Weekend Updates (10/13/2010)
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 5:04PM I’ve been meaning to put a quick post up here the last few days, but I’ve been so damn busy. Also, my schedule is always super messed up since I’ve been grinding live all weekend and back to corporate during the week. So Saturday night I go to bed at about 6:00 a.m. Sunday I fall asleep around 2:00, then I have to wake Monday at 7:00 a.m. I can’t wait for this sort of schedule to be over. Only 7 days of corporate left, then I’m pretty much playing full-time.
The past weekend was a hell of a grind. I put in 27 hours for a +$650 profit. I really felt things went terribly on the tables. I just put in enough volume and took enough moderate sized pots down to balance things out. I took two massive suck-outs which I can think of off the top of my head. I’ll discuss the stupider one just to give an idea of how bad these tables are. Let’s just say I got hammered by a 50 year old women lmao:
Location: Atlantic City.
Time: Around 4p.m Sunday.
Stakes: 1-2 NL live.
Villian: Older lady. Probably in her 50s or 60s.
Mood: Mind-blown.
I am in the small blind and look down at pocket eights (8h8s). This is a relatively loose table with some decent action. I was just thinking about how I literally haven’t flopped a set in the last 20 hours of live play. WTF is going on? I in no way expect to flop a set here, but nice hand regardless.
So a player opens a standard $10 from EP. One other player calls. Also The passive semi-loose old lady CALLS from the cut-off. I call from the SB knowing the hand only has set-mine value at this point, and the BB also calls. I have about $150 left behind me. So we have a 5 way pot. Flop comes:
3d, 5d, 8c
Holy SHIT. I’m first to act and CHECK, because I know one or more of these tools are raising. Sure enough the initial raiser leads out $20. The old lady then unexpectedly raises to $60. This was shocking, WTF does she have? This is not the type of player who would shove all in on a draw. I’m putting her on a set of 3’s or a set of 5’s. I can’t see what else she would be making such a move with, but I have a feeling whatever she shows will be incredibly stupid. With the action on me I take some time and then calmly announce that I’m all in. The original raiser folds and the old lady calls covers me and calls about $90 more.
“Do you have a draw?”
She shakes her head and I can tell she does not have a draw and is therefore in HUGE trouble. Finally looks like I’m going to flop a set and win a decent pot without much effort. This never happens!
TURN: Jd
RIVER: As
BOARD: (3d, 5d, 8c, Jd, As)
The bitch turns over AA for the fucking miracle set on the river. Un-fucking believable she just called pre-flop in a multi-way pot from the cut-off with rockets. I soon calm down in another hand or two. I remind myself that idiots like this are paying for my living so whatever. Keep the stupid plays coming, there was nothing I could do there obviously.
There was another really bad beat I took when a big stack called my big 3-bet pre with 46s and flopped trip 4’s against my AA. No I could not catch a two out on the river. That was another $300 pot that should have been mine.
So yeah that’s about it. I felt things went really bad, but I still found a way to grind an acceptable hourly rate. I have a somewhat funny story where I hit on a Russian girl who was working at the casino I played at. It took me three weeks to actually to build up the courage to hit on this girl bone-dry sober (I haven't been drinking). Around 1:50 a.m on Friday I took a break from my table and I introduced myself. I timed it right when I knew they were closing in 5 minutes. I don't remember the exact conversation, but I basically just said "hey can I talk to you a second". And she was like yeah. So I said I'd be right outside. When she came out it was something like I noticed her, have been playing at the casino a lot, and just wanted to introduce myself.
I was very proud of myself. Turns out she was 25 and has a kid FML. Just kidding she's SO MY TYPE.
WE ARE THE SAME AGE, WE HAVE SO MUCH IN COMMON AM-I-RIGHT?
Anyways, at least she was flattered and nice. Maybe next week I can get her number. Can never have enough drop dead gorgeous 25-year olds with kids saved in your phone....
So I'll probably be back in AC this upcoming weekend. It feels good to make double my pay for a few weeks. It will make me that much more comfortable leaving the day job. I've been somewhat obessesed with establishing a nice hourly rate and feeling out the scene. Will try to update soon. I haven't been posting so much because I haven't brought a computer and equipment up to my new place yet. There will be much to post about during the next few months..
-bag
Reader Comments (3)
lol... as soon as you started that story I said to myself, "She flatted with AA or KK."
How are they all so predictable and bad?? Hahah.
Bags, you gotta love the players at 1-2 NL. She was all but playing her hand face up and you knew it. Just know that most folks do not hit their two outers on the river and over time, you will OWN players like that. Stay focused and keep grinding. You are living the dream.
Just mind-blowing I know. Better get used to dealing with it everyday. It's less stressful live because I'm already up X amount of buy-ins, where I still have borderline rage issues online. Like a few nights ago in the span of an hour:
Hand 1) KK< AA all in pre. Against the biggest nit regular ever. It's the only hand he's making that 4-bet with. I should have folded it as crazy as that may sound. Still a near impossible fold with a $50 stack. You calculate the equity and ranges and it makes sense to shove every time. Correct play, but I knew he had AA so an interesting dilema.
Hand 2) AA< QK off all in pre. OF course.
Hand 3) AK < AT all in pre. River ten.
I have no idea how I can conceivably win when losing hands like that. Online makes me feel powerless, a complete slave to ranges.
Living with roommates should help because I'm less likely to flip out. I don't want to sound like a lunatic. But alone in a basement was another story.