Hey Gang,
Just got back from a trip to Snoqualmie. It was actually a lot shorter drive than I expected. It usually takes me about 45 minutes to get to Tulalip and the drive to Snoqualmie took me about 25 minutes. Definite plus right here. When I arrived in the poker room there were 3 2/5 tables and 1 4/8 limit game running. I got seated pretty quickly at a table that turned out to be pretty damn juicy. There were a few people just playing every hand and calling down super light. I am trying to implement a new strategy based around limping more and just trying to take advantage of people playing terribly postflop.
While getting accustomed to my new table, I slowly bled off $200 of my initial $300 buyin. I topped off and got into a hand with 77. I opened the action in EP and got 3 callers. Came down 654ss and the huge fish led for 25 and I raised it up to 75. I got this old guy to flat and the fish called as well. The turn was the 3x and it got checked to me and I just shipped my remaining 125 into the pot. The old guy called and the river came 5x and he turns over AKss for the missed FD. At this time we were playing shorthanded so I was playing in a ton of pots with the huge fish but he kept getting some super premium hands.
The next hand of the night came when we got another table to combine with ours and a older Vietnamese dude sat down with about 3k. He was limping and calling every single raise preflop and tried to bluff a ton. I opened AA UTG and he flats as well as the huge fish. It comes down 977ss and I cb 50 and viet dude calls. Turn is the 6s and I check and he bets 120. I look back at my cards and see that I have the As just in case. The river is a 3x and it gets checked down and I scoop. I elected to c/c turn and check river because I didn't want to get blown off the hand and wasn't sure if he'd call more streets with weaker hands.
The next orbit I get JJ in the CO and I raise it up big because the fish were L/C raises to 50. The viet guy and the huge fish call again and the flop comes down 972r. I cb 65 and the viet guy raises to 140. He has been raising a lot of TP type of hands so I elected to flat with about 550 behind. The turn is the Tx and I check and he bets out 210. I decide to ship it because he can call with a lot of worse hands and I didn't feel like folding to this dude. He ended up tanking and saying how this would be a crazy call. He ended up calling because he said there was too much money in the pot and the river came like a 3x and I ended up scooping. He later told me had 98.
The last orbit I played I picked up AA in MP and raised to 45 after a couple limpers came in and they all called along with the viet guy. Flop came down KQ9dd and it got checked to me and I led for 90 and the viet guy called again. I observed that he would play his strong hands aggressively on the flop so when he called I put him on a pair or diamonds. The turn was a 7x and he c/c again my bet of 140. The river brought the 3x and he checked again and this is where I might have messed up. I thought his range consisted of more diamonds than kings, and didn't want him shoving over my vb so I ended up checking and he said he had a king and I scoop. Take into account that I have been on a downswing so I took the lower variant play but it might have cost me some money.
Session 5 Recap-
Time: 6 hours
Buyin: $500
Stakes: 2/5 NL
Cashout: $1640
Profit: +1140
It feels incredible to finally get a winning session under my belt after running so bad for so long. I will definitely be hitting up Sno in the future and hope that things will work out.
I also forgot to mention that Sno has hourly $200 high hands through 2am so that was pretty cool as well as having a Monte Carlo for quads or better.
Cheers,
mazzler
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
7/20/2011 Update
Hey Gang,
Ended up catching a movie up north so I ended up going to Tulalip instead of Sno tonight. Was there for a whole 2 hours and lost $700. Started off grinding 1/3 while I waited for my 3/5 seat and quickly went up a $100 after getting 3 streets with J2 on JJ527. I then lost a decent sized pot with T7hh on 872KT. I then got moved to 3/5 and immediately got into a few pots. I opened K8hh in CO and got called by this bad reg on the BTN. Flop came J86cc and I just c/shoved after he bet 50 and he tank called off his remaining 100 with TT. I've played with him a ton and he would stack off with a lot of worse hands. Anyway it bricked out and I'm just feeling down on myself. The next hand there was a straddle and I open to 25 UTG w/ 55 and get a call from the SB who is a good reg that tends to play his hands pretty damn passively. Flop comes J65r and SB checks and I bet 45 with about 210 behind. SB elects to call and the turn is a 7x. SB checks again and I fire 65 and he almost instantly ships. I call and he obv turns over JJ. FML. I just ended up leaving right then and here I am. It's been a while since I flopped a set and I just get shitted on. Gonna try to hit up Sno tomorrow and hopefully get all this behind me.
Session 4 Recap-
Time: 2 hours
Buyin: $700
Stakes: 1/3 NL, 3/5 NL
Cashout: $0
Profit: -700
Cheers,
mazzler
Ended up catching a movie up north so I ended up going to Tulalip instead of Sno tonight. Was there for a whole 2 hours and lost $700. Started off grinding 1/3 while I waited for my 3/5 seat and quickly went up a $100 after getting 3 streets with J2 on JJ527. I then lost a decent sized pot with T7hh on 872KT. I then got moved to 3/5 and immediately got into a few pots. I opened K8hh in CO and got called by this bad reg on the BTN. Flop came J86cc and I just c/shoved after he bet 50 and he tank called off his remaining 100 with TT. I've played with him a ton and he would stack off with a lot of worse hands. Anyway it bricked out and I'm just feeling down on myself. The next hand there was a straddle and I open to 25 UTG w/ 55 and get a call from the SB who is a good reg that tends to play his hands pretty damn passively. Flop comes J65r and SB checks and I bet 45 with about 210 behind. SB elects to call and the turn is a 7x. SB checks again and I fire 65 and he almost instantly ships. I call and he obv turns over JJ. FML. I just ended up leaving right then and here I am. It's been a while since I flopped a set and I just get shitted on. Gonna try to hit up Sno tomorrow and hopefully get all this behind me.
Session 4 Recap-
Time: 2 hours
Buyin: $700
Stakes: 1/3 NL, 3/5 NL
Cashout: $0
Profit: -700
Cheers,
mazzler
Monday, July 18, 2011
Downswing Update 7/18/2011
Hey Gang,
Sorry for not updating you guys in a while but I been on a downer and just took some time off from poker. I took about 1.5 weeks off and juts got back from the casino. I will recap my previous sessions and then dive into this last session. I ended up losing 1200 last week, 200 at the home game, and 1k at the 3/5 game at Tulalip. I have just been playing terribly and overadjusting. I am trying to get too fancy and just not playing very fundamentally sound. This is why I took the break to reevaluate everything. I came back to the casino today and felt really good with how I played but the tables weren't particularly awesome. My 3/5 table had about 6 solid regs on it and I actually opted to move tables to the 1/3 game since there weren't any other 3/5 games running. It was pretty up and down and I got it in AA v ATss and ended up losing that when it rolled out KQTTx. I decided to cut my losses and just bounced. Ended up losing about 350 and I am thinking about getting a change of scenery. I will be checking out the Snoqualmie poker room in the next few days and will let you guys know how it goes.
Session 1 & 2Recap-
Time: 10 hours
Buyin: $1200
Stakes: .5/1NL and 3/5NL
Cashout: $0
Profit: -1200
Session 3 Recap-
Time: 4 hours
Buyin: $350
Stakes: 1/3 NL, 3/5 NL
Cashout: $0
Profit: -350
Just hoping to get out of this slump and come back with some positive results. Wish me some rungood plz.
Cheers,
mazzler
Sorry for not updating you guys in a while but I been on a downer and just took some time off from poker. I took about 1.5 weeks off and juts got back from the casino. I will recap my previous sessions and then dive into this last session. I ended up losing 1200 last week, 200 at the home game, and 1k at the 3/5 game at Tulalip. I have just been playing terribly and overadjusting. I am trying to get too fancy and just not playing very fundamentally sound. This is why I took the break to reevaluate everything. I came back to the casino today and felt really good with how I played but the tables weren't particularly awesome. My 3/5 table had about 6 solid regs on it and I actually opted to move tables to the 1/3 game since there weren't any other 3/5 games running. It was pretty up and down and I got it in AA v ATss and ended up losing that when it rolled out KQTTx. I decided to cut my losses and just bounced. Ended up losing about 350 and I am thinking about getting a change of scenery. I will be checking out the Snoqualmie poker room in the next few days and will let you guys know how it goes.
Session 1 & 2Recap-
Time: 10 hours
Buyin: $1200
Stakes: .5/1NL and 3/5NL
Cashout: $0
Profit: -1200
Session 3 Recap-
Time: 4 hours
Buyin: $350
Stakes: 1/3 NL, 3/5 NL
Cashout: $0
Profit: -350
Just hoping to get out of this slump and come back with some positive results. Wish me some rungood plz.
Cheers,
mazzler
Friday, July 1, 2011
7/1/2011
Hey Gang,
Not much has really gone on since the last update. We went to Vegas for the NHL awards and was fun to hang out in the sun and see some friends. Didn't get a chance to really play poker as I opted to just sorta hang out and drink myself silly. I did end up dumping a ton of money in the pit which is tilting. I'm going to restrict myself from going too crazy at the table games and just try to concentrate on poker.
I played in the home game on Tuesday and it was pretty bad for me. There were 9 of us to start and a lot of new faces. The most memorable hand of the night is when I open the CO with AQhh and the BTN flats. We had a new dealer that was learning how to deal and she fucked up the flop and it came T97hh but she forgot to burn a card. So they killed the door card and the flop was TT7h. I cb anyway because the BTN is really fishy and will end up folding on later streets. The turn is a Qx and I c/c a bet of 30. The river brings a 9x and I check and he ships for 90. I tank for about 3 minutes and decide to call and he says "you got it". I decided to wait for him to table his hand for the info and he flips over J8hh. This is the first time I have been slowrolled in real life. I almost flipped the table over and punched this dude in the face. I was just stunned and was later told by the table that this guy gets really nervous or some shit and inadvertently slowrolls people. Like this dude expects me to show up with a full house when I tank. That just threw me off my game for the rest of the night and end up dumping $500.
I also played a session at Tulalip today and yesterday. Yesterday's session was like a dream. I went a little earlier than usual and ended up having to sit at 1/3 for a while since the waitlist was like 10 deep for 3/5. I ended up just getting everyone to fold when I was bluffing and stacked everyone that called me. I ended up cashing out $1500 along with winning my first $200 for the high hand of the hour. It was low stress and I was running really well too.
Today's session was almost the complete opposite. The poker room was pretty packed today which I attribute to their Thursday night tourney that seems to draw a lot of entrants. Nothing really happened for me and I played one hand very poorly where I ended up just calling down the nittiest player at the table with TP only to get shown aces obv. I ended up dumping $400 and decided to call it a night a little earlier than usual. Even though I lost money, I feel proud of myself for leaving when I wasn't playing my best or when things weren't going that great. I kind of wish I left when I was even because I lost that big pot at the end of the night. Oh well I guess you live and you learn.
Session 10 Recap-
Time: 6 hours
Buyin: $500
Stakes: .5/1 and 1/2 Home Game
Cashout: $0
Profit: -500
Session 11 Recap-
Time: 7 hours
Buyin: $200
Stakes: 1/3 NL
Cashout: $1700
Profit: +1500
Session 12 Recap-
Time: 5 hours
Buyin: $800
Stakes: 3/5NL
Cashout: $400
Profit: -400
June Totals:
Sessions: 11
Time: 55.5 hours
Profit: +3925
Hourly: $70/hr
The tables were pretty bad so I'm hoping there will be softer tables that I can table select from. Hope everyone has a great weekend.
Cheers,
mazzler
Not much has really gone on since the last update. We went to Vegas for the NHL awards and was fun to hang out in the sun and see some friends. Didn't get a chance to really play poker as I opted to just sorta hang out and drink myself silly. I did end up dumping a ton of money in the pit which is tilting. I'm going to restrict myself from going too crazy at the table games and just try to concentrate on poker.
I played in the home game on Tuesday and it was pretty bad for me. There were 9 of us to start and a lot of new faces. The most memorable hand of the night is when I open the CO with AQhh and the BTN flats. We had a new dealer that was learning how to deal and she fucked up the flop and it came T97hh but she forgot to burn a card. So they killed the door card and the flop was TT7h. I cb anyway because the BTN is really fishy and will end up folding on later streets. The turn is a Qx and I c/c a bet of 30. The river brings a 9x and I check and he ships for 90. I tank for about 3 minutes and decide to call and he says "you got it". I decided to wait for him to table his hand for the info and he flips over J8hh. This is the first time I have been slowrolled in real life. I almost flipped the table over and punched this dude in the face. I was just stunned and was later told by the table that this guy gets really nervous or some shit and inadvertently slowrolls people. Like this dude expects me to show up with a full house when I tank. That just threw me off my game for the rest of the night and end up dumping $500.
I also played a session at Tulalip today and yesterday. Yesterday's session was like a dream. I went a little earlier than usual and ended up having to sit at 1/3 for a while since the waitlist was like 10 deep for 3/5. I ended up just getting everyone to fold when I was bluffing and stacked everyone that called me. I ended up cashing out $1500 along with winning my first $200 for the high hand of the hour. It was low stress and I was running really well too.
Today's session was almost the complete opposite. The poker room was pretty packed today which I attribute to their Thursday night tourney that seems to draw a lot of entrants. Nothing really happened for me and I played one hand very poorly where I ended up just calling down the nittiest player at the table with TP only to get shown aces obv. I ended up dumping $400 and decided to call it a night a little earlier than usual. Even though I lost money, I feel proud of myself for leaving when I wasn't playing my best or when things weren't going that great. I kind of wish I left when I was even because I lost that big pot at the end of the night. Oh well I guess you live and you learn.
Session 10 Recap-
Time: 6 hours
Buyin: $500
Stakes: .5/1 and 1/2 Home Game
Cashout: $0
Profit: -500
Session 11 Recap-
Time: 7 hours
Buyin: $200
Stakes: 1/3 NL
Cashout: $1700
Profit: +1500
Session 12 Recap-
Time: 5 hours
Buyin: $800
Stakes: 3/5NL
Cashout: $400
Profit: -400
June Totals:
Sessions: 11
Time: 55.5 hours
Profit: +3925
Hourly: $70/hr
The tables were pretty bad so I'm hoping there will be softer tables that I can table select from. Hope everyone has a great weekend.
Cheers,
mazzler
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