Friday, September 21, 2007

busted gf again

In another home game. But to be fair she did bust me first and then i re bought. We ended up heads up and I won.

Poker has been terrible. I haven't played much this month, less than 600 games but im down over $3800. My worst month before was down about $25. Its pretty frustrating because I know im playing well but the variance is just sick huge. I just can't imagine playing mtts for a living. ok im sick of talking about poker and about playing. ill probably be doing hw all weekend and wont get much chance to play. hpefully i can still get supernova * 2 by the end of the year.

Saturday, September 8, 2007

busted my gf in a home game

$10 buyin. I staked her getting 50% of her winnings, pretty good deal for her considering she has no idea how to play. She doesnt know hand rankings or what her options are when its her turn to act.

Here is the hand:

BB t30 i have about 900 chips and limp Jd9d in the Co+1 after 3 other limpers. ave stack is like 700. button limps too and SB completes so 7 handed we see a flop of Qd2d8h (or something like that.) Everyone checks around, which is very impressive in a live donkey game. Turn is a 2 and it checks around again. River is Kd checked around to my gf who is to my right who pushes for about 300 into a pot of 210.

Now her being a n00b she likely has a big hand. maybe a 2, a flush, or a king, and possible a boat but she probably would have bet the turn. I finaly decide i beat most flushes and she could have KJ or something and i push. In retrospect i should have just called but it is fun going all in live plus i had a few beers in me. Especially since the girl on the button folded top pair. She might have called had i not pushed. I thought it was close but a call, now im not so sure. Jman was on my left and he says he would have folded so it was probably a fold. Oops.


edit: almost forgot the best part. she had As3s. which is a sick bluff for her. Its a decent bluffing spot but its even better for her since everyone knows she "must" have a had. Ok but the best thing is she thought she had a straight. AKQ, ya know? She thought it was a straight because it is in cribbage. And whats hilarious about that is that it isnt a straight in cribbage. A 3 card straight cant wrap around (Ace is low only)


Poker hasnt been going too well. Im down like $1200 this month but I havent play a whole lot. School is going ok but I just know writing a billion papers is going to suck.

The good thing about poker is ive gotten much better at not caring about results. I can usually just look at the hands that are all in and say to myself what my equity is and be done with caring. But obviously im not perfect at it yet because losing big pots still pisses me off.

Sunday, September 2, 2007

didnt play for 5 days

oops. brewer games, weddings, partys, drinking at noon for badgers games all seemed to get in teh way this week. i played sunday for the first time since monday. i also was on a sick tear of drinking 8 out of the last 10 days. heading to bed now because we are tailgating early tomorrow for the brewers game. im gonna try and catch up and play a lot this week but it might be tough with school starting.