Sunday, July 20, 2008

Capitol Casino Friday and Saturday

OK quick post I'm so freaking tired right now.
Friday +140
Saturday +230
Don't know why i am so tired. Last night i only played for 2 1/2 hours only too. But once i got home i couldn't keep my eyes open. I even fell asleep trying to write this last night. But i be back to post some hands from Friday and Saturday night of playing and also to write out some anger from some crappy beats. Thanks JOHN MY FAVORITE DEALER IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Whats been on my mind.

Well i haven't posted in a long while. So i felt today was a day i should do it. But I'm mostly posting just to get some frustration out. So here it is.... Its not poker related but I'm very distraught right now.....

today was the first day of E3.....

Microsoft had their announcement day and hold and behold Square Enix has officially pissed me off to no end. Call me a ps3 fan boy or what ever. But today Square has announce their flagship game is coming to the xbox. Final Fantasy 13 in no longer a PS3 exclusive. I couldn't believe it.... My heart just drop...... Kind of like getting dumb by your girl friend. I felt so betrayed, I admit i am a sony fan.... and I know they are getting killed by the xbox because of the head start the game system had, and the easier to program system. But i truly feel that the ps3 is a superior game system a true all in one game and home entertainment system. Microsoft has some exclusive titles like Halo and Gears of war. But lately alot of company been making games for both system and the bad thing is they would develop the game on the xbox and then port it over to the PS3 so in other words on the xbox the game runs smooth and awesome but when u just port it over the game doesn't seem to run as great on the ps3 and which makes it glitchy and not all that grand. Now Square has officially help Microsoft put the nails on the coffin.... The only exclusive game now is just metal gear which helped the sales of the ps3 but when FF13 was suppose to come out it would have brought along a wave of hard core gamers back to sony. But now Sony is left on its death bed. It has better step up and do something or Bill gates would be nailing in the nails that it has on the PS3 coffin.


Okay now to some poker info....

Well vegas came and gone and it sucks ass.
Here is just a short of what happen.
- 10/20 first day lost 700, 2nd day made 100, 3rd day made 200, 3rd day made 140, 4th day was about 500 plus. so over all about 240 plus profit.
-4/8 was about a 300 dollar profit.
-no limit was a -400 bucks, I just suck ass on it.
-8/16 was kind of up in the air because when i lost in no limit at harris i went to bellegio and lost there too but i added it all into the 8 /16 lost column for a total of 500 lost but in reality it may have only been about 250. but the second day of playing 8/16 i came up 500. so i know 8/16 is a plus 200 to 300.
-other table games and slot -300 to 400
- so gambling wise was i think a negative trip plus accounting for food and show tickets over all vegas costed me about 600 bucks.

Plus side of the whole trip i think i found a new degenerate gambling buddy in Ryan, since it seem like i gamble more with him than the santi!!!

After Vegas i played some capital and Cache creek. It was weird, it was a up and down gambling effort. First day at capitol i think i made about 150 or so.
Next day went to cache and made a hundred.
Then back to Cap for a 200 lost but I won High Hand for 200.
Then another Cap trip made me lose about 60.
Then it was back to the Creek for a lost of a 100 and in some where in between i lost about 140 at the creek also that was the day i thought santi was going to leave me there and i had to bum a ride off of someone.
which leads to last friday capital trip. Which was the only one i remember some hands in but i not quite clear on the detail. I went there early in the day and the 9/18 was going to run. But i could only play for a hour or so and i had to leave so i showed back up with the Santi and got back on the table. I ended up making 310 but at one point i was up like close to 560 or more. I just free fall and could not hold or kept losing to heads up play when i have tptk or over pair and they ran me down with a crappy 2 pair or something.
This Hand pretty much made my day.

Pocket KK on the BB and its kill. had about 4 limper's in the hand one was my buddy to my left a old friend on seat one name Greg and his buddy in seat 4 plus the small blind called to my right. When it got to me i raised. It got called called but seat 4 Greg buddy ask he raised? I reraise. I was like hmmmm the o limp and reraise the raiser play. SB folds it gets to me and i stake my chip up and Tim the dealer was like looks like its going up some more. my buddy to my left decides and thinks and i think he called it but I'm positive he folded, and so Greg was like will lets just cap it. I was like No Fucking way I am good. 9/18 and its killed so its basically 18/36 right now. I'm looking at my stack and i had at that point over 400 at that point. I was thinking it look like at the end of this hand i need to do a rebuy. Flop comes Q 9 6. with two spades. I bet, call raise i reraise call cap. I was like OK i think I'm done now I'm calling down. Turn was a 8c. I bet Greg calls his buddy raise and i was like shit I'm just going to call but my homie to my left said this.Oh he going all in jut raise it. I was like huh I couldn't see his chip stack at all so i ask Tim how much chips does he still have. So seat 4 raises his arm and i could tell he hardly has anything left so i reraised it and he went all in and Greg still calls. River was 4d i was like OK at least i hope i take the side pot so i bet out and Greg says take it i miss i was on the spade draw. So i took the small side pot and now for the main Pot i showed my kk, and seat 4 was like shaking his head up and down and turn his card over first card i see was Q and the next card was 7 i looked at the board and double look for that straight. But it turn out i took the how pot. WOW OH WOW at that point i was ready to leave. i was up almost 2 racks and i wanted to leave but i know it wouldn't be right. But as i keep playing i started to free fall with hands that either missed the nut flush or open ended straight to top pair top kicker losing to rag cards two pairs. Or High pocket pair not holding on when someone stayed to the river to hit their ace for a better pair. Well that's it for now i will try to remember more hands later.

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Santi Sickness

OK I'm gonna make this sort because I'm pretty tired right now. Played from 12am to about 5Am. Had some good run and came up 468. But that paled compared to the Santi. I had a nice castle going with a 200 dollar buy in and was up 468. So that's was almost 700 in chips in front of me. Well All i can say is if i had a castle, Santi had a castle, Bridge, Moat, and sheit maybe even a village in front of him. If it wasn't for Han's the floor guy telling him he had to color up because he was invading both side of his neighbor personal space. THAT IS JUST PLAN SICK!!!!

Friday, May 30, 2008

Getting ready for non stop poker action!!!

For the last week or so since my schedule dosent allow me to play, I've been doing some reading and mentally preparing myself for a week of non stop poker action coming up when I leave for vegas. At first all I could find was hellmuth "play poker like a pro" but after some long searches I finally found skalansky small stakes holdem in my garage last week. I've read it through once last week and right now I've been concentrating a lot on per flop plays and flop plays. I know my biggest problem right now is my preflop play. I've got the "SAG" blood in me so a lot of cards looks good to me to play. But right now I'm really starting to understand proper cards and position of what to play. In vegas I got to step up my game. Even though I'm planning to play either 6/12 or 10/20 hold em mainly or 8/16 if they have it, I don't want to be the fish on the table. At the creek I'm usually the tag of the table unless the santi or Tony is at my table then they usually a lot more aggressive than me for some reason. But now I'm entering vegas when its the wsop happening and there's gonna be a lot of players there. And the worst thing that I want is to be painted the fish at the table when I want to be the shark.

Well hopefully all my reading isn't for nothing. I plan to play either sat night or sun before I leave for my poker extravaganza.

So hopefully I learned from my reading and imporove on 3 of my greatest weakness.
-selecting proper playing cards to play
-know my position and not limp in with crap cards.
-Raise or fold should be my main options preflop.

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Cache Creek Round 2

As I said I was planning on going back to the creek today and I did. Funny thing though was when I got there there was like 3 tables running of 4/8 and a list of 20 people waiting for a seat. So I went to grab a bite to eat and when i returned the list didn't change. Since all the chairs were taken and i didn't feel like standing and wait, I went to my car to take a nap.

Fast forward two hours........

Its now Midnight and i woke up from my nap. I went downstairs and saw 5 tables running with no list. COOL..... Now I'm refresh and i sit right into a open seat. After 3 table breaks and drawing the worst cards for the open seats at another table I think i played like a total of 4 1/2 hours with a profit of $390 at the tables. Not bad if i do say so myself. I didn't start to run good till my 3rd table when i went on a heated and won like 4 hands in a row twice. That felt great.... But kind of bad because I had crap cards and was winning with them. But what can I say....

Well most of my hands went pretty standard last night. My first table I would win a hand and then lose the very next hand with top 5 playing cards. It made it look like I was way too aggressive. But hey i am not limping in with aces or ak like most donks at the creek.

One hand That i was pretty pissed off with was pockets 8 on the bb. Alot of callers and we saw the flop of 987 rainbow. I did a check raise but a player on seat 8 reraised me and we capped it to the turn. 3 players to the turn now. I'm thinking pair the board pair the board. Turn comes 9 BOOYAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I check and the next player bets. Seat 8 raises and when it came to me I reraised. The that player i think he was seat 4 or 5 thought about it and folded the hand in frustration. Seat 8 caps it and we are heads up. River 2..... BAM baby i think i have the total lockdown on this hand. I bet out seat 8 raises, I reraise, and he reraised it right back to me.... I'm like in total awe..... Damn it did he flop 2 pairs and turn a bigger boat than me???? Its heads up and we can keep raising all we want, but now i decided to just call. He shows..... and I was about to shit in my pants when he turn over 92 for a bigger boat!!!!! That's so sick i was puking all over the guy next to me!!!! He went crazy with 9,2 !!!!!!!! WTF!!!!! ARE U shitting me!!!!!!

Well i will blog more later I'm fallng asleep right now.

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Cache creek blog while waiting for a seat.

Well that's right I'm blogging while I'm waiting for a seat. I got here around 2am and there was 3 tables plus a list. So I thought not bad it may last for a while. But as the first seat open up, they called and called till it was my turn. So I guess no waited around. So as I sat down there was some chips flying, nice pots and lots of action. Too bad I was card dead. I only played my blinds for the first 4 orbits and I never saw past the flop. Till this hand came up.

On the button with kj of spades. 3 limpers so I raised. 5 players to the flop. Flop is j54 two hearts. Good flop I think. It gets checked till it reached seat one who donk bet into me. I raised and he reraised and I capped it. I'm thinking man I hope he is on a flush draw and didn't flop a set or two pairs. Turn comes 9club not bad no strait or flush. Checks to me I bet and only he calls. River comes ace heart. Worst card ever. He checks and I checked and I showed my kj and he flips over AQ of spades??? That threw me off big time I was like wow u donk bet me with a bluff. But the guy turn out kind of cool. He thought I was a tight player and said he thought I raised with ak. I said well I still had you beat if that was true. He didn't expect me to have those cards. I'm like that's cool w/e. Well the table breaks after a few hands and we had to draw cards. I drew first and I get the 2 diamonds the lowest of the low I think. Well look like I'm next now they called the other three players now and looks like I'm next. Well hopefully that is.

Well that table didn't last too long as i sat down 3 players left. Only one other player was on the list so its 7 handed and this table had alot of donks and my hated female player that I don't know her name but she was almost busto. But as i sat down she won 4 hands in a row. She rebuilt her stack pretty quick. Now one of my favorite dealers sat down and started to deal. Soucho last time I played killed me pretty badly. But hopefully not this time. So its a kill and I'm under the gun? Well I'm first to act and I looked down and see KK so i raised it up. Only my nemesis who's the killer and the BB called which is a donk too. I think her name is sue, not the sue that plays at capital but i different sue that's normally at the creek alot. Well the flop comes and its queen high rainbow. Checks to me and i bet and they both folded. Not bad I think keep this up soucho.

Now I am in the bb and i looked down to see AK off suit. Everyone limps and i raised. All called, flops comes 7 5 2 rainbow. sb checks I bet 3 callers. Turn 10, SB bets into me and I paused and looked at Soucho and he smirks and shakes his head, I laughed and said i guess im no good now and fold. 2 callers and the river came q. Momma bets and one my nemesis calls. And sb shows 10 7 for two pairs and take down the pot. Well I thought Soucho liked me but i guess he still favors the santi.

Well a player left and now were 6 handed. Sb I get 10 8 suited and with a flop of 79A. I bet out and get 2 callers, Turn comes another A this is were I'm not sure if i played this right but i decided to check since there was two callers and either one could have a Ace in there hand. Seat 2 bets and seat 3 calls and I called. Maybe I should have folded?? But i blanked out the river and seat 2 bets and seat three folds and so do I. Seat two laughs it up a bit and showed ace duece off. Well he was ahead the whole way. But bad turn call? I gotta ask the santi.

Now I'm on the Button and its 5 handed, one player got up to go smoke. I looked down to see pocket 6. This is another question I have, 5 handed and I get pocket pair on the button first to act folds next Sue calls and now its on me I decided to raise. Too spewey? SB and BB calls and so does sue. flop comes AJQ. Argh..... that was pretty bad flop. All check to me and I bet and all called. Yikes!!!!! Not good! The Turn is 8, SB checks BB bets out. Sue calls and I fold and SB folds. River i think made a possible flush but sue didn't call. BB showed 10,9 off for a straight. But over all Makes me wonder was that a preflop call or raise? In my mind that should be a easy raise especially short handed. But Maybe not. Another santi question for him to ridicule me on.

Well after that a couple more orbits pass and the table breaks and I'm down 8 bucks for the night. I cashed out but One thing i did which was bad was The creek has this new slot machine that has EBAY on it. while I looked at it I just had to throw in a 20 bucks in it to try it out. The machine has been crowded most of the night since i guess alot of people wanted to try it out. Well so did I. A few pulls later and I saw a old asian lady started to scream, She sat right next to me and her friends were around her while she was playing and she hit a nice little jackpot for about 1200 bucks. Good for her, Fuck me, for picking the wrong seat to sit in. Well my 20 bucks went fast and I picked up a rockstar to drink on the way home. I plan on playing again today so hopefully this time it will go better.

Lates All.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

What have I been up to? Well pretty much I haven't played much in a while and when I have its been a spanking.I think the last four trips has been losers so yeah it sucks big time ass. Also been a little rusty since I haven't played all to often.

My last session I actually came up for once for about a 60 dollar profit. Considering the trip before I drop 180, and who knows how much I drop before that and I think it was 200 or something like that. Just running bad I guess. During these time when I run bad I need to cut my bleeding more. I need to continue the same play and not play scared. When I play scare I'm not maximizing my profit when I do win a hand.

So on my last session I was sitting at oppisite table with the santi. When I sat down I was enjoying my table it was truly a donk fest. Big pots with a lot of callers. It was music to my ears seeing so many callers. But with so many callers my hand were not holding. I was losing with ak aq kk jj 1010 just couldn't maintain my lead after the flop. Next thing I know I had bought in for 360.intill I won 5 hands in a row. Most of it from a asian momma sitting on seat one that the santi kept telling me to go after. That sick bastard.

The one hand I remembered that got me back was it was like my 3rd win and I was still the killer.I get J4 off. The button had just pass me. It was 4 to the flop. Flop is j83. It gets check to me and I bet. All called. Turn was a queen. Checks to me and I continue to fire and they still all called. I'm sitting there thinking I'm way no good now. River was a blank not sure what it was but it get checked to me and I said I check I only have a jack with no kicker. Then I saw everone fold. I was like wow are you kidding me? 28 bucks preflop. 32 flop and 64 bucks on the turn and no one can beat a jack with no kicker wow oh wow I love it.