Friday, October 21, 2005
Mr. Jones over at Poker Stars decided he wanted to turn my doom button on last night. I played 4 sit n goes. I took the big Oh-fer.
All sit n goes were 9 handed $16 turbos. In sit n go #1, it's fairly early. I'm in the small blind with AK. A couple limpers and then the button raises to like 4 or 5 times the big blind. I cold call so I can get away from the hand and fight another day.
Flop: A,K,Q rainbow.
Checked around to the raiser. He bet roughly the size of the pot. I check raise all in. Folded to the raiser who instantly calls with...... AJ offsuit. Total domination.
Turn: rag
River: 10 giving him the straight and giving me the door.
#2. I lose a coin flip with everyone at the table, but the blinds at 50/100. I push with QK on the next hand and triple up. I eventually take the chip lead, but fall to 2nd in chips with 4 left. I try a few blind steals, but the chip leader pushed on me both times. I get pocket Jacks on the button. Standard raise. Chip leader pushes again! I call. He has Queens. I have a bubble finish.
#3. Nothing major happened had happened and the blinds were going up, so I wasn't desparate, but I wasn't going to be able to cruise to the money. I get AK in the cutoff. 2 limpers and a pre-flop raise. I shove. Big blind calls with 6-8 offsuit (m'kay), pre-flop raiser calls almost all of his chips with ... that's right ... AJ offsuit. The turn brought a jack and I'm out of that one.
#4. About the same as last game. The blinds are getting up there and I don't have enough chips to cruise to the money. I get QQ in late/middle position. 50,000 limpers in front. I push. I'm called by A-8 offsuit. The river Ace had me tossing my new Mx1000 mouse across the room.
TILT!
In hand #1, I'm roughly a 5.6 to 1 favorite. In hand #2, I was a 4 to 1 dog, but I can't see myself playing it any differently. In hand #3 I was roughly 2:1 favorite. Hand #4, I'm roughly 2.5 to 1 favorite. I can't complain. Just one of those nights.
All was not so bad though. I did play some ring games on Full Tilt to try to clear the remaining $50 in bonus I have left. I ended up recouping my sit n go losses here.
I haven't played a lot so far today, but this hand sure was cute:
FullTiltPoker Game #260126165: Table Baltimore (6 max) - $3/$6 - Limit Hold'em - 16:07:48 ET - 2005/10/21
Seat 1: grinders101 ($55.50)
Seat 2: bummer56 ($130)
Seat 3: Owen Money ($91.50)
Seat 4: sendit2fbt ($275)
Seat 5: Hero ($205)
Seat 6: Badturn ($101)
grinders101 posts the small blind of $1.50
bummer56 posts the big blind of $3
The button is in seat #6
Holecards:
Dealt to Hero [ 
]
Owen Money folds
sendit2fbt folds
Hero raises to $6
Badturn folds
grinders101 has 15 seconds left to act
grinders101 calls $4.50
bummer56 folds
Flop :
[ 
]
grinders101 checks
Hero bets $3
grinders101 calls $3
Turn:
[ ] [ 
]
grinders101 checks
Hero bets $6
grinders101 calls $6
River:
[ ] [ 
]
grinders101 checks
Hero bets $6
grinders101 calls $6
Showdown:
Hero shows [ ] (four of a kind, Queens)
grinders101 mucks
Hero wins the pot ($43) with four of a kind, Queens
SUMMARY:
Total pot $45 | Rake $2
Board:
[ ]
Seat 1: grinders101 (small blind) mucked [ 
] - a full house Queens full of Sevens
Seat 2: bummer56 (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 3: Owen Money didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: sendit2fbt didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: Hero showed [ ] and won ($43) with four of a kind Queens
Seat 6: Badturn (button) didn't bet (folded)
My gameplan tonight depends on the weather. No Rain = Football game, then home to play some cash games. Rain = Walmart to buy an Xbox game and play in Wil Wheaton's tournament on Stars. It's raining right now.