I am posting again, since I will be out of it for a while. I have had a serious good run this week. I have played over 4k hands of NL$1/2 and I have come out ahead about 13/100. This is really sick and I am not sure if I am just having a good run or what. I know I made 3 big mistakes, and this confuses me because I should be at least 10bb/100 higher if they weren't accounted for. I think I am certainly hitting a good streak, but I was also able to extract the most out of my opponents when I have been ahead. I hope this streak continues and is here to stay.
The following 4 weeks I have plans to travel around. I will go to Brazil this week leaving on Wednesday and coming back red-eye on Monday. I am probably going to take Friday off and head to AC to play the WSOP Circuit at the Show Boat - Event 5. I am meeting some of the guys from work on Saturday and we will be staying at the Borgata. I will probably play a few hours, just so I can continue to get the poker rate rooms which are really awesome ($125).
On the weekend of the 10th, I had back to the Borgata with my buddy DS and maybe JF and his friend. This will be a day filled with poker. I plan to stop around midnight to hit the club, and test my other game skills.
Today I booked a trip to Vegas for the weekend of the 17th. Hopefully my friend DS will go too and we will be able to stay at his brother's place. If not, I will probably get a cheap hotel room. I have not played poker in Vegas yet, so that should be an experience.
In the meantime, I want to continue killing the tables at Full-tilt and I have to clear some bonus at Poker Stars and Party.
terça-feira, novembro 22, 2005
Home Game (co-workers)
Last Wednesday, I went to play some poker with people from work. I have posted here before that the play is below avegare. There are a few players who venture online, and they are the only ones who display any sort of knowledge of the game. The other playes have no clue, plus they think I bluff a lot due to my super aggressiveness. I had told a few of the guys I would at least make the money, and I made a few side bets. With 9 players, we decided the money would be 3 people($40 buyin). These are friendly games so it's best that a bigger than usual share win something.
There is one player who is a good friend and understand the game. He is the only player I knew I would have to beat to take down this tourney. Every other one would require a lot of luck to actually beat me. I know it sounds cocky but the play is really bad.
The biggest calling station in our office goes on a rush early in the tournament and eliminates 2 or 3 players. He had good hands and they held up. I knew I had to pick my spots, and I managed to stay out of trouble most of the tourney. The calling station kept calling other player's huge bets. They didn't understand that they value of the bet didn't matter to this guy. He always thought he could get lucky, or people were trying to bluff him. They didn't succeed and he continued to win everyone else's chips. My friend and I took shots at him with real hands, my friend doubled up, and I tried twice to do it, but was not successful. He couldn't manage to make the call.
I doubled up through another player and that gave me more chips that I could throw around being aggressive. This hand came up. Blinds were 50/100 and I had A3o in the button and I raised to $250 (this was my normal raise, which I did with any two cards). The Calling Station calls and we see this flop: 5 4 4 rainbow. He checked to me and I fired 300 chips and he called. The turn is a deuce and he again checks. I had 3k in chips left and he had about 4k. In any other scenario, with any other player, I would bet an amount I think the player would call. The difference is I had gone all in twice before with the nuts and he didn't call. This time I think I sold a little bit better. I double checked my cards, and I looked him straight in the eyes and said "Okay, I am all-in". I think he bought that I was bluffing and my good acting paid me off. He had KQ, so even if that card doesn't hit, I still manage to win the hand.
Then I eliminated my friend. He was playing a solid tourney at this point. We were down to 4. I had him covered, but he was definitely in second. He was switching up aggressive with passive, and getting the other guys confused. The other players had no clue what he was doing, or I was doing. Many blinds were stolen. So he decided to limp in when I am in the big blind. Here is the hand:
He limps and both player call. I looked down at 3 3 and tell everyone that I was thinking about this hand and that it normally breaks me. The flop comes Qh 9x 3h. JACKPOT!!! I bet $300 as people expect me to bet like that. My friend smooth calls me, and calling station calls. The turn brings us a 9x. I tell my friend his AQ is not good, as I bet another $600. He doesn't think and pushes all-in. The other player folds and I call. He show Jh 9h for 3 of kind straight flush draw. The river is the Kh, and I win the pot. We have talked about this hand and the outcome would all have been the same unless he folds it preflop.
I went on to win the tourney (+200). We played a 4 handed tourney for $10, and my friend got unlucky as his AA vs 99 vs JT couldn't manage to hold up with all 3 players all-in pre-flop. The board at the end read J 5 3 9 J. Too bad. So I am heads up against this other player and we played for about 25 minutes. He didn't have a clue what I was doing. I managed to get to $1700 in chips against his $2300. Then the following hand came.
I was in the small blind and the blinds were $100/$200. I call with K K and he checks. I had mixed up the game and I thought this was an opportunity to get it all in on the flop. I think he was getting impatient and would see my all-in bet as weakness as I had shown him a few bluffs. The problem was that the flop came Kc Qx 7c. He bets $200 and I decided to raise him small, hoping he would bluff all in and i would call. But he only called the bet. The next card was a club. He goes all in and after 10 seconds I called. He showed Qx 2c. The river was another club and he won the tourney. More importantly I am feeling great about the way I am playing.
There is one player who is a good friend and understand the game. He is the only player I knew I would have to beat to take down this tourney. Every other one would require a lot of luck to actually beat me. I know it sounds cocky but the play is really bad.
The biggest calling station in our office goes on a rush early in the tournament and eliminates 2 or 3 players. He had good hands and they held up. I knew I had to pick my spots, and I managed to stay out of trouble most of the tourney. The calling station kept calling other player's huge bets. They didn't understand that they value of the bet didn't matter to this guy. He always thought he could get lucky, or people were trying to bluff him. They didn't succeed and he continued to win everyone else's chips. My friend and I took shots at him with real hands, my friend doubled up, and I tried twice to do it, but was not successful. He couldn't manage to make the call.
I doubled up through another player and that gave me more chips that I could throw around being aggressive. This hand came up. Blinds were 50/100 and I had A3o in the button and I raised to $250 (this was my normal raise, which I did with any two cards). The Calling Station calls and we see this flop: 5 4 4 rainbow. He checked to me and I fired 300 chips and he called. The turn is a deuce and he again checks. I had 3k in chips left and he had about 4k. In any other scenario, with any other player, I would bet an amount I think the player would call. The difference is I had gone all in twice before with the nuts and he didn't call. This time I think I sold a little bit better. I double checked my cards, and I looked him straight in the eyes and said "Okay, I am all-in". I think he bought that I was bluffing and my good acting paid me off. He had KQ, so even if that card doesn't hit, I still manage to win the hand.
Then I eliminated my friend. He was playing a solid tourney at this point. We were down to 4. I had him covered, but he was definitely in second. He was switching up aggressive with passive, and getting the other guys confused. The other players had no clue what he was doing, or I was doing. Many blinds were stolen. So he decided to limp in when I am in the big blind. Here is the hand:
He limps and both player call. I looked down at 3 3 and tell everyone that I was thinking about this hand and that it normally breaks me. The flop comes Qh 9x 3h. JACKPOT!!! I bet $300 as people expect me to bet like that. My friend smooth calls me, and calling station calls. The turn brings us a 9x. I tell my friend his AQ is not good, as I bet another $600. He doesn't think and pushes all-in. The other player folds and I call. He show Jh 9h for 3 of kind straight flush draw. The river is the Kh, and I win the pot. We have talked about this hand and the outcome would all have been the same unless he folds it preflop.
I went on to win the tourney (+200). We played a 4 handed tourney for $10, and my friend got unlucky as his AA vs 99 vs JT couldn't manage to hold up with all 3 players all-in pre-flop. The board at the end read J 5 3 9 J. Too bad. So I am heads up against this other player and we played for about 25 minutes. He didn't have a clue what I was doing. I managed to get to $1700 in chips against his $2300. Then the following hand came.
I was in the small blind and the blinds were $100/$200. I call with K K and he checks. I had mixed up the game and I thought this was an opportunity to get it all in on the flop. I think he was getting impatient and would see my all-in bet as weakness as I had shown him a few bluffs. The problem was that the flop came Kc Qx 7c. He bets $200 and I decided to raise him small, hoping he would bluff all in and i would call. But he only called the bet. The next card was a club. He goes all in and after 10 seconds I called. He showed Qx 2c. The river was another club and he won the tourney. More importantly I am feeling great about the way I am playing.
segunda-feira, novembro 14, 2005
800 Badbeat.com
Friday night, I went out to play poker at one of the NYC poker rooms. I left work a little earlier than usual and headed over there. I was looking to play a $1-2 game with buy in at about $200. There are a lot of solid players at this club. I get there and the main table is full, which I am somewhat glad. They are playing $1-2, but they have stacks ranging from $400 to 2 grand. I think they play $1-2 more like $2-5. They do this because the time (rake per half hour) is $6 for the $2-5 game while $5 for the $1-2 game. A short handed game is ready to start with 4 players, including me. I hate playing short handed, since my aggressiveness and inability to let go of hands get me in trouble.
In the first 2 hands I dropped about $150. My two pair ran into straight and my top pair lost to three of kind made on the river. I bought another $200 and slowly built my stack back to about $500. There were 3 very interesting hands:
Hand 1
I am the bb with KhQh, and we have one guy straddle for $5. Button and small blind calls, and I raise to $20. Straddle raises to $40. I am the only caller. Flop comes QQx. I check he bets $30 and I call. Another blank hits, and I check, he checks behind me. I put him on AK or better. Another blank and I bet $50. He thinks and calls. He had AA.
Hand 2
I am again in the big blind. The same player straddles again. One caller. I call "blind" and I announce that. The straddle raises blind. The other caller, calls and I call. Flop comes Q 8 4. I check blind and he bets $20 blind. Callers folds and I announce that I have to look at my cards. I have Q5. So I raise him another $20, making it $40. He calls. The turn is a 5. I bet $45. He thinks about it and goes all in. I have another $95 to call. I think about it and call. The river is a 3 and I win the hand. He said he had some draw.
Hand 3
Huge pot that I lost, but I feel I made the right play. We were still four handed and I am in the button with 5d 7d. UTG raises to $10. I call, sb and button calls. The flop comes 6d 4x 2x, I really liked this flop, but I feel like I wasn't aggressive enough. The guy in the sb, bet $10 (this is the same guy that bluffed me in hand 2), bb calls, utg raiser calls and I call. (I should probably have raised here but I wanted to get another card, and build the pot a bit) The next card is a Qd. Check, Check and initial raiser goes all in for $55. I think about it. I put him on KQ or AQ and I am not sure what to do here. I decided to call the $55. Small blind goes all in for another $78, in addition to the $55. I call. The river is 2. Small stack wins with AQ and small blind wins side pot with 43.
We move to the main table after a few spots open up. The stacks range from $200 to about $1700 and this is a $1-2 game. I have about $500. Here is pretty much my reads from previous experiences at this game. Seat 1 is neutral aggressive solid player, Seat 2 I don't recognize, but is in the first few hands, makes solid decisions and has about $1300 in front. I guess he is solid. Seat 3 is super loose super aggressive player, he is the player you don't want in the pot. He will normally bet you out of hands and give you solid bad beats. His style however is one that has huge swings. Currently he has about $1700 in front of him... must have had a good run. Seat 4 is one of the players who was playing in my table he has $500 in front of him. Seat 5 is a local pro who is always at this club, and has about $1600 in front of him. I am seat 6. Seat 7 and 8 are the other guys from our table, 7 is the guy who won the hand with AQ and 8 is also a local pro that is always around. He only has $300 in front of him. Seat 9 is another local professional with about $1400 and seat 10 is the loosest player, has money italian guy who has watched a lot of poker on tv and is trying it out.
First hand, seat 10 and 1 limps, 2 raises to $20, 3 calls, 4 raises to $120. Everyone laughs and asks why so much. Everyone folds and seat 10 says "Let's crack thoses aces", and pushes all in with about $180 in front of him. Everyone folds, and seat 4 calls and shows aces. Seat 10 has QJ. The flop comes QQx and he wins the pot, putting seat 4 on tilt.
We play for a while and I build my stack to about $750. I see seat 8 doubling up through seat 3 with quad queens and seat 3 tried to bluff him out on the river. That must be a good feeling. He leaves and the guy who bluffed a bit in the short handed game takes his seat. Seat 5 is a funny player and started talking about creating a business called 800 badbeat.com. It was hilarious, mostly because of the cracked aces hand. In all, we weren't read for what was about to come.
I am UTG with JJ and I raise to about $12. Solid tight player raises to $30. Next guy calls, seat 9 calls, seat 10 calls, seat 3 calls. Shit, I didn't want all these players behind me. So I thought about putting in another solid reraise. I reraise to $120, but it doesn't work and everyone calls me. OMG, WTF???? The pot is now around $720+. This is no joke. Flop comes Td 4d 2x. I think for a while and make the mistake of betting $200. I was second to act, if I was going to make that move I should have just moved all in and hoped for the best. Guy next to me moves all in with $590, seat 8 calls with $400 and everyone thinks hard about laying the hand down. Seat 3 decides to call and I fold knowing I either beat by an over pair or a set and in the worst case I am racing against the flush draw, so I folded. I am really pissed about my $200 bet, and the huge pot made me bet that much since I had over cards, but in that case I should have just let go, or not even make the reraise preflop. Playing and learning.
Seat 7 has KK
Seat 8 has 44
Seat 3 has xd xd for the flush draw
Flop is Td 4d 2x
Turn 2h
River is the K
The final pot turned out to be $2700 or something around that area. If you ever take a bad beat, you may call 800 badbeat-dot-com.
In the first 2 hands I dropped about $150. My two pair ran into straight and my top pair lost to three of kind made on the river. I bought another $200 and slowly built my stack back to about $500. There were 3 very interesting hands:
Hand 1
I am the bb with KhQh, and we have one guy straddle for $5. Button and small blind calls, and I raise to $20. Straddle raises to $40. I am the only caller. Flop comes QQx. I check he bets $30 and I call. Another blank hits, and I check, he checks behind me. I put him on AK or better. Another blank and I bet $50. He thinks and calls. He had AA.
Hand 2
I am again in the big blind. The same player straddles again. One caller. I call "blind" and I announce that. The straddle raises blind. The other caller, calls and I call. Flop comes Q 8 4. I check blind and he bets $20 blind. Callers folds and I announce that I have to look at my cards. I have Q5. So I raise him another $20, making it $40. He calls. The turn is a 5. I bet $45. He thinks about it and goes all in. I have another $95 to call. I think about it and call. The river is a 3 and I win the hand. He said he had some draw.
Hand 3
Huge pot that I lost, but I feel I made the right play. We were still four handed and I am in the button with 5d 7d. UTG raises to $10. I call, sb and button calls. The flop comes 6d 4x 2x, I really liked this flop, but I feel like I wasn't aggressive enough. The guy in the sb, bet $10 (this is the same guy that bluffed me in hand 2), bb calls, utg raiser calls and I call. (I should probably have raised here but I wanted to get another card, and build the pot a bit) The next card is a Qd. Check, Check and initial raiser goes all in for $55. I think about it. I put him on KQ or AQ and I am not sure what to do here. I decided to call the $55. Small blind goes all in for another $78, in addition to the $55. I call. The river is 2. Small stack wins with AQ and small blind wins side pot with 43.
We move to the main table after a few spots open up. The stacks range from $200 to about $1700 and this is a $1-2 game. I have about $500. Here is pretty much my reads from previous experiences at this game. Seat 1 is neutral aggressive solid player, Seat 2 I don't recognize, but is in the first few hands, makes solid decisions and has about $1300 in front. I guess he is solid. Seat 3 is super loose super aggressive player, he is the player you don't want in the pot. He will normally bet you out of hands and give you solid bad beats. His style however is one that has huge swings. Currently he has about $1700 in front of him... must have had a good run. Seat 4 is one of the players who was playing in my table he has $500 in front of him. Seat 5 is a local pro who is always at this club, and has about $1600 in front of him. I am seat 6. Seat 7 and 8 are the other guys from our table, 7 is the guy who won the hand with AQ and 8 is also a local pro that is always around. He only has $300 in front of him. Seat 9 is another local professional with about $1400 and seat 10 is the loosest player, has money italian guy who has watched a lot of poker on tv and is trying it out.
First hand, seat 10 and 1 limps, 2 raises to $20, 3 calls, 4 raises to $120. Everyone laughs and asks why so much. Everyone folds and seat 10 says "Let's crack thoses aces", and pushes all in with about $180 in front of him. Everyone folds, and seat 4 calls and shows aces. Seat 10 has QJ. The flop comes QQx and he wins the pot, putting seat 4 on tilt.
We play for a while and I build my stack to about $750. I see seat 8 doubling up through seat 3 with quad queens and seat 3 tried to bluff him out on the river. That must be a good feeling. He leaves and the guy who bluffed a bit in the short handed game takes his seat. Seat 5 is a funny player and started talking about creating a business called 800 badbeat.com. It was hilarious, mostly because of the cracked aces hand. In all, we weren't read for what was about to come.
I am UTG with JJ and I raise to about $12. Solid tight player raises to $30. Next guy calls, seat 9 calls, seat 10 calls, seat 3 calls. Shit, I didn't want all these players behind me. So I thought about putting in another solid reraise. I reraise to $120, but it doesn't work and everyone calls me. OMG, WTF???? The pot is now around $720+. This is no joke. Flop comes Td 4d 2x. I think for a while and make the mistake of betting $200. I was second to act, if I was going to make that move I should have just moved all in and hoped for the best. Guy next to me moves all in with $590, seat 8 calls with $400 and everyone thinks hard about laying the hand down. Seat 3 decides to call and I fold knowing I either beat by an over pair or a set and in the worst case I am racing against the flush draw, so I folded. I am really pissed about my $200 bet, and the huge pot made me bet that much since I had over cards, but in that case I should have just let go, or not even make the reraise preflop. Playing and learning.
Seat 7 has KK
Seat 8 has 44
Seat 3 has xd xd for the flush draw
Flop is Td 4d 2x
Turn 2h
River is the K
The final pot turned out to be $2700 or something around that area. If you ever take a bad beat, you may call 800 badbeat-dot-com.
quinta-feira, novembro 10, 2005
Going on a Rush...
I was playing $2-5NL for about 9 hours now. I felt I had a good read on all the players, and I was making some good decisions. I had about 1.3k in front of me and I had shown down some big hands in the past hour. There was about 4 players in every flop, sometimes even 6 mostly limpers. I was playing very well in position and I was observing every players and I usually made the right guesses of hands they were playing when I was out of the hand.
I was feeling really good. I had a local professional playing to my right and he was the only real solid player in the table. Another old guy who was playing since I got there was fuming a bit and although I thought he was good, he definitely was trying to get even after he lost a few big hands. Anyways, here is an interesting hand I played. One I normally wouldn't even think about, but that I decided I wanted to give a shot and try to outplay my opponents. I knew I couldn't take the hand to showdown and even more so, I needed to hit the flop and hope for the best.
UTG limps, UTG+1 limps, MP limps, CO (local pro) limps. I look at my cards and Ks 2d. I got this itch and decided I was going to raise. I raised to $25. UTG calls (he has about 800 in front of him), UTG+1 folds, MP folds and CO calls ($1.1k). The flop comes Kh 9c 4h and it gets checked around to me. The pot now has about $100. For some reason, I felt that some trap was coming and I wanted to keep the pot small. So although I knew I had to finish the hand right there, I also knew I didn't want to be overly committed. I bet $50.
UTG calls, and I immediately put him on the flush draw. Now comes the twist, CO raises $100 more for a total of $150. I stopped and thought about what I wanted to do here. I would either be done with my hand or I would reraise to continue to show strength. I thought about what possible hands he could have. I decided he would have either a set or a K with a better kicker. The only way to know was to reraise him to find out. If he pushes, I lay my hand down knowing he had a set. I decided to play the hand, so as you know I raised another $100. So my total bet was $250 ($50 bet + $100 call + $100 raise). UTG gives out a big tell by saying "Oh well, we only leave once!", to me this spelled out flush draw all the way. I was hoping to see what CO was going to do. He thinks for a while, and I thought that was a good sign and calls.
The turn brings the 2s. They all check to me. I bet $500. This would put UTG all in. He thinks and folds. CO also thinks for a while and says "I think this is a case of set over set" and folds.
I mucked my hand and took this huge pot.
Como eu ja disse eu estava jogando muito bem. Um profissional local estava a minha direita e era o unico jogador que era solido no seu jogo. Um outro jogado que estava la desde quando eu cheguei a mesa, estava tiltando e apesar de eu achar que ele era bom, ele estava tentando recuperar o dinheiro perdido e tomava decisoes incorretas. De qualquer maneira aqui vai uma mao super interessante que eu joguei. Esta eh normalmente uma mao que eu nao jogo, mas que eu decidi jogar porque eu achava que poderia jogar a mao melhor que os meus adversarios. O mais importante eh que eu sabia que eu nao podia ir ate o river com essa mao e que o flop tinha que me ajudar muito, e esta teria que ser jogada fora.
UTG paga, UTG+1 paga, MP paga, CO (pro local) paga. Eu olho para as minhas cartas e tenho Ks 2d. Eu decidi que iria jogar esta mao forte e aumentei para $25. UTG paga (tem $800 na sua frente), UTG+1 e MP jogam as cartas fora e CO paga ($1.1k). O flop vem com Kh 9c 4h e todos passam para mim. O pot tem por volta de $100. Por alguma razao eu senti que alguem estava preparando uma armadilha. E por isso eu queria manter o pot pequeno. Apesar de saber que eu tinha que terminar a mao ali, eu decidi que precisava de mais informacoes. Entao eu apostei $50.
UTG paga, e eu imediatamente coloquei ele num flush draw. Agora vem a parte interessante, CO aumenta mais $100. Eu parei e pensei em como eu deveria prosseguir. Eu tinha na realidade duas opcoes com esta mao: jogar ela fora ou reaumentar mostrando forca. Antes de agir eu pensei em quais maos ele poderia ter de acordo com as acoes dele: 44, 99 veio a mente, mas o mais provavel era algo com K e um kicker melhor que o meu. Eu queria saber se ele tinha o trio. Decidi jogar forte e sabia que se ele fizesse reraise eu ia ter que largar a mao. Eu reaumentei mais $100 para um total de $250. UTG da uma respirada, pensa e fala "Bem, nos soh vivemos uma vez!", e para mim ele tava correndo atras do flush draw. Minha ansiedade era para ver o que o CO ia fazer. Ele pensou muito, e para isso era otimo sinal, e pagou.
O turn eh um 2s. Todos passam para mim. Eu aposto $500. Isso colocaria o UTG all in. Ele pensa e joga fora as cartas. CO tambem pensa por um bom tempo e fala "Eu acho que isso eh um caso de set contra set" e joga as cartas fora.
Eu entreguei minha mao ao dealer e ganhei esse grande pot.
I was feeling really good. I had a local professional playing to my right and he was the only real solid player in the table. Another old guy who was playing since I got there was fuming a bit and although I thought he was good, he definitely was trying to get even after he lost a few big hands. Anyways, here is an interesting hand I played. One I normally wouldn't even think about, but that I decided I wanted to give a shot and try to outplay my opponents. I knew I couldn't take the hand to showdown and even more so, I needed to hit the flop and hope for the best.
UTG limps, UTG+1 limps, MP limps, CO (local pro) limps. I look at my cards and Ks 2d. I got this itch and decided I was going to raise. I raised to $25. UTG calls (he has about 800 in front of him), UTG+1 folds, MP folds and CO calls ($1.1k). The flop comes Kh 9c 4h and it gets checked around to me. The pot now has about $100. For some reason, I felt that some trap was coming and I wanted to keep the pot small. So although I knew I had to finish the hand right there, I also knew I didn't want to be overly committed. I bet $50.
UTG calls, and I immediately put him on the flush draw. Now comes the twist, CO raises $100 more for a total of $150. I stopped and thought about what I wanted to do here. I would either be done with my hand or I would reraise to continue to show strength. I thought about what possible hands he could have. I decided he would have either a set or a K with a better kicker. The only way to know was to reraise him to find out. If he pushes, I lay my hand down knowing he had a set. I decided to play the hand, so as you know I raised another $100. So my total bet was $250 ($50 bet + $100 call + $100 raise). UTG gives out a big tell by saying "Oh well, we only leave once!", to me this spelled out flush draw all the way. I was hoping to see what CO was going to do. He thinks for a while, and I thought that was a good sign and calls.
The turn brings the 2s. They all check to me. I bet $500. This would put UTG all in. He thinks and folds. CO also thinks for a while and says "I think this is a case of set over set" and folds.
I mucked my hand and took this huge pot.
Portugues
Eu estava jogando $2-5 no limit por volta de 9 horas. Eu estava jogando bem, fazendo boas leituras dos jogadores e suas maos. Eu tambem estava tomando decisoes corretas. Eu tinha por volta de 1.3mil na minha frente, e na ultima hora tinha ganho varias maos mostrando cartas fortes. A mesa era bem solta e tinham normalmente 4 a 6 pessoas por flop, a maioria dando limp. Eu estava jogando em posicao muito bem e normalmente enquanto eu ficava fora da mao, eu fazia observacoes corretas sobre as maos que os jogadores tinham.Como eu ja disse eu estava jogando muito bem. Um profissional local estava a minha direita e era o unico jogador que era solido no seu jogo. Um outro jogado que estava la desde quando eu cheguei a mesa, estava tiltando e apesar de eu achar que ele era bom, ele estava tentando recuperar o dinheiro perdido e tomava decisoes incorretas. De qualquer maneira aqui vai uma mao super interessante que eu joguei. Esta eh normalmente uma mao que eu nao jogo, mas que eu decidi jogar porque eu achava que poderia jogar a mao melhor que os meus adversarios. O mais importante eh que eu sabia que eu nao podia ir ate o river com essa mao e que o flop tinha que me ajudar muito, e esta teria que ser jogada fora.
UTG paga, UTG+1 paga, MP paga, CO (pro local) paga. Eu olho para as minhas cartas e tenho Ks 2d. Eu decidi que iria jogar esta mao forte e aumentei para $25. UTG paga (tem $800 na sua frente), UTG+1 e MP jogam as cartas fora e CO paga ($1.1k). O flop vem com Kh 9c 4h e todos passam para mim. O pot tem por volta de $100. Por alguma razao eu senti que alguem estava preparando uma armadilha. E por isso eu queria manter o pot pequeno. Apesar de saber que eu tinha que terminar a mao ali, eu decidi que precisava de mais informacoes. Entao eu apostei $50.
UTG paga, e eu imediatamente coloquei ele num flush draw. Agora vem a parte interessante, CO aumenta mais $100. Eu parei e pensei em como eu deveria prosseguir. Eu tinha na realidade duas opcoes com esta mao: jogar ela fora ou reaumentar mostrando forca. Antes de agir eu pensei em quais maos ele poderia ter de acordo com as acoes dele: 44, 99 veio a mente, mas o mais provavel era algo com K e um kicker melhor que o meu. Eu queria saber se ele tinha o trio. Decidi jogar forte e sabia que se ele fizesse reraise eu ia ter que largar a mao. Eu reaumentei mais $100 para um total de $250. UTG da uma respirada, pensa e fala "Bem, nos soh vivemos uma vez!", e para mim ele tava correndo atras do flush draw. Minha ansiedade era para ver o que o CO ia fazer. Ele pensou muito, e para isso era otimo sinal, e pagou.
O turn eh um 2s. Todos passam para mim. Eu aposto $500. Isso colocaria o UTG all in. Ele pensa e joga fora as cartas. CO tambem pensa por um bom tempo e fala "Eu acho que isso eh um caso de set contra set" e joga as cartas fora.
Eu entreguei minha mao ao dealer e ganhei esse grande pot.
segunda-feira, novembro 07, 2005
Atlantic City Trip Report
I have a few hands that I want to talk about that came up in the trip. But I will leave that for tomorrow. I just wanted to post that my trip was a success and live playing is just more complete and fullfilling. I love it and I just couldn't stop playing. The interesting part is that there are a lot of bad players and it helps your pockets.
On the first day I played $6-12 limit and it was very interesting. No raise was respected and there were at least 4-5 players in every hand. That really made me think of 1-2 limit at Party Poker. I made a few mistakes early on and I was stuck for $150, but I managed to adjust to the styles on the table and I made a few very good reads. My last 30 minutes I went on a great rush and won 4 hands in a row. That put me back in the black and I was up $25 for the night. Played from 11:00 till 3:30.
The second day I went shopping in the AC mall area. I went to the boardwalk and and played some miniature golf. The weather was beautiful. Got back to the hotel, and headed to the poker room around 3pm. I wanted to play till 10pm. I decided to play NL2-5. Again, I had a real hard time adjusting early on. I lost a big hand to a draw, and I was stuck $250. I rebought another $200. I had my T high straight lose to a J high straight when the river brought a gut shot nine. So I was down to about $275. Let me paint the picture. The table was super loose and passive preflop. Even when someone made a 5bb raise, mostly everyone called. There were around 4 to 5 every hand. I am on the bb with QT and the flop brings QQJ. I check, someone bets, and this loose deep stack player (who I thought was really good with his reads) calls. I decided to shove all of my chips in right there. I got one caller. The player had flush draw and never got there.
I didn't look back, and I ended the night up $1330 ($2030 - $700 being mine). It was a good night and I played really well. I made a few mistakes, and I think I misplayed a few hands. So I will post them here and maybe get some opinions.
On the first day I played $6-12 limit and it was very interesting. No raise was respected and there were at least 4-5 players in every hand. That really made me think of 1-2 limit at Party Poker. I made a few mistakes early on and I was stuck for $150, but I managed to adjust to the styles on the table and I made a few very good reads. My last 30 minutes I went on a great rush and won 4 hands in a row. That put me back in the black and I was up $25 for the night. Played from 11:00 till 3:30.
The second day I went shopping in the AC mall area. I went to the boardwalk and and played some miniature golf. The weather was beautiful. Got back to the hotel, and headed to the poker room around 3pm. I wanted to play till 10pm. I decided to play NL2-5. Again, I had a real hard time adjusting early on. I lost a big hand to a draw, and I was stuck $250. I rebought another $200. I had my T high straight lose to a J high straight when the river brought a gut shot nine. So I was down to about $275. Let me paint the picture. The table was super loose and passive preflop. Even when someone made a 5bb raise, mostly everyone called. There were around 4 to 5 every hand. I am on the bb with QT and the flop brings QQJ. I check, someone bets, and this loose deep stack player (who I thought was really good with his reads) calls. I decided to shove all of my chips in right there. I got one caller. The player had flush draw and never got there.
I didn't look back, and I ended the night up $1330 ($2030 - $700 being mine). It was a good night and I played really well. I made a few mistakes, and I think I misplayed a few hands. So I will post them here and maybe get some opinions.
sexta-feira, novembro 04, 2005
Portugues
Titulo confuso eu sei, so queria uma maneira para organizar tudo que tenho para escrever hoje. Para comecar, eu joguei 4 SNG180 nos ultimos dois dias. Eu me coloquei em trigesimo, nono, trigesimo primeiro e 169 (nao sei escrever - q feio) por causa de um bad beat dois outs que o cara conseguiu no river. Eu estou jogando torneios bem, e provavelmente teria ido mais longe no torneio que fiquei em nono se o meu all-in com KJ nao tivesse sido pago por um cara com 33 no big blind. Entendo que 33 eh favorito a KJ, mas quem paga quase que 90% dos seus chips na mesa final com 33? Bom para ele que ganhou, mas nao estou infeliz com a jogada. Hoje chegando perto do dinheiro minha AQs nao conseguiu ganhar de 77. Novamente estou feliz com minhas jogadas.Decidi tentar jogar PL Omaha 8 hoje a noite e eu ganhei essa mao linda.
http://www.pokerhand.org/index.php?page=view&hand=160304
Eu tinha cometido um erro contra um cara com menos chips pagando o all in dele com um draw para o low e tinha dois pares, mas eu tinha certeza q ele iria ganhar o high. Isso criou uma imagem ruim de mim. Esses caras nao acreditaram que eu tinha a melhor mao e todas as maos deles eram segundas para mim. Eu joguei muito agressivo e cometi alguns erros onde achei que minha posicao era melhor, mas nao foi tao ruim ja que eu acabei dividindo os pots. Ele poderia ter ganho a mao ja que estava com melhores draws que eu.
Eu quero comentar sobre duas maos que eu cometi erros. Uma num jogo short-handed NLHE $2-4 e outra num torneio. Vamos a primeira.
Eu tinha 9h9d na primeira posicao e aumentei para $15. O big blind que eh um jogador bom e agressivo, mas algumas vezes paga com umas maos nao tao boas, pagou para ver o flop. O flop veio 8s 5s 2s. Ele fez check. O pot tinha $32. Eu apostei $30. Ele ja tinha feito check raise 2 vezes, e fez novamente. A aposta dele foi $80. Ele tinha mais dinheiro que eu, por volta de $10 dolares a mais. Eu tinha por volta de $330 no inicio da mao. Meu pensamento foi que ele tinha o A de espada e estava querendo me empurrar da mao. Eu deveria reaumenta-lo para tirar as chances dele de fazer draw. Foi o q eu fiz. Apostei $170. Ele fez o all-in. E eu paguei. Ele mostrou o A de espada e outro A. Minha mao nao melhorou e eu perdi todo o meu dinheiro. Licoes desta mao: fazer o reraise algumas vezes elimina jogadores fracos de algumas maos que eu tinha colocado eles (claro q AA nao), mas pagar o All-in foi um erro imenso. O que eu nao sabia e gostaria de compartilhar eh que ele com o A de espada e qualquer carta (K-Q-J-T-8) eh of favorito para ganhar a mao. Entao eu deveria ter esperado uma oportunidade melhor.
Outra jogada minha foi durante um torneio. Joguei essa mao completamente errada. Nao sei porque cometo esses erros de vez em quando. Tenho que aprender. Inicio do torneio, eu ainda nao joguei nenhuma mao. Blind eh $10-20 e o primeiro a agir paga $20. Eu tenho AKo, o outro jogador tinha soh 900 chips na frente dele. Eu aumentei para $100 e ele pagou. O flop veio Q Q 2 de cores diferentes. Ele fez o check. Eu pensei, vou apostar o pot aqui e pegar o pot ja que ele nao acerto esse flop. Duhh erro numero um. Ele vai all-in e eu pago. Duhh erro numero dois. Vamos aos erros: o primeiro eh um erro porque a unica maneira que ele me pagaria eh se ele tivesse um par ou uma dama. No qual ele seria favorito. Apostar metade do pot seria o suficiente para pegar informacao sobre o que ele tem. O segundo erro nem preciso explicar.
Meu aniversario esta chegando nesta Terca, entao hoje eu vou para Atlantic City comemorar um pouco. Quero ir a algumas boites e aproveitar para jogar poker. Eu tenho que jogar umas 10 horas para receber o preco promocional do hotel. Nao sera dificil... Segunda vou ver o jogo de futebol americano com meus amigos e beber um pouco... e terca comemarei em estilo jogando beer pong e enchendo a cara... Depois do fim de semana nao devo jogar ate quarta. To ficando velho - 27.
SNG180 9th Place, PLOmaha8, Expensive Mistakes, Borgata Trip, Birthday
Confusing title I know, yet I am just trying to organize everything I want to talk about tonight. To start, I have played 4 SNG180 in the past few days. I have placed 30th, 9th, 31st and 169th in a bad beat 2 outer. I feel very comfortable with my game, and I probably would have gone further had my KJ all-in held up vs a guy calling close to all his stack with 33. I just don't know who makes that play. Good for him I guess, and I wasn't unhappy about my play. Tonight as I was winding down I couldn't get my AQs hold up vs 77. Tough one again.
I was trying PL Omaha 8 tonight and I won this beautiful hand.
http://www.pokerhand.org/index.php?page=view&hand=160304
I made some small mistakes pushing some hands, but I managed to split the pots. Later I saw that I was ahead only to win the high, and he certainly had many outs to scoop.
Two of the hands I want to talk about is a NLHE$2-4 Shorthanded and a tournament hand that cost me a lot of chips. The shorthanded hand first.
I had 99 UTG and I raised to $15. The big blind who is solid aggressive but makes some loose calls, cold calls. The flop comes 8s 5s 2s. The pot has about $32 and he checks. I bet $30. He had check raised me on two other occasions, and he did it again. The bet was about $80. He had me covered, and I had about $330 in front of me at the beginning of the hand. My thoughts were, he has the As and is trying to push me off my hand. I should reraise him as not to show weakness and to not give him this draw. So I reraised to about $170. He pushed all in. I called. He showed the As and another A. My hand didn't improve and I lost all my money. Here are two things to think about and the lesson I learned playing my hand: Making the reraise was a perfectly normal play and I will sometimes force weaker hands to lay down, in any case, I was not the favorite to win the hand. If my opponent held As and K-Q-J-T of any other suit, he would still be a favorite. Had I known that I would have probably folded to the all-in bet and I should have. Yet somehow I thought I was ahead with the hand I had put him on.
Here is the tournament hand: I have AKo in the Cut off position with all my chips, it is pretty early. UTG limps for $20 chips and he has about $900 in chips. I raise to $100 and he calls it. Flop comes Q Q 2 rainbow. He checks. My thoughts were: he missed the flop and I will bet pot size to take this down. I bet pot sized, he reraises me all and in an instance I clicked the call button. Big mistake, and here is what I should have been thinking: Bet half the pot, if he moves on me he probably hit his Q and I should be done with the hand. The reason you ask??? Only way he calls any bets here is if he has the Q or one of the deuces. By pushing he probably had the Q and I should have just folded, instead I called. Sometimes I make these dumb mistakes, but it's good to reflect on them.
My birthday is coming up next Tuesday, so tomorrow I am going to Atlantic City to play a bit at the Borgata. I am hoping to get at least 10 hours since I got the room at the poker rate. I plan to enjoy the clubs and some good meals. On Monday I will spend MNF at a friends house drinking and on Tuesday I plan to either get really drunk playing beer pong or just plain get really drunk. I will be turning 27.
Confusing title I know, yet I am just trying to organize everything I want to talk about tonight. To start, I have played 4 SNG180 in the past few days. I have placed 30th, 9th, 31st and 169th in a bad beat 2 outer. I feel very comfortable with my game, and I probably would have gone further had my KJ all-in held up vs a guy calling close to all his stack with 33. I just don't know who makes that play. Good for him I guess, and I wasn't unhappy about my play. Tonight as I was winding down I couldn't get my AQs hold up vs 77. Tough one again.
I was trying PL Omaha 8 tonight and I won this beautiful hand.
http://www.pokerhand.org/index.php?page=view&hand=160304
I made some small mistakes pushing some hands, but I managed to split the pots. Later I saw that I was ahead only to win the high, and he certainly had many outs to scoop.
Two of the hands I want to talk about is a NLHE$2-4 Shorthanded and a tournament hand that cost me a lot of chips. The shorthanded hand first.
I had 99 UTG and I raised to $15. The big blind who is solid aggressive but makes some loose calls, cold calls. The flop comes 8s 5s 2s. The pot has about $32 and he checks. I bet $30. He had check raised me on two other occasions, and he did it again. The bet was about $80. He had me covered, and I had about $330 in front of me at the beginning of the hand. My thoughts were, he has the As and is trying to push me off my hand. I should reraise him as not to show weakness and to not give him this draw. So I reraised to about $170. He pushed all in. I called. He showed the As and another A. My hand didn't improve and I lost all my money. Here are two things to think about and the lesson I learned playing my hand: Making the reraise was a perfectly normal play and I will sometimes force weaker hands to lay down, in any case, I was not the favorite to win the hand. If my opponent held As and K-Q-J-T of any other suit, he would still be a favorite. Had I known that I would have probably folded to the all-in bet and I should have. Yet somehow I thought I was ahead with the hand I had put him on.
Here is the tournament hand: I have AKo in the Cut off position with all my chips, it is pretty early. UTG limps for $20 chips and he has about $900 in chips. I raise to $100 and he calls it. Flop comes Q Q 2 rainbow. He checks. My thoughts were: he missed the flop and I will bet pot size to take this down. I bet pot sized, he reraises me all and in an instance I clicked the call button. Big mistake, and here is what I should have been thinking: Bet half the pot, if he moves on me he probably hit his Q and I should be done with the hand. The reason you ask??? Only way he calls any bets here is if he has the Q or one of the deuces. By pushing he probably had the Q and I should have just folded, instead I called. Sometimes I make these dumb mistakes, but it's good to reflect on them.
My birthday is coming up next Tuesday, so tomorrow I am going to Atlantic City to play a bit at the Borgata. I am hoping to get at least 10 hours since I got the room at the poker rate. I plan to enjoy the clubs and some good meals. On Monday I will spend MNF at a friends house drinking and on Tuesday I plan to either get really drunk playing beer pong or just plain get really drunk. I will be turning 27.
quinta-feira, novembro 03, 2005
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