Played a couple S&G's.
Got sucked out on in 10th the first game.

The second game, I went out as bubble-boy:


Oh well. Play is terrible at that level.

Played with a friend because I was bored...

Played a game with a friend at the table.
We never really tangled (I stole his SB once I think)
I was bored, and playing a bit... a bit less than optimal.

Worst turn ever...

But worst call on the river ever! Did he think I had pocket 3's??? Ha ha ha!

I'm a liiiiittle aggro... and lucky:



Standard play IMO:

Or I was getting bored.

Left the game down $.44. Totally worth it IMO. :)

G'night!

I enter a satellite that pays 4 places.
The dude on my right has shoved on me the last two times it was folded to him on my BB.


Crippled, I'm all in and loooooooooove the flop:

Micro slump

I had a great vacation with my family at the beach in L.A. last week. I didn't play any poker, and came back refreshed and eager to play. Although, I think I came back with a bit of homesickness.

Anyway, the games have been a bit frustrating.

I lost my $27 steps ticket with some bad luck (my middle pair vs his gutshot that hit runner/runner flush). Well, I won a Step 1 from it, but I tilted that off.

Then I played a game I really wanted to win, the CardsChat HU game. I even went to my ex-in-law's place to use their DSL.
I played about a dozen hands, with K/2 being my best hand, when I got knocked out of the game. I could sometimes see my hands, but I couldn't click the button to return. It was miserable.
Occasionally I'd be active for a second, but before I could click bet/fold I'd be cut off again.
When I was down to $700 in chips I decided that my only chance of winning was to shove any two cards if I could access the game, and hope to get lucky.
I got in with J/T, I shoved, he won with a pair of kings.
It was a crushing game. To see my cards (A/Q, J/J, etc) and not be able to play... it was painful. And I love HU play and I love CC games.
I'd seriously rather have lost a regular $20 game via suckout than that particular $5 game the way I did.

The next day we had the deep stack CC tournament. This is another one that I really wanted to do well in. Redemption time, right?
Player #3 is a smart player and I crush his range at that point. He's shoving almost any pair, and A/7+ I think as he's down to less than 10 bb's.

The whole time I was thinking "No Ace! No Ace!" so I didn't even notice the two 9's on the board. So after the hand I said "GG" and was surprised to see "my" chips go his way. Ugh!

A bit later:

I hate it when I lose with the worst hand. :)
This was against the same player. I figured he pot committed himself with his T/T+, A/Q+ so I shoved. Oh well.
Of course, I was unable to come back from that and was out two hands later.

So today I decided to go to UB and try to build my BR. It was really slow at first (not a turbo like I'm used to), but when the bubble is close I kick it into gear and get aggressive and go from short stack to big stack.
Then I work my way to HU.
Then I get all-in on the turn with the nuts:


Then I flop top pair with an open ended straight draw:

Zoink! I fail to suck out and game over.

...but at least I finally made a profit.

Anyway, I plan on playing in a money added game tonight on UB. It has a nice overlay, and is at 7:00 which is a good time I think.
GL to me!

Bleh

I played some FaceBook poker, and had some bad beats (A/K vs A/Q all-in-pre and he hits a Q, and all-in with my top pair/top kicker vs his weak flush draw, and he hits). So I was tilting some.

First I played a $2 S&G. The bubble seemed to last as long as the rest of the game.
Anyway, I went out on the bubble when I shoved a limper with my T/T, and he had A/K, and he paired both cards.

Then I did some $10 NL.

Pesky river gets me to commit chips:

Yeah, should have c-bet more. On the river I figured he had a J as well. Oh well.

Wimpy check/raise was bad. Fold was good:

I don't know what I was thinking. He was a calling station. I should have just raised pre-flop. Guess it saved me money, but still a bad play.

The villain here had a VPIP of 60%. IE< he voluntatiy put money into the pot 60% of the time. I was in 20% for comparison.

I basically tilt off my stack with a singly pair. I was bound to lose money, but it didn't have to be that much.

Ok...
So I'm tilting and don't care about losing that last $5.

Guess he was bluffing.

Blah blah blah it's late and I was up early

I have a Raketherake account, so I can get 30% of my rake back from Ultimate Bet.
I wish I signed up through them, because then I'd get 27% back with Full Tilt. Sites only give rakeback on your *first* account, so if you don't use the affiliate code when you sign up the first time you're pretty much screwed for life.
Anyway, using this link will get you rakeback,and gets me a tiny smidgen too:


Ok, that stuff aside, I'm still having deposit issues. Checks and check cards aren't working to play this game of skill that so many people misunderstand.

Hey...
I had some hands I wanted to post but the file is gone. Tha desktop cleanup I did last night must have swept them away.

Anyway, all I played yesterday was a $6 S&G on UB. I forget how many people started, but it paid to 60-somethingth place and I went out 90-something. It was a "sniper" tournament, so I got $1 for each of the three people I knocked out, which took some of the sting out of losing.
My final hand was a 3-bet shove with Q/Q against what ended up being K/K. I failed to suck out. Had he had A/K or J/J I'd be a virtual lock to make the money.

There were some weird hands early on. Three people all in pre-flop. The chip leader had K/2s, #2 in chips had Q/Q, and the shortest guy had 4/4.
The shorty doubled up with quad 4's, and the chip leader stacked the middle-stack with a flush. Totally sick.

Meanwhile I got burned with A/K doubling up a guy with K/K in a small blind vs his button raise and a couple other similiar scenarios (not as painfull chip-wise).
But then I got K/K and doubled up, followed immediatly by A/A where I stacked two people.

Anyway, this is the most boring post ever.

UB

Not a good night, and I blew a huge chunk of my roll.
I'm playing under-rolled, and just doing it for fun until I actually deposit and grind, but it's still a bit of a bummer.
But at least I have way more than the $10 seed UB gave me.

I mean, I'm fine with losing, I just lose in frustrating ways, and all the players I thought were good seemed to be losing on the river as well. I don't think I ever made a set.
One guy with a brain had K/K and despite a Q on the board he got a guy with J/J to commit 1/2 his stack on the turn. The river was a J, and he shoved FTW.


I suspected that he has A/Q, but he and others were calling down with weak kickers so I just bet it. Had he bet $10 there on the river I'd have folded, as I smelled a rat.

At least I smiled after this one.


Anyway, UB money is like FT money. I don't consider it "real" because I never deposited.

I still have plenty of BR to play with, but man, I lost like half of it. If *only* I can manage to flop a set...

I have several online friends in Vegas now. I'm jealous. You know, I think I'll pick an online account and designate it "Vegas 2010 Fund," then grind it up and cash it all out (sans a couple hundred bucks to tinker with) to go next year.
Maybe I will.
:)

It's late and I've been sleeping at 3:45-4:00 the past several nights so I'm going to try to get to bed early tonight.