Gamefly Ad - Me after bad beat online

I f'ng love this commericial. This is exactly how I feel after an online suckout (in anything other than poker, that line would be questionable).

AAxx holds in PLO vs 3 others

I'm at the end of a great run at AP, up well over $1000 in the past two weeks with a lot of variance. I dropped $150 in a 30 minute session tonight, but recouped most of it when I felted 3 short stacks with AAxxs after 3 betting preflop. I put them all in on a 952 rainbow flop, and they all called! Go figure.

I made a huge mistake here, when I flopped top 2 pair against a guy I knew to be loose aggressive. My read was dead on - he had top pair deuce kicker plus FD, and I pushed the pot at him. I only won $5 back, 'cuz there was a guy who flopped the nut str8 going along for the ride. That sucked. I was only paying attention to the maniac, and got felted for it.

FlamingRadio

I have the hardest time playing 50PLO against this guy. He plays like a total maniac, like here; then there's the two hands where he flopped top set vs my bottom set and I paid off his pot bets on flop and turn (both checking to scary river), and then when he flopped quads vs my turned nut flush. It's a little easier to play against such a style in Texas Hold'em, but in Omaha it's different. Each hand is like a box of chocolates. I can only really play the pure nuts against him.

Legendary First Hands (Part 1)

So I sit down at table "Kodiak St.", which AP graciously named after me (ok, they didn't, or at least I don't know they did, but this is my blog, so they did), and look down at pocket jacks and raise 5x from the big blind to a limping table. Normally I prefer pocket rockets my first hand, but flopping quads kinda makes up for it. Especially when the villain turns the nut flush. Especially when he doesn't care that the board is already paired. And nothing can stop him from shoving in his stack. Sweet!

Big Fold (well, not for PLO)

On two other 50c PLO tables I was up almost $150 in about 20 minutes. On this table I was getting the worst of the deck, but instead of tilting off my stack, I kept cool and made a big fold here, flopping 4s full of queens with a guy betting the raised pot into me. I called his $10 bet on the flop after considering raising, but when he bet pot $30+ into me on a turned blank 7, I had to reevaluate. The best hand I could put him on was QQ4x, where he had top boat and no worries about quads (rare even in Omaha, but still worth considering). And betting the pot into me in a game where some players only play the nuts, I had no choice but to fold (without more info about the player, other than the fact that he's up at least one buyin). Sucks to lay down a flopped boat, but you're not in Texas anymore, Dorothy. This is Omaha.

Worst Player Ever??

This is the kind of cold decking that drives me nuts. I raise pf w/ QQ, he calls w/ A6o, then calls down my bets with just about nothing, even after the turn brings a third club. He rivers an ace and we both check. Just remind myself - "this is exactly the kind of action I want." Except when it hits.

The game is crooked, but it's the only game in town...

There's a poker quote that goes like this:

George Devol: "Can't you see this game is crooked?"
Canada Bill: "Sure I know it, but it's the only game in town."
~William "Canada Bill" Jones

and that's exactly what this poker chat reminded me of:

( Result for Hand 1493661463 )
ED_BAILY wins ($15.00) with (Full house, fives full of nines).
LEBOSSDES3B: LIMP
AASEDUCTION: NEVER A DOUBT
AASEDUCTION: NO WAY FOR A BOARD PAIR TO MISS A PLAYER
AASEDUCTION: AT UB
LEBOSSDES3B: CRAZY
AASEDUCTION: ALWAYS THE LEGIT SHUFFLE
( Result for Hand 1493662648 )
AASEDUCTION wins ($5.00 chips).
LEBOSSDES3B: SURE
LEBOSSDES3B: LOL
( Result for Hand 1493669350 )
ED_BAILY wins ($49.40) with (Full house, fours full of queens).
AASEDUCTION: HILLARIOUS
AASEDUCTION: SO FUN TO WATCH HOW FIXED THIS SITE IS
AASEDUCTION: PREFLOP RAISE WITH TRASH FOR THE BOARD SET
KODIAKZERO: so why play here then?
AASEDUCTION: THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO REASON IN THE WORLD
AASEDUCTION: TO PLAY HERE....PERIOD
KODIAKZERO: ok then
( Result for Hand 1493671648 )
ALLINKC wins ($1.90 chips).
AASEDUCTION: just another online crooked site
KODIAKZERO: until you win
AASEDUCTION: nope
AASEDUCTION: if you think you will ever win here you are a moron
KODIAKZERO: I just cashed out $800 last night
KODIAKZERO: so I must be REALLY stupid
AASEDUCTION: you are a lying poker player
AASEDUCTION: as if that is new
AASEDUCTION: you will do nothing here but pay rake
AASEDUCTION: period
AASEDUCTION: if you tell me anything else i know you are full
AASEDUCTION: of shi...t
KODIAKZERO: so again, then why do you play here?
( Result for Hand 1493675537 )
ED_BAILY wins ($1.90 chips).
( Result for Hand 1493677455 )
KODIAKZERO wins ($3.32 chips).
KODIAKZERO: ok