Dino's didn't last too long this week - got QQ cracked by J-2 early on for half my chips from a donkey-luckbox-calling station who really didn't understand basics of poker other than "these are my cards". Oh well - I paid off a $1 bounty on PJ's ass when he busted out 4 hands after me, and then Sweeney (3rd place to date) was taken out early. Jay (4th) made final 8 - if he didn't win, I still have a big lead in points going into the final week next week.
Played in the case game, lost $4 - was pretty much totally bored out of my mind until some time passed, then I was ready to go home.
Ahhhh...ran Superbook balance up to over $600 yesterday via casino play and 3 straight cashes in the $20 SnGs, so I guess I'm running decently online :-)
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Meet the New Boss - Same as the Old Boss...
So the normal Monday night game was moved to Tuesday night because us drunks wanted to go out on St. Patty's Day, so here's a synopsis of the events from last night.
Started out with (going left to right) Ronnie, Andy, Mike, Richard, Stevo, me at our table - 24 to start after a few late arrivals come. Win a couple of pots early on then totally misplay the following hand:
10-20 level, get 7-7 - I like to raise this hand 1/2 the time, the other half of the time limp in...but generally play "no set, no bet" early on with these hands. Limped in on the button with this hand. 5 of us in pot. Flop 7-2-9 rainbow, checked around (wanted to see a bet here, but oh well) - 2 on the turn gives me a boat. I bet out 75 after it's checked around, and get 2 quick callers here. 9 on the river gives me that sickening feeling that I'm beat - so much for slow-playing a monster here...and when Mike and Dick (2 of tightest players on table) both bet out 150 after the river, I know my 7's over is no good.
I somehow only lose 300 chips with JJ after a preflop raise and 5 unders hit the board...Mike plays calling station holding KK to win the hand, but could have really put a dent in my chipstack if he played it right.
We get up to 25/50 level, and after taking the blinds one hand and then winning 2 decent pots in a row when both 7-2 and K-8 hits 2 pair on the flop, with about 2800 chips I get moved over to another table. PJ (point leader by 1) decides to put a $1 bounty on me so he can keep his chip lead, which I find pretty funny.
Adam (new guy), some fairly new guy, Donald and Scott are at this table now. Lose about 1/2 my stack trying position raises with garbage and getting reraised by the 2 new guys holding actual hands...gettin' frustrated here by this point.
Get my suckout of the year on a K-Q-4 board with K-J when I check-raise one of the guys all-in, and my beautiful read of him holding a Queen was just a bit off...A-K, eesh! Ace on the turn gives him 2 pair, but a miracle 10 hits my straight and knocks dude out (I would have been crippled if I lose this hand).
1st big move of the night, and one that earned me a lot of respect from Adam (agressive, yet smart player - good at reading people) for the rest of the night was jamming over the top of him on a board of 8-8-8 with A-2 after his initial bet of 1500...big post-flop bets were bluffs or semi-bluffs (at best), and I felt good about my A-2 being the best hand. Kinda funny when dude was staring at me to see if I was bluffing or not, and I told him to stop posturing and just fold, because "we all know you would have already called if you didn't have rags in your hand"...got a smile and a fold out after that comment. Later on, Adam tells me that this play (and one other post-flop play) really fukked up the reads he thought he had on me - and that he (as a first-time player) was not surprised that I won twice in the last 2 months - I took that as a major compliment.
We get to the final table, and I'm down to about 2600 in chips, with blinds at 300-600. Fold the first couple of hands, then take the blinds 2 hands in a row after I jam with A-10 and A-J. Blinds go to 400-800 when hit me, and nothing for the next orbit. Jam with K-5 in next orbit on my SB against Adam's Q-high, K hits on flop, and I double up to about 3900. Next hand I get KK on the button, and Sweeney (the Artist formerly known as Soulpatch Guy) calls me down with 6-6, Kings hold, and we're in business again.
PJ goes out in 6th when he decides to jam 8-8 over my SFPR holding 10-10, no help, and he gives me his $1 for knocking him out - good fun. Up to about 12K now. Scott, Harry and Adam soon go, and Sweeney and I get to heads-up...I'm down about 3-1 at this point.
Trade pots for a few hands, then double up when he runs K-Q into my 9-9. Lose 1/2 of my stack, then check-raise him with snow on a 3-spade board after the river get most of those chips back. Big hand of the tourney comes soon after, when I overbet the pot on a K-Q-7-6 board hold in Q-8, and Sweeney calls with J-10 - no straight made for him, and now I have a close to 2-1 chip lead. I think he misread my hand, thinking his draw was better than mine...at least with 2 overs.
Couple of hands later, Sweeney jams with A-K, I call with pocket 3's, no paint, no aces, and I get my 3rd win of the season. $50 gift cert to the bar means I have almost $80 to spend there - and now in first place by 5 points with 2 weeks to go. I want that season point lead for that bonus prize, baby!
Started out with (going left to right) Ronnie, Andy, Mike, Richard, Stevo, me at our table - 24 to start after a few late arrivals come. Win a couple of pots early on then totally misplay the following hand:
10-20 level, get 7-7 - I like to raise this hand 1/2 the time, the other half of the time limp in...but generally play "no set, no bet" early on with these hands. Limped in on the button with this hand. 5 of us in pot. Flop 7-2-9 rainbow, checked around (wanted to see a bet here, but oh well) - 2 on the turn gives me a boat. I bet out 75 after it's checked around, and get 2 quick callers here. 9 on the river gives me that sickening feeling that I'm beat - so much for slow-playing a monster here...and when Mike and Dick (2 of tightest players on table) both bet out 150 after the river, I know my 7's over is no good.
I somehow only lose 300 chips with JJ after a preflop raise and 5 unders hit the board...Mike plays calling station holding KK to win the hand, but could have really put a dent in my chipstack if he played it right.
We get up to 25/50 level, and after taking the blinds one hand and then winning 2 decent pots in a row when both 7-2 and K-8 hits 2 pair on the flop, with about 2800 chips I get moved over to another table. PJ (point leader by 1) decides to put a $1 bounty on me so he can keep his chip lead, which I find pretty funny.
Adam (new guy), some fairly new guy, Donald and Scott are at this table now. Lose about 1/2 my stack trying position raises with garbage and getting reraised by the 2 new guys holding actual hands...gettin' frustrated here by this point.
Get my suckout of the year on a K-Q-4 board with K-J when I check-raise one of the guys all-in, and my beautiful read of him holding a Queen was just a bit off...A-K, eesh! Ace on the turn gives him 2 pair, but a miracle 10 hits my straight and knocks dude out (I would have been crippled if I lose this hand).
1st big move of the night, and one that earned me a lot of respect from Adam (agressive, yet smart player - good at reading people) for the rest of the night was jamming over the top of him on a board of 8-8-8 with A-2 after his initial bet of 1500...big post-flop bets were bluffs or semi-bluffs (at best), and I felt good about my A-2 being the best hand. Kinda funny when dude was staring at me to see if I was bluffing or not, and I told him to stop posturing and just fold, because "we all know you would have already called if you didn't have rags in your hand"...got a smile and a fold out after that comment. Later on, Adam tells me that this play (and one other post-flop play) really fukked up the reads he thought he had on me - and that he (as a first-time player) was not surprised that I won twice in the last 2 months - I took that as a major compliment.
We get to the final table, and I'm down to about 2600 in chips, with blinds at 300-600. Fold the first couple of hands, then take the blinds 2 hands in a row after I jam with A-10 and A-J. Blinds go to 400-800 when hit me, and nothing for the next orbit. Jam with K-5 in next orbit on my SB against Adam's Q-high, K hits on flop, and I double up to about 3900. Next hand I get KK on the button, and Sweeney (the Artist formerly known as Soulpatch Guy) calls me down with 6-6, Kings hold, and we're in business again.
PJ goes out in 6th when he decides to jam 8-8 over my SFPR holding 10-10, no help, and he gives me his $1 for knocking him out - good fun. Up to about 12K now. Scott, Harry and Adam soon go, and Sweeney and I get to heads-up...I'm down about 3-1 at this point.
Trade pots for a few hands, then double up when he runs K-Q into my 9-9. Lose 1/2 of my stack, then check-raise him with snow on a 3-spade board after the river get most of those chips back. Big hand of the tourney comes soon after, when I overbet the pot on a K-Q-7-6 board hold in Q-8, and Sweeney calls with J-10 - no straight made for him, and now I have a close to 2-1 chip lead. I think he misread my hand, thinking his draw was better than mine...at least with 2 overs.
Couple of hands later, Sweeney jams with A-K, I call with pocket 3's, no paint, no aces, and I get my 3rd win of the season. $50 gift cert to the bar means I have almost $80 to spend there - and now in first place by 5 points with 2 weeks to go. I want that season point lead for that bonus prize, baby!
Interesting turn of events
So last week after finishing 5th and finding out that the Dino's game was being moved to Tuesday this week, I initially said that I wasn't going. Kelley and the kids were at the dentist's office, and Kelley wasn't feeling too special (residual from St. Patty's Day, perhaps?), so I called Harry up and headed up to Dino's. Found out I was 1 point behind PJ for overall point lead this year - then laughed when PJ offered a stinkin' $1 on my head as a bounty once we were down to 18 players...nice!
I won the darn thing, thanks to one HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE runner-runner suckout, a good run of cards early at the final table, and winning a couple of races at the end over Sweeney (SoulPatch Guy) to take it down. Few more details later on.
I won the darn thing, thanks to one HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE runner-runner suckout, a good run of cards early at the final table, and winning a couple of races at the end over Sweeney (SoulPatch Guy) to take it down. Few more details later on.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Dino's is mine, biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch!
So yesterday I pick up Harry to head to our weekly card game over at Dino's. Harry is greatly amused when I tell him about the drunken married bitch that propositioned me to go back to her room while her husband "loses his ass" at the poker tables. We get our standard sliders, and John the bartender makes the crack that I'll probably win this week, since my gift certificate is running out.
I sit down with Gary, Dick, Mike, and some guy who's dating the cute girl in the game (can't remember his name - decent enough fellow, however)...ah, picking up blinds and stealing pots might work, but big pots won't happen. Ran my 1800 chips up to 3800 after knocking out the younger guy who's name I can't remember, then our table broke up.
First hand at new table, I bust out both Soulpatch Guy's brother and Wine-Drinker Ron, and we're already down to 3. New player comes in - I take a couple of small pots, then I cripple Cheryl when she bet out 2/3 of her stack on the river, and quickly called with a measely pocket pair of 3's - on a board of J-7-7-9-4...she loves to bet and play the draws, and it was an easy call. She busted out a couple of hands later to my A-2, much to Scott's admiration.
Final table time - 2nd hand in I bust Gary with the monsterous 3-4 soooooted after I hit a wheel on the flop. Scott is pissed to laydown J-J, and can't get over the 3-4 call...but with 3500 in the pot, and only 800 to call his little UTG min-raise of 800, not sure why he thought I should have folded. Dick is next to bust out when my A-6 holds up against his A-4.
Stevo goes out next when Scott runs A-A over him - Moshman didn't quite work that time, unfortunately. Scott cripples Vic when his 5-5 beats his A-J, then I take Vic out with A-K over A-4 the next hand.
I get Nicole out a few hands later (down to 6 now) when my A-9 pwns the J-10. Fred takes care of PJ and Ronnie in a matter of couple of hands, and we have a ballgame here. Fred and Scott get in their inevitable tangle, and Scott takes Fred out to get to HU with me up 3-1.
Ridiculous sequence of hands when we get to HU, and it doesn't last long. 2nd hand in I get 8-8. SPFR to 3000 (blinds at max of 500/1000 now), Scott calls - I hit set of 8's on flop, check to Scott, who immediately puts me all-in with his top pair-weak kicker. Easy call here, now I have chip-lead once his hand doesn't suck out.
2 hands later, look down and see 8-8 again. Internally, I chuckle before making my SPFR to 3000, Scott calls. Flop is 8-9-5 (2 clubs), this time I bet out 2/3 pot, he pushes all-in, I tell him he ain't gonna believe what I have again, and flip over my 8-8 for another set! Scott has K-9 clubs, so I'm not out of the woods yet. A 5 on turn gets me boat, I manage dodge the one out to make a straight flush, and I win for the 2nd time this season.
We goin' to Sizzzzzzler!
I sit down with Gary, Dick, Mike, and some guy who's dating the cute girl in the game (can't remember his name - decent enough fellow, however)...ah, picking up blinds and stealing pots might work, but big pots won't happen. Ran my 1800 chips up to 3800 after knocking out the younger guy who's name I can't remember, then our table broke up.
First hand at new table, I bust out both Soulpatch Guy's brother and Wine-Drinker Ron, and we're already down to 3. New player comes in - I take a couple of small pots, then I cripple Cheryl when she bet out 2/3 of her stack on the river, and quickly called with a measely pocket pair of 3's - on a board of J-7-7-9-4...she loves to bet and play the draws, and it was an easy call. She busted out a couple of hands later to my A-2, much to Scott's admiration.
Final table time - 2nd hand in I bust Gary with the monsterous 3-4 soooooted after I hit a wheel on the flop. Scott is pissed to laydown J-J, and can't get over the 3-4 call...but with 3500 in the pot, and only 800 to call his little UTG min-raise of 800, not sure why he thought I should have folded. Dick is next to bust out when my A-6 holds up against his A-4.
Stevo goes out next when Scott runs A-A over him - Moshman didn't quite work that time, unfortunately. Scott cripples Vic when his 5-5 beats his A-J, then I take Vic out with A-K over A-4 the next hand.
I get Nicole out a few hands later (down to 6 now) when my A-9 pwns the J-10. Fred takes care of PJ and Ronnie in a matter of couple of hands, and we have a ballgame here. Fred and Scott get in their inevitable tangle, and Scott takes Fred out to get to HU with me up 3-1.
Ridiculous sequence of hands when we get to HU, and it doesn't last long. 2nd hand in I get 8-8. SPFR to 3000 (blinds at max of 500/1000 now), Scott calls - I hit set of 8's on flop, check to Scott, who immediately puts me all-in with his top pair-weak kicker. Easy call here, now I have chip-lead once his hand doesn't suck out.
2 hands later, look down and see 8-8 again. Internally, I chuckle before making my SPFR to 3000, Scott calls. Flop is 8-9-5 (2 clubs), this time I bet out 2/3 pot, he pushes all-in, I tell him he ain't gonna believe what I have again, and flip over my 8-8 for another set! Scott has K-9 clubs, so I'm not out of the woods yet. A 5 on turn gets me boat, I manage dodge the one out to make a straight flush, and I win for the 2nd time this season.
We goin' to Sizzzzzzler!
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