Sunday, January 11, 2009

Hangover of Hangovers

Hit the booze hard yesterday. Dumb thing was i totally forgot i had been to the gym earlier which basically makes my hangover 5 times worse. Anyway onto the day 2 i guess.

Generally got no cards but thats not a moan, 1 AQoff then nothing over A10std or 22. I actually didnt realise my cards were so bad until today as i didnt let it affect me or my play.
Key Hands:

Had been abusing the bubble on new table, raised last 4 pots running and was getting no resistance. Followed again with Q6std but tight bb shortie woke up with AK. Live cards but missed completely. Basically that pot would have took me to just over 100k at 3k blinds but losing it put me back to my starting stack of 70k.

A10ss button and made it 8000 to go at 1.5/3 still. BB is one of chipleaders and only just joined table and calls. Flop is QJ8 with 2 spades and he leads for 12,000 making my allin an easy move. He tanks for ages and tables 99, i dont show. That took me to peak stack of 93k.

QJoff in bb and same guy has made a small raise from earlyish position. Flop comes K105 rainbow, obv could lead but elect for chk raise or chk call and take off on a further street. He bets a weak 8000 (same as raise preflop) and i make it 20k and he folds quickly saying he had 66.

22 cutoff, 2k/4k i make it 11k to go. BB makes a reraise, i dont think he is strong at all but dont want a flip at that stage. Basically its 45k more for a 120k pot but i would be left with only 30-35k if lose. He murmours sommat bout Q10 after but dunno if true means nout really. With hindsight 50% there i often gamble but figured there were better ops about.

Bust hand: Blinded down a bit and on 65k at 3/6.
Same guy from early position makes it 10k more, he just tabled AA couple hands before but i watched him during that hand and he def didnt look as strong this time. I have KQoff in BB, obv could go allin but choose to flop and go with read, board etc. Flop comes J92 rainbow, i check raise him allin and he pauses before whats an autocall (several people border on slowrolling out here, seems to be common). He was also reluctant to call. He tables QJoff !!! I miss my 7 outs and hit the rail. I dont mind this bust too much, obviously gutted at the time but more fun than running QQ into KK or losing a race. So 40th/731 for $3,290, obviously was incredibly disappointed but once i lost the Q6 hand the blinds were catching fast. I knew i was gonna need a fair bit of luck in the crapshoot stuff before the day started but it wasnt to be.


As above got very drunk then and played the $1,050 event an hour later. Never got going in it though. Got chatting to english chap that lives in Spain for an hour or so and almost went for a meal with him but the urge to play drunk live omaha was just too strong. I hit the 5/10 table and sat with $5000 this time. 2-3hours later i was $100 up which i didnt mind as only had 1 big split pot of interest.

Ive entered the omaha hi lo limit today in 5 hours time which should be fun. Last time i played that i laughed at all the "experts" at the table discussing clueless tactics in vegas before chopping and taking first (only 30odd runners though). Hopefully get off to ok start i know its key to get spare chips in this so have an extra life or 2 to play a little more aggressively when blinds do go up. Def no booze today anyway :)

2 comments:

Finnianp said...

Hi, cool blog, any chance we could exchange blog links?

Anonymous said...

Shame you didn't shove in the bust hand as the guy probably folds but you have to go with your reads I guess.

Good luck in the Omaha games, I love the game but am a total fish/noob at PLO and haven't a clue about PLO/8