Weekend Wrap up and Various Coming and Goings

Where on earth did this nice weather come from? I, for one, am not going to complain, but it’s still pretty shocking to be on the back end of a three day bender of mid-twenties temperature and gorgeous sunshine. A little tease before the crap kicks in?

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I haven’t been blogging much lately since Poker play has been scarce around here. I’ve mostly been grinding down Casino bonuses. I did manage to complete the Pokerroom reload bonus (for a nice 1000$ payout) and finally cashout my winnings on the whole Mansion Steerlers deal. Onwards and upwards!

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Found the time to play two tournaments yesterday. A 5$ MTT on Stars and a 10$ MTT on Pacific. I made baby money in the 5$ but got knocked out near the bubble in the other.

An interesting hand from the 5$ tourney. With blinds at 100/200$ with a 25$ ante, all fold to me on the button with 5-6o. With antes in play, I’ll raise 95% of my hands in this situation. I will only consider folding useless junk like 8-2o and that depends mostly on who is in the blinds. So I make it 650$ to go and I get called by the big blind. Flop comes out 4s-7h-8h. Cha ching! The BB checks to me and since there’s a possible flush draw out there, I bet 40% of the pot. The BB reraises me (I’m thinking flopped two pair) so I jam and he insta-calls with KK. Ah, when slowplaying goes bad. He blanks the turn and the river and proceeds to let me hear it for the next 25 minutes. “Who the hell raises with 5-6o”, ”You’re a donkey, where the hell did you learn to play Poker?”, etc. I was gonna put an effort to try and explain that with the blinds being what they are and the ante’s in play, this is pretty much an automatic raise when all fold to you on the button but I didn’t bother. I was praying for any type of hand so I could raise his blind again and bust him but alas, the Poker Gods were not on my side...

So I’m moved to this new table and my stack is not in the greatest shape, a wee bit under the average. With blinds at 300-600/50, I make it 1800 to go from MP with 55. I get called by the button and everyone else folds. At this point, the pot is ginormous and I’m moving in on any flop that looks safe. I’m worried about 66-99 but I have to take my chances. Flop comes 3-3-6, so I move in. Button thinks for a while and calls with AJo. So he pretty much calls off 60% of his stack with no pair and no draw. NH, buddy.

Turn: A (of course)
River: J (Why not)

I had an atrocious feeling as soon as I saw his hand turned over. I NEVER benefit from stupid play, they ALWAYS draw out on me.

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The day after I wrote that whiny post about the one outer I happen to lose another one in similar fashion. AA flops a set, turns aces full of kings which also gives my opponent quad kings. To quote my friend: “Man, if you were sitting at a badbeat jackpot table for those two hands, you’d probably be up 20K by now”.

Yes, yes indeed.

I shall now go weep in a corner for my troubles...