Freaky Friday

Sometimes there are players who just seem to run super good against you.  Andy W, ran super good against me in the 40 game.  Plus there was a surprise visit from the spaceship again, and Armor32 superbly outplayed me on the seat change list, and we had a surprise visit from Persian LAG master Alex, and CC is still running well, too.

Let's start at the beginning.  I went into the office to take care of some work things along with meetings I had, so I wasn't able to get up to Oceans-11 until around 4pm.  Traffic sucked at that time of course and what is normally a 30 minute commute, doubled into one hour.  By the time I arrived I was like 5th up for the 40 game, but got an open seat in the 20 game.  I ran well in the 20 game, when the spaceship arrived.  Here's where the table change games begin.  The spaceship and the 20 game in general was better than the 40, so I decided to roll my name for the 40 when it was called.  Well it turns out, the seat opened because Armor32 was vacating it to get into the 20 game.  So he arranged for his name to put on the 40 game before leaving it, thus when I rolled he would be above me.  Since the spaceship was also on the 40 board, that meant when the spaceship left the 20 for the 40, he would be able to bum hunt him sooner than me.  Seems dirty, but what are you going to do?  Next time, I will need to pay more attention to who left the 40 game and why, and whether or not he relisted himself for the game he is exiting.

In any case, I ran well at 20, the players were generally weak and I won little more than a rack in about 4 hours while waiting for the 40 game.  Eventually I get called over for the 40, but the spaceship has busted.  He eventually comes back, but busts again in short order.  In the 40 game, I actually am getting reasonable hands and flops, but Andy W is again in god mode against me and letting me have it.  Let's see K6 vs A7 where I posted in the cut-off for my first hand.  I opened, he 3-bet, I got to check raise a king high flop, and he proceeds to double bink an ace on the turn and river, just to guarantee that I pay him off. 

Then he beats my KK with QQ that binks a set on the turn.  Then KK versus his AQs, that flops a flush draw and binks an ace on the river.  Then there was AK vs A7, that rivered a pair of 7's against me.  Oh well, what are you going to do?  It happens, and I'm used to it.  I ended up with a little more than a 3 rack loss, so nothing I can't handle, but it gets frustrating that's for sure. 

Oh and Persian LAG master Alex got me with 8d7d on a 763 two diamond board where I held 54 for the flopped nuts.  I got to six-bet him on the flop too.  Don't worry diamond peels off on the river.

I am used to Andy running well against me.  He had a stretch earlier this year where he could do no wrong against me.  When he was behind he caught up, when he was making a move it worked or he caught what he needed, when I was ahead the perfect card for him to fold would show up and he wouldn't pay off, when he would've flopped a monster he folded preflop when I had the bigger monster.  In general he ran good in all the ways one can run good, winning with the hands he should, winning with the hands he shouldn't, and not losing with hands he could've played, etc.  Fortunately, that eventually turned around and I had a good one month stretch where the tables were turned and I ran very good against him.  So maybe there is something to the yin-yang of a poker table and its players.

Rounders

Recognize the player seated to Johnny Chan's right?  Funny isn't it.  The first time I saw this movie, I had no idea that someday I would be playing with that gentleman on a semi-regular basis.