Poker Results 8/1

25+2 SnG’s Today: 94 played, -282.50

25+2 SnG’s Year: 161 played,-133

Ouch… fucking ouch. Had some terrible beats like A10 vs AQ, 99 vs A5, etc. and then your standard Jokerstars KK vs. AA once again. This downswing was rough. Luckily, on tilt, I decided to play some 100 NL and beat it for 1.5 buy ins to minimize the damage. But yeah, don’t know whats wrong with my game right now.

-K

Poker Results 7/25-7/27

So not much to report… didn’t play any SnG’s the past few days. Have been busy hosting Doorey, who was here for a few days from Chicago. In the past day, however, I have dabbled a bit in cash games and it’s been a harsh reminder why I’m going to stick to SnG’s for now. I was -40, then +80, then last night went on a sick run of +150, and then earlier this morning, went on a rollercoaster 1k hand session of -200. The swings are just something I don’t want to deal with at this point in time with my bankroll.

This was an interesting hand that came up last night. I called with A4s UTG and it was folded around to the SB who made a small raise to 3xBB. The BB called and I called (I will normally call small raises with a suited ace just to see the flop). The flop came down Qs 10s 9h. SB made a CBet of 1.50, BB called, and I called with the nut flush draw. Turn comes down an offsuit 5. SB bets again for 4, which is fine, he might just be doing another CBet. What really confused me was when BB raised to 10. I was 8-tabling at the time and really didn’t have an idea of who this player was (also… I don’t have PokerTracker or PAHud… which I need to get if I do decide to play cash for real). I decided to call the $10, and the SB called the additional $6. In my head (little did I know how not true this was), even if BB had two pair, a set, or maybe even a flopped straight, I still had 9 outs for the nut flush, so pot odds *I think* warranted a call – especially if you take into consideration my thinking that I’d stack someone if the spade did fall. Well the river was one of two spades I DID NOT want to see… the 5s pairing the board. As you can see from the link, SB pushed all-in, and BB CALLED (quickly). This is where, once again, I’m confused as shit. Did that 5 just fill him up for the boat? This is a $150 pot if I call… and I don’t see how I could possibly get away from it. If BB did have the boat, it would have been one hell of a laydown. I reluctantly called, expecting SB or BB to have the flopped set and then turn-river boat. Luckily, both players had baby flushes and I scooped up the pot. I probably still take down the 40 dollar pot before the river since I feel SB and BB would check if they missed their flushes. But a big bluff by one of them, and I’m probably folding.

This is why I don’t want to play cash right now. I’m in the SB with KK. I’ve got 3 limpers ahead of me so I raise it up to 6xBB, a pretty standard raise for me to get at least a few of the limpers out. UTG+1 and Button call. Flop comes down QJ5, two spades. I bet out about half of the pot, UTG+1 folds, and Button thinks about it for a while, and comes over the top. Turn 5 river J and I’m thinking maybe I’m safe cause Button pushed with pair of Q’s. Nope… J10os, no FD, and a runner runner SD? Christ, I can’t handle the calls some of these fish make. To make it worse, the turn eliminated 3 out of 5 of his outs… so I had 95% equity heading into the river.

So I’m pretty much even with cash for the past few days and won’t be revisiting it for a long while. SnG’s are a grind, but I’ve been hot recently and should stop fucking around with cash games.

-K

Poker Results 7/23

Got back from the city pretty late tonight, so didn’t get much playing time in. Here were the results from tonight.

25+2 SnG’s: 14 played, +49.50.

Had some bad breaks when I got heads up. Ended up with 1 3rd, 4 2nd, and 1 1st. The 2nd’s need to start becoming 1st’s if I want to increase my ROI. Had one guy down to 1500 with 400/800 blinds and somehow he doubled up 3 times and then took me for the rest of my stack on the 4th hand. Super gay. Other than that, pretty happy about my play tonight – was running pretty well and I was winning lots of hands where I was all-in on with +Equity.

-K

First Post

So after a few months of reading my friend Jim Davy’s blog, I’ve decided to start my own blog. Why you ask? Well I’ve been looking for a way to express myself ever since deleting my Xanga account (I’m kidding… sort of), and I figured this would be a suitable outlet to do so. As you can tell by the title of the blog, I’m going to probably make this primarily a poker blog to track my results and have some discussion on the theory of a few hands. On the side, I’ll probably post a few things about stuff I’m interested in: sports, politics, and anything mind blowingly retarded enough to be funny.

So you might be wondering what the background behind the name of this blog is. I started to play poker online as a sophomore in high school. At the time, the big gambling addiction in my own house, Griswold, was pool, while around the rest of the School it was blackjack. Chris Moneymaker then won the 2003 WSOP Main Event and that all changed very quickly. By junior year, poker had taken off at Lawrenceville and admittedly, I probably had more experience than 90% of the players at the School. One day, in Driver’s Ed with Big Bertha Videtti, my good friend DJ and I decided to liven things up with some heads up Texas Hold ‘em. Things were going pretty well until a monster of a hand came up. With the board reading K K 10 10 x (not sure about the 10′s, but there were two pair on the board), we got all our chips into the middle. DJ held something like a K9, and I held something like a KQ.

So split pot, right? Now, to this day DJ gives me shit about this and I still feel bad (sort of), but I pulled the “Full House Kicker” rule out of my ass and scooped the whole pot. In our massive amounts of gambling since, I’m sure I’ve given some of it back to DJ over the years. But whenever DJ wants to call me out for being gay, he’ll always have the full house kicker.

-K