Live Poker is Rigged.....

Just got back from the Bellagio and obviously anything that could go wrong did. Well maybe im over exaggerating a tiny bit but this post is kind of just a way to blow off a little steam. The 5/10 game was playing as weak as usual and i drew a super weak/passive table but unfortunately a few river cards ended up making me a loser on the day. The game was pretty soft and actually fairly tight so im not really sure how i managed to have such a swingy session. I played for maybe 4 hours and went from up around 400, down 500, up around 500, to final ending the session stuck around 1300. Looking back there were only a few big pots so i guess i mustve been splashing around a bit more than i remember. Onto the 2 interesting hands from the sesh.

Hand 1- Everyone folds to me in late position so i raise it up to 35 with AJ, the button calls, the small blind calls, and the BB folds. The FLOP - J78 rainbow

SB checks, i elect to check for some pot control and the button also checks.
Turn is another jack making the board JJ78 with 2 spades

The SB leads out for a whopping 120 into the 100 dollar pot giving me the option of raising or getting super sneaky and just calling...... I flat call because i feel im so far ahead of him any raise is going to kill any action. and i called with the intention of raising any non scary river card. Now i know ur thinking JJ78 wtf are you just calling for on such a draw heavy board? Well as i just said i felt i was so far ahead there arent many cards other than a 9 or 10 that are going to be bad for me so i was raising any river other than a 9 or 10.

The River- is a non spade 10 making the board- J J 7 8 10

He thinks for like 10 seconds and checks? I really feel like not betting here is losing value from a lower J or a 78/pocket pair type hand so as thin as it might be i decide to bet out 220...... to my dismay he takes about 10 seconds before barely raising me back to 500 total, sick. I know hes really never raising anything less than a straight in this spot but i just felt the way the action went down my hand is so under represented that i have to pay it off. So i call only to see him show me his 89 off for the rivered straight and listen to him tell me how he was sure his 8 was good on the turn and his plan of calling any river bet even if he had missed the straight......... so at least my original plan wouldve worked but unfortunately i let him hit the straight and cost myself 500 on the river bet. blah

Hand - 2 Under the gun player makes it 40, guy in mid position calls, im on the button with AK off and decide to just call rather than raise and the BB also calls. 4 way action to the flop....

FLOP- A 7 8 2 diamonds ( the A and the 8 were diamonds)

Original raiser leads out for 100 into the 160 pot, mid guy folds to me, I decide to make a smallish looking raise like i might have a huge hand to 260 total and the BB folds. The original raiser thinks for maybe 5 seconds tops before shoving all in for 720 more after my 260. I had seen him overplay a few hands previously and was actually pretty confident in my hand so i CALL.

TURN- 3
(neither are diamonds)
River- 9

He says "the nuts" and rolls over the J10 of diamonds for the rivered out straight, ugh.

Im in no way faulting his play because i wouldve probalby played it the same but it just sucks getting it in for a big pot and losing yet again to some turn or river bullshit. Lee jones can you please flip off my doomswitch??????

There hasnt been much else since last post to talk about so i guess ill just keep this strictly a poker post. Ive decided to play some PLO over the past few days (mostly 3/6 and 5/10 , 6 handed) and have had some pretty nice results in very limited play. Its funny because i actually play this almost retarded style and its been working quite well. I pretty much barely minraise almost every hand preflop then preceed to make smallish bets on the flop with air or huge hands. As stupid as this sounds it seems to actually anger people( actually had people in the chat boxes talking shit to me) and they start just trying to call me down with nothing or i get them to just stack off with weak holdings. Well im starting to get tired so ill leave you with some hands from the past few days and im out.

I had a lot of hands to show but some reason pokertracker is all fucked up so i guess you will only get a few of the ones that work.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2617163
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2617166
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2617169
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2617174
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2617177
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2617180
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2617182
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2617186

A lot of these hands actually suck and i wish i could show you a bunch of the other ones where im not just a luckbox but i dont know what the problem with the trackers are. Hopefully i get that figured out and can put some more interesting hands up this weekend, til then....

-Nechita-