Poker for me lately has been a bit different. I've been playing on the site that shall not be named that rhymes with BlokerMars. They have some really juicy sort of hidden games that run from time to time and I'm taking advantage of the people who like to play every hand in every game they choose. It's great. But I'm still playing Rush Poker on FullTilt. I have a goal of getting a slew of FTP points and spending them all on something from the FTP store, and Rush is the easiest way to get there, so wtf, why not. During the few weeks that the hands below came from I've been running worse than normal, so I decided to change things up here and there. Some PLO, some PLO8, a few limit games here and there, basically something to stop the bleeding. Since I'm still writing these I guess it worked.
I'd also like to announce that I'm 1 month RGP free. What a shithole that place is. I can't believe I've wasted so much time there over the years with all of the total morons that post there on a day to day basis. Oh well, I will be making a return appearance in a few months for an event that is going by the name "The Welchiversary", so that should be fun. Look for me in November or so.
Ok I've babbled enough, onto the hands. Note that these run up through 9/9, so I'm even slacking on writing up the hands after my sessions. I was using it as a way to review my play, and it was working well, but it took a while to do, so I sort of slacked. This is basically a foreshadow to the possibility that I'll stop doing these one day.
Wins:
+$38 - raise with 22, button calls. Flop 892 rainbow, I bet, get fucking gobbled, so I just shove and poor guy has 89. Can't blame him on this one. I mean, I can because by default all of my opponents are morons, but for this particular hand, I'll give him a pass.
+$37.65 - I raise with AK in the cutoff to $1.75, and the jackass in the SB makes it $2.75. I resist the urge to toss the laptop out the window, and shove. Fucker beats me into the pot with AQ and amazingly the board runs T6J29 and I bust his ass.
+$29.55 - a bunch of limpers to me and I call with 22, some moron raises so we all call. Flop is 2QQ. Preflop raiser checks to me so I just bet pot figuring any Q goes nuts and everyone else folds anyway, so wtf. He calls, rest fold. Turn 7 and I pot it again, and he calls all-in with JJ. Wonder wtf he put me on. Oh well, thanks dude.
+$35.95 - UTG+1 gobbles and gets a call. I re-raise to $4 to isolate and some idiot behind calls but the other 2 fold. WTF is going on here. Flop is A86 rainbow. I bet $9 and he shoves. Well ffs, I call, he has AJ. I somehow hold and another moron calling 8BB preflop cold with AJ cause it's suited hits the rail. So I wrote this hand up a few weeks ago and apparently never put in my hole cards. I'm going to guess that I didn't have KK, so I'll go with AK.
+$176.70 - yup you read that one right. After running horribly for a solid week I lose my patience and take $160 to $2/$4 PLO looking to gamble it up. And gamble it up I did. Guy who raises every hand raises, I call witih QJT7 double suited, 1 other call. Flop is 936 rainbow and this guy bets, like he does EVERY single time he raises preflop. I'm serious, I watched him for 40 minutes doing the same thing over and over. I say you know what, I have a pretty strong hand here with QJ high, so fuck you pal, I'm getting you off this hand. I shove. He calls me with fuckin 5576. Really? 5576? What the fuckin hell kinda call is that? Turn A giving him a flush draw and I start to close the laptop, but river is an 8 and I double up. Seriously, wtf, and I'm not just saying that about his play.
+$36.45 - more PLO, but this time at what unfortunately seems to be the level I'm going to be stuck at for the rest of my life. 3 handed here, and I'm missing every flop and getting raised every time I bluff. I call a raise with QT75 with spades and see a flop of Q82 with 2 spades. That seems plenty, so I get it in with AA93 with spades. Uhh, oops. Turn 3, river is a Q and I giggle a bit.
+$42.10 - UTG+1 raises, I re-raise with QQ, he calls. Flop 467, 2 diamonds, I bet $6 and he shoves for $90. I only started the hand with $44, so I don't know what to do here. If he has something like AdKd I'm basically even, if not slightly behind. If he has AA/KK I would have thought he would re-raise me pre, especially on a rush table. If he has a set I don't know if he shoves like this. So I call, he has 99 and I double up.
+$41.15 - I call a raise on the SB with 88, BB calls as well. Flop is 83Q and I decide to lead out for $3. BB raises to $13.50 and raiser folds. I figure the raise size plus speed at which he raised means he's never folding so I just shove. He has AQ and rivers the insult kick in the nuts Q to fill me up. Another full house boat my way!
Un-wins:
-$43.55 - so here's a fun hand. As I said earlier, lately I've been playing a bunch of different games including some PLO, PLO8, 7-game cash, and NL facepalming. In this fun hand of PLO, the table moron raises and I call with JT96 double suited hearts/diamonds. This guy has been playing every hand so I figure if I can hit a good flop I can win a big pot, and even if I have a weaker hand he'll bluff at it so I can pick him off fairly light. FLop is 8Q9 rainbow with one club, and I groan. I check, another player checks, this guy bets, I check/raise pot, he calls. Turn Ac and I lead out and pot it. River is the Jc, I still have the nut straight but now there's 3 clubs. I decide to check/call because I know he's shoving 100% of his range here, and 100% of his range is not clubs. In retrospect and talking the hand over with Fell, I probably should have just bet him in, cause 2 pair/sets might call but will check behind on the river. Who knows since I still think he shoves his whole range. Anyway, this genius has the old fuckin J76c4c. Drawing dead to running clubs for the 6 high flush. Naturally he donked off the rest of the stack to someone else about 10 mins later.
-$48.45 - this one irritates me to no end. Some fuckin genius gobbles, players not even on the table call, and I'm getting like 17:1 to call with 4h6h on the BB. Long time RGPers know that 46 was known as the Arlo, but ever since that crazy bastard told everyone to put all their extra money in a certain stock, the hand has been renamed to the AIG. So yeah, I see a flop of 5h 2h Qc. Fuck. I can't control the complete BSOD that overcomes me and I get in with the gobbler, who naturally has AA. These people need to be strung up by their toenails and whipped to death with live turkeys. Seriously.
-$20.25 - I have no recollection of this hand but it looks funny. I call a raise with J7 cause you know it was suited. Flop is AQ8 2 hearts and the guy bets, so I raise cause I have the nut fuckall. Turn 3h, he checks, I bet $11 and he fuckin gobbles me. alsdjfalsjdfal;sdfj.
-$32.75 - this one is annoying cause I knew better. I raised with TT, guy re-raises and I call. Flop is 252 and I check/call a bet. Turn is a 9, I check, he bets again and I figure I'll never fold so I just shove, right into the most obvious overpair ever. Blah.
-$84.55. This one stung a bit. I limped with 22 and called a raise with 4 others. FLop is T42. I check, guy bets $6 and for some reason I only raise to $15. He calls. Turn A, and all of a sudden my spidey senses go off. I have really really bad feelings about this hand. I ignore them and check/shove right into AA. I still don't see folding this, but I just had such a strong feeling at the time that the A was such a bad card that I at least thought about it.
-$103.80 - running bad so I take $100 to $1/$2. First hand i get AKs on the BB. Cutoff raises to $6, I don't know wtf to do so I just shove it in. He tank calls with JJ of all hands. I flop the A but he goes runner runner for a flush. That was mostly a reminder to stop screwing around when running bad and just find something else to do. A cheap one at least.
-$47.75 - I laughed for a good 2 mins after this hand. So folds to the button who raises. SB calls, and I have AhQh. I could really call, fold, or raise. I raise it to $6, button calls. Flop is Jh 6h 5d and I have 2 overs that may be live and a flush draw. I bet $12, he calls. Turn Kc and I add a gutshot draw. I don't know wtf he has so I just shove it in. He damn near beats me into the pot with the monster that is Ad6c. WTF? Remember how I said the buttons always raise with garbage and a re-raise usually takes it down? Yup. Also remember when I said I hate AQ? Yup.
-$67.55 - this one is one of the sickest hands I played last week. Game is PLO8, basically changing things up to try not losing my mind. 6 handed table, there's 2 limps to me and I have A248 rainbow. I could raise here, but elect to limp along. Both blinds in so it's a 5 way pot. Flop is 424 2 clubs. My god, I've flopped a monster high but any low card gives one of these idiots who plays shit like J963 a low, so I need to build a pot quick here. 1 check, guy bets $2.50, gets 2 calls and I raise it to $15. To my surprise, 3 people call! Turn is a 2, and now my hand is even better because of the fact that anyone with a 2 might think they are good, and the low hasn't come in yet. I don't know what the hell anyone could possibly have here, but I don't really care since I'm never ever not going to just get my stack in. Sure enough it checks to me, I shove for $52 and get 2 calls, by KTA3 for the naked low draw, and A4T9 for trip 4's. River is the nastiest, ugliest T I've ever seen, and I watch all the chips fly towards that guy. Yuck.
-$43.50 - good old fuckin KK. I raise and get near min-raised. I decide not to go 37 gobbles against AA so I just shove right into it instead.
-$33.55 - Looking back I must have been pretty irritated at how I was running, but I don't hate my play. UTG raises and gets 2 callers and it's on me with QQ. I have $40 so I just shove it in. 1st guy folds, 2nd guy folds, 3rd guy has fuckin KK. WTF? Why would someone flat a raise and 2 calls with KK? Does he think some idiot is gonna re-raise behind? Err, oh yeah.
So that's it for this time. Until next time!
Yours Donkily,
Morphy
xaqmorphy@donkeymanifesto.com
