Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Live Sessions
I have no where to start, so I guess I'll just jump right in.
First we'll get caught up in my live poker sessions. Lately I've been struggling with maintaining focus and playing well. After a few hours I seem to be able to focus and start making money, but the first few hours of my last sessions have just been ulgy with me making stupid bets and stupid calls. I am not really sure what's causing it but I think it is the fact that my live poker playing summer is coming to an end and I am just trying to force things too much in my last few sessions. The sad part is I've played like shit the first few hours of my last few sessions but have still come out positive in all of them.
Total Profit: $4,740
Total Hours: 102
Hourly Wage: $39.83
Session 1:
This was probably the most fun session I've played all summer and five hours or so in I was stuck $700. To get to this point I lost about $200 playing retarded, $400 getting cold decked, and another $100 playing retarded. I had told Myia, who had been watching me for the past hour, that I would leave if I got to that point. However, I turned to her and said "$800 is more round of a number, so can I put $100 more on the table?" and she let me. I rarely buy in short (less than the maximum buy in) however I was frustrated and wanted to give it one more shot.
The most frustrating moment of the night came in the biggest pot I have played in my life. I raised to $20 with KK and the guy on the button, who I knew for a fact would only reraise QQ KK or AA, reraised me to $60. Looking back on the situation I don't know if he would even reraise me with QQ preflop. It rolled around to the big blind who went all in for $200. I had played with him for a few hours and knew he was a beginner and a huge fish. I think his range there was 1010-AA and AQ+. However the way he did it, I really thought I had him beat. So the pot was $380, $180 for me to call and I had another $200 behind the $180 with the tight guy on the button having me covered. So what do you do here? You can flat call the $180 letting the button call or reraise me or you can go all in an try to get the button to fold less than KK. I elected to push and immediately the button called time saying he needed to think about it. This is where it gets sick. Immediately I am jumping up and down in my head thinking he'd have to think about QQ-KK but would instantly call with AA. Well he takes over a minute and calls. The pot is $950+. I walk away from the table and waited to be told that the five cards had been dealt. When I came back I saw a board of XXQXX and knew there was no chance I was winning this pot. The fish turned over AK and I revealed KK and waited to see the button's hand. Well he proudly reached into the center of the table and slammed down his AA. To say I was pissed was an understatement. This fucking old asian guy slow rolled me in the biggest pot of my life. I obviously flipped a shit and told him he was a classless sob. I am not a prejudiced person at all, but man some of those old asian guys have no respect and simply go to their friends and laugh and talk in their fucking asian languages. It makes me pissed every single time I think about it.
The second interesting hand of the night came 7+ hours in. I had my last $100 buy in up to ~$400. We had a complete maniac in seat 10 who was raising to $20+ every hand and betting every flop. He was stuck $500+ but had built his stack back up to $500 with maniac plays that worked out. He was two to my left on the button and I picked up AK. I limped in knowing he would raise to see what everyone else would do before I had to act. Two people called his $25 raise before it got back to me. If I had had position on him I would have reraised to isolate, but since he was raising any two cards I elected to call and try to hit a flop. The flop was 883 and the two checked to me. I would normally take a stab at the pot here, but I knew the button would bet and I could see how the other two players reacted. He bet $50 and first two players folded. I knew this guy would bet any two cards and most likely had anything from Q high to 6 high. So I check raised him to $150 and to my horror he called. However he was a straight forward player and I knew he would reraise me there with an 8 so his range changed from a mid pair to a 3. Off rolled a beautiful K and I checked to him making him think I was scared of it knowing full well he'd bite and make a big bet. Well he obliged and bet $150 and I went all in for $159 more. I immidiately got up from the table as this pot had gotten massive and was scared that he'd call with a hand such as 77 and hit a 7 on the river. Eventually he called and the river was a 7. I immidiately said AK and turned it over. He started to flip over his cards which a player usually does when he knows he has the winning hand and the first card I saw was a 7 and almost shit my pants, but underneath was a 3. I won the pot of just over $1000. The new biggest pot of my life. Thanks to him I finished the session up and was really lucky to escape.
Two funny side notes from the session were that I got into an argument with this one guy on my left who said he would fold AA preflop in a cash game if the bet was too big. I countered that if he can't make that call in the cash game he's playing in, then he shouldn't be playing in it, but he continued to argue with me and I tried to make a $100 bet that we could take a survey of the poker room but he wouldn't put his money where his mouth is. Secondly, I met a 20 year old gol pro who is currently the youngest player to receive his card on the Canadian golf tour. I had a great time talking to him and he said the he would play a round of golf with Myia and I when we got back from Vegas. Here is a link to his CPG profile: link
Session 2:
I actually played well this entire session. I called one raise with J10 out of the small blind knowing the guy would only raise with QQ-AA and won a nice pot off of him after the pot was 789. I also missed a 10 8s draw on a KQs9s board. Other than that, no other interesting hands came up as the table was tight as hell and I couldn't move to a new table because there was no waiting list.
This sessions however involved one of the players I hate playing with the most. He sat down about 2 hours into my 4 hour session. He's the guy that anyone who's played live poker has played with. The guy that thinks he is God's gift to poker, that everyone cares about his random poker stories that happen to everyone, and who tries to tell each player what they did wrong in every pot they play whether he's involved or not. It is counter intuitive to anyone who is trying to make money playing poker and causes me to lose complete respect for anyone who is like this individual.
Sessions 3:
First we'll get caught up in my live poker sessions. Lately I've been struggling with maintaining focus and playing well. After a few hours I seem to be able to focus and start making money, but the first few hours of my last sessions have just been ulgy with me making stupid bets and stupid calls. I am not really sure what's causing it but I think it is the fact that my live poker playing summer is coming to an end and I am just trying to force things too much in my last few sessions. The sad part is I've played like shit the first few hours of my last few sessions but have still come out positive in all of them.
| Date: | Stakes: | Time (hours): | Result: | Total-Time: | Total: | Wage: | Extras: |
| 7/8/2006 | 1/2NL | 8 | $ 180.00 | 110 | $4,335.00 | $ 39.41 |
| 7/13/2006 | 1/2NL | 4 | $ 145.00 | 114 | $4,480.00 | $ 39.30 |
| 7/15/2006 | 1/2NL | 5 | $ 260.00 | 119 | $4,740.00 | $ 39.83 |
Total Profit: $4,740
Total Hours: 102
Hourly Wage: $39.83
Session 1:
This was probably the most fun session I've played all summer and five hours or so in I was stuck $700. To get to this point I lost about $200 playing retarded, $400 getting cold decked, and another $100 playing retarded. I had told Myia, who had been watching me for the past hour, that I would leave if I got to that point. However, I turned to her and said "$800 is more round of a number, so can I put $100 more on the table?" and she let me. I rarely buy in short (less than the maximum buy in) however I was frustrated and wanted to give it one more shot.
The most frustrating moment of the night came in the biggest pot I have played in my life. I raised to $20 with KK and the guy on the button, who I knew for a fact would only reraise QQ KK or AA, reraised me to $60. Looking back on the situation I don't know if he would even reraise me with QQ preflop. It rolled around to the big blind who went all in for $200. I had played with him for a few hours and knew he was a beginner and a huge fish. I think his range there was 1010-AA and AQ+. However the way he did it, I really thought I had him beat. So the pot was $380, $180 for me to call and I had another $200 behind the $180 with the tight guy on the button having me covered. So what do you do here? You can flat call the $180 letting the button call or reraise me or you can go all in an try to get the button to fold less than KK. I elected to push and immediately the button called time saying he needed to think about it. This is where it gets sick. Immediately I am jumping up and down in my head thinking he'd have to think about QQ-KK but would instantly call with AA. Well he takes over a minute and calls. The pot is $950+. I walk away from the table and waited to be told that the five cards had been dealt. When I came back I saw a board of XXQXX and knew there was no chance I was winning this pot. The fish turned over AK and I revealed KK and waited to see the button's hand. Well he proudly reached into the center of the table and slammed down his AA. To say I was pissed was an understatement. This fucking old asian guy slow rolled me in the biggest pot of my life. I obviously flipped a shit and told him he was a classless sob. I am not a prejudiced person at all, but man some of those old asian guys have no respect and simply go to their friends and laugh and talk in their fucking asian languages. It makes me pissed every single time I think about it.
The second interesting hand of the night came 7+ hours in. I had my last $100 buy in up to ~$400. We had a complete maniac in seat 10 who was raising to $20+ every hand and betting every flop. He was stuck $500+ but had built his stack back up to $500 with maniac plays that worked out. He was two to my left on the button and I picked up AK. I limped in knowing he would raise to see what everyone else would do before I had to act. Two people called his $25 raise before it got back to me. If I had had position on him I would have reraised to isolate, but since he was raising any two cards I elected to call and try to hit a flop. The flop was 883 and the two checked to me. I would normally take a stab at the pot here, but I knew the button would bet and I could see how the other two players reacted. He bet $50 and first two players folded. I knew this guy would bet any two cards and most likely had anything from Q high to 6 high. So I check raised him to $150 and to my horror he called. However he was a straight forward player and I knew he would reraise me there with an 8 so his range changed from a mid pair to a 3. Off rolled a beautiful K and I checked to him making him think I was scared of it knowing full well he'd bite and make a big bet. Well he obliged and bet $150 and I went all in for $159 more. I immidiately got up from the table as this pot had gotten massive and was scared that he'd call with a hand such as 77 and hit a 7 on the river. Eventually he called and the river was a 7. I immidiately said AK and turned it over. He started to flip over his cards which a player usually does when he knows he has the winning hand and the first card I saw was a 7 and almost shit my pants, but underneath was a 3. I won the pot of just over $1000. The new biggest pot of my life. Thanks to him I finished the session up and was really lucky to escape.
Two funny side notes from the session were that I got into an argument with this one guy on my left who said he would fold AA preflop in a cash game if the bet was too big. I countered that if he can't make that call in the cash game he's playing in, then he shouldn't be playing in it, but he continued to argue with me and I tried to make a $100 bet that we could take a survey of the poker room but he wouldn't put his money where his mouth is. Secondly, I met a 20 year old gol pro who is currently the youngest player to receive his card on the Canadian golf tour. I had a great time talking to him and he said the he would play a round of golf with Myia and I when we got back from Vegas. Here is a link to his CPG profile: link
Session 2:
I actually played well this entire session. I called one raise with J10 out of the small blind knowing the guy would only raise with QQ-AA and won a nice pot off of him after the pot was 789. I also missed a 10 8s draw on a KQs9s board. Other than that, no other interesting hands came up as the table was tight as hell and I couldn't move to a new table because there was no waiting list.
This sessions however involved one of the players I hate playing with the most. He sat down about 2 hours into my 4 hour session. He's the guy that anyone who's played live poker has played with. The guy that thinks he is God's gift to poker, that everyone cares about his random poker stories that happen to everyone, and who tries to tell each player what they did wrong in every pot they play whether he's involved or not. It is counter intuitive to anyone who is trying to make money playing poker and causes me to lose complete respect for anyone who is like this individual.
Sessions 3:
Again I started off playing like shit in this session. It was mainly due to the fact I wasn't feeling well at all and was generally wasn't in a good mood. I really need to learn to just walk away when I am feeling like this, but because I am only getting to play live this summer it hard and I stayed. I rebought and was down to my last $40 when the comeback started and I began to focus. By then my table had become tight as I had ever seen and I was pissed that I was stuck on it, but couldn't get moved anytime soon. So I stuck with it called an all-in bet at one point with second pair on the river when the guy was obviously bluffing moved to another table with $190. Some may say why not stay at this tight table and run it over. Well, they weren't paying off shit and you can only raise so many hands in a row until they get pissed and just reraise you big preflop which is what they started doing. And at that point a few juicy table opened up where I hit a few hands and ran my money back up. No interesting stories or hands at all from this session just me making stupid bluffs and value bets early that cost me. Maybe that's why I started off so bad I got bored and combining that with not feeling well caused me to lose all patience.
# posted by idareyouAA @ 12:33 AM 
