Meet me at Fox -Woods.

Foxwoods was fun and went well. We got in late wed. night so I didn’t play at all and we just hung out and went to sleep.

Thursday, Matt went and played the 3K tournament and I played about 5 hours of 20-40 limit hold em. Then we went home. Last time (and the only time, I should add) I played this high matt took 50% of my wins and losses. But this time, all the money was mine to win or lose.

I did pretty well… won a little more than 570 in that time… I fluctuated a few times to up about 500, down 150 and did that at least 1 or 2 more times…

I won one big pot where it was raised and called, and I called in the big blind with AJ. Flop: 910Q rainbow. I check, pf raiser bets, 3^rd guy raises, I call with my open ended straight draw. Pf raiser 3 bets, 3^rd guy caps, I call. Pot is already kinda big now (370). Turn is a lovely King. I’ve got the nuts. I bet out, pf raiser looks upset but calls, 3^rd guy raises (!) I rereaise. Pf raiser looks sick. “I flopped the nuts,” he says. I know you have ace jack. Then he calls. I am sitting there, sure the 3^rd guy has a set, just praying the board doesn’t pair. The river is a 10, pairing the board. Now I’m losing to a full house, which I’m sure the 3^rd guy has. I check. Pf raiser checks. 3^rd guy checks!

They both have KJ. They flopped the best possible hand… and I had only the two remaining kings in the deck to win… but hit it I did… and raked a 730 pot. That was a cool hand.

Don’t worry, I got sucked out on a lot… but that was a cool hand.

The play was horrific. I can’t believe how good the table was… There’s no way a normal 20/40 game is that good… guys calling raises with 105 suited, and then calling bets on the flop needing runner-runner clubs to win, with 10 high. That happened a fair amount.

Seriously, I could play this game for the rest of my life and do well.

I’m psyched to go out to vegas next month…matt says there are some fantastic 30-60 games out there… I’m psyched to play them. It will be another jump for me, but I can certainly beat a 20/40 game, and I imagine the 30-60s aren’t much better (though nothing will be as good as today…).

no more hate

Ok, I'm over all my crying. I am no longer going out of my mind, which is nice. I had a good day today, and did alright the past few, after taking about 3 days off.

I'm going with Matros to Foxwoods this week and am bring a bunch of my own money, more then I've ever brought ot a casino before... in fact. more than I've ever held in my hand before (cash anyway). So that's kinda neat, as long as I don't lose it all...

I feel ready to go...

We're also planning on going to vegas next month for a while, he's going to play the world series while I play cash games... hopefully sucessfully. I might also play an event or two... we'll see.

I hate poker

It's been four days of running bad. four days of losing to complete idiots. people who constantly put their money in bad and win anyway. I am going out of my mind.

a few examples:

heads up tourney, 100 buck buy in: I have KK. villian raises. I reraise. he calls. There's maybe 320 in the pot, we both have around 1300 left. flop: 356. I bet, he goes all in. I call. he has ace five. turn: 7. river 4. we split with the straight on the board.

today, i just finished with a guy where I lost, in consecutive all ins: 76s (me) against KQ (him). AQ(me) vs K6 (him), AQ (me) vs. 77(him), k7 (me) againstA5 him.

I just want to win one of those. just one.

yesterday, I had 810 flopped top pair, one guy bet, I raised, some other guy called, original bettor folded. turn 10. I have top two. That guy bets into me. there are three flush cards out there, so I call. river ace. he bets, I call. he has ace ten. if the moron is going to call 2 bets on the flop with nothing, I really need the poker gods to make him pay for that a fair amount of the time... I am literally in day four of this. I've dropped well over a thousand maccaranas with all the idiocy and it's driving me crazy.

I wasn't gonna play at all today, decided to play one $50 heads up match. near the end, the pot has about 360 in it. On the turn I go all in for over 700 . He calls me with a king high flush draw, no straight draw, no hand of any kind. lordie.

anyway, this was supposed to be cathartic, but it hasn't been.


So that's it. i'm offcially taking a break from poker. Maybe a day, maybe more. at least 24 hours. period. I gotta excise this crap, asap.