I haven't been posting much lately. I have had a rough time online for the last month and a half. Granted, I have not played much since the end of May, but I feel like I have not final tabled an online tournament, other than satellites in forever. I am also more enamored with playing live than online. I need to get back on the poker horse and not be discouraged. I am also antsy because it is taking forever and a day to sell the apartment. I really just want to move on with my life and I can't do that as I am strapped with a mortgage and high maintenance payments.
As for this AC Weekend, I traveled to Borgata on Sun to play the Ladies Only event. I finished 48/180. I am actually shocked I lasted as long as I did. I have never been on the felt more times in one tournament or sucked out more, ever. I pushed all in at least 18x in the course of 4 hours. That is A LOT. Especially for me. I am usually masterful at accumulating chips in chic tourney without putting a lot at risk. Plus, I was check raised twice and I did not know how to deal with that in chickie tourney =)
I played well though, so I cannot be upset. I did everything I could to cash. After the chickie tournament, I went to Trop to meet Jon. There was a juicy 2/5 game, but I had to wait for a seat. While I was waiting, I played 1/2 NL. 1/2 was fun. I picked up two big hands early and chipped up an extra $70. Then, I bluffed two pots and showed the second one, which felt good. I then moved to the 2/5 game.
This 2/5 game was wild. The game was full after I joined. 3 people had between 1500-2000 in front of them, 3 or 4 had over 800 and under 1500, and the rest had around 700. I was the shorties with my 500. I noticed immediately that the game was very aggressive. So aggressive, in fact, that I was having a hard time getting into a pot pre. Then, a few players left for dinner, so we were playinig 7 handed. I picked up A 10 os in second pos. Normally I insta muck, but, I saw this as a good opportunity to take control of the action. Plus, I had been pretty quiet for the last 1/2 hour, so my opponents should give me credit for a big hand. I raise to 25 and get two callers, the button (who is a chauvanistic pig/idiot- he bluffed off about 600 while i was there) and the small blind, who counted out a re-raise preflop and then decided to 'just call'. At this point, I put the small blind on 88 or 99. Any higher pair, he definitely would have re-raised. So the pot is $75 and we take the flop 3-way. Flop comes out Kd 10s 4s. Small blind checks, I check and button checks. I was thinking that perhaps I should continuation bet, but I did not. I wanted to see what the actio would be on the turn. I was also worried about getting check raised because the button is an idiot and I wante to ensure he did not have top pair. Once it checked around, I felt for sure I had the best hand.
The turn was an offsuit 7. The small blind led out for $35. My option is to call or raise. Because the small blind had such a deep stack, I decided to call and see what action was taken on the river, although I do believe in retrospect, this would have been a good spot to raise, representing a huge hand, like a set of KK. The button called also. Now the pot is nearing $200. The river is the Qc. Not a great card, but I think I still have the best hand. The only possible hands that beat me or Q 10 or AJ, which would have been a gut shot when the turn bet was made. Small blind checks, I check, intending to call a bet by the button for a few reasons: 1. he bluffs too much, 2. he is a chauvanistic pig, and 3. there is a 85% chance I have the best hand. I did not bet because he was definitely capable of pushing on a bluff. I also saw him check the river when he hit second pair to the board previously, so I cannot imagine he would bet a q in that spot.
So after I check to him, he bets $130. I thought about for perhaps 10 seconds, separated the 130$ from my stack (about 30% of my money) and decided that I had to call. I called, turned up my hand and he insta mucked and I scooped a nice pot. Of course, chauvanistic pig was like, how do you make that call? That's such a bad call. The rest of the table applauded my play and ability to read the situation and make a good call. It felt so good, and provided me more evidence of my abilities to be a profitable player.
I am going to execute a new plan for online; I need to revamp my plan as it has been an expensive 8 weeks considering that I have not final table d one tournament on UB or Stars. Though, I have been goin quite far in the rebuys.
More later,
Good money and peace,
Lucky C.
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