Great 40/80 game last night at Oceans-11. My wife and I took our kids to Legoland for their Brick or Treat Halloween spooktacular. Kids had fun, and my wife told me before we left that we could take two cars, so I could head directly to Oceans after we were done at the park. Legoland is like 10 minutes from the casino, so it saves me quite a bit of time from having to go home and then back up to North County.
Last night's game was very good. It started off short-handed with a drunk Chris P. He took a bad beat and quit, for a little while. He came back later that night still drunk and proceed to piss off a lot of money. In the game at various times, were Evan Almighty, Korean Joe, Chinese Jason, Chris P, Wayne, Jed, Chaldean Ryan, and Lam, plus some various others.
I got in for 5 racks, and made a spectacular comeback, winning 1 rack.
I flopped quad queens against Ryan while 3 or 4-handed. He opened on the button, I 3 banged it from the SB, BB folded, he called. Flop was QQ7. I bet, Ryan raised, I 3-bet. Ryan called. Turn was a rag. I bet, Ryan raised, I 3-bet and Ryan mucked. He claimed he had pocket kings. Not sure I totally believe him.
Chris P, gift wrapped 640 to Ryan. In an overs pot, he went 4-bets on the turn on a KK79 2 spade board, and then check-folded the river when spades missed.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Celebrity Poker Sighting?
Jose Canseco has been in the news lately, due to some alleged border crossing woes here in San Diego. Guess who showed up at Oceans-11 last night? Yep, Mr. Juice himself. He was playing in a 10-10 no limit game for a while. I think he got stacked or something, because later in the night I saw him in a 2-3 no limit game. The regular group of boys I was playing with in the 40-80, wanted him to come join our game.
Nothing spectacular happened, I booked a modest win of $1400, should have actually lost more, but some schmuck totally misplayed his hand and I lost the minimum with pocket aces against his pocket eights when he flopped a set and foolishly decided to slow play it. Also had some random guy sit down in the 40/80 with half a rack of blues (dollar chips), and a couple of greens (25 dollar chips). He tried to short buy like $80 into the game, when the dealer told him the minimum buy-in was $400. He subsequently complied, bought in, lasted about 2 orbits and busted out. His bust-out hand? Q6o on a ATJ5 rainbow board. Interesting play sir.
Nothing spectacular happened, I booked a modest win of $1400, should have actually lost more, but some schmuck totally misplayed his hand and I lost the minimum with pocket aces against his pocket eights when he flopped a set and foolishly decided to slow play it. Also had some random guy sit down in the 40/80 with half a rack of blues (dollar chips), and a couple of greens (25 dollar chips). He tried to short buy like $80 into the game, when the dealer told him the minimum buy-in was $400. He subsequently complied, bought in, lasted about 2 orbits and busted out. His bust-out hand? Q6o on a ATJ5 rainbow board. Interesting play sir.
Friday, October 10, 2008
Heater check, I still got it!
Heater is still intact. I've played 6 sessions since October 1st, winning 5 and losing 1. The losing session was a 100 dollar loss in the 20/40, otherwise I'm running like a god lately, plus I have been playing well too. Since October 1st, I am winning a little less 5BB/hr.
I must say that I think 2+2 has really helped my game. There are some very good poker players over there, who post, think, and analyze hands very well. I don't always agree with their analysis, but it's definitely interesting to hear other opinions. I have really ratcheted up my value bets since I started reading and posting there. I now realize the power of the bet/fold river line as well, when making thin value bets as opposed to check/call. I also seem to have reached an inner confidence where I can confidently fold hands where I'm certain that I'm beat, that previously I probably would have made crying calls only to be shown the winner. I have also adjusted my play greatly depending on the opponents in the hands, and have learned to confidently value bet middle or bottom pair.
I must say that I think 2+2 has really helped my game. There are some very good poker players over there, who post, think, and analyze hands very well. I don't always agree with their analysis, but it's definitely interesting to hear other opinions. I have really ratcheted up my value bets since I started reading and posting there. I now realize the power of the bet/fold river line as well, when making thin value bets as opposed to check/call. I also seem to have reached an inner confidence where I can confidently fold hands where I'm certain that I'm beat, that previously I probably would have made crying calls only to be shown the winner. I have also adjusted my play greatly depending on the opponents in the hands, and have learned to confidently value bet middle or bottom pair.
Friday, October 3, 2008
Roaring Start
Off to a good start heading into the home stretch of the year. I played in an awesome 40/80 game last night. We were playing mandatory live straddle with an immediate rebate. Meaning that UTG posted a live 80, if it came around for 3 bets, the straddler had the option of calling, but not putting in any more chips, or folding and taking 4 chips back. That really sparked the action. Eventually some people left, busted out, and some new people took their places and the must-straddle died out. But it was going good for quite a while. I finished up 2100 in 3.75 hours, and quit when the game got short and went and played 20/40 for 1.75 hours and dropped a 100 there, so overall I finished the night up 2000. Good start!
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