miamipuck

This week has been a roller coaster ride for me. Up/down/Up/down/Up.

I have been on a mission to play a little non standard, play a little more hands then I normally play. Well it still works but man is it a roller coaster at times. Also I want to start winning more than 150+. I used to get that amount and basically leave. Now I want to learn how to play big stack poker. It has had its rough patches for sure.

Last Thursday night. Actually I am going to post my 2 bad nights.

Lord I hated this night. Standard table lots of gamblers and a couple of tight players. One player in particular an old douche bag regular was there and had a pretty damn big stack for 100 max NL he had 1000+.

I know I call a lot of people douches but trust me here, he is one. I have caught him ratholing when all the big stacks leave, right there he is a giant douche. That would get him shot in Vegas. He makes deals to check down with people and then when his hand hits he blasts away. Plus if he wins a big pot he starts screaming ship-it. I told the fuck I would break his godamn jaw if he did that to me. One night a few weeks ago he did that to someone else, when I was sitting next to him. That was a few weeks ago.

Anyway a few hands:

I get J-9 in EP. I limp with it. Some guy makes it 7 bucks to go. There are like 6 callers to me so I call the extra 5 maybe I can hit a flop. I think there was 8 total in the hand. Flop came Q-10-3 with 2 hearts. It was checked to the original raiser and he makes it 20 to go. 2 callers and it was on me. With 56 in the pot and another 60 it was 116 in the pot and 20 to call. Almost 6 to 1 on a 2.2 to 1 pretty easy call. I did take a minute to calculate it. The turn was a beautiful black 8, bingo. I check OR bets 35 with one caller, I push for another 80 or so and both call. The river was a Q of diamonds............freaking yuck. Anyway the OR turns over Q-J the other guy I can not recall. I had close to 400 in front of me.

Now the disaster and yes please crucify me here:

I have AQ in MP. It is raised to 7 and I call as does like 6 others. The flop was A-A-K . Yeah yeah yeah I went broke here so f-off. I bet out for 20 and got one caller and then re-raised to 55. Did any alarm bells go off. Not in my thick skull that is for sure. Turn I can not remember raiser bets out 50 again and I go all in, It was folded around and the guy insta calls and shows AK. BTW it figures that it was the old douche. He most definitely did not yell ship it. GG me I felt foolish ooh well. I donked off 100 more as I snuck an extra 50 onto the table as I am apt to do. So I am now down 250+.

I put my working hat on and get 6-6 in the BB. This nutball dickwad Asian guy bets 12 and everyone else folds and I call. He could be raising anything here. He got pissed at me for this hand:

right before I got stacked I got Aq and raise to 12. Flop was a bunch of blanks and I fire out a C-bet he calls. That is it I am done with the hand. Two more blanks and the knucklehead just checks it down and flips K-K. I lughed and said to my neighbor that was awful. I think he heard me. Well at least he had to see me shaking my head and laughing.

Anyway on the 6-6 hand. The flop was 4-4-3. No way he hit this thing. I check he bets out 15 and I push all in. He insta calls. Turn was a Q and the river a K. I flip 6-6 and he just throws his cards into the muck. I was like WTF.

New guy at the table. I get A-A and he is right beside me. He bets out 25 preflop and I reriase to 75 he pushes all in and my money beat his tot the center. He shows 7-7 the aces hold and I am basically almost back to even. All the while the Asian guy was screaming "7" and he was not in the hand. I told him pretty loud, "You want to be a scumbag while not in the hand? How about I root against you to lose your all ins and be down 700. Oh that is right you are already down 700." That shut that prick up.

It took me 9 hours to do it but I left up 29 dollars.

3 nights ago the same shit happened. It seems I was a train wreck. The table was similarly constructed. One guy refused to raise any premium hands he flipped QQ KK and AK in unraised pots lol.

Then there was a very arrogant Asian "banker". I laugh because he made it clear he was a banker about 50,000 times. I was ready to say," hey here is a dollar, please call some one that gives a fuck". I say arrogant because he was bitching at a dealer for flipping his cards after it was folded. My god enough was enough. I said STFU already and he told me to hush, F-you buddy she gets the point 10 fucking minutes harping on it is bullshit. It all blew over but we never said another word to each other and I was better for it.

There was a chef of a luxury yacht next to me. He was a crazy player hel raised and reraised quite a bit. He got a lot of good hands and was a big winner.

I would love to give you a ton of hands but truthfully I got down 250 because everything I did was wrong. Every c-bet and double barrel was called.

For instance I raise to 17 with QQ. 1 caller. Flop was A-5-9 rainbow. I c-bet 25 and he thinks for an hour and calls. It was checked to the river and he flips AJ. That was my night in a microcosm. If I raise AK and the flop was a blank ah whatever. 5-6-8 hands like that and I was down 250+.

Oh one hand I played miserably. Donk raises to 10 I call with 4-6 sooted. He was raising junk hands. Anyway the flop was 2-2-4 and he leads for 10 and I call. The turn was a J he leads for 10 and I make it 30 he calls. I was like crap. Anyway he checks the river and I check as I could not picture anyway he would fold. He flips K-J and I just thought that was just gross on my part. I should have rerraised the freaking flop.

OK I time to bear down and actually think about what I am doing. I raise to 15 with 10-10 and get one caller, the banker. Flop was 9-9-8. I bet out 20 and he calls. The turn was a J and I check and he bets out 20. I think about it and call. He likes to bluff and I could not put him on a hand. The river was another J and again I check. He again bets, this time 30 and I call. I flip over the 10-10 and he mucks.

Then a girl that looked like she was getting over chemo gets to the table with a friend. I am almost positive she had or has cancer just from her general look/appearance.

Anyway, I limp 4-5 hearts and there were like 6 callers. The flop cam 10-9 6 with 2 hearts. The girl mentioned above bets 10 and I call. It was heads up. The turn was a J of hearts. She bets out 20 and I call. The river was a black A. She looks at me and I say to her I will check it down and save you some money. She said,"Yeah I realized after I bet a flush hit". Anyway I win the pot.

I get A-10 in the BB. The flop came 10-8-3. I bet out 10 bucks and some new guy re-raises me to 30. Hmmmm I call. The turn was a 7 and I check. The NG bets out for an extra 46 and I was thinking about it for a bit. A few things added up. For some reason I felt I was ahead, just a feeling. Then there was the smirk on the guy and it was not a cat and canary smirk neither. So I call and the river was a 4. He flips over 9-10 and I table my hand. I get kudo's for a good call. I really felt I was ahead and other than the visible smirk I can not say why.

I get AA and raise to 18 and get one caller the girl. Crap not her. Anyway the flop comes Q-J-3 and she looks at me after she checks and I said look I am most likely ahead here and I will check it down. She says,"Sure". So we check it down and I flipo AA and she A-8 sooted. I win and hopefully get some good Karma.

The Chef busted the banker all night. They were sparring quite a bit the Chef making fun of his arrogance and table talk it was a fun table all in all. Anyway I will post about last night later. It was my best night to date playing live. So I guess there is something to good Karma as I was the only one to check it down, other then her friend that was at the table as well. The Chef, Banker and another guy blasted her. It just did not sit right with me to do that. Anyway I left up 8 bucks wooohoooooo.

One wacky hand from this week.

I get 9-9 in the BB. It is raised to 10 and I call. Flop came J-9-3 with two diamonds. A guy bets out 10 and I just call. The dealer did not announce call like they all do. The guy thought he won the hand. His cards did touch the muck. I did not say a word. They call the floor and he says it is a dead hand. I say, hey I will play it out. We play it out checking the whole way. I hit my full boat and he hits his flush. Wooooohooooo my first set I flopped in 4 days no joke and I could have gotten paid. hahahahah.

Seriously, I am up and running rather poorly. I guess disciplined play is goot.

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Eruu

as long as there are more ups than downs ya gotta love it.

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sfustsh

What the hell is up with checking down all those hands against the cancer girl? Make her pay for to see that flush!

How deep are you here? I think c/r is superior on the turn, checking most rivers.

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as just above it means big bet.
so again fuck off

mervhage

Do you write stuff down, or take notes? I find that when I've played live, I don't recall details well. I probably should take notes of my own to post them.

Anyhoo, I suspect that your overall Karma is great. You're an admirable person that many in this world can learn from.

Oh yeah, one thing, in regards to your liberal application of the term douche, I fully support it. In fact, if your next report consists of a 10 handed game, I wouldn't be surprised to see the labels douche 1 through douche 9 and then yourself.

People can be fucking assholes. :?

Eruu

Same here. I do recall tournament play much better for some reason, probably because I'm tighter. I play almost every hand at the home game so I instantly forget them all unless I get stacked or win a huge pot.

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Ugignadl

I remember perfectly the hands where I've had to make tough decisions or where I suspected I played suboptimally, they niggle at me. However I do forget the other hands... in the beginning, I did remember everything, but that was mostly due to the earlier problem; I just misplayed everything at that stage.

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miamipuck

QFT

Thank you sir!

I am similar to Ugi in this case. I remember pretty much all the details of the big hands I play. I remember the faces and how they played the hand. I especially remember if I played it crappy or did something I think I can learn from. These trip reports are basically all from memory. I should bring a small motebook and jot stuff down as an extra measure but I always forget and think it would be weird to do this. I have not seen anyone else to date attempt that.

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mervhage

I got the idea from Snickers. In one of his earlier trip reports, he mentioned that he took notes at the table, to help him remember hands. Pretty neat idea.


I should correct what I said earlier. When it comes to big hands, I can vividly remember details, but a lot of trip reports I read on here are very detailed about smaller hands and often I find that I don't remember that shit.

Snickers99

Sorry...am way behind in Forum Reading! But yes, I can't remember shit and must carry a notebook with me when I play. I have seen maybe 2 people write notes, but they were just keeping track of how much they bought in for, when they added money, etc. I think I saw only one other person take notes like I do. Keep in mind, I only play live once every couple of months, but I don't think note taking like I do is done very often. I get a lot of people at NL comment when I take notes, while hardly anybody at the Limit tables would say anything.

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