puke

not in general.  just one hand.  i’ll get to it later.

but before that, here’s some babbling about cards.

Mon/Tues/Wed i got in some sessions after work, that by their nature are limited to an hour.  creeped ahead 4BI, and on Thurs/Fri gave all but one of it back.  going over the hands i think i got coolered in most spots.  the big loser for the month is me getting it AI ahead 93/7. 

4 other spots i lost a whole stack.  2 of them were set over set. 

Leaving A Buy-In on the tables . . .

Thursday i sat down and started playing, and in two separate spots early on i ran into situations where i had an overpair and at one point in the hand i thought “stacks are awkward.  if i bet here i’m getting some calls from worse.  BEEP. better is going to raise me all in and there’s too little behind to fold.  BEEP. most worse hands fold. BEEP.  i’m always calling that raise because i always think it’ll be Jacks, but it’s almost always a set. BEEP.  BEEP.

Check.

and it turns out that within the next 8 minutes i realize that guy(s) would have called with anything.

nice.  times 2, that’s a stack i took a pass on.  UGH.

so then i go into this “it’s 50NL” mode . . .

i had 3 bet villan once in this situations (him UTG me on the button) with 76s. it’s not my typical line, but i thought about things and decided that it was a fair place/villan to try it. didn’t work. lost 18bb. so, i felt better about 3betting here, and then flatting the flop seemed to be fine because i flop tp/tk in a 3bet pot, so i’m happy getting it in, and flatting gets more hands to come along.

when he checks the turn, i can bet it, and it looks like a float, and then i’m not folding to any actions. and there goes a stack.

last night i do this . . . 

 

and i nearly said out loud, i raise this, and fold to a reRaise.  and then another hand starts beeping, and then the reRaise comes, and then the cat jumps at the screen in the window near my desk and i think ”i want to wring that animal’s neck.  but i can’t because it’s the boy’s cat, and he’s a terribly sensative soul”.  and there are more beeps.  and then i talk myself into ”he’s got a Queen he’s in love with” and i click call.  and it’s all a plan that goes awry.  errr, make that i plan that i abandon.

so that’s all the big ones.

i lost 3/4 of a stack with TT aipf when i ran into someonne who literally 3bet every hand on the button.  over 160 hands he had a 3bet % of 27.  so i 4 bet the TT and he shoved, with QQ.  hmmmm. 

in the end i find i’m even for the week (+$3 actually) – BUT, i got in the second deposit for the Stars bonus and now have $250 coming, i unlocked the first part of the stars bonus for $50, and i’m within striking distance for cashing points into $200 by month’s end.  so, that’s a yay situation for me.

a couple of other things . . .

I stopped checking results during sessions.  i used to do it a LOT, usually to make sure i’m not leaking like a sieve.  i didn’t stop doing it for any particular reason.  i think i just got too busy taking notes to check one night, and it turns out that i liked it. 

i realized that against a 20bb stack, i’ll get it in with AJ/TT+.   might seem tight, i dunno.  haven’t thought out one against 40bb stacks.  it’s probably JJ+/AJ+

i shouldn’t be insta-clicking all the time.  in cBet situations i should at least give the guy a chance to take his finger off the mouse button if i’m not looking for a call.

 i always think that if i can get the pot bigger than the villan’s stack for the river, we’re getting it in no problem.  that’s not true.  in fact, i’m thinking it’s usually untrue.

here’s one last hand for the post.

on the turn i’m now behind what was top pair, but that’s not really my concern. looking at the stack sizes, pretending viallan’s range is an overpair or a FD, what’s the bet size for the turn and why? any bet gets us to an all-in on the river.

LIFE:  this was the first week of school.  it should have been about establishing a new schedule, and some of it was.  but, it was so filled with special events that a lot of it was make it up as you go activity.  there was no hockey today because of the holiday, and i got no workouts in during the week.  i’m hoping that once the coffee kicks in, and i get out of this chair, i’ll get at least a lifting session and an abs routine in.  i’m already looking forward to a night time yoga routine this evening. 

the only bummer on that is you find yourself totally refreshed and ready to go, at midnight or so, lol.

my potential skydiving partner is half spooked.  fall is here now (i can hear the acorns falling).  so he’s going to need a nudge.

the rock band almost got back together.  now football is showing up on the schedule and it looks like nothing will develop on that front for quite some time.  but, blues gigs are rolling in.  i got a call for one today (which i took a pass on) and one for next weekend.  and i got a call to do some drumming on a buddy’s CD. 

last time that happened (different buddy), he changed jobs and the whole thing got shelved.  which is what it is.  i wasn’t able to play the parts i heard in my head anyway – but that’s not a positive indicator.  this time, i really don’t expect anything to come of it.  if i get a disk with the rough tracks, then i’ll change my opinion.

FOOTBALL FIGHTS – i caught the punch on thursday night in real time.  a lot of stuff ran through my head, first of which was that there’s a difference between whacking some smartass in the puss, and totally flipping out to the point where you’re going after fans and hitting teammates.  and it turns out that the initial verbal taunt wasn’t as meaty as i thought it was going to be. whackin a guy on the shoulder pad and saying  ”how about that ass-whoppin’” was uncalled for, but that’s a far cry less inciting than what i imagined was being said. 

oh, it’s school sports, so there should be a zero tolerance for fighting.  that didn’t occur to me right away though, heh.  uh, hockey camps start on the 13th.

ok – the coffee is kicking in now.

September 6, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized

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