Tourney win and cash game loss

First place in Dave's Sat night tourney! The usual combination of tight/aggressive play and a sprinkling of good luck. Then I sat down and played some $1/1 HA, and immediately got up almost $200, until Chan pushed on me with his draw and I had hit top 2 with AQ. He had a flush draw and gutshot, and hit the flush. I then lost a big hand where I thought I had a straight but misread my cards. Oops. Ended up losing $100 playing cash, so I still came out ahead, but once again I stayed too late.

Meats and our local pro player Hiphop were there. Meats got sucked out. He almost certainly would have cashed for the third week straight if he hadn't.

OK, sorry for the lack of posts

So Saturday, I took some chili out to Amherst and watched the Buckeyes game with some friends at the hunt club my friend belongs to. The weather was too ugly to shoot a round of skeet, so we just hung out and talked about old times.

Went to Dave's in the evening and jumped on the roller coaster. Bottom line...an $8 loss for the night. I only had $55 for the cash game (after finishing 10th or 11th in the tourney. no cards) and that immediately went bye-bye. So I borrowed $100 from Dave and built it up to over $300, then lost about $100 calling down Dave who hit his kicker with some kinda crap. I tilted a bit and gave some more away after that. I just cant figure out how I am playing differently there than at a $1-2 or 2-5 game. I do think I need to be a bit more aggressive and raise more often when someone bets out and I have what I think is a better hand. I also should have quit when I was ahead too. Live and learn. Or not.

Spent a lot of Sunday downloading movies online, and pirating a few I had rented via Netflix. Packed up a laptop I bought on Craigslist for $40 from a pawn shop and sold on eBay for $160. Nice little profit. There are a couple of others I am looking at as well that I may resell. Pays for poker.

Weekend

I missed Dave's on Saturday, dammit. I guess the cash game was juicy. Meats even showed for the tourney from what I hear.

Damn...busy at work, I'll have to post more later.

The election is finally over

The people have spoken. Now if everyone will just STFU, maybe we can get back to playing cards and having a good time.

Somewhere out there, Rush is popping an oxy tablet, grumbling about socialism.

-Ron Paul in 2012!!!!

Happy Election Day

Thankfully it's finally over. Maybe everyone on the message board will STFU about politics.

Ron Paul in 2012!!!!!

Recent purchase

Got a used Beretta 96D Centurion .40 for $200 last week. It's the black one next to my Taurus PT-99. I'm going to order some rubber grips for it this week. I have shot it once, and it shoots like a Beretta, nice and smooth. It has a spurless hammer and it's double action-only, (no safety) so the trigger pull is a little long, but not too stiff. It has some wear and tear but for $200 it's a steal. I already have a standing offer of $350 for it. I'll take it out to the range this weekend with Slacks.

Cash game success

Finally a win at Dave's cash game. No love in the tourney. Dennis called a monster raise preflop with 7-9 sooted and caught a gutshot/flush draw. No way he's laying that down. Of course he hit it, he was hitting everything Saturday night. (and he thinks he's just good)

Hacker was back for a 2nd week. I think he busted in the HA game, which turned out to be a "let's put all our money in and see who wins" type of game. I dont get this. The Omaha players think they are so high and mighty like Omaha is a finesse game. WTF? Data refuses to play NLHE, yet sits down in a pot limit game with the likes of Theo and Big Timmy. Whatever.

Anyway, had a pretty good cash game. Called EVERY bet Jamie made on the river if I was still in the hand, and came up the winner about 75% of the time. He's pretty awful, but he'll rebuy 3 or 4 times. One thing I need to do is start raising Dave W early in the hand if I think my hand is good. It usually is if I have that gut feeling, but he seems to catch his money card on the turn/river every time.

So, I was up about $400 when I get big slick and put in a raise. Father Time and 1 other player call. Flop is A Q 10. Father Time bets, I call, the other player folds. Turn is the J, giving me the nuts. No flush possible yet. Joe, bets and I just call again. I had put him on KQ, so I figure we're chopping after I misplay the hand. River pairs the Q, and Joe pushes the last of his chips in. I call, saying "OK, let's chop it up", a little pissed at myself. Joe shows Q 10...ugh. Cost me over a hundo. I did manage to get some back. We played until what was technically 5 am because of the time change. Good times.

Dave thinks he's gonna have a cash game this week sometime. I'll give it a shot, mostly because it's so close to home.

BTW... Fuck the Browns