Wednesday, March 26, 2008

A few more hands from last night

I am not playing tonight due to some drama....I have been trying to be disciplined about playing when I am not able to 100% focus on poker and unfortunately tonight is one of those nights.
So, I am going to cover some of the more interesting hands that I played last night.
The first was obviously the bluff that made me feel like a pro for about 5 minutes. I then moved to a $2/$5 table. I recognized Jim, he used to the poker room manager at The Luxor...he now plays at The Venetian because he is fucking one of the dealers(who used to work at The Luxor). I normally would be happy for them.....I love her and he is ok...but he is married, to someone else, so....yeah.
Anyway, I am there for about a round and really haven't played a hand...most of the pots are raised to $25-$30 preflop and I like to get a feel for the table before I start throwing chips into the pot. There is a real fish at the table...this middle aged asian guy. He never knows what the action is...I can never understand how people can play at at table and never know what is going on. I can tell you what is going on in every hand, even when I don't have cards. So, this guy is bad...calling any raise preflop with any two cards. He calls Jim all the way down to the river, in a raised pot, with pocket 4s! There were only 5 overcards to his hand! But as usual, these types of guys give to everyone else and take from me.
I like to call asian fish, sushi(please do not get offended, I like asian men, just not at the poker table) So, Sushi, raises to $25 in MP, I reraise in the SB with pocket Ks to $60. He calls. Of course, the flop is A/Q/6. I check...he bets $20! $20 into a $125 pot! I have no idea what this means...so I call. I'm getting like 6/1 on my money. The turn he is nicer and bets like $300. How he goes from $20-$300, I will never know. I fold. He of course, shows that he is not bluffing and shows the A/Q. How is it whenever someone has 3 outs against me, they always hit???
That was pretty much the story of my night with big pocket prs....everytime that I had Ks or Qs, an A would hit.
Except for the one time that I had Js. Now, this table was doing some crazy ass shit with Js. I saw, no less than 4 times, people open raising $200 with Js....saying something stupid, like....."thats the only way to play Jacks" WTF...so I say, "well, if you dont wanna play them, give them to me and I will". Wouldn't you know, a few hands later, I get Js! I raise to $30, the loosest guy at the table calls(sushi had left by this point) This guy had just won a $1500 pot with 74o after raising and then calling 2 reraises....flops 2 pr and then turns a boat cracking As and Qs!
So, he calls...flop is 9/8/2. I bet $50...he calls. Turn is A...I confidently slide a $100 stack in all the while shaking inside, I mean who knows what this lagtard is playing? ...he calls....river is an 8....I slide $200 in...he folds! I then flip up the Js and say..."now boys, thats how you play Js!"

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Keep the blog up so I can have something else to do during the day!