Nautica win

Cashed $517 on a single buy-in last night in 1 hour of play. No exciting hands to speak of, but there were a couple donks at the table. One guy was on tilt and tossing around no-look bets. I got a couple hundo from him. Called him once with bottom pair since I knew he hadn't looked at his cards. Love that guy.

RP's Wednesday tourney

Played RP's tourney last night. It goes pretty fast with such a small starting stack, but was still a good time. 15 players. I came in 8th or 9th. Got crippled when Jack T-way hit his kicker on the river...I had AQ, he had KQ. I knew I had him and let him bet all the way. I also knew the K on the river screwed me but I called anyway. I actually got my last 800 chips back up to over 4000 then shoved with A-10 of spades and Jack called me with AJ.

Corrections

It wasn't Jamie that crippled me in the tourney Saturday, it was BC that hit his boat when I hit my straight. Jamie WAS hitting everything early on though.

Also, in the hand with Grayday where he pulled back his bet, I had insta-matched his 2 previous bets, where he I counted out my chips along with him, and shoved them in at the same time he did. I did the same thing on the river, and he pulled his chips back and said he never set them down. In a casino, once you cross that line, it's a bet. Believe me, it was a bet. Just needed some clarification there.

After I called it a dick move, he says "you shouldn't have bet out of turn". Gross and Hip were right there. They agree it was a bet.

Redundant Data

Had to post this here so I can link to it on the CPMG board...

Saturday night

Had a great time Sat night. Gross and Hip's costumes were hilarious, as you can see below.

No love in the tourney. I won a couple tiny pots, then missed on a bunch of others where I had a pair with flush draw, pair with str8 and flush draw, etc. Another, where I was open-ended, gave Jamie a full house when I hit it. Jamie started off hitting everything and had a mountain of chips when our table broke. As usual, he played every hand and lost them all. He played the cash game for about 15 min, lost his hundo and left. Same old story there. He must play 90% of his hands. So anyway, my A9 lost vs Colin's A-10 when I shoved in my last 1000 or so chips.

Started off shitty in the cash game. Got a set of A's cracked by Gross' J2 sooted. Nice catch sir. Guess I should have bet huge on the flop, instead of HALF THE POT!!!

Got $385 deep after borrowing $100 each from TK and Grayday. We changed the clocks back at 2 and played on into the night. There was a ton of money on my table so I felt confident I could get it back. Plus, Grayday had about $1200 in front of him at one point, and he was doing his best to give it away, so I felt compelled to oblige.

Thankfully, he came through in fine fashion, and I chipped back up over the last 3 hours, turning the last $120 I had into $1140, for a $755 profit.

GD just loves to bet, and bet big. Most of the time he has nothing, so everyone started calling his raises. He is also pretty easy to tilt, so I did my best all night. Making him show hands where I knew I had him beat. I even slow rolled him once. Later, I called his every bet with bottom pair (2's!!!!), made him show, and then showed him my sweet pair of deuces. Ship it.

One hand, I had flopped top pr with KJ, called GD's bets to the river, where I hit my kicker for top-2. He counted out $40, extended his hand with the chips to the edge of the pot, and I immediately matched the stack. He pulled his fucking chips back, saying he never let them go, and then checked. I went all-in for the $60 I had in front of me, and he folded. NH Eskimo, you dick. (Not that my slow-rolling him wasn't a dick move, but it is completely legal, albeit pretty rude. And it really accomplished what I was trying to do) He must have forgotten that he had loaned me a hundo, because I simply told him that I was now only giving him $60 back after that move, and certainly would have, if not for the next-to-last hand of the night...

I get QQ and I think I smooth-called GD's $7 preflop bet. Flop is 893, and if I remember right, GD bet and I min-raised, or he checked and I bet. Either way, it was like $45. Turn is a Q. He checked, and I bet $50, wanting to keep him in, and also hoping to look weak so he'll raise. River is a J, and I am a little scared of the 10, but screw it. I bet another $50, and GD shoves. I have $401 left, I think. He has me covered by $61. I call, he shows 88. He cashes $61. I gave him back the full hundo I borrowed. It was after 5, even with the time change.

Everything worked out well. No security issues or anything. I had planned on going to the range before the game but no one wanted to join me, so I met TK, BC, and MEATS at Quaker Steak for some grub.

I'll probably play Nautica this week, or RP's tourney if a seat opens.

Movie night tonight! Come join us for Zombieland. 7:25 at Crocker Park.

Dave's Halloween blowout

Details soon...

Woo hoo!

Congratulations fellow $1-2 players, we are now considered "high stakes" poker players.

BTW, any black firearm should be considered a machine gun!

Wow, everything happens for a reason

A couple of things kept me from going to the Monday night game this week. I had been sick and took the last 2 days off work, and I am still short on bankroll lately. Otherwise, I'd have been there for sure.

I am almost always armed when I play, but would likely have handed those assholes my little 7-shot .380. Tough to compete with multiple perps whilst carrying just a pea shooter.

I was also recently delayed in purchasing a Kel Tec 9mm for CCW, just a few days ago. I'd been thinking, after watching an episode of Cops where a guy took 2 shots from a .380 and ran away, that I should pack a bit more firepower. Either way, it's hard to say what I would have done in that situation.

One thing for sure, I am thankful that none of my friends were hurt. It could have ended very badly.

Monster hands

Pulled off ONLY a $521 win at Motor City the other night, despite getting completely hit with the deck. $1-2 table. I had quad Q's, AA, KK, and QQ many times, big A's all night long, and hit about half a dozen sets. I did get KK and 2 sets of 8's cracked. Still, I was never up more than $600.

This was the wimpiest, most docile table I've ever sat at. I'd raise from the BB with KK, after 5-6 players limped in, and NO ONE called. This happened a lot. A $15 preflop bet had pocket Q's folding and running away like a frightened schoolgirl.

If I'd had these hands at Nautica, it would have been a $1500 win easily. With the quads and my first 2 sets, I netted about $100 total. Unreal. Almost seems like a waste of good cards.

Monday night win, DET tonight!

I have no idea how, but I managed to profit $196 last night. Got some monster hands cracked early, losing with AA twice and a flopped nut straight. I got $600 deep after borrowing 2 buy-ins from LF (yeah, it was payday eve and I only took a single buy-in after losing last week and spending some of my 'roll). I also ran into a set of 4's with my KK, QQ beat my JJ, yada yada yada. You know the drill. Why can't I just win $900 in an hour like the good old days? I did manage to crack AA once with KK when we got it all in preflop.

Luckily, there were plenty of Nautica donks to keep me in the game. Lots of big action. There was one guy that did nothing but bet big, mostly with nothing. I caught him on a river bluff when he bet $35 into a $50 pot. I had KQ high, and knew it was good. Ship it.

I later flopped quad 9's on Uncle Bob. Flop was 997. UB had pocket 7's. Too bad he didn't have me covered. I got him a couple times last night. I actually got down to $55, and managed to chip back up to almost $800 before cashing out. I hit a couple of BIG draws to double up a couple times, which really helped. 2 open enders with flush draws actually hit. I was actually a favorite in 1 of them.

Aside from the lucky hands, I did play well. Calling with KQ high was a thing of beauty. I just knew that guy was stabbing at the pot. He had missed his gutshot.

Off to DET tonight, just for the night. Conference on cloud computing and virtualization tomorrow. Woo-hoo! Crazy!!

I am gonna hit Motor City first, there is usually a decent crowd there. Hopefully it's the same crowd that was there last time I played there.

Tournament cash

Being light on bankroll this week, I decided to play the $75 tourney at Nautica last night, and took 5th place out of about 45, and made $50 profit. I should have finished at least a little higher, but my A9 got crushed by K-10 on my last hand, and there was a short stack that kept hanging on, in an amazing way. This guy was down to $300 in chips in the 2nd round, and still managed to cash. At the final table, he was all-in 9 times and won. Several of them were blind-outs where he was forced to play. Incredible.

I played well, so I guess I cant complain. Next week...Detroit!! I'll be there overnight for work, and plan to hit up Motor City.

Break time

Didn't play at LF's game Monday. I may head downtown tonight.

The good news is, Lorain Charity Poker may get rolling in just a couple of weeks.

Night of the Donkeys

Doug Poker said it just as he was leaving..."sometimes, the donkey gets you" At least he was smart enough to leave.

Ouch...lost a shitload last night. Started out by hitting a few hands and going up a hundo, then a few gamble-calls with flush/straight draws got me 3 buy-ins deep.

Here are a few examples of a few big hands where the donkeys reigned supreme:
tried to stack one guy when I flopped trip 5's with A-5. He had 2-5, I knew I had him kicked...deuce on the river.

Top pair, open-ender...tried to stack another idiot that was trying to give away his stack...he had bottom pair and a gutshot...calls off his stack and hits his 2nd pair. The list goes on.

Just an ugly night. Of course, the suckouts led to a bit of tilt, which cost me even more. Got my stack in with QQ and ended up against AA and KK. K on the flop, then running diamonds to give AA the nut flush, and I got 2nd nuts. Only the guy with KK had me worried. The other moron was calling HUGE bets with shit like J8 offsuit.

Didn't hit a single open-ender or flush draw either.

Just one of those nights.

Nautica delivers

AS usual, a win downtown last night. Was up over $600 when I got top set cracked by the nut straight. I had 77, flop was 5-6-7. Huge pot, lost a ton on that one, then got popped a couple other times, to get $500 deep. Managed the win in the last few hands. Picked up AA in the last 20 min of play and stacked 3 players.

Up $446 on the night. Might be able to get back there tonight.

Colin, Chan, Matt G were there. I guess Monsignor stopped in for a minute. I still have to check out Chan's blog...should be interesting.

Big mistakes

Built up a nice stack at LF's on Monday, only to donk most of it off on a couple hands. I was $500 deep, and walked away without a penny during the last orbit when I hit top pair but was outkicked.

Played great most of the night, then a HUGE stupid mistake calling Brian all the way with just top pair. He had top-2. Only reason I called was because I know be bluffs a lot. I have crushed him many times at Nautica.

Charlie Ha was at least a G deep, and probably got back about half of it.

Live and learn. Listen to the little man!! He was talking to me when I was up $600+.

Hopefully Nautica will hook me with a win tonight.