10/11/08:
The new layout to this page totally killed the sexy table format I had before. Anyways. I was playing 2/3 NL. Now California cardrooms (”casinos”) have this weird system where at each game, there are fixed buy-ins. For example, the 1/2 NL, you have to buy in for $40, and for 2/3 NL, you have to buy in for $100.
I sat down, and went through six garbage hands. Then I picked up 5c5d at the cutoff spot. There were 4 limpers, so I raised to 25. UTG called and two other limpers called. So the pot is about 100. Flop was 2c 4h 6s. Pretty dead. The SB leads out, putting in 25. The limpers fold; I’m sitting there thinking “what the fuck can he have?” I don’t think he’d have two pair; no way he’d call a preflop raise with that shit. Maybe he has an overpair? Then again, UTG limped under the gun, so I didn’t think he had anything of the sort. So what do I do? I shove for about 70 more. He calls! And flips over… A6. Wow. Seriously? Anyways, turn is Kd, and then, I spike 3d on the river for the straight.
I let a few more orbits of garbage hands go. And then I pick up AsTs under the gun. I thought about throwing it away, but instead, I raise to 12. Dealer calls and SB calls. Pot’s about 35. Flop is Tc 8d 7s. SB checks. I bet 20, slightly over half-pot. Dealer shoves for 30 more, and the SB shoves for 70 total. I have about 350 left, and I’m curious. Well, I guess I knew I was beat, and I don’t know what I was thinking, but I called. Dealer had J9 for the nut straight, and SB had pocket eights. Haha. So fucked. Turn was Ac and the river was 7d, giving the SB the winning hand, eights full of sevens.
After a few bluffs and calling the bluffs, my stack was at about 500. It was my last orbit and last hand, and I pick up Ac2c UTG. I raise to 10. Dealer called, and everyone else folded. Flop was 5s 7d 2c. I bet 15 and he called. Turn was 5d. I bet 30 and he called. I give up my hand; river is 3h and I check. He bets 120, and I fold. I’m just curious as to what he had. High pair? Sevens? Deuces? What was he calling me down with?
+340
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10/14/08:
Nothing to say really. I spent the first ~60 hands throwing away shit. I got K4 twelve times and Q2 seven times. It was truly amazing. First playable hand I get is AsTd UTG. I raise to 12. The guy after me (asshole #1) re-raises me to 24, and the SB (asshole #2) re-raises to 75. Like… what the fuck, guys. I throw the hand away, and the two assholes duke it out. Queens (asshole #2) against Eights (asshole #1), and asshole #1 spikes an eight on the turn for a set. Jackasses.
After two more orbits of garbage, I get TsTc UTG. I raise to 10. Asshole #1 re-raises to 30, and the SB (asshole #3) re-raises to 70. I have ~40 left, and I’m sick of getting shit and these two assholes, so I throw in the rest of my chips. So we’re all all-in. Asshole #1 has nines, and asshole #3 has kings. Bricks all around, and I lose. =[
-100
Probably one of the worst (not monetary but disappointing) sessions.
Hand 1: whatever. I play the same because a lot of people do weird donkbets like this on the flop with weak holdings that will fold to a raise. Calling is bad sinmce you don’t know where you are at, and shoving can’t be bad since you are ahead of high cards and you have outs!!!! Against some players you can fold too. I don’t love shoving since they have a weird pair a lot, but I don’t think it is negative EV.
2) I tend to throw away ATo UTG, but raising can’t be that horrible. As played, you have to bet the flop, but fold to the raise and reraise. They just never have air here, and you have 3 outs most of the time.
Hand 3. Again, I hate playing UTG so I probably let go. As played, the turn is a horrible card to fire again, since you are not really getting value off of anyone, the 5’s are not folding, the 7s who are smart are not folding because they know you couldn’t have really improved (seriously, you repping a 5?), so your bet has no purpose except to make the pot bigger for no reason, and you obviously have to fold the river. He has 46 a lot.
Hand 4. Haha stop playing UTG, but whatever. Of course you fold.
Hand 5. Do you ever get real hands in position? jeez. This is actually a fucked up situation since the SB never has lower than QQ here. Online he could have AK so you have to call (not happily), but live he always kills you. You really just have to fold.
-Yan
Comment by Yan — October 15, 2008 @ 11:16 am