A sad day for me, poker and freedom. I can no long play on Pokerstars.com I was just starting to get things going there too and get my roll up. I REALLY hope fulltilt doesn’t follow suit or else it’s panic time and I will be forced to move out of this city and state I’ve grown to love. The hypocritical lawmakers of Washington State are taking away my livelihood. There are 28 Indian Casinos in the state as well as a state run lottery.
I’ve tried contacting some local media companies KOMO, King 5, Seattle Times and Seattle PI to get them to do a story. No replies yet. You can follow a couple threads on the matter here and here.
Not much else to say… let me know if I can do anything else to help end the ban(already joined the ppa and contacted my legislature obv).
Poker’s still going pretty meh this month. Rather than moan some more I figured I’d just publish an old article I wrote awhile back to keep my readers interested. Hope you like!
Isildur1 has been tearing it up lately destroying all comers at NLH at the highest possible stakes and utilizing the “NO LIMIT” aspect of the game to the fullest degree with loads of river overbets so I thought I’d do a little bit of math on them as I think it’s a poorly understood concept for a lot of people.
When someone overbets the pot I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard, “Oh shoot, I better be right A LOT of the time here for calling to be good.” Well how much is “A LOT”. Turns out it’s not that much more than normal.
Intuitively think about it this way. If someone bets you $20 into a $5 pot that he can accurately predict the flip of a coin, would you take his bet? If you said no you fail. Hard. Yet I think a lot of poker players think they have to be right >50% of the time when someone overbets. The fact of the matter is it is impossible for you to have to be good >50% of the time facing a bet on the river into a pot that is already >$0. The reason being of course is that if you bet with someone at even odds then you only have to be good >50% of the time for it to be a good bet. When calling a bet on the river, you are basically taking someone’s bet at even odds, except you have the overlay of what’s already in the pot so even if they bet 100 times the pot you only have to be good <50% of the time for calling to be profitable. Let's start by looking at a hand I observed between Isildur1 and Patrik Antonius. Effective stacks are 127k. Patrik is dealt 8c7c in the small blind. Patrik (sb) 500 Isildur1 (bb) 1000 Patrik (sb) opens to 3000 Isildur1 (bb) 3 bets to 9000 Patrik (sb) calls Pot is 18k Flop Ks Qh 7s Isildur1 cbets 14k and Patrik Calls Pot is 50k Turn 6d Isildur checks, Patrik checks behind River 4d so final board is Ks Qh 7s 6d 4d Isildur overbet jams 102k into the 50k pot. Patrik...calls/folds with his 3rd pair 8 kicker? Before I go through the math, intuitively answer these questions for yourself. From Patrik's perspective: How often does Isildur have to be bluffing for calling to be profitable? From Isildur's perspective: If he's bluffing, how often does Patrik have to fold for it to be profitable? If he instead bluffed 3/4 pot how often does Patrik have to fold for it to be profitable? If he's value betting, what % of the time does he miss value by overbetting? (ie if you think Patrik calls a "normal 3/4 pot bet" 40% of the time, but an overbet only 25% of the time your answer would be 15% (40-25=15) Okay now that you quickly skimmed over my questions and neglected to answer any of them time for me to hand feed you the answers. From Patrik's perspective he has to call 102k into a pot that will be 254k so he has to be good 102/254=40% of the time for calling to be correct. Compare this to the "normal" 3/4 pot bet of 37k into a 50k pot, he's calling 37k into a pot that will be 124k, so 37/124=30% so he only has to be good 30% of the time for calling to be correct. So yes when calling a two times pot bet on the river he has to be correct 33% more of the time (40/30=1.33), but this isn't exactly A LOT or nearly as much as some people think when contemplating a call in this spot. From Isildur's perspective if he's bluffing he either wins 50k or loses 102k. So 50x-102(1-x)=0 where x is the breakeven % of the time Patrik must fold for it to be a profitable shove. Solving for x we get 50x-102+102x=0 152x=102 x=102/152=67% So Patrik must fold at least 67% of the time for shoving to be profitable. Compare this to if Isildur bet 3/4 pot on the river we get 50x-37(1-x)=0 50x-37+37x=0 87x=37 x=37/87=43% Patrik must fold only 43% of the time when betting 3/4 pot for bluffing to be profitable. So if Isildur thinks he gains 24% in fold equity by overbet jamming two times the pot then this is clearly the better play. Let's compare the two scenarios for when Isildur is value betting. He can either win an additional 37k or 102k. Patrik will have to call the 37k nearly 3 times (102/37=2.76) as many times as the 102k bet so suppose Patrik calls a 3/4 pot bet on the river 30% of the time, he only has to call the two times overbet >11% (.3/2.76) of the time for overbetting for value to be better than 3/4 pot betting.
I imagine this is where a lot of Isildur’s edge is coming from. He is just very good at knowing when people are going to fold or call on the river and when they do call he gets three times the value that a normal person in his spot would have gotten. Of course it goes both ways. When he’s bluffing he loses 3 times as much, but like I said he’s probably very very good at gauging when someone’s ready to call or fold on the river and if you always know the answer to that question, there’s really no reason NOT to overbet every river (well if you could, you’d bet less when bluffing and more when value betting but you can’t obviously for balance reasons).
For those wondering about results in the hand, Patrik called and caught Isildur bluffing with AcJh to scoop the 254k pot.
I’ll just go ahead and tell you now there’s gonna be some whining so if you don’t want to hear it just leave now. Been downswinging pretty hard the past couple of weeks. July was one of my worst months ever, I ran -$25k in EV and ended up losing like $15k of my money online plus $10k playing the main event and $10k buying action. I was up a ridic amount at one point for the month so it’s been pretty soulcrushing. I had to withdraw a bunch for an ATM event I’m doing and I’m down to like $12k online right now trying to grind it up from $1/$2 and just keep on getting destroyed by the poker gods.
I knew I had been running bad on the year but I didn’t know just how bad until I checked a couple days ago. Well here it is. -$111k in EV for the year so far. That’s all. Just $111k. (double click the images to view full size)
I’ve also lost something like $30k playing live tournies, at least $10k buying action and who knows how much playing online tournaments and 2-7 triple draw. I know that 120kish hands is definitely not the long term but it just keeps me wondering what exactly is the long term. How many hands do I need to play before the run good happens? I also know past luck has nothing to do with future luck, and I know I ran bad last year too and just because I’ve ran bad up until now doesn’t mean I won’t run just as bad if not worse in the the future.
I’ve been really struggling mentally lately and I just can’t stop thinking “what if” or “why me” or “if only I weren’t so unlucky”. It’s a really bad way of thinking and it shifts my focus away from playing the best poker I can to instead blame luck for my results. I know I’ve made plenty of mistakes I could improve on and will continue to improve on but right now I’m really struggling with every hand and beat I take. Sorry for the moaning, but that’s my update for the past couple of weeks. Best of luck at the tables.
TED talk that explains why poker players move up in stakes after losing, or start 3 betting more or playing more aggressively to try and get their money back
I’ve been back in Seattle a couple of weeks now and gotten used to life in the real world again. That is to say none of my friends gamble and I’m no longer crushing online haha. When I first got back here my bankroll was peaking and I was playing higher than ever even jumping into a few 500/1k 7 games and doing okay. Since then it basically all went to hell and I suppose I got my comeupons for trying to push my luck. It all started on a day where I bought $10k worth of action in a nosebleed game that didn’t end up working out. Then I proceeded to “take a shot” which usually implies you have some strict stoploss but I didn’t really go in with any at the time at some 300/600 OE games and dropped about $36k there running terribly. Some hands that come to mind
It’s always nice to flop the stone nuts on a high, scooping board and end up with none of the pot. Anyways, I’ll try to keep the whining to a minimum. O8 is a very high variance game and I certainly still have some betting and non-betting leaks as I made more than a few mistakes and did a very poor job of minimizing my losses.
My daily totals for the week were something like +$13k, -$46k, -$10k, -$7k, -$5k followed by a couple of breakeven days. So ya I lost something like $60k over the course of a few days and thought for sure I was goin busto. It was by far the most stressed I think I’ve ever been in my poker career.
Since then I’ve taken a couple of days off and realized I’m still doing pretty damn well for myself. I’m still a 100 thousandaire and lead a pretty comfortable good life for myself which is more than most of my 24 year old peers can say. Sadly, my online roll is down to $20k due to having to withdraw a bunch to stock some ATMs for an upcoming event, and I pretty much refuse to redeposit so my current plan is to just grind 2/4 plo and 30/60 limit games and lower til I get back up to $50k online to start playing bigger again. So ya there it is for my poker update.
Lifewise I suppose the most interesting things are that I discovered the recipe for japanese white sauce and have made some of it and been putting it on pretty much everything I eat over the past couple of days. Man it’s tasty! You have to make sure you let it sit in the fridge overnight like the directions say as it tasted way too much like mayo right after mixing. I’ve also been looking into taking some beginner motorcycle lessons probably sometime in September as that’s the next available course I don’t have a conflict with. It’s $125 for 8 hours of ride time and I’m really looking forward to it. I’ve never been riding before but it’s always something I’ve wanted to learn how to do. If I really do end up enjoying I might have to go bike shopping!
I know I been slacking with the vids lately, so I’ll give ya two this time.
First a funny short one.
Then a long, angry one that gives my feelings toward poker this month.
Ended up busting about 837th with 747 getting paid. I doubled up early on with AQo vs KQ and was up to 105k. After that I bled away down to about 80k at 1500/3000/400 when utg who was the $5k NL bracelet winner young laggy guy opened utg to 7k and I decided to flat in the BB with 6s4s. Flop was 3d4d9d. I almost just check/folded right there, but ended up check/calling the 9k flop bet so going into the turn the pot was ~35k. Turn was the 9s and I led for 15k, he called pretty quickly. The river is the Jh and I check, he thinks for a bit and bet 15k into the 65k pot. At this point I have 45k to my stack and tanked for a couple minutes before finally folding. He told me later he had aces with no diamond so I’m pretty happy with the way I played this one.
After that I got it in with jacks vs the same guy from above who also had jacks and ended up chopping. Opened AK from EP once to be flatted by the bb, we ended up checking it down and he won on the 9857Q board with A7o. I folded 77 vs an EP opener who showed AJs and ended up overflushing someone on a 347QT board. Waited awhile and then shipped A9o utg+2 with 25k or so at 2000/4000/500 only to be reshipped on by another shortstack who held A8o. I held and was up to 50k or so thinking there’s a pretty good shot at me making the money at this point. The shortstack from above ended up shoving his last 21k into my big blind with 8Ts, and with me getting 2:1 I had to call with J9o. Flop was Q55, turn 6, river…8. Not much I could do.
After that I was pretty crippled again and folded for awhile until my last two hands. It was folded around to the button who had been playing pretty snug up til now and he shoved his 50k in on my sb with me starting the hand with 25k. I held As4s and tanked for a bit before finally letting it go. He tabled Qd9d, so I would have been ahead, but thought I could find a better spot. Very next hand folded to me on the button with 23k still at 2000/4000/500 and I shoved it in with 87o only to be reshipped on by the sb with AK. Flop was 952 rainbow giving me hope but turn and river bricked out and I busted after 28 grueling hours of play in this tournament.
I maybe could have waited a little longer for a slightly better hand since I had already paid the blinds, but whatever I’m sure my shove is +EV enough. I learned a lot this year and I’ll definitely be back again next year. I really regret my AQ hand from yesterday, as it basically cost me $30k if not more, but all I can do is learn from my mistake and not make it again in the future. That’s it for my series, shoutout to my roommate ceegee who’s still cruising in the main with like 400k. GL sir!
Finished day 2 with 63k and finished day 3 with 53k. There’s about 1200 people left going into day 4 and I’m likely going to need a double up to cash, so if there’s one time I’d like to run good it’s in the next couple of hours. In day 2 I wasn’t really patient enough and didn’t run too great which is why I lost chips in the day. Day 3 I played extremely well with the exception of one hand which unfortunately was by far the biggest hand I’ve played so far in the tournament. My table on day 3 was super soft and I just ran over it with virtually zero risk to my stack to get it up to 150k when my mistake hand happened.
Utg who has about 120k opened to 4k, I am utg+2 with AQo and elect to 3 bet to 11k. Folds back to him and he calls. Flop is Ah5d7d, he checks and I cbet (mistake #1) 14k into the 23k pot. He makes it 34k to go and I call. Turn is the As and he bets 40k. At decide to shove to get value from diamonds and straight draws (mistake #2) he snaps with pocket 5s no miracle ace, queen or 7 on the river for me. Ship the 240k pot his way. I really shouldn’t have cbet as it’s a way ahead way behind spot, but once I do I have to call the flop raise. After the turn is an ace and he still bets I think I can get away as it really looks like I have an ace, and he shouldn’t expect me to be folding 3 aces ever in that spot. Definitely the hand of the tournament for me and by far the one I regret the most. It’s really hard to play for 24 hours and not make mistakes, but that’s what this tournament is all about. I still have chips and a chance going forward though. Wish me luck today. Hopefully I’ll make some money.
Decided to come back for the main event after spending a bit less than a week back in Seattle. My roommates talked me into it by telling me how much EV I’d be missing out on if I didn’t play. After day1 I have 84k and I have to say I agree with them. There is just so much deep nl play it’s an amazing tournament. The only bad thing I might say about it is just playing one day of it and I’m hooked just like a drug addict. I’ll probably play this tournament every year for the rest of my life and I’ve added a nice little $10k to my yearly expenses. I’d rather not go into specific hands or strategy while I’m still in, but I will say I definitely ran good and am looking forward to day 2.
As far as the other prelim events go I ended up playing three more which I didn’t update or blog about, the $3k HORSE, the $1.5k shootout and another $1.5k 10max. The HORSE I couldn’t get anything going in and was down to 3k in chips when I caught a couple nice stud8 hands and was up to 11k or so at my peak, but then I lost a huge limit hold’em pot that was 4 bets preflop with my AK vs my opponents AJ and he ended up getting all in on the turn on an ace high board but rivered a flush on me. After that I was knocked out by none other than Chad Brown who opened the cutoff with A468 nut clubs in omaha 8 or better, sb flatted and I flatted the bb with AAJT with jack high clubs. Flop was KT8 one club, sb checks, I bet, Chad called, turn was 2c, I bet again, river was 3c and I bet 1000 of my last 1200 with my jack high flush only to be raised by his nut nut hand and I was out.
The shootout was really soul crushing as maybe the 3rd hand in I oversetted someone and thought it was going to be my day to run good. After that I took some brutal beats though, KK with spade draw vs AQ all in on turn on a Q high board early, I did suckout and river a straight vs someone’s top pair nut flushdraw for a medium sized pot, but the brutal pot I played was when it was 3 handed. I had 25k on the button, sb had 9k, bb had 11k. I open to 1000 at 200/400 with AK, sb flats, bb squeezes to 2600 I shove and he tanks forever before finally calling off his remaining stack with A2o. Flop is a deuce gg me. I win that and I’m headsup with a 4 to 1 chiplead. After that I doubled, then doubled the shortstack, it lasted a long time. I believe we were the last table to be playing 3 handed in the whole room. 70% of the tables were finished and we were still 3 handed. Bustout hand came when I reshipped QJo from sb vs buttons TT. Flop Q99 turn T and I’m out.
The last $1.5k ten handed I played I just got coolered a bunch and was out after 2.5 hours. Got QQ vs KK in the first level and lost 2000 of my 4500 chips. Bled down to 1500, doubled up with AK vs AQ. Then opened AQ, bb flatted me. Flop was A77 it goes check check, I bet the 3 turn and get checkraised and it doesn’t seem like he’s bluffing but he can def be value betting worse so I call then call the river and get shown AK. Bustout hand was me shoving my last 900 or whatever with ATs and getting called by AJo in the blinds.
June results overall were good for me as I won a bunch playing online and ended up netting about $20k or so despite going 1/12 in the prelim events and donating $15k to them in the process. Living and talking with my roommates has improved my skill in the limit games immensely the past month. Here’s a funny o8 hand I played today where I got totally owned by my opponent who successfully checkraises both the turn and river on me. I pretty much hate the way I played every street but oh well. I was going to post a cool k high call down I made in a super turbo today, but HEM can’t find it so you’re stuck looking at the bad and ugly with no good. Wish me luck in the main event tomorrow!
Ended up getting 20th in the 6max Limit Hold’em for my only cash so far. It was definitely exciting and fun, but not the place I was looking for. I played with a number big name pros in this event including Justin Bonomo, Michael Binger, Phil Gordon and a couple others. Most of these online pros have incredibly bad table presences in my opinion and just sit there silently playing. It’s bad for the game and incredibly boring to boot. I always try to make a point of chatting with my table mates and getting to know them and make playing with me an enjoyable experience. If you’re one of the silent ones with the headphones on I suggest you try the same for once. You can play in isolation silently all you want online, one of the perks of playing live is you can talk to people while you play.
As far as hand recaps go, its 6max limit hold’em so I played a lot of pots. Just before the bubble was starting I went on a huge heater and was up over 100k in chips, but then I got moved to a new table, the money bubble burst, I couldn’t flop a pair and made some bad river call downs with ace high etc. My last two hands were utg, who was just moved to my table so I have no read on, limps and I have KT of spades in the cutoff, I raise to isolate and he calls. Flop is QQ7 one spade, he checkraises my cbet and perhaps I should have just folded then but I thought there’s a good chance he has air or a dry 7 or 88 or something and if he does have a queen I still have backdoor spades. I peel, the turn is the 9 of spades, he bets I call, river is a brick and I fold my King high and am left with 1.5 big bets left. I think I played it fine, just woulda been nice to bink that spade on the river in this one. Bustout hand I was in the big blind with 12k in chips and blinds are 2k/4k. Button opens, sb flats I have J7 of spades and overcall. Flop is Q63 rainbow, sb checks I put my last small bet in, button raises, sb reflats and I’m feeling like I’m in a bad spot. Turn is and ace and a lot of action goes down and I’m pretty sure I’m drawing dead and out. My read is confirmed when the btn tables A6 and sb A3 both for two pair. Though my flop all in wasn’t bad as I still had two overs at that point.
Next tourny I played was the stud8 $1500. I ended up making day 2 but busted out 20 mins into it. I made a lot of dumb mistakes in this tournament which I’m pretty unhappy about. I missed 3 hands of the tournament, one after the dinner break of day 1 and two at the beginning of day 2. Both of the hands in day 2 I was dealt low cards as well. This is just dumb and I hope this never happens again. I was kind of on tilt before I even played a hand cause of it. I also made some really bad folds on day1 because I didn’t notice someone’s stacksize and thought there would still be 5 more streets of betting when really it was just one or two more bets to call their all in. I can blame fatigue or inexperience but all I can really do is do my best to avoid these mistakes in the future. Next year I’ll be 25 and it will be worth renting a car so I won’t have to deal with the taxi nonsense and being late. Now I always try to keep an eye on someone’s stack even in the limit tournaments as it’s very important.
Yesterday I played the $1500 HORSE. My table draw was okay, chipsayhoya (my stud8 coach) was seated two to my right which wasn’t exactly great, though what I lose in EV I think I make up for in having a friend at the table to chat with for the duration. People didn’t play especially bad, just mediocre I guess making a bunch of small mistakes like playing too loose on 3rd or from early position in O8. I couldn’t really get much going and was all in against chipsahoya with 66 vs his KTo in limit hold’em around level 4. I ended up doubling, and lasting a bit after the dinner break.
My final hand was an O8 hand I played a bit too aggressive in my opinion. Utg limps who has been pretty loose in the O8 hands so far, utg+1 immediately raises, I figure there’s a good chance he has AAxx, I’m on the button with AK26 double suited. I decide to 3 bet, as I have the button, may get the pot headsup and I’m an equity favorite over anything except AAxx. In reality, the pot will always be at least 3way, I risk putting 4 bets in and meh it’s a tournament in O8. My edge is extremely small preflop and I’m much better flatting. Anyways, folds to utg who flats, utg+1 4 bets and we both call. Flop is Q28 two diamonds one heart so my A2 low is counterfeited and I’m left with bottom pair, backdoor hearts and an A6 low draw. Basically a lot of mediocre stuff. Utg checks, Utg+1 bets, I raise in the hopes of again getting the pot headsup and potentially taking a free card on the turn. Plan completely backfires again as utg flats, utg+1 3 bets, and I’m stuck calling again. Turn is an offsuit King giving me top and bottom pair. Utg checks, utg+1 bets, at this point I know two of his cards (AA) and it’s extremely unlikely he can beat me for high with his other two so I raise for value, utg wakes up and 3 bets me and at this point I’m pretty sure I’m drawing dead to some deuces or maybe a 3 or 4 for a low. The pot is too big too fold though, utg+1 flats and I flat. River is a 7, utg checks, I put the last of my chips in and am scooped by utg’s KQxx and utg+1 AA3x. In hindsight I could have just flatted preflop and then maybe even just open folded the flop, but meh that’s what happened and I can’t change it now. Next event I play will be this Saturday in the $3k HORSE.
Finally made a day 2. Still pretty far away from the money with 122 remaining and only 36 pay. My chipstack is 34,000 going into 800/1600. Played too many hands today to remember. Pretty much every table had some recognizable pro. Played a bit with Hoss at the end of last night’s play and it was good to finally meet him as we’ve played a decent amount online together in 7 game. It was not the juiciest of fields but there were still your usual donks who for some reason get staked for these events who really have no business playing. I don’t mind as most of them busted pretty early on.
The stud hi event I ended up playing for 7 something hours before busting. I lost one critical hand when I was at my peak chipstack of 11k and opened (3s9s)Ks and ended up getting four way action for a huge pot at 400/800. Going into the river I was headsup vs this loose, bad old guy who was holding (9hTs)6d9dTcKh vs my (3s9s)KsJsJd5h so my flushdraw with a pair of jacks vs his made 9s and Ts. Propokertools is spazzing at the moment and won’t let me pull up my equity but it was pretty good. I ended up rivering a Jack for trip Jacks and lead out and he flat called when he rivered another ten for tens full of nines. It’s sort of funny how whether you cash or make day 2 or whatever of some of these events really just come down to one crucial river card. That one didn’t do it for me. After that I just kind of bled away until I got my last 4 or 5k of chips in with an Ace high spade four flush on 4th street vs what ended up being trip Aces (AA)3A. The last card they deal down even if you are all in for some odd reason and he flipped his which didn’t pair his board so my spades were still live. He had just lost a couple of medium sized pots to bad beats and I asked him “Are you sweating this?” he said, “Yeah, I’m sweating it pretty hard.” I quickly flipped it up but alas it was a 5h and I was out.
Busted both of these pretty quickly. Event #13 was the weekly Saturday $1k with two day 1s, like 4500 total entrants and only 3000 in starting chips. I don’t think I’ll play any more of these because much like the plo events the starting stacks are just so shallow you really have to win your first big pot or you’re out and it’s just too much gamble and not enough edge in my opinion. Blinds do start out at 25/25 instead of the usual 25/50 but it doesn’t make that much of a difference. I bled away around 500 chips over the first hour missing flops or not getting paid until my bustout hand arrived.
Utg minraises to 100 at 25/50 and I look down at KTo in the big blind with a little less than 2500 in chips. I wish utg would have just made a normal 3x raise or 2.5x raise and I can easily fold here but vs a minraise I think I have to defend. Flop is T86 rainbow. I check, he checks. Turn is a 9 putting a flushdraw out there and a made straight with any 7. I lead for 150, he raises to 500. At this point I should have folded, but I talked myself into calling and making a decision on the river since I thought he could have AJ or KJ a lot. The river is an offsuit Jack so the board reads JT986 and I no longer beat AJ so I decide to turn my pair of tens into a bluff and open jam the river into him. He tanks for maybe two minutes and then calls me with J7s. This is the first tournament I’m not really happy with how I played this summer but oh wells. All I can do is learn from it.
Event #16 was the $1500 6max event which I was pretty excited about and expected to do well in. I played a few small pots in the first hour chipping up a bit, then in the second level I called a shortstack all in for 1000 in chips or so with Kings vs his deuces and held and was up to 5500 in chips. The guy on my immediate right was pretty loose passive and he would prove to be the end of me. He was opening probably 50% of the hands when folded to him and I let him get away with it for awhile before picking up J9s on the button after he opened the cutoff for 400 at 75/150. I decide to 3 bet to 1100 and unfortunately the sb instaships his shortstack for 1650, the cutoff immediately folds only reinforcing my belief that it was a good and profitable 3 bet by me I just got unlucky to run into a big hand behind me. I call the extra 550 pretty quickly with the sick pot odds I’m getting and he shows AKo. I can’t manage to win the 40/60 and I’m down to 3k in chips.
I fold for a bit just looking for reship opportunities with my 20bb stack until utg opens and I look down at AQo. I ship over his raise and he calls with AQo and we chop. Unexciting. A few hands later Annie Duke gets moved to my table but she appears to be my bad luck charm as the first hand she’s dealt in is my bustout hand. Loose passive guy opens for 400 from the highjack and I reship 2900 from the CO with 66. He thinks for maybe 20 seconds before calling with KQo. His call seems pretty bad to me considering I’m shoving literally no worse hands except MAYYYYBE KJs, but anyways flop hits with a queen, turn and river brick out and I’m done. He may have thought my 3 bet range was really light after seeing the J9s hand, but once I’m down to 20bb there’s little chance I’m not putting my stack in with what I believe to be the best hand. A bit ironic that I busted out with the same hand(66) in the same event as last year http://www.andr3w321.com/?p=441
So it’s been a bit rough of a start to the series so far 0-5, but I’ve been happy with my play in all the tournaments with the exception of the $1k which I don’t plan on playing any more of. Tomorrow is the $1500 stud event which will be my first non NLH event which should be super soft. Hopefully I can do some damage. My roommate ceegee who got staked in the $10k stud8 event busted 14th oh so close to the final table. Was looking forward to railing him but the poker gods decided it wasn’t meant to be.
Online cash has been going ok. This weekend I went on a sick heater and played in some really soft games and won $20k, but today I sat in some tougher games and ran pretty bad to lose most of it back. I think I’m almost even on the month right now, which I guess I’m happy about. Thank god for cash games, if I were tourny pro I don’t think I could take it. I played like 12 of them on Sunday, bubbled a couple and didn’t manage any cashes. It’s all good though, even Daniel Negreanu is struggling as I think he’s 0-10 or something right now.
Confused Wake-up Prank
That was just a hide-in-the-closet-with-a-banana-in-your-mouth-holding-a-TV drill. Always good to be prepared in case the real thing happens