Week 5 Jan 29-Feb 4

Lamma Poker Exchange 1142 (-1)

Deadly Weekly nc Total +801
Phillberto Weekly + 108 Total +365
Bigshot Bog Weekly -50 Total +35
Moocher Weekly +3 Total +23
Lamma_Jim Weekly -62 Total -82

I have a terrible start to my weekend play. I hit top pair three times and get called by the same player three times. Each time he reraises me big on the river. I fold the first two times and then decided I'm getting pushed around and call and lose to a rivered two pair. Ouch. $30 down and onto a $50 table that is playing huge pots regularly. I have pocket Aces on my first hand. Three limpers to me so I pop it up to $3 and get called twice. The flop comes down 345 and the first raiser goes allin and the second calls. I click call far too quickly and before I even see their cards realise I have made a stupid call. Both have the nuts 56o and I lose my buy-in. I takes a long session to claw it back.

I really need to cut out stupid plays.

I also had two ridiculous hands. Full stacks at 50Nl .
I raise to $2 pre-flop with JJ and get repopped to $6.
I call.
Flop comes AJx rainbow and he checks. I bet $9 and he repops me to $18.

I'm getting my money in and trying to put him on a hand before deciding to push here or flat call.

I think his range is pretty narrow.
AA is least likely but in that case I'm screwed.
AK is very likely.
KK or QQ are also possibilities and he is hoping to fold out and lesser pairs or hope I call and check it down.
I think AK will call a push as will AA of course. So I'm weighing up calling and risking giving $2 outs twice for the sake of an outside chance of getting another bet out of them on the river.

I decide that the better play is the push. Except I've clicked on speed table by mistake and I'm timed out a fraction of a second before I get it allin. This is when I'm $80 down so my hole just got $12 deeper and that was such a great spot and I could have climbed out there.

I try and persuade myself that maybe I have just made a great laydown to Aces!

10 minutes later with the young jeepster M. running around I'm in a limped pot in the Big Blind. I have A7s and the nut flush draw in a three way pot. I check, UTG bets just over half pot and is called by cut-off. I now have the pot odds to call. The turn is unlikely to help anyone and once again UTG fires a half pot-sized bet (2.50). Again the cut-off calls and I'm priced in. The river blanks and I check and the UTG fires for $3 more and the cut-off gives up.

The little person then decides to pay me a visit - looks at the screen and has made a crazy toddler read and hits the call button on the laptop. He flips over a missed straight draw and I rake in a $16 pot.

Ace high was good and we may have a protegee in the making capable of such immense hero calls. 'Bob the Builder' he says. Was he simply hoping that I would visit the Bob the Builder website or was he in fact referring to the fact he was helping me 'build' my bankroll. You decide.