MTT'S, TS and cash games

So I got like another 20 minutes at work and Im deciding to post on my blog. Online hasn’t been that great. Just when it seems its getting better, I get a night where I run super bad. I played in about 15 tournys on Monday night and didn’t even come close to cashing in any of them. I played a tourny on Thursday night and finished in 2nd and won 4830$US. Fealt awesome to finaly win a big one. The live games are good still. I was down 3700$ a month ago and now I’m up 1845$. The worst part is, I only played 5 or 6 sessions.

I got a couple hands you might like to hear.

I’m going to start with the session before I went to TS.

I only remember this hand. It’s a limped pot and I’m in the SB with J 6. Flop comes out J 8 7. Theres like 30$ in the pot, so I bet 25$ and I got called by 2 peoples. Pot is now 105$. Turn is a J, I slow down because I thought someone might have flopped a straight. I check, and everyone checks. River is a 6. At this point, I guess no1 flopped a straight, so I bet so that someone will call with either an 8 or a 7 or someone that slow played an over pair. I bet 45$ into that pot, first guy calls and the other player makes it 150$ total. The player that flat called the flop is thinking of re-raising in that spot. So he asks me what do I have and I only respond, I have a good hand. He flat calls and shows 4 5 other player claims to have 9 10. Overall, I think the hand was pretty poorly played by them.

Thats the only hand I remember from before TS.

In TS, I played a couple pots where I had huge draws.

I limp with 10s 8s in early position at 1 – 2 and player in the cut off raises to 16$. I’m the only caller. At this point, I think he probably has a big pair. Flop comes 8h Qs 7s. I check, he bets 25$, I raise to 75$, the shoves his last 100$ in and now I have to call. He shows AA with no spade. Pot is just about 400$ and the turn and river are blanks, I lose the pot.

I limp in with Jd 10d. Player in SB raises to 16$, and I’m the only one who calls. Flop comes Qd Qh 7d. He bets 30$, at this point I think he has AA or KK or maybe even JJ. I think I can push him off his hand, so I make is 95$ total. He then goes all in for maybe 75$ more. He shows Q J. Turn was a K to give me even more outs, river a blank. Another pot just under 400$ that I lose In that game.

A really tight player raises from UTG to 10$ and a couple people call and I call with K J on the button. Flop comes A 7 3. The pre flop raiser bets 25$ into the pot of about 50$, Everone folds and I think he has like QQ , so I make it 75$ total and he folds.

I pick up 7c 3c and I limp in Late position, maybe 6 peoples in the hand and the pot is 12$. Flop comes Jh Qh 4c. Its checked around, Turn comes 6c. Blinds check, UTG bet 10$, I make it 20$, SB makes it 65$, UTG shoves for 120$. I have 131$ total and decide to flat call. SB puts me in. They show 44 and 66 both of them with sets. I show my 7 3 and the river is a 5s. SHIP IT. Fealt good to hit one. LOL Now to the 5-5 game in TS.


The first hand I played during the night was against Krissy. Pot is raised to 25 in middle position, im in the cut off and just flat call with QQ. The player right next to me makes it 75$ to go. Krissy in the BB shoves all in. Its folded to me and I wait abit, and I call. The guy that raised to 75 folds. She Shows AK. I thought she had either that or Jacks. The flop was K Q J. Turn was 10 River 6. Nice straight.

I rebuy, couple hands later, I pick up KK in the SB and UTG makes it 25 to go. Its folded around to me. I know this player is super aggressive player, so I just called in the SB. BB folded. Flop came Jh 10d 6h. I checked, he bet 50$ into 55$ pot, I make it 125$ to go. At this point, I decided that im going all in for my last 250$ pretty much no matter what comes. Turn is Kh, I go all in for 250$ and he says, well I have to call now. He had QQ with the Qh. River 10. So im back to even for the day.

I raise in middle position to 25$ with Js 9s, cut off calls and blinds call. Pot is 100$. Flop comes Jh 10s 4h. Blinds check, I bet 65$, cut off calls, blinds fold. Turn is 8c. I bet 100$ and he goes all in for 235$ more. So now the pot is about 670$ and its costing me 235$ to call. Im not really sure what he has, but im getting almost 3 to 1 and the only way im drawing dead is if he has Q9, but I don’t think he has that. So I call, and he has AA. I had a lot more outs then I thought to start with. Any J, 9 Q 7. River was a blank and I lose. Im not down to about 300$ in chipsI decide not to rebuy.

Next pot I play, everyone at the table limps in, including UTG and im in BB with Ks Js and i'm feeling that i'm going to need to win a pot soon and i want to build the pot. I make it 25$ total and UTG makes it 75$ to go. Its folded around to me, and i say, well i made this happen, i have to call. So i put him on a big PP. Flop comes out Ac 7s 5s. I go all in for my last 200$ into a pot of about 190$. I thinks hes going to fold KK and QQ in this spot for sure. He calls with A Q with no spades. Turn is 4s. I WIN.

I grinded it out, won a couple pots and then this hand was a big one. UTG makes it 10$ blind, and next player makes it 20$. I'm first to act and call with Qd 10d. There one more caller and the SB makes it 80$ total, its folded to me and i decide to play the hand, and one more player calls. The pot is now about 280$. The flop comes 10h 3h 5c. The SB bets 75$, i thought this was a really weak bet, so made it 200$ total. Then the next player was thinking about it, and i was looking at the guy in the SB and it looked like he was going to fold, and then he acted out of turn and said, i call. Then the other guy went all in for 180$ total, and the SB now call in turn. So now the pot is roughly 960$. The turn is 4s. SB checks and then i go all in for 450$. The SB folds right away. River is Kd, i show my hand and the player that was all in says my hand is good. The SB said he folded A 10, but i still think he folded AK, either way, i made him fold the winners.

I then played a couple sessions back home.

Theres actually alot of interesting hands, but right now i really don't feel like writing. I guess i might update this if i'm ever bored at work sometimes next week.