I had big plans for last weekend, it was going to be a bit of a poker orgy. I had an invite to the quarterly Queen-level $5k freeroll which I was going to have a go at, and I also had plans to put those unused party points, which let's face it, at my stakes I'm never going accumulate to a high enough level to convert to cash before they expire, into buying into a couple of sit'n'gos and seeing how I got on.
Friday night I had a reasonably short session, again getting a fairly unexciting run of junk cards, but managing to build back up from $1.20 to almost break-even and then turning a set with pocket 9s against a muppet foolishly slowplaying his AK to cashout with a $2.50ish profit. So, pretty happy with how I played and it's good warm-up for the weekend's binge...
...except then I had to work Saturday afternoon, which dragged on to working Saturday through to 3am, and then to also working Sunday until 8pm...
So, a bit of a let-down really. I'm mostly annoyed for missing the freeroll, because it's only once every three months. Probably longer than that until I can take part - with restrictions on my play time at the moment I think I'll miss minimum points expenditure and be dropping back down to Jack and so miss next quarter.
Probably no time for any poker this weekend, but on the plus side we should hopefully, in the next day or two, be getting internet properly installed in the place I'm currently living. That should mean more sessions and more frequent posts. So, to my reader (I think I'd been flattering myself to pluralise), watch this space...
Thursday 31 January 2008
Monday 21 January 2008
after a long absence
It's been a long, long time since my last post. Mainly this is due to personal reasons that I won’t go into, since those who read this and know me will already know them, and anyone stumbling on this blog who doesn’t know me won’t care.
Anyway, after a reasonable, focussed run that put me into the mid-$60s bankroll-wise I went on a horrendous run where I wasn’t paying much attention or playing for any of the right reasons and duly dropped into just below $30! Realising that I wasn’t in any correct frame of mind, I’d deliberately avoided playing again… until now.
I played two sessions on Saturday and Sunday respectively which could not have been more different in the run of cards I had, and profited on both. Saturday I got hit by the deck, getting a good run of pocket pairs, making boats from marginal BB hands, and getting my money in and getting paid off on the premium hands. I ended up cashing out with $9 from a $3 buy-in.
It could have been much more, but sadly I got sucked out on a 3-way $13 pot. Fortunately the fish who called a large preflop bet with KTs then thought that a pair of Kings on an Ace-high flop with inside straight draw (other player had AK so fish was drawing dead to anything else) was worth going all-in with had the smallest stack of the three of us, so I still made a teeny profit when the Q hit and wrecked my set.
I have player notes on this player now - they simply say, 'Kick this guy in the throat'.
In fairness though, by the time I’d left he’d given me most of that money back.
Sunday’s session was the polar opposite. The highest pocket pair I was dealt during the whole game was Nines, and the best non-paired hand breakdown was as follows:
AQh once – on BB, all folded ahead of me acting.
AKo once – on Button, all folder ahead of me. Blinds fold to my 3xBB raise.
AQs once – mid-position, early raise of 4xBB. Raiser folds to my min-reraise.
Other than that, it was low pocket pairs and other fairly marginal hands all the way. I ended with a $2 profit, but I felt more proud of my performance on Sunday than Saturday. Without big hands, I found two things.
1) Playing fewer hands, I decided to watch hands I wasn’t involved with and attempt to put people on possible cards based on their betting. I found I’m a lot better at this than I used to be. Still though when I’m in the hand I sometimes second-guess or disregard my initial correct read and get punished for it!
2) Just playing position and having a good read on your opponents and what they might have and what they might be afraid of, you can still pick up some decent sized pots with nothing or very little.
Looking through my hand history, I only took part in a handful of showdowns, and won two. The best hand I ever made in the session was top two-pair and my biggest pot win was with pocket-8s on a 7-high flop/turn (taking a nice chunk from a guy with K7 who judged himself owner of top kicker). The rest of my wins were all through carefully considered betting.
So, a pretty positive session to get me back into the game.
Week's Profit: $7.90
Current Bankroll: $39.25
Anyway, after a reasonable, focussed run that put me into the mid-$60s bankroll-wise I went on a horrendous run where I wasn’t paying much attention or playing for any of the right reasons and duly dropped into just below $30! Realising that I wasn’t in any correct frame of mind, I’d deliberately avoided playing again… until now.
I played two sessions on Saturday and Sunday respectively which could not have been more different in the run of cards I had, and profited on both. Saturday I got hit by the deck, getting a good run of pocket pairs, making boats from marginal BB hands, and getting my money in and getting paid off on the premium hands. I ended up cashing out with $9 from a $3 buy-in.
It could have been much more, but sadly I got sucked out on a 3-way $13 pot. Fortunately the fish who called a large preflop bet with KTs then thought that a pair of Kings on an Ace-high flop with inside straight draw (other player had AK so fish was drawing dead to anything else) was worth going all-in with had the smallest stack of the three of us, so I still made a teeny profit when the Q hit and wrecked my set.
I have player notes on this player now - they simply say, 'Kick this guy in the throat'.
In fairness though, by the time I’d left he’d given me most of that money back.
Sunday’s session was the polar opposite. The highest pocket pair I was dealt during the whole game was Nines, and the best non-paired hand breakdown was as follows:
AQh once – on BB, all folded ahead of me acting.
AKo once – on Button, all folder ahead of me. Blinds fold to my 3xBB raise.
AQs once – mid-position, early raise of 4xBB. Raiser folds to my min-reraise.
Other than that, it was low pocket pairs and other fairly marginal hands all the way. I ended with a $2 profit, but I felt more proud of my performance on Sunday than Saturday. Without big hands, I found two things.
1) Playing fewer hands, I decided to watch hands I wasn’t involved with and attempt to put people on possible cards based on their betting. I found I’m a lot better at this than I used to be. Still though when I’m in the hand I sometimes second-guess or disregard my initial correct read and get punished for it!
2) Just playing position and having a good read on your opponents and what they might have and what they might be afraid of, you can still pick up some decent sized pots with nothing or very little.
Looking through my hand history, I only took part in a handful of showdowns, and won two. The best hand I ever made in the session was top two-pair and my biggest pot win was with pocket-8s on a 7-high flop/turn (taking a nice chunk from a guy with K7 who judged himself owner of top kicker). The rest of my wins were all through carefully considered betting.
So, a pretty positive session to get me back into the game.
Week's Profit: $7.90
Current Bankroll: $39.25
Wednesday 21 November 2007
Good progress, as befitting a Queen...
I've been fairly happy with my play at the moment, I've been reining myself in a lot more at playing marginal hands pre-flop and chasing draws post-flop. I won't say I've played perfectly, I've still had some moments of mental abstraction which have cost me, but in general I've been a lot more solid.
Last week I came close to ending around $12 up, but I made the mistake of playing on Sunday when I only had a limited amount of time and misjudged a big hand, running top two pair into a low set, then with no time to rebuild from that loss before I had to log off. So that left me closer to $6 in profit for the week, which isn't quite as nice. This week is also lookng good so far, I'm ending tonight $5-ish in profit.
In other news, turns out I'm a Queen! Was mucking around in the account part of Party Poker and noticed I'm in tier 2 of their Party Point scheme, which came as a bit of a surprise given the low level I play at. Still, it means I now get double Party Points (so a double pittance each session!) There's also a quarterly $5k freeroll which might be fun to take a crack at.
Here's hoping I keep up the current upward progress.
Weekly Total: $4.57
Current Bankroll: $60.45
UPDATE:
Ran into some horrible hands on Sunday which undid all my profits. Ah well...
Weekly Total: -$0.50
Current Bankroll: $55.28
Last week I came close to ending around $12 up, but I made the mistake of playing on Sunday when I only had a limited amount of time and misjudged a big hand, running top two pair into a low set, then with no time to rebuild from that loss before I had to log off. So that left me closer to $6 in profit for the week, which isn't quite as nice. This week is also lookng good so far, I'm ending tonight $5-ish in profit.
In other news, turns out I'm a Queen! Was mucking around in the account part of Party Poker and noticed I'm in tier 2 of their Party Point scheme, which came as a bit of a surprise given the low level I play at. Still, it means I now get double Party Points (so a double pittance each session!) There's also a quarterly $5k freeroll which might be fun to take a crack at.
Here's hoping I keep up the current upward progress.
Weekly Total: $4.57
Current Bankroll: $60.45
UPDATE:
Ran into some horrible hands on Sunday which undid all my profits. Ah well...
Weekly Total: -$0.50
Current Bankroll: $55.28
Tuesday 13 November 2007
suddenly more focussed, hooray!
I've been bouncing around with poker recently without really feeling like I've been hitting my stride. I've hit some good streaks to just about make up for some of my less than stellar play and so i've danced back and forth around the break-even point without ever looking like actually making significant profit. I've actually cashed-out some pretty nice totals, but always it's come after first losing a buy-in or two, making the actual day's profit something less impressive.
Anyway, this week things have clicked back into place - I'm finding it much easier to tighten my game up, rather than just saying I'm gonna tighten up and then still playing marginal hands and chasing speculative draws. I'm thinking a lot more too, trying to put people on likely hands and picking up on particular players' styles and using that to my advantage to judge what size bet they'll call, when to bluff or when to just check it down.
I've ended tonight after a couple of hours just over one buy-in up ($4.88). It's a nice win because it was done wihtout any of the horrible swings I've had recently where I've dropped to a very short stack or even lost a buy-in before hitting that big win to bring me back into profit. It's made me think; If I can keep control of my game like tonight, then when those big pots do come then firstly, it will add up to a lot more profit overall, and secondly, I'll have more cash to throw into the pot when I've got the nuts and therefore potentially win an even bigger pot!
So, fingers crossed I can keep this play up and start having some more consistently profitable sessions.
P.S. I won some money in a freeroll for first time, woo! Party is running Surprise tournaments at the moment and I battled my way through a 4,500 player freeroll to win ... $0.02. I placed 428, and had a decent stack so I could have gone further and maybe even got into to $0.07 band, but it was getting to bed time. Still, I can now say I am a winning player at tournaments!
Anyway, this week things have clicked back into place - I'm finding it much easier to tighten my game up, rather than just saying I'm gonna tighten up and then still playing marginal hands and chasing speculative draws. I'm thinking a lot more too, trying to put people on likely hands and picking up on particular players' styles and using that to my advantage to judge what size bet they'll call, when to bluff or when to just check it down.
I've ended tonight after a couple of hours just over one buy-in up ($4.88). It's a nice win because it was done wihtout any of the horrible swings I've had recently where I've dropped to a very short stack or even lost a buy-in before hitting that big win to bring me back into profit. It's made me think; If I can keep control of my game like tonight, then when those big pots do come then firstly, it will add up to a lot more profit overall, and secondly, I'll have more cash to throw into the pot when I've got the nuts and therefore potentially win an even bigger pot!
So, fingers crossed I can keep this play up and start having some more consistently profitable sessions.
P.S. I won some money in a freeroll for first time, woo! Party is running Surprise tournaments at the moment and I battled my way through a 4,500 player freeroll to win ... $0.02. I placed 428, and had a decent stack so I could have gone further and maybe even got into to $0.07 band, but it was getting to bed time. Still, I can now say I am a winning player at tournaments!
Sunday 28 October 2007
a bad week...
...but not quite as disasterous as it could have been. After doing so not so well earlier in this week, I was hoping to focus and pull myself up and back into profit for this week. Instead, I managed to go on a massive downswing, the nadir of which left me back down in the $30s for my bankroll. The worst of it was that very little of my play was particularly bad. I couldn't point to too many incidents where I made particularly bad calls. It was just that the run of cards I had was consistently bad, and the very rare occasion I took a premium hand I got no action, or horrible suckouts.
It was most dispiriting, but fortunately I had a sudden turnaround this afternoon. After some fairly quiet play, I'd finally got paid by a fish and doubled up. I decided to cash-out and hit a new table. My first hand I turned a straight against an opponent with AA that had chosen to slowplay it and only try and push once I had a made hand. The very next hand i get 54s, flop a 4 and get a free card to see a 5 on the turn. Third hand i make a boat and have almost trebled my original buy-in. Anyway, from that point things went quite well, and though it wasn't enough to fully undo the carnage of the previous sessions, I at least reached a point of it not being quite so embarrassing...
This Week: -$6.68
Total: $48.06
It was most dispiriting, but fortunately I had a sudden turnaround this afternoon. After some fairly quiet play, I'd finally got paid by a fish and doubled up. I decided to cash-out and hit a new table. My first hand I turned a straight against an opponent with AA that had chosen to slowplay it and only try and push once I had a made hand. The very next hand i get 54s, flop a 4 and get a free card to see a 5 on the turn. Third hand i make a boat and have almost trebled my original buy-in. Anyway, from that point things went quite well, and though it wasn't enough to fully undo the carnage of the previous sessions, I at least reached a point of it not being quite so embarrassing...
This Week: -$6.68
Total: $48.06
Wednesday 24 October 2007
tired play, and big pairs
With my girlfriend away off biting other men, I've seized the chance to play as much as possible. Which is great, except I'm stil not recovered from weekend's excesses as so have been playing while utterly exhausted. This was particularly apparent on Monday - I bust myself pretty quickly, rebought and worked my way all the way back up into profit, then lost it all again on the final hand of the night.
The only postive of the night was that I got some nice experience in making and playing straights. I've realised that I get rather too attached to the idea of drawing on an open-end or double belly-buster straight or to a flush, which costs me when they don't hit. But when it's been made cheap enough to draw to, the straight is a great hand because it's much less obvious than the flush. Any fool can count three of a suit on the board, but when there's [K, 9, 6, 5] rainbow there's not too many people holding a King who are scared of [8,7]!
So, my focus now is going to be maintaining discipline and assessing the actual pot odds when deciding on whether to call on a draw. Implied odds obviously matter here too, no point calling a bet if it's going to mean either myself or the bettor being all-in because then there's no extra turn/river bet to profit from. Chasing draws when I DON'T have good pot odds is definitely a leak for me at the moment, my last few stupid big losses were all from chasing straights and flushes that didn't materialise.
Tuesday, I was still pretty tired, but didn't actually play too badly. I didn't play as much as I could have, mainly due to connection problems on Party. Then when I finally got back on, every 3 hands the table I was on got taken down for maintenance! So, with the various hassles I kind of didn't realise that I'd made money until I added it up today. Sadly it wasn't enough to fully reverse the horrible loss on Monday, but at least I'm now quite as down as I could have been.
I've put up two hands from Tuesday, the first I thought was fun just from the fortuitous appearance of three big hands all in one pot. (click to see hand)
#Game No : 6439161545
***** Hand History for Game 6439161545 *****
$5 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, October 23, 15:58:45 ET 2007
Table Table 127739 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 3: x__BShark__x ( $4.55 USD )
Seat 5: LEKDJ ( $1.23 USD )
Seat 7: reno_man001 ( $5.10 USD )
Seat 8: TS99_87 ( $5.94 USD )
Seat 9: peck3r ( $3.18 USD )
Seat 10: DavidLarsen ( $6.98 USD )
Seat 4: e_r_c ( $2.92 USD )
Seat 6: Dixvins ( $2.68 USD )
Seat 1: Nextone7777 ( $1.92 USD )
Seat 2: HoneyJar ( $4.96 USD )
HoneyJar posts small blind [$0.02 USD].
x__BShark__x posts big blind [$0.04 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to e_r_c [ Ad Ac ]
e_r_c calls [$0.04 USD]
LEKDJ folds
Dixvins folds
reno_man001 raises [$0.08 USD]
TS99_87 folds
peck3r folds
DavidLarsen calls [$0.08 USD]
Nextone7777 folds
HoneyJar folds
x__BShark__x calls [$0.04 USD]
e_r_c raises [$0.46 USD]
reno_man001 calls [$0.42 USD]
DavidLarsen calls [$0.42 USD]
x__BShark__x folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4c, 8s, Tc ]
e_r_c is all-In [$2.42 USD]
reno_man001 calls [$2.42 USD]
DavidLarsen: QQ
DavidLarsen folds
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qs ]
** Dealing River ** [ 7d ]
e_r_c shows [ Ad, Ac ]a pair of Aces.
reno_man001 shows [ Kc, Kh ]a pair of Kings.
e_r_c wins $6.12 USD from the main pot with a pair of Aces.
DavidLarsen: grrr!!!
I think I played the above hand pretty well. On the flop I moved in for the following reasons. First, with a rags flop and with the level of preflop betting I didn't think anyone would have stayed in with a pocket pair below Jacks. I also didn't want to be second-guessing myself too much on the turn and river, so getting my money in while I was most likely ahead seemed the best plan.
It was fortunate for me I did, as you can see if I'd slowplayed the hand at all then DavidLarsen would have stolen it on the turn.
Another lesson in not slowplaying Aces was my final pot of the night, alonlu123's weak bet on the flop makes it worth me seeing the turn with my middle pair /overcard and I get some nice help and break him.
#Game No : 6439576391
***** Hand History for Game 6439576391 *****
$5 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, October 23, 18:55:37 ET 2007
Table Table 126296 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 1: Carsten1081 ( $3.65 USD )
Seat 5: JanssonJ ( $0.29 USD )
Seat 6: alonlu123 ( $1.54 USD )
Seat 2: geordie_dave ( $4.25 USD )
Seat 4: hansdampf101 ( $4.04 USD )
Seat 8: chrizbradley ( $4.28 USD )
Seat 3: e_r_c ( $5.04 USD )
Seat 7: johoy ( $3.29 USD )
Seat 10: LuxStyle ( $5.37 USD )
hansdampf101 posts small blind [$0.02 USD].
alonlu123 posts big blind [$0.04 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to e_r_c [ 6c Ac ]
johoy folds
chrizbradley raises [$0.12 USD]
LuxStyle folds
Carsten1081 folds
e_r_c calls [$0.12 USD]
hansdampf101 did not respond in time
hansdampf101 folds
alonlu123 raises [$0.16 USD]
chrizbradley calls [$0.08 USD]
e_r_c calls [$0.08 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Kd, 6h, 2h ]
alonlu123 bets [$0.24 USD]
chrizbradley calls [$0.24 USD]
e_r_c calls [$0.24 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6d ]
alonlu123 bets [$0.48 USD]
chrizbradley calls [$0.48 USD]
Knifkator has joined the table.
e_r_c raises [$2.20 USD]
alonlu123 is all-In [$0.62 USD]
chrizbradley folds
** Dealing River ** [ Jh ]
e_r_c shows [ 6c, Ac ]three of a kind, Sixes.
alonlu123 doesn't show [ Ad, As ]two pairs, Aces and Sixes.
e_r_c wins $1.10 USD from side pot #1 with three of a kind, Sixes.
e_r_c wins $3.82 USD from the main pot with three of a kind, Sixes.
This Week: -$1.17
Total: $53.57
The only postive of the night was that I got some nice experience in making and playing straights. I've realised that I get rather too attached to the idea of drawing on an open-end or double belly-buster straight or to a flush, which costs me when they don't hit. But when it's been made cheap enough to draw to, the straight is a great hand because it's much less obvious than the flush. Any fool can count three of a suit on the board, but when there's [K, 9, 6, 5] rainbow there's not too many people holding a King who are scared of [8,7]!
So, my focus now is going to be maintaining discipline and assessing the actual pot odds when deciding on whether to call on a draw. Implied odds obviously matter here too, no point calling a bet if it's going to mean either myself or the bettor being all-in because then there's no extra turn/river bet to profit from. Chasing draws when I DON'T have good pot odds is definitely a leak for me at the moment, my last few stupid big losses were all from chasing straights and flushes that didn't materialise.
Tuesday, I was still pretty tired, but didn't actually play too badly. I didn't play as much as I could have, mainly due to connection problems on Party. Then when I finally got back on, every 3 hands the table I was on got taken down for maintenance! So, with the various hassles I kind of didn't realise that I'd made money until I added it up today. Sadly it wasn't enough to fully reverse the horrible loss on Monday, but at least I'm now quite as down as I could have been.
I've put up two hands from Tuesday, the first I thought was fun just from the fortuitous appearance of three big hands all in one pot. (click to see hand)
Big Pair Three-way
#Game No : 6439161545
***** Hand History for Game 6439161545 *****
$5 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, October 23, 15:58:45 ET 2007
Table Table 127739 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 3: x__BShark__x ( $4.55 USD )
Seat 5: LEKDJ ( $1.23 USD )
Seat 7: reno_man001 ( $5.10 USD )
Seat 8: TS99_87 ( $5.94 USD )
Seat 9: peck3r ( $3.18 USD )
Seat 10: DavidLarsen ( $6.98 USD )
Seat 4: e_r_c ( $2.92 USD )
Seat 6: Dixvins ( $2.68 USD )
Seat 1: Nextone7777 ( $1.92 USD )
Seat 2: HoneyJar ( $4.96 USD )
HoneyJar posts small blind [$0.02 USD].
x__BShark__x posts big blind [$0.04 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to e_r_c [ Ad Ac ]
e_r_c calls [$0.04 USD]
LEKDJ folds
Dixvins folds
reno_man001 raises [$0.08 USD]
TS99_87 folds
peck3r folds
DavidLarsen calls [$0.08 USD]
Nextone7777 folds
HoneyJar folds
x__BShark__x calls [$0.04 USD]
e_r_c raises [$0.46 USD]
reno_man001 calls [$0.42 USD]
DavidLarsen calls [$0.42 USD]
x__BShark__x folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4c, 8s, Tc ]
e_r_c is all-In [$2.42 USD]
reno_man001 calls [$2.42 USD]
DavidLarsen: QQ
DavidLarsen folds
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qs ]
** Dealing River ** [ 7d ]
e_r_c shows [ Ad, Ac ]a pair of Aces.
reno_man001 shows [ Kc, Kh ]a pair of Kings.
e_r_c wins $6.12 USD from the main pot with a pair of Aces.
DavidLarsen: grrr!!!
I think I played the above hand pretty well. On the flop I moved in for the following reasons. First, with a rags flop and with the level of preflop betting I didn't think anyone would have stayed in with a pocket pair below Jacks. I also didn't want to be second-guessing myself too much on the turn and river, so getting my money in while I was most likely ahead seemed the best plan.
It was fortunate for me I did, as you can see if I'd slowplayed the hand at all then DavidLarsen would have stolen it on the turn.
Another lesson in not slowplaying Aces was my final pot of the night, alonlu123's weak bet on the flop makes it worth me seeing the turn with my middle pair /overcard and I get some nice help and break him.
Cracking Aces
#Game No : 6439576391
***** Hand History for Game 6439576391 *****
$5 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, October 23, 18:55:37 ET 2007
Table Table 126296 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 1: Carsten1081 ( $3.65 USD )
Seat 5: JanssonJ ( $0.29 USD )
Seat 6: alonlu123 ( $1.54 USD )
Seat 2: geordie_dave ( $4.25 USD )
Seat 4: hansdampf101 ( $4.04 USD )
Seat 8: chrizbradley ( $4.28 USD )
Seat 3: e_r_c ( $5.04 USD )
Seat 7: johoy ( $3.29 USD )
Seat 10: LuxStyle ( $5.37 USD )
hansdampf101 posts small blind [$0.02 USD].
alonlu123 posts big blind [$0.04 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to e_r_c [ 6c Ac ]
johoy folds
chrizbradley raises [$0.12 USD]
LuxStyle folds
Carsten1081 folds
e_r_c calls [$0.12 USD]
hansdampf101 did not respond in time
hansdampf101 folds
alonlu123 raises [$0.16 USD]
chrizbradley calls [$0.08 USD]
e_r_c calls [$0.08 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Kd, 6h, 2h ]
alonlu123 bets [$0.24 USD]
chrizbradley calls [$0.24 USD]
e_r_c calls [$0.24 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6d ]
alonlu123 bets [$0.48 USD]
chrizbradley calls [$0.48 USD]
Knifkator has joined the table.
e_r_c raises [$2.20 USD]
alonlu123 is all-In [$0.62 USD]
chrizbradley folds
** Dealing River ** [ Jh ]
e_r_c shows [ 6c, Ac ]three of a kind, Sixes.
alonlu123 doesn't show [ Ad, As ]two pairs, Aces and Sixes.
e_r_c wins $1.10 USD from side pot #1 with three of a kind, Sixes.
e_r_c wins $3.82 USD from the main pot with three of a kind, Sixes.
This Week: -$1.17
Total: $53.57
Sunday 21 October 2007
sunday suckouts!
Sunday I sat down to play after quite a heavy night on Saturday, and wondered whether playing while tired and hungover was the best idea. I quickly got an answer when I rapidly destroyed my first buy-in with some horrible, horrible play.
I rebought back in and slowly, slowly inched my way back up to break even point, occasionally slipping back down a couple of dollars. To be honest, I never really felt like I got into the flow of the game. I was picking up small pots but never really connecting with a big hand.
Anyway, I eventually made my way up by about a dollar and was ready to call it a day, when I got dealt a pair of Jacks, and the player to my left pushed all-in on pre-flop. Normally I'd have dropped the hand, but the very hand before the same player had responded to my preflop raise by pushing all-in, so I was sceptical about the strength of his hand. This was a mistake on my part, as he turned over a pair of Aces! However, it seems the poker gods had decided I was due to some payback after getting sucked out on in previous occasions, see below...
(I'm experimenting with hiding the full hand history to reduce page length, click the link to show it)
***** Hand History for Game 6432882848 *****
$5 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, October 21, 12:58:39 ET 2007
Table Table 130758 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 6: e_r_c ( $6.03 USD )
Seat 3: gamerno ( $1.17 USD )
Seat 5: Schlotzinger ( $1.73 USD )
Seat 1: Hectorleduxe ( $1.41 USD )
Seat 10: Simply1303 ( $1.19 USD )
Seat 8: vonschlagt ( $4.80 USD )
Seat 7: vesa9800 ( $3.19 USD )
Seat 2: starbuckmaus ( $2.09 USD )
Seat 4: linkku70 ( $2.34 USD )
Seat 9: krzmn ( $2 USD )
gamerno posts small blind [$0.02 USD].
linkku70 posts big blind [$0.04 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to e_r_c [ Jh Js ]
Schlotzinger folds
e_r_c raises [$0.12 USD]
vesa9800 folds
vonschlagt folds
krzmn folds
Simply1303 folds
Hectorleduxe folds
starbuckmaus calls [$0.12 USD]
gamerno folds
linkku70 is all-In [$2.30 USD]
e_r_c calls [$2.22 USD]
starbuckmaus folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ Jd, Jc, Td ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qd ]
** Dealing River ** [ 7d ]
e_r_c shows [ Jh, Js ]four of a kind, Jacks.
linkku70 doesn't show [ Ac, Ad ]a flush, Ace high.
e_r_c wins $4.58 USD from the main pot with four of a kind, Jacks.
Week's Total: $13.30
Total: $54.74
I rebought back in and slowly, slowly inched my way back up to break even point, occasionally slipping back down a couple of dollars. To be honest, I never really felt like I got into the flow of the game. I was picking up small pots but never really connecting with a big hand.
Anyway, I eventually made my way up by about a dollar and was ready to call it a day, when I got dealt a pair of Jacks, and the player to my left pushed all-in on pre-flop. Normally I'd have dropped the hand, but the very hand before the same player had responded to my preflop raise by pushing all-in, so I was sceptical about the strength of his hand. This was a mistake on my part, as he turned over a pair of Aces! However, it seems the poker gods had decided I was due to some payback after getting sucked out on in previous occasions, see below...
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JJ v AA suckout
***** Hand History for Game 6432882848 *****
$5 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, October 21, 12:58:39 ET 2007
Table Table 130758 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 6: e_r_c ( $6.03 USD )
Seat 3: gamerno ( $1.17 USD )
Seat 5: Schlotzinger ( $1.73 USD )
Seat 1: Hectorleduxe ( $1.41 USD )
Seat 10: Simply1303 ( $1.19 USD )
Seat 8: vonschlagt ( $4.80 USD )
Seat 7: vesa9800 ( $3.19 USD )
Seat 2: starbuckmaus ( $2.09 USD )
Seat 4: linkku70 ( $2.34 USD )
Seat 9: krzmn ( $2 USD )
gamerno posts small blind [$0.02 USD].
linkku70 posts big blind [$0.04 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to e_r_c [ Jh Js ]
Schlotzinger folds
e_r_c raises [$0.12 USD]
vesa9800 folds
vonschlagt folds
krzmn folds
Simply1303 folds
Hectorleduxe folds
starbuckmaus calls [$0.12 USD]
gamerno folds
linkku70 is all-In [$2.30 USD]
e_r_c calls [$2.22 USD]
starbuckmaus folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ Jd, Jc, Td ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qd ]
** Dealing River ** [ 7d ]
e_r_c shows [ Jh, Js ]four of a kind, Jacks.
linkku70 doesn't show [ Ac, Ad ]a flush, Ace high.
e_r_c wins $4.58 USD from the main pot with four of a kind, Jacks.
Week's Total: $13.30
Total: $54.74
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