€100+1R/A last ngiht. How'd everyone do?

NickyOD

Anyone get lucky last night? I drew a really nice table with a load of lunatics. Chipped up to nearly 12K after the add on but after the break took a hit for half my chips with TT against a very well played pair of Kings. I managed to chip all the way up to 17K just as the blinds went to 500/1000 which was good for the table because no one was really dominating.

I saw 5 players in a row raise UTG with Ace-rag, not once was the kicker bigger than an 8 and 3 players got busted doing this by either overplaying their top pair of pushing on a draw. I had Norman 2 to my right and he was just goofing as usual raising and reraising nothing and worst of all calling with nothing and hitting. He must have been tournament chips leader at one point but pissed his stack away and then got doubled up again and again by fools who seemed determined to keep him alive by calling his moves with hands like 89 and 9T.

When it was my turn to take him on he raised UTG and I moved in for all my chips in MP with AQ of clubs. He thinks for about 20 seconds before calling off 75% of his chips with A8 of hearts. He flops the 8 and I'm done. I would have been a huge table chip leader if it had held up. It always amazes me how the players who are the worst at handling bad beats take great pleasure in intentionally making ridiculous calls when they know they must be behind in the hope that they will suckout on someone else.

Next time I'll be sure to bring the KY jelly. Hope it helps. :eek:

Still though I managed to make about €950 over the weekend by winning both the freerolls and having 2 good nights at the cash tables and a nice run in 20 minutes of Blackjack last ngiht. Highlight of the weeked was Sunday night after cashing in. I always hold on to my whites and stick them on a number at the roulette table on my way out. I'd won a nice pot with pocket fours earlier so I said I'd go for #4 and 4 it was. €460 just like that.

Cianos

Sorry to hear about your suckout Nick...

Sounds like you had a good weekend overall though

I ended up heading home a few minutes after you went upstairs...I felt I didnt have the head for any more play and the prospect of waiting for the cash games and sitting with a muzzy head was not very appealing!

smurph

I was reading through your blog and it was nice to put a face to the name. I shared a Satellite with you and another guy on Sunday for €250 each. Had no luck in the omaha game. Won €175 by putting €5 on 36. Wanted to put it on 37 (my age) but woops no 37. Just shows I don't know anything bout Roulette. Had two massive nights at the €50 omaha only table. won bout 3.5 - 4K. Got very very very very lucky in a pot each of the nights and got paid. Anyhow will probably see you in Fitz over weekend. Good blog by the way.

NickyOD

smurph wrote:

I was reading through your blog and it was nice to put a face to the name. I shared a Satellite with you and another guy on Sunday for €250 each. Had no luck in the omaha game. Won €175 by putting €5 on 36. Wanted to put it on 37 (my age) but woops no 37. Just shows I don't know anything bout Roulette. Had two massive nights at the €50 omaha only table. won bout 3.5 - 4K. Got very very very very lucky in a pot each of the nights and got paid. Anyhow will probably see you in Fitz over weekend. Good blog by the way.

Thanks smuph. I don't get the chance to play in the Fitz very often being from Limerick but I absolutely love it there. Will be there again for the weekend of the poker.ie game in 2 weeks though.

DapperGent

Had a grand 'aul collision with a bigger stack to go home at 300-600.

Doc Farrell

NickyOD wrote:

Anyone get lucky last night? I drew a really nice table with a load of lunatics. Chipped up to nearly 12K after the add on but after the break took a hit for half my chips with TT against a very well played pair of Kings. I managed to chip all the way up to 17K just as the blinds went to 500/1000 which was good for the table because no one was really dominating.

I saw 5 players in a row raise UTG with Ace-rag, not once was the kicker bigger than an 8 and 3 players got busted doing this by either overplaying their top pair of pushing on a draw. I had Norman 2 to my right and he was just goofing as usual raising and reraising nothing and worst of all calling with nothing and hitting. He must have been tournament chips leader at one point but pissed his stack away and then got doubled up again and again by fools who seemed determined to keep him alive by calling his moves with hands like 89 and 9T.

When it was my turn to take him on he raised UTG and I moved in for all my chips in MP with AQ of clubs. He thinks for about 20 seconds before calling off 75% of his chips with A8 of hearts. He flops the 8 and I'm done. I would have been a huge table chip leader if it had held up. It always amazes me how the players who are the worst at handling bad beats take great pleasure in intentionally making ridiculous calls when they know they must be behind in the hope that they will suckout on someone else.

Next time I'll be sure to bring the KY jelly. Hope it helps. :eek:

Still though I managed to make about €950 over the weekend by winning both the freerolls and having 2 good nights at the cash tables and a nice run in 20 minutes of Blackjack last ngiht. Highlight of the weeked was Sunday night after cashing in. I always hold on to my whites and stick them on a number at the roulette table on my way out. I'd won a nice pot with pocket fours earlier so I said I'd go for #4 and 4 it was. €460 just like that.

Glad you had a good weekend Nicky. That player you mentioned never folds. It makes his game easy to predict but can be expensive if you're at the receiving end.

kpnuts

Therapeutic rant for me... N.B. please stop reading now if you are allergic to other people's "How can he call?" posts

Played the best poker of my life last night for 3 hours, positively cruising with 22k and blinds at 400-800, when disaster struck...

I raise UTG for 3.1k with AhKh, guy in 2nd pos (Martin, who is married to Colette ... not Colette Doherty, the other one!) flat-calls for the 3.1k, leaving him with 13k behind. After him it's fold, fold, fold, fold, then SB after dwelling up for some time decides to go all-in for 6.5k... Now by the way the SB dwelt up (I know his game well and he is not one for the "Hollywood job") I am almost certain he has AQ and is hoping for a race against me if i have a pair ... in fact, i said to Irene who was to my right that the SB had AQ before the cards were turned over ...

So, needless to say, I rereraise all-in so that Martin will pass medium pair or inferior drawing hand. But Martin calls for ALL his chips, turns over 99 (SB did indeed have the AQ) and with the 3rd 9 arriving on flop, I am in a flash down to, as Andy Black would say, my "case 6k" ... I go on the tear for a bit, take 4 pots in a row and I am almost as quickly back up to 17k. Then, with blinds up to 500-1k, guy 2 to my right makes it 3.5k to go in early pos. I reraise all-in with AsKs and the arrival of a 3rd Q on flop heralds my departure...

Frustrating game :mad:

P.S. I had only shown 2 hands since Martin's arrival at the table ... both times I showed pocket AA ... grrrrrrrrrrrr

Shortstack

kpnuts wrote:

P.S. I had only shown 2 hands since Martin's arrival at the table ... both times I showed pocket AA ... grrrrrrrrrrrr

Exactly, you couldn't possibly have them again! Even if you were 'rigged' and had them again, 9's always make trips - how could you not know that?

bohsman

kpnuts wrote:

I raise UTG for 3.1k with AhKh, guy in 2nd pos (Martin, who is married to Colette ... not Colette Doherty, the other one!)

kpnuts wrote:

As in Smurph, look further up the thread before saying anything too bad about either of them

smurph

kpnuts wrote:

Therapeutic rant for me... N.B. please stop reading now if you are allergic to other people's "How can he call?" posts

Played the best poker of my life last night for 3 hours, positively cruising with 22k and blinds at 400-800, when disaster struck...

I raise UTG for 3.1k with AhKh, guy in 2nd pos (Martin, who is married to Colette ... not Colette Doherty, the other one!) flat-calls for the 3.1k, leaving him with 13k behind. After him it's fold, fold, fold, fold, then SB after dwelling up for some time decides to go all-in for 6.5k... Now by the way the SB dwelt up (I know his game well and he is not one for the "Hollywood job") I am almost certain he has AQ and is hoping for a race against me if i have a pair ... in fact, i said to Irene who was to my right that the SB had AQ before the cards were turned over ...

So, needless to say, I rereraise all-in so that Martin will pass medium pair or inferior drawing hand. But Martin calls for ALL his chips, turns over 99 (SB did indeed have the AQ) and with the 3rd 9 arriving on flop, I am in a flash down to, as Andy Black would say, my "case 6k" ... I go on the tear for a bit, take 4 pots in a row and I am almost as quickly back up to 17k. Then, with blinds up to 500-1k, guy 2 to my right makes it 3.5k to go in early pos. I reraise all-in with AsKs and the arrival of a 3rd Q on flop heralds my departure...

Frustrating game :mad:

P.S. I had only shown 2 hands since Martin's arrival at the table ... both times I showed pocket AA ... grrrrrrrrrrrr

Ah KPNuts..... Ken Powell, I sat beside you at the Irish Open festival, this year and read with great interest about your trip to Vegas. (Nice hair cut by the way). Its okay to vent, thats what this website is about, and I would have stayed with 99 aswell. Were not actually married but that is neither here or there, Doc Farrell asked me the other day if we were brother and sister?? (think were just a bit too close for Sister, Brother)... I was playing the Tournament last Wednesday and got AA which was cracked, the very next hand KK cracked, Two hands later JJ, went all in 4 callers and they held up!!! so its a strange game alright.

Davey Devil

smurph wrote:

Its okay to vent, thats what this website is about, and I would have stayed with 99 aswell.

Ken is 100% right. Calling with 99 here is awful play, he'd every right to be pissed off. Do you think 9's are going to be in good shape against a raise UTG, a raise all in and a re-raise all-in? It's an easy fold with 3k invested.

NickyOD

yep. its a very weak call. Not as bad as calling off 75% of your stack with A8 but its still bad.

Juan Pablo

Martin knew he was making a risky call, he took a moment and then declared he was gambling as he called. Still a dodgy call though. That gave him a big stack and forced me to tighten up a bit (was two to his right). Unlucky KP, I was surprised as any when I saw the nines and out of sheer juctice was rooting for ya.

kpnuts

OK, I'm over it now!
Haircut was long overdue, cheers Martin!
Did u or JP make a nice cash in the end on Monday? I hope my chips got there even if I couldn't...
C ye soon on the tables

smurph

Davey Devil wrote:

Ken is 100% right. Calling with 99 here is awful play, he'd every right to be pissed off. Do you think 9's are going to be in good shape against a raise UTG, a raise all in and a re-raise all-in? It's an easy fold with 3k invested.

I still don't think it is that bad a call. KPNuts already said he reckoned the guy who re-raised had AQ, and both of them have to hit the flop. the 99 was ahead preflop, especially with both players holding A in their hand.

Davey Devil

Sure it turned out he was ahead preflop, but the 9's didn't know that when he was calling. He could easily have been facing an over-pair, possibly 2 over-pairs or 4 over cards, the 9's wouldn't have looked in very good shape in those scenario. The nine's have to respect the significant action that has taken place.

It's a bad call plain and simple, in my opinion only a bad player calls in this spot when they are not pot commited.

ocallagh

Davey Devil wrote:

Sure it turned out he was ahead preflop, but the 9's didn't know that when he was calling. He could easily have been facing an over-pair, possibly 2 over-pairs or 4 over cards, the 9's wouldn't have looked in very good shape in those scenario. The nine's have to respect the significant action that has taken place.

It's a bad call plain and simple, in my opinion only a bad player calls in this spot when they are not pot commited.

agree with all the above. JJ must fold too, QQ has a tough decision. some players would fold KK.

roryc

ocallagh wrote:

some players would fold KK.

not many

ocallagh

depending on the players... i think u'd have to consider it