A Good Drunken Night

I played a lot of poker today. The tournaments went ok, the cash games went great. I'll see what I can remember from the day.

1) $20+2 Limit Multi on Party -- Finished in the low 40's out of abouut 350 (40 paid) in this thing. It was fairly uneventful until this hand....

Texas Hold'em Level:11 Stakes(2000/4000)
Table Regular(662807) Table #3 (Real Money)
Seat 10 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 3: Hero ( $15440 )
Seat 5: pmacca23 ( $5230 )
Seat 6: ode8100 ( $41390 )
Seat 8: joejamesjr ( $20350 )
Seat 9: needfunds111 ( $10183 )
Seat 10: wynnlv ( $8065 )
Seat 2: aerickson_14 ( $35105 )
Seat 7: stroker430 ( $52290 )
Seat 1: Kings_of_Pain ( $21260 )
Trny:22175966 Level:11
Stakes(2000/4000)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hero [ Kd 4s ]
pmacca23 folds.
ode8100 folds.
stroker430 calls [2000].
joejamesjr folds.
needfunds111 folds.
wynnlv folds.
aerickson_14 folds.
Hero checks.
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ks, Td, As ]
Hero bets [2000].
stroker430 calls [2000].
** Dealing Turn ** [ Kh ]
Hero bets [4000].
stroker430 calls [4000].
** Dealing River ** [ Jc ]
Hero checks.
stroker430 bets [4000].
Hero calls [4000].
stroker430 shows [ Qd, 9d ] a straight, ten to ace.
Hero doesn't show [ Kd, 4s ] three of a kind, kings.
stroker430 wins 25000 chips from the main pot with a straight, ten to ace.

I know, I don't really have to call the river, but c'mon. Does he really have to call the turn getting getting 4:1 with the gutshot and get there? Of course he does!

2) $5+1, $15K Gtd. on Party -- for starters I thought this was a rebuy, as I usually don't play this low for a freezeout. Ok, that's fine. I was doing pretty well until I ran TT into JJ and JJ into AA against the same player. Then I got my last 15BBs in with 66 vs. A9o and lost.

3) $30+3, $35K Gtd. on Party -- Lost a ton of chips on this beauty:

NL Texas Hold'em Level:2 Blinds(30/60)
Table $35k Gtd.
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: jfoy19 ( $5493 )
Seat 3: Hero ( $3865 )
Seat 4: ZebWalker ( $2516 )
Seat 7: RaisnVegasII ( $7987 )
Seat 8: NoAzGuy ( $6010 )
Seat 9: yodel15 ( $3090 )
Seat 10: CaliSugarBabe ( $950 )
Seat 5: Over20 ( $3844 )
Seat 2: jcbdenmark ( $2250 )
Seat 6: bstone3 ( $3691 )
Trny:22167645 Level:2
Blinds(30/60)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hero [ Qc Qd ]
RaisnVegasII calls [60].
NoAzGuy folds.
yodel15 calls [60].
CaliSugarBabe calls [60].
jfoy19 calls [60].
jcbdenmark folds.
Hero raises [450].
ZebWalker calls [450].
Over20 folds.
bstone3 folds.
RaisnVegasII calls [390].
yodel15 folds.
CaliSugarBabe calls [390].
jfoy19 folds.
** Dealing Flop ** [ Kh, 2s, 9s ]
RaisnVegasII checks.
CaliSugarBabe checks.
Hero bets [2200].
ZebWalker is all-In [2066]
RaisnVegasII folds.
CaliSugarBabe folds.
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3d ]
** Dealing River ** [ 5s ]
Hero shows [ Qc, Qd ] a pair of queens.
ZebWalker shows [ As, 8s ] a flush, ace high.
Hero wins 134 chips from side pot #1 with a pair of queens.
ZebWalker wins 6142 chips from the main pot with a flush, ace high.

Yes. Call for 1/5 of your chips preflop with A8s. Well-played, sir. I lost the rest of my chips by slow-playing AA and ending up all in on the flop vs. 78s and TT on a 556 board. The 9 hit the river to break both overpairs.

4) $20+2 Satellite to $500K on Party -- I won another seat in the Party $500K, which I won't be playing tomorrow. I now have two seats to this thing. I just need a free sunday or two to do these. Here's the hand that locked the seat up for me --

NL Texas Hold'em Level:8 Blinds-Antes(400/800-25) Table $500K Qualifier Table #2 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 4: EXFELLON ( $7087 )
Seat 5: pmarieair ( $29742 )
Seat 6: Hero ( $16194 )
Seat 7: mako49 ( $14211 )
Seat 8: rcmitch19 ( $9214 )
Seat 9: konbig ( $22101 )
Seat 1: skiper44 ( $2865 )
Seat 2: mark5053 ( $7665 )
Seat 3: brez52 ( $29255 )
Trny:22176197 Level:8
Blinds-Antes(400/800-25)
skiper44 posts ante [25].
mark5053 posts ante [25].
brez52 posts ante [25].
EXFELLON posts ante [25].
pmarieair posts ante [25].
Hero posts ante [25].
mako49 posts ante [25].
rcmitch19 posts ante [25].
konbig posts ante [25].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hero [ 5c 2d ]
rcmitch19 calls [800].
konbig folds.
skiper44 folds.
mark5053 folds.
brez52 folds.
EXFELLON calls [800].
pmarieair folds.
Hero calls [400].
mako49 checks.
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ad, Th, 4s ]
Hero checks.
mako49 checks.
rcmitch19 checks.
EXFELLON checks.
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3d ]
Hero bets [2400].
mako49 is all-In [13386]
rcmitch19 folds.
EXFELLON folds.
Hero calls [10986].
** Dealing River ** [ 8s ]
Hero shows [ 5c, 2d ] a straight, ace to five.
mako49 shows [ 3s, Ah ] two pairs, aces and threes.
Hero wins 30197 chips from the main pot with a straight, ace to five.
Player mako49 finished in 27 place
Game #3990954766 starts.

Sweeeeeeet. Gin on the turn. Lucky for me. Especially lucky that someone else had a decent peice of the board. For the first time, I made a fold that I absolutely wouldn't have made if it wasn't a satellite (folded QQ in middle posistion in an unopened pot).


I think I ended up winning almost 100BBs in $3/$6 today, despite having a terrible start to the day. I ran into to a couple of uber-donks and things ended up going my way. One big thing I've noticed at $3/$6 that doesn't happen at $2/$4 is that the idiot loose players who constantly limp (ie, limp on the button KQs) always bet the flop when you check to them. Sort of a perverse sense of post-flop aggression even though they won't raise preflop.

Alright, I have to be up early for Easter festivities, it's getting late, and I'm wasted. Good night all.