I am planning on playing The Mookie tonight again. Hopefully the result will be better than my showing last week where I finished in the 70s out of 120. No hockey game to distract me tonight(damn there goes my excuse).
So everything with my son's account has be totally cleared up with FullTilt. His account was unfrozen yesterday and he received an email from Full Tilt explaining that and also one from the Debit Company saying he could make deposits again. He learned a good lesson I think. It was a honest mistake on his part as he really didn't understand transit numbers. A good lecture from yours truly has educated him on the fact. In his first tournament back he played a 90 player 3.00 bounty thing and managed 5th for a 24.75 cash. I was happy for him. Of course I will be monitoring his account..(yea I know he's 21 but you gotta keep tabs on them)
I am just glad the whole situation is done with and we can get back to playing the occasional online tournament at Fulltilt.
I played a live game again last night with 50 people. Not great results. I did start off great when I won the second hand of the night with pocket queens.
The hand that killed me was with blinds at 200/400. I had J 10c in the SB. There was 2 limpers to me so I called as did the BB. Flop comes Q J 9 rainbow. Okay I have second pair and an open ended straight draw. There was 3 of us in the pot after the flop betting(can't remember how it went). Turn brought another Q. I checked BB bet and the button and I both called. River was a K. Great card or you would think. The BB is a really loose player and could have anything. I made a bet and he immediately went all in. The button folded. Now I had the BB covered by around 2000 chips. Like I said before the BB is a really loose(actually he's really bad) and usually one of the first out. Okay I figured he's got a 10 but not likely A 10. Wouldn't he have maybe raised preflop with that with limpers to him. I made the call. Of course he had A 10. Figures.
I was now in survival mode. An orbit later I got dealt J 5 in the BB. I just called with 2 others. Flop comes K 5 5 rainbow. I check as did an older lady. Another very aggressive, loves to bluff player bet 500 figuring we were weak. I took my time calling. I could have pushed but I thought that would scare him away. The older lady folded. Turn was a 8. No flush or straight possibilities. I checked again and so did he. Damn. The river was an Ace. Okay what to do. I know I am good. Bet or Check?? I decide to check looking like I have given up on the hand. He asks what I have left. I have 1100 left. He says I will put you all in. I snap called and doubled up.
After that my AK ran into a turned full house and I was out.
See you tonight at The Mookie
Aces 2/5
If I can make a comment about the Q J 9 hand: When the 2nd Queen hits, I think you need to be raising. It makes it much harder for your villains to hold a Q (as evidenced by BTN's fold). In fact, I would probably be raising the flop to really define where I am in the hand. Easier said since I know the results, but I feel like you played a monster hand very weakly... Consider: you flopped open-ended + mid pair. You have 8 + 5 outs (potentially if you're not already ahead) yielding a max equity of ~50%. I think you'll find out pretty quickly whether you're ahead or behind after that flop raise - not that you should necessarily be willing to go to the mat with said hand, but you have a monster; play that monster! By the river, you absolutely should be folding because the value of your hand has shrunk to nothingness - bluff catcher. There are a ton of hands that have you crushed.
ReplyDeleteYea I agree I didn't play that hand well. I had something to do with the player in BB. He will call anything with basically anything. I thought I could and usually do outplay him after the flop. (most cases that would have happened). Last night I didn't and I should have folded with his shove.
ReplyDelete@ Pokermesister
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment. I always love other thoughts on my hands it only makes you better in the long run to see different thoughts on what you did.
GL in the Mookie. I will probably play live poker, so won't be there, but ya never know . . .
ReplyDeletePoker meister's so right and insightful...of course it's easier to be that way when you're not in the heat of battle.
ReplyDeleteI personally never like to give free cards or act weak when I'm strong, unless it's the nuts.
@ Memphis
ReplyDeleteThanks and good luck playing live toniught. Go get em
@ josie
ReplyDeleteIt was good advice. I never give free cards usually either. I was playing the player and not the cards. This time it didn't work.