No poker this week

Looks like I cant make it out to play this week with the weather and taking care of my dad/grandfather. SOON!!!

See you on the felt. In the meantime, enjoy this sweet video

The donkeys that roared

Sorry, been pretty busy lately. My dad was in the hospital and had open heart surgery the day before Thanksgiving, and we almost lost him. His blood refused to clot after the procedure and they pumped a bunch of blood into him. They managed to get him stabilized after a few tense hours.

Anyway, Tues before the holiday I went to Nautica and lost 4 freaking buy-ins. Riegler was at my table and I know he told the stories of these 2 lucky morons, so I am not going into it now, I don't have much time. Crazy night, and the 1 idiot left with nothing after building a $1600+ chip stack, a couple times! Ugh...

Then, Saturday, Jamie doesn't know how to lay down AJ high against my pocket 6's, and catches on the river. He is so bad. Hopefully he will never quit playing, because he is making no effort to improve. Lost a total of $250 or so Sat night. Ugh...gotta turn this around. Tomorrow.

The donkeys have to win eventually

Played great poker all night, hovering around even with $400 on the table. No cards most of the night. At 11:00, I got AA busted by 99. One guy makes it $20 preflop, Mr Pocket 9's makes it $100, I push for almost $400. Mr 9's claims he cant fold now and he's sure he's beat, and calls off his last $160-ish. You guessed it.

A few hands later, the rest of my stack went in when I hit top-2 with my AK. I shoved post-flop in the dark after my idiot opponent said he wasn't going anywhere (with his 3-card straight and 3-card flush). Runner...Runner...Flush. NH idiot. This guy is there spewing chips all the time, so no biggie. I'll get it back.

Lost 2-buy-ins.

Weekend update

Stopped by Nautica briefly on Friday while I had a minute, and won $267 in about a half hour. My AA held up against KK.

I later stopped by Colin's game and won $12 in about a half hour.

Another win at Dave's

Cashed $700 for a $500 profit last night. I was actually over $900 at one point but gambled a bit in the last half hour or so.

Started off stacking Dave with Q4 of spades when he made it $4 preflop, and I was in the blinds. Flopped 2-pr to crack his AA. I cracked Danny C's AA later with Q9, hitting 2-pr on the river.

Busted Grayday a couple times, as always. Got him with a 7-high flush after I flopped a pair, and he bet out on the river with 4 spades on the board. I knew he was spadeless. Correct! Later, I re-raised him preflop with pocket 10's. Rob M bets the 9-8-2 board ($20), GD calls, and I make it $100. Rob folds, GD shoves for almost $300 more. I finally call, and he shows a flush draw. No good. He wasn't happy. There was a long stretch there where he only showed me good hands, and lately it's been nothing but bluffs, so until he shows me some hands, he's getting called. Actually, if he had raised Rob's initial $20 bet instead of calling, I probably would have laid it down. I almost folded anyway.

I showed Rob a couple of sweet bluffs to take a couple nice pots. He had me beat each time but I had a decent draw. He cashed big. He hit everything last night. He made a couple of HUGE calls with crap like bottom pair (he had 8-2!!!!!), and then hit runner-runner boat against Colin. He must have had a half dozen boats. In the 8-2 hand, he called something like $30 on the flop with just a 2 and an 8 kicker.

Me and Hip got into a sweet hand. I have QQ, and Hip is on my right. He makes it $12 preflop and I toss $20 on top of that. Flop is AQ-10. Don't remember the flop betting, but we got it all in right then and there. I knew he didn't have AA, so I said "please just dont show me KJ", and he shows AQ. Whew, crushed!...Turn...A. NH sir. Hip forgot to slow-roll me, which would have been an awesome move. Nice 2-outer donkey. :)

So I seem to be stringing together some decent wins lately. Hopefully I can keep it rolling.

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.