+990 tonight in the city.
Got in at midnight after chillin at bhavin's for the night. The loosest maniac was at my table. This guy loved to gamble and hated folding. Pretty dangerous combination. After about half an hour of building up a tight image and not getting any cards i pick up AJ on a limped pot in the sb. Actually there was a straddle so there was about $25 already in the pot preflop. I made it 30 to go and the maniac guy calls. Flop comes A A x, 2 spades. I bet $40 and he raised it up to $100. I figured he either had a spade or an A and i was gonna find out on the turn. Turn card brought a J sealing the deal. I checked as did he. River was gin, 3s. I moved in for 160 and he insta calls and flips over a straight. i showed AJ and he didn't even realize that he lost at first lol.
Exactly one orbit later i was in the sb with AKs when there was a raise from a tight player to 15 and a call by the maniac. I decided to make it 50 and the tight guy called pretty quickly so i gave him credit for a pocket pair (JJ TT) and immediately regretted my decision to raise. The maniac pauses for about 20 seconds and raises it up to 150 more. I couldn't give him credit for a hand so i had to push for about $500 total. He thought about it for a good minute and then decided to call with AJ. The other guy had about $150 left but he let it go preflop. I hit a K on the flop and took down the hand. The turn brought a T and the other guy said he would've hit his set of tens. Fortunetly for me he folded.
After that pot i was up to around 1,000.
A few hands later i get in another pot with the maniac. This time he sleeper re-straddled which meant he made it 10 to go from 1 off UTG since there was already a $5 straddle on. So blinds were 1-2-5-10 lol.
I call in the SB with AJ and he makes it 20 more. I call and it goes heads up.
Flop comes A 5 6, 2 hearts. i check and he insta bets 40. I smooth call and turn brings a 7d. I check again and he bets $80 this time. He possibly could have 2 pair so i just call again. River is a Jd. I bet out $150 and he insta calls with A3h. After that pot he cursed me out but then said nice hand and moved to a different table.
About half an hour later the table broke and I was moved to another game. The floor person wouldn't let me take chips off the table since i wanted to play still but i didn't want to risk my entirely new BR so i just left.
It was a pretty clutch win since last night i lost $315 and was down to my last $500 since i paid my mom $850 last week for credit card for Jan. and "rent" for Feb. I still owe her $500 for this month's credit card but that should leave me with an even 1,000 to work with so i'm not worried.
Also, i've been watching alot of Million Dollar Cash Game on Pokertube.com
I think it's definitely an amazing tool for helping my game. The show has like 8 pages of episodes and you get to see mini interviews with the best players in the world. It's inspiring and the best kind of homework i could be doing so i'm looking forward to finishing up the last half of the videos. Hopefully all this time and effort will pay off but I'm not rushing it. As long as I have food and a place to sleep i'm grateful.
I should be goin to Montreal to chill with James this weekend and we might go to Casino de Montreal so hopefully i'll have good news to report about that. They have the most electronic poker tables in the world so it'll be interesting to see how it is to play on them since I never have before.
That's it for now, more to come later.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Upswing
Today was pretty good. I won about $580 in the city and $200 online at .25/.50 heads up.
I should've stayed and played longer in the city but I was up 500 and didn't really wanna gamble anymore. I figured i had the money to pay back leuis and still have $1200 to play with in the city. Plus the game was ridiculous. This one guy Alex was the most aggressive player i have ever met. He raised almost every single hand preflop from 15-30 and played purely position. We got in a huge hand like $1700 pot with QQ vs KK all in preflop. i made a bad call but he just showed 6 high preflop with a raise to 30 and everyone folded. so he did the same thing, i made it 100. one other guy called who was on monster tilt and Alex re popped it to $400.
His range was pretty wide and it did look like i could've been re-raising him with an even wider range so I felt like putting it in. After that hand i was down to 150, reloaded 200 more and was in for $500. Ran that up to $1080 with 4.5 hours of play and then left.
When i got home i decided to play online. I sat down with $50 and ran that up to $265 against this one guy.
Pretty sweet since 2 days ago i was just at $130.
In live poker i'm on a $1520 upswing which i'm really grateful for considering i was down to $400 not too long ago. (superbowl sunday)
All these hands i'm putting in are definitely starting to show results. I'm gonna need to cough up like over a grand this month though. Last month i wasn't running too hot so i only gave my mom $500. It would be pretty sweet if i can win enough online to cover expenses so i don't have to dip into cash. Maybe i'll use that for motivation.
later
I should've stayed and played longer in the city but I was up 500 and didn't really wanna gamble anymore. I figured i had the money to pay back leuis and still have $1200 to play with in the city. Plus the game was ridiculous. This one guy Alex was the most aggressive player i have ever met. He raised almost every single hand preflop from 15-30 and played purely position. We got in a huge hand like $1700 pot with QQ vs KK all in preflop. i made a bad call but he just showed 6 high preflop with a raise to 30 and everyone folded. so he did the same thing, i made it 100. one other guy called who was on monster tilt and Alex re popped it to $400.
His range was pretty wide and it did look like i could've been re-raising him with an even wider range so I felt like putting it in. After that hand i was down to 150, reloaded 200 more and was in for $500. Ran that up to $1080 with 4.5 hours of play and then left.
When i got home i decided to play online. I sat down with $50 and ran that up to $265 against this one guy.
Pretty sweet since 2 days ago i was just at $130.
In live poker i'm on a $1520 upswing which i'm really grateful for considering i was down to $400 not too long ago. (superbowl sunday)
All these hands i'm putting in are definitely starting to show results. I'm gonna need to cough up like over a grand this month though. Last month i wasn't running too hot so i only gave my mom $500. It would be pretty sweet if i can win enough online to cover expenses so i don't have to dip into cash. Maybe i'll use that for motivation.
later
Sunday, February 10, 2008
some HH's + random thoughts
PokerStars Game #15180304343: Hold'em No Limit ($0.25/$0.50) - 2008/02/09 - 20:22:12 (ET)
Table 'Carina' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Cherf ($47.50 in chips)
Seat 2: chsocer18 ($49.75 in chips)
Cherf: posts small blind $0.25
chsocer18: posts big blind $0.50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Cherf [Qs 8c]
Cherf: raises $1 to $1.50
chsocer18: calls $1
*** FLOP *** [Tc As 2c]
chsocer18: checks
Cherf: bets $1
chsocer18: calls $1
*** TURN *** [Tc As 2c] [Th]
chsocer18: checks
Cherf: bets $2.50
chsocer18: calls $2.50
*** RIVER *** [Tc As 2c Th] [3d]
chsocer18: bets $4
Cherf: calls $4
*** SHOW DOWN ***
chsocer18: shows [4c 7c] (a pair of Tens)
Cherf: shows [Qs 8c] (a pair of Tens - Ace+Queen kicker)
Cherf collected $17.50 from pot
chsocer18 said, "lol"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $18 | Rake $0.50
Board [Tc As 2c Th 3d]
Seat 1: Cherf (button) (small blind) showed [Qs 8c] and won ($17.50) with a pair of Tens
Seat 2: chsocer18 (big blind) showed [4c 7c] and lost with a pair of Tens
PokerStars Game #15180561275: Hold'em No Limit ($0.25/$0.50) - 2008/02/09 - 20:34:51 (ET)
Table 'Carina' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: Cherf ($78.35 in chips)
Seat 2: chsocer18 ($52.60 in chips)
chsocer18: posts small blind $0.25
Cherf: posts big blind $0.50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Cherf [Tc Kc]
chsocer18: calls $0.25
Cherf: raises $1.50 to $2
chsocer18: calls $1.50
*** FLOP *** [Jc 3h 5c]
Cherf: bets $2.50
chsocer18: calls $2.50
*** TURN *** [Jc 3h 5c] [5s]
Cherf: checks
chsocer18: bets $2
Cherf: calls $2
*** RIVER *** [Jc 3h 5c 5s] [7d]
Cherf: checks
chsocer18: bets $8.50
Cherf: calls $8.50
*** SHOW DOWN ***
chsocer18: shows [2h Qh] (a pair of Fives)
Cherf: shows [Tc Kc] (a pair of Fives - King kicker)
Cherf collected $29.50 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $30 | Rake $0.50
Board [Jc 3h 5c 5s 7d]
Seat 1: Cherf (big blind) showed [Tc Kc] and won ($29.50) with a pair of Fives
Seat 2: chsocer18 (button) (small blind) showed [2h Qh] and lost with a pair of Fives
Eng sent me $75 so i've been playing with that on PS recently. I was down to $40 and then sat at .25/.50 NL heads up and got it up to $135 yesterday. I'm starting to like heads up again since it's pure poker. The only bad thing is that it gets really draining really fast somtimes, if you let it. Any slip up and you immediately see the result. Nonetheless, i'm gonna try to build up my br from it.
Also what i've been noticing is that it takes me longer to adjust to online players rather than live. That shouldn't matter though since if im patient enough i'll be able to capitalize on my opponents mistakes.
Today is a pretty chill day. Parents are away at Brooklyn looking at furniture for the new bathroom. I smoked a bowl and found some photo albums. lol mad nostalgically cliche, i guess.
The pics were from when Me my mom and dad went to Florida and stayed at Club Med and Disney. I was around 6 years old, a few years before my brother was born.
I also found pictures of the road trip me and my dad once took. Mom ended up staying home and we went to DC, williamsburg VA and Busch Gardens.
That brought back tons of memories. I also saw this one photo of a tombstone of someone who must've been a relative but it was in russian so I couldn't make it out. I'll ask my mom about it later. The pic was mad eery. It was a graveyard in a forest with bare trees and flowers on every grave.
I haven't really written about anything other than poker in here, but maybe i'll start to write more. It's the best way that i can really reflect about life.
Nirvana Ukelele is amazing.
ty brauner
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1800705
Table 'Carina' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Cherf ($47.50 in chips)
Seat 2: chsocer18 ($49.75 in chips)
Cherf: posts small blind $0.25
chsocer18: posts big blind $0.50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Cherf [Qs 8c]
Cherf: raises $1 to $1.50
chsocer18: calls $1
*** FLOP *** [Tc As 2c]
chsocer18: checks
Cherf: bets $1
chsocer18: calls $1
*** TURN *** [Tc As 2c] [Th]
chsocer18: checks
Cherf: bets $2.50
chsocer18: calls $2.50
*** RIVER *** [Tc As 2c Th] [3d]
chsocer18: bets $4
Cherf: calls $4
*** SHOW DOWN ***
chsocer18: shows [4c 7c] (a pair of Tens)
Cherf: shows [Qs 8c] (a pair of Tens - Ace+Queen kicker)
Cherf collected $17.50 from pot
chsocer18 said, "lol"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $18 | Rake $0.50
Board [Tc As 2c Th 3d]
Seat 1: Cherf (button) (small blind) showed [Qs 8c] and won ($17.50) with a pair of Tens
Seat 2: chsocer18 (big blind) showed [4c 7c] and lost with a pair of Tens
PokerStars Game #15180561275: Hold'em No Limit ($0.25/$0.50) - 2008/02/09 - 20:34:51 (ET)
Table 'Carina' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: Cherf ($78.35 in chips)
Seat 2: chsocer18 ($52.60 in chips)
chsocer18: posts small blind $0.25
Cherf: posts big blind $0.50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Cherf [Tc Kc]
chsocer18: calls $0.25
Cherf: raises $1.50 to $2
chsocer18: calls $1.50
*** FLOP *** [Jc 3h 5c]
Cherf: bets $2.50
chsocer18: calls $2.50
*** TURN *** [Jc 3h 5c] [5s]
Cherf: checks
chsocer18: bets $2
Cherf: calls $2
*** RIVER *** [Jc 3h 5c 5s] [7d]
Cherf: checks
chsocer18: bets $8.50
Cherf: calls $8.50
*** SHOW DOWN ***
chsocer18: shows [2h Qh] (a pair of Fives)
Cherf: shows [Tc Kc] (a pair of Fives - King kicker)
Cherf collected $29.50 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $30 | Rake $0.50
Board [Jc 3h 5c 5s 7d]
Seat 1: Cherf (big blind) showed [Tc Kc] and won ($29.50) with a pair of Fives
Seat 2: chsocer18 (button) (small blind) showed [2h Qh] and lost with a pair of Fives
Eng sent me $75 so i've been playing with that on PS recently. I was down to $40 and then sat at .25/.50 NL heads up and got it up to $135 yesterday. I'm starting to like heads up again since it's pure poker. The only bad thing is that it gets really draining really fast somtimes, if you let it. Any slip up and you immediately see the result. Nonetheless, i'm gonna try to build up my br from it.
Also what i've been noticing is that it takes me longer to adjust to online players rather than live. That shouldn't matter though since if im patient enough i'll be able to capitalize on my opponents mistakes.
Today is a pretty chill day. Parents are away at Brooklyn looking at furniture for the new bathroom. I smoked a bowl and found some photo albums. lol mad nostalgically cliche, i guess.
The pics were from when Me my mom and dad went to Florida and stayed at Club Med and Disney. I was around 6 years old, a few years before my brother was born.
I also found pictures of the road trip me and my dad once took. Mom ended up staying home and we went to DC, williamsburg VA and Busch Gardens.
That brought back tons of memories. I also saw this one photo of a tombstone of someone who must've been a relative but it was in russian so I couldn't make it out. I'll ask my mom about it later. The pic was mad eery. It was a graveyard in a forest with bare trees and flowers on every grave.
I haven't really written about anything other than poker in here, but maybe i'll start to write more. It's the best way that i can really reflect about life.
Nirvana Ukelele is amazing.
ty brauner
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1800705
Monday, February 4, 2008
foxwoods + recent updates
Yesterday I took a trip to Foxwoods to recover after my devastating blow at Borgata from last Friday. I won $850 in a 5 hour sesh and decided to go home since I had a decent br for the city game.
I sat down in the 1 seat at about 9:00 after a little dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe. I asked the dealer if this was a $100 max table and he had no idea what i was saying. He said its $300 max 60 min, same as AC rules. Apparently they got rid of the $100 max since the last time I was there. I must've looked like the biggest amateur and one guy was like "you know what the buy in is?" in a helpful but caniving way. Or i'm just being paranoid...anyways. My first hand is Q3 and I posted a few hands from the BB. About 7 people limped and flop came Q Q 2. i checked and this lady bet 15 so I just called and it went heads up. Turn was a 5 and i checked again and she bet 45. I had no idea how she played but i decided to move in for about 100 more. She sat there in complete agony and disgust. Saying how she knows i have a Q but she doesn't know about her kicker. That's when i realized i had to talk my way out of this one. After about 45 seconds of her thinking she asks the dealer if she can flip over her hand. The dealer says he doesn't know and has to call over the floor and it turns into this whole mess so I went ahead and flipped over my Q. She goes "honey, i know i know...i'm just worried about my kicker." I just kept a straight face and acted like I had it basically. Finally she folded and I showed her since she deserved to see it.
Her reaction looked like she was going to be sick. I find this lucky in my case becasue i was thinking of buying in $100 at first, and if i had done so i would've definitely busted since i had 0 fold equity on her.
After that pot the big stack to my left comes back from being away.
Now this guy was something that i've never quite seen before. Every hand he min raises preflop to $4, but picks his spots carefully post flop. If someone raises before him preflop, he'll instantly minraise back. So since i was out of position i knew it was going to be tricky to bust him.
After about 30 minutes of playing with him and letting him bully the table around the following hand comes up. I limp wiht AT and he makes it 4, a bunch of callers and i make it 30 on top. He calls and this other guy calls. Flop comes T 8 3, 2 clubs. I bet 65 and he insta calls. The other guy folds so now i'm thinking please no club. Turn is a 9s. I look over at his stack and he has approx. 250 left. I say i'm all in and he cringes in his seat for a good 25 seconds, stands up and goes I call. river Blank. I show AT and he shows T6.
Ten freakin 6.
That pot brought me up to $800 and I basically didn't get involved in many hands.
In the meantime the guy who I busted who was literally "heehawing" and actually said he has "part-donk" in him reloads.
Oh yea, i lost with a set of 7's on T 7 3 flop, to QT. Yup, running queens. There was a side pot that i recovered some money from but i lost like 200 that hand.
The players were so wreckless and bad that it was actually kind of difficult for me to adjust.
It was the type of poker that just made logically no sense. People were calling bets from people who's image didn't match up with the bet at all. Granted alot of them were drunk.
After stacking a guy with AK to AQ on AJ778 board, and stacking that same lady that layed down the trip Q's to me. (AQ to AJ on A9x board) I decided to drive back home.
1. It was 2am and I was still wide awake so I could get home by 5am and sleep in my own bed.
2. FOXWOODS IS IN THE CREEPIEST TOWN IN AMERICA. First of all it's on some dead Indian burial reservation ground and the town itself is DEAD. There's no sign of life and while i was driving down the windy roads I kept praying not to break down. I would've probably shit my pants.
Finally after getting on the highway and driving for about an hour and a half i felt some sort of rumbling and then began slowing down. I pulled over and my back left tire was done. I pulled over to the side but there wasn't enough room to get out safely and take a look so I had to drive on the rim for like a quarter mile. I found a dug-out cop spot and pulled over there. I tried to get the lug nuts off but it felt like it was welded on. I called my mom and she connected me to triple A. After about 35 minutes and $69.70 for the fee, the donut was on. By now it had been about 6:00 am and i had to drive 40 mph all the way home. I didn't really mind that much, i just wanted to get home. Finally almost 2 hours later, i made it back.
I haven't really played poker since my last entry (mid december) until mid January. When I got back in the game my results were as follows: -24, -200, +110, +440, +250, -600, +415, -1000, +850.
Alot of swings going on. I guess i'm either losing big or winning big, but after a big loss i seem to get it back with a recovering win. There so much to this crazy game i have to learn how to deal with but my main goal is just to keep on getting those hands in and putting in those hours.
Also, i'm going to have to make a move out of the house soon. The swings are too much for my mom to deal with and i don't expect her to understand since she's not a gambler and doesn't know a thing about poker, other than that its not a proper lifestyle.
I guess this week i'm gonna try to play in the city and then maybe hit up AC on the weekend if anyone wants to go. That last Borgata trip was a nightmare, basically i'd say i lost $600 on bad beats/coolers and $400 on bluffing and being dumb. It's definitely necesssary for me to play higher in order to play better and I'm starting to understand that if i don't really push myself i'm not going to move up in levels.
That's it for now, more to come later.
I sat down in the 1 seat at about 9:00 after a little dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe. I asked the dealer if this was a $100 max table and he had no idea what i was saying. He said its $300 max 60 min, same as AC rules. Apparently they got rid of the $100 max since the last time I was there. I must've looked like the biggest amateur and one guy was like "you know what the buy in is?" in a helpful but caniving way. Or i'm just being paranoid...anyways. My first hand is Q3 and I posted a few hands from the BB. About 7 people limped and flop came Q Q 2. i checked and this lady bet 15 so I just called and it went heads up. Turn was a 5 and i checked again and she bet 45. I had no idea how she played but i decided to move in for about 100 more. She sat there in complete agony and disgust. Saying how she knows i have a Q but she doesn't know about her kicker. That's when i realized i had to talk my way out of this one. After about 45 seconds of her thinking she asks the dealer if she can flip over her hand. The dealer says he doesn't know and has to call over the floor and it turns into this whole mess so I went ahead and flipped over my Q. She goes "honey, i know i know...i'm just worried about my kicker." I just kept a straight face and acted like I had it basically. Finally she folded and I showed her since she deserved to see it.
Her reaction looked like she was going to be sick. I find this lucky in my case becasue i was thinking of buying in $100 at first, and if i had done so i would've definitely busted since i had 0 fold equity on her.
After that pot the big stack to my left comes back from being away.
Now this guy was something that i've never quite seen before. Every hand he min raises preflop to $4, but picks his spots carefully post flop. If someone raises before him preflop, he'll instantly minraise back. So since i was out of position i knew it was going to be tricky to bust him.
After about 30 minutes of playing with him and letting him bully the table around the following hand comes up. I limp wiht AT and he makes it 4, a bunch of callers and i make it 30 on top. He calls and this other guy calls. Flop comes T 8 3, 2 clubs. I bet 65 and he insta calls. The other guy folds so now i'm thinking please no club. Turn is a 9s. I look over at his stack and he has approx. 250 left. I say i'm all in and he cringes in his seat for a good 25 seconds, stands up and goes I call. river Blank. I show AT and he shows T6.
Ten freakin 6.
That pot brought me up to $800 and I basically didn't get involved in many hands.
In the meantime the guy who I busted who was literally "heehawing" and actually said he has "part-donk" in him reloads.
Oh yea, i lost with a set of 7's on T 7 3 flop, to QT. Yup, running queens. There was a side pot that i recovered some money from but i lost like 200 that hand.
The players were so wreckless and bad that it was actually kind of difficult for me to adjust.
It was the type of poker that just made logically no sense. People were calling bets from people who's image didn't match up with the bet at all. Granted alot of them were drunk.
After stacking a guy with AK to AQ on AJ778 board, and stacking that same lady that layed down the trip Q's to me. (AQ to AJ on A9x board) I decided to drive back home.
1. It was 2am and I was still wide awake so I could get home by 5am and sleep in my own bed.
2. FOXWOODS IS IN THE CREEPIEST TOWN IN AMERICA. First of all it's on some dead Indian burial reservation ground and the town itself is DEAD. There's no sign of life and while i was driving down the windy roads I kept praying not to break down. I would've probably shit my pants.
Finally after getting on the highway and driving for about an hour and a half i felt some sort of rumbling and then began slowing down. I pulled over and my back left tire was done. I pulled over to the side but there wasn't enough room to get out safely and take a look so I had to drive on the rim for like a quarter mile. I found a dug-out cop spot and pulled over there. I tried to get the lug nuts off but it felt like it was welded on. I called my mom and she connected me to triple A. After about 35 minutes and $69.70 for the fee, the donut was on. By now it had been about 6:00 am and i had to drive 40 mph all the way home. I didn't really mind that much, i just wanted to get home. Finally almost 2 hours later, i made it back.
I haven't really played poker since my last entry (mid december) until mid January. When I got back in the game my results were as follows: -24, -200, +110, +440, +250, -600, +415, -1000, +850.
Alot of swings going on. I guess i'm either losing big or winning big, but after a big loss i seem to get it back with a recovering win. There so much to this crazy game i have to learn how to deal with but my main goal is just to keep on getting those hands in and putting in those hours.
Also, i'm going to have to make a move out of the house soon. The swings are too much for my mom to deal with and i don't expect her to understand since she's not a gambler and doesn't know a thing about poker, other than that its not a proper lifestyle.
I guess this week i'm gonna try to play in the city and then maybe hit up AC on the weekend if anyone wants to go. That last Borgata trip was a nightmare, basically i'd say i lost $600 on bad beats/coolers and $400 on bluffing and being dumb. It's definitely necesssary for me to play higher in order to play better and I'm starting to understand that if i don't really push myself i'm not going to move up in levels.
That's it for now, more to come later.
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