Nah, I do hope to be more faithful to this blog than I am to my facebook page (that particular bond remains non-existent). And to update more frequently than I return personal emails. I'm absolutely terrible on those, and other, internet fronts. I have no real reason to think I'll be better here, but it's spring, as good a time as any to be hopeful.
So my first blog entry comes early Monday morning, March 30. Around 3am EST. In Lexington, KY. We got into town around 7pm Sunday night, just in time to see "Last Chance Harvey" at the cheap theater next to the hotel. The tickets were a buck fifty, which is probably about what it was worth. I went with Trevor, Tyler, and Reba, and I don't think they thought it was terrible. I kinda did. Emma Thomson and Dustin Hoffman made a perfectly dreadful couple. One part of my brain tried to sell their unsuitability as being in keeping with the plot or theme or whatever. But most of my brain just didn't give a shit. I still think it was worth the ticket price, just cause I do love the movies. If a movie is not actively off-putting/unsettling (and sometimes even if it is) I'm still generally content to sit through it (in the theater, movies are much worse on television).
Afterwards I played about 3 hours of poker, got in about 2800 hands and booked a decent winner despite playing fairly mediocre. Been working fairly hard at judging sessions by my level of play, not whether I actually win or lose, so I guess this session was a failure. But, you know, on the other hand, even if I was playing my "C" game, it's probably fairly close to what my "A" game was a couple months ago. So that's kinda good, no?
Here you have a key hand, in terms of how to make money playing poorly. I call way too much from the blinds. I've been trying to work on it, but in spots like these I'm so easily tempted. Villain is nitty preflop, and stubborn post-flop, so if I hit huge I'm stacking him. But I just don't think I can make money in this spot long run, mainly because my semi-bluffs are not very often going to work and being OOP c/c'ing draws is no good (won't be able to get paid off when I hit). When he min-raises I obviously know I'm going to be getting it in bad, I'm just praying it's not AKh. Although turns out I woulda been fine.
HAND 1
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$1/$2 No Limit Hold'em Cash Game, 4 Players
Poker Tools by Stoxpoker - Hand Details
Hero (SB): $205.75 (102.9 bb)
BB: $117.65 (58.8 bb)
CO: $204.40 (102.2 bb)
BTN: $143.55 (71.8 bb)
Pre-Flop: Hero is SB with 7
6CO raises to $7, BTN folds, Hero calls $6, BB folds
Flop: ($16) T
4 3 (2 players)Hero checks, CO bets $10, Hero raises to $32, CO raises to $54, Hero raises to $198.75 and is all-in, CO calls $143.40 and is all-in
Turn: ($410.80) 5
(2 players, 2 are all-in)River: ($410.80) 9
(2 players, 2 are all-in)Results: $410.80 pot ($2.00 rake)
Hero showed 7
6 (a straight flush, Three to Seven) and won $408.80 ($204.40 net)CO showed T
T (a flush, Ten high) and lost (-$204.40 net)
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