Wednesday, June 10, 2015
#18 in chips in WSOP event #22!!! GO JOSH!!!
Just a quick update that my former co-writer, Josh, is currently #18 in chips in the WSOP #22 event! Good luck Josh when you start in an hour!
Friday, June 5, 2015
A quick good luck to all those playing the WSOP events
I missed a post on the poker tells series that I've been doing each week - that took a back seat to the real world work. I've been so slammed between my job & starting the next semester of school that I haven't had much breathing room.
All work and no play makes Poker Meister a dull boy, as they say... Therefore, I was able to get in a session last night. I took what was shaping up to be my best session ever - I hit all sorts of improbably BS from the blinds - J4 boated, a concealed QJ straighted, a 34ss backdoor straighted and called a river c/r all in bluff, etc. - that I was running on God mode, until it stopped. It was a bit deflating after crushing for the first 2 hours, but I came off my peak in the ensuing 3 hours, nevertheless turning in a solid session.
Anyway, I wanted to wish all of my friends - online & off - a quick good luck out there at the tables in Vegas this week! Good luck to Josh, [I think] PPP, MOJO, Lighting36, Brian, [looks like] edgie, Rob, GolfPro and any others who I may have forgotten! I hope each of you can bring home a bracelet!
All work and no play makes Poker Meister a dull boy, as they say... Therefore, I was able to get in a session last night. I took what was shaping up to be my best session ever - I hit all sorts of improbably BS from the blinds - J4 boated, a concealed QJ straighted, a 34ss backdoor straighted and called a river c/r all in bluff, etc. - that I was running on God mode, until it stopped. It was a bit deflating after crushing for the first 2 hours, but I came off my peak in the ensuing 3 hours, nevertheless turning in a solid session.
Anyway, I wanted to wish all of my friends - online & off - a quick good luck out there at the tables in Vegas this week! Good luck to Josh, [I think] PPP, MOJO, Lighting36, Brian, [looks like] edgie, Rob, GolfPro and any others who I may have forgotten! I hope each of you can bring home a bracelet!
Monday, June 1, 2015
Thursday's session summary
Nothing much to talk about from last week's session. I was playing well, but variance was certainly my enemy. I had a bunch of stupid hands where they should have held and / or won, but suckouts got the better of me. I'm going to post them as whining, just to get them off my chest.
Hand 1: Terrible player limps and it limps 5-way with a Q Q 7 flop (I hold KQ from mid position). Checks to BTN who leads for $10 and calls around to me - I raise to $25. BTN calls as does 1 other player. Terrible player raises to $110 and it folds out the field; I just call. Turn is a 4 and he shoves for $160 - I call and am shown QJo. River: 4. Puke - we chop.
Hand 2: Same terrible player as above calls a raise for $10 as do I with KJo on the BTN and we see a Jc8c9s flop. Original raiser plus others check to me & I lead for $45 into $55. Terrible player calls. Turn is a blank and I lead for his remaining stack, $110. He snap calls. River is a Qx and he shows Qc5c for the winner.
Hand 3: Limps 8-way around to me in the BB and I look down at JJ. I raise to $30. UTG calls ($12 behind - yes $12!!! behind), folds around to another shorty who calls ($35 behind - yes $35!!! behind) and finally competent player in SB calls. I love how a limp is worth the same as a $30 call, but standard - whatevers... Anywho, flop comes AcTc5 and I'm basically checked out of this hand. SB checks, I check, shorty shoves for $12 ($12!!! - yes $12!!!), other bad player just calls, as does SB - I decide to call and pray for my J. No such poker luck - 9s on the turn and it checks to the remaining short stack who shoves for the remaining $22 - check / raised by SB, and I fold. River a Ten and SB shows Ts9s for the boat, first shorty doesn't show - he had a small pocket pair (which idiot should have shoved PF), and second shorty shows Ad4d. Facepalm - these are idiots who have to actively manage breathing on a regular basis... It just pisses me off that not only did A4 get there on me, but T9 who I have crushed totally nutted on me. No fault of the T9 guy, but still - the awful play is just... well... awful!
Otherwise, there was one hand of note which wasn't even really an eye raiser:
I'm sitting at the table with a favorite fish of mine. At this point in the night, I actually just moved tables to be with my fish, who invited me over to his table. This guy loves to bet bet bet and push the table around. You can sit on a set with him and he'll bet it for you. I've taken to flat calling him more often than raising him and getting aggressive with him because I feel like he bluffs far more frequently than bets his draws / value hands.
Regardless, he leads UTG for $15 and I flat with AKo after the competent player above flats. I think 5 see a flop of 5c6cKd. Now my friend the fish is not dumb enough to try to bluff out 5 other players unless he has a significant hand, but he checks the flop. Competent player - who I read to be a serious player in all of the 3-4 hands I have on him at this point - leads for $25 into the $60 pot - weak sauce. I raise him to $75 which folds out the table back to him. He shoves over for $165 more.
Thoughts? FWIW, I folded.
Oh yeah - as I'm cashing out, I found a $25 green chip on the floor! Woot woot free moneys!!!! And, to add free money to free money, I got my $25 weekly bet promotion bonus (the 'Shoe is giving me $25 / week for May and [at least] June) PLUS a one-day offer of a $25 promotional chip on this past Friday. I wound up playing until around 12:30 AM and picked up my free money - on the $50 in bets, I won a whopping total of $15 at roulette :-(.
Hand 1: Terrible player limps and it limps 5-way with a Q Q 7 flop (I hold KQ from mid position). Checks to BTN who leads for $10 and calls around to me - I raise to $25. BTN calls as does 1 other player. Terrible player raises to $110 and it folds out the field; I just call. Turn is a 4 and he shoves for $160 - I call and am shown QJo. River: 4. Puke - we chop.
Hand 2: Same terrible player as above calls a raise for $10 as do I with KJo on the BTN and we see a Jc8c9s flop. Original raiser plus others check to me & I lead for $45 into $55. Terrible player calls. Turn is a blank and I lead for his remaining stack, $110. He snap calls. River is a Qx and he shows Qc5c for the winner.
Hand 3: Limps 8-way around to me in the BB and I look down at JJ. I raise to $30. UTG calls ($12 behind - yes $12!!! behind), folds around to another shorty who calls ($35 behind - yes $35!!! behind) and finally competent player in SB calls. I love how a limp is worth the same as a $30 call, but standard - whatevers... Anywho, flop comes AcTc5 and I'm basically checked out of this hand. SB checks, I check, shorty shoves for $12 ($12!!! - yes $12!!!), other bad player just calls, as does SB - I decide to call and pray for my J. No such poker luck - 9s on the turn and it checks to the remaining short stack who shoves for the remaining $22 - check / raised by SB, and I fold. River a Ten and SB shows Ts9s for the boat, first shorty doesn't show - he had a small pocket pair (which idiot should have shoved PF), and second shorty shows Ad4d. Facepalm - these are idiots who have to actively manage breathing on a regular basis... It just pisses me off that not only did A4 get there on me, but T9 who I have crushed totally nutted on me. No fault of the T9 guy, but still - the awful play is just... well... awful!
Otherwise, there was one hand of note which wasn't even really an eye raiser:
I'm sitting at the table with a favorite fish of mine. At this point in the night, I actually just moved tables to be with my fish, who invited me over to his table. This guy loves to bet bet bet and push the table around. You can sit on a set with him and he'll bet it for you. I've taken to flat calling him more often than raising him and getting aggressive with him because I feel like he bluffs far more frequently than bets his draws / value hands.
Regardless, he leads UTG for $15 and I flat with AKo after the competent player above flats. I think 5 see a flop of 5c6cKd. Now my friend the fish is not dumb enough to try to bluff out 5 other players unless he has a significant hand, but he checks the flop. Competent player - who I read to be a serious player in all of the 3-4 hands I have on him at this point - leads for $25 into the $60 pot - weak sauce. I raise him to $75 which folds out the table back to him. He shoves over for $165 more.
Thoughts? FWIW, I folded.
Oh yeah - as I'm cashing out, I found a $25 green chip on the floor! Woot woot free moneys!!!! And, to add free money to free money, I got my $25 weekly bet promotion bonus (the 'Shoe is giving me $25 / week for May and [at least] June) PLUS a one-day offer of a $25 promotional chip on this past Friday. I wound up playing until around 12:30 AM and picked up my free money - on the $50 in bets, I won a whopping total of $15 at roulette :-(.
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