Fell off the wagon....

Tuesday night we went out to Pure and it was the first time i had a drink in 2 weeks. I wasn't intentionally trying to not drink it just kind of happened. I didn't really want to post anything in here about it because its kind of like when a pitcher is throwing a no hitter you just want to leave it be. Ricky Hatten or whatever his name was there and i cant believe how tiny he was. It says online that he is 5'6' but I'm only 5'10 and he was easily a good foot shorter than me.

The past few days have been pretty good in poker and I've been able to string together some winning sessions. I played some 5/10 at Caesars on Tuesday but was really card dead but was somehow able to still pull in like 400. Paul Wasicka came and sat to my left so i really had to kind of play lock down poker because he was playing every hand. I don't think he was playing too serious but i saw him make some nice calls and was pretty impressed with his game. His picks for this weekend are the packers and the under in the Cleveland game for anyone interested in betting. Yesterday the 25/50 game on stars was looking super soft so i sat down and made about 1200 or so before the game broke. I didn't really get any hands but was able to make the best out of what i had. After the short online session i went to the Wynn to play some 5/10 but the game looked really tough so i decided to play some 2/5. That really annoying guy from poker after dark David Boston i think his name is was playing the 5/10 along with some of the more solid 5/10 regulars so i passed. The 2/5 went pretty well and i ended up pulling in around 600 or so in a little over 3 hours. I was up around 1100 at one point but flopped a straight and a guy rivered a flush against it costing me around 400.

Today i played a little online and some 5/10 at the Wynn. I decided to play some heads up sit n gos while sitting around and ended up making around 700 doing so. I played like 6 100 dollar heads up matches winning like 5 of them and won a 4 person 100 heads up match and also won that. I would still be playing some of them right now while watching TV but for some reason stars keeps disconnecting me and i really had a hard time finishing the last one almost timing out every hand. The 5/10 game was real soft at the Wynn today and i was able to make around 800 in around 4 hours. I shouldve been up more but stupidly i tried bluffing this old calling station donk and bluffed off about 600 to him. Heres the hand-

He limps in early position which hes done a lot with very mediocre hands and 2 others limp in. I'm in the BB with K7 of spades and the flop comes out J73 with the J3 being spades, a great flop for me. I decide to check. Old dude leads out for 70 which is about the size of the pot and i had seen him make this bet many times with 2nd pair/ top pair weak kicker type hands. Other guy calls the 70 and i check raise it to 220 total. Old dude thinks for a bit and i see that he reluctantly calls and the other guy folds. I immediately knew that he had a weak J like j10/jq/j9 type hands and THINK i can get him off it and if not i have a zillion outs. The turn card is the 6 of hearts which obviously is horrible for me but i lead out for 320 and again after some deliberation he calls. The river comes the 2 of hearts,another brick because i cant hit draws even when i have 9840932494 outs. He had about 600 left at this point and after some thought i decided that this calling station was going nowhere so i check and he shows J9 which is exactly what i thought. He told me a few hands later that if i pushed the river he would've called, donk.
The game was super soft though for a while and i didn't really get involved in any huge pots but was able to finish up around 800. Alright well this is getting pretty long so I'm going to wrap this up with a few hands from the 25/50 the other day. Check back tomorrow to see whats going on and I'm out.

These hands arent all that interesting but they are all i got out of the session.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1808679- i really thought about shoving here but pussied out. If i shove he has to put me on at least QQ and i just dont see how he can call here with his mid pair type hand which is what i put him on. This is a flaw of playing the 25/50 for me because if this was 5/10 or even 10/20 i wouldnt think twice about shoving here but instead of going with my read i let the money scare me into folding. who knows maybe he smooth called behind with a big hand but i wouldve liked to have shoved here.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1808695 here im actually mad because i feel like i lost out on 200 more. As crazy as this sounds i actually wanted to reminraise the river here for 200 more but once again backed out. I was 100% sure he had an A high type hand and i feel i couldve got 200 more out of him but what can you do.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1808713- here we are shorthanded with Aj on the button and would usually reraise here but i had been 3 betting him preflop a few times and feel like he wouldve made a stand here with or without a hand. We get a favorable flop here but ive played with him enough to know he doesnt need a hand to bet so i think we are way ahead in this spot.
I elect to make a smallish raise on the turn because i think it looks super strong and i also think he has close to nothing. If he shoves back at me here i probably puke on my computer screen but make the call.

-Nechita-

Random stuff from the past few days.

So i arrive back to Vegas and go into my room to unpack, and this is what is sitting on my bed, a huge poster of brian urlacher. I guess while i was gone our neighbor knocked on our door and said he was throwing this away and wanted to know if we wanted it. I think this is kind of weird because I've never talked to them and honestly i think I've only seen them once but that's another story. The real dilemma is now figuring out what to do with this thing. Normally i would just hang it up on the wall but unfortunately its a picture of douche urlacher who i don't really care for. I really don't want to throw it away either because its framed and is kind of nice. Anyways enough ranting on about this poster and i guess once i figure out what I'm going to do with it i will put a picture up of it, probably a pic of it in the trash but we'll see.

Since going to Turning stone last week my sleep schedule has been really out of wack and its weird being on the schedule I'm on. I really liked everything about the tournaments at turningstone but instead of a noon start time like everywhere else all of these tourneys started at 10a.m., gross. Since getting back to Vegas i have been waking up at like 9 a.m. every morning and by the time 10-11 p.m. rolls around I'm dead tired haha. The one positive thing about waking up so early is that i never really realized how much you could accomplish in a day if you wake up before 2 or 3. But other than that i just don't think this schedule is for me. I'm a night person so I've been forcing myself to stay up later and trying to sleep in so i can get back to "normal."

Since returning i haven't really had the best results playing poker. It feels like someone just flipped the bad beat switch and now i keep running into set up hands. I'm up a little bit playing live which is really a mystery to me because I've ran into some pretty sick set ups which included me folding KK preflop the other day. Folding the kk preflop isn't a big deal but it kind of summarizes how the cards have been running and luckily ive been playing well and have been able to get away from big hands when I'm beat. Every time I've picked up or made any kind of hand though its been resulting in me running set vs. set/ flush over flush every time and those are just tough to get away from. Even though I'm up only a few hundred bucks (playing live) since returning I'm very happy with my play because i feel like i could easily be down like 2 or 3k. Online has been pretty much the same. I had a couple nice days when i first got back but the past 3 days have been non stop set ups with people trying to give me their money but stars not letting them. Ive only been playing 2/4 but its just frustrating when you keep getting people to put their money in as a huge dog and they keep sucking out. Ive still got about 7000 VIP points to get before the 31st but i don't think its going to be a problem.

Anyways i just wanted to give a quick update on whats been going on the past few days. I think I'm going to play some 5/10 at Caesar's today so i will give an update later on of how that went and I'm out.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1798167- this is a summary of the past few days online.


-Nechita-