I can't fukking believe it. I'm 28 years old today. 28? 28!....



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Last 2 weeks of poker have been been brutal. Just getting it in super good and getting crushed. Nothing to do but complain a little. Played in a mixed PLO/NLHE game on Tuesday that pretty much characterized my last 7 sessions. Don't really feel like posting all the losing hands. Just wanna forget about it and look ahead.

So Poker...



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Goodfella and Julie woke me up this morning and brought me a birthday cupcake and coffee. How sweet is that. It was all her idea for sure...




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Just got back from my walk about downtown. I like to do something to help people on my bday. We should all be doing that regularly but it takes a lot of dicipline and commitment and I praise people who follow through with their good will on a regular basis. To make sure I do something at least a few times a year, I try and volunteer on my bdays, christmas, and thanksgiving. I haven't kept up with that regularly so I wanted to make sure I did something today. So, I went to the grocery store and stuffed my backpack (bought, not stole) with bananas, sandwiches, and water. Then I walked around downtown and gave it out to people in need. I had a good time chatting it up with a bunch of people. People have such interesting stories, ideas, and experiences. I learned a lot from so many people today. Allthough it wasn't much, I hope I helped someone have a better day today as so many people in my life have already done for me today.

Downtown TO (It's not fukking right.)...



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Tonight, I'm taking this little cutie out. Ship...



My boy Chub made a reservation for me at a nice Italian place for tonight and her and I will stop by his club later tonight cause he baked a birthday cake for me! One man baking another man a cake.. now thats some mutherfukkin love right there. Dude is solid man...

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Saturday night...going out to Rockwood. If you're in TO and you happen to be there, come holler at me. I'll be the extra drunk dude killin the dance floor rockin something xtra fresh...







So all in all.. everything besides poker is good. Let's just hope I'm still alive on Sunday. As I told Skinny, I plan on being blackout drunk! Also, today is the start of SkinnyBrown's poker career. Wish him luck yall!

Cincy, get at me.

Hope you're all doing well. Run good.

Peace. 2.

Live Poker Recap:

Went 2-2 last week.

Tuesday: $300 Tournament / 5-5 NLHE

Tourney:

Busted out in 21st place when I ran AKs into KK :/ Had 24bb's in the SB. UTG + 2 3x'd to 3000 and I 3bet making it 12000. I was looking to jam any flop. Unfortunately, he 4 bet jammed and I stacked off and was drawing pretty slim. Next...

I backed a fellow CR member into the tourney. He was pretty card dead from the start but managed to hang on for quite a while. Eskal also played in the tourney but busted out of the money as well. The only other player I would consider a good player actually ended up winning the tourney. I play live cash with him a lot and actually ended up in a 400bb HU pot with him later in the week.

5-5 NLHE:

I didn't sit down in the Cash game until pretty late. The waiting list was pretty long by the time I busted in the tourney so I ended up sitting around and talking with some guys I know. I sat down around midnight and in about 2 hours or so my stack was at 400bb's. The game was great. All but 1 out of the other 8 players were HUGE fish. Even he was pretty soft. It was pretty much a dream table. Here's how dreams get crushed though..



Check out the SB cold call... lol.

About an hour later I was up a BI and decided to take the win and get up.

Wednesday 5-5 NLHE:

Didn't play well...Didn't run good... -4 BI's.

Thursday 5-5 NLHE:

Self sabotaged my way to a 1/2 BI loss. F Me.. Hard.

Friday 2-5 NLHE:

I woke up and spent several hours going over hands and looking for mistakes. Really started breaking down specific hands against specific apponents (I jot down hands on my iphone at the table). Went into my Friday session determined to play well no matter what the results were. Ran 4 OP's into sets in standard hands in the first 2 hours and was stuck 3+ BI's. I wasn't too shaken up though as I felt like I was still playing well and when the table tightened up I started Iso'ing some weak players PF with 3 bets and taking some pots and rebuilding my stack. Then the only solid opponenet at the table decides to go to war....



We haven't played that many key HU hands together in the last month or so mainly because we are usually in battle against other opponents This guy thinks he's a lot better than he is and although I've been avoiding him at the table.. I feel like I haven't played the hands I have played against him very well. Anyway...made up my mind that I'm gonna start crushing his world from now on, fukk em. He had 3 bet me pretty light early on in the night and I felt like he thought I was annoyed buy it and was planning some big play against him. Atleast that's what I picked up from small talk and general bs throughout the night. So, when I raise his UTG raise on the BTN, he decides to get Scitso. I make the turn bet small enough so that he has over the pot in chips left in his stack, knowing he's calling no matter what he has to shove the river. Send the money...

Table started breaking and it was soon 5 handed. Until about noon, I basically bitch slapped my opponents and made the final 2 basically quit on me saying that they couldn't play against a guy who's always making the nuts. I made the nuts twice in 15 fukking hours! Also, the 3'rd one, after I stacked the shit out of him for the 2nd time... accused me of knowing the dealer and cheating. LOL. Awesome. I cashed out an almost 8 BI stack. See you Friday fukkers...

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I'm gonna update this post throughout the week with other life stuff thats going on but its about 6:30 Tuesday evening and I gotta hit the shower and head out to my Tuesday game.

As for the title of this post...

My buddy Chubs loaded up my iPod with his sick iTunes library and I have been smashign T.I.'s "My Life Your Entertainment" on replay all week. For any of you guys that play live, this song will make you feel like you are peacefully untouchable (Whatever that means). If you've never heard it, check it out....




My Life Your Entertainment. 2.

Last week's Live Poker Recap....

Booked another winning week. Went 3/4 in my sessions for 6.5 BI's. Friday's session was really frustrating as I kept getting coolered. I'd get it all back only to get coolered again. I was either even or down a BI throughout the session. Finally, after running KK into AA, I decided to get up and take a loss. I was pretty exhausted from a marathon session week...

Tuesday 5/5 NL

The week actually started off mild. On Tuesday, Eskal decided to come to my reg game at my buddy's club. I actually went a little late because I didn't want to play on the main table with Eskal and was hoping to jump on to the second table. I have a piece of the Tuesday game so I tend to be a bit more strategic and business minded when it comes to my playing in the game. Obv, the longer the game runs, the more money in my pocket. I like to call it live rakeback. Anyway, I jumped on the second table when it got 8 handed. There were some big stacks at the table as this table seemed pretty nutty. I bought in for 200 BB's and was rewarded for it immediately when I got in AA vs KK right away and had 400+ BB's in front of me in the first rotation. All of a sudden players started busting each other and before you knew it, the second table broke. So, I ended up grabbing some food at the bar around the corner and talking with some acquaintances. I did jump back into the main game later on and ended up giving away close to a BI in this hand...

I probably have the most hand history against this particular player. The hand was straddled to 10 and because it was a very active game, I decided flat in EP hoping to disguise my hand. My best case scenario is that a usual iso raise comes from the back and I get to play HU with one of the fish at the table with a very disguised hand. Worse case scenario happens however when I get in a multi-way pot with the BB and the straddler. Flop also comes connected and draw heavy. When seat 2 bets out pot here, I give him credit for a pair (with or without SD), slight over pair, or a flush draw. I decide to flat the flop as I feel I'm far ahead of his range and would be folding out a ton of worse hands with a raise. When the 7 comes on the turn, he immediately bets out close to pot again. The way and how quickly he bet the turn made me think that he was extremely weak and so I flat again for the same reasons. Looking back however, I think I should have raised as the board is getting unfriendly fast and I don't want him to run into some funny straight with a pair or a flush draw. The K comes on the River and he thinks for a few moments and bets again and at that point, although there is a slight possibility that he had me crushed on the flop, I felt most likely that he either turned his hand into a bluff or ran into a pair with a K high flush draw. 2 pair instead... Ugh...

Recovered some of that loss back and ended Tuesday up 1.5 BI's.

Wednesday 5/5 NLHE & 5/5 PLO

Weekly Live Poker Update:

So I had like 9 hands all ready to go loaded up on pokerhandreplays.com. Had a sick week with a Live Tourney Win to add to a 4 winning session week at 5/5 NL. Of course I get to my computer and they are all gone. Not in the mood to do that all over again so I'll just say, I recovered well from last week and made quite a bit of profit as well. Now on to much better things... Like my crazy Saturday Night in Guelph!

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Went to Guelph on Saturday for a BBQ at Goodfella's boy's crib. That night we all went out. Me, Goodfella, Ms. Goodfella, and MALT's (Mothers Against Luke T******) girlfriend ended up downtown first. If you're wondering about MALT. You can imagine how awesome he is with a name like that. Anyway, we walk into this bar/club. The Bar downstairs was completely empty. We find out that its $2 Drink Night. Game Over!

We ordered like 5 rounds of 50 Drinks to start. There was only like 9 of us! We took over the dance floor where I managed to slide all over the wet dance floor in flip flops and also took some heavy spills. My tailbone! Whatever. That was hour one. Me and Contini smashed a few shots of Tequila in between. I was completely happy with staying downstairs and didn't really wanna go upstairs to the club. Nine people who are 250+ drinks deep should not be in a crowded club. Ever! Everyone else thought it was a great idea so of course I followed.

We walk up to the bar upstairs. Goodfella looks at me and says 2 thousand. I look at the bartender. Ma'am, can I get 2000 drinks please? She ignores me. How bout a 1000 Ma'am? She ignores me. 600? Ignore. 500? Nothing. 300? Nothing. Now I'm gettin fukkin really annoyed at this point that the stupid $*%$& is ignoring me. I'm not fooling around here. I'm wasted and completely willing to pay for 2000 drinks. We're having an epic night here! Ok.. 60 Drinks Ma'am? Nothing. Then the profanity spews... "F this B, Get me my muthaF'in Drinks you F'in MF B S F ....

Everyone tries to calm me down , it works as I immediately forget about it and head to the other bar to get more drinks with someone.. can't remember who. For some reason, I get roped into getting inside one of those dancing cages. I've seen several videos that were taken from multiple angles and there seems to be several people from the crew that night that were egging me on. Mrs.Goodfella being one of them! There's already some chick in there. I politely ask if she can get the fukk out so me and one of the girls can get in. She's not going anywhere! So fukk it, I get in... thinking that after I intimmidate her with my moves, she'd crawl out. She loves it. Her meat head boyfriend watches from below as she's loving it.

I look down and see one of Goodfella's boys getting into it with the boyfriend and two other trashy looking sluts. This is the part when I make my exit in the video...




Quickly forget that I'm too old for this shit. Forget that I'm a licenced teacher. Forget that I'm a nice guy now. I calmly get outta the cage. Walk up to the 2 sluts who are yelling and pointing at me. At first I'm nice and say "I apologize if you think I've done anything wrong". They still yell so my next line is... "What the fukk is the problem?" One of em claws my neck, makes contact with my ear (small cut). I immediately look for a male in their camp to take out my frustration on. Neck for a neck I thought. The retard boyfriend quickly assumes the role. He comes at me and goes for my neck (again my fukkin neck!), I money mayweather out of the way and throw a right hook at his throat (Fukk the neck shit, I want a throat!). I only graze it though ($2 Drinks). Next thing I know.. Security! Took about 3 full minutes for my friends and security to get me outta there. I was so dissapointed that we were being thrown out. Its not my fault that meat head's fat girlfriend loved it!
$2 Drinks! I mean.. what the fukk do they expect?

Haven't been thrown out of a bar in years! What a night!

To think.. This will be 100x better with like 50 added people come August of 2011 when we head to Mexico for Goodfella's wedding. What's better than $2 Drinks? All Inclusive.. Free Drinks!

Back to the Live grind today. No tourney this week so I'll be playing 4 sessions of 5/5 up until Friday. This Saturday we have a big night planned as well with some of my poker friends. Hopefully I'll be hitting that up with some nice wins under the belt for the week.

Hope you guys hand a great weekend. I did.

Peace. 2.

WTF, What did I do wrong?

Gonna find out, will let you know.

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Update:
So I guess my instadebit account got hacked into and all kinds of activities were attempted. Anyway, Instadebit is clearing that up (up to 10 fukking days!). Just when Swag and I were about to attack in July. Fukkin mutherfukk.

Won the Live Tuesday Tourney Last night! ($300, 6 Table, 7K for 1st guarantee)

Feels good to bring home a win. Hopefully I can break out of the slump and get back to crushing it. Nice start to the Live week.

Played fairly tight early on, opened up in mid stages, built a stack and went to final table as chip leader. Never really gave it up. Only got it in 3 times at FT, knocking players out each time. LP stealing in good spots kept stack healthy throughout. Made good folds (88,99,JJ) to 3 bets / shoves. Ended up being right each time. Had AA twice at FT, no action. I'll post some key hands in my weekly update this weekend. Back to grinding tonight.

Hope you're all running well.

Peace. 2.

Before I get to the poker destruction that was this last week, I'll let you know about the chaos in Toronto. Last week Earthquake, this week Riots! The G8 and G20 Summit was here this weekend and with it cam a ton of protesting, as expected. She explains more thoroughly..


A few of the protesters got violent and before you knew it....



Although I live right in the middle of all of this, I wasn't really affected as I slept through most of it. I get home anywhere from 4am to 6am from my live sessions and was sound asleep while chaos was unfolding in the streets!

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On to the poker chaos. Although the city is on fire..I'm fukkin cold as ice..

Finally got the sweat session in w/ Cincy_Swag today. We both just fired up 6 table sessions while the other observed and talked throughout the sng's and after as well. Seemed like we were on the same page when it came to specific spots or hands at certain stages. Anyway, it was fun and I think more of doing the same will be benefitical to us both. My run bad continued as I couldn't fade an 8 to save my life. After gettin crushed by 8x hands I actually ran AA into 88.. u know the rest.

This was a horrific week of poker for me. Everything that could go wrong did. Tuesday through Thursday I got my ass handed to me by some of the biggest fish in the city. I got it in with sets, flushes, nut straights, and over pairs only to have opponents catch up and crush me. I had 4 losing sessions in a row. After Thursday's session, I felt really bad about everything. I lost my confidence and started thinking like a loser. Should NOT have played Friday, but I did. I didn't play well at all, getting it in bad several times. Here are some hands....

Hand was straddled to 10...


















Yea.. tired of posting losing hands so I'm gonna stop. Anyway, this type of shit happened all week.

This was the only good thing from the week (6.50T SNG).


Really looking forward to a quiet and profitable week. This city and I need it...

Peace. 2.

I went to bed at 9am Eastern time this morning from last night's session. My roomie and I were planning on staying awake as his England squad and the US were playing at the same time in the WC. I ended up dozing off. I had a ton of trouble sleeping. Had so much shit on my mind. Obv I got smashed last night for way too many BI's. Got it in 6 times and was way ahead in 5 of them. I lost all 6. The last 4 hours of the session comprised of me being completely card dead in a wild loose game. My vpip/pfr was probably like 3/3 during that stretch. Sigh..

Anyway, so I'm wresting around in bed telling myself to just go to fukkin sleep. Next thing I know..MY ROOM STARTS SHAKING! I can't remember how long it lasted. I just heard shit moving around and some stuff falling. I guess I fell asleep right after that. I wake up an hour ago, check the scores to see that both teams advance. Hopefully we don't draw Germany in the quarters! I log into Gmail, Facebook, and CR. I see all kinds of postings and comments about a fukkin Earthquake! I guess I wasn't dreaming after all!

There's also some kind of Tornado warning in the city right now. It's a real eerie scene in TO right now..

Gotta eat, take a shower and head out to my Wednesday game soon, I really need some run good for fukk sakes!

Peace. 2.

Its 4:28am and I just finished up about 60 SNG's (started late with a long break in between). Won about 22 BI's over the session. Felt good to win. I took about 2 weeks off from SNG's, ever since I started my live cash game schedule. Before that, I was on a pretty nasty downswing, running way under EV. The goal is to maintain a 15% ROI over a large enough sample. I did that over 900 or so SNG's until I took that nasty beat down over 2 weeks. Hope I'm on my way back up. I've heard "Jackal" talk about maintaining a ROI of 15 w/ 40BI's. But like he says, at the smaller limits, a good player should def be able to maintain a higher ROI. There are so many fish at these levels and a 20% ROI should not be out of the question what so ever. The limits I play at as far as SNG's go don't contribute to my income. All I want to do is put in enough volume so that I'm prepared to move up and up. I was chatting with Cincy_Swag this evening and he's trying to do the exact same thing. It was funny actually. I fire up 6 sng's this afternoon when I started and noticed that he was at 5 of them. We never really battled in any of them. I 3 bet him once, with AKs...only to have him shove. I also ended up calling a BVB shove pretty light with K high because I know he's a good player and is BVB smashing in the right situation. We have sweat session scheduled for the weekend and I'm sure we'll both gain a lot from it. Its always good to collaborate/share with others who have the same mindset and goals. This is something I'm gonna work on doing. I really think it's so beneficial for all parties involved. When I was teaching, collaborating with other teachers was one of the most fun and rewarding things I took away my experience. No reason why poker should be different.

Other than that, I just want to say that I'm very happy about my new schedule. Playing live Tuesday to Friday and having Saturday through Monday off is awesome. At first I thought I'd spend Saturdays at the casino but I'm starting to think that I want my Saturdays to be completely poker free. Maybe I'll just go to the casino 1 Saturday a month or so. Sundays will be spent recovering from Saturday night's (if required) and playing 10-15 MTT's. This Sunday was def spent recovering. I only played the 42K guarantee on FT where I made it to just before the money. I ran KK into QQ, only to have a Q knock me out. Today, I went grocery shopping and also stopped by the bank. Mondays are going to be my erands and life stuff day. Started going to the gym. I'm in the worst shape of my entire life right now. I have 1 year to look like a Greek god! Goodfella's destination wedding is next summer and I don't want to wear a shirt the entire two weeks we're at the resort. I have a loooong way to go. I also need to get my sleeve finished and chest work started before that too (tattoos). I currently have 6 but have already drawn up 4 more that will completely cover my left arm and will also reach over my shoulder and on to my left tit. Btw, if anyone is wondering about the weight loss prop bet I had with his uncle Gino... I lost 9lbs. As far as total body percentage, we were actually pretty close but he did win. I owe him an uncapped dinner/drinks night.

Tomorrow is Tuesday and I'll be playing for the next 4 days. I've analyzed a lot of hands from last week and I'm confident that I'm aware of any mistakes that I'm making and have a solid plan for the week. I spent a lot of time this weekend just preparing/studying/analyzing. I asked a friend, who's often present at my live sessions what my table image is as far as the other players are concerned. He said I was "Deliberate Aggressive". I asked him wtf that meant and he said some where between LAG and TAG. I'm constantly changing gears and hopefully that's where he gets the idea from. I don't know why but I like that term. I don't want to fit into any mold. I want to be hard to read and want to keep my opponents guessing throughout all of my sessions. I'm very excited about poker. I've already decided that Poker is first and foremost for me right now. Everything else comes second. I'm gonna follow through with my plans for law school in the near future and before that happens, I want to dedicate my entire life to poker while I can. I'm just ready to kill it for the rest of the year! I plan to ship the living shit out of it this week. Wish me luck.

Hope everyone had a good weekend and hope you guys all run good this week.

Peace. 2.

So since HEM can't track my live play and since HH Tools have not yet been invented for live, I thought I'd recreate them. I try and get in an hour or two every morning that is constructively related to poker. With all this live playing and the lack of stats, its going to be crucial that I keep solid notes and spend time reviewing. So, recreating key hands after sessions will only help IMO. They are as accurate as I remember. Please leave some feedback, advice, opinions about hands . Honestly, they'd be greatly appreciated.

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$300 Freezout (Tuesday)

My table is WILD! We've had 4 KO's already. 12K starting stacks with 25/50 Blinds. We're at the 3rd Blind Level when I get into this spot. I had watched Mr Spew splash around since the first hand where he limp called with 9h5h UTG and managed to lose about 3K in chips on a board of AK5,10,K. LP raiser had AQ. Since then he had done the same kind of stuff and at the start of this hand, he was down to 4K in chips.



I end up 4.25Xing (more than my standard open) because table is wild. There is a ton of PFR flatting going on and I'd obv like to narrow it down. I'm crushing both my opponents' ranges here. Obv at this table in this spot, I wanna get as many chips in the pot as possible PF. Didn't work out so well....but whatever.

Somehow, I managed to make the final 2 tables while never getting my stack over 20bb's. Eventually, I lost a flip with 77 vs A8 when I shoved just over 11bb's BVB. Next...

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5/5 NLHE (Tuesday)

Hand 1: Brick Brick..


Maniac's PFR % is extremely high. There is very little light 3 betting in these games. My goal here is to get it HU with him as I am confident that I can outplay him in POS. The Reg Fish's range here, once he limp calls, is 55 - TT, KQ - AK. A desperate Min donk bet by him wouldn't be that unlikely here as I've seen him do even stranger things in the past 2 sessions. As for Maniac, there's a reason why I classify him as that.... as you can see. Wait till you see what he does to me later. Pokerstove confirmed that I had a ton of equity against what I thought my opponents' ranges were. I think I missed 17 outs twice here. :/

Hand 2: Confirming a Read

This hand is important because it confirmed some reads I was making while observing this player in previous hands. I could easily see that he was very laggy but I had a hard time figuring out his game plan. For a few orbits, before this hand came up, I started to see that he was CR ing a lot. I was extremely lucky enough to see him at showdown with other players in several of those hands and I noticed that he was making small C/R's w TP. He made big C/R's with sets twice and tried to get it in when he did it with big draws. He had just got it in with 2 overs and a second NFD and won. I was pretty sure that he was comfortable with his game plan and I didn't see him getting away from his approach. When this hand comes up and he CR's me small, I reraise. Obviously a good flop for me as it is but I wanted to bet size so that he was uncomfortable continuing with TP. My range for him is 8T-AT at this point and I am +EV here against that. He's def loose enough to have 7T in there as well but I think he treats that like a set there and from my obvservations, I really believe that he makes a much bigger CR with 2P or Set in this spot. I also didn't want my hand to be completely transparent and obv that I was getting it in with a big draw. When I make it 550 here, at the time, I really felt like I made it seem that I was protecting with a pretty big hand. And if all else fails and I'm completely wrong and he shoves, I have equity against any hand in his range. When he asks me if I have an overpair before folding, I'm pretty happy with my read and my line as well. The pot is not big but the confirmations were well worth it because this is a player I'm going to be playing against on a nightly basis.

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5/5 NLHE (Wednesday)

Hand 1: Sigh..

Maniac wants to get me to fold. He never makes this play with a monster as he's never going to miss the chance to get value out of me. We have a lot of HH this week. We have a ton of mutual friends/business partners so it all contributes to a very interesting dynamic. I also know he's not doing this with 22-TT because in case I call with a big pair, he doesn't want to be looking for 2 outs. Instead, he thinks he can fold out a ton of hands that are beating him and If I do shove, he'd much rather gamble with any 2 here. With all that said, when he raises to 400, I insta shove knowing he's not folding. All though I get smashed here, this hand is going to play a major role in upcoming hands between the two of us. He's a good guy and runs a 5/10 game that is apparently sick so I might have to go check it out soon.

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Thursday - OFF
Game 7 NBA Finals - Just fukkin ship it!



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2/5 NLHE (Friday)
Session of the week... For many reasons.

Last night's session was by far the best of the week. It wasn't a big win but it was very interesting. I feel like I learned quite a few things including some things about myself. Also, there was a key hand with fellow CR member "Bachelder" who is a reg poster on the forums. Also, I put this grumpy early 30's Russian female lawyer on SUPER TILT!!! She snapped at me like 4 times in 3 hours. I had to keep telling myself I'm not 20 anymore and that it would be retarded to make her leave the table...to stop from getting up and verbally abusing her until she started crying. In the hand replayers I refer to her as SLUT. Thats the nicest way I know how to refer to her. She was a fukking.... &!#$(@!$^&$. Also, my approach/game plan for these underground games was further confirmed throughout the session. I'll get more in depth about all these factors through my analysis of each key hand. Enjoy, hopefully. And again, please leave feedback.


Hand 1:KEY HAND OF THE NIGHT...vs "BACHELDER"
I've thought about this hand quite a bit. I have come to the conclusion that I played this hand like a huge fish! Really dissapointed in my play here. I'm trying to go back to the moment and figure out why I took the line that I did and honestly, I PLAYED THE HAND LIKE A COMPLETE $*%&$(#&% ! There are absolutely no excuses for the way I played this hand... UGH!

The dynamics leading up to the hand are very interesting. I start the session super fast. I flop a set w 55 vs Big Pair to win a 600+ pot. Two hands later I make a big c/r bluff on the flop and pick up a 200+ pot. My image is VERY good at this table already. I can see that the whole table is watching me and I also i know that most of the table does not want to get involved with me, at least not this early. I played this game with the same players last week and I pulled a big win and played good throughout the session. Somewhere in between that, a new guy takes the only open seat at the table, to my direct right. I was in seat 2. At first glance, he looks familiar. Like I've said before, I used to live in TO and ran a game for 5+ years so I've seen many poker faces in that time. At first I just chalked it up to that and moved forward. Then I quickly noticed that he wasn't a fish and a few orbits later confirmed that he was a solid player. I kept wondering where I had seen him and then I look down at his hoody sleeve and I see "CARD RUNNERS". We start chatting and it's obv that we have a huge edge at the table. For a long time, we never really tangle. I think we both avoid one another to a certain degree and our stacks are steadily padding our stacks. I get mine to 1700 or so and he's at 1100ish. Then this hand happens...



1. We are both deep considering the table.
2. We have been avoiding each other.
3. It's completely unneccessary that we tangle heads up when there are 8 fish on the table.
4. We are both confident poker players so its absolutely neccessary that we try and outplay each other! lol

I have so many issues with the way I play this hand its ridiculous. Most of it being PF related. My small 3 bet does not take away the ability to sell my hand as being strong. I do not give his credit for having a very big hand. Ax and broadway cards both suited and unsuited seem to match his range here. Instead of calling the $120 I should have made it $350. Why I didn't do that... is a damn tragedy! I place him on a range that I'm beating and more importantly, a range that I can fold out in this spot because of the dynamics between us. We are relatively deep and I don't see him calling the extra $230 ever. If anything, he actually has a hand and 5 bet shoves. I don't see him bluff shoving here. In any case, with a 4 bet, I pick up this pot IMO.

He bets 150 on the flop and I flat. I don't raise or shove... Fukked!

Turn comes Qs putting two FDs on board. He bets 250 and I flat again. By this time, I've played the hand so bad its just meaningless...

River comes an A and all I'm thinking is that I'm gonna pay for playing this hand like a mutherfukking retard!

He checks and I tank. I'm trying to figure out how to win this pot and honestly I don't see how. I believe him when he says that he would most likely call a River Shove from me as it's just too unlikely that I flatted both F and T w/ some Ax type of hand. I also believe his when he says that he would have shoved any other River card. In his spot, I would so the exact same. I finally check and he shows me the bad news. The Ace sucks but the way I play this hand... how can I complain? I hope to god I never do something this stupid ever again... Fukk me!


Hand 2: Put that SLUT on Super TILT!

SLUT in this hand is the mean fukkin chick who hated my guts and was very rude to me. You'll all be happy to know that I stayed nice and calm and respectful the whole time. Fukkin BITCH! This is a hand where I call the 3 bet because I'm getting great pricing and both are huge fish and I can outplay them. How does she not get the rest of her stack in? This is what started it all. She was so angry that I had that hand and that I shoved. She ended up dumping at least another 800 to me in the session as a result of this hand.

Hand 3: Value?

Again vs SLUT. I know I Know... where's the max value? I really though she was trapping me after she flats the turn. The fact that I took a little while to call her River bet spun her so hard. She was convinced that I was fukking with her! More berating me...

Hand 4: Cooler (My way)

Towards the end of the Night. This is actually a straddled hand. I don't know why I don't Raise here. I rarely ever flat straddles. Either way, worked out great!


So all in all, I played pretty good this week. Caught some nasty beats but happy with my continuing adjustments and my strategy. Its Saturday and I'm going out for some much needed drinks! Have a safe/fun weekend guys.

Peace. 2.