Sorry I havent updated in a while. Ive been incredibly busy playing online. I have been playing mostly 1/2 and 2/4 nl online, playing primarily on Absolute, Cake, and Full Tilt. Ive also been taking shots at 5/10nl on Full Tilt Poker and the deepstack 2/4 games on Absolute Poker (800 max) Ill post my Pokertracker stats and graphs (finally figured out how to do this) sometime this week. Ive been running really well online, so hopefully that will continue. I plan on playing in Absolute's 150k guaranteed tournament this Saturday at 4:30. Hopefully, I will do well, as I continue to reiterate that I am more than due for a tournament win. I know its just a matter of time before it happens.
Last night, I went up to Windsor with two of my friends, Kev and Greg. We arrived at the casino at like 2:30 or so, and I was extremely pleased that a 2/5 game had already been running. When I sat down at the table, there were already several big stacks, so i assumed that the game had been running for a while (2 stacks of >1.5k and several stacks over 800 plus). After a few rotations at the table, I realized that the game was quite jucy, as seemingly every other hand resulted in all in type situations.
My first hand at the table, I pick up 78 of hearts in the BB. UTG +1 raises to 35 (youngish Black dude, stack of like 450, no real reads on his play yet). My friend Sean (I would definitely describe his play as pretty lagish preflop and pretty straightfoward postflop, although hes definitely capable of moves and big bluffs, albeit a tendency to spew sometimes) calls from the Button(he has about 450 as well after just doubling through a complete noob who essentially donated 250 to his stack after calling 200+ on a board of KQ9 with JJ lol).I decide to see a flop and call as well. Flop comes K78 two spades and I check. My logic behind a check here is simple. With the texture of this flop and being first to act against 2 agressive opponents, this board presents a great opportunity to check raise. With the board being this loaded, someone has to have hit at least a piece of the flop. With the flush draw being out there and spades being out there as well, a check raise is an effective measure in betting out any potential draws (flush draws, oesd's,etc), while gaining value from hands such as K9, K10,KJ, KQ, and AK.
After I check, youngish black dude bets 40 dollars to which Sean instaraises to 80. Heres what went through my mind during the action in this hand. At this point, I think Sean is fairly weak. His min-raise cues my belief that his hand range can be narrowed down to KJ-KQ. I just cant see 777 or 888 making this raise, clearly KKK is out of the equation (no RR preflop, Sean typically likes to bump his big pairs up to 125 or so) and K7 and K8 are doubtful considering the preflop raise (although if I am beat, I feel like this is his most likely holding) .
So at this point, after narrowing my opponents hand ranges, I really believed that I had the best hand. Following Seans reraise I tanked for a bit and moved all in for 240 plus. Shockingly, the original raiser calls (after tanking) and Sean thinks for 2 seconds before folding KJ. Young black dude flips KQ and Im happy to see that Im ahead nearly 88%/12%. Great spot for me. I did all I could do in the hand but unfortunatlely my opponent drew out on the river after spiking an Ace on the turn and then rivering an Ace on the river, for higher two pair :O Ehhh tough beat, time to reload.
The very next hand i sit down (After reloading to 200), i pick up K10 hearts in the CO and I bump it up to 25. Loose passive fish calls from the button and sb and bb complete. Flop brings K25, pretty decent flop for me. I bet out 50 and loose passive fish calls. Everyone else folds. Turn brings 9 hearts giving me Top pr with K high flush draw. I bet out 80 and loose passive fish shoves. I insta call and he flips J9 of hearts. River brings another heart and I ship the pot, doubling my stack to close to 400.
Nothing really eventful went down and for the next hour or so. Basically, I was just real card dead, seeing an abundance of unplayable hands that would be tough for even the most adept post flop players to work with. Its a shame because my table was sooooo weak. My time sitting out was definitely productive in that I received a chance to analyze the betting patterns and tendencies of my opponents. Ive really come along way in terms of my focus and analytical skills at the table. This combined with my hand reading abilities really leads me to believe that my live game is coming around. A major factor in anything that you do is confidence and my hard work and progression as a player has definitely left me feeling more confident at the table. I now feel that I am one of the best, if not the best, live player in the regular 2-5 game at Windsor.
My next big hand I pick up JJ on the button. CO (Weak tight player, older Iranian guy, who I later found out is a professor in the Medical School at the University of Michigan) makes it 25 to go. I reraise to $100. Suprisingly, BB flat calls (leaving himself with approximately 75 behind) and CO (originial raiser) folds. Flop brings J83 two clubs. DING DING DING. Prior to the flop, I felt extremely uncomfortable about my hand, after the BB flat called my originial raise. A flat call of a reraise usually signifies a strong hand, so I assumed that his range was JJ-AA, maybe AK, and dobtfully A10-AQ. With his hand range in mind, I check and BB moves all in. I obviously call thinking that I got lucky on him by spiking a Jack on the flop. I was shoked to see him turn over KJ (LOL). Ehh lesson learned, I guess not all smart, looking young Indian dudes, who rock Ghandi tees, play well.
In total I finished up 220 and change. At one time, I was in for 500 at the table (I was never down 500, but 500 is what I had invested at the table, at one time I was down 300 plus) and managed to recover quite nicely. We left relatively early, after approximately 4-5 hours of play. I was really sad to leave my table and really wish I could have kept playing. There were several extremely weak players at my table with huge stacks whose weaknesses (trust me there are more than a few) I know I could exploit. Like I said, online stats and graphs/results from PT will be posted soon. Until then, Ill be slayin it on the daily, get at me
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