wtf wtf

No really.


PokerStars Game #27646430696: Tournament #159812116, $20+$2 Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2009/04/29 22:50:38 ET
Table '159812116 1' 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: Godbey62 (1500 in chips)
Seat 2: @dv@nt@ge (1490 in chips)
Seat 3: thegnaw (2500 in chips)
Seat 4: 2cavaliers (1480 in chips)
Seat 5: FR Vessant (1500 in chips)
Seat 6: ronlat (1480 in chips)
Seat 7: DEBDAL (1500 in chips)
Seat 8: sickening (550 in chips)

Lost most of his stack on the second hand. Has played both hands so far. Badly.

Seat 9: potlogic (1500 in chips)
2cavaliers: posts small blind 10
FR Vessant: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Kd Js]
ronlat: calls 20
DEBDAL: folds
sickening: calls 20
potlogic: folds
Godbey62: folds
sickening said, "only way u wouldve played it"
@dv@nt@ge: folds
thegnaw: folds
sickening said, "nh"
2cavaliers: calls 10
FR Vessant: checks
*** FLOP *** [Kh 2s 5s]

So I hit top pair, but I'm not loving it.

2cavaliers: checks
FR Vessant: bets 40

I bet to make the flush draws pay, but I could happily have checked this. I don't like getting involved in these small pots with moderate hands, because these fish have wide ranges and no idea how to value their hands, so you can get massive pots that you think you are faring well in but find out that some bizarre shit has caught it harder than you.

ronlat: folds
sickening: calls 40

Could have anything. Most likely a flush draw or some sort of king. Would expect most kings to raise the flop though, particularly stronger ones than I have.

2cavaliers: folds
*** TURN *** [Kh 2s 5s] [5d]

Should be fairly safe.

FR Vessant: bets 80

I'm not all that keen on betting again but I am likely to face a bet from at least the Ks in his range if I don't and I can make the flush draw pay, so I'm not really worse off for doing it. I realise that I am bloating the pot a bit though, particularly since I can easily get valuebet by KQ on a blank river. However, KQ is reasonably unlikely because only the really passive guys just call with it on a board with a flush draw.

sickening: raises 410 to 490 and is all-in

OMG. Really hard to interpret that. Can't put too many 5s in his range and most donkeys would raise the flop with a king.

So he could have KQ but you'd have to think it's unlikely. I think his most likely hand is a flush draw with a pair, something like KsTs, which he now likes because he has two pair. I think he has far too many hands I beat in his range to fold.

FR Vessant: calls 410

So I call.

He has A5.

What. The. Fuck.

*** RIVER *** [Kh 2s 5s 5d] [Ts]
FR Vessant said, "omg"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
FR Vessant: shows [Kd Js] (two pair, Kings and Fives)
sickening: shows [Ad 5c] (three of a kind, Fives)

Okay, these fucktards will play raggy aces, even when they've blown 2/3 of their stack, and they will call when they pair their kicker, always. But does he have to hit trips? I mean, really?

This is happening to me game after game. Not just the occasional horrible beat. Every game. Almost every hand. Nothing holds up. I have a 15-out draw, I miss it. He has two outs, no problem. I have a set, they turn a flush. I have a flush, they turn the nut flush. I have the nut flush, they river a boat. I shove jacks, they have aces. I shove aces, they hit a straight. I have the same hand, they hit a flush.

It's killing me. In these regular speed games, I play tables that run 27/6 or 31/9 and lose money. Just folding everything except monsters would in theory make you money at these tables. In theory. In practice, there is no monster big enough.

***

Wow.

As I write this, I actually hit a draw! Savour it, Zenny. It's your one piece of luck for today:

PokerStars Game #27646715507: Tournament #159812116, $20+$2 Hold'em No Limit - Level II (15/30) - 2009/04/29 23:01:41 ET
Table '159812116 1' 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: Godbey62 (1470 in chips)
Seat 2: @dv@nt@ge (2010 in chips)
Seat 3: thegnaw (2675 in chips)
Seat 4: 2cavaliers (3080 in chips)
Seat 5: FR Vessant (875 in chips)
Seat 6: ronlat (940 in chips)
Seat 7: DEBDAL (1225 in chips)
Seat 9: potlogic (1225 in chips)
2cavaliers: posts small blind 15
FR Vessant: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [5d 2d]
ronlat: calls 30

He has AJ. He should raise if he wants to play it and actually, I would just fold in his spot. This table is way too loose to want to play AJ OOP.

DEBDAL: folds
potlogic: folds
Godbey62: folds
@dv@nt@ge: folds
thegnaw: folds
2cavaliers: folds
FR Vessant: checks
*** FLOP *** [4s Ad Jd]
FR Vessant: checks

I have a strong draw and could lead out here, but he will have quite a few aces in his range, and I'd rather not get shoved on because I will be put in a very tough spot.


ronlat: bets 910 and is all-in

Which happens anyway.

So I have 12 outs against top pair. I'm a dog but it's quite close. I'm not getting the correct odds but I need to double up if I can to be competitive. My big worry is that he has shoved because he has a flush draw, in which case I'm hosed. But actually, the huge overshove is nearly always the nuts, so I expect to see AJ or A4. Obviously I hope not to have run into JJ, because that kills one of my outs.

If I had a full stack, I would have folded. But I didn't, so I called.

FR Vessant: calls 845 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (65) returned to ronlat
*** TURN *** [4s Ad Jd] [6c]
*** RIVER *** [4s Ad Jd 6c] [3h]

BOOM!

See, the one fucking time I don't play it right, I win out. Probably a tip in there or something.