lol...got this at lunch today.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
LF's Monday night game
Lil Fag is again hosting a $1-2 NL game, this time on Monday nights, which are good for me. It was like a CPMG old-timer reunion. In attendance were Charlie Ha, Uncle Bob, TK, Gross, CHAN!!! and a few players from Nautica as well, including james, the manager, who took my seat when I left. There was also Kai, Monty, and another guy that bluffs like crazy. It was a great mix of players. Gibran was supposed to be there as well as Felix, whom I haven't seen in ages. If he keeps this a regular game, it could turn into a great venue. Game started at 6:30. I like the earlier start time on a weeknight.
LF bought some new chips and tables, and although his place is tiny, we managed to get 2 tables going for a while without being too uncomfortable. He bought a few pizzas and had beverages available.
I started out OK, chipping up about a hundred, and called a hat-raise from Charlie Ha, which is standard for him. He invented the hat raise. I had K-10. Flop is 10-10-K...nice. I check, he bets, I just call. Turn is an A, and I am hoping he hit his gutshot or improved his flush draw. He bets again, and I bump it a bit. I had him covered BTW. I don't remember the river card, but I bet out, being first to act, and Charlie raises. I push, he insta-calls. He's got AA. OUCH!! I reload $130 and move on. NH sir. Charlie is good at disguising his big pairs like that. He got us later with KK too, but I got back a big chunk of that pot later on when I hit another boat with 9-10 that time, and Charlie had trip 9's. I busted Adam (well, I got his last buy-in) when I chased down my flush/straight draw to crack his set of 2's. Adam was first to leave, after about 3 buy-ins.
I hit some decent hands, and got paid off as usual. Didn't really bluff. Picked off LF on a huge pot where I had top pair and the flush draw, and hit the flush. He pushed, trying to represent. Most of that group never believes I have a hand.
I managed to cash $885 for a $555 profit and left at 10:30. Nautica tomorrow for a couple hours. Not looking like I'll make Ken's tourney this weekend. I'll be sure to update my RSVP.
LF bought some new chips and tables, and although his place is tiny, we managed to get 2 tables going for a while without being too uncomfortable. He bought a few pizzas and had beverages available.
I started out OK, chipping up about a hundred, and called a hat-raise from Charlie Ha, which is standard for him. He invented the hat raise. I had K-10. Flop is 10-10-K...nice. I check, he bets, I just call. Turn is an A, and I am hoping he hit his gutshot or improved his flush draw. He bets again, and I bump it a bit. I had him covered BTW. I don't remember the river card, but I bet out, being first to act, and Charlie raises. I push, he insta-calls. He's got AA. OUCH!! I reload $130 and move on. NH sir. Charlie is good at disguising his big pairs like that. He got us later with KK too, but I got back a big chunk of that pot later on when I hit another boat with 9-10 that time, and Charlie had trip 9's. I busted Adam (well, I got his last buy-in) when I chased down my flush/straight draw to crack his set of 2's. Adam was first to leave, after about 3 buy-ins.
I hit some decent hands, and got paid off as usual. Didn't really bluff. Picked off LF on a huge pot where I had top pair and the flush draw, and hit the flush. He pushed, trying to represent. Most of that group never believes I have a hand.
I managed to cash $885 for a $555 profit and left at 10:30. Nautica tomorrow for a couple hours. Not looking like I'll make Ken's tourney this weekend. I'll be sure to update my RSVP.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Saturday tourney win!
Got lucky and chopped for 1st Saturday at Dave's. I attribute this win to catching some good hands at several key points in the game. I also remained pretty patient, despite losing 3/4 of my stack when we were almost down to the final table. Luckily, the deeper stack allowed me to bounce back.
I did make a couple of great reads early on, against Colin, Dave W, and Tim (older Tim...forget his last name) when all I had was a pair. Just one of those gut feelings where the texture of the board screams "he didn't hit anything".
A-8 of clubs kept hitting for me early as well. I had 8's full and quad 8's with it.
I took out Gabe with AA against his QQ when the board flopped J-high. I just smooth-called his preflop raise, and knew I'd get all his chips if he hit the board. His overpair was un-foldable in that spot, and it worked out great for me.
Later, I just played tight and was very careful, but you have to hit some hands to win, and I was lucky to hit some flops. The final table took forever. We chopped for $470 each at 3am. Prowest offered the chop and he had me almost 2-1, so I jumped on it. He'd been hitting some hands all night as well. I used to think he was a tight player...not any more! He made some pretty questionable calls that had everyone wondering. But hey, if you are hitting everything, keep playing everything!
Gave back a hundo in an hour of cash game. Chased a couple of flush draws that didn't hit. No other crazy hands to speak of. Grayday raised every hand of course. All you have to do to counter his $7-8 preflop raise EVERY hand is re-raise him BIG. That'll slow him down.
I did make a couple of great reads early on, against Colin, Dave W, and Tim (older Tim...forget his last name) when all I had was a pair. Just one of those gut feelings where the texture of the board screams "he didn't hit anything".
A-8 of clubs kept hitting for me early as well. I had 8's full and quad 8's with it.
I took out Gabe with AA against his QQ when the board flopped J-high. I just smooth-called his preflop raise, and knew I'd get all his chips if he hit the board. His overpair was un-foldable in that spot, and it worked out great for me.
Later, I just played tight and was very careful, but you have to hit some hands to win, and I was lucky to hit some flops. The final table took forever. We chopped for $470 each at 3am. Prowest offered the chop and he had me almost 2-1, so I jumped on it. He'd been hitting some hands all night as well. I used to think he was a tight player...not any more! He made some pretty questionable calls that had everyone wondering. But hey, if you are hitting everything, keep playing everything!
Gave back a hundo in an hour of cash game. Chased a couple of flush draws that didn't hit. No other crazy hands to speak of. Grayday raised every hand of course. All you have to do to counter his $7-8 preflop raise EVERY hand is re-raise him BIG. That'll slow him down.
Friday, September 25, 2009
Almost forgot...
I forgot to add one of the hands of the night from Nautica the other night.
I raised to $15 preflop with AK suited and got 4-5 callers. This was at the loose table that I had moved to. I flop the flush draw, and 1 other guy leads out. I call, and (I thought) everyone else folded.
The turn is a brick for me, and the bettor leads again with something like $50. He doesn't have much left, maybe another $60 behind, so I just push, figuring I have the nut flush draw and over cards. The guy was a bluffer anyway. I had about $300 and change left in front of me at the time. I pushed out a hundo stack when I made the bet.
So...outta nowhere, the OTHER player, who I didn't even know was still in the hand, and had me covered, asks "you're all-in?" Shit! I didn't see his cards. I glance at his stack and then push the rest of my chips out in front of me and say yes, and start counting...PRAYING he folds. I did the best I could NOT to let him know I had just screwed up in a huge way. He looks at his hand about 5 times, checks his stack a few times, and finally mucks. Whew! So all I have left is the little stack...and HE folds! I pulled in a very nice pot on a total on-the-come bluff, and even showed it, and told the big stack that I didn't even know he was still in the hand. They claim they both had me beat. Not sure about the small that that folded...he had a lot invested.
I'm just glad I got out of that one without going busto...
I raised to $15 preflop with AK suited and got 4-5 callers. This was at the loose table that I had moved to. I flop the flush draw, and 1 other guy leads out. I call, and (I thought) everyone else folded.
The turn is a brick for me, and the bettor leads again with something like $50. He doesn't have much left, maybe another $60 behind, so I just push, figuring I have the nut flush draw and over cards. The guy was a bluffer anyway. I had about $300 and change left in front of me at the time. I pushed out a hundo stack when I made the bet.
So...outta nowhere, the OTHER player, who I didn't even know was still in the hand, and had me covered, asks "you're all-in?" Shit! I didn't see his cards. I glance at his stack and then push the rest of my chips out in front of me and say yes, and start counting...PRAYING he folds. I did the best I could NOT to let him know I had just screwed up in a huge way. He looks at his hand about 5 times, checks his stack a few times, and finally mucks. Whew! So all I have left is the little stack...and HE folds! I pulled in a very nice pot on a total on-the-come bluff, and even showed it, and told the big stack that I didn't even know he was still in the hand. They claim they both had me beat. Not sure about the small that that folded...he had a lot invested.
I'm just glad I got out of that one without going busto...
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Looking up
Got down to Nautica last night, and finished up $385 on the night. It was a serious roller coaster ride all night long.
Got onto a new table just after 6pm, and Matt G and Colin were at my table. This was a tight table. Nary a donkey in sight. After about an hour, Colin was on his 2nd buy-in after getting AA cracked, and I was down about $40. I get JJ and put in a raise, and Colin and 1 other guy call. I forget the flop, but it was like 10-high, with 2 to a flush. The guy on my left is first to act, and shoves his last $35-ish into the pot, and Colin shoves for $128. I tell them I think they are both drawing, and call. Colin had a pair with the flush draw, and I don't know what the other guy had, but my jacks held up. That got me up over a couple hundo. Colin re-bought and I think he finished up a couple hundo. Not sure how Matt did. Hip was there and got no love. I also saw Linda E at the tourney and later at a 1-2 table.
A little while later, I jumped ship to another table with some action players and known donks. It was a dream table for a while, but I couldn't gain any traction. I was immediately back to even, back up a hundred, down 200, yada yada yada. I ended up getting stacked when my 2-pr got crushed by a set of A's. I built it back up to just over even, and sat down at TK's table after mine broke up in the last hour.
The last hour is usually pretty action-heavy, and can be pretty dangerous. I managed to win a few decent hands and made a little profit. Nautica continues to provide...
Got onto a new table just after 6pm, and Matt G and Colin were at my table. This was a tight table. Nary a donkey in sight. After about an hour, Colin was on his 2nd buy-in after getting AA cracked, and I was down about $40. I get JJ and put in a raise, and Colin and 1 other guy call. I forget the flop, but it was like 10-high, with 2 to a flush. The guy on my left is first to act, and shoves his last $35-ish into the pot, and Colin shoves for $128. I tell them I think they are both drawing, and call. Colin had a pair with the flush draw, and I don't know what the other guy had, but my jacks held up. That got me up over a couple hundo. Colin re-bought and I think he finished up a couple hundo. Not sure how Matt did. Hip was there and got no love. I also saw Linda E at the tourney and later at a 1-2 table.
A little while later, I jumped ship to another table with some action players and known donks. It was a dream table for a while, but I couldn't gain any traction. I was immediately back to even, back up a hundred, down 200, yada yada yada. I ended up getting stacked when my 2-pr got crushed by a set of A's. I built it back up to just over even, and sat down at TK's table after mine broke up in the last hour.
The last hour is usually pretty action-heavy, and can be pretty dangerous. I managed to win a few decent hands and made a little profit. Nautica continues to provide...
Monday, September 21, 2009
Awful week
Work sucked last week. I spent all of Thurs/Fri completely failing at what I needed to get done.
Anyway, last Sat, I went back and forth between Nautica and Dave's a couple times, and ended up WAY down on the day. Started at Nautica, down $600. Nothing held up, I made bad decisions, yada yada yada. So I go to Dave's for the tourney and bust out first (I think?)...First off, Dave calls a pot-sized bet on a gutshot when I had flopped 2-pr...nailed it! He later claimed I bet 1/3 of the pot, which gave him odds to call. Ummmm...do the math on that one. I certainly don't play by math, but I know enough not to call a pot-sized bet with a gutshot.
The real cooler was a few hands later when I flop a boat with pocket 8's after calling a standard 3x raise from Mick (?) the foot doctor. Flop is JJ8. He leads out and I raise just over a min-raise to keep him in. Turn is a Q and completes a flush. We both check. He bets about half the pot on the river (which was a brick) and I raised him 5x. He shoves, I call...he has QQ. I cant see anything that may have won me that pot aside from shoving on the flop, which would have been stupid without knowing his cards and the cards coming up. Oh well. I still had a couple grand left and shoved with a 44. Got called by AK. Guess what. Tourneys are total luck-fests!! I guess it just means I am due to have a night where my hands actually hold up. In the last dozen or so tourney's I've played, I've put my $$ in good at least 90% of the time, only to get sucked out.
So...back to Nautica, where I got back $325 of what I lost earlier. I played until midnight, then back to Dave's, where I dumped about $500 and change. I was gambling way too much and playing too many hands, and Hip was at my table, whom I can never beat. He pulls hands out of his ass like David Copperfield. And I mean that with the utmost affection for Hip.
Didn't get to dave's this past weekend, not that it matters, but I did get to Nautica last night. I won almost $300 at 1-2, then decided to play the 7pm tourney ($60 freezeout) after the Browns game. (BTW, fuck the Browns) Matt "L'il Fag" Schultz does a decent TD job. He also lets people that bust out buy a dead stack if there are any available before the first break, which is cool and also pads the pot nicely. I played very tight and then busted with an open-ended SF draw with over cards where I could have quadrupled up. Totally bricked out. So I bought another stack and managed to build it up nicely. I made one MONSTER call against EC (the maniac 2-5 player) where I had pocket 4's and a board of 3-5-6-A with a flush possible. He had K-3. I've never seen that guy show a hand.
Later, I sucked out with 9-9 vs AA, flushing on the river. The flop was J-high and I was certain he missed the flop. He did, lol. I also put him on a big A. I was right about that as well. Oh well, a win for the good guys.
So I played very well all the way down to the final table, and finished 7th out of almost 50. They paid 6 spots. Ouch. I had a mid-stack and shoved with KQ suited and got called by QQ. Oops. One thing for sure, it's a fast tourney. Blinds are 20 min and you only start with 3500. I just wanted to sharpen my skills. I havent placed in a tourney since Dave's a long time ago, although that's really all I play. Used to be, ALL I played were tourneys, until I learned I could cash a lot more often and win a lot more money playing cash.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Upcoming weekend
Looking forward to a great weekend. Lots of poker tomorrow and I'm going to the Browns game on Sunday.
Almost forgot to post these pics from the last Browns game...
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Nautica Tues
Up $950 tonight...details asap
My post from the CPMG board: There were some pretty bad players sitting down all night. I folded the best hand numerous times after donks re-raised with middle pair. Saw a bet, raise, re-raise, and 2 all-ins. The best hand was top-2. The other hands were top-top and bottom-2, on an ugly board. Wow.
I also saw pocket A's misplayed and cracked several times.
Caveman sat down around 9:30, and I immediately stacked him. I flopped the nuts (top set) with 10-10, he had a 10 as well. He can't lay down a single pair. I bet $20, got a couple callers, and he made it $120. I let him do the rest of the betting.
Stacked the "table captain" also. This idiot was trying to push everyone around, barking orders like he owned the place. He reached for chips off my stack to put in my BB, and I jumped all over him for that. He screwed up several side pots and couldn't do math worth a damn.
I was actually $500 deep and made a nice comeback. I played until the end of the night, about 6 hrs total, and left at my high point.
My post from the CPMG board: There were some pretty bad players sitting down all night. I folded the best hand numerous times after donks re-raised with middle pair. Saw a bet, raise, re-raise, and 2 all-ins. The best hand was top-2. The other hands were top-top and bottom-2, on an ugly board. Wow.
I also saw pocket A's misplayed and cracked several times.
Caveman sat down around 9:30, and I immediately stacked him. I flopped the nuts (top set) with 10-10, he had a 10 as well. He can't lay down a single pair. I bet $20, got a couple callers, and he made it $120. I let him do the rest of the betting.
Stacked the "table captain" also. This idiot was trying to push everyone around, barking orders like he owned the place. He reached for chips off my stack to put in my BB, and I jumped all over him for that. He screwed up several side pots and couldn't do math worth a damn.
I was actually $500 deep and made a nice comeback. I played until the end of the night, about 6 hrs total, and left at my high point.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Wednesday night
Got to the gun range with my brother. Blasted through a couple boxes of .40 SW with my XD-40. Great gun. Very similar to a Glock, but a better grip angle, and it looks prettier. Got it in a private sale for $350, which is a great price. I've added a light to it and it replaced my Taurus PT-99 as the bedside home defense weapon. Nothing wrong with the Taurus, I just like the .40 for "just in case". It has a lot more pop than the 9mm.
Stopped by Dave's game since I will not be able to make it downtown or St Rocco's over the weekend. (maybe Monday for a little while) Ended up eking out a $40 profit. Was stuck for over $300 until the last round where I flopped 2-pair on a K-7-5 board with 2 spades. I had 5-7. Riegler pushed his last $72 into the pot, I went over the top with $139, and Matt G called. Jeff had K-10, and Matt had top pair with the flush draw. 7 on the turn sealed it up for me and I tripled up. I won another hand to scrape out a little profit. I will take it. Rough night overall. Got 2 straights beat by flushes, one of which was a bad call...I knew he had it. Rob M couldn't miss and cashed $950+. Everyone kept paying him off. I dont think he showed a bluff at all. Grayday was on tilt for a couple hours.
Dave/Mailman got all new chips for the new season. I like the cash chips, and the tourney chips are cool except maybe the pink $1000 chips. One thing for sure, you can tell the difference between all of them.
Camping this weekend! Me. Alesha, and Pup. Still haven't figured out where we're going yet...Mosquito Lake or somewhere closer to Columbus. We plan on visiting Alesha's family down that way as well.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
The weekend
Wanted to go to the fair Fri night but it was raining pretty bad. Instead, me and Alesha went to Udupi Cafe in Parma. Great Indian food.
Got to the fair on Sat afternoon...had a nice time. Hung out with the animals. Ate junk food. The usual.
Dumped a couple buy-ins Saturday at Nautica. 1 bad call and 1 good bluff with 2 overcards on the board, this guy couldn't fold JJ.
Went to the Browns game Sat night, had a great time. The Browns actually beat the Titans. Wow. We'll see.
Labor Day coming up...look like we're going camping. Great time of year to go.
Got to the fair on Sat afternoon...had a nice time. Hung out with the animals. Ate junk food. The usual.
Dumped a couple buy-ins Saturday at Nautica. 1 bad call and 1 good bluff with 2 overcards on the board, this guy couldn't fold JJ.
Went to the Browns game Sat night, had a great time. The Browns actually beat the Titans. Wow. We'll see.
Labor Day coming up...look like we're going camping. Great time of year to go.
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