Hagar
02-23-2006, 08:53 AM
HAd I posted this yesterday after my session it would have been 3 pages of continuous expletives. I decided to cool off, but this ain't gonna be pretty....
Sat down at about 1:00 in the 1/2 game. Didn't recognize most of the faces and the couple I did I didn't have a lot of read on. Went into my get my reads mode for the most part. I did play a suited K on my second hand (2 off the button) and got paid off when I turned a flush. Cool, up right away, maybe this will be a good day.
Camped on the muck pile for a while and eventuall raised from MP when I hooked up with AQo. Unfortunately, 2 players behind me cold called the 6xBB raise - if nothing else, I was hoping to buy the button with the raise. 3 of us to a TTx flop. Obviously this was not a flop I wanted to see, but I led out for $20 and got one caller. Not good, but we'll see what happens. An A hit the Turn and I got a real uncomfortable read form the caller - it was clear, he didn't like the A. I bet $40 and he called. River was a blank and I fired another $40. He jumped out of his skin and raised me all-in (~$60). Jeez, this kid's been sitting on a T hasn't he. The pot was too big to fold and indeed he did have JT for the flopped trips. He played it well (expected the T to speak up on the turn) and my early profits turned into empty felt pretty quickly. Rebuy. The thing that really, really burns me about this, is that I just finished reading Vol. 1 of Harrington's book and there are several examples where you face a pair on the flop while holding overcards and I was left with the impression that that's supposed to be a good flop. Don't know that I would have played it much differently before the book, but I felt the emotional scarring occuring on the spot.
Got more chips, bled a little and restacked for another $60. Good thing I did. I played A5s from MP and found myself facing the ATM of the table. (This guy was bad - everyone was wanting to play pots against this guy. The flop came 2JJ with 2 hearts. ATM opened (99% chance he had a J). I called, everyone else folded. Turn brought my flush in the form of a 6. He opened for $20 and I raised it $40. I immediately began chastizing myself for such a big raise. There was no way he was going to call the obvious flush bet. To my amazement, not only did he call but he put me all-in for my last ~$30. WTF? Did this ATM really play J2 or J6? No way I'm folding this, so I called and he flipped up J9. My flush held up and I was just scratching my head over ATM's play. Did I say he was bad?
Bumbled along for a few orbits and woke up in UTG with KQs. 17 limpers and ATM raised it to $12 from the SB. Easy call considering the source and unfortunately the 17 limpers had the same read and we were 7 or 8 to the flop. Flop came KT8, 2 hearts, one spade (my suit). ATM checked which gave me the green light to play my TP2K very strong. I bet $40 (about half the pot - my position did leave me vulnerable to something funky with bunches of players behind me - kind of a strong feeler bet) and a couplebehind me quickly mucked ("I know what THAT means.") One of the monkey boys who had made several funky aggressive plays a bit earlier quickly raised it another $80. Ugh. Anyone else and it would have been a farily easy lay down, but some of the plays he had made got my spidey senses up. I groaned and thought for some time. I was in a clear fold or raise spot (calling would leave me with only ~$45, not nearly enough to have any leverage the rest of the hand). The quirky situation could easily have someone holding something like KT or T8. I finally decided that he was making some funky play and shoved all-in. I can't tell you how much I regret not having a much bigger stack at that moment because it was clear that he did not want to call, but the $45 wasn't enough to make even the worst hand fold considering the $300 pot. He mumbled someting about having played a really bad hand before the flop and was embarrassed to show his hand. "Oh great, he's drawing - I'm dead." He flipped up......73 hearts. Jesus Christ. He limped with this cheese and then compounded his mistake by calling the pre-flop raise. Now, he has a cheesy flush draw and he's putting nearly $200 into the hand. And it just wroking out to be one of those days where that cheese was gonna get paid. I survived the turn, but the dealer found a heart on the river. I just stared at the kid. He did do a little guilty shrug, but he wasn't too upset. "You guys are just too good for me" and got up and left. I had to sit down outside the room for a while. I was extremely disoriented and pissed and....fill in the blank. I could have easily taken a life. I just get so tired of getting punked by stupid rediculous shit. Can't somebody else pay off these idiots?
Went home and played some .25/.50 Omaha online for most of the evening (been doing OK at that for the last couple weeks) and saw a ton of great hands that got punked by rediculous holdings just to really etch that "lucky" feeling into my brain. (Played 2 tables for 4 hours and dropped $10, so it wasn't particularly financially troublesome) but it was really pretty amazing. I know Omaha tends to "suck-outy", but it was really incredible what was going on.
I love this game....
Sat down at about 1:00 in the 1/2 game. Didn't recognize most of the faces and the couple I did I didn't have a lot of read on. Went into my get my reads mode for the most part. I did play a suited K on my second hand (2 off the button) and got paid off when I turned a flush. Cool, up right away, maybe this will be a good day.
Camped on the muck pile for a while and eventuall raised from MP when I hooked up with AQo. Unfortunately, 2 players behind me cold called the 6xBB raise - if nothing else, I was hoping to buy the button with the raise. 3 of us to a TTx flop. Obviously this was not a flop I wanted to see, but I led out for $20 and got one caller. Not good, but we'll see what happens. An A hit the Turn and I got a real uncomfortable read form the caller - it was clear, he didn't like the A. I bet $40 and he called. River was a blank and I fired another $40. He jumped out of his skin and raised me all-in (~$60). Jeez, this kid's been sitting on a T hasn't he. The pot was too big to fold and indeed he did have JT for the flopped trips. He played it well (expected the T to speak up on the turn) and my early profits turned into empty felt pretty quickly. Rebuy. The thing that really, really burns me about this, is that I just finished reading Vol. 1 of Harrington's book and there are several examples where you face a pair on the flop while holding overcards and I was left with the impression that that's supposed to be a good flop. Don't know that I would have played it much differently before the book, but I felt the emotional scarring occuring on the spot.
Got more chips, bled a little and restacked for another $60. Good thing I did. I played A5s from MP and found myself facing the ATM of the table. (This guy was bad - everyone was wanting to play pots against this guy. The flop came 2JJ with 2 hearts. ATM opened (99% chance he had a J). I called, everyone else folded. Turn brought my flush in the form of a 6. He opened for $20 and I raised it $40. I immediately began chastizing myself for such a big raise. There was no way he was going to call the obvious flush bet. To my amazement, not only did he call but he put me all-in for my last ~$30. WTF? Did this ATM really play J2 or J6? No way I'm folding this, so I called and he flipped up J9. My flush held up and I was just scratching my head over ATM's play. Did I say he was bad?
Bumbled along for a few orbits and woke up in UTG with KQs. 17 limpers and ATM raised it to $12 from the SB. Easy call considering the source and unfortunately the 17 limpers had the same read and we were 7 or 8 to the flop. Flop came KT8, 2 hearts, one spade (my suit). ATM checked which gave me the green light to play my TP2K very strong. I bet $40 (about half the pot - my position did leave me vulnerable to something funky with bunches of players behind me - kind of a strong feeler bet) and a couplebehind me quickly mucked ("I know what THAT means.") One of the monkey boys who had made several funky aggressive plays a bit earlier quickly raised it another $80. Ugh. Anyone else and it would have been a farily easy lay down, but some of the plays he had made got my spidey senses up. I groaned and thought for some time. I was in a clear fold or raise spot (calling would leave me with only ~$45, not nearly enough to have any leverage the rest of the hand). The quirky situation could easily have someone holding something like KT or T8. I finally decided that he was making some funky play and shoved all-in. I can't tell you how much I regret not having a much bigger stack at that moment because it was clear that he did not want to call, but the $45 wasn't enough to make even the worst hand fold considering the $300 pot. He mumbled someting about having played a really bad hand before the flop and was embarrassed to show his hand. "Oh great, he's drawing - I'm dead." He flipped up......73 hearts. Jesus Christ. He limped with this cheese and then compounded his mistake by calling the pre-flop raise. Now, he has a cheesy flush draw and he's putting nearly $200 into the hand. And it just wroking out to be one of those days where that cheese was gonna get paid. I survived the turn, but the dealer found a heart on the river. I just stared at the kid. He did do a little guilty shrug, but he wasn't too upset. "You guys are just too good for me" and got up and left. I had to sit down outside the room for a while. I was extremely disoriented and pissed and....fill in the blank. I could have easily taken a life. I just get so tired of getting punked by stupid rediculous shit. Can't somebody else pay off these idiots?
Went home and played some .25/.50 Omaha online for most of the evening (been doing OK at that for the last couple weeks) and saw a ton of great hands that got punked by rediculous holdings just to really etch that "lucky" feeling into my brain. (Played 2 tables for 4 hours and dropped $10, so it wasn't particularly financially troublesome) but it was really pretty amazing. I know Omaha tends to "suck-outy", but it was really incredible what was going on.
I love this game....