Haha come on now, do I really have to take 2nd seat to you in my own journal?? Thats just harsh.

Toasted Moses played in the BTP Big Cash game - he looked a very solid player to me..I had position on him but still couldn't take any $$$ off him..

Ok this has to be the worst + $350 session in the short poker career. I went back to Oceans 11 and played the 5/5 there. I am beginning to love this game, people play just as bad as at the 2/3 $200 game but in a deeper game with more money involved.

My first hand I play it gets raised to $20. 4, callers and I call from the BB $15 more with flop is [10s] . I decide to bet $80 and see if I can take the pot right here. One player calls, preflop raisor makes it $180. I push for $300 more, thinking the only hand I'm really behind is a set and there is decent fold equity here. Caller in the middle folds, PFR thinks about it forever and calls. Turn is a K, river is a brick, he turns over AQ and my little pair of kings wins the pot. He bitched and moaned about it being a bad beat, but I really like the way I played my hand. He really should have folded TPTK. I'm actually a 6/40 favorite on the flop. Total pot was $1200.

Next big hand there is a raise to $30 from a player with about $3000 in front of him. I look down at 44. Flop is 46A. Preflop raisor leads out $80. I just call hoping to trap one of the players in between but it ends up heads up. Turn is a J making two hearts. He leads out $200, I raise to $500. He push’s all in with AJ I call and he doesn’t improve. I now have around $2500 in front of me, nice rush for my first 30 min at the table.

Couple hands later I get AA and get a $200 stack all in preflop, he has AK. I win the pot, and I now have $2200 in profit sitting in front of me in less than an hour. I actually considered playing a couple more hands and leaving, I don’t usually hit and run but $2000 is a lot of money to me. The problem is that game was still really really good. People were pushing chips around like crazy, there were two players on tilt and two terrible calling stations that were paying out like slot machines and I really saw a decent chance of havening a record session.

This is when the fun starts. I went cold for about an hour, and played tight. I have about $2600 in front of me when this fun hand hits. I am CO with AA, I raise to $50, BB calls, UTG limp raises to $200. I decide to just call and trap him. BB folds. Flop is 553 with 2 hearts, villain is a good solid player and I am about 90% sure he had KK, the other AA was something I actually considered too but I had the so if he had the other two AA I was free rolling him. He checks, I lead out $300, he push’s all in for about $650 more. I insta-call. He doesn’t look to happy as I call and now I am sure he has KK or QQ. Turn is a K and he practically jumps out of his freakin chair. He turns over KK after the river blanks about $2400 total in the pot. I knew it was going to happen sooner are later, this is a loose aggressive game with lots of money and the bad beats in really big pots were bound to happen. This is the most money I have lost on one single hand, tough way to do it.

Next hand where I get to bleed of more chips. I look down at QQ from mp. One of the players that has been pissing off chips like crazy raises to $30. 3 Callers to me I raise to $130. The SB who has about $250 moves all in and everyone else folds, no way I'm getting away from this. I had bad feeling when he pushed that I was in trouble but am calling $120 to win a $620 and I call he has AA, which didn’t surprise me. I don’t improve.

The next 4 hrs were a total grind, one of the fish from last week was moved to our table. He is maniac aggressive, he is the guy that pushed all in with 44 into my QQ and flopped a set last week. I did have position on him, but he was raising to $40 pretty much every hand. He was stuck about $2000 before he came to our table and he was trying to get it back. I must have looked at 15 pocket pairs and called raises without flopping a set. Over the next 5 hrs I didn’t win a pot bigger than $50.

On a side note, the maniac went home broke, which was not a big shock to anyone at the table, but again two of the worst players at the table left with big stacks of chips. One kid tattooed from head to toe, left with about $2000, nice guy but a terrible poker player. This kid called a raise and a reraise to $150 with QJ. I guess it’s always good for these people to leave with money and come back and keep playing. Maniac is a pretty funny player, He raises to $50, gets two callers, UTG who is the solid player that beat me with KK limp raises to $200, maniac push’s all in with AJ. Limp raisor has KK again, maniac flops an A, and tells he limp raisor I didn’t think you had a pair. Funny stuff, not that I was going to tell him this but what the fuck else is limp raising that big with that you beat? Even if he has AK he still calls you he committed 40% of your stack with the limp raise. Later, maniac gets his KK cracked all in by A9 by one of the calling stations and proceeds to tell the CS how terribly he played his hand. Someone at the table mentioned his AJ hand and he says "At least I had AJ." I know I have become a bit of a poker snob as I have gotten better at this game but stupid people still amuse me.

This game is going to do very good things for my BR if it doesn’t kill me first. These $500 max players seem to be worse players that the $200 games I have been playing, the variance is something I am going to have to get used to, I had to take a 20 break after the KK hand, a $2500 swing is not something I am used to, I went outside and thought I was going to vomit, this is something I am going to have to get used to but right now $2500 seems like a huge sum of money. As with almost every game I have played if I can keep the dumbass in my seat from losing his A game after some of these swings I am going to kill this game. Totals for the day +373 8.5 hrs.