ScReWeD uP pOstS!

Ok. Sorry to anyone who reads my blog. Apparently you can't send a long post via text message to your blog. I tried to text one long entry to blogger.com. I realize now that it posted it in 14 different small messages, and left out some content all together. So here, I will piece together everything and also talk about my 2/5NLHE session after my tourney.

I came to Biloxi with Joe & Davey to play Event #10.. $340 NLHE. Bad Idea. I went bust in the 5th level. Seems like it may have been impossible to win today for me. Anytime I caught anything that resembled a hand(or bet without a hand), I got played back at big time.

In one of the first 5 hands of the tournament, 3 people limp to my BB. I look at AcQc. I raise to 250.. Everyone calls.. Flop comes down A-J-9, two spades. I bet out 400.. Mitch from Shortys(who is pretty straight-forward in my opinion) raises. Another player behind calls. Uggh I see what kind of day this is gonna be.. I would usually take a different route, but I can't think of a hand that Mitch can have that doesn't have me beat.. Except for possibly a straight & flush draw hand.. I mucked.. the turn was a 9 and the river was a spade.. No showdown but don't think I could win.

My table was nuts! 25-50 blinds and everyone is raising to like 600 preflop.. It was stupid.. When everyone else in the tourney was playing 50-100, we were basically playing 1000-2000. Which wouldn't be a problem if I caught a few monsters. But Not likely.

I lost a nice amount on one hand when I raised PF with KdQd and got a couple of callers.. I got one caller on the turn on a K-J-10-3 board. River 10.. And he value bets. I pay him off.. He shows Q-10.. F*+^ing 2-outed.

Then I lay down QQ on a 9-high flop. A tight player raises from EP/MP(this is one of the only guys with his head screwed on straight). I have QQ. I elect to just call.. The Maniac in the SB calls also. The flop comes down 9-high and harmless.. The maniac decides to lead out a nice overbet.. His patent move.. I'm praying the PFR folds and I'll pop it. No.. PRF raises to 6k.. Mind you we are at like 100-200. The PFR raised to 6k.. leaving himself not much left. I only have a little over 7k. Shit. Only hands I can beat are 10-10 & J-J. I "tank" for a while.. Then finally decide to wait for a better spot and muck. Really think the PFR had KK or AA.. Who knows.. In my mind he can only have 5 hands. AA, KK, QQ, JJ, 1010, or 99(and the odd chance he has QQ also). I think he limps with any other pair. And doesn't play it that strong post flop. I can beat 2 of those 5 hands.. Gross, but I muck

At the 25/50 or 50/100 level, I saw a 19k pot. Set of queens v.s. a pair of kings, 9 kicker. REALLY?! Basically, a standard guy raises preflop, guy behind him calls.. Flop KQ2.. they end up getting it all in?? No real draw for K9.. just top pair.. Wow.. It wasn't an "I'll try to get you off your hand" play by the pair if kings.. It was a "I have top pair, and I'm not folding" play.


Ok don't want to waste too much of my phone battery writing this, as I am writing this on my iPhone while waiting on a cash game seat... But I want to quickly share this one hand I wasn't envolved in on our mentally challenged table.. Blinds are 25-50..
Guy raises to 600(that's correct, 600).
Gets one caller out of the BB. The Maniac...
Flop comes down 8-6-3.
Maniac checks,
PFR bets 2k!
Maniac calls..
Turn is a 7..
Maniac checks
PFR bets 4k!
Maniac calls..
River is a 9.
Maniac shoves in.
PFR calls..
Maniac shows 56o for a backdoor straight.
PFR shows JJ for a pair of jacks.
These morons are fearless.. Firing a ton of chip.. at 25-50?!? While every other table was playing skillful deepstack poker.. We were playing kamikaze BS. Now I'm pulling for Davey and Joe.. Till next time.. GL

Ok. Now for a recap of my 2/5NLHE session at the Beau after I busted from the tourney. A pretty good session overall. I won $630 playing cash. Winning $290 on the day. For a while, I didn't get too involved. But players could tell that I wasn't exactly a nit. I raised to $30 preflop with 56o and ended up flopping a pair and backdooring a straight. I won that pot to get me to about even(I bought in for $800 btw. The table was pretty deep. As it usually is at the Beau. Especially during WPT time).

Not long after that hand, I hit the monster. It folds around to the button(who I pegged as one of the worse players at the table). He raises to $15. I'm in the SB with J-9o. I usually fold here and let him have it. But I'm looking to "mix it up" with this guy. Also, the BB is a bit of a station, and I wouldn't mind if he joined it. In which he did. Flop comes down Q-10-4. I check.. BB decides to bet $50 The button looks like he might raise. I'm hoping not. I'm open-ended and would love to see the turn for $50 against these two. The button then calls. Nice. I call.. turn.. the beautiful K. I would have preferred an 8.. but hey, I'll take it. I check. BB bets $120 or $150. The button mucks.. have to decide how to play this. I have $795 total in my stack. I decide to go with the min-raise. I raise to $300. Leaving myself $495 and he has me covered. He calls quickly. Ok.. COME ON BRICK.. I think there was a backdoor club draw here. But it doesn't get there 6 of spades on the river. Now what to do. I'm not checking.. but what do I bet? Do I go for value and bet $300 or so? Or do I shove my remaining $495? I like the latter. I shove in. He calls. I'm good. SWEET! Ship that $1,785 my way.

After that, I didn't catch too many hands to make money. Just gave a little back. I played the tourney on Sept. 4th for 12.5 hours.. Never caught aces. I played 5 levels of the tourney this day, never caught aces. Now I've been playing cash for a few hours, no pocket aces. FINALLY, I catch them.. flop a set.. and proceed to lose lol. A guy in EP raises preflop to $30 or so. It folds all the way to me in the SB. I have 2 red aces. Only the BB is left to act behind me. I just call. To my surprise, the BB calls. 3 way to the flop of A-K-10. Not bad.. I check... BB checks.. PFR checks.. damn... Turn is garbage.. I bet $60.. and both call.. River is a jack.. Great.. a queen now makes a straight. But that doesn't necessarily mean somebody has one. I decide to make the same bet, $60. The BB min-raises to $120. Great, there's your queen. Then the PFR moves all-in. You shitting me? There's your queenS. I muck.. BB calls. They chop it up with a queen. BB has Q-10o and PFR has QQ. When they called my turn bet, I was up against 2 opponents with 4 outs total. And they got there lol. Oh well.

Later, I caught AA and played it differently. I am not a big fan of the limp reraise with AA/KK from EP. But I also don't think you should play a hand the same way every single time. So I decide to limp with AA from EP.. A player 3 to my left(The guy who had QQ in the previously mentioned hand) grabs a few chips like he is going to raise(nice) and decides to limp. Then only the blinds tag along. Oh well. The flop comes 5-3-3. Long story short. I bet every street and the limper called and tabled 3h4h at the end for trips. The pot wasn't very large. I think I bet $15, $30, $50 on the streets. The board stayed pretty low. And after I saw him almost raise preflop, I put him on 77-JJ. All I can say is THANK GOD he didn't make it $30 to go. Because I think the blinds fold. Then I probably just call, disguising my hand. And he flops trips with those rags and I never see it coming. I would have lost a much bigger pot.

I lost a bit when the entire table folds and the button limps.. SB completes and I check my BB with QJ.. Flop comes down K-10-9. 2 diamonds. The Nuts. Check to me. I bet $15. Button calls.. SB folds. Turn pairs the board 9's. I bet $30. Button calls. The river double-pairs the board 9-9-10-10-K. I now check and the button bets $100. Good Lord. What a hand. The button was probably one of the most active players at the table, and definitely capable of a bluff here. He could have had 2 diamonds and missed. A straight draw and missed. I contemplated a hero call here for a second. But decided against it. It cost me $100 to win $205.. Not exactly odds I like when I have to call with a straight on a double-paired board. On to the next hand.

The only hand left worth mentioning was again QJ. The table became kind of tight. So when I catch QcJc in MP I make a "small" raise to $20. I get 2 callers(the guy from the 3h4h hand and guy from the previously mentioned hand). I am acting in the middle. The Flop comes down A-10-6. 1 club, 2 spades. Check to me and I bet $60. Both call. Great.. Come on.. KING ONE TIME.. BAM!! King. Wow. Check to me. Now I bet $120(half the pot). The player behind me thinks for a while, then finally mucks. The other player does the same. UNREAL. Hit the miracle.. muck muck.. Oh well..

ALL in ALL.. I won $630 in the cash game and had a good time. Till next time.. GL ALL