Hand of the Night

Holding hands for the Hand of the Day

This hand is not all that interesting, other than the fact that my opponent stacks off 200+BB.  A little preface for the hand: the site that I'm on offers a forced ante hand randomly.  I'm not sure of the odds of a forced ante, but in the event it's a "bomb pot," every ponies up a BB and we automatically see a flop... i.e. no pre flop action.

This hand comes to you from a $0.25/$0.50 table - where I'm pleased to announce that I'm playing nearly 100% of my time.

$4.00 in the pot (8 players * $0.50 per).  Flop is 4hQsQd.  I'm in the SB with 55, and first to act.  I check & it checks to the HJ who bets half pot, $2.  He's now sitting on $53.02.  BTN calls with $114.77 behind, and I flat leaving me with $123.16.  I've seen these players bet the 4 often enough to know I should see a turn card without much thought.

I'm sure you know where this is going: 5d on the turn, completing my totally hidden 5's full of queens.  Board reads 4hQsQd5d  Now, I'm not sure if either them have anything whatsoever, and I'm okay with letting a free card go if they both have air.  However, I'm going to find out pretty quickly if one of them have a Q, because I expect a continued bet - particularly because there's a 2 flush board out there, and there's also a straight draw with the 4 5.  To my delight, the HJ bets $6.50 - for sure repping the Q, and the fat stack BTN comes along for $6.50.  Now I'm faced with a dilemma; I want to stack the 200BB guy.  If I have any shot of doing that, I need to juice the pot now, or hope to get it in on the river.  If I juice the pot now, though, I can set up an easier river shove, rather than a jagged over bet on the riv or a check/raise.  With $23 in the middle prior to my call, I go roughly pot, raising to $24.  They both come along.

$82 in the pot and $90.77 effective (I have more than the BTN, so we're playing for his $90.77 stack).  River is 7s, completing a weird backdoor straight, but otherwise not providing much fear to any naked Q.  I didn't feel comfortable at the time (retrospectively, I probably should have opened shoved, so I missed out on another $15 in profit) so I led the river for $75.  Both players snap call and I scoop probably my largest pot yet on this site: $257.52.

HJ shows KdQh and BTN shows QcJs for the case Queen....  NH fellas!

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The hand in question is linked here.

If you're going to lose a hand, do it spectacularly!

Poker has been terrible for me this year.  I say that tongue in cheek; I've played little more than 5 sessions - if that much.  I've been working a lot lately, going back through last year and, in fact, my overall poker sessions are way down against my prior year(s) averages.  Therefore, I supposed I'm being quite myopic in my overall outlook because of limited data points.  As it stands, I'm in the hole for a couple of buy ins, a situation I'm not accustomed to.  I realize that it's an ego thing and I'm probably being too pessimistic since there are 9 months remaining in the year, but I worry that I'll not be able to catch up on the deficit given the rate I'm playing.  I hate being in deficit territory!

Further increasing my deficit, telling for the title of the post, I'm here in Melbourne, Florida, for work.  As usual, I try to get a feel for the local poker scene, and had an opportunity to play for 2 hours last night at Club 52 @ Melbourne Greyhound Park.

After an up and down ride, I find myself sitting on my original buy in (~$200) - it's a 1/2 game.  After a couple of limps, I raise to $12 with TT.  2 players call as do the original 2 limps.  We see a 5-way flop of T 9 7 rainbow it gets checked to me.  I want players in the pot, and it's very likely I'll get action from this kind of flop.  I'm targeting hands like QJ, Tx, random 8's, random J's, etc.  This board hits a lot of 4 other player's ranges, and a bet with a vulnerable "nut" top set hand requires a bet.  I lead for $35, wanting to keep in the more likely gut shot J's and open enders.  Much to my chagrin, it folds around to the one aggro player who's been hitting the cards like a fiend.  He check raises me to $80 or so.  I'm never letting this go, and the way he's been going, I don't doubt he has a nut-like hand or monster draw (pair and straight draw, overs and straight draw, set, etc.).  I don't want a card on the turn / river discouraging further action from him or me, so I opt to get it in right there on the flop - I shove for ~$180.  He snap calls and immediately flips over 99 for a flopped mid set.  Before I can even flip my hand over, the dealer puts out a 9, his one out, completing quads for him!  This is now the second time in Florida (and the second time in live poker) that I've been one-outted (in 2014 at the Hard Rock / Tampa, I flopped a set of K's over a set of 8's and he also turned quads).  That ended my session on a sour note, further pushing me into loss territory for the year.

Side note: as it so happens, a few of the first round games of the NCAA basketball tournament are going to be played in Jacksonville - a 2 hour drive from here.  As a University of Maryland alum, I love to watch the Terps play, but haven't yet had an opportunity to watch a tournament game up close & personal.  Therefore, I'm extending my trip to drive up to Jacksonville to watch the Terps hopefully win its first round game and move on to the round of 32!  Maybe I'll be able to hit bestbet Jacksonville again?

FINALLY!!!! - Full Tilt Claims Administration Notice

For those living under a rock, back on April 15, 2011, the United States government seized Full Tilt poker's assets.  As a result, the player funds were trapped and have been frozen ever since.  2 and a half years later, the Full Tilt player base is finally in line to receive its rightful share of their accounts back.  It should be noted that the owners of Full Tilt have long been paid out for the sale of the site and / or acquitted of all charges.  It should be noted that although there was major supposed accounting issues with the online site, the main shareholders of the site continued to live their lives unscathed - continuing to live in nice, expensive houses, with nice, expensive cars, sticking it in the eye of the account holders by continuing to play high stakes poker, golfing, and otherwise living a carefree life filled with revelry and debauchery.  WTF?

Nevertheless, I am happy that it looks like I will receive my portion of the player funds, a modest sum.  I suppose I consider this "found money," since I had kinda written off the $~2k years ago as a cost of doing business in the post-UIGEA poker world.  I guess I'm going to take this money and do what I do with all my money - hookers & booze!  Okay.  Maybe not - who am I kidding?  It's probably going into the bank never to be heard from again until retirement.  Boo!  I guess I wasn't really missing it in the first place.

Anyway, received this letter last night from The Garden City Group, Inc. (GCG), the company appointed by the government to distribute the asset base:

TO:         United States Full Tilt Poker Players Who Were Victims of Full Tilt Poker’s Fraud
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Thursdays at Charles Town

I am slowly coming around to the idea that my continual poor results at the casino in Charles Town are due to the days of the week that I'm playing.  In the past, I'd primarily play Fridays and Saturdays - prime days in which the gamblers are playing any two cards, the games are far more aggressive, and I'm the one playing more fish-like, in that I'm calling more and raising less.  This is due to an overall lack of cards, but more so being continually drawn out on.  Raises on a Friday and Saturday are met with no respect, and a $15 raise at 1/2 fetches 4-5 callers...  heck, a solid 3-bet can get 3 callers.  Regardless whether I have the best holdings pre-flop, chances are, without a pair, that I won't have the cards when I see the flop.  This is in polar contrast to playing Thursday nights, which I've been playing the last 2-3 sessions.  Raises get far more respect, and even though the post flop play is just as bad at 1/2 during any night of the week, Thursday-night players are not there to gamble it up with literally any two cards.

It's funny; I would figure that I want callers when I'm raising - my PF raises are nearly 100% value-oriented, 0% bluff-oriented.  The amazing thing is that these players don't care that they're behind PF, and clearly have no recognition that they're not getting paid when they hit their flushes or straights.  I should do better on Fridays and Saturdays over Thursdays because I'm getting the calls I want.  However, when that father variance rears his ugly head (which I've seen at Charles Town since I've been playing there), I can't allow myself to get called down to the river holding my Ace-King high vs. a villain's Ace-9 which happened to flop top pair.  Or the best is the typical AK 3-bet vs. Ax  setup hand where they call the $50-60 flop bet and turn two pair to stack me on the turn / river.

I'm tilting myself now, thinking about the nastiness that I've experienced at Charles Town.  I'm actually showing a profit for Charles Town in 2012.  I'll try to continue the Thursday night trend :-).

Sick bad beat... quads over quads!?!?!?!?

Omgitsjoshua spent a lot of money last night, in order to get a PokerTableRatings.com tattoo. Here is a picture of the tattoo he got:

I don't know why he wanted to pay so much for the tattoo; he doesn't have any tattoos in real life... So why pay $53.90 for an online tattoo? Really, it's meaningless, right? Who pays attention to such things?

Anyway, I say all of the above in jest: Josh flopped the nuts with QUADS! And how do you get your money in the middle when you're behind with QUADS?!?!?!? When the villain turns QUADS himself!

I will never speak of a bad beat again in my life, after having seen the disaster below.*

*I retract that last statement. I still reserve the right to complain - just not as loudly as I normally would.

Full Tilt Poker $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

Hero (BTN): $53.90
SB: $129.65
BB: $54.95
UTG: $25.10
MP: $90.30
CO: $50.00

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is BTN with Jc Js
UTG raises to $1.50, MP calls $1.50, 1 fold, Hero calls $1.50, SB calls $1.25, 1 fold

Flop: ($6.50) Qd Jh Jd (4 players)
SB checks, UTG checks, MP checks, Hero checks
Crafty Josh plans to let the villain "get there" so that he can get his stack in the middle... DO I REALLY NEED COMMENTARY ON THIS?

Turn: ($6.50) Qs (4 players)
SB checks, UTG checks, MP checks, Hero bets $3, SB folds, UTG folds, MP calls $3

River: ($12.50) 8s (2 players)
MP bets $5, Hero raises to $49.40 all in, MP calls $44.40

Final Pot: $111.30
Hero shows Jc Js (four of a kind, Jacks)
MP shows Qc Qh (four of a kind, Queens)
MP wins $108.30
(Rake: $3.00)
For those of you who can't read, that would be 4 of a kind over 4 of a kind. This is a bad beat by definition. Maximum suckage - I propose a moment of silence in reverence to Josh... please everyone bow their heads when they read this, and give the man your best wishes of luck in the future.*

*Selfish me says thank God it wasn't me on the end of the beat-down stick.

I totally suck... I hate this game!

I just don't get it. When I run bad, I RUN BAD. This parallels last night's BS session. The pattern is to get up a buy in, and then get sucked out miserably. I just don't get it. I agree that the bet on the end on the hand with AA is a little suspect. I should have checked behind. Oh yeah, and I don't think I've won a coin flip since the Hoover administration. WTF?!?!?!?! However, this is a summary of my night:

Full Tilt Poker $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players - http://www.thehandconverter.com/hands/252340
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

MP1: $38.17
MP2: $25.00
CO: $2.97
BTN: $42.29
SB: $28.06
BB: $10.00
Hero (UTG): $8.69
UTG+1: $25.35
UTG+2: $18.19

Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is UTG with Jh Ad
Hero calls $0.25, UTG+1 calls $0.25, 5 folds, SB calls $0.15, BB checks

Flop: ($1.00) 4h 9h Jd (4 players)
SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets $0.75, UTG+1 calls $0.75, SB folds, BB folds

Turn: ($2.50) 8d (2 players)
Hero bets $1.25, UTG+1 calls $1.25

River: ($5.00) 6d (2 players)
Hero checks, UTG+1 bets $2.50, Hero calls $2.50

Final Pot: $10.00
Hero mucks Jh Ad
UTG+1 shows 8h 6h (two pair, Eights and Sixes)
UTG+1 wins $9.50
(Rake: $0.50)

Full Tilt Poker $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold'em - 8 players - http://www.thehandconverter.com/hands/252342
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

CO: $37.63
BTN: $2.66
SB: $22.83
BB: $24.50
UTG: $25.00
Hero (UTG+1): $26.07
MP1: $34.56
MP2: $21.10

Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is UTG+1 with Ah Ad
UTG raises to $0.75, Hero raises to $2, 6 folds, UTG calls $1.25

Flop: ($4.35) 8c 7s 5d (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero bets $2.25, UTG calls $2.25

Turn: ($8.85) 7c (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero bets $4, UTG calls $4

River: ($16.85) 6c (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero bets $8, UTG calls $8

Final Pot: $32.85
UTG shows 9c 9s (a straight, Nine high)
Hero shows Ah Ad (two pair, Aces and Sevens)
UTG wins $31.21
(Rake: $1.64)

Full Tilt Poker $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold'em - 8 players - http://www.thehandconverter.com/hands/252343
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

SB: $42.03
BB: $29.32
Hero (UTG): $20.44
UTG+1: $4.80
MP1: $19.87
MP2: $26.57
CO: $59.19
BTN: $25.00

Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is UTG with 9d 9c
Hero calls $0.25, UTG+1 calls $0.25, 1 fold, MP2 calls $0.25, 2 folds, SB raises to $1.10, 1 fold, Hero calls $0.85, 1 fold, MP2 calls $0.85

Flop: ($3.80) Jh 3c 5h (3 players)
SB bets $2.50, Hero calls $2.50, MP2 folds

Turn: ($8.80) 2s (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $3, SB raises to $10, Hero raises to $16.84 all in, SB calls $6.84

River: ($42.48) Ad (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $42.48
SB shows Ks As (a pair of Aces)
Hero shows 9d 9c (a pair of Nines)
SB wins $40.36
(Rake: $2.12)

Suckouts galore & sucky poker...

Suckout...

Full Tilt Poker $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players - http://www.thehandconverter.com/hands/222206
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

Hero (UTG+1): $22.40
UTG+2: $4.65
MP1: $9.24
MP2: $6.64
CO: $3.15
BTN: $5.00
SB: $26.17
BB: $70.87
UTG: $12.47

Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is UTG+1 with 4h 4d
1 fold, Hero calls $0.25, 1 fold, MP1 calls $0.25, 4 folds, BB checks

Flop: ($0.85) Qc 7d 4s (3 players)
BB checks, Hero checks, MP1 bets $0.85, BB folds, Hero calls $0.85

Turn: ($2.55) 8d (2 players)
Hero checks, MP1 bets $2.55, Hero raises to $6.25, MP1 calls $3.70

River: ($15.05) 5d (2 players)
Hero bets $1.89, MP1 calls $1.89 all in

Final Pot: $18.83
Hero shows 4h 4d (three of a kind, Fours)
MP1 shows 9c 6c (a straight, Nine high)
MP1 wins $17.89
(Rake: $0.94)

After suckout...

Full Tilt Poker $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players - http://www.thehandconverter.com/hands/222207
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

SB: $21.43
Hero (BB): $20.00
UTG: $25.00
UTG+1: $31.19
UTG+2: $38.91
MP1: $5.35
MP2: $12.78
CO: $42.09
BTN: $23.25

Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is BB with Jh Kh
7 folds, SB raises to $0.75, Hero calls $0.50

Flop: ($1.50) Kc 5s 9c (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $1, SB calls $1

Turn: ($3.50) Jc (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $1.75, SB calls $1.75

River: ($7.00) As (2 players)
SB bets $2.75, Hero calls $2.75

Final Pot: $12.50
SB shows Jd Ah (two pair, Aces and Jacks)
Hero mucks Jh Kh
SB wins $11.88
(Rake: $0.62)

After suckout... (this was a marginal suckout, but sucky suckout nevertheless)...
Full Tilt Poker $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players - http://www.thehandconverter.com/hands/222209
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

Hero (SB): $15.37
BB: $24.65
UTG: $25.00
UTG+1: $20.21
UTG+2: $34.30
MP1: $27.98
MP2: $11.78
CO: $18.07
BTN: $5.00

Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is SB with 4d 4c
2 folds, UTG+2 raises to $0.50, 1 fold, MP2 calls $0.50, 2 folds, Hero calls $0.40, BB calls $0.25

Flop: ($2.00) 3h 3d Th (4 players)
Hero checks, BB checks, UTG+2 bets $0.75, MP2 folds, Hero raises to $3, BB folds, UTG+2 calls $2.25

Turn: ($8.00) 9s (2 players)
Hero checks, UTG+2 bets $1.75, Hero raises to $11.87 all in, UTG+2 requests TIME, UTG+2 calls $10.12
Background: UTG+2 is raising a HUGELY wide range (52/36 or something) so I'm positive I'm ahead...

River: ($31.74) Jd (2 players - 1 is all in)
Motherf'er!

Final Pot: $31.74
Hero shows 4d 4c (two pair, Fours and Threes)
UTG+2 shows 8h Qh (a straight, Queen high)
UTG+2 wins $30.16
(Rake: $1.58)

Followed by TILT...
Full Tilt Poker $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players - http://www.thehandconverter.com/hands/222213
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

UTG+2: $21.93
Hero (MP1): $24.78
MP2: $25.00
CO: $28.26
BTN: $38.91
SB: $5.00
BB: $12.21
UTG: $22.16
UTG+1: $24.25

Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is MP1 with Ad As
UTG calls $0.25, 2 folds, Hero raises to $1, 5 folds, UTG calls $0.75

Flop: ($2.35) 8h Qs 9h (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero bets $1.75, UTG raises to $4.25, Hero calls $2.50

Turn: ($10.85) Qc (2 players)
UTG bets $5.50, Hero calls $5.50

River: ($21.85) Qd (2 players)
UTG bets $11.41 all in, Hero calls $11.41

Final Pot: $44.67
Hero mucks Ad As
UTG shows Qh Kh (four of a kind, Queens)
UTG wins $42.44
(Rake: $2.23)
So I am I laying down the nut boat to the possibility of QUAD F'ING QUEENS!?!?!?!?

I suck at poker.

Summing up my night last night

Why not RR pre flop and get it in? Are you waiting to see an undercard flop? If you think you're good PF, why not push PF? You're pushing the flop and nothing has changed from PF to flop. Just get it over with, MP1. Oh, and BTW, good push with deuces, BB. Really? You're flipping against SIGNFICANT resistance with deuces? I hope you do that EVERY TIME. But come on poker GODS, can't you at least let me win ONE hand where I'm a significant favorite? Just ONE HAND?

This hand was the culmination of a night of JJ < J8o, KK < 56o (both were back to back hands), AK < 75o, and a whole host of out flopped pocket pairs and missed draws. I remember one point in the night, somehow getting it all in on the flop with 7s9s vs. 33 or 22 (can't remember) where the board was 6s3s8d. Really? Any 7 or 9? Any spade? Any 5 or T? Come on. 21 outs - HALF THE DECK - and I miss?

I pray for a NICE run tonight to recapture the 4 buy ins I'm down from last night. I pray for the same donkey that calls J8o to a 5x PF raise, or 56o to a 4x PF raise. I pray for cards that will hold up in value. I prey on donkeys.


Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10 BB (8 handed) - Full-Tilt Converter Tool from http://www.flopturnriver.com

UTG ($13.14)
UTG+1 ($10)
MP1 ($4.73)
MP2 ($7.36)
Hero (CO) ($6.87)
Button ($4.32)
SB ($7.91)
BB ($3.50)

Preflop: Hero is CO with Ks, Kc
2 folds, MP1 calls $0.10, 1 fold, Hero bets $0.40, 1 fold, SB raises to $0.70, BB calls $0.60, 1 fold, Hero raises to $2.50, SB calls $1.80, BB raises to $3.50 (All-In), Hero calls $1, SB calls $1

Flop: ($10.60) 6d, 7s, 6s (3 players, 1 all-in)
SB bets $1.50, Hero raises to $3.37 (All-In), SB calls $1.87

Turn: ($17.34) Qs (3 players, 2 all-in)
As expected; like clockwork. Did you expect yours truly to hit his King? NO WAY! Once again, I get in with the best, and out with the worst. Too bad the BB donkey didn't hit his duece. That would have been truly classic!

River: ($17.34) 10h (3 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: $17.34 | Rake: $1.15

Results:
SB had Qh, Qc (full house, Queens over sixes).
BB had 2h, 2d (two pair, sixes and twos).
Hero had Ks, Kc (two pair, Kings and sixes).
Outcome: SB won $16.19