Friday, May 22, 2009
$10+1 sng 45 person
I usually don't play sit'n'gos, but after winning a quick $20 in a cash game, I thought I'd take half of it and play this, and ended up winning. My best hand of the tourney: you never forget your last, especially when flopping the nut straight.
More Love for PLO
I love PLO maniacs, the kind of player that will chase any draw, bet into your nuts, etc., and this guy was all about that: http://www.pokerhand.org/?4266700. I stuck around just for him.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Great Start
Great start to a session of 50c nlhe 9 seat - I post early (unusual), look down at A3s and put in a standard 3x raise (also unusual). The button reraises 7x, and I and two others call. I flop the nut flush (extra unusual), and I bet out $2 - just enough to represent weakness and beg a raise, which I get when the short stack pushes for $6 more. The guy behind him calls, and I think I made a mistake by minraising, because the 3rd guy quickly folds. Not sure how I would have played the turn after smooth calling the raise. With a queen hi flop and the short stack holding the Jc, what could he have folded? Would he fold the king of clubs there, thinking he was drawing dead?
I got into a decent hand in 50c PLO 9 max when a guy I considered loose aggressive raised preflop, and I called with a hand I would usually fold. He flopped the nuts, deuces full of queens, and we both check. I bet the turn with tens full, he raised good, and then called my reraise. I really didn't think he had anything (certainly not queens full), and he just calls my reraise, then calls same bet on river.
I left the NLHE table, but the action continued in PLO. I more than tripled up in back-to-back hands, first when this guy overplayed his AAxx for the third time, and then when I flopped the nut flush vs 2nd and 3rd best. I love that Helmuth quote about PLO, where you can turn "a toothpick into a lumberyard."
I got into a decent hand in 50c PLO 9 max when a guy I considered loose aggressive raised preflop, and I called with a hand I would usually fold. He flopped the nuts, deuces full of queens, and we both check. I bet the turn with tens full, he raised good, and then called my reraise. I really didn't think he had anything (certainly not queens full), and he just calls my reraise, then calls same bet on river.
I left the NLHE table, but the action continued in PLO. I more than tripled up in back-to-back hands, first when this guy overplayed his AAxx for the third time, and then when I flopped the nut flush vs 2nd and 3rd best. I love that Helmuth quote about PLO, where you can turn "a toothpick into a lumberyard."
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Fireworks from the Sidelines
Not much action for me, but I watched two ridiculous hands tonight. The first involved a 50c PLO hand with a guy all in with 6688s vs AATT vs KKxxs, and he hits a flush for $135. In the second, a donkey limp-calls in late position with ace deuce offsuit vs a 7x QQ raise from the blinds, flops the wheel and doubles up.
The best hole cards I got was KK, I raised 4x pf, a limp-caller with T7s hits an A77 flop. We check it, I raise small on turn, and we check river.
My latest poker quip: "Trying to get a hand in hold'em is like trying to get a drink in the desert. Trying to get a hand in Omaha is like trying to get a drink from the ocean." Well, at least it made sense after a few beers.
I lost a chunk with a misread here. I put the guy on AQ/AK, not AJ, when he checked the flop and bet the turn (put him on bluff). I should've folded the river.
The best hole cards I got was KK, I raised 4x pf, a limp-caller with T7s hits an A77 flop. We check it, I raise small on turn, and we check river.
My latest poker quip: "Trying to get a hand in hold'em is like trying to get a drink in the desert. Trying to get a hand in Omaha is like trying to get a drink from the ocean." Well, at least it made sense after a few beers.
I lost a chunk with a misread here. I put the guy on AQ/AK, not AJ, when he checked the flop and bet the turn (put him on bluff). I should've folded the river.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Back from the Dead
So I've donked off over $500 in the last week, and so I'm starting over from square one. I bought into a 50c nlhe 9 max game for $35, lost $10, then doubled up in this hand. I 3bet the blind with AKs vs his 77, I check flopped aces behind him, he pushes on blank turn and I instacall for $50 pot.
You know what I love? Hitting the nuts and getting paid. I turn the nut flush vs infant baby flush, and the guy pays off my half-pot bets in this $40 pot. I can't imagine that he'd pay off any more, but who knows.
After these sessions of NLHE and PLO on FT, I'm just about back to the $150 I bought in for last night. D'oh!
Made $100 back today, mostly grinding out pots. One interesting hand came up when I raised the pot early preflop with KK, and got a late reraise. I called to underrepresent, and the flop brought the dreaded ace with 2 hearts. I check-called a $5 bet, which seemed kind of weak; the bet size reinforced my thought that he might be holding tens or jacks. A third heart on the turn gave me the nut flush draw, and he folded when I put in a strong bet. Still wondering what he held. If he held AK, AQ, AA, or QQ, I think he would have either put in a stronger bet on the flop, or at least not folded the turn.
You know what I love? Hitting the nuts and getting paid. I turn the nut flush vs infant baby flush, and the guy pays off my half-pot bets in this $40 pot. I can't imagine that he'd pay off any more, but who knows.
After these sessions of NLHE and PLO on FT, I'm just about back to the $150 I bought in for last night. D'oh!
Made $100 back today, mostly grinding out pots. One interesting hand came up when I raised the pot early preflop with KK, and got a late reraise. I called to underrepresent, and the flop brought the dreaded ace with 2 hearts. I check-called a $5 bet, which seemed kind of weak; the bet size reinforced my thought that he might be holding tens or jacks. A third heart on the turn gave me the nut flush draw, and he folded when I put in a strong bet. Still wondering what he held. If he held AK, AQ, AA, or QQ, I think he would have either put in a stronger bet on the flop, or at least not folded the turn.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Stayin Alive
I took first in an eight-handed home game last Thursday, played well, and then busted out early in the second game. I always have trouble gearing down once I'm in an aggressive short-handed tourney finale. So I went home and donked off over $150 on AP to continue the downward streak. I played okay until this hand of $1/2 PLO, where a guy bet $67 on the river with AAxx, I called with QQxx on a board of 888xx. I check-called a raised pot bet with 4th nuts. Horrible, horrible, horrible. This hand set off the donk run where I busted out of PLO and overplayed half my stack in NLHE.
I finally bought back in to FullTilt tonight, and was doing ok until I rivered the nut flush as the board paired. That cost me most of my stack of $50. I made it up on this table with some guy named "tony fagundo", who would play any two cards preflop raise or no, would chase down hands and then bet the pot when he hit. I watched him burn through about $150 from his peak.
After a horrible run at 50c PLO on AP, I switched over to 9 seat 50c nlhe on FT. Lost a chunk of change here with QQ up against KK. I felt dominated and played it out anyways. Oh well.
I finally bought back in to FullTilt tonight, and was doing ok until I rivered the nut flush as the board paired. That cost me most of my stack of $50. I made it up on this table with some guy named "tony fagundo", who would play any two cards preflop raise or no, would chase down hands and then bet the pot when he hit. I watched him burn through about $150 from his peak.
After a horrible run at 50c PLO on AP, I switched over to 9 seat 50c nlhe on FT. Lost a chunk of change here with QQ up against KK. I felt dominated and played it out anyways. Oh well.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Bad Habits
Sat down at donkey corral (>40% players/flop, >20xbb avg pot), and watched some horrible hands (such as this). I didn't get into a big one until limp-calling a 5x pf raise with 56s and flopped flush. I check-called $4 on flop, then min-checkraised $8 bet on turn - I put him on AK/AQ or big pair, but I should've bet much more than min-checkraising in case he had As or Ks, which he did. My move raised him $8 in a pot of $35, which gave him easy odds to call. And then I stupidly check-called $20 on river spade, knowing that he had the big flush. Stupid, stupid. It's a tendency of playing a hand as if the last card had not yet fallen, something I really need to work on. That hand set off a tilt run that cost me a quick $100, and had to work twice as hard to grind $50 back.
Another tendency I have when a bad beat hits me in the corral is to play as bad as the donkeys around me. I really get caught up in the loose action.
I took a break, took a nap, and woke up refreshed for some PLO. I find that if I play badly at one game, switching between NLHE and PLO helps me get back on track. I took down a small $10 pot flopping 3 pair the first hand in 50plo, when Phimmy called me down with what had to be a weak hand. I stacked him a little later in a $45 pot with 2nd big boat over his set. I've seen him play a lot better than this - can only assume he was just done at that table. This hand kept developing in interesting ways. I tripled the limpers with A678ss from the blind, small bet my 2nd pair + top of open-ended draw, small bet turning flush draw + 2 pr, then small bet again rivering boat. I took down the $20 pot. After this 20 min session I'm +$7 for the day. Woo-hoo!
I followed Phimmy to the $1-2PLO table, where I quickly lost almost a third of my stack early by check-calling a pot bet of $14 with open-ended plus med. flush draws. The call was good, but then I made a bad $20 call when I rivered the flush (and str8!), but villain hit boat. Bad misread. I made it all back plus when Phimmy made a weird preflop raise UTG with a very weak hand. I flat called with AAxxs, and flat called his $30 bet flopping queens on Q99 board. He's a maniac. I called with AA+nut flush draw, third guy calls with KK+2nd nut flush draw, we all check down hand and I collect $140 pot. I later fired a decent value bet on turn and river, and Phimmy checkraised me from $10 to $50 on river, I fold. Reluctantly. I think the guy is just firing out chips. The best position to be in with him would be to slowplay the pure nuts. I'm pretty sure he'll do the betting for me. More proof that he's insane? Look here. He limp-calls a big pf raise with a medium-strength hand (at best), then calls a guy all in with a gutshot and a 7-hi flush draw for $67 on the turn. I end the PLO session up $20, down from being up $60 early, but way up from being down $40 earlier.
After eating a really disappointing Italian sub from Pizza Boli's, I joined some action at 50plo 6 max, and this short stack quintipled up from $20 playing very aggressive hands like this, where he reraised the pot preflop with junk 77T5s, but this time he got caught vs AAK8 - or did he? No, he rivers crappy two pair for $57 pot. He was trying to establish position so he could bluff at a raised pot later (that's how he built his stack up thus far). After being exposed so baldly he completely changed his style. He got me in a big hand when I raised pf with xxx and he reraise from blind with 7756s. He flopped set and slow-played it at first, slowly dialing up the heat as I improved to a set of aces on river vs his small boat, and I called a big $19 bet. I end up $60 down for the session by playing his game instead of mine.
Another tendency I have when a bad beat hits me in the corral is to play as bad as the donkeys around me. I really get caught up in the loose action.
I took a break, took a nap, and woke up refreshed for some PLO. I find that if I play badly at one game, switching between NLHE and PLO helps me get back on track. I took down a small $10 pot flopping 3 pair the first hand in 50plo, when Phimmy called me down with what had to be a weak hand. I stacked him a little later in a $45 pot with 2nd big boat over his set. I've seen him play a lot better than this - can only assume he was just done at that table. This hand kept developing in interesting ways. I tripled the limpers with A678ss from the blind, small bet my 2nd pair + top of open-ended draw, small bet turning flush draw + 2 pr, then small bet again rivering boat. I took down the $20 pot. After this 20 min session I'm +$7 for the day. Woo-hoo!
I followed Phimmy to the $1-2PLO table, where I quickly lost almost a third of my stack early by check-calling a pot bet of $14 with open-ended plus med. flush draws. The call was good, but then I made a bad $20 call when I rivered the flush (and str8!), but villain hit boat. Bad misread. I made it all back plus when Phimmy made a weird preflop raise UTG with a very weak hand. I flat called with AAxxs, and flat called his $30 bet flopping queens on Q99 board. He's a maniac. I called with AA+nut flush draw, third guy calls with KK+2nd nut flush draw, we all check down hand and I collect $140 pot. I later fired a decent value bet on turn and river, and Phimmy checkraised me from $10 to $50 on river, I fold. Reluctantly. I think the guy is just firing out chips. The best position to be in with him would be to slowplay the pure nuts. I'm pretty sure he'll do the betting for me. More proof that he's insane? Look here. He limp-calls a big pf raise with a medium-strength hand (at best), then calls a guy all in with a gutshot and a 7-hi flush draw for $67 on the turn. I end the PLO session up $20, down from being up $60 early, but way up from being down $40 earlier.
After eating a really disappointing Italian sub from Pizza Boli's, I joined some action at 50plo 6 max, and this short stack quintipled up from $20 playing very aggressive hands like this, where he reraised the pot preflop with junk 77T5s, but this time he got caught vs AAK8 - or did he? No, he rivers crappy two pair for $57 pot. He was trying to establish position so he could bluff at a raised pot later (that's how he built his stack up thus far). After being exposed so baldly he completely changed his style. He got me in a big hand when I raised pf with xxx and he reraise from blind with 7756s. He flopped set and slow-played it at first, slowly dialing up the heat as I improved to a set of aces on river vs his small boat, and I called a big $19 bet. I end up $60 down for the session by playing his game instead of mine.
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