So I pick up Steve and we get to Bloomfield right when they're gonna start the 2nd table. The tournament is still finishing up in the back and the main game looks alright. I buy in for $250 and a few hands in I pick up AQ and raise to $15 and get 1 caller. Flop comes 9 9 6 rainbow and he checks it to me, i bet $20 and he thinks for a little and calls. Turn is a Q, he leads out for $55 and i shove for $100 total, he calls with J9.
I reload and a few hands later I limp with Q9s in the cutoff, limped pot. Flop comes K J x, 2 spades. The same guy who i lost with AQ to J9 before now bets $10 and I raise it up to $30. Folds around back to him and he calls. Turn is a red T. he checks i bet $50, he calls. River 5s. He checks i bet $75 he thinks for a little and then calls with AK.
Not too long after that I get involved in a pretty big hand. I'm in the BB with QQ and there are a couple limpers and i make it $15 on top. Folds around to the SB who is a somewhat tight players and knows that i'm tight but he's not that good. Flop comes T T 2, rainbow and he checks it to me. I bet $15 to make it look like i don't have much and he thinks for a good 10-15 seconds and then just calls. Turn is an 8 and he fires out $40. I'm extremely confused by this and think whether or not i should shove for $200ish, and whether or not he really does have the T. I decide to just call and re-evaluate on the river since i have position. River pairs the 8 so board is TT288. He checks it over to me and at this point i figure that my hand is best and it's not worth it to just check it behind since I may be able to get some value from him. For some reason i went for the pot sized bet and fired $125. He turns sick as if he just got counterfitted by the 8 and as if he had me the whole way before that so i figure i'm good. He then shows the table he has 22 and shows it to me in which case i don't show any emotion back. He proceeds to think for a good 45 seconds and I know there's just no way he's really gonna fold this hand and that he's just wasting time so i'm not even worried really, i know its a loss already and finally he calls. I think i should've bet a much smaller amount on the river like $40-$50. = /
After this hand i'm back down to about $150ish and had already reloaded up to $580. At this point i got moved to the main game and Steve was already there. I grinded up to $300 and then slowly swung down to $240. We decide to stay for a last half hour and a couple hands into it i pick up AA in the sb. There are 2 limpers and i have a pretty solid tight image so i raise it up to $15 on top. It goes heads up with a maniac player and i'm banking on doubling up if i get a good flop. Flop comes Q 8 4, all diamonds. I do not have a diamond but decide to lead out for $25. He thinks for a little and then min raises me back to $50. I think about it and then shove for $200 and he calls. I say u got the flush already? he says No, in which case i think i'm ahead but he then flips over 84c for 2 pair... GG.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
BEAT: lost a grand and still wearing the same socks for the last 4 days...
...But not the same underwear atleast so that's good, my life isn't completely in the toilet. Anyways it all started what seems like a week ago but was Friday night. I got out of work at CVS around 10:00 and was tired as shit. I went home to nap for a little and then left for Bloomfield. I had $700 to work with so I was feeling pretty confident. I texted Eng "AC?" just to see what he'd say and he replied with "leaving soon." Apparently he was gonna go with Liu and their other friend. So i decided i'd just leave and meet them there and by this point it was like 2am i think. I remember getting to AC in what seemed like no time at all. I was definitely tired from working all day but since i was already there i decided to jump in a 1/2. I sat with $200 and then this hand comes up. There's a raise to $7 and a few callers when the button makes it $14 to go. I looked down at 75s and call the $14 assuming i'll set of a chain reaction of callers. There's 6 or 7 of us to the flop which comes 5 5 7, rainbow. I check and BB who has the whole table covered says "i'm all-in". It goes folds around to me and he's drawing to 2 outs with A7. After that pot i was up to $450ish or so when i pick up KK, 2nd to act. UTG raises to $12 and I decided to just smooth call. Guy to my left makes it $25 to go and the button and original raiser both call. I re-raise to $100 and he pushes all-in after thinking for a little bit for $30 more. I call and he has AK and spikes an A on the turn.
After this hand I was back down to like $350. I think i grinded back up taking down a couple pots here and there since my table was full of idiots. One hand i remember it was a limped pot and i was in the sb with K5. Flop 9 5 4, rainbow. I checked and it went aroudn to the button who bet $5. I call and another player calls too. Turn is a K. I check and it goes to the button who bets $15. I raise it to $40 and he min raises back to $65. I make it $110 on top and he shoves for like $200. river blank and he mucks after seeing my hand.
I forgot the other pots that I won but at about 8am i cashed out for $900, 700 profit. By this time Liu and Eng had been playing short handed at another table. I paid eric back $200 and had about $1200 to work with. I was feeling tired and decided to get a room for us. I drove out to Egg Harbor Township to the Holiday Inn but that was booked so i went next door to the Comfort Inn and got a room for $186.
I got the room but couldn't sleep so I went back to the borgata. At this point Liu and eng had moved to the table that I was at a couple hours before and a seat opened up so i sat down too.
I limped UTG with AQ and smooth called a raise preflop. flop came Q T x with 2 spades, i checked and Liu bet out $40 and someone called so i re-raised all-in for like $160ish. He flopped a set of T's and I quit shortly after down $250 from that session.
After being up for close to 24 hours, and by now it had been 1pm, I passed out till about 7:30pm which is when Eng and Liu got back to the room. Oh yeah, I was actually scheduled to work at 5pm that day but I called the manager at CVS who is a complete goner with 3 kids and told her I wouldn't be coming in. That pissed her off even more and she yelled something at me and hung up. Anyways i could care less because working at CVS is not worth it at all. They run you down like a dog and it's just not for me.
After Liu and Eng got back i took $120 from both of them for the room and headed back out to Borgata with $900. I wasn't in the mood to play 1/2 for some reason because I knew I just didnt have the patience so i sat down at a 2/5 $300, flopped set over set and then just sat on my chips til about 2 or 3am and then went back to the room up $300 from that session. I got a couple more hours of sleep and then got some breakfast at 7am. After eng and liu woke up since they had slept for a good 12-13 hours, they went back to the borgata at around 8:30am. I went back to sleep in the mean time and slept till 2pm and left for Borgata.
By this time it was Sunday afternoon and eng and liu were at the same table that they were at 24 hours earlier. Eng had lost 700 that session and was determined to get it back. When I got to the casino and took a look at his stack I was shocked. He had ran it up to almost $2,000 and was in for only $300. The table had big stacks and was really deep. I couldn't get anything going and then after stacking off to Liu again when he flopped middle set vs my top pair i reloaded for $300 more. I ended up losing like $700 that session, dumped alot to eng and wasn't really playing my best. By now it was around 7:00 and eng left up $2500. I've never heard or seen anything like this before. It was completely insane but he deserved it for the last few sessions at Borgata. He decided to treat us to dinner at the new Japanese restaurant which was really nice. It had a dark and lounge type atmosphere. The sushi wasn't bad either, obviously over-priced but that's expected.
After dinner Liu gambled a little bit more on roullette and texas hold'em bonus and then they left. Eng had spotted me $300 more for 2/5 in which case he'd take 60% of my profits so i now had $800 to work with. I went back to the same table as earlier that day and there were all new faces except for the guy in the suit in the 1 seat and this other guy who was in the 2 seat. Other than that there were all new faces and i took the 4 seat. After taking down a pot against this fat annoying guy who seemed angry to fold to me after i made a raise, we get involved in another pot when i opened utg with QQ. button called who was the fat guy and another guy called so we went 3 way. Flop came 5 4 2, all diamonds. I didn't wanna check to see if i had a diamond since it would give away a piece of information about my hand so after the 1st guy checked i bet $25 and the fat guy min raises to $50. I wasn't sure where i was at but i opted to just smooth call and the turn paired up the 2 which was a great card. I checked to see if i had a diamond and i did not. I checked it to him and then he took a look at his cards again to see if he had a diamond so at this point i really thought i had him. He bets $80 and i shove for $125 more. He calls and i dodge a river and he mucks pocket tens with a diamond. After this hand the table broke and i got moved to another game. I went there with like $400ish after being in for $200. I got involved in a hand with this old korean lady to my right when i made it $12 to go with AQd, we went heads up and i had position on her. flop came K T x, 2 spades. she checks to me and i bet out of $15. she just called and turn was the 8s. She checks it to me and i thought about it and then checked. River is a red J giving me a straight and she quickly checks to me. I knew she was a call station and so i bet out $50 on the river. She goes all in for $100 total so i had to look her up and she had the nut flush A4s. That really surprised me since she checked the river. After that pot i cashed out $392 and by now it had been close to 5am and I had been getting tired so I decided i'd get a room somewhere. I went downtown by the Taj and every hotel was booked. I finally found a shitty motel for $85 and was tired of looking at other places. I had been wearing the same clothes for 2 days now and felt disgusting. I found a ghetto convenience store that had boxers and shirts so i got that along with some toothpaste and a toothbrush.
I got to the motel and passed out til 12:30pm when i woke up to the cleaning lady banging on the door. She gave me some extra time to shower and after getting a turkey and swiss sandwhich at Bread and Butter I sat down at a 1/2 with $200. I was still a little groggy since my sleep schedule for the last couple nights has been really off but whatever. The table i was didn't have any good players and somehow i managed to stack off to this old philipino man who was just ridiculous. Whenever he had a decision he'd get flustered and pretend to fold and at the last second make a raise or call. Anyways things didn't go well here and I knew i needed to play 2/5. I grabbed a seat and bought in for $400. A few hands in i limp utg with AA. Couple more limpers and sb makes it $22 to go. I re-raise to $80 and he calls. Flop comes low and he leads out for $100, i put him all-in for $100 more and he regretfully calls saying Ok, its time to go home you got kings right? River came a K and he mucked after seeing the aces. Then a few hands later i'm in the sb with QTs and it's a limped pot. Flop comes J 9 x, rainbow. 1 spade. i check and utg bets out $30 and 1 guy calls so i call too
turn is a low spade and he bets out $100 this time. We're each about 500 deep and i decide to just smooth call. River is a red 8 and i think for a little bit and make an overbet of $400. He thinks forever, stares me down, tries talking to me and then finally after what seems like 5 minutes and folds. This brought me up to about $800ish and a few hands later i left and cashed out leaving myself with $1080 to work with. I decided to get a room at the Trump Marina for $59+tax came out to like $75. The room was really nice and I slept from like 5pm til midnight and then woke up to Lisa Lampanelli screaming Cunt on tv and making fun of every race and person on this planet. After watching her special on hbo i went back out to Borgata.
So now the story begins. This is the session that ruined me. It's about 2am when i get to borgata and there's a juicy 1/2 game going on that's playing really loose and has alot of chips on the table. I buy-in for $300. I was good to go and felt like i could take every chip off the table. After a cold deck and getting raised and having to fold a bunch of hands the following hand comes up. We're playing full and i have 2 extremely loose call stations to my left. It's a limped pot and i'm in the BB with T3. flop comes T 6 3, 2 hearts. There's about $12 in the pot and the SB leads out for $20. This was really strange and he had me covered but nonetheless i had ppl behind me and didn't wanna slow play so i raised to $50. Loose D0nk#1 smooth calls and it goes folded around to the sb who calls as well. Turn is a really good card for me, black 9. sb checks and i shove for $155. I originally was confused that donk1 called and put him on a huge combo draw hand like 45h. He takes forever to think about and at this point i wouldn't mind taking a call from him. I'm assuming the sb is gonna fold too. This guy finally calls after playing with 6 green chips and contemplating for a couple minutes and sb calls too. river black 2. For a moment i think i'm good since there's no way 45 was in the hand. Sb checks to the aggro donk who goes all-in for $250 ish and sb mucks AKh face up. Guy shows 4d5h for a straight. I was just completely shocked and couldn't believe what just happened. I reloaded for $300 more.
A couple hands later i get 88 vs the same guy and we're heads up and an A flopped with 2 hearts. He called my flop bet of $50 pretty quickly and so i shoved the turn when a blank hit. He flopped the nuts with 35 and picked me off. After this hand i reloaded $300 more and was down to $200 when this hand comes up.
The 2nd aggro donk is this old indian guy who randomly goes all in blind with his $100 black chip. Everyone just folds around to him and so the next hand I limp utg with JJ assuming he's gonna do it again. He just limps and flop comes 4 4 5, 2 clubs. checked around to me i bet $10 and indian guy raises all in for $101. I think about it for a little and then call, turn 4 and he's drawing dead with 67. The very next hand i'm in the BB with 78h. The indian reloads and now makes it $25 to go. donk1 limped behind him so i knew he was calling and then button and sb calls the $25 too so i couldn't fold now. Donk1 calls too and flop comes 9 9 T, 2 spades. 1 heart. Sb bets out $50 into this pot which isn't enough at all for me to fold so i call. 2 more callers and turn is a Jh. sb bets out $50 again and this time i make it $200. It goes folded around back to him and he thinks for a little and then calls. At this point i was 100% he had a 9 and if i hit a nice river i can get the rest of his chips. I have about $150 left. River is another J and he thinks for a second and then checks, i'm disgusted and flip over my hand knowing he got there and he shows A9. After that hand I lost another pot and left down $800 for that session at 7am.
Went back to my room and passed out til about 1pm. Got woken up by housekeeping and didn't have time to shower. I went downstairs to get some pizza and a side salad at the cafe and then headed back to Borgata. I had $280 to work with and sat at 1/2. Got AA 4 times in like 1.5 hours, each time it held up until the last time when i lost to 99 after he hit the river. This brought me down to a little less than $100. I then got 44 on the button and made it $13 to go. sb calls and i get 1 other caller and flop comes 7 3 2 rainbow. Checked around to me i bet $20, sb calls and i still believe i'm best. turn is a Jd putting 2 diamonds out there. Sb thinks about betting for a little bit and fires out $50. I really didn't put him on a hand here and felt like he might've just been stabbing cause i appeared weak on the flop so as soon as he bet i shoved for like $15 more and he calls with AKd, river K.
After that pot I had $80 left and went back home. The drive really wasn't bad since it gave me time to think and I was sort of relieved to be back home. I'm still wearing the same clothes that i've slept in for the last 2 days which is kinda gross. When i looked in the mirror my own image scared me. I still refuse to give up and will do whatever it takes to get my bankroll going. I gotta call up Events Plus and book as many gigs as possible. I really need to pay back my debt and just get a solid 5k bankroll to work with to atleast be able to take some swings. Tonight however, Steve has agreed to put up $500 more for me to play in Bloomfield in return for 80% of my profits. In a swingy game like Bloomfield 500 can go pretty easily after 2 hands not holding up but i'm determined to give it my all.
After this hand I was back down to like $350. I think i grinded back up taking down a couple pots here and there since my table was full of idiots. One hand i remember it was a limped pot and i was in the sb with K5. Flop 9 5 4, rainbow. I checked and it went aroudn to the button who bet $5. I call and another player calls too. Turn is a K. I check and it goes to the button who bets $15. I raise it to $40 and he min raises back to $65. I make it $110 on top and he shoves for like $200. river blank and he mucks after seeing my hand.
I forgot the other pots that I won but at about 8am i cashed out for $900, 700 profit. By this time Liu and Eng had been playing short handed at another table. I paid eric back $200 and had about $1200 to work with. I was feeling tired and decided to get a room for us. I drove out to Egg Harbor Township to the Holiday Inn but that was booked so i went next door to the Comfort Inn and got a room for $186.
I got the room but couldn't sleep so I went back to the borgata. At this point Liu and eng had moved to the table that I was at a couple hours before and a seat opened up so i sat down too.
I limped UTG with AQ and smooth called a raise preflop. flop came Q T x with 2 spades, i checked and Liu bet out $40 and someone called so i re-raised all-in for like $160ish. He flopped a set of T's and I quit shortly after down $250 from that session.
After being up for close to 24 hours, and by now it had been 1pm, I passed out till about 7:30pm which is when Eng and Liu got back to the room. Oh yeah, I was actually scheduled to work at 5pm that day but I called the manager at CVS who is a complete goner with 3 kids and told her I wouldn't be coming in. That pissed her off even more and she yelled something at me and hung up. Anyways i could care less because working at CVS is not worth it at all. They run you down like a dog and it's just not for me.
After Liu and Eng got back i took $120 from both of them for the room and headed back out to Borgata with $900. I wasn't in the mood to play 1/2 for some reason because I knew I just didnt have the patience so i sat down at a 2/5 $300, flopped set over set and then just sat on my chips til about 2 or 3am and then went back to the room up $300 from that session. I got a couple more hours of sleep and then got some breakfast at 7am. After eng and liu woke up since they had slept for a good 12-13 hours, they went back to the borgata at around 8:30am. I went back to sleep in the mean time and slept till 2pm and left for Borgata.
By this time it was Sunday afternoon and eng and liu were at the same table that they were at 24 hours earlier. Eng had lost 700 that session and was determined to get it back. When I got to the casino and took a look at his stack I was shocked. He had ran it up to almost $2,000 and was in for only $300. The table had big stacks and was really deep. I couldn't get anything going and then after stacking off to Liu again when he flopped middle set vs my top pair i reloaded for $300 more. I ended up losing like $700 that session, dumped alot to eng and wasn't really playing my best. By now it was around 7:00 and eng left up $2500. I've never heard or seen anything like this before. It was completely insane but he deserved it for the last few sessions at Borgata. He decided to treat us to dinner at the new Japanese restaurant which was really nice. It had a dark and lounge type atmosphere. The sushi wasn't bad either, obviously over-priced but that's expected.
After dinner Liu gambled a little bit more on roullette and texas hold'em bonus and then they left. Eng had spotted me $300 more for 2/5 in which case he'd take 60% of my profits so i now had $800 to work with. I went back to the same table as earlier that day and there were all new faces except for the guy in the suit in the 1 seat and this other guy who was in the 2 seat. Other than that there were all new faces and i took the 4 seat. After taking down a pot against this fat annoying guy who seemed angry to fold to me after i made a raise, we get involved in another pot when i opened utg with QQ. button called who was the fat guy and another guy called so we went 3 way. Flop came 5 4 2, all diamonds. I didn't wanna check to see if i had a diamond since it would give away a piece of information about my hand so after the 1st guy checked i bet $25 and the fat guy min raises to $50. I wasn't sure where i was at but i opted to just smooth call and the turn paired up the 2 which was a great card. I checked to see if i had a diamond and i did not. I checked it to him and then he took a look at his cards again to see if he had a diamond so at this point i really thought i had him. He bets $80 and i shove for $125 more. He calls and i dodge a river and he mucks pocket tens with a diamond. After this hand the table broke and i got moved to another game. I went there with like $400ish after being in for $200. I got involved in a hand with this old korean lady to my right when i made it $12 to go with AQd, we went heads up and i had position on her. flop came K T x, 2 spades. she checks to me and i bet out of $15. she just called and turn was the 8s. She checks it to me and i thought about it and then checked. River is a red J giving me a straight and she quickly checks to me. I knew she was a call station and so i bet out $50 on the river. She goes all in for $100 total so i had to look her up and she had the nut flush A4s. That really surprised me since she checked the river. After that pot i cashed out $392 and by now it had been close to 5am and I had been getting tired so I decided i'd get a room somewhere. I went downtown by the Taj and every hotel was booked. I finally found a shitty motel for $85 and was tired of looking at other places. I had been wearing the same clothes for 2 days now and felt disgusting. I found a ghetto convenience store that had boxers and shirts so i got that along with some toothpaste and a toothbrush.
I got to the motel and passed out til 12:30pm when i woke up to the cleaning lady banging on the door. She gave me some extra time to shower and after getting a turkey and swiss sandwhich at Bread and Butter I sat down at a 1/2 with $200. I was still a little groggy since my sleep schedule for the last couple nights has been really off but whatever. The table i was didn't have any good players and somehow i managed to stack off to this old philipino man who was just ridiculous. Whenever he had a decision he'd get flustered and pretend to fold and at the last second make a raise or call. Anyways things didn't go well here and I knew i needed to play 2/5. I grabbed a seat and bought in for $400. A few hands in i limp utg with AA. Couple more limpers and sb makes it $22 to go. I re-raise to $80 and he calls. Flop comes low and he leads out for $100, i put him all-in for $100 more and he regretfully calls saying Ok, its time to go home you got kings right? River came a K and he mucked after seeing the aces. Then a few hands later i'm in the sb with QTs and it's a limped pot. Flop comes J 9 x, rainbow. 1 spade. i check and utg bets out $30 and 1 guy calls so i call too
turn is a low spade and he bets out $100 this time. We're each about 500 deep and i decide to just smooth call. River is a red 8 and i think for a little bit and make an overbet of $400. He thinks forever, stares me down, tries talking to me and then finally after what seems like 5 minutes and folds. This brought me up to about $800ish and a few hands later i left and cashed out leaving myself with $1080 to work with. I decided to get a room at the Trump Marina for $59+tax came out to like $75. The room was really nice and I slept from like 5pm til midnight and then woke up to Lisa Lampanelli screaming Cunt on tv and making fun of every race and person on this planet. After watching her special on hbo i went back out to Borgata.
So now the story begins. This is the session that ruined me. It's about 2am when i get to borgata and there's a juicy 1/2 game going on that's playing really loose and has alot of chips on the table. I buy-in for $300. I was good to go and felt like i could take every chip off the table. After a cold deck and getting raised and having to fold a bunch of hands the following hand comes up. We're playing full and i have 2 extremely loose call stations to my left. It's a limped pot and i'm in the BB with T3. flop comes T 6 3, 2 hearts. There's about $12 in the pot and the SB leads out for $20. This was really strange and he had me covered but nonetheless i had ppl behind me and didn't wanna slow play so i raised to $50. Loose D0nk#1 smooth calls and it goes folded around to the sb who calls as well. Turn is a really good card for me, black 9. sb checks and i shove for $155. I originally was confused that donk1 called and put him on a huge combo draw hand like 45h. He takes forever to think about and at this point i wouldn't mind taking a call from him. I'm assuming the sb is gonna fold too. This guy finally calls after playing with 6 green chips and contemplating for a couple minutes and sb calls too. river black 2. For a moment i think i'm good since there's no way 45 was in the hand. Sb checks to the aggro donk who goes all-in for $250 ish and sb mucks AKh face up. Guy shows 4d5h for a straight. I was just completely shocked and couldn't believe what just happened. I reloaded for $300 more.
A couple hands later i get 88 vs the same guy and we're heads up and an A flopped with 2 hearts. He called my flop bet of $50 pretty quickly and so i shoved the turn when a blank hit. He flopped the nuts with 35 and picked me off. After this hand i reloaded $300 more and was down to $200 when this hand comes up.
The 2nd aggro donk is this old indian guy who randomly goes all in blind with his $100 black chip. Everyone just folds around to him and so the next hand I limp utg with JJ assuming he's gonna do it again. He just limps and flop comes 4 4 5, 2 clubs. checked around to me i bet $10 and indian guy raises all in for $101. I think about it for a little and then call, turn 4 and he's drawing dead with 67. The very next hand i'm in the BB with 78h. The indian reloads and now makes it $25 to go. donk1 limped behind him so i knew he was calling and then button and sb calls the $25 too so i couldn't fold now. Donk1 calls too and flop comes 9 9 T, 2 spades. 1 heart. Sb bets out $50 into this pot which isn't enough at all for me to fold so i call. 2 more callers and turn is a Jh. sb bets out $50 again and this time i make it $200. It goes folded around back to him and he thinks for a little and then calls. At this point i was 100% he had a 9 and if i hit a nice river i can get the rest of his chips. I have about $150 left. River is another J and he thinks for a second and then checks, i'm disgusted and flip over my hand knowing he got there and he shows A9. After that hand I lost another pot and left down $800 for that session at 7am.
Went back to my room and passed out til about 1pm. Got woken up by housekeeping and didn't have time to shower. I went downstairs to get some pizza and a side salad at the cafe and then headed back to Borgata. I had $280 to work with and sat at 1/2. Got AA 4 times in like 1.5 hours, each time it held up until the last time when i lost to 99 after he hit the river. This brought me down to a little less than $100. I then got 44 on the button and made it $13 to go. sb calls and i get 1 other caller and flop comes 7 3 2 rainbow. Checked around to me i bet $20, sb calls and i still believe i'm best. turn is a Jd putting 2 diamonds out there. Sb thinks about betting for a little bit and fires out $50. I really didn't put him on a hand here and felt like he might've just been stabbing cause i appeared weak on the flop so as soon as he bet i shoved for like $15 more and he calls with AKd, river K.
After that pot I had $80 left and went back home. The drive really wasn't bad since it gave me time to think and I was sort of relieved to be back home. I'm still wearing the same clothes that i've slept in for the last 2 days which is kinda gross. When i looked in the mirror my own image scared me. I still refuse to give up and will do whatever it takes to get my bankroll going. I gotta call up Events Plus and book as many gigs as possible. I really need to pay back my debt and just get a solid 5k bankroll to work with to atleast be able to take some swings. Tonight however, Steve has agreed to put up $500 more for me to play in Bloomfield in return for 80% of my profits. In a swingy game like Bloomfield 500 can go pretty easily after 2 hands not holding up but i'm determined to give it my all.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Bloomfield tournament + Borgata
So today i woke up at 3pm after sleeping for close to 13 hours. Felt like shit and couldn't get out of bed. Finally got up and played some $10 hu SNG's since i won $300 from playing James heads up on Absolute Poker, if you can call it playing. He was just shoving all-in regardless of his hand so after winning like 7/10 coinflips I had a working online bankroll. It would be nice to build it up and i'm gonna try out different approaches now even if it might take longer. we'll see....anyway after i played online for a couple hours i went to the bloomfield tourny with Steve since he decided to put me in it in exchange for 60% of profits. I told myself I'd never play in this tournament again since its an ultra turbo but i had nothing to lose. Good thing i did it cause i ended up chopping with another guy for 1st for $1150. Tipped the dealers $50 total and after make up made about $390. Obviously 1k would've been so much sweeter since i could actually go on a run with that but i'll have to make something happen with this.
I went to Borgata 2 nights ago with $420 after I had lost $260 the previous night at bloomfield. I played 1/2 from 7pm til about 1:30 in the morning. I was in for $300 and couldn't get anything going the whole time. Deck was extremely cold and finally at the end when i got to even and was about to leave the following hand comes up. New player posts $2. We're playing 6 or 7 handed, 2 ppl fold to me i make it $8 to go. 3 of us to the flop including the new player. Flop comes A Q 2, 2 diamonds. I bet out $20 and one guy folded and the new player insta calls leaving himself with $80. Turn bring a black 6 and i decided he was on a flush draw based on the way he called so i bet out a stack of $100 to put him all in. He thought for a while and at first i thought maybe i was beat since he was actually thinking about calling. Finally he calls and I go, good call A is good.....river Jd he flips over T4d..i was sick to my stomach. A then go on to lose another hand with JJ to A7 after running hearts come on the turn and river and he shows Ah against my Jh with Kh and Qh out there. I decided i'd go jump in a 2/5 game and dump the rest of my $125. After folding a couple of hands i steal a limped pot preflop in the BB after raising to $50 and announcing that i had to steal it. Everyone thought i was kidding apparently and quickly folded around so i showed Q5 o/s. then i had AQ suited and stole another pot preflop bringing me up to $180ish. Then the very next hand i pick up JJ and make it $40 to go. Folds around to the sb who makes it $100 and clearly was fed up with my antics. I shoved and he called with 89h. flop 8 high with 2 hearts, turn black A river 9 giving him 2 pair. That left me with $120 and i decided it was time to go back home.
I have to work this week thurs.-sat. at CVS which I know is going to kill me. I'm usually too tired afterwards to really play a long session. I guess i just gotta bite the bullet for now and get through it. I'm sure i'll feel better once i see the check. Still though, the only light at the end of the tunnel for me is knowing that soon enough i will get a solid enough roll to play 2-5nl without going broke. I know that 10 buy-ins is definitely enough. Until then I just gotta scrape together any wins I can to cover my expenses and pay back what i owe. Atleast i'm getting some kind of experience from all of this. I guess you can only connect the dots looking back.
Tomorrow i'll probably play online during the day and go to Bloomfield at night and take a shot at the cash game there.
I went to Borgata 2 nights ago with $420 after I had lost $260 the previous night at bloomfield. I played 1/2 from 7pm til about 1:30 in the morning. I was in for $300 and couldn't get anything going the whole time. Deck was extremely cold and finally at the end when i got to even and was about to leave the following hand comes up. New player posts $2. We're playing 6 or 7 handed, 2 ppl fold to me i make it $8 to go. 3 of us to the flop including the new player. Flop comes A Q 2, 2 diamonds. I bet out $20 and one guy folded and the new player insta calls leaving himself with $80. Turn bring a black 6 and i decided he was on a flush draw based on the way he called so i bet out a stack of $100 to put him all in. He thought for a while and at first i thought maybe i was beat since he was actually thinking about calling. Finally he calls and I go, good call A is good.....river Jd he flips over T4d..i was sick to my stomach. A then go on to lose another hand with JJ to A7 after running hearts come on the turn and river and he shows Ah against my Jh with Kh and Qh out there. I decided i'd go jump in a 2/5 game and dump the rest of my $125. After folding a couple of hands i steal a limped pot preflop in the BB after raising to $50 and announcing that i had to steal it. Everyone thought i was kidding apparently and quickly folded around so i showed Q5 o/s. then i had AQ suited and stole another pot preflop bringing me up to $180ish. Then the very next hand i pick up JJ and make it $40 to go. Folds around to the sb who makes it $100 and clearly was fed up with my antics. I shoved and he called with 89h. flop 8 high with 2 hearts, turn black A river 9 giving him 2 pair. That left me with $120 and i decided it was time to go back home.
I have to work this week thurs.-sat. at CVS which I know is going to kill me. I'm usually too tired afterwards to really play a long session. I guess i just gotta bite the bullet for now and get through it. I'm sure i'll feel better once i see the check. Still though, the only light at the end of the tunnel for me is knowing that soon enough i will get a solid enough roll to play 2-5nl without going broke. I know that 10 buy-ins is definitely enough. Until then I just gotta scrape together any wins I can to cover my expenses and pay back what i owe. Atleast i'm getting some kind of experience from all of this. I guess you can only connect the dots looking back.
Tomorrow i'll probably play online during the day and go to Bloomfield at night and take a shot at the cash game there.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Notable things about today:
-viet ai was delicious.
-started down the whole day and had to grind back to cut losses, ended up making it back +$100. mad frustrating.
- CVS tomorrow for 6 hours...brutal.
-viet ai was delicious.
-started down the whole day and had to grind back to cut losses, ended up making it back +$100. mad frustrating.
- CVS tomorrow for 6 hours...brutal.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Bloomfield, AC, and new BK club
Well, since I didn't get a chance to play the $350+50 Borgata Winter Open tournament due to insufficient funds it was time to go back home. I played at the Taj for 2 sessions and stayed at the Hilton since I was able to get a free room there. I remember not really being in the best of mindsets and really was just playing cause i had nothing else to do and needed money. That's always a terrible motivator and poker should be played for the love of the game, although you can't simply disregard the money either.
Soooo I went back home and told myself I was done with poker. That's it, I had had enough. After trying to search for jobs on craigslist and filling out some job applications a few days went by and I started talking again to Scuba Steve after we all parted our seperate ways after high school. He's still been playing online all this time and had been earning himself a decent living as well as a big bankroll. I told him I was busto and he wanted to put me back in the game. He put up the money for me to play in Bloomfield but the deal was he'd cover half my loss in exchange for half my profits. Good thing my first night I won $890 in about 2 hours and then bounced so atleast that was a good start. In the following 2 weeks I went on to make him about $900 total mainly from Bloomfield and a little from AC. I had also gotten myself some money but since I owed my credit card bill I was really hesitant on playing. I continued to give up half of my action.
Also, last week I stayed with my friend who was playing in the $3200 event at the Borgata Winter Open. He has a house in Margate and in the mean time i played a little while he went onto day 2 and day 3. Eventually he busted in 49th place for a total prize of $8500. Unfortunetly he had to give up 60% of his profits since he was being fully staked. His last hand he lost AIPF with 77 vs. 55. The tourny brought out a lot of pros and the 1st place prize ended up being $650k.
Yesterday I checked out a new club in Brooklyn that my friend Tim told me about. I met Tim in AC and got his number so we started talking. He's a dealer at one of the other clubs in Brooklyn. Anyways since it was Super Bowl Sunday they decided to have a $100+10 turbo tourny with 20 entrants. I was down to 2 BB's and made it back but ended up getting 4th and took my money back. 1st place was $1300 and would've been a nice boost to the BR. They had a 2-5 game going but I didn't feel like playing with the money that i owed the next day for my credit card so I just sat down at 1-2 for like a half hour and then left even. I was getting tired and worn out from the tournament so I decided to call it a night. I met up with Jeremy K. and his roommate since they were walking back from a superbowl party and had no idea how to get back. I ended up crashing for a few hours at his place and then went home at 6:30am and passed out till 3pm. Now I feel good to go for another session but I'm contemplating whether or not to go to this BK club again. Gas and tolls ends up costing me close to $20 per trip so it does add up. I already owe my mom for EZ pass from the previous months as well as other expenses that she's covered for me when I hit my downswing. I'm still not fully recovered from that and I owe other ppl tons of money.
Oh yeah, I did get a P/T job at CVS since Helm was able to hook me up. I worked on Saturday and it was pretty easy and everything started coming back to me just like when I worked there in High School. It does suck having to work for $9/hr doing routine shit but w/e, I guess it can't hurt. Also since it is part time i'll still be able to play poker 5 days a week.
I guess we'll see how the next few sessions go, I really need to focus and cannot afford to lose.
Soooo I went back home and told myself I was done with poker. That's it, I had had enough. After trying to search for jobs on craigslist and filling out some job applications a few days went by and I started talking again to Scuba Steve after we all parted our seperate ways after high school. He's still been playing online all this time and had been earning himself a decent living as well as a big bankroll. I told him I was busto and he wanted to put me back in the game. He put up the money for me to play in Bloomfield but the deal was he'd cover half my loss in exchange for half my profits. Good thing my first night I won $890 in about 2 hours and then bounced so atleast that was a good start. In the following 2 weeks I went on to make him about $900 total mainly from Bloomfield and a little from AC. I had also gotten myself some money but since I owed my credit card bill I was really hesitant on playing. I continued to give up half of my action.
Also, last week I stayed with my friend who was playing in the $3200 event at the Borgata Winter Open. He has a house in Margate and in the mean time i played a little while he went onto day 2 and day 3. Eventually he busted in 49th place for a total prize of $8500. Unfortunetly he had to give up 60% of his profits since he was being fully staked. His last hand he lost AIPF with 77 vs. 55. The tourny brought out a lot of pros and the 1st place prize ended up being $650k.
Yesterday I checked out a new club in Brooklyn that my friend Tim told me about. I met Tim in AC and got his number so we started talking. He's a dealer at one of the other clubs in Brooklyn. Anyways since it was Super Bowl Sunday they decided to have a $100+10 turbo tourny with 20 entrants. I was down to 2 BB's and made it back but ended up getting 4th and took my money back. 1st place was $1300 and would've been a nice boost to the BR. They had a 2-5 game going but I didn't feel like playing with the money that i owed the next day for my credit card so I just sat down at 1-2 for like a half hour and then left even. I was getting tired and worn out from the tournament so I decided to call it a night. I met up with Jeremy K. and his roommate since they were walking back from a superbowl party and had no idea how to get back. I ended up crashing for a few hours at his place and then went home at 6:30am and passed out till 3pm. Now I feel good to go for another session but I'm contemplating whether or not to go to this BK club again. Gas and tolls ends up costing me close to $20 per trip so it does add up. I already owe my mom for EZ pass from the previous months as well as other expenses that she's covered for me when I hit my downswing. I'm still not fully recovered from that and I owe other ppl tons of money.
Oh yeah, I did get a P/T job at CVS since Helm was able to hook me up. I worked on Saturday and it was pretty easy and everything started coming back to me just like when I worked there in High School. It does suck having to work for $9/hr doing routine shit but w/e, I guess it can't hurt. Also since it is part time i'll still be able to play poker 5 days a week.
I guess we'll see how the next few sessions go, I really need to focus and cannot afford to lose.
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