Not Playing Enough...
I haven't played a whole lot of poker in the last week or so. I've been pretty busy with some stuff for school -- a situation that probably won't get any better any time soon.
I'm shooting for full-time funding instead of the part-time pay I normally get while I'm in school. This means that I have to work particularly hard during this quarter to impress my advisor. I'm doing a pretty good job at it and I'm pretty happy with the research I'm working on, so I can't really complain. It is a lot of work though, so the work and the class I'm taking are keeping me mostly away from poker for the time being.
I have played a little bit though. I played my weekly home game on Thursday, played cash games for a couple of hours on Friday evening, and even played a couple of tournaments today.
In the home game this week we played NLH, and I won. I was picking up quite a few hands. Here are some examples:
On the 1st hand, UTG raises to 300. There are 2 callers, I make it 1500 from the BB with AKo. Only UTG calls. Flop comes QJT (i.e., "gin"). I check, UTG checks. Turn comes a brick. I bet 2000, UTG folds.
Again during the 1st level. UTG does a straddle-bet for 200 (we each had around 30K in chips). If anyone doesn't know what this is, it's basically when the man UTG min-raises without looking at his cards. Sometimes cardrooms allow the straddle bet to be live (meaning that he can raise when it gets back to him) during cash game play. This being a tourney, it is basically a 3rd dead blind. Everyone folds, I call on the button with 33, all 3 blinds complete. Flop comes 3d6dTc. SB checks, BB checks, UTG bets 500, I make it 1200, SB folds, BB folds, UTG calls. Turn comes an offsuit 2. UTG leads out for 1500, I make it 5K, UTG thinks for a while and says something to the effect of "I think this is just a pissing contest." This tells me that he thinks I'm on some kind of steal and that he doesn't have to be that strong to call. He calls. River is an offsuit 7 for a 36T27 board. He checks, I bet 8500, he calls and doesn't show. This gave me an early chip lead.
During a later level we were 4-handed. UTG limps, I limp on the button with Kd4d, both blinds complete. Flop comes K45. I get in against the BB's 45o and take him out.
The final hand was actually pretty bizzarre (sp?); allow me to relate it to you. Blinds were 1.5K and 3K. The button/SB makes it 9K. I re-raise to 35K with A9o. My opponent had started the hand with about 60K in chips, so this pretty much committed me to the hand. He calls. Flop comes something like 368 rainbow. As I'm finishing up gathering the 25K or so in chips to set him all in he says "I call." This kinda wierded me out, and I had to think about the play for a minute. I was pretty sure he would have moved in before the flop with any better ace or any pair JJ and lower. I also didn't think he would have called my re-raise with anything that would have paired anything on that flop. So it looked like he either had QQ+ or some random broadway hand like KJ. I ended up moving in, getting called, and winning unimproved against the other guy's QTo.
I also played some cash games on Friday and ended up losing $40 or so. I was playing a table of $1/$2 Draw and a $3/$6 Hold'em ring game. I started out winning like $40 in the Draw game, but I ended up running bad for a while and losing it all back. It was pretty sick when I was running bad: People would always make trips when I had two pair and two pair when I had one pair. It also seemed like every time I would pick up a come hand in a multiway pot, somebody would bet into me post-draw every time I missed and check-fold when I hit.
Then there was the monster pot where some guy jumped two bets before the draw with a J-high open-ender to beat my pat 5-high straight. For some reason, the guy in front of me (who had made trips on the draw) bet into me after I stood pat. I wasn't really sure whether I should raise or just call here. I was pretty sure the guy behind me would have 3-bet me with 2 pair to try to get the pot shorthanded, so it seemed pretty obvious that he was on the come. I ended up raising and getting 3-bet by him and losing to his higher straight.
I also played in a $20 NLH tourney today on PokesPoker. I doubled early with 99 vs. AKo, picked up a bunch more chips with AA vs. QQ vs. A9o. I then lose about 1/3 of my chips when some guy rivers a gutshot on me and fails to bet it. Finally, I lost all my chips on the following hand: with blinds of 75/150, EP min-raises to 300. I make it 1100 in MP with AhKs. All fold, EP calls. Flop comes 2h3h4h, which really isn't a bad flop for my hand. EP checks, I move in for a little less than the pot, he calls with 6h6s. Turn is the 5h and I lose with a straight flush. Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.
Finally, I am currently playing a small $20 PLO tourney on PokesPoker. I don't seem to be going anywhere in it, and the prizepool is tiny anyway. In any case, I'll post again if anything of note happens.
I'm shooting for full-time funding instead of the part-time pay I normally get while I'm in school. This means that I have to work particularly hard during this quarter to impress my advisor. I'm doing a pretty good job at it and I'm pretty happy with the research I'm working on, so I can't really complain. It is a lot of work though, so the work and the class I'm taking are keeping me mostly away from poker for the time being.
I have played a little bit though. I played my weekly home game on Thursday, played cash games for a couple of hours on Friday evening, and even played a couple of tournaments today.
In the home game this week we played NLH, and I won. I was picking up quite a few hands. Here are some examples:
On the 1st hand, UTG raises to 300. There are 2 callers, I make it 1500 from the BB with AKo. Only UTG calls. Flop comes QJT (i.e., "gin"). I check, UTG checks. Turn comes a brick. I bet 2000, UTG folds.
Again during the 1st level. UTG does a straddle-bet for 200 (we each had around 30K in chips). If anyone doesn't know what this is, it's basically when the man UTG min-raises without looking at his cards. Sometimes cardrooms allow the straddle bet to be live (meaning that he can raise when it gets back to him) during cash game play. This being a tourney, it is basically a 3rd dead blind. Everyone folds, I call on the button with 33, all 3 blinds complete. Flop comes 3d6dTc. SB checks, BB checks, UTG bets 500, I make it 1200, SB folds, BB folds, UTG calls. Turn comes an offsuit 2. UTG leads out for 1500, I make it 5K, UTG thinks for a while and says something to the effect of "I think this is just a pissing contest." This tells me that he thinks I'm on some kind of steal and that he doesn't have to be that strong to call. He calls. River is an offsuit 7 for a 36T27 board. He checks, I bet 8500, he calls and doesn't show. This gave me an early chip lead.
During a later level we were 4-handed. UTG limps, I limp on the button with Kd4d, both blinds complete. Flop comes K45. I get in against the BB's 45o and take him out.
The final hand was actually pretty bizzarre (sp?); allow me to relate it to you. Blinds were 1.5K and 3K. The button/SB makes it 9K. I re-raise to 35K with A9o. My opponent had started the hand with about 60K in chips, so this pretty much committed me to the hand. He calls. Flop comes something like 368 rainbow. As I'm finishing up gathering the 25K or so in chips to set him all in he says "I call." This kinda wierded me out, and I had to think about the play for a minute. I was pretty sure he would have moved in before the flop with any better ace or any pair JJ and lower. I also didn't think he would have called my re-raise with anything that would have paired anything on that flop. So it looked like he either had QQ+ or some random broadway hand like KJ. I ended up moving in, getting called, and winning unimproved against the other guy's QTo.
I also played some cash games on Friday and ended up losing $40 or so. I was playing a table of $1/$2 Draw and a $3/$6 Hold'em ring game. I started out winning like $40 in the Draw game, but I ended up running bad for a while and losing it all back. It was pretty sick when I was running bad: People would always make trips when I had two pair and two pair when I had one pair. It also seemed like every time I would pick up a come hand in a multiway pot, somebody would bet into me post-draw every time I missed and check-fold when I hit.
Then there was the monster pot where some guy jumped two bets before the draw with a J-high open-ender to beat my pat 5-high straight. For some reason, the guy in front of me (who had made trips on the draw) bet into me after I stood pat. I wasn't really sure whether I should raise or just call here. I was pretty sure the guy behind me would have 3-bet me with 2 pair to try to get the pot shorthanded, so it seemed pretty obvious that he was on the come. I ended up raising and getting 3-bet by him and losing to his higher straight.
I also played in a $20 NLH tourney today on PokesPoker. I doubled early with 99 vs. AKo, picked up a bunch more chips with AA vs. QQ vs. A9o. I then lose about 1/3 of my chips when some guy rivers a gutshot on me and fails to bet it. Finally, I lost all my chips on the following hand: with blinds of 75/150, EP min-raises to 300. I make it 1100 in MP with AhKs. All fold, EP calls. Flop comes 2h3h4h, which really isn't a bad flop for my hand. EP checks, I move in for a little less than the pot, he calls with 6h6s. Turn is the 5h and I lose with a straight flush. Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.
Finally, I am currently playing a small $20 PLO tourney on PokesPoker. I don't seem to be going anywhere in it, and the prizepool is tiny anyway. In any case, I'll post again if anything of note happens.
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