This week I hit up Genoa on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights and then went to AC for the weekend with Eng. Needless to say, i'm exhausted from poker and a week break is definitely necessary. I've been playing pretty well but i'm also not getting raped by the cards....yet.
The NL game at Genoa is not easy, but its also very live. So far from what i've seen the play is aggressive and people are not afraid to pick up on weakness when they smell it. It's 5/5 with $1,000 buy in and i'm excited to see whether or not i'll sink or swim, but one thing is true...this game can definitely make me.
Sunday night I played for 4-5 hours and won $1,000.
Monday night I played for only 2-3 hours and won $800.
Tuesday night I played for again 2-3 hours and won $200.
After paying back my mom $800, I didn't feel like playing at Genoa until I was more securely bankrolled since going broke would kill me right now so I decided to take a trip to Borgata on Wednesday night. I played 2/5 and lost $700 after running into AA with KK AIPF and losing with QQ on a 873 flop to A3 after he "swore i had overcards". I stepped down to 1/2 and grinded back $500 giving me an overall loss of $200.
Thursday night I picked up Eng and we headed to AC for the weekend. To say that Eric has been "running bad" is an understatement. The kid just can't win and its completely because of the cards. This weekend was his last opportunity to get out of this shitty slump.
The plan was to play at night and get a room during the day and just grind it out the whole weekend.
Thursday night I finished up $300.
Friday night I won $700.
Last night I won $300 giving me an overall win of +$1300 for the trip.
Eng was down the first 2 nights and at 3am last night I told him I'd stake him for 2/5 since that was his only real chance at making his money back.
He was in for 700 after reloading when the following hand came up.
Some kid made it 35 to go and there was 1 caller when Eng repopped to 80 more in the sb with aces. Both players called and the flop came J x x. Eng blind bet 125 and the kid went in the tank. Finally he pushed and the other guy called all in for less. Eng ended up calling and the pot was around $1300. Turn was a spade and river...spade. Not just that, but the dealer accidently flipped over the burn card for the river which woudlve been a 9d giving Eng the win. Ofcourse the real river was the As and the kid showed two black kings.
After that demoralizing session I cashed out, losing 400 that session but was still up $300 for the night.
I've been on the best rush of my life these past 5-6 weeks and I feel great about my game and what's to come. This week i'm just going to take it slow and relax from poker and spend some quality time on guitar maybe...we'll see.
Peace
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Turning Stone + Ithaca
Wow, it feels great to be home.
I left for Ithaca 2 weeks ago after work on Monday. The decision to go to Turning Stone wasn't planned for. After a boring day at the Rosen Group office I realized i couldn't do this all week and needed to go away somewhere to play poker. Originally, i was just going to stay at Turning Stone for a week but then Alex said i could crash at her place too.
The first week i didn't play much. Only made 2 trips; broke even on the first and +$300 the 2nd.
The rest of the week was just spent chillin in Ithaca with brauner and her new pet hamster Larry David.
The second week was more eventful. I headed out to Turning Stone on Monday afternoon with the intentions of staying over if I could afford it. I started playing at 3:30 pm at 100 max and after 10 hours or so I was up $300. The lowest room was $110 + tax at the Inn and i didn't feel like dishing out 1/3 of my winnings on a few hours of sleep so I drove back to Ithaca and stayed there for the night.
The next day I drove out to T-stone again and decided I would play 200 max. Got there at around 3:30 again and sat at the 200 max game. I was up $250 after about 3 or 4 hours and then the game broke. The only other game was 500 max and 100 max and i wasn't ready to take that much of a gamble with my br at the 500 max game. I only had around $1500, so i sat at the 100 max and tried grinding that out. After 2 hours of very little action i was down 150 and getting extremely impatient so i'm sure you can guess what happened.
I took an open seat at the 500 max and within an hour i doubled up. This was the hand.
Folds to me in the cutoff and i limp with A5c. Button limps and blinds r in. Flop comes T 5 3, 2 clubs. checks to me, i bet 15. Button smoothcalls and blinds fold. Turn is a 4c. I bet 15, he raises to 40. I re-raise to 120. He thinks about it for a few second and goes all in so i instacall and he's drawing dead with KK.
After that pot i played one more half and grabbed some dinner at the Emerald. I didn't feel like stayin over again for some reason so I headed back to Ithaca that night.
By now it had been Wednesday and Brauner was back from a morning class. After some eggs, we took her friend Chloe to the dentist because she needed an emergency root canal. I felt really bad for her, she was in a lot of pain. After dropping her off, alex and i got some lunch and chilled back at her dorm for a few hours.
My plan was to spend the rest of the week at T-stone and come back to Ithaca for the weekend since Jeremy and Adam were actually coming up here.
I got to T-stone around 10pm and played until midnight or so finishing +$160. I decided i'd get a room and get a good nights sleep so i could be good to go for the next day.
After a nice western omlette breakfast i headed into the poker room. The only games going were 100 max and 500 max so i got on the list for 500 max and played 100 max in the mean time. Less than half an hour went by and a seat opened up. The stacks were pretty good ranging from 300 to 1500 and the players were generally weak. I had a ridiculous cold string of cards but after 2 or 3 hours the following hand came up.
i had 24h and called a raise to 15 with 7 ppl in the hand. The flop came 2 2 8 and i checked. It went checks around to the button who bet 30. Folds around to me and i smooth called. Turn was a 6 and i checked as did he. River was an A and i bet 50. He minraised to 100 making me think he thought his ace or pair was good. I hollywooded for a little bit and then put him all in for 200 more and he called with AJ. A few hours later, no action and I ended up bluffing off alot of chips leaving me with only 400, and being in for 600. The table was breaking down and we played a few hands 4 handed after i busted some guy and the game broke leaving me completely even.
I went over to a 200 max game and wasn't really feeling it. Played for 4 hours or so and decided to quit and get a room at around 1:00.
The next day was Friday and I went over to the Diner for some breakfast. At around noon i walked into the poker room and heard someone call my name. My friend Max and his friend were sitting at a 2/4 limit game. Max is 20 and deals cards in the city, that's how we met. I haven't seen him since Fairview got shutdown so it was good to run into him. We caught up for a bit and he told me City Limit on 5th ave ended up getting robbed this weekend....but there's more. Apparently one of the robber's dropped a shotgun and when he went to go pick it up it went off killing Frank Desena.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/11032007/news/regionalnews/poker_room_murder_3800.htm I played with Frank a few times but never really knew him. He was a really nice guy though and it's so fucked up how this happened. The scary part is that I could've easily been there and it could've just as easily happened to me.
Max said the cops went on a rampage and raided 7 clubs in long island. He now works at Genoa but he doesn't know what the status is since they might be closing too.
Anyways, that day I played 200 max for the afternoon and finished +$680 giving me an overall win for those two weeks of +$1780.
I finished off my trip with a great weekend with Dan Jeremy Adam and Brauner. It was really good seeing everyone again and in less than 2 weeks its already going to be Thanksgiving.
It feels so good to be in my own house again....
PEBBLES!!!
I left for Ithaca 2 weeks ago after work on Monday. The decision to go to Turning Stone wasn't planned for. After a boring day at the Rosen Group office I realized i couldn't do this all week and needed to go away somewhere to play poker. Originally, i was just going to stay at Turning Stone for a week but then Alex said i could crash at her place too.
The first week i didn't play much. Only made 2 trips; broke even on the first and +$300 the 2nd.
The rest of the week was just spent chillin in Ithaca with brauner and her new pet hamster Larry David.
The second week was more eventful. I headed out to Turning Stone on Monday afternoon with the intentions of staying over if I could afford it. I started playing at 3:30 pm at 100 max and after 10 hours or so I was up $300. The lowest room was $110 + tax at the Inn and i didn't feel like dishing out 1/3 of my winnings on a few hours of sleep so I drove back to Ithaca and stayed there for the night.
The next day I drove out to T-stone again and decided I would play 200 max. Got there at around 3:30 again and sat at the 200 max game. I was up $250 after about 3 or 4 hours and then the game broke. The only other game was 500 max and 100 max and i wasn't ready to take that much of a gamble with my br at the 500 max game. I only had around $1500, so i sat at the 100 max and tried grinding that out. After 2 hours of very little action i was down 150 and getting extremely impatient so i'm sure you can guess what happened.
I took an open seat at the 500 max and within an hour i doubled up. This was the hand.
Folds to me in the cutoff and i limp with A5c. Button limps and blinds r in. Flop comes T 5 3, 2 clubs. checks to me, i bet 15. Button smoothcalls and blinds fold. Turn is a 4c. I bet 15, he raises to 40. I re-raise to 120. He thinks about it for a few second and goes all in so i instacall and he's drawing dead with KK.
After that pot i played one more half and grabbed some dinner at the Emerald. I didn't feel like stayin over again for some reason so I headed back to Ithaca that night.
By now it had been Wednesday and Brauner was back from a morning class. After some eggs, we took her friend Chloe to the dentist because she needed an emergency root canal. I felt really bad for her, she was in a lot of pain. After dropping her off, alex and i got some lunch and chilled back at her dorm for a few hours.
My plan was to spend the rest of the week at T-stone and come back to Ithaca for the weekend since Jeremy and Adam were actually coming up here.
I got to T-stone around 10pm and played until midnight or so finishing +$160. I decided i'd get a room and get a good nights sleep so i could be good to go for the next day.
After a nice western omlette breakfast i headed into the poker room. The only games going were 100 max and 500 max so i got on the list for 500 max and played 100 max in the mean time. Less than half an hour went by and a seat opened up. The stacks were pretty good ranging from 300 to 1500 and the players were generally weak. I had a ridiculous cold string of cards but after 2 or 3 hours the following hand came up.
i had 24h and called a raise to 15 with 7 ppl in the hand. The flop came 2 2 8 and i checked. It went checks around to the button who bet 30. Folds around to me and i smooth called. Turn was a 6 and i checked as did he. River was an A and i bet 50. He minraised to 100 making me think he thought his ace or pair was good. I hollywooded for a little bit and then put him all in for 200 more and he called with AJ. A few hours later, no action and I ended up bluffing off alot of chips leaving me with only 400, and being in for 600. The table was breaking down and we played a few hands 4 handed after i busted some guy and the game broke leaving me completely even.
I went over to a 200 max game and wasn't really feeling it. Played for 4 hours or so and decided to quit and get a room at around 1:00.
The next day was Friday and I went over to the Diner for some breakfast. At around noon i walked into the poker room and heard someone call my name. My friend Max and his friend were sitting at a 2/4 limit game. Max is 20 and deals cards in the city, that's how we met. I haven't seen him since Fairview got shutdown so it was good to run into him. We caught up for a bit and he told me City Limit on 5th ave ended up getting robbed this weekend....but there's more. Apparently one of the robber's dropped a shotgun and when he went to go pick it up it went off killing Frank Desena.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/11032007/news/regionalnews/poker_room_murder_3800.htm I played with Frank a few times but never really knew him. He was a really nice guy though and it's so fucked up how this happened. The scary part is that I could've easily been there and it could've just as easily happened to me.
Max said the cops went on a rampage and raided 7 clubs in long island. He now works at Genoa but he doesn't know what the status is since they might be closing too.
Anyways, that day I played 200 max for the afternoon and finished +$680 giving me an overall win for those two weeks of +$1780.
I finished off my trip with a great weekend with Dan Jeremy Adam and Brauner. It was really good seeing everyone again and in less than 2 weeks its already going to be Thanksgiving.
It feels so good to be in my own house again....
PEBBLES!!!
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