Tuesday 7 October 2008

Flushing it away

So I'm playing okay but I'm not catching too many breaks. This won't be a bad beat post, but it does show the ups and downs:

Tilt Poker Game #8383012222: $11 + $1 Sit & Go (Turbo) (63785354), Table 1 - 100/200 - No Limit Hold'em - 2:06:42 ET - 2008/10/07
Seat 4: bolthier (2,970)
Seat 5: FREZA (1,070)
Seat 6: basatagirl (1,200)
Seat 8: moronello (8,260)
FREZA posts the small blind of 100
basatagirl posts the big blind of 200
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to basatagirl [Ks Jd]
moronello folds
bolthier folds
FREZA has 15 seconds left to act
FREZA raises to 1,070, and is all in
basatagirl calls 870

I have to call. He's probably shoving very wide, and I have a decent hand.

FREZA shows [7d 2h]

So my call was good.

basatagirl shows [Ks Jd]
*** FLOP *** [2s 8h 6s]

That sucks.

*** TURN *** [2s 8h 6s] [4c]
*** RIVER *** [2s 8h 6s 4c] [2d]

Oh well. It goes that way sometimes.

So I have 130 chips left.

Full Tilt Poker Game #8383015976: $11 + $1 Sit & Go (Turbo) (63785354), Table 1 - 100/200 - No Limit Hold'em - 2:07:09 ET - 2008/10/07
Seat 4: bolthier (2,970)
Seat 5: FREZA (2,140)
Seat 6: basatagirl (130)
Seat 8: moronello (8,260)
basatagirl posts the small blind of 100
moronello posts the big blind of 200
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to basatagirl [6d 5d]
basatagirl: sigh
bolthier folds
FREZA folds
basatagirl calls 30, and is all in

Hooray!

basatagirl shows [6d 5d]
moronello shows [3s 8d]
Uncalled bet of 70 returned to moronello
*** FLOP *** [7d 7c 3h]

Oh dear.

*** TURN *** [7d 7c 3h] [6h]

Yay!



Full Tilt Poker Game #8383019157: $11 + $1 Sit & Go (Turbo) (63785354), Table 1 - 100/200 - No Limit Hold'em - 2:07:32 ET - 2008/10/07
Seat 4: bolthier (2,970)
Seat 5: FREZA (2,140)
Seat 6: basatagirl (260)
Seat 8: moronello (8,130)
moronello posts the small blind of 100
bolthier posts the big blind of 200
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to basatagirl [Jc 4c]
FREZA folds
basatagirl raises to 260, and is all in

Not the best of hands but I decided to shove and hope for the best.

moronello calls 160

This is actually okay for me. Bigger pot the times I suck out.
bolthier folds

This is plain terrible. He has to call 60 more to win 720. Awful awful fold. Good for me though.

basatagirl shows [Jc 4c]
moronello shows [As 9h]
*** FLOP *** [9d Td Qh]
*** TURN *** [9d Td Qh] [Qc]
*** RIVER *** [9d Td Qh Qc] [Kh]

Yay!

Full Tilt Poker Game #8383022793: $11 + $1 Sit & Go (Turbo) (63785354), Table 1 - 100/200 - No Limit Hold'em - 2:07:58 ET - 2008/10/07
Seat 4: bolthier (2,770)
Seat 5: FREZA (2,140)
Seat 6: basatagirl (720)
Seat 8: moronello (7,870)
bolthier posts the small blind of 100
FREZA posts the big blind of 200
The button is in seat #8
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to basatagirl [Kd 7c]
basatagirl raises to 720, and is all in

Might as well. K high and less than 4BB.


moronello folds
bolthier folds
FREZA folds

Next hand I have to fold 64 in the BB to a shove.


Full Tilt Poker Game #8383026488: $11 + $1 Sit & Go (Turbo) (63785354), Table 1 - 120/240 - No Limit Hold'em - 2:08:25 ET - 2008/10/07
Seat 4: bolthier (2,970)
Seat 5: FREZA (1,840)
Seat 6: basatagirl (820)
Seat 8: moronello (7,870)
basatagirl posts the small blind of 120
moronello posts the big blind of 240
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to basatagirl [7h 7s]
bolthier folds
FREZA raises to 1,840, and is all in
basatagirl calls 700, and is all in

Okay, he won't be shoving as wide here, but I'm not going to fold a hand this strong.

moronello folds
FREZA shows [As Ts]

Meh. It's very close to even money.

basatagirl shows [7h 7s]
Uncalled bet of 1,020 returned to FREZA
*** FLOP *** [4c Kh 6c]
*** TURN *** [4c Kh 6c] [Jc]
*** RIVER *** [4c Kh 6c Jc] [8h]

MHIG so now I have a decent stack.


Next hand I fold JT on the button. It's pretty close, I think, and if I had another 200 chips, I might shove.


Full Tilt Poker Game #8383031035: $11 + $1 Sit & Go (Turbo) (63785354), Table 1 - 120/240 - No Limit Hold'em - 2:08:58 ET - 2008/10/07
Seat 4: bolthier (2,730)
Seat 5: FREZA (1,020)
Seat 6: basatagirl (1,880)
Seat 8: moronello (7,870)
bolthier posts the small blind of 120
FREZA posts the big blind of 240
The button is in seat #8
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to basatagirl [Ad Kc]

Now I would have been willing to just fold the next few hands and sneak into third, but this hand is too strong to fold.

basatagirl raises to 1,880, and is all in

moronello folds
bolthier calls 1,760

He must have a superstrong hand. Shorty is pretty short and I have to have something decent to shove into both bigger stacks now I have a decent stack.

FREZA folds
basatagirl shows [Ad Kc]
bolthier shows [8c Ac]

WTF. That's an awful awful call, even if he thinks I'm a fair bit wider than I am.

What makes it awful is not so much that he badly misreads my range, or badly overvalues his hand, but that he is risking becoming short for quite a small reward in equity. But fish do make these calls and I am way ahead.


*** FLOP *** [2c Tc 6c]

WTF.

At almost exactly the same time, this hand:

Full Tilt Poker Game #8382960457: $11 + $1 Sit & Go (Turbo) (63785489), Table 1 - 60/120 - No Limit Hold'em - 2:00:35 ET - 2008/10/07
Seat 1: ibigdaddy (1,235)
Seat 2: obedbattius (1,970)
Seat 3: ertbAl (1,330)
Seat 5: basatagirl (1,605)
Seat 7: cu0ne (4,960)
Seat 9: todamoon1 (2,400)
cu0ne posts the small blind of 60
todamoon1 posts the big blind of 120
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to basatagirl [Js Jc]
ibigdaddy folds
obedbattius folds
ertbAl has 15 seconds left to act
ertbAl folds
basatagirl raises to 1,605, and is all in
cu0ne folds
todamoon1 calls 1,485
basatagirl shows [Js Jc]

I have barely played a hand all game.

todamoon1 shows [5d Ad]

That's just awful. I am not shoving 13BB with anything that A5s is ahead of.

Incredibly, this guy is making money.

*** FLOP *** [2d 4h 6d]

WTF. That's probably why he's making money.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

boots sez:

You can play mechanical and trust the maths to see you ahead in "the long run" if the dullness of it doesn't kill your enthusiasm to the point of making stupid errors.

Or you can play the zone. If you play the zone, don't even sit down at the table unless you feel one with it. Of course if you play the zone, you won't care whether you win or lose because you'll be too busy paying attention to staying in the zone. If you stay in the zone, and it keeps you in the game, you'll come off a winner; if you stay in the zone and it leads you out of the game, you'll want to stay and rake in more chips but if you do you're bloody fucked.