Another Card Dead Double Deuce

Dammit I depressed. I just got knocked out of the Double Deuce again. I had one decent pair and it was in the small blind and no one came into the pot. I had A9 on the button later with no limpers and raised into AK and 10s. My last hand I flopped a flush draw with 2 probable overs and I check raised all in and got called by 53 cause he had a pair of 5s and a straight draw. His 5s held. Fuck this double deuce is pissing me off. I havent had a single rush in 2 tournaments. I just see donkey after donkey chip up with terrible plays and unreal luck. FUCK. I guess Im just gonna wire them some moolah cause Im sick of trying to convert my points to cash through tournaments. SHIT.

Another Shack Whackin (not that kinda whackin you sicko but we are a buncha guys in a circle)

I returned to the Gay Man-Love Shack (my no life havin psycho heckler thinks the Love Shack sounds gay so I changed it)on Monday to play the tournament and a little cash. Prior to that I had played in a coupla dying cash games for an hour here and there and a coupla one table tournaments that I didnt cash in. I did play in the 10000 person double deuce $22 buyin on Sunday at FTP. I went out 2200ish. I never had a hand bigger than 99 or AK. It was a real donkament and I look forward to playing in it again sunday. Im buying in with my bonus points and I have enough for 3 more buyins. It was real maniac fest. We were in the first round of blinds 10/20 with 3500 chips each and I saw this guy raise preflop to like 60 and this other guy goes all-in for like 3400 more and the original raiser calls. They both had AQ off-suit. See what Im saying. There were a ton of players like this so expect to be crushed by the worst hand eventually.

Anyway I played the tournament at the Shack Monday. I never had any good hands but I grinded and stole my way to 7th place which wasnt in the money but getting pretty close. The cash game was lively but with mostly good players. I actually had a local guy on my right (I will call him the intimdator) who had won a world series 10K circuit event on espn a few years ago and he had some buddies at the table too who I figured werent going to be your typical weak passive calling stations. I had A10 of hearts once and flopped an Ace and a flush draw. It was just me and the intimidator who had raised preflop. He cbet the flop into me and I just called. Why did I just call? Well if Im ahead I dont want to discourage him from betting especially if he was on a heart draw too. If Im behind I dont want to play a big pot just because I have the heart draw. The turn is a brick and he bets into me again and I just call. The river is a queen and he gives up and I just check behind. He didnt have anything. He ask or commented something about why I didnt raise and I explained all this to him and then wondered why I was telling the intimidator how I think so he can use it against me. Also the way I play may be totally wrong in his mind which would I guess give him incentive to get in pots with me. There was another small hand that was interesting to me that I played poorly. Im in a pot with a guy (mr. loose I will call him) who will call loose, bet loose, raise loose. I have flopped a flush draw and I bet. He calls. Then I checks and he check. He either has a middle or bottom pair or a draw. The river is another brick and I check and he bets a pot sized bet. The pot is very small and I fold my Ace but I should have called. He isnt betting a middle pair there. He either had nothing or a big hand. Nothing was way more likely. He showed his nothing. I didnt mind since letting him get away with moves is good for the game in the long run. A little while later I limp with K3suited and the button raised to 12 and mr. loose calls so I call even though its a really high raise because I wanna play pots with mr. loose. The flop is KJ3. Bingo for me. Mr. loose checks, I check, and the button bets 15. Mr. loose calls and I raise $35 more. They both call. The turn is a 4 and mr. loose check and I bet like $80. Button folds. Mr. loose asks how many chips I got because he cant fold the river if he calls the turn. I have $90 more. He calls. I push the 90 in on the river and he calls with his AK and I win a nice pot. The button who is a normally tight good player told me he called the flop just because he knows how unlucky I am. How sick is that. Im getting action based on my unluck. The other significant hand of the night for me I had KK in early position. I raised a standard amount. I never understand why people with KK or AA open raise for too much preflop. Anyway I get a coupla calls. The Flop is K53 with two diamonds. I bet maybe 35% of the pot. Mr. loose calls. I really dont put him on anything but Im worried about the flush draw for sure. Well the turn is a diamond but its the 5 giving me a house. I bet the same amount hoping he has the flush now. Mr. loose pushes all in. Yahtzee. He had the second nut flush. I dont know how that pot woulda played out had I ever checked or bet more on either street but probably me and mr. loose were gonna get it in anyway. He was steamin from the first big hand anyway. I tried to offer mr. loose some sympathy in the form of lettin ghim know he got unlucky and coolered but he just said "fuck you". If you know mr. loose you know he is joking but really just complaining. I laugh and he gives me the fist bump and all is well and Im tripled up. I played another hour and a half and left at 11 like I told D I would in my text at 5:30. I dont hit and run. I hate that. BUT I will leave at the correct time where as if Im stuck I have a tendency to say fuck it and chase my loses after my self or girl imposed curfew. But I couldnt have done that Monday either way. I had very firm plans. My last hour and a half I played a good many hands and chipped up a little more. Oh there was one other hand that was weird and I dont know what they had but the board was 4422 by the turn and the original better bet $2 into this $15 pot and got called by the intimidator. The guy then checks the river which was a Queen, the intimidator bets $15 and the guy min raises him $15 more. It was a very weird play. The intimidator thinks for a while and fires out $85. The guy folds. I would loved to have seen those hands. I wonder if the intimidator really played a 4 or a 2 that way or if he just picked the guy off. So yippee for me I won. If I would just never play any limit games at the Belle I woulda be having a decent month.

Drinkers Making the Love Shack Very Lively

Just got back from the Love Shack game. Got there late. The chips were already flyin. The chasers were doin damage. Within the first 20 minutes a guy who plays solid ABC poker got two outered on the river went ballistic cussin and chastising the biggest weak passive calling station at the table and then threw the cards at the dealer. I understand his pain but damn thats bad for the game. The guy he was berating left shortly after and it pissed someone else off enough for them to leave. I think they were both looking for a reason to leave anyway though. But without that reason one of them probably woulda stayed all night Im sure. Oh well. Mr. ABC was stuck big and drinkin so he just lost it. He left soon after too. Ive never done it to that extreme but I have left cussin and calling someone a fucking idiot before. Its really bad for poker but sometimes you just cant stand to not let them know how bad they played. Mr. ABC reads this blog so I will say dude I get it and I aint mad atcha. Its tough when you put your money in good most of the time but still leave broke. Thats the cruel thing about no limit. You can play good all night and never get unlucky until the last hand against the guy who has you covered and go home broke over one mistake or one suckout. Makes you question why ever play really. There was another dude there who was a real nice guy having a good time and bluffin a good bit. He eventually drank his way to the felt too. I dont think he really cared. I didnt get the felling he was a serious player. When the guy counts out $300 in stacks of 2 $5 dollar chips at a time its a pretty big sign that he dont play a lot. Watching then do it is like slowly scratching a chalk board. I pretty much got my usual terrible starting hands and folded for the first coupla hours. I bought in for $200 an stayed between $120 and $170 much of the first coupla hours. It wasnt till I played a 34off suit to a raise and a shit load of callers and hit a straight that I finally pushed above my original buyin. Actually it was a pretty big pot that tripled me up from my low point. I would venture below my buyin after that but I would drag another big one later with 34offsuit after flopping the straight. I stayed ahead after that. Later in the night my hands began improving and I won some good pots. I won with AK a coupla times against a really aggressive intoxicated player. I was in the small blind both times and just called him preflop and check raised him on the flop. One time he called and the other he didnt and I won both pots. My big hand at the end of the night was against the same guy. He was drinkin and playing very aggressive. I raised in the blind with QQ and got called by 2 players. Flop is AQ3rainbow and I bet out hoping Im against a good Ace. Mr. Aggressive raises and I go all in. I know its a pretty big raise but I thought he was pretty strong and I didnt want to call and let him check behind me on the turn. He called. I guess he had AK or maybe even A3. It was about a $500 pot. I was also betting a $1 a flop with my neighbor on the color of the flop and I swear I beat him like 20 to 6 and every time his color would hit it seemed like I won the hand anyway so I didnt mind. I do have one hand that has me talking to myself. I raised on the button with 10s and the flop comes 987 with a flush draw and I bet and get raised my Mr. Aggressive. I know Im supposed to push in there. I had $50 in the pot already and the raise was $75 more to me and was going to cost about $190 more if he called my allin and I lost. To make that bet normally he would have to have two pair at least or maybe straight and flush draw. I knew I could very well be a head and at the least I am open ended. I folded though. I just didnt want to put $250 more in on that marginal spot especially after I had just won a big pot. I realize how pussy it was but I dont care. I waited for a better spot and it came eventually. The game broke up after Mr. Aggressive busted my flop color betting neighbor. We had been 5 for a long time and had been 4 handed for a pretty good while too. We put the mandatory $5 straddle on after we went 5 handed so we wouldnt be chopping the blinds every other hand. I didnt want to play 4 hand really and certainly didnt want to play 3 handed against a very aggro player who had just rebought and was trying to get his chips back from me. So after all was said and done I cleared over $600 almost making up for last weeks Omaha fiasco. Very pleased.

The Cooler

Well I havent played much real poker since the AA vs KK. I sat a little while at the 2/5 game in the AM hours Sunday morning but the game broke up pretty fast. I did lose a shit ton of money playing 4/8 limit and then 4/8/12 Omaha. I played all night and had a lot of fun but I lost big. It was really the wee hours Omaha session that got me. Never made my hands and was alway against the nutz. There was this loud drunk jackass who as soon as he sat down at the NL table one guy told the dealer he had learned his lesson and took off. Obviously this jackass shows up drunk quite often and runs his mouth big time. He played terrible and lost a lot in a very short time. He shoulda broke even though because he got all in preflop with QQ and a very regular chick up there called him with 10,7 suited. I dont know why she had it out for him but she flopped the straight. Then the game broke and we went to the 4/8 game and jackass immediately started a fight with everyone who would let him. It was funny. At one point this terrible player with a date there was getting it from the jackass with both barrels and the guy on the date called jackass a "dago". That really upset the table for some reason. I thought it was about as smart as date guys 4 betting the river with pocket twos like he was gonna push someone of their hand. His date was nice looking but obviously not impressed with him or his constant rebuys. Funny thing was jackass did well and sucked out a ton of rivers. Funnier was that when we started playing Omaha he turned into a very consevative player. And he ran like God. The morning crew started coming in and this old guy who was not familiar with Omaha started playing and if I wanted to I could see his cards anytime but I hate doing that. He ran good too and I eventually felted. It didnt bother me too much although I did dump a lot. I just look at those latenight limit games as gambling. Like I was playing slots or something. It doesnt hurt my poker ego to lose there. Just my bankroll and also my wondering if Im just destined to be unlucky. I wonder if I could make a living as The Cooler. The guy who goes and hangs around the lucky players to cool them off.