micro limits. I am too stubborn to deposit more and with the way I have been running it is probably better I don't. LOL
Have actually been doing fairly well in very large fields. Have made two final tables in fields of 5064(PS) and 5000(UB)! Of course both were freerolls. Also bubbled final table out of a field of 3050. Bad play on my part and my opponent set me up perfectly. It was a $1 tourney so was really hoping to make final table. Figured if I could get there I could at least get 6th place or better. Was very disappointed.
I have still been playing lots of freerolls on Fulltilt but haven't been able to cash lately. Made it pretty deep in the FT freeroll for a "Phil Gordon Final Table DVD". Only pays first place though, out of over 2600! What the hell do you need the DVD for if you can win it! LOL
Recently started playing on Greyhound poker also. They are strictly a flash based server so you do not actually have a program running on your computer. It is all done through IE. Plenty of drawbacks to it but they have a $25 freeroll every hour on the half. Usually fields are anywhere from 350 to 800 (max 1000). Top 18 are paid. Not too tough, just have to be patient and a little lucky. Have cashed twice. Going to keep hitting them up till I win over $10 then play a few SNGs.
Other than the freerolls just been pounding on the .50 and $1 SNGs on UB. LIke playing the 30man and 50man 50 cent tournies. I seem to do better in those than the single table SNGs. Have also made a couple of final tables in the 100 player SNGs.
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Quick Update
Tonight I went and played in the usual Wed game my buddy and I play in. $20/60-80 players, horrible structure but 100% payout. He has an incredible record of cashing 9 out of 13 trys there. Hard not to go back there for him with that ITM %.
Anyways, I end up busting out of that tourney while he again makes final table and ITM (top 7 paid).
So after dropping him off I get home about 40 minutes into the Round 2 PokerAfterDark freeroll on FullTilt. First hand I see is AhKh UTG, and I pot raise. Get two callers. Player to my left and the button call. I have 1700+ in chips, next player has 3000+ and button about 2200. Flop is Jh10h8c. Not too bad of a draw for me, nut nut plus two overs. I check, next player bets 200 into a 400 pot. I figure him for weak draw so I reraise all in. I know I know, donkey play... but hey they do it to me all the time and hit. Course he insta calls with KJo, and I of course brick brick, end of my run. LOL Oh well I knew it was a bad play. Just figured with 15 (18 hopefully) outs I might actually hit one like they hit their two outers on me. But alas, twas not to be.
Remember this is my place to whine. My buddy gets tired of hearing it.... even though he got a phone call immediately at the end of the hand. LOL
Anyways, I end up busting out of that tourney while he again makes final table and ITM (top 7 paid).
So after dropping him off I get home about 40 minutes into the Round 2 PokerAfterDark freeroll on FullTilt. First hand I see is AhKh UTG, and I pot raise. Get two callers. Player to my left and the button call. I have 1700+ in chips, next player has 3000+ and button about 2200. Flop is Jh10h8c. Not too bad of a draw for me, nut nut plus two overs. I check, next player bets 200 into a 400 pot. I figure him for weak draw so I reraise all in. I know I know, donkey play... but hey they do it to me all the time and hit. Course he insta calls with KJo, and I of course brick brick, end of my run. LOL Oh well I knew it was a bad play. Just figured with 15 (18 hopefully) outs I might actually hit one like they hit their two outers on me. But alas, twas not to be.
Remember this is my place to whine. My buddy gets tired of hearing it.... even though he got a phone call immediately at the end of the hand. LOL
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Mid Holidays
Well my liking of FullTilt's freerolls is starting to wane. LOL
Getting tired of the total bingo they play at any point in the tourney. I have still been making it deep fairly often in the PokerAfterDark freerolls but still frustrating. Made several fts on Tuesday. And also finished in top two to advance to Round 2. That tourney is tonight. Hope I do as well.
Been very frustrated with my play on Pokerstars in the SNGs. I haven't played alot but had hoped I would at least money enough to break even. I guess I have done a little better than even but not much. Have tried to play a few $4/180man SNG. Going deep in only one but got knocked out like 25th. Tried one $5/9man SNG. Got all my money in with JJ vs a guy who raised 96o and then called my ai for 65% of his stack. Flop 785 just like it was meant to be. LOL So I swore off cash tourneys on Pokerstars for the rest of the day.
Well that is till 6PM and the $1 mtt (LOL) and the 7PM $1mtt and the 8PM $.50 mtt. Course whiffing in all 3.
Also played in the $500 10fpp freeroll. I still consistently cash in this tourney. For anyone that is broke and doesn't want to deposit, play this tourney for two weeks straight and you should easily get some funds to maybe play a .01/.02 NL cash table. Tournament started with 5013 players, top 801 paid (as usual). Made it very deep in this one. Final Table!! But I went out 9th as I made the mistake of moving ai with A9o just as we were being seated at the final table. Clearly I didn't know that was happening or I wouldn't have shoved with A9. But I also thought the bb had an easy fold if he didn't wake up with a real hand... which he did, 1010. No A and I am out in 9th. $5.55 for like 3 hours of play. LOL One of these days I might actually win the damn thing... I doubt it but I can dream.
Also played in a couple of the $2.20 bounty mtt on UB at 4:30PM EST. Went deep in one without knocking out a single player. That sucked. I think I went out like 27th. Top 50 paid.
Overall been frustrated with my play. Always seems like one or two hands in any tourney where I fold when my first instict was to call, and I would have made the hands and had very good sized stacks. Have to get over that hump. Hopefully the end of the year closes out on a good note. I need it as the last part of my year has been very very flat when the first part of the year was good to me.
Getting tired of the total bingo they play at any point in the tourney. I have still been making it deep fairly often in the PokerAfterDark freerolls but still frustrating. Made several fts on Tuesday. And also finished in top two to advance to Round 2. That tourney is tonight. Hope I do as well.
Been very frustrated with my play on Pokerstars in the SNGs. I haven't played alot but had hoped I would at least money enough to break even. I guess I have done a little better than even but not much. Have tried to play a few $4/180man SNG. Going deep in only one but got knocked out like 25th. Tried one $5/9man SNG. Got all my money in with JJ vs a guy who raised 96o and then called my ai for 65% of his stack. Flop 785 just like it was meant to be. LOL So I swore off cash tourneys on Pokerstars for the rest of the day.
Well that is till 6PM and the $1 mtt (LOL) and the 7PM $1mtt and the 8PM $.50 mtt. Course whiffing in all 3.
Also played in the $500 10fpp freeroll. I still consistently cash in this tourney. For anyone that is broke and doesn't want to deposit, play this tourney for two weeks straight and you should easily get some funds to maybe play a .01/.02 NL cash table. Tournament started with 5013 players, top 801 paid (as usual). Made it very deep in this one. Final Table!! But I went out 9th as I made the mistake of moving ai with A9o just as we were being seated at the final table. Clearly I didn't know that was happening or I wouldn't have shoved with A9. But I also thought the bb had an easy fold if he didn't wake up with a real hand... which he did, 1010. No A and I am out in 9th. $5.55 for like 3 hours of play. LOL One of these days I might actually win the damn thing... I doubt it but I can dream.
Also played in a couple of the $2.20 bounty mtt on UB at 4:30PM EST. Went deep in one without knocking out a single player. That sucked. I think I went out like 27th. Top 50 paid.
Overall been frustrated with my play. Always seems like one or two hands in any tourney where I fold when my first instict was to call, and I would have made the hands and had very good sized stacks. Have to get over that hump. Hopefully the end of the year closes out on a good note. I need it as the last part of my year has been very very flat when the first part of the year was good to me.
Monday, December 17, 2007
Sucky Sunday
Got up Sunday not really sure what I would do. Figured I would play a few SNGs early then figure out what was for lunch.
Well the play early was bad. Course what do you expect at the .50 and 1.00 level on UB. LOL I Don't even remember if they were multi-table SNGs or just single table. I just know they chased me for any draw they needed. I would raise preflop out of the bb with AA and flop an A. Bet the pot on the flop... praying someone had the last ace. Instead I get called by someone playing a 35o in mp who called my raise and flopped a gut shot. Course came like a scheduled Japanese bullet train right on the turn. Fortunately did not lose all my chips but I didn't last much longer after that. I think I played one more and ended up like 5th. I should have stopped because I know I caught myself playing like they do..... chasing my draws big time. And playing weak hands for small raises trying to get lucky flops. Just doesn't work for me.... well not all that often.
I think I called a couple of friends to see if they wanted to grab a bite to eat.... no takers. LOL no surprise. Found some left over Chinese food from Friday and nuked it. Decided to try my hand at a $4/180 SNG on PS. Went fairly deep but donked off my chips on a hand where I knew I was beat but kept praying to hit after the flop..... out in 36th. Not that deep but close for me. Played a few freerolls on FT (my new freeroll pond) but nothing major. A few ftbs but no advances. And of course not ftbs in the money freerolls, only the round 1 freerolls. Played a couple of other $1 and $2 SNGs on UB..... no luck. I think I only cashed in one money SNG all day! Even for me that is bad. Was frustrating. I should have known to stop. Figured I would try one more $4/180 on PS. Mistake. I think I went out 150th. I call a nuisance raise/pot builder (min) raise from ep player with one other caller in front of me. I was button -2. Had 77. Flop is 278, rainbow. Original raiser bets out min. Caller raises min. I just smooth call. Now gets interesting. Original raiser raises about 50% of pot. Ok... he has a big pair, AA, KK or QQ. Next player reraises again. Not sure where to put him but I put him on some kinda draw. At this point I reraise all in as the pot is significant and I want at least one of them to drop. Original raiser calls ai. Now the midplayer insta calls and has us both covered by like 110. EP has KK, mp has 109 for oesd. Wow.... called two AIs instantly with oesd. I guess. Would never work out for me but he hits it instantly and no filler for me. GG off ; to more cussing at the screen. LOL
Only thing lately that has gone right for me in poker was a small 22 man tourney I played in at a friend's house. This is a weekly game that has some very very good players in it. Many aggressive players with great post flop games also. I have never cashed in this game. One of the few live tournies (not at casinos) that I have played in more than a few times where I never cashed. I normally make it to the point where the antes start and just practically blind off. It is a $40 game. It goes late and even when I get knocked out it is usually around 11:30 so I don't play in it often because it is another half hour to get home. I was off Friday so I decided to RSVP for it.
I should also preface this by saying that I was first out on Tuesday in the $20 / 120 man donkey tourney I play in weekly!!! First out... not sure I have ever done that before. LOL Not there anyways. LOL Didn't want to be there and knew I shouldn't have gone. He had AA in bb and I had AK behind button. I raise, he reraised, I smooth called, flop came top K, he bet, I called... turn a blank, he shoved I called and asked AA or KK, he turns up the AA. I knew I was beat but didn't care. Bad play on my part and I knew it the minute he bet the flop.
Anyways, onto the Thursday night tourney......Early couldn't get a hand to hold up. Only hand I actually hit, was AJ with A on flop.... player bet so just smooth called. Two diamonds on flop of A68. Two callers behind me. Turn is a 7 non diamond. SB who bet flop now checks so I bet out 1k to find out where I am. Both callers call me as does SB. River is a 4. Check, check check and check. SB has pocket 7s!! bet the flop and got lucky and hit. I should have known better. Player behind me had two diamonds, J high and last player had weak A. I guess I could have won this with a reraise on the flop, sevens might have laid down. Oh well, one of the big weaknesses in my game. After that maybe two small pp, dead on flop... easy to let go. Played till we consolidated tables then went on a little tear with about 4 out of 5 hands and accumulated some chips. Then went card dead for awhile again. Losing chips with a few calls and the blinds. Down to about 7 or 6 players (top 3 paid). Get AJ in ep and raise ai because of the stacks and blinds. SS calls with KQ. Course K on flop. I start whining to another player with whom I had had a discussion with earlier in the night about KQ. I pissed off the player that called me. I really have to learn to shut my mouth and just take it. I wouldn't have said a word if he had lost. He was a good player but I had seen a couple of other weak plays from him and I was surprised he called. He did only have about 5x bb (with 4 more hands before bb) but it was for 65-75% of my stack and I was steamed. I apologized later of course. I end up getting down to ss and lost my bb. I was down to $600 in sb. Blinds were 800/1600 with 300 ante!!!!! We were 5 handed I believe. I ended up winning the whole thing!!!!!! Unfortunately it wasn't my skills that got me there. LOL The deck slapped me in the face - ala Jamie Gold without that talking shit and thinking I was playing good. But I was happy to take it down just before Christmas. Need it for my daughter's gifts. :)
Well the play early was bad. Course what do you expect at the .50 and 1.00 level on UB. LOL I Don't even remember if they were multi-table SNGs or just single table. I just know they chased me for any draw they needed. I would raise preflop out of the bb with AA and flop an A. Bet the pot on the flop... praying someone had the last ace. Instead I get called by someone playing a 35o in mp who called my raise and flopped a gut shot. Course came like a scheduled Japanese bullet train right on the turn. Fortunately did not lose all my chips but I didn't last much longer after that. I think I played one more and ended up like 5th. I should have stopped because I know I caught myself playing like they do..... chasing my draws big time. And playing weak hands for small raises trying to get lucky flops. Just doesn't work for me.... well not all that often.
I think I called a couple of friends to see if they wanted to grab a bite to eat.... no takers. LOL no surprise. Found some left over Chinese food from Friday and nuked it. Decided to try my hand at a $4/180 SNG on PS. Went fairly deep but donked off my chips on a hand where I knew I was beat but kept praying to hit after the flop..... out in 36th. Not that deep but close for me. Played a few freerolls on FT (my new freeroll pond) but nothing major. A few ftbs but no advances. And of course not ftbs in the money freerolls, only the round 1 freerolls. Played a couple of other $1 and $2 SNGs on UB..... no luck. I think I only cashed in one money SNG all day! Even for me that is bad. Was frustrating. I should have known to stop. Figured I would try one more $4/180 on PS. Mistake. I think I went out 150th. I call a nuisance raise/pot builder (min) raise from ep player with one other caller in front of me. I was button -2. Had 77. Flop is 278, rainbow. Original raiser bets out min. Caller raises min. I just smooth call. Now gets interesting. Original raiser raises about 50% of pot. Ok... he has a big pair, AA, KK or QQ. Next player reraises again. Not sure where to put him but I put him on some kinda draw. At this point I reraise all in as the pot is significant and I want at least one of them to drop. Original raiser calls ai. Now the midplayer insta calls and has us both covered by like 110. EP has KK, mp has 109 for oesd. Wow.... called two AIs instantly with oesd. I guess. Would never work out for me but he hits it instantly and no filler for me. GG off ; to more cussing at the screen. LOL
Only thing lately that has gone right for me in poker was a small 22 man tourney I played in at a friend's house. This is a weekly game that has some very very good players in it. Many aggressive players with great post flop games also. I have never cashed in this game. One of the few live tournies (not at casinos) that I have played in more than a few times where I never cashed. I normally make it to the point where the antes start and just practically blind off. It is a $40 game. It goes late and even when I get knocked out it is usually around 11:30 so I don't play in it often because it is another half hour to get home. I was off Friday so I decided to RSVP for it.
I should also preface this by saying that I was first out on Tuesday in the $20 / 120 man donkey tourney I play in weekly!!! First out... not sure I have ever done that before. LOL Not there anyways. LOL Didn't want to be there and knew I shouldn't have gone. He had AA in bb and I had AK behind button. I raise, he reraised, I smooth called, flop came top K, he bet, I called... turn a blank, he shoved I called and asked AA or KK, he turns up the AA. I knew I was beat but didn't care. Bad play on my part and I knew it the minute he bet the flop.
Anyways, onto the Thursday night tourney......Early couldn't get a hand to hold up. Only hand I actually hit, was AJ with A on flop.... player bet so just smooth called. Two diamonds on flop of A68. Two callers behind me. Turn is a 7 non diamond. SB who bet flop now checks so I bet out 1k to find out where I am. Both callers call me as does SB. River is a 4. Check, check check and check. SB has pocket 7s!! bet the flop and got lucky and hit. I should have known better. Player behind me had two diamonds, J high and last player had weak A. I guess I could have won this with a reraise on the flop, sevens might have laid down. Oh well, one of the big weaknesses in my game. After that maybe two small pp, dead on flop... easy to let go. Played till we consolidated tables then went on a little tear with about 4 out of 5 hands and accumulated some chips. Then went card dead for awhile again. Losing chips with a few calls and the blinds. Down to about 7 or 6 players (top 3 paid). Get AJ in ep and raise ai because of the stacks and blinds. SS calls with KQ. Course K on flop. I start whining to another player with whom I had had a discussion with earlier in the night about KQ. I pissed off the player that called me. I really have to learn to shut my mouth and just take it. I wouldn't have said a word if he had lost. He was a good player but I had seen a couple of other weak plays from him and I was surprised he called. He did only have about 5x bb (with 4 more hands before bb) but it was for 65-75% of my stack and I was steamed. I apologized later of course. I end up getting down to ss and lost my bb. I was down to $600 in sb. Blinds were 800/1600 with 300 ante!!!!! We were 5 handed I believe. I ended up winning the whole thing!!!!!! Unfortunately it wasn't my skills that got me there. LOL The deck slapped me in the face - ala Jamie Gold without that talking shit and thinking I was playing good. But I was happy to take it down just before Christmas. Need it for my daughter's gifts. :)
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Big hands early...... hate em!
I have always hated getting big hands very early in a MTT or SNG. Played a $4/180man SNG on PS. I played two hands and was out within 20 minutes!
One of the first hands of the tourney I get KK in the SB. 4 limpers + BB + SB = pot of 110. So I raise it to 215. Hoping to move any weak hands out. Get two callers. BB and early mp player. Flop is A7x, two hearts. I check as my Ace magnets have done their job as normal. BB shoves!! EMP player calls!!... I lay down of course. BB has K7s in hearts and EMP has A3o. Wow... good calls preflop. Course maybe that is my problem that I am not willing to gamble with crap... mainly because I don't win many coin flips much less win when I am way behind. A3o wins the hand. Nice hand to double up with immediately.
About 15 hands later I am on the button with AA. Small raise in MP with one caller. I reraise just over the pot. I know most people want action with AA but I prefer only other strong hands call. I think the blinds were 15/30 at this point so my reraise of pot put me down to about 800. One caller(original raiser). Flop is 653, rainbow. MP raiser/caller bets out 100 into a 800+ pot. Don't think he has a set.... maybe an over pair to the board. So I (like the donk that I am) reraise ai since the pot is bigger than my remaining stack at this point. He insta calls and shows 74s in spades. GG me. I wish I had half the horseshoe shoved up my ass that some of these people have. If I win 35% of my COINFLIPs I am feeling lucky... much less calling shit like that and praying for a miracle flop or even river.
Oh well. Always another beat to wait on in the next tourney. LOL
One of the first hands of the tourney I get KK in the SB. 4 limpers + BB + SB = pot of 110. So I raise it to 215. Hoping to move any weak hands out. Get two callers. BB and early mp player. Flop is A7x, two hearts. I check as my Ace magnets have done their job as normal. BB shoves!! EMP player calls!!... I lay down of course. BB has K7s in hearts and EMP has A3o. Wow... good calls preflop. Course maybe that is my problem that I am not willing to gamble with crap... mainly because I don't win many coin flips much less win when I am way behind. A3o wins the hand. Nice hand to double up with immediately.
About 15 hands later I am on the button with AA. Small raise in MP with one caller. I reraise just over the pot. I know most people want action with AA but I prefer only other strong hands call. I think the blinds were 15/30 at this point so my reraise of pot put me down to about 800. One caller(original raiser). Flop is 653, rainbow. MP raiser/caller bets out 100 into a 800+ pot. Don't think he has a set.... maybe an over pair to the board. So I (like the donk that I am) reraise ai since the pot is bigger than my remaining stack at this point. He insta calls and shows 74s in spades. GG me. I wish I had half the horseshoe shoved up my ass that some of these people have. If I win 35% of my COINFLIPs I am feeling lucky... much less calling shit like that and praying for a miracle flop or even river.
Oh well. Always another beat to wait on in the next tourney. LOL
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