A tale of two hands
Well February is here and the sumer is a coming.... My new cricket bats have arrived from India and so now I am keeping the street entertained with the rythmic knocking in of the bats! I am not sure if there taste in bat beats is the same as mine.
Anyway onto the poker. I have spent one off my favourite periods of the day playing - 0030 hrs GMT - 0500hrs GMT. This is my favourite time for a number of reasons:-
1- I find that there are a few drunks who no matter what day of the week it is will still appear for some post pub poker. These players I often find are very keen to draw, and as such I always look to extract cash out of them when I hit my big hands. I also find you can make sickiningly obvious little raises with the nuts or near nuts and they still insist on calling.
2- I find that some of the better players who have spent the evening building stacks, start getting tired and making little mistakes. If you are careful they can be decent sources of income.
3- Tourney players who have spent a hard evenings work winning or making good money in a tourney often appear late when they are tired, and are ripe for attacking. I often find players who specialise in tourneys struggle in internet cash games. It is my view that even good tourney players online struggle with cash players because of ten they cannot play sufficently well on the flop. It is very rare that these players find any other move than pushing in. I am very much the same when playing tourneys, tending to put the pressure on pre and on the flop. I am always very much aware when switching between tourney and cash of the different stratergy required.
4- I work shifts in my job, and so dont generally suffer from the tiredness issue because I am used to being awake overnight.
A tale of two bad beats to night, ironically 1 for me and 1 against me. Both pots were worth approximately $600 and in both we sucked out on each other. In the first hand I held QJ in a raised pot with two callers. When the flop came 10-9-8 with , I was very pleased. I was even happier when my pot sized bet was raised all in on the flop by an aggressive nutter. When the turn and river came 8-7, and no flush was made, I didnt see how I could be losing unless he had made this play with trips. When he turned over 7-8 for a runner runner boat I was not impressed!
Anyway about an hour later in a raised pot, I came up against the same player with a board of A Q 9 I held AJ. I made a big bet and the mr nutter moves in. 3 hands previousy he had caught a weak kicker to make aces up, and this hand had played out in a similar fashion. The turn brought me a jack and the river was a blank. I won with two pair..... He claimed AK.
Now Normally I moan when I am the sufferer of bad beats, It is a bad habbit which I am desperately trying to get out of..... I dont do it in the live scenario, so why should the internet be any different? Any way my opponent in this scenario was adamant he had AK in the conversation that followed. He spent a good couple of minutes moaning about what a fish I was.
As I said to him - sometimes, what goes around comes around. He claimed I was a fish..... if he was honest and had AK I was only 7% to win and got very lucky...... He must have forgotten hewas only 3% to win the earlier hand!Fickle poker players.....
Anyway an update on proceeedings tonight - at the time of writing its 0435 hrs and I am +£519.45. This is despite a disasterous start to the monthly VC tourney run where I dropped £300 very quickly in their tourneys and cash games. I am definately avoiding VC poker cash games, and sticking to the right tourneys. I think my problem was I didnt approach them in the right frame of mind, having played so much cash lately.
Right - enough said.
Ladbrokes + £814.45 / +$1597.93
VC - £300 / -$585
PP - £100 / -$195
Best wishes
Anyway onto the poker. I have spent one off my favourite periods of the day playing - 0030 hrs GMT - 0500hrs GMT. This is my favourite time for a number of reasons:-
1- I find that there are a few drunks who no matter what day of the week it is will still appear for some post pub poker. These players I often find are very keen to draw, and as such I always look to extract cash out of them when I hit my big hands. I also find you can make sickiningly obvious little raises with the nuts or near nuts and they still insist on calling.
2- I find that some of the better players who have spent the evening building stacks, start getting tired and making little mistakes. If you are careful they can be decent sources of income.
3- Tourney players who have spent a hard evenings work winning or making good money in a tourney often appear late when they are tired, and are ripe for attacking. I often find players who specialise in tourneys struggle in internet cash games. It is my view that even good tourney players online struggle with cash players because of ten they cannot play sufficently well on the flop. It is very rare that these players find any other move than pushing in. I am very much the same when playing tourneys, tending to put the pressure on pre and on the flop. I am always very much aware when switching between tourney and cash of the different stratergy required.
4- I work shifts in my job, and so dont generally suffer from the tiredness issue because I am used to being awake overnight.
A tale of two bad beats to night, ironically 1 for me and 1 against me. Both pots were worth approximately $600 and in both we sucked out on each other. In the first hand I held QJ in a raised pot with two callers. When the flop came 10-9-8 with , I was very pleased. I was even happier when my pot sized bet was raised all in on the flop by an aggressive nutter. When the turn and river came 8-7, and no flush was made, I didnt see how I could be losing unless he had made this play with trips. When he turned over 7-8 for a runner runner boat I was not impressed!
Anyway about an hour later in a raised pot, I came up against the same player with a board of A Q 9 I held AJ. I made a big bet and the mr nutter moves in. 3 hands previousy he had caught a weak kicker to make aces up, and this hand had played out in a similar fashion. The turn brought me a jack and the river was a blank. I won with two pair..... He claimed AK.
Now Normally I moan when I am the sufferer of bad beats, It is a bad habbit which I am desperately trying to get out of..... I dont do it in the live scenario, so why should the internet be any different? Any way my opponent in this scenario was adamant he had AK in the conversation that followed. He spent a good couple of minutes moaning about what a fish I was.
As I said to him - sometimes, what goes around comes around. He claimed I was a fish..... if he was honest and had AK I was only 7% to win and got very lucky...... He must have forgotten hewas only 3% to win the earlier hand!Fickle poker players.....
Anyway an update on proceeedings tonight - at the time of writing its 0435 hrs and I am +£519.45. This is despite a disasterous start to the monthly VC tourney run where I dropped £300 very quickly in their tourneys and cash games. I am definately avoiding VC poker cash games, and sticking to the right tourneys. I think my problem was I didnt approach them in the right frame of mind, having played so much cash lately.
Right - enough said.
Ladbrokes + £814.45 / +$1597.93
VC - £300 / -$585
PP - £100 / -$195
Best wishes
posted by Mosside at 9:43 PM
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