Cash Games on Online MTTs, Vegas in Jan

Well, its a new year and i'd like to say that my profit for this year is just about the same thing as last year. I'm up in the area of 15K for the second year. Now i know this has been said quite abit, but i'm thinking of quitting poker(not actually quitting but its almost like quitting when your playing one day a week compared to 24/7). I haven't been playing too much lately and i'm enjoying other things in life which feels good to get out there and do it. I'm trying to master this Guitar Hero 3 thing but i'm getting pretty frustrated and trying to Master 10 pin bowling.

As for cash games and such, i got a couple hands that i played the last time i visited a casino near by.

The player to my right makes it 25$ UTG and i call with A Q and we get a couple more calls. Pot is about 130$. Flop comes As Ac 10d. Pre-flop raiser makes it 30, i call. A decent player makes it 100 total to go and its folded back to me. Now usually, I would always just flat call here and let him fire the turn and hope he doesn't hit his kicker. I'm 95% sure that he has an ace and 100% sure he doesn't have AK. He could have A 10 which would suck, but i would get my money in anyways. Lately, i've kinda lost confidence in people missing their 3 outters, so i decide to make it 125$ more with about 200$ more behind. He tanks and finally folds an ace.(so he says)

Couple hands later, i'm in early position and a limper UTG and i call with AhKh, everyone calls raises and i don't really feel like playing out of position so i just flat call. Button makes it 20 and BB goes all in for 35. The pot is 4 handed but one guy all in so 3 handed and pot is about 150$. Flop is 10h Js 5d. We check to button who makes it 65$ to go. Now this is a player that semi bluffs alot. He could have anything. I call with my 2 overs and gut shot. I think i'm good if either of those come. The turn was a 3h to give me a flush draw on top of it. He now bets 200 and has about 250$ behind. Now usually he goes all in with nothing and i think that if he had nothing, he would have gone all in. Stupid me, my read is that he ain't folding, so if i wanna call, pot of about 300, 200$ bet, and 250$ behind. Makes my 200 call worth about 750 with implied odds. And i can fold if i miss everything. Well stupid me, i go all in just in case he had nothing, i brick the river and he shows J 10.

I reloaded and later got into a pot where i limped in middle position with 9h 7h after a couple peoples limped. SB makes it 25 to go and we all call. 5 handed, pot 125ish. Right before the flop comes out, a player says, i can't say it in english but "Ocho" and i believed him. Flop come Kh 9s 6s. Pre-flop raiser is in SB and bets 30$, Ocho guy calls and another guy calls, and i call because i know i beat of the guys that called. Turn is Ah. The SB guy bets 100 and they fold to me, i know he could be bluffing so i take a chance with my pair and flush draw and shove my last 200$ in the pot, he snap calls and the river is Jc. He says, "your good" i respond with "your good", he says "no, i'm pretty sure your good" i say, "well, i got a 9" and he mucks.

This is probably the last interesting pot i played. I'm about 900 deep so i limp alot and play hands post flop because you can get paid .... anyways, i limp with Kh Jh and its folded to button who calls and blinds check. Flop comes Ah 10d 7s, its checked to me and i bet 15$ thinking the blinds have nothing and i can take this down because i know the buttons range is pretty wide when limping from there and its folded to BB who calls. Now i'm pretty sure he doesn't have an Ace because he would have bet it. I think he either has something like KQ, KJ, QJ or like a 10 or 7. Turn is 3d. He checks again, now i think i can make him fold a 10 or 7 if i fire again, so i bet 40$ into a pot of 50$. He calls again. Now i'm not too sure whats going on. River is a Ks. He fires 100$. Now for how the hand is played and what i put him on, I would think i'm best here. I'm 90% he doesn't have an Ace unless he had AA which is highly unlikely. I think for abit, and i see a tell that i kinda noticed that he did alot when he had big hands. I remembered at least 3 occasions where he had monsters and was doing the same thing. I decide to fold thinking he had QJ and got there or maybe a set or something like that. He showed me K 10 for 2 pairs which made alot of sense.


As for MTTs, i haven't had anything go my way in a while now, I haven't had a score since Nov 6th and i made an FT not too long ago. Finish 8th or 7th, i forget how much i got, but i wasn't happy. I'm laying off MTTs for a little while, probably only going to play Sundays and Monday's.


I'm also going to Vegas next week and I'm starting to get pumped. I'm not sure if i wanna mostly play tourneys or cash. Hopefully i can play a couple tournaments and get off to a good start this time and support myself for the week. My last visit to Vegas, i said i was going to maybe take a shot at the 5 - 10NL game if i got off to a hot start because every time i go to Bellagio, it always seems really soft. I wanna take a stab at it. I hope i can be up 2 -3K early and take a shot at it.

I will report hands later(if i'm not too lazy), hope you enjoyed.

Later ....