Every rule should have an exception, right? I have been determined this week to play only in tournaments and stay the hell away from the Moose cash game. Mission sort of accomplished. Played in 3 tournaments Friday (8 & 10 a.m. Moose, then the 3:00 Jokers). Made the final table all three times, but only got money bubble $40 at Joker's. What was bad, was that they chopped after I was eliminated for $240 each. The hand I lost was K7 on the button, flop was K/10/7. Small bet from SB there is a flush draw, I shove, he calls with K/10. How sick is that? The worst part was that I stayed in the tournament so long that I lost my seat in the Omaha game. Fearing that I would not get a seat....and yes I know this is a cash game.....was ready to leave but stayed and chatted with a player that I had not seen for a while. Then a seat opened up and bought in for $200. The usual suspects were playing, Dougie Fresh, old Bob, my friend Bob, Matt the dealer, Evan, and a couple of others I recognized. I lost about $20 early on, but from there it was nothing but win. The manager, Steve, even commented, "Getting any flops you like Phil?" Oh yeah. Draws came in, I folded early when beaten, scooped several....which is key in high/low....too many chops are really bad. Long story short, I broke several players and broke the game when I left with 6 full racks of chips. Excellent session of poker, and covered all tournament buy-in losses for the week.
Saturday played in only 2, the 8 a.m. & 10 am moose. We chopped the 8 o'clock 6 ways for $70 each, and I just missed cashing the 10 o'clock.
Finally, Sunday a.m. moose, I am playing well but not getting anywhere. Missed a huge pot when Donna shoved $1900 with A/10 on a Q/10/x board. I made the mistake of calling her instead of re-raising all-in with my K/J. The action got to Marco who shoved about $4500 more. A call on my draw would have cost me all but about 1500 of my stack, placing me on life support. I considered calling for two reasons: first the $10 bounties, second, I owed Marco a bad beat from my last visit. I put out of my head that revenge idea and focused on the financial. I knew they both had gotten a chunk of the flop (Marco had Q/10), and figured that keeping a decent stack was more important than the other considerations. However, I did not consider that winning the pot would propel me to the top chips on the table and a great shot at winning. I folded. The turn was no help, the river brought the ace and Donna tripled up, hurting Marco. Opportunity missed.
My last hand was at the 300/600 level. I was on the button and there were 2 limpers, including Gary sitting in the cutoff next to me. With 2100 in the pot and my stack at 4200, I find pocket 8's. There was no hesitation on my shove. Everyone folded to Gary, who commented that he thought I was stealing. I assured him that I had a "real hand" but he called with his Q/J offsuit. The flop brought k/k/Q and I could not catch a two outer. This was the first tournament this week that I did not make the final table, and the second one that I lost with a race where I started with a pocket pair.
Final weekly tally (leaving tomorrow morning): Played freaking 8 tournaments, final table on 7, two small cashes, total investment loss: $255 buy ins, less $110 cash, $20 free play wins, net: $125 loss.
Cash game: $397 win. Total net win for the week $272 for about 20 hours of play. Better than minimum wage. With just a couple of breaks it would have been double that.
Saturday played in only 2, the 8 a.m. & 10 am moose. We chopped the 8 o'clock 6 ways for $70 each, and I just missed cashing the 10 o'clock.
Finally, Sunday a.m. moose, I am playing well but not getting anywhere. Missed a huge pot when Donna shoved $1900 with A/10 on a Q/10/x board. I made the mistake of calling her instead of re-raising all-in with my K/J. The action got to Marco who shoved about $4500 more. A call on my draw would have cost me all but about 1500 of my stack, placing me on life support. I considered calling for two reasons: first the $10 bounties, second, I owed Marco a bad beat from my last visit. I put out of my head that revenge idea and focused on the financial. I knew they both had gotten a chunk of the flop (Marco had Q/10), and figured that keeping a decent stack was more important than the other considerations. However, I did not consider that winning the pot would propel me to the top chips on the table and a great shot at winning. I folded. The turn was no help, the river brought the ace and Donna tripled up, hurting Marco. Opportunity missed.
My last hand was at the 300/600 level. I was on the button and there were 2 limpers, including Gary sitting in the cutoff next to me. With 2100 in the pot and my stack at 4200, I find pocket 8's. There was no hesitation on my shove. Everyone folded to Gary, who commented that he thought I was stealing. I assured him that I had a "real hand" but he called with his Q/J offsuit. The flop brought k/k/Q and I could not catch a two outer. This was the first tournament this week that I did not make the final table, and the second one that I lost with a race where I started with a pocket pair.
Final weekly tally (leaving tomorrow morning): Played freaking 8 tournaments, final table on 7, two small cashes, total investment loss: $255 buy ins, less $110 cash, $20 free play wins, net: $125 loss.
Cash game: $397 win. Total net win for the week $272 for about 20 hours of play. Better than minimum wage. With just a couple of breaks it would have been double that.
2 comments:
Well it looks like you & I should stick to tournaments for the most part, although Omaha is definitely your game.
See my blog for how I did in the cash game.
It was nice to see you even if it was only for 5 minutes - LOL.
I like "Sometimes a Great Notion" too although most of the time the image I get is of what's-his-name stuck & drowning in the log jam. Ick. But, you know, what's not to like about Paul Newman? And then there's the whole scene with the arm. Or was it a leg? Jeez, I can't remember. Sheesh. I guess I'll have to get it on Netflix or something so I can enjoy it again.
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