Movies and poker

Met MEATS, Slacks, Hip, and my brother for burgers at Blakes, then went to see Shutter Island. MEATS saw Edge of Darkness by himself, Slacks didn't go to a movie, and Roland joined us for just the movie. Hip wanted to see Cop Out, but it's not in theaters yet.

Decent movie, but not fantastic. I had the plot figured beforehand, so no huge surprises. Visually very cool. Nothing about it creeped me out though. Very little suspense.

Got out around 10 and decided to catch some cards at Gemini. Sat down at a table with Paoli, Sadd, and Roland, and won $540 in about an hour and was home by midnight. Very little of it was from CPMG members. The rest of the table was a bunch of donks. One example...I called $8 from the button with Q9 suited and flopped the nut straight. 2 - $100+ all-ins ahead of me!! The $8 raiser had KK and the other caller had KJ for top pr. Played the players and caught a few hands, then cashed while I was ahead. I was tired anyway. My little man said to stick around, but with Sadd and Paoli there, some huge swings were certainly possible.

I am thinking that stopping in later in the evenings is a good idea. The place was PACKED, and although there were some regulars, there were still plenty of fish.

Poker weekend

Stopped by Gemini for a short while on Sat while out and about, and finished down $19. I was up almost $200, then got AA busted, followed by a full house cracked, which put me down almost $300. OUCH! Managed to get AA then KK back to back to recoup and then got the hell outta there. They pulled me from a total gravy table to a MUCH better table full of seasoned players, so I took the small loss and ran. I would love to have stayed at that table. It was donk city.

Managed to get to Dave's as well. Again, no love in the tourney. A couple hands to note...Dave W can't resist calling a 5X raise with 9-10 suited to catch a pair against my AK. Then, after folding for 2 hours, I have about 8 BB left, and shove with A2 suited, and DP, who was doing his best to give away all his chips (and eventually succeeded in fine fashion, despite having a monster stack), calls with 9-7 suited, catching a pair. The MEATS took it down. NH sir, you are my hero! I need to get back up into the top 10, as I predicted. I am still ahead of Tina in our $100 finish-higher bet, despite barely playing this year.

Of course, there is always the cash game. Played decently and ended up $130 on the plus side.

Gemini

Up almost $300 last night. Played until 2. Was ready to leave, up $200 at 11pm then got whacked and was down to my last hundo. Roland nailed me. I had A-10 hearts, flopped the nut flush draw and a pr of 10's. Turned 2-pr, but it gave Roland Broadway and I missed all those flush and full house outs.

Managed to get it all back plus a bit more. Played really well, probably the best I've played in a while.

Weekend fun

Dumped $350 at Gemini in a couple hours on Saturday afternoon. 1 bad call cost me a ton. I had top-top and called down one of the degens, figuring him for nothing. He had nothing until the river gave him a straight.

Woooo!

This is my 250th post

...I think.

Recap of the past 5 days

Fri 1/29 - made chili
Sat 1/30 - won first place for chili.
Sun 1/31 - up $397 at Gemini Columbus
Tues 2/2 - up $475 at Gemini Columbus

Got through about half the field in the deeper stack at Dave's (58 people...wow) but folded myself out of contention down the stretch. No love. Lost 3 - $100 buy-ins in the cash game. I switched tables because Jamie had a monster stack, but he was getting some hands. I paid him off on a big pot where I had AQ and he had KK, and flop was Q high. He even rivered a K. I gave Chan my last hundo when his A had mine outkicked. I showed him the A, thinking he didn't have one. I am 0-3 when showing Chan cards, so that is not going to happen again.

Gemini in C-bus isn't nearly as nice and new as the Berea location, but their hours rock. They are open just about 24-7 and had been running a few days straight when I was there. The first night I made my $400 in about an hour off a couple Russians. I got JJ on my 3rd hand and he doubled up my $150 buy-in at the $1-3 (yes 1-3) table. I got his brother on a couple small pots and the first guy again later when I flopped a flush against his top-2.

Tuesday night was a tough table. There was a $2-5 Nautica regular there (little guy, looks like Rod Stewart, always wears a funny hat and girlie sunglasses) and he was sitting on about $4500, and pushing it around. Didn't mess with him much. Another Asian guy bought in for $2000 and I was sandwiched in between, and left shortly after that. Anyway, I managed to chip up about $400, lost it all back after this old fat lady called $25 preflop with 10-2 suited and flopped top pr vs my JJ. What is it with women in their 50's/60's and 2-pr? They seem to play any big/little suited hands and always hit 2-pr on me. It's either that or they play every A. I got a big chunk back from her later though after she missed the same straight I was chasing, but i had also hit a pr on the flop. I scraped it all back to a $475 profit and left at 4:30 am.

The 2nd session was certainly the best, not only because I cashed higher but I played well. I made a couple decent moves and laid down decent hands a couple times when I knew I was no good. I also managed to get up when my little man told me to. As soon as the Asian dude bought in for $2k, and started getting aggressive, I knew it was time to go.

...oh, and another cool thing about the C-bus Gemini...they have free wi-fi, and an ATM. There was also a coffee machine, which I didn't see at Berea.

I was down there for the annual education tech conference. Fell off the diet for a few days as you can see. Mon night went out with my coworkers for dinner, then Tues I met a couple friends from there in town. My friend's former frat bro is the GM at Hyde Park downtown C-bus, and he showed us some serious hospitality. He must have brought us about a hundred bucks worth of food, including the 10" high carrot cake. The chocolate cake was just as big and weighed 3 lbs. Nuts. Needless to say, I was a little over on the calorie count the last couple days.

We also went to see The Road, which is not playing in the Cleveland area. Pretty good movie. Very bleak and grim. Feel good movie of the year.