Been a pretty good week this last week. My birthday was on Thursday and I had Thursday and Friday off of work. I'm in the office today writing performance reviews, but I have just finished that up.
What have I accomplished this week? Let's see.
Watched some movies, Karate Kid I and II, Jule and Julia. Started reading Julia Child's autobiography. Caulked the kid's bathroom tub, had a birthday dinner out with my family. Played multiple games of Monopoly junior with my kids. Got a new sweatshirt and a pair of Lucky jeans for my birthday presents. Got to eat an ice cream sandwich for my birthday treat. Oh, and I played poker.
Had a good week poker wise too:
Here's a summary of the week's results:
8 /16 532
20/40 -432
20/40 407
20/40 785
20/40 26
40/80 2480
20/40 247
The last 20/40 session was last night, where I played Helen heads up for quite a while. I started the match with about 50$ shy of $1500. Very quickly she decimated me and had me down 1k. In the first 4 hands I think she made straight, straight, flush, full house. Every time I had something reasonable to pay her off with too. However, eventually the deck started to run true, and I eventually won back all of my money, plus about $300 of hers before she quit at about 12:20am.
I have the day off tomorrow for President's day as well, and I am taking my daughter to an ice-skating birthday party. So maybe, I will get one more session in tonight after dinner. We'll see. February has been a pretty good month, poker results wise. January I was down 2.1k, but so far in February I am up 7.5k.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
Oh Really?
52 bucks. That was my profit after playing for two hours and ten minutes last night. In the 8/16 mind you. Apparently the 20/40 game broke like 20 minutes or so before I arrived. They had two 8/16 games going, and I knew that I would only be able to play for a little while before the second game broke, so I went ahead and started to play.
Lost a little bit and the game got progressively shorter. Eventually I had to buy another rack, before I started to win a little bit. I played one hand kind of bad, but got lucky. Playing I think 6 or 7 handed or so, UTG+1 or so raises, gets two cold callers, I 3-bet the J9 suited on the button, everyone calls including both blinds, so 6-handed and we see a flop of J 5 2, 1 diamond. I had diamonds. Checked to me, I bet, BB c/r, everyone else clears out, I 3-bet, BB 4-bets, and I call. Turn is a J. BB checks?!? I bet, BB c/r, I call. River is a 9, BB bets, I raise, he calls and mucks AJ disgustingly. Ooops, guess I got lucky. His turn play seems rather bad however, he should have just bet. Why go for the check/raise there? Most of the time I am just going to check back most of my range. Whatever. Reanalyzing the hand, maybe I should check the turn there too, even after I make trip jacks.
Later the game continues to get short, and eventually they move another player and it's just me and a local sports radio personality playing heads up. It was his idea, not mine, honest. In any case, I was still a little stuck at this point, maybe down $100 or so. We played heads up for the next 15 minutes or so, and I never lost a showdown. I folded my button twice, and folded pocket 5's on the turn on 89Jx board on the turn after he limped the button, I raised in the big blind, I bet the flop, he called, and then I check/folded the turn. I won with K9o unimproved against his ThX, one heart on a 3 heart board, that I raised preflop out of position, bet the flop and turn, and then check/snap-called the river. Also won with A6o, against Q6o on the KTJxx board. By this time, he had wised up and smartly checked the river behind. Other than that I simply had the best hand every time, or he simply folded. He doesn't really know how to play heads up, and evidenced by him limping the button every hand, and never raising preflop.
He eventually got a seat in the main game, and I racked up, took my small profit and went home. I told the Steve the floor man, that he asked me to play heads up, not vice-versa, and he said, oh really? He knows that I like to play short-handed and he knew that I was a huge favorite against the player in question. I didn't expect him to play me to be honest.
My birthday is coming up this week. Will be taking Thursday and Friday off of work, and with Monday being a holiday, will have a five day weekend. Looking forward to it.
Lost a little bit and the game got progressively shorter. Eventually I had to buy another rack, before I started to win a little bit. I played one hand kind of bad, but got lucky. Playing I think 6 or 7 handed or so, UTG+1 or so raises, gets two cold callers, I 3-bet the J9 suited on the button, everyone calls including both blinds, so 6-handed and we see a flop of J 5 2, 1 diamond. I had diamonds. Checked to me, I bet, BB c/r, everyone else clears out, I 3-bet, BB 4-bets, and I call. Turn is a J. BB checks?!? I bet, BB c/r, I call. River is a 9, BB bets, I raise, he calls and mucks AJ disgustingly. Ooops, guess I got lucky. His turn play seems rather bad however, he should have just bet. Why go for the check/raise there? Most of the time I am just going to check back most of my range. Whatever. Reanalyzing the hand, maybe I should check the turn there too, even after I make trip jacks.
Later the game continues to get short, and eventually they move another player and it's just me and a local sports radio personality playing heads up. It was his idea, not mine, honest. In any case, I was still a little stuck at this point, maybe down $100 or so. We played heads up for the next 15 minutes or so, and I never lost a showdown. I folded my button twice, and folded pocket 5's on the turn on 89Jx board on the turn after he limped the button, I raised in the big blind, I bet the flop, he called, and then I check/folded the turn. I won with K9o unimproved against his ThX, one heart on a 3 heart board, that I raised preflop out of position, bet the flop and turn, and then check/snap-called the river. Also won with A6o, against Q6o on the KTJxx board. By this time, he had wised up and smartly checked the river behind. Other than that I simply had the best hand every time, or he simply folded. He doesn't really know how to play heads up, and evidenced by him limping the button every hand, and never raising preflop.
He eventually got a seat in the main game, and I racked up, took my small profit and went home. I told the Steve the floor man, that he asked me to play heads up, not vice-versa, and he said, oh really? He knows that I like to play short-handed and he knew that I was a huge favorite against the player in question. I didn't expect him to play me to be honest.
My birthday is coming up this week. Will be taking Thursday and Friday off of work, and with Monday being a holiday, will have a five day weekend. Looking forward to it.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Kicking myself
So I won an absolutely monstrous pot last night with 67o against a no-limit player (NLP) playing 20/40 for some reason, and either overplayed it or failed to get max value, and probably a little bit of both. The dealer during this hand made multiple mistakes, but whatever.
Here's how the hand went down. Bad player raises, 2 cold-callers, including the NLP, and I call in the big blind with 76 offsuit, no club. Flop comes 2 3 5 rainbow. Bad player checks, NLP bets, cutoff raises, I call , bad player folds, NLP calls.
Turn is a 4c, now putting two clubs on board. NLP, bets out of turn, and dealer doesn't say anything or do anything. I announce, I guess I check, since the dealer is now looking at me, since I still hadn't acted. I officially check, drooler bets, cutoff calls, I check-raise, NLP 3-bets, cut-off folds, and then NLP and I get into a raising war for like 13 bets, with me just calling the last raise.
During all of this, the player to my right starts mentioning the free roll possibility 67 clubs. Now I was pretty sure that the NLP was just overplaying his 6, thinking I was an idiot overplaying an ace. Also technically, the betting should have been capped at 4-bets, since the cut-off was still in the hand and folded to the NLP's 3-bet. If the cutoff had folded to the NLP's initial bet, then we should have been able to raise endlessly. Either way doesn't really matter, since I had the nuts, and I forgot about this rule until I started to think about it later.
River comes an offsuit ten. Now, here is where I am absolutely kicking myself. NLP is almost all-in, has about one stack left, and again he bets out of turn. For whatever reason, I convinced myself that he must have the same hand as me, and I just call, instead of free-roll check/raising, knowing that I will at the absolutely minimum getting my money back. NLP announces 6, I fast roll my hand, and the table is in amazement at how much action I gave on the turn, without the free roll backup. I had everyone convinced that I had the 67 clubs. I didn't see the NLP's hand, so I'm not sure if he had the 6 of clubs or not. The NLP busted out the very next hand and didn't rebuy.
So, one hand, in which I manage to completely misplay it on multiple streets, but still come out smelling like roses.
Here's how the hand went down. Bad player raises, 2 cold-callers, including the NLP, and I call in the big blind with 76 offsuit, no club. Flop comes 2 3 5 rainbow. Bad player checks, NLP bets, cutoff raises, I call , bad player folds, NLP calls.
Turn is a 4c, now putting two clubs on board. NLP, bets out of turn, and dealer doesn't say anything or do anything. I announce, I guess I check, since the dealer is now looking at me, since I still hadn't acted. I officially check, drooler bets, cutoff calls, I check-raise, NLP 3-bets, cut-off folds, and then NLP and I get into a raising war for like 13 bets, with me just calling the last raise.
During all of this, the player to my right starts mentioning the free roll possibility 67 clubs. Now I was pretty sure that the NLP was just overplaying his 6, thinking I was an idiot overplaying an ace. Also technically, the betting should have been capped at 4-bets, since the cut-off was still in the hand and folded to the NLP's 3-bet. If the cutoff had folded to the NLP's initial bet, then we should have been able to raise endlessly. Either way doesn't really matter, since I had the nuts, and I forgot about this rule until I started to think about it later.
River comes an offsuit ten. Now, here is where I am absolutely kicking myself. NLP is almost all-in, has about one stack left, and again he bets out of turn. For whatever reason, I convinced myself that he must have the same hand as me, and I just call, instead of free-roll check/raising, knowing that I will at the absolutely minimum getting my money back. NLP announces 6, I fast roll my hand, and the table is in amazement at how much action I gave on the turn, without the free roll backup. I had everyone convinced that I had the 67 clubs. I didn't see the NLP's hand, so I'm not sure if he had the 6 of clubs or not. The NLP busted out the very next hand and didn't rebuy.
So, one hand, in which I manage to completely misplay it on multiple streets, but still come out smelling like roses.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Running Good!
Since January 23rd, 2011 I have put in 27 hours of poker in the 20/40 game, and am up over that time period a bit over 6k. My last 6 sessions:
+2000
+2450
+178
+1107
-812
+1385
The last two sessions, I flopped quads. Last night in a 4-handed game, I opened UTG with pocket threes. Button 3-bet me, and the big blind ate two cold. I, of course call, and the flop comes K33. Checked to the button who dutifully bets, BB check-raises, and then I 3-bet. Both players fold and I take it down. I am questioning if 3-betting here is the correct play or not.
On Saturday, I flopped quad aces. Again in a 4-handed game, I open UTG with pocket aces. I forget if the SB called, or not, but the big blind called for sure. Flop comes AA8. I bet, only BB calls. Turn is a King. I bet, BB check-raises, I 3-bet, he 4-bets, I 5-bet, and he insta-folds. Here the 5-bet may be a mistake, but it's a small one if it's a mistake at all, as obviously my opponent shouldn't be 4-betting with a hand that won't call a 5-bet and a river bet. However, I have the deck crushed, and the only reasonable hand for him to have is 88 here to give this much action, and I know he's not going to fold that ever. There is I suppose an infinitesimal chance that he slow played pocket kings preflop, and then just check-called the flop, made his full-house on the turn, and then went crazy, but again he's never folding this hand either, and very likely may even 6-bet on the turn with this hand. After wards I talked to him about this hand, and he claims he had pocket queens, but I find this ludicrous given the play of the hand, but I suppose it may be true, since I can't find any reasonable hand for him to be able to play like this.
+2000
+2450
+178
+1107
-812
+1385
The last two sessions, I flopped quads. Last night in a 4-handed game, I opened UTG with pocket threes. Button 3-bet me, and the big blind ate two cold. I, of course call, and the flop comes K33. Checked to the button who dutifully bets, BB check-raises, and then I 3-bet. Both players fold and I take it down. I am questioning if 3-betting here is the correct play or not.
On Saturday, I flopped quad aces. Again in a 4-handed game, I open UTG with pocket aces. I forget if the SB called, or not, but the big blind called for sure. Flop comes AA8. I bet, only BB calls. Turn is a King. I bet, BB check-raises, I 3-bet, he 4-bets, I 5-bet, and he insta-folds. Here the 5-bet may be a mistake, but it's a small one if it's a mistake at all, as obviously my opponent shouldn't be 4-betting with a hand that won't call a 5-bet and a river bet. However, I have the deck crushed, and the only reasonable hand for him to have is 88 here to give this much action, and I know he's not going to fold that ever. There is I suppose an infinitesimal chance that he slow played pocket kings preflop, and then just check-called the flop, made his full-house on the turn, and then went crazy, but again he's never folding this hand either, and very likely may even 6-bet on the turn with this hand. After wards I talked to him about this hand, and he claims he had pocket queens, but I find this ludicrous given the play of the hand, but I suppose it may be true, since I can't find any reasonable hand for him to be able to play like this.
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