vive le poker!

Back in Black.

Well, it seems all my hard work has paid off for the month. After an abysmal start (can you say -12k?!) do to constant cold decks and a few leaks; I am back in the black!

Actually, I was in the clear last week but hit another big bump in the road. I literally clapped for myself after today's session. I've put in a lot of work through this awful run of cards and I'm proud to still be standing.

I've learned a lesson through all of this: I need a bigger bankroll.

Two hands for your viewing pleasure

5/10 6 handed
Dealt [3s] on the button. Folded to me, I make it $35 to go. The BB calls. He's a good, loose-aggressive player.

FLOP $75
[3h][3d]

He checks. I bet $60 with quads. He check min raises to $120 which I call.

TURN $315
[3h][3d]

Oh no. Not the straight flush when I have quads! He bets $200 or so. I opt to call (A mistake in retrospect but I thought he was bluffing off chips.)

RIVER $715
][3h][3d] ]

He pushes. I call and say "god please don't have the striaght flush" (you do this when you're on a bad run, or recovering from one. )

He showed [8h] for the flush. He got halfway to the 990-1 shot!

Next hand:

Have [As] in the SB. The same good lag from the previous hand makes it $40. Button calls. I make it $130 more to them. Both call. (ugh.)

FLOP$510
[9h][Td]

I check looking for a check-raise allin. I considered leading but frankly I'm afraid of the laggy player calling the flop bet and outplaying me on turn. At the time I felt a check induces a bet while protecting my hand to the maximum. I'm still not sure it was the completly correct play...anyway...

I check. Lag bets $330. Button folds.

I make it another $1k to him with my check-raise allin. He folds quickly, to my relief.

Just thought those were both interesting hands.

Good luck everybody! And write your damn congressmen.

Betting out with flopped quads

All Aboard! Taking the Train to Donksville.

Oct 24th 4am

I'm so disappointed with myself right now. I really blew my last session. I decided to tilt and become a donk. I didn't lose too much, but I should have come out a winner with the cards I was getting.

I decided to skip the night session and get some other things accomplished. I failed that task too. lollerskates.

I wasn't at my best today.

At least tommorow is another day.
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A rediculous hand (that I somehow won) that shobute is making me post for pure tilt/donk -make me look like an idiot- factor:

(Opponent had reraised me 6 times in the last half hour. My tilting self decides instead of reraising, to min raise the flop! woohoo!)

Prima Poker skin
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $5/$10
6 players


Stack sizes:
UTG: $1054.85
UTG+1: $456.75
CO: $880.00
Hero: $1326.00
SB: $985.00
BB: $3626.00

Pre-flop: (6 players) Hero is Button with
3 folds, Hero raises to $35, SB folds, BB raises to $150, Hero calls.

Flop: ($315, 2 players)
BB bets $250, Hero raises to $500, BB folds.
Uncalled bets: $250 returned to Hero.

Results:
Final pot: $815


God I suck.

i think the min-raise might have been more clever than you think. if villain thinks you're a donkey, then he reads "minraise=monster" on that bet.

just a thought.

I decided to tilt and become a donk.

Hopefully, this merely rhetoric....