Took a break. Watched a few Cardrunner vids. Brystmar Small Stakes course (session 5) involved him facing very similar player to my friend at Party with him having some similar decisions to the ones I faced. He grimaced a few times and made a crying call or two but shrugged it off and says he would always sit next to the guy (who took all his money). Avoiding results oriented play is a good lesson to learn I reckon.
I thought I'd take a break from Party as I'm not earning any bonus anyway. I'd tried Paradise Poker and had a terrible experience. Four times since it moved network I've betted 0.60 or .070 and its ignored the decimal point causing me to overbet. I was called with top pair by a short stack and lost. Complained to support who told me there was no problem. They also changed the bonus when they migrated to half as good as it was. I tried to withdraw my funds and can't. They say you can only withdraw the way you have deposited but have removed Neteller as an option. No reply from support as yet.
I decide to sign up for my first prima site Wild Jack and get back on the horse.
US$100 bonus for 500 points. I play for a couple of hours. I win US$40 and start to make amends for my big Party losing session (which ended with me US$68 down) and hardly have a difficult decision to make. My Party PTBB/100 drops into a small negative unfortunately and my Wild Jack looks very healthy albeit with a small sample size.
I cashed out of Stars.
I was only single tabling at Prima but it seems soft - fingers crossed it stays this way. A disappointing end to what was looking like a promising week.
Once again as my alleged ancestor Robert Burns once wrote it is a case of watching 'the best laid plans of mice and men, gang aft agley'. Still I'll keep the faith and at least I still recorded a winning week.
Deadly update
Deadly records the best week of poker results so far and takes a giant leap towards his second grand. After taking down a good win at heads-up he shows he is more than a one trick pony recording a solid win at short handed. He even takes some time out to hone his razz skills. Hats off to you sir!
Moocher
Now playing on Empire - Moocher plays a lot of poker over the weekend! He reaches $417 at his low point where is effectively busted and playing with other peoples money ;-)
He takes Big nose the dog on a walk to clear his head and regain his focus and returns to put together a winning run. He even fits in a winning game before work and gets his bankroll back to US$518. Still another losing week for him although once he clears the empire bonus that might help put him back in the black.
Bigshot
All quiet there.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
4 comments:
Had a good Friday playing Heads up on Cardoza and UB, had a good Saturday on Stars and Bodog playing 6max ring games and then lost some ground on Bodog on Sunday before getting money back on Cardoza with the old HU game again.
Best moment was a guy going all in on the river(around $45) with A7 on a board of 2272A. I had the other 2 of course!
Another chap decided that me calling his all in of $15 on a flop of 10,J,K when I had K10 and he had JJ was wrong. My stack was around $85 at this point. Of course a K came and he got very angry. He reloaded for $7.55 - which must have been his last few $.
He then went all in pre flop and I called with QQ - his language was awful as he slipped into the e-ether.
The guy with the overbet with A7 there are two possibilities.
1) He thinks trips and two pairs is a great hand.
2) He is trying to make you fold your ace representing the 2 or 77.
With the nuts its an easy call of course but that big an overbet it really comes down to the pot size and your read on the guy. The rake you pay can almost be as much as the pot you will win if you split it. You may be looking at actually losing on the hand if you call and split! Still a stupid play though as he found out.
Second hand is definitely an action flop!
Putting him on a range.
AQ - nah. he would milk it.
AA/AK- nah. would only be called by hand that beat him.
KK,JJ, 10 10 - slow played and he'd be more likely to bet large without the all in. Its a better play to call in with 100 or JJ than KK because with KK you are holding most of the cards you want people to call with. If you get a call it will be a straight.
Ignoring the possibility of K 10. How does this look for a range...
Q9 - you have 4 outs (4/41)
KQ - he has 11 outs (34/11)
KJ - you have 2 outs. (2/43)
QJ/Q10(less likely so count them together) - he has 10 outs. (35/10)
QQ - he has ten outs.(35/10)
10 10 JJ KK (less likely so count as one option)- you have 4 outs. (4/41)
Bluffs including queens, pairs etc - he has eight outs (37/8)
161/164. Maybe just a fraction behind his range.
With the pot odds helping a little I'd say its a call. His preflop call was poor but his allin reasonable given the possible scare cards that could land - basically anything from a 9 to an A!
The third hand.
:-)
I had a guy taken a pounding and was down to 6$. Folded to him on the button after a big loss He went allin. I had JJ. I thought and decided that he might just make that play if he had a big pair and was hoping to get paid off. I reluctantly folded - I like to see someone do that a second time before calling. I was still debating with myself whether I should have called when he makes another allin bet the very next hand. This time I have KK. He had AJ but didnt hit and he disappeared into the e-ether too!
Post a Comment