Day Trip To Windsor

Yesterday, I took a trip up to Casino Windsor with my friend Greg. We went pretty early in the morning so the highest no limit game going was the 100 max game. This was really frustrating for me because Im not used to playing this low. The players at the 100 max are mostly extremely tight passive fish who play their cards face up, only play made hands, only play top tier starting hands, are impossible to bluff due to their inability to play their hands beyond face value, and for the most part, are characterized by their overall timid noobish play.

My table consisted of two regulars, a few fish, and mostly rocks. Typically, not the type of table that I enjoy playing at. I had the dryest run of cards ever but managed to double up after sitting for about an hour and a half. After a series of blind raises and straddles (I was getting bored and impatient, two things that are usually detrimental to my game) I pick up KQ diamonds in the cutoff and raise to 15. I get 3 callers and the flop comes AKQ all spades. Not the greatest flop for me, but I decide to make a smallish continuation bet of $30 while reevaluating once I get to the turn. I get called by one player, and older guy named Elmer, who usually has a tendency for calling down weak in big pots and playing pretty passively in general. The turn comes a Q of hearts, the perfect card for me, as I now have Queens full. Elmer checks to me and I decide to trap him, by slowing down, and checking behind. The river comes a meaningless 7 and Elmer thinks for a bit then checks to me. At this point, I dont give him credit for having that big of a hand. His range in my opinion consituted AX-AJ, while two pair or better was unlikely. I think he folds to an all in bet so i decide to bet 35 leaving me with like 15 behind lol. Elmer of course makes the calls and flips over A10os. I laugh and flip Queens full and scoop the pot.

That was the only eventful hand that I played in over 6 hours at the 100 max game. One other hand I picked up a small-ish pot of like $60 playing 47os from the cutoff. I flopped a straight on a board of 356, but couldnt really manage to get any action. The rest of the time I saw unplayable hands, like J4 K2 59 etc. I was literally extremely close to just ripping my cards apart. It was just awful.

Finally at about 6pm, they decided to open up a 200 max game. I basically sprint over to the 200 max table to sit down. My table seemed decent, with 4-5 regulars waiting around to play the 10-20 no limit game later in the evening. I raise like the first three pots (albeit with strong starting hands) and take them down, when this hand came up. I pick up KJ diamonds on the button. UTG+1 raises to 15 and gets called by like 6 players. Flop comes JJ2 two diamonds, a great spot for me. The table checks around to me and I make a deceptively weak bet of 30 into a pot of 60+, in hopes that someone either a) interprets my bet as weak and decides to raise me with air or b) someone has a smaller jack and shoves all in. Well my bet worked out perfectly as a player to my left (a regular, youngish prolly 20-25 who isnt very good imo), immediately shoves all in after the table folds around to him. I insta call (after interpreting his range as JX-QJ) and he flips over 10J no spades. At this point im a 96% favorite as he is drawing dead to 2 outs. Turn comes meaningless Queen and then of course he hits his 10 on the river, giving him jacks full. He scoops the pot (500+) and I immediately reload. Damn, i play soooo baddddd sometimes lol. Bah but anyways...

My next big hand came up when i pick up 56 spades on the button. UTG raises to 25 and gets 4 other callers. It comes around to me and I make the call. Flop comes A47. The action on this hand was crazy. The original raiser bets to 60 clearly representing a big A, and another player in front of him goes all for like 200 more (Set/2pr maybe?), one of the lone donks at the table calls the all in making the pot now close to 600. At this point, im getting 3:1, not even incluiding the original raiser who would improve my odds to nearly 4:1. Basically im investing <200>600 (most likely 800) making this the easiest call in the world. I call and the original raiser folds. Turn and river brings two blanks and 47 takes the pot down. At this point im down like 325, -400 in 200 max, +75 in 100nl, but I have plenty of money on me so i decide to rebuy again.

I picked up a few small pots and worked my way back nicely to only being down 280 on the day. Im doing a great job lately on not being too oriented on my results and instead worrying about my play. Until now, I had been on a sick live heater but even today, I was extremely happy with the way i played. I played extremely well all day, and for the most part, was extremely efficient in getting my money in ahead.

Besides that, the 10/20 NL game was just getting started when we left. I definitely feel that I would be +EV in this game. Supposedly, Mikey, a player who I had been playing with all day, is the best regular in the game and has profited several wins of 7k plus in the last few weeks. Although I respect Mikeys game and think that hes a good solid TAG, I definitely would play him HU without hesitation. Mikey openly admitted to me that the game was full of loose players who werent very good but just had a lot of money to spend. In the coming weeks, im definitely going to have to play in this game. Im expecting 10k to be returned to me from Neteller on the 11th so I might just take half of that and freeroll into the 10/20 game. Its funny to me, because at this point, I dont even think Im close to being ready to play 10/20 online, but its a different story playing with live noobs. This just shows how clueless people are who say that online players cant play live because of physical tells (LOL im looking through your soul to find out if your weak, oh fuck your hand just twitched must mean your weak, or maybe your faking weak, while really strong, but strong enough that u want a call lol). Live noobs make me laugh. The best players in the world play online, period. Its really not even close IMO. I should have an update on my latest online stats soon, until then holla holla holla