DVDTalk Group Daily Poker Journal II

[LasVegasMichael]

Got my ass handed to me last night at Mandalay Bay.

First of all, I knew I did not want to play there last night. I am currently running good at Ballys and wanted to go back, but the wife and one of her friends were going to see the Black Eyed Peas concert, so it was recommended to me by my firend visiting and my wife that we just stay at Mandalay Bay until the concert gets out. I regrettably obliged.

First, I started out at a 1/2 NL table, with a $200 max. Play was fairly weak tight, with one or two wannabe hotshots. Managed to lose $75 against a short stack when I had JJ and he had AA. All the money was in preflop, due to his stack size.

I got on the 2/4NL $400 list early on, but it took over an hour to get in on the game. Finally got called to an open seat there around 10:00PM.

First hand was great, KK. I was UTG, reaised to $25, got 4 callers, flop came Q44. I bet out $75, and everyone folded.

A few hands later, I was dealt AKos in early/,iddle position. I raised to $30 and was called in four places. Flop came 10high. I bet out $100, and everyone folded.

I has bought in for the $400 max and was sitting on about $650 or so when this horrbile hand came up.

I raise to $30 from late position with AKos. Flop came K high. BB bet out $500 with about $125 behind. Everyone else folds to me. I raise all in and he instacalls. He has KQos. Turn brings a Q and I send a chunk of my stack to the tourist.

A few hands later. I pick up KQs, and raise from the button to $30 (several limpers already in).

Three callers. Flop comes Khigh with two diamonds. Checked to me, I bet out $90. SB calls. Turn is a black blank. SB checks to me, and I go all in for about $300. She thinks a LONG time and calls with A3of diamonds. Turn brings a diamond, and I was OUT.

After much thought, I really don't fell I made any mistakes in these horrid hands. I simply got unlucky. Oh well, that's poker.

[LasVegasMichael]

Typo: He bet out $50, not $500 int othe pot.

Also, it was the river that brought a diamond, not the turn, obviously.

[El Scorcho]

Tough breaks. Gotta keep telling yourself that you got all your money in as a 90/10 favorite in the AK vs KQ hand and as a 80/20 favorite in the AK vs A3d hand. Can't really ask for better situations. Lady luck sure has a bitchy side sometimes.

[bigsoos]

Check out this hand:

PokerStars Game #7703102491: Hold'em No Limit ($1/$2) - 2006/12/31 - 20:49:14 (ET)
Table 'Sculptor' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: Body Man D ($148.10 in chips)
Seat 2: duffers77 ($204.85 in chips)
Seat 3: Lucky Shade ($111.15 in chips)
Seat 4: jetdryver ($39 in chips)
Seat 5: bigsoos ($179.40 in chips)
Seat 6: manhaodah ($36.55 in chips)
Seat 7: linsider ($35 in chips)
Seat 8: Abaddon06 ($103.20 in chips)
Seat 9: BROkie ($177.40 in chips)
Lucky Shade: posts small blind $1
jetdryver: posts big blind $2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to bigsoos [Qs Qd]
bigsoos: raises $4 to $6
manhaodah: raises $9 to $15
linsider: raises $20 to $35 and is all-in
Abaddon06: folds
BROkie: folds
Body Man D: calls $35
duffers77: folds
Lucky Shade: raises $76.15 to $111.15 and is all-in
jetdryver: folds
bigsoos said, "what did I start"
bigsoos: folds
manhaodah: calls $21.55 and is all-in
Body Man D: calls $76.15
*** FLOP *** [5s 5h 8s]
*** TURN *** [5s 5h 8s] [Ac]
*** RIVER *** [5s 5h 8s Ac] [7c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Lucky Shade: shows [Kc Kh] (two pair, Kings and Fives)
Body Man D: shows [Kd As] (two pair, Aces and Fives)
Body Man D collected $149.20 from side pot-2
manhaodah: mucks hand
Body Man D collected $4.65 from side pot-1
linsider: shows [5d 5c] (four of a kind, Fives)
linsider collected $145 from main pot
bigsoos said, "n1"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $301.85 Main pot $145. Side pot-1 $4.65. Side pot-2 $149.20. | Rake $3
Board [5s 5h 8s Ac 7c]
Seat 1: Body Man D showed [Kd As] and won ($153.85) with two pair, Aces and Fives
Seat 2: duffers77 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: Lucky Shade (small blind) showed [Kc Kh] and lost with two pair, Kings and Fives
Seat 4: jetdryver (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: bigsoos folded before Flop
Seat 6: manhaodah mucked [Jh Js]
Seat 7: linsider showed [5d 5c] and won ($145) with four of a kind, Fives
Seat 8: Abaddon06 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: BROkie folded before Flop (didn't bet)

[namja]

Nice fold, but a pretty easy fold. An all-in, a call, and another all-in ... I'd put at least one of the three on a KK or AA.

[bigsoos]

Originally Posted by namja

Nice fold, but a pretty easy fold. An all-in, a call, and another all-in ... I'd put at least one of the three on a KK or AA.

couldn't believe the guy flopping quads.

[namja]

Originally Posted by bigsoos

couldn't believe the guy flopping quads.

Oh, is that what that post was about? I thought it was about your laydown. I've seen one too many quads on TV lately (Sam Farha losing his full house to quads at WSOP; a bunch of hands involving Negraneau on HSP) that it almost seems like a common hand.

[Quake1028]

Had a horrible run of luck the other night at my home game. Sets were running into runner runner flushes, straights, boats, etc. Lost with KK, QQ, JJ, 1010, 77. Picked up AA while shortstacked and that was the one hand everyone decided to actually not be an idiot on . Just a bad night overall.

[LasVegasMichael]

Had a great session last night at Ballys.

After taking the beating at Mandalay a couple days ago, I returned to Ballys where, knock wood, I have not had a losing session yet.

Got into a 1/2NL ($300 max) game arounf 3PM, and started off rocky. Got drawn out on a few times here snd there and was down to about $150 of my original $300. I rebought for another hundred (making my stack at about $250) when the following hand came up.

I was UTG with 44. I limped in (table was rather passive (standard). Several more limpers came in behind, and the button (an internet kid) on the button raised to $20 straight. I called, expecting a few other callers for correct implied odds should I hit my set. Sure enough, there were four other callers.

Flop: 667 rainbow.

I checked, as did all others to the button who bet out $40. I thought for a while, and checkraised to $80 straight. Not sure what I was thinking here other then the hope that the kid was either sitting on AK or an overpair that he could get away from.

Everyone folded to the kid who tanked for a while then called. Turn was a 5, giving me the bottom end of an OESD. I bet out all in, for about $150. Kid tanked for a long time. He counted out the money to call, and then started asking me all kinds of questions. I pretended to turn up my Ipod )(it was actually off) and stared off into the distance, not answering anything. He asked if I had a 6, flopped a set or a boat, or if I had an overpair (this made me think he had AK). He thought for a while longer, and eventually mucked. I tabled the 44, and collected the pot. I showed it for steam value only (normally, I would not in this situation), and to show him (and others) that I was capable of outplaying him/them. He muttered that I "could have made the winning hand". I wanted to say "Actually I did", but I opted to just stay silent. He tilted a little bit after that and eventually went broke calling an all in from someone else with an unimproved AK on the turn to someone who made TPTK with an AJ.

After that hand, I felt better and caught some more hands. I made a runner runner straight against a guy that rivered a set (checked on all streets evcept the river) and got some chips there as well as a great hand involving me flopping the nut straight with Q10os on a monochrome board (none of my suits) and pushing a guy all in on the flop who flopped two pair (thought I was dead when the fourth suit hit on the turn).

Ended up profiting just over $300 after playing for about 4 hours. Plan on hitting up Ballys again in a couple days to hopefully continue the streak (and avoiding Mandalay Bay like the plague

[El Scorcho]

I'm really not sure if I've just had the deck hitting me in the face recently or if I'm actually playing the best I've ever played in the last two weeks (or possibly both), but I took another $225 off of PokerStars' $1/2 limit 6-max tables yesterday. And PokerStars was always the site that I felt had the better players of the mainstream sites and had always given me fits.

Either way, it sucks to be back at work after two weeks off. I played more poker than I really should have, but it is awfully hard to log off when you're on fire. Total pull for the two weeks I had off was around $1500, which is absolutely amazing because it was all done at $1/2 limit 6-max.

[El Scorcho]

I heard bigsoos sat down with a living 1/2 6-max poker legend tonight.

[Quake1028]

AK vs. Q7off

Raised by me pre-flop, bet out when the flop comes K27 rainbow, all the money gets in when a 4 hits on the turn, river Q .

[bigsoos]

Originally Posted by El Scorcho

I heard bigsoos sat down with a living 1/2 6-max poker legend tonight.

That's "Self Proclaimed Legend"

[namja]

Does anyone know who came up with this quote below?

"I don't play any two suited cards. I play any two non suited cards. That way I am drawing at two different flushes."

[El Scorcho]

No idea but it's been circulated about a million times.

Not only are you drawing to two different flushes but also two different sets of quads!

In the latest news, I got worked last night at $1/2 6-max. So many favorites on the flop and turn died on the river. I hit TPTK on my AK/AQ/AJ hands about 10% of the time. Flopped sets and top two pairs were losing to flopped straights. It was overall nasty and I ended up dropping $175 after all this and a little bit of tilt.

Thankfully the Pokerstars bonus gave me $150 of it back.

[Thrush]

Originally Posted by bigsoos

That's "Self Proclaimed Legend"

Who?

[El Scorcho]

Me.

If it wasn't for luck, I'd win every hand.

[El Scorcho]

I put fear in the hearts of mortals!

archie_goodwin: btw i was trying to avoid u at the table
archie_goodwin:
DTSC:
archie_goodwin: im gonna table change

[actyper]

So scorcho, when are you going to tryout NL? Join the dark side

[El Scorcho]

Nooooo way. I mean, I know I can beat 25-100NL but it's the beats and the corresponding tilt that I worry about.

Besides, I've got a good thing going with the limit game. Nice steady stream of income that I'm happy with (pulled another $180 off Bodog in 5 hours yesterday).

Despite the couple hundred thousand hands I've played by now, I'm still pretty risk averse.

[namja]

6-handed table. $0.50/$1 NL table. I was SB.

I was dealt 36 o/s. 3 people limped in, so I called. BB checked. $5 in the pot.

Flop: 3 5 6 rainbow.

Deciding to slow play, I checked. BB bet $2. One caller. I thought about raising, but I wanted to show weakness, so I just call. Plus, someone could already have a straight, a higher two pair, or a set, then I'd be behind. $11 in the pot.

Turn: 6.

Perfect card. I'd only be behind to a 56. I check again. The BB bets $5. Next guy goes all-in for ~$6 more. I push all-in for another $11. BB calls.

A blank on the river. The BB had 55. MP had flopped a straight. I win with a higher full house. As I "gathered my chips" (too bad I can't stack my chips online), I thought what I might have done if the big action took place on the flop. Could I have called a big bet and an all-in? If you put at least one of them on a set, would you call?

[El Scorcho]

If there was heavy action on a tiny-card flop like 356 and there were a few limpers, I could easily lay down 63 here. Limpers usually indicate that people are set farming with tiny pairs.

[namja]

I'd like to think that I can lay it down easily. I derno though. Times like this, I prefer limit games. I won't have to pay much to see the turn.

[namja]

Playing a $3+$0.30 buy-in tournament with unlimited rebuys for one hour. I paid $9.90 total. We're 3 hours 17 minutes into the tournament as I type this. I am currently the chip leader. A few minutes ago, I had a three fun hands in a row.

Hand 1. I was chip leader with about 110,000 chips. 800/1600 blinds with 150 antes. Holding K2 clubs, in middle position, I raised to 3,200. One caller (2FacedTequila) calls. Next person (Bama_Gal_2) goes all-in for 5,535 more. I call. 2FacedTequila calls. I flop the nut-flush. Check, check (Bama_Gal_2 is already all-in). I bet 3,200 on the turn, and 2FacedTequila folds. I win the pot of 26,305. 2FacedTequila (just under 10,000 chips left) then says, "If you checked the turn, then you would have had all my chips on the river." Board showed a straight possibility (gut shot draw on the turn), so maybe that's what he had. I replied, "It's alright. You keep your change. It's probably coming my way anyway."

Hand 2. I fold junk. 2FacedTequila goes all-in, and there is one caller. 2FacedTequila doubles up.

Hand 3. I have AJ off-suit UTG. I raise to 6,950. 2FacedTequila goes all-in for 19,690 total. I call. He shows 99. I flop an A and take all his money. I say to him, "See, I got all your chips ... with interest!"



Anyway, I now have 167K in chips. 2nd place has 124K. Average chip count is 50K. 53 players remaining. Top 40 gets paid.


edited to add: Ok, i just lost 1/2 my stack on successive hands. First lost 50k with AK to QQ. Very next hand, lost 30K holding QQ to AK.

[Thrush]

Originally Posted by namja

I'd like to think that I can lay it down easily. I derno though. Times like this, I prefer limit games. I won't have to pay much to see the turn.

If I read your post right you were short stacked no?

With a short stack your supposed to go broke here every time.