Grinding it out, one day at a time

Well in my last post I announced that I was going to have a small break from all things pokery as I had a pending withdrawal and fancied trying out some new games like Omaha and Stud on the play chip tables but that changed and I ended playing on Sunday afternoon like the big degenerate that I am! Basically, as expected, the play on the play money tables was ridiculous to say the least and I feel that in order for me to learn the ins and outs of these games it is going to be better to play even the penny tables somewhere and risk losing some cash rather than donking around with pretend cash and losing my sanity. Maybe I’ll have to save learning new games until my roll can support them and my regular game. As it happens I did enjoy the Stud games and also the Omaha but just couldn’t grasp the Omaha H/L (just seems like a big gamble-fest) and didn’t get my head around the Razz games either.I checked my Neteller on Sunday morning and found that my withdrawal from Bowmans / Bet365 had hit my account less than one day after my request which was surprising as Cadmunkey waiting an age for his to hit and is one of the reasons I was going to take a small break. With this in mind and the play money tables mushing my brain I redeposited on Full Tilt and found myself a nice little game of NL10 6-max. I don’t know what it is but the lobby always says the 6 max tables are churning out around 80 hands per hour but I’m only ever getting around 60 at best? Anyway, I logged the huge sum of 54 hands and turned a nice profit of $25.25 and an extra $1.20 in rakeback, LMAO! I swear my first table was just a donkey-fest, I’m sure the whole table was either pissed or seriously hungover and I had a guy 2 to my left min raising every single hand and another guy who as long as he had paint he was going to showdown! Here are a three hands of note, two of which I’d be interested in your line.

Suckout then re-suck out! - Glazierboy (GB) was running at 80/50/0.5 over 40 hands (small sample yes) and had shown down Ace-rag type hands. Lavawalker (LW) was the guy who called any raise with anything remotely resembling a hand, a true calling station. When GB pushed all-in preflop after min raising all his other hands I was very weary of AA but if this was one of the 200+/1 times he was holding Rockets at the same time as me holding Cowboys then so be it. LW’s call didn’t worry me in the slightest/ I was kind of hoping for AQ’s to be show as that’s take care of some of the Aces available but that wasn’t the case. GB preflop pushed with 77 (LOL) and LW called with JJ (questionable). Flop gives LW an set and I’m a bit pissed off about the potential suckout but I do have 10 clean outs (4 Aces, 2 Kings, 4 nines) for the win. The Queen fills up LW and I now have to hit one of the last 2 Cowboys in the deck…..KERCHING, justice is served!

SB vs BB - Is there any way I could have gotten away from this? No reads at all on villain apart from he sat down with $4 a few hands ago. His 3xBB raise could mean anything and holding TT I feel I have to raise here which I do. Flop isn’t the best but he’s more likely to have raised with Ace-x rather than K or J-x and I lead out for 1/2 pot figuring he’ll lay down Ace-rag after my aggression and 2 face cards on the flop. Instead he pushes all-in for his remaining $2.55, giving me odds of around 3.5/1 and those odds for me are too good to turn down when he could be sat their with say A7o. Do you play any different here?

Crying call or easy fold? - Not too sure what to make of this hand, especially as the pot is very small, I feel now I should have let it go but that is easy to say once you’ve seen the result I guess! The Villain (DYlonCSL) was running at 50/20/1.2 over around 35 hands and didn’t seem the best playing I’d ever come across. Flop isn’t great but gives me an OESD but I don’t want to get involved too heavily in this pot with 4 other villains. I feel if I try to steal here on the button I’m either going to get 2-3 callers and bloat the pot or I am going to be raised enough to force me off a potential hand. Turn gives me bottom pair but makes the board even more draw heavy and again it is checked around. River is no help and now Villain bets 1/2 pot offering 2/1 odds. I should fold as I feel like I am beat but I go ahead and call, partly because of the very faint chance I’ good and partly through wanting to know his hand!

Not overly sure what the plans are for the week but they should involved plenty of NL10 action! I might play tonight but I am already shattered after a late night 0230am and an early wake up 0710 so it depends what frame of mind I’m in when I get home after the crazy commute home! Think I’ll have a shower and a bite to eat and take it from there. When I played yesterday I only opened one table and felt everything was much clearer in my decision making so I’ll probably do that again for a few sessions to see how it goes, hopefully they’ll deal me more than 60 hands an hour or I may start to surf / watch TV / MSN etc.

Oh, it looks like I’ve pissed off Blackscribe too for showing a bluff and not “being friendly”. I’ll reply to his post on his blog at some point today to explain my actions etc. Got to love this blogging malarky

Thanks as always for reading and best of luck at those fish filled tables!