nath
LAPC $545 and a fun hand
by nath on 02/20/08
I busted out shortly after the first break. Important facts and hands:2500 starting chips, blinds 25-25, 40 minute levels.
The table was a reminder of why i need to play live more: Mostly loose, mostly passive, occasionally bluffy, very straightforward.
Possibly interesting hands:
Second or third hand at the table I pick up AQs and open to 100 in MP. Older gentleman two seats down calls. Flop is K83 two hearts (I have spades). I c-bet 150; he calls pretty quickly. Turn is an offsuit 10; I think a few seconds and check; he bets 300 pretty quickly. I start to wonder if he's a floaty type and that's a timing tell; I don't have anything to go on so I just fold.
A very friendly and not-bad-but-not-good-either middle-aged lady raises in EP to 100 and I call with 55 on the button. Flop T64; check/check. Turn Q; check/100 because I know I have the best hand; she calls quickly. River J; she thinks a few seconds and checks. I check; AJ good. Sigh.
Weird hand at the end of the first level. Younger guy-- solid, straightforward, talks like he has some idea of what he's talking about but probably isn't legitimately talented, throws in a 100 chip UTG and says "100" before it hits, but the dealer doesn't hear him and says "call". Me-- three seats down-- and the guy after me had thrown in our calls already; a short stack down at the end of the table started asking if that was a raise or call and then there was some confusion; the floor ruled it a raise, and so I called again with black JJ. next to act called; short stack made it 475 with about 300 behind. UTG snap-shoves and I quickly fold; I had a few minutes to think about it in the midst of the confusion, and I decided it wasn't especially close. The short stack threw the rest in reluctantly with 99; UTG had KK and I was reassured that my reasoning and decision-making were still sound.
Not that I played every hand well. Later in the level I opened A8o to 3x two off the button and the button called. Flop was an ugly AJT; I check-called 300 but didn't feel good about it (I rationalized that he might be making a move based on the earlier hand, but I hadn't had any reason to think that. Turn was a 9 and I check-called 500, knowing even more surely I was behind but rationalizing it with my straight draw (and possible outs to an 8). The river bricked (6 or below-- I don't quite remember) and I checked and he checked back AKs. So, yeah, I was better off assuming he had it, which was my first instinct, but my desire for information and a nice pot led me to make bad decisions. (I later folded AQo from the SB to his 4x UTG and the fish on the button's call. The fish made it tempting but I felt it was still entirely too dangerous. And I hate calling him a fish because he was a nice guy, but he'll almost certainly never read this.)
So a little later I opened JJ in 4th position to 250 at 50/100 (with about 1500 total obviously getting it in) and the BB-- a middle-aged Asian who played too many hands, limped lots of weak suited hands, bitched, berated the dealer once, threw cards once, and generally seemed to be having a miserable time-- called. Flop was 866 two clubs and I bet 300 planning to get it in. He thought for a bit and called. Turn was the Ks and I shoved my last 950. He tanked, bitching about the king, thinking for a while, then finally calling with 77. Doubled back up to 3k.
Then I played my favorite hand of the day.
Not much in the way of hands or pots for a while. The last hand before break I call an UTG 4x shove with A5o on the button; she has A6o and spikes a 6. I think the "double or nothing before break" mindset makes this a good call; plus, if she's pushing A6o, she's not folding KQ, KJ, and probably her range is well wider than that.
I go into the break with 3025. Not long after the break the button opens to 400 and I shove 2525 on top with AhQd. He calls with KsKc. I flop a backdoor heart draw and turn a queen but ultimately do not make the best hand, and say good night and head upstairs.
I tried some online tournament grinding but bricked out of everything I played. It's only midnight or so, but I'm surprisingly tired. Not sleepy, just hazy.
Oh-- I didn't post last night because I was exhausted, but I did play in the, uh, "sick and go" (are we calling it that?) and that was a lot of fun, if not the most +EV table. I might have a post up soon, depending on how much I'm allowed to spoil.
All in all? I feel like coming here was definitely the right choice.
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