Final Tables - common as muck

Moocher takes the honours, playing live at Drop. He is first out though and fails to make the final.

I played for a bit after work waiting on football training to start. I still can't put a consistant run together at $2+0.20 SNGs so decided to register for Poker4Ever eventually. The traffic is absolutely terrible and I struggled to find a game. Play is also slow so I signed up for a full ring game .05/.10 blinds and another with .025/.050 blinds. There are no restrictions on what your buy-in is though so I plopped $40 down at the smaller stakes tables and $50 down at the other. I also stuck $40 down at a 0.10/.020 SH table and eventually had a Croatian join me for some HU action. I lost a big pot against him early on but soon won it back plus some. I enjoyed taking his cash as he was taunting me for bad play for some reason. I would have won more because I hit a flush on the turn and he hit trip Aces on the river. Unfortunately not being used to the site I timed out as I was considering my bet size on the river. With a $4 pot already built and him only having $12 behind I think a check raise would have felted him (he showed me at the end obviously pleased with his cunning slow-play!).

Unfortunately this combined with the fact I wasn't seeing any cards at the other tables I recorded only a $3 win. I can't say I like the site but it is apparently very soft. The bonus has no time limit so maybe I can clear it on Thursday evenings after work whilst waiting on footie training (where I don't have Poker Tracker).

NEWSFLASH - managed a 30 minute lunchtime sesh. Played with 50 bucks on a .025/.50 table and the standard was dire. I folded, folded, folded as they all bluffed and rebluffed each other. I decided to wait for a hand and expected to get paid off. I raised with KJ from the small blind and was called. KXX flop and try to bet $3 but get timed out and auto-folded. Doh! Realise I'm playing on a speed-table. I shrug it off. When it happens again with another flop that I connected with I'm a tad pissed off and $12 down! It's tough deciding a bet and getting it made in time! Next time I raise AKs to $3 from the Big blind with three callers. One calls. I bet pot with a complete calling station. He calls again and a second club lands to give me a flush draw. He is playing short and has a pot sized amount left. With fold equity (having folded every hand for ten minutes) and a good draw I put him allin. He calls. The river blanks and.....I take down a nice pot with A high. Muppet!

A few hands later I see a raise from Overbluffing idiot. Muppet calls in the BB. Flop A Q J rainbow. Overbluffing idiot bets. Muppet calls. Turn is a low card. Bluffy goes allin and Muppet calls. River another nothing card. Showdown.
Bluffy: 34o
Muppet j6o to take down the pot!

Bluffy reloads and starts to go all in for 10 bucks. He gets called first time. A4 for Bluffy against Kojak. He wins. He goes allin again and is called by the same guy. A3 this time against KQ and KQ wins. Bluffy disappears.

My next opponent went allin on a board of 6644 and was called. He had the 4 against his opponents 6. 'I knew you had it' he said!

A few hands later he raised under the gun for 1.75. He is a habitual pot limper so this stands out a little. I have pocket Aces however and reraise. He pushes and I call. AA v KK...kaching! He only had $10 unfortunately. Three good players then arrived and all seemed to know each other and were talking about their MTT results so I ducked out for lunch. They all matched my $75 so it would have been an interesting deep stack session with other numpties at the table. Do you announce your good hands or disguise them?

$25 bucks up but it could have been a lot more.

Poker4Ever. Horrible software. Terrible availability/game selection. Worst of all though. The players!