Thursday, 26 March 2009

Typical me, typical me, typical me....

...I started something, and now I'm not too sure.

As soon as I blog about being up $300 on FT I have my worst losing session there since returning. Playing such low stakes I hadn't been losing or winning that much per session but a couple of days ago I dropped around $250 in one hit.

In a HU hand of PLO I paid off the nut flush with the second nut flush when we both flopped it - not sure how bad that was, although he did basically fire 3 barrels and I don't know how many low-limit donks would do that without the nuts??? - and on my other tables seemed to have one of those days when I missed absolutely everything; either whiffed the flop completely or flopped a huge draw then missed the turn and river.

Only pleasing thing was managing not to tilt for once ;) and I returned tonight to win a big chunk of it back.

After busting out of an MTT early in a 4-way all-in pot for the monster chip lead - my 66 v QQ v Ac4c and 8c9c on 9c6c4h flop (club on river obv) - I switched from PLO to PLO8 and caught a beauty.

I have Ax99 in a raised 3-way pot. Flop is 983. It goes check, bet and I think of raising here but call to rope along the dope in the SB with a low looking likely.

Turn is a beautiful 3 and it's again check, bet and this time I shove. SB calls with A234 and donk who has been pushing the action calls with some crap like A4xx, drawing dead.

I'm shouting at the computer for a Q but happily take a K instead and scoop a $240 pot. Let's hope there is more to come.

Sunday, 22 March 2009

Finally....

An update, FWIW.

Had a great time as ever in Vegas over New Year, but that was obviously so long ago it's not worth recounting now.

On the poker front I finally cleared enough points and maintained GOLD status for long enough on Stars to order my PS3, which to their credit was promptly shipped and arrived less than 2 weeks later IIRC. Then switched my remaining money (thanks to Lilkimmer77) to Full Tilt for rakeback purposes and so far up around $300 grinding it out playing the $40 CAP PLO games.

Should be up another $10 but wasted that on two buy-ins to the Brit Blogger Game on Sunday evenings ;)

1st week I built a good stack and then lost with KK v A10o all-in pre, tonight I never got anything going at all after arriving late and it was my turn to lose with A10 (Ace fucking 10!!!! Dave) when NYRambler shoved K8 from the SB into my BB - Can't blame him for doing so as I was short, 8 on the flop of course.

In other news, bought a new (used) car on Saturday, trading in my short-lived SAAB 9-3 for an Audi A3.

Might post some pics when I get some new alloys :)