Yeah I love poker today. OMG it sucks only playing once a week, but when I play I'm ubermotivated, so whatever. I honestly feel like I am going to mutilate the 25NL players once I get back online. I want to make people hurt. Sooon, I wont be able to get a new computer until may, but I've got a busy april coming up. In fact, I'm gonna be pretty busy this summer, my g/f is moving back to my town and I"ll be working lots and golfing in my free time. But in septemeber, people are going to hurt. Once I go back to being a full-time student I will have all the time in the world to play poker :D

I killed the NL40 cash game tonight, I cashed out at a rediculous $330 without having to rebuy or top-up. +$290 = 7.25 buyins profit after about 4 hours of live play.

We usually play with 10ish people, but tonight we had 8 at the most, and the game was 6 handed for 3/4ths of the session, so I was playing super LAGgy donk, and I was hitting hands like a motha-f*ck. And people bluffed into me like craaaazy, my table image was ideal tonight. Other than $100 profit made by one player, one dude broke even and I scooped the rest of the pot.

There are a ton of crazy hands that happened tonight and I want to share a couple, hopefully I can remember, I got super-high when I got home :$

HAND 1: Betting a full house. I played this hand badly, but check it out.

Hero, on the CO with [Kc 6c] and about a $90 stack. EP calls and I make a standard $3.50 PRF. Button calls, both blinds call and limper calls. $17.50 in the pot already - not exactly what I was hoping for.

Flop: [As Kh Ks]

3 checks, I bet $11.50. Button calls, others fold, $40.50 in the pot.

Turn: [6s]

I bet $15, button folds :(

I don't really know why I bet on the turn, I played this really badly. I put him on a flush draw when he called on the flop because I thought he would raise with any pair. I just assumed he'd raise after I hit my boat, but he folded his [2h 2d]. We looked at the river before I showed my hand, and the river was the [2s]... so he'd have hit his boat and I would have stacked him for another $40. There are a lot of reasons to check on the turn. Instead I just assumed he was cold-decked for his stack.

HAND 2: Luckbox donkey - but was it that terrible?


Hero has [Ad Jd] on the button with a $150 stack, two people limped in front of me and I raised to $5, SB folds, BB calls, MP folds MP2 calls.

Flop: [3s 5s 3d]

BB(28$ stack) checks, MP(50$ stack) checks, I bet $13.50, BB raises to $28, MP folds, hero calls...? Yup.

This isn't usually a good way to play the hand, but BB is an absolute maniac and would make that play with a massive range of hands. He would have re-rai PF with a better A/x so I'm knew I wasn't dominated. He knows my range for betting is 100% of my hands, I raised on the button and I was playing mega LAG. BB is a very aggressive player so I know that for sure he will bet with any flush draw, straight draw (this guy is so loose PF that 6-4 is definitly in his range. I put his check-raise all-in range on A/x, KQ, any pair, any flush draw and any straight draw. I honestly felt like I was ahead of his range so thats why I bet enough to pot-comit myself. I made the call, he had [4h 4c].

Turn [7d] c00l, flush draw
River [As] Zoink, I win, how lucky

HAND 3: Hero has [As 3s] and a massive stack in MP

UTG limp, MP limp, hero limp, button limp, SB call, BB call (zomg <3 loose passive home games). $6 in the pot.

FLOP: [3c 7h 9s]

It checked all the way around to the button who bet $4, MP calls and I call, everyone else folds $18 in the pot.

TURN: [3h] oops I'm a luckbox

MP checks, I decide to check again and the button bets $7. MP folds, I didn't want to give up too much info and button is a total maniac (as you'll see in the next hand), so I decided to just call once again.

River: [Kd]

I thought about this one forever, I was out of position with a pretty good hand against my opponent. If I led out and bet on the river, I was thinking that he would fold a few hands that he might try to bet on the river - a busted FD, maybe a mid-pair (this guy is a maniac after all). Anyways, I checked the river, and as predicted, he bet out $25. I didn't want to bother raising cause he can't really call with anything, so I just called. He flipped over [Kh Jh] fairly proudly, he wasn't happy to see my hand. Perhaps I lost some value by not re-raising on the river, but I'm up against a set as ofter or more often than a hand like K9.

HAND 4: Last example, wowzers TILT by maniac from hand 3 again. It was actually the last hand of the night, maniac had a huge stack as well, probably around $230, I was chip leader at about $250. We are down to 4 handed and I see a beautiful [Ks Kc] in the small blind. CO folds, Button calls, like the trickster I am, I decide to limp-in. Maniac in the BB makes it $5 more. Medium-looseTAG on the button with a $35 stack calls and I raise to $20. BB calls and button calls, leaving himself only $15 more.

Flop: [9c 9h 2d]

Not too bad of a flop, obiously I don't want to see someone with a 9. Hero checks, BB checks and short stack pushes in his remaining. I call and BB also calls, so we have a big pot and no sidepot.

Turn: [9s]

That was a pretty good card for me, I only lose to AA or quads, I wanted to be very careful though because maniac can almost bust me. Regardless, I was assuming that BB acutally had a middle pair like TT or even JJ, I knew he'd be calling with underpairs too. He'd also call with some A/xs and apparently random overcards. Anyways, I obviously like my hand and don't mind building a side pot, so I bet $20, which BB calls.

River: [Ad]

My heart sank when the ace fell, I went into insta-tilt because I felt like I just lost the side-pot. I just checked on the river hoping that I could show down my loser, but BB obviously senced my dispair, I represented exactly the kind of hand I had - and he bet $50 despite all of this. I just about threw up a little bit, I thought hard about his range of hands, A/xs were definitely in his range, but this guy is also a maniac so he might just be trying to cut his losses and fight for the sidepot, thinking I might lay down a hand like TT, ect. I still had about $100 in my stack after the call, so I said f*ck-it and tossed in 5 black chips. He's like "I got the ace" and I frown a big frown, grab his cards and flip them up - [Jh Qh] LOLOWNAGE. Button flips up [6d 6h] SHIP IT :D Huge pot to end the night, I thank my box-o-luck and stack my chips for counting :D

Thats all for this blog. I think that more people should blog more often. Come on people, I have no life and no onlnie poker, I need to play vicariously through you.

Peace out peeps

hand #2 how do you win?... he has a straight...

Oops turn musta been the 6d or something