Anyway, I've been running bad lately. Bout time, I guess. The highlight of my poker month was playing with Shannon Elizabeth (of American Pie fame) at the Borgata (with Syracuse Chris, who finished 5th at the WPT Borgata tournament a few years ago) directly on my left. Chris seemed annoyed that I didn't recognize him. I asked him what he did for a living, and he said he played poker mainly, but that he owned a restaurant up in Syracuse. Would anyone else have said where the restaurant was? He was dying for the recognition. being a contrarian, I didn't want to give it. So, I told him that was nice and never did the 'You're Syracuse Chris!' that he sometimes gets. He ain't that big as deal anyway. ). Shannon was very cool and fun, and we talked the entire time. Course, I doubled her up with QQ when she pushed 2nd to act after an utg limper for 23 bb. I moved in to get the utg limper to fold... he boasted to the table earlier in the tournament that "if I raised, I'd have QQ, KK, or AA." and that he always limped with AK. His play showed that to be true. Why he would tell us this I do not knonw. It was useful information, that's for sure. After I moved in, he thought forever and folded his AK face up. Shannon had AK too and his her 4 outer on the flop.
I busted a little bit later when I flopped aces up and lost to a better flopped aces up.
In other news:
here's why I get annoyed with running bad... It's because I get to play against people like this:
$5/$10
Table Table 109602 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 2: Herky25 ( $152.50 )
Seat 3: LYNZLOV ( $315 )
Seat 4: saklikker ( $289 )
Seat 6: Shameful888 ( $411 )
Seat 5: thejlev111 ( $344 )
Seat 1: TAF15eballie ( $108 )
saklikker posts small blind [$2].
thejlev111 posts big blind [$5].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to thejlev111 [ 8c Tc ]
Shameful888 folds.
TAF15eballie calls [$5].
Herky25 folds.
LYNZLOV calls [$5].
saklikker calls [$3].
thejlev111 checks.
** Dealing Flop ** [ Th, 9d, 2c ]
saklikker checks.
thejlev111 bets [$5].
TAF15eballie calls [$5].
LYNZLOV calls [$5].
saklikker folds.
** Dealing Turn ** [ 8h ]
thejlev111 bets [$10].
TAF15eballie calls [$10].
LYNZLOV calls [$10].
**
thejlev111 checks.
TAF15eballie checks.
LYNZLOV bets [$10].
thejlev111 calls [$10].
TAF15eballie calls [$10].
LYNZLOV shows [ 3s, 3c ] a pair of threes.
thejlev111 shows [ 8c, Tc ] two pairs, tens and eights.
TAF15eballie doesn't show [ 6c, 9s ] a pair of nines.
there is no way I should have won that much money... both guys are overcalling with no chance of being good... they are simply adding funds to my account when they do this.
$5/$10
Table Table 109602 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 4: saklikker ( $366.50 )
Seat 6: Shameful888 ( $329.50 )
Seat 5: thejlev111 ( $449.50 )
Seat 1: TAF15eballie ( $20.50 )
Seat 2: DancerCrouch ( $258 )
Seat 3: trash_collector ( $429.67 )
saklikker posts small blind [$2].
thejlev111 posts big blind [$5].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to thejlev111 [ 5h 5c ]
Shameful888 folds.
DancerCrouch raises [$10].
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trash_collector calls [$10].
saklikker folds.
thejlev111 calls [$5].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 5d, Th, 2h ]
thejlev111 checks.
DancerCrouch bets [$5].
trash_collector raises [$10].
thejlev111 raises [$15].
DancerCrouch folds.
trash_collector calls [$5].
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ts ]
thejlev111 bets [$10].
trash_collector raises [$20].
thejlev111 raises [$20].
trash_collector calls [$10].
**
thejlev111 bets [$10].
trash_collector raises [$20].
thejlev111 calls [$10].
trash_collector shows [ Qd, Kc ] a pair of tens.
thejlev111 shows [ 5h, 5c ] a full house, Fives full of tens.
thejlev111 wins $165 from the main pot with a full house, Fives full of tens.
Shameful888 has left the table.
I guess my 3 bet on the flop wasn't enough for this guy... I would have 3 bet the river but 109 seemed a very reasonable hand to put him on and he raised yet again after 3 bets on the turn... would trip tens really do that? Maybe A10... any other hand that I'm beating? Not in this case... probably a 3rd river bet would have induced a fold anyway... though, who knows, maybe he would have capped. That would have been sweet. Course, I would have called certain that I was beat. Facinating to see the guy throw away 65 bucks post flop... if he had 3 bet pre flop, I would have folded and missed out on his money.
