Oh boy, I got some cards tonight, but it was not meant to be...
- Won a nice pot early on w/ KK... beat AT.
- Won another decent pot w/ Q7 out of the big blind vs the small blind.... flopped top pair, then made 2-pair on the river.
But things went downhill from there...
- Laid down 99 on an ace high flop.
- Laid down TT after the turn on a AQ67 board... opponent showed 66.
- Came over the top of someone pre-flop w/ 99 (I had him covered)... got called by QJs (granted, he had fair odds to call).... loved the flop... 983 gave me the nuts... but a ten on the turn gave him the nuts... the river did not pair the board... boo.
- Ultimately got knocked out w/ AK against AJ (against the same guy whose QJ held up against my flopped set of nines)... and he didn't even hit a jack... 4 diamonds rolled out to suit up w/ his jack of diamonds.
I then bought in short ($20) to a cash game $1/$2 NLHE. I got dealt AK of hearts in about the 10th hand... I raised it 3x the BB, get a couple of callers... the button re-raises, I call... two others call. I think I had $16 to start the hand, so I'm now in position to quadruple up... $64 or nothing.
The flop comes 9TJ with the nine and jack of hearts... wow... not a bad flop... I'm now drawing to the nuts if I can catch a queen or a heart... turn brick, river brick... the guy who re-raised pre-flop took it down with a flopped set of nines.
Not my night... but it was fun.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Weird, Wild Night
Wow AGAIN... I saw something last night that I had never seen before. Some guy sat down with $50 at a 9-player $0.25/$0.50 PLO table (deep stack, $100 maximum buy-in) and walked away with a shade more than $700... after only 90 hands! How did he do it? A combination of sheer luck and impatience by the other players. He was also hyper-aggressive... he knew nothing other than the bet/raise pot and fold button... and that fold button was rarely touched.
He played any 4 cards just about and won HUGE pots with them... some examples:
AJ33 (DS) for $269.50
AJ92 (3-suited in clubs) for $242.55
KT63 (DS) for $215 (oddly, I held T633)... his two pair (kings and sixes) beat a pair of aces
I got involved in one hand against him... I raised it up with 6789, suited in hearts. He called from the big blind. Two others called also. The flop came 772... and he fires out with a pot sized bet ($6). After two folds, I make the call. He's representing either 22, 72 or maybe A7 or K7... all have me beat, but that's ok... I have a ton of outs... I'm fairly sure that I'm either going to double up or lose a small chunk of my $160 stack in this hand.
The turn is a 4... and he fires out another pot sized bet ($18). Again, an easy call for me in position. The river was a king and he fired out a pot sized bet yet again for $54. Well, it was an easy fold for me... the luckbox probably held 247K... either that or a donk-played, missed flush draw. But had I hit a 5, 6 or 8... oh, what could have been. I just don't see how he would have folded to a re-raise if I had hit... like I said, it seemed like he didn't know what the fold button was.
Yes, it was a weird, wild night.
He played any 4 cards just about and won HUGE pots with them... some examples:
AJ33 (DS) for $269.50
AJ92 (3-suited in clubs) for $242.55
KT63 (DS) for $215 (oddly, I held T633)... his two pair (kings and sixes) beat a pair of aces
I got involved in one hand against him... I raised it up with 6789, suited in hearts. He called from the big blind. Two others called also. The flop came 772... and he fires out with a pot sized bet ($6). After two folds, I make the call. He's representing either 22, 72 or maybe A7 or K7... all have me beat, but that's ok... I have a ton of outs... I'm fairly sure that I'm either going to double up or lose a small chunk of my $160 stack in this hand.
The turn is a 4... and he fires out another pot sized bet ($18). Again, an easy call for me in position. The river was a king and he fired out a pot sized bet yet again for $54. Well, it was an easy fold for me... the luckbox probably held 247K... either that or a donk-played, missed flush draw. But had I hit a 5, 6 or 8... oh, what could have been. I just don't see how he would have folded to a re-raise if I had hit... like I said, it seemed like he didn't know what the fold button was.
Yes, it was a weird, wild night.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Sunday Night Madness
Wow, I hopped onto three $50 PLO tables last night and proceeded to lose about 3.5 buy-ins within a span of 60-80 minutes.
- The aggression by the other players was relentless... felt like a boxer on the ropes waiting and waiting for a way to escape.
- I played nearly every big pot in position.
- I raised with only solid hands.
- Seemed like every continuation bet got raised and I had to lay it down when I hit nothing but air.
- When I flopped the goods, I didn't get any action... which led me to believe that my opponents were not spotting my tentative/passive play... they were simply getting the deck to fall in their favor. Then betting it to the max.
I ended up down only one buy-in for the session... still hard to believe considering how it felt like I was getting pounded into oblivion.
But why only one buy-in? I think these were the keys:
- The aggression by the other players was relentless... felt like a boxer on the ropes waiting and waiting for a way to escape.
- I played nearly every big pot in position.
- I raised with only solid hands.
- Seemed like every continuation bet got raised and I had to lay it down when I hit nothing but air.
- When I flopped the goods, I didn't get any action... which led me to believe that my opponents were not spotting my tentative/passive play... they were simply getting the deck to fall in their favor. Then betting it to the max.
I ended up down only one buy-in for the session... still hard to believe considering how it felt like I was getting pounded into oblivion.
But why only one buy-in? I think these were the keys:
- I didn't tilt... there was one hand in particular that led me to believe this. I was up against a player who had been abusing me all night. The board read T47JQ (unpaired, with no flush possibilities), so the nuts was AK. I held K9TT and had full control of the hand on the flop and turn (I bet, he called). I led out with a 1/2 pot-sized bet on the river, hoping for a call... but I got raised by the pot limit! Wtf!?! This guy hit runner runner? I wanted to call so bad, but felt that there's no way this guy's going to raise the pot without AK here. AK is a fairly common holding (have seen many split pots with AK) and too many donks will call with K9. Maybe I got bluffed, but I doubt it... and saved 1/2 of a buy-in there. I'm pretty sure I make a snap call there out of frustration in past sessions.
- I waited patiently for the goods. Late in the session, I hit a monster on the river against the aforementioned player. The board read 7782Q. I held QQ85, he held A874. Yeah, I got lucky and his slow play on the flop backfired... but I waited it out before putting the money in good. Gosh, I was running so bad there, I was almost expecting him to turn over 77xx.
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