All right, since my last post there has been a little activity. I played 2 SNG’s Saturday morning to try to pick up a quick addition to my bankroll. I played a $4+.40 for a $26 token, but ended up losing out of that one in 5th. I was looking for a FTPs SNG to win a seat or token but none were present. I think the WSOP has gotten all of the satties and promos tied up for now. I’ll keep looking for a +EV points tourney, I don’t like qualifiers into satellites because I just don’t have the time and in all honesty it just seems like a crapshoot.

I also played a $5+.50 SNG and got out of it rather quickly, maybe 7th. I had one limper ahead of me and I was on the CO. I’d played really tight up until this point and decided to make a move to pick up some chips. This was probably a bad move as I was in a comfortable spot chip wise, probably 3rd or 4th. I had 9-7s and raised the limper, both blinds folded and the limper called. The flop was 8-8-6r and the villain donked into me for the pot, 525. I had exactly double this and decided for some reason that I did have a little fold equity and an OESD ta boot, so I pushed in on him. He eventually called and showed A-6o for BPTK (new abbreviation that I want credit for! LOL) The turn and river failed to improve me and I was out of this one early.

I realized how bad I was playing NL so I opted to play a little safer game, Stud 8. I’m not sure what went wrong, but I was getting no hands and at one point was down $8 or so. There was only one table going of $.25/.50 Stud 8 and I still had plenty behind for this game, so I took at shot at the $.50/1.00 table. This was a good experience, though I dropped $5 initially, I was able to represent the hands that my board presented and actually strong-arm some pots. I eventually won back up to only down a $1 or so on this table before the wife started ranting about having to leave to go to a swimming party, but I really enjoyed the better competition at this limit. I was still down a few bucks on the .25/.50 table and my loss for this session ended up being $4.65 total. For the day the roll on FT dropped $14.55, leaving me with only $33.60. Man, I hate this month!!!

6-18-07

Having a bad month like I have had, and with the decreased size of my BR on FT, I made a decision to cut down to 2 tables at 10NL in order to help me make better, more thought out decisions. I found 2 tables where there weren’t many stacks over the maximum buyin, and one of which had a very low average pot size. I like the stack sizes to be no larger than the maximum because this more than likely means no one has been on a heater and feeling froggy and can also indicate a newer table where everyone is still feeling out the other players. Average stacks also might indicate a tighter game since no idiot is in there gambling it up and hitting stupid runner-runner hands. These tight tables play well for my aggressive style.

The first hand that we’ll talk about is Ks-Qs on the button. This hand looks pretty and I have position. The action went: 2 folds, MP1 raises to $.35, folds to me, I call and one of the blinds calls. The flop is 5s-9c-Jc and the blind player checks and the pfr makes a standard CB of around 2/3 of the pot. I don’t have much of a hand, but do have a draw, 2 over cards and a runner-runner draw. I elect to call to see what the turn action is, the blind player folds. The turn didn’t help my hand out any but fortunately the pfr’r checked, so I bet and took the pot from him. I guess this really isn’t considered a float since I had some draws, but you could probably call it a semi-bluff float.

I won another hand w/ KQ when my top pair beat a 2nd pair on a very scary board. Unfortunately, the board was so scary that neither of us wanted to inflate the pot very much.

And the final KQ of the night was off suit. I raised a limper from the CO and got 2 callers. The flop was 10s-Js-Ah, Cha-ching!!! It’s checked to me and because of the flush draw I potted it. Both players called, again! The turn was the worst card in the deck for me, As,… B-U-I-C-K!!!! Checks all around. The river was a safe card, but I took the conservative route and checked behind, but the button bet $1 into the $6 pot, the pf limper calls all in for $.10 and I make a crying call with my flopped broadway straight and IT’S GOOOOOOOOODDDDD!!!!!! I took down a nice one when the board was really nasty to me! The button showed a K-Jo, nice hand buddy!

I ended up winning $7.05 on the 1-hour session. BR stands back over the $40 mark at $40.65. I’m gonna slow down, not play anymore SNGs and 2 table at 10NL until I get my roll back up to a respectable level.

Lord willing and the creek don’t rise, I should be back at my favorite fish tank Saturday afternoon to win some real money at the Shoe in Shreveport. BJJIII won’t be making the journey, but my good buddy W.L. should provide some entertaining action, I’ll try to talk him into posting some of his strategy and/or hands following the trip.

I know Florida hasn’t fully implemented their new cardroom laws yet, but my wife’s family has planned a trip to Panama City Beach, FL for late August. If anyone can locate a cardroom there, I’d love to take some $$$’s off some Floridians!!!

Landlord79

EdmondDantes says

Nice to see the Landlord back in action collecting rent. I like the 97s play even though you lost the pot. You raised someone who basically said "My hand blows." and had him commit more chips to a mediocre holding out-of-position. Then you get a very nice flop for your hand without actually hitting it--14 outs from the flop with some folding equity. Why not? Worst case, he has an 8 (unlikely given his lead at the pot) and you're still only a 2:1 dog. You can make an argument in low buy-in sngs (and $525s WSOP satellites!) to sit tight and let others blow themselves up, but I like the aggressive play generally. Honestly, though, I'd save the aggression for the higher buy-ins and grind in the lower sngs (wait for premium hands in position) until my stack was healthy again. People play the sng bubble so poorly, it's worth getting yourself there and piling up EV against someone who's not aware of what's EV+ and what's not. In any event, you coined a new acronym, so it's all good!

Edmond

06/19/07

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