playing for dough at foxwoods

Well, I went to Foxwoods with Matt Matros and "Action Bob", a cool guy who finished 5th in a Borgata WPT event...

I played 2-5 No limit hold em for the first two days... won 380 the first day, most of it on 2 hands... one where i flopped quads and the other where I flopped a flush... the original raiser bet 25 bucks, another guy made it 50, i made it 150... they BOTH called. the turn was a blank, i moved in and they folded.

The next day, i just couldn't make a hand and lost about 520...

During all of this, Matt and rob are playing $1100 super sats trying to win their way into Friday's WPT event. Also, they both played the 2k and 3k tourneys this week. Matt got a lot of chips in the 3k, but busted near the bubble.

Meanwhile, I played an act 2 (250 buy in), where the top 2 finishers (out of 10) get seats into a 1100 super sat. when i sat down, everyone wanted to put in another hundred for 3rd... so, 3rd got 900 bucks (one guy wouldn't do it). we got down to 3, and all decided we wanted a seat, so we played it out. (I was actually pretty indifferent, but figured i should at least try to win the 1100 seat)... I was in the BB, the SB went all in, i had 1010 and called. he had AJ, ace on the flop, and I have nine hundy in my pocket.

I played some 10-20 limit as well for a few hours... basically borke even (even though the play was pretty weak).

The next day (wed), Matros encouraged me to play 20-40 limit hold'em, but I told him i didn't think i had the bankroll to do it... he told me he'd take half my action... splitting the wins and losses up evenly. that was all I needed... so I sat down with a thou in chips at a table and got going...

the play was pretty bad, even at this level. sadly, I kept flopping sets and losing $500 pots... so I went back to the well and bought in for another thou. I was soon down to 300 of the second thou went I made a little comeback... still, me and matros were down over 1200 for the day... not ideal, but I was convinced I was just running bad and I had a significant edge in the game.

I played again today, buying in for 900. i played for a few hours and left with 1755. that was much more like it! I got very lucky once (saving me 160) where i hit a 3 outer on the river,a dn one other time where I went runner runner flush... (probably worth about 200), but besides that, i just ran average. i won a big pot with KK where four of us capped the betting preflop, and the flop was 234. I bet, 2 calls. turn 4. i bet, 2 calls. river 4. I bet, they muck. as the dealer was putting out the river, I'm thinking... no ace, no five, no queen (cause I put the one good player in the hand on queens). He claimed later to have jacks, but i don't see how he could have folded on the river with JJ with 540 in the pot and it only costing him 40. if i had 1010 or AK he could have won... it certainly was worth a call there.

besides that, it was all pretty normal. I didn't receive any really bad beats and so i was pretty far up after just a few hours. good times.

My new thought is to take some serious cash out of my savings and play 20-40 for a week at "The Woods" (or, really, at any casino)... I am now very confident that I'll do just fine. as it stands right now, I'm only up a few hundred bucks for the trip, but I know where my edge is... no limit is fine, but i can see all the mistakes the limit players are making, so i know I have a clear edge in that game...

wow, the most cash chips I have ever had in front of me was about 800 back when i played a lot of no limit... today i had over 1700 in chips in front of me... that was pretty cool.

You gotta feel for this guy.

This is one of those hands that just sucks for him. sometimes I get on a roll posting bad beats, so I thought I'd post a good beat, for once.


I'm not sure there was anything more he could do... maybe if he 3 bet the flop?
naw, I'd call hoping to improve. Bet out on the turn? I can't fold there. Really, once I called pre flop with my sorry hand (which I did only because I'd been raised by people in the small blind all day (not him though, this was my first hand at the table) and I had position...)


He played it great.... and how can he put me on a flush? He's gotta be putting me on the case ace, or maybe two pair...

Anyway, I'm going on record as this is exactly the kind of play that I complain about when I'm running bad.

Full Tilt Poker Game #1939718267: Table Alto (6 max) - $5/$10 - Limit Hold'em - 15:00:28 ET - 2007/03/07
Seat 1: diz73 ($415.50)
Seat 2: maxfbp2k ($57.50)
Seat 3: Callz_w_air ($588)
Seat 4: eazy on the ice ($67)
Seat 5: Nilandros ($385)
Seat 6: redmanjew ($300)
Nilandros posts the small blind of $2.50
redmanjew posts the big blind of $5
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to redmanjew [2c Jc]
diz73 folds
maxfbp2k folds
Callz_w_air folds
eazy on the ice folds
Nilandros raises to $10
redmanjew calls $5
*** FLOP *** [8s Ac 2d]
Nilandros bets $5
redmanjew raises to $10
Nilandros calls $5
*** TURN *** [8s Ac 2d] [7c]
Nilandros checks
redmanjew bets $10
Nilandros raises to $20
redmanjew calls $10
*** RIVER *** [8s Ac 2d 7c] [Kc]
Nilandros bets $10
redmanjew raises to $20
Nilandros raises to $30
redmanjew raises to $40
Nilandros calls $10
*** SHOW DOWN ***
redmanjew shows [2c Jc] (a flush, Ace high)
Nilandros mucks
redmanjew wins the pot ($157) with a flush, Ace high
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $160 | Rake $3
Board: [8s Ac 2d 7c Kc]
Seat 1: diz73 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 2: maxfbp2k didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: Callz_w_air didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: eazy on the ice (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: Nilandros (small blind) mucked [As Ad] - three of a kind, Aces
Seat 6: redmanjew (big blind) showed [2c Jc] and won ($157) with a flush, Ace high