Back on Track

This is going to be a pretty long blog with some interesting hands so bare with me haha.


Firstly, heres the graph at the moment and as you will notice, it's back on track now, me and Pete have been running pretty good the last few days and we have finally made it past the $500 mark which was one of our goals

Okay, yesterday (saturday) was a big day of live poker for me. Firstly I played in the 2pm APL event at Davistown RSL, doubled up pretty early on with A-4 Vs AK on a A46 flop when the guy checkraised me all in, luckily I didn't have to sweat to long as a 4 came on the turn. Won a nice pot with A4 again a few hands later when I limped on the button after a few limpers, flop 235. So I was pretty chipped up during the entire event up until this hand. Blinds 500/1000, 2 limpers, guy in the CO made it 3000 to go, I am on the button with AdQh and just call with a stack of about 28k, I probably should have shoved pre flop but ah well, not a big fan of that. 2 limpers called, flop is 46Q all diamonds, checks to the raiser and he shoves for 26.5k, I snap call and he says "oh shit, I'm beat" and then turns to his friend and says "we're going home" and starts shaking his head. I turn my hand over and he goes "oh, I'm ahead" and shows 57 diamonds, nice slowroll. I brick out and I'm left with 1.5k. I shove next hand with 9h10h and get called in 3 spots, make a flush to more than triple up. Anyway, I made the final table about 3rd in chips somehow haha, ending up finishing 2nd for $40 after my A9 lost to q7 all in pre flop heads up. Next up was the $33 Deepstack Terminator event at Davistown. Interesting hand vs Craig "Ranga" Stanley, about 6 or 7 hands in, few people limp in for the big blind of 50, I limp along in the hijack with K-3 spades, Ranga raises to 225 from the cutoff, about 5 callers, I call as well. Flop is Kh-4s-6s, a pretty big flop for my hand, checks around to me, I check, intending to checkraise Ranga who bets 600, but I had to re-evaluate once 4 people called! I really didn't know if I was drawing to a bad flush here, so I just called. Turn was another King, everyone checks to me and I check to Ranga who checks. River is a blank 10 of hearts I think? Everyone checks to me again, I check to let Ranga bluff and he does, he bets 4.5k, folds to me, I call, he instantly mucks and my 10k starting stack is quickly upto 22k, but for the next hour before the first break, completely card dead, every time I raised pre flop, I got popped so I limped into the break with a tiny bit above 20k, still a lot of chips. Come back from the break and same sort of thing, no hands, no suited connectors, nothing. Then I wake up with 10's on the button with the blinds at 200/400. 5 limpers, I think for a while and decide just to limp a long with them, flop came out 678 rainbow, Ranga checked in the SB, and the BB fired out 1.5k, folds to me and I call and Ranga calls from the SB, turn is a 9 completing the rainbow, Ranga checks, BB fires out 2k and I just call, not wanting to scare Ranga out of the pot who can be a bit of a station at times. River is an A, they check to me and I bet out 2.7k and they both call and I take the entire pot. Table break soon after and I get moved to a table with my friend Pete and Matty Dick who were probably the two toughest players in the entire field and I didn't know it at the time but the guy on my left was tough as well. Got AA pretty early on on this table, raised 3x the BB and stole the blinds which were Matty and Pete haha. Then nothing really happened for a while until Pete stop and go'd me the son of a bitch, I taught him that play during the break as well haha, what an asshole. Then I lost a sizeable pot with J-7spades, 4 limpers for 800, I complete from the SB. The tight solid guy in the BB made it about 3k total and the limpers called, so I called. Flop KK2 with a spade, checked around. Turn 9 of spades, checks to a limper, she was an utter calling station and was extremely predictable, she bet out 2k, I knew she had a 9 and I knew I was getting the price to call, all I was worried about was the BB but I got the feeling he wasn't really interested, so I call, he folded, river was the 3 of diamonds, check/check on the river and she showed Q-9 off suit. I don't think I could have bought the pot on the river, perhaps a check/raise on the turn? Was down to 15k after this hand with the blinds going up to 500/1000. The same girl limps in for 1k, folds to me on the button and I shoved for 11k total with AA, she eventually calls with A-Qo and I win the pot and double up and I knocked her out so I collected my first $10 KO of the night. Few hands later I pick up QQ and raise it to 3k from UTG, Roger calls on the button, now Roger is probably the player I read best at APL, I've logged a lot of hours with him and I usually know where I am in the pot with him. Flop came 8-10-J with two clubs, I c-bet 5k, he shoves, I call, he had me covered by about 4.5k or so? He turned over KQ off and my QQ held. Next hand with the blinds up to 1k/2k Roger shoved UTG for his 4.5k, folds to me in the BB and I call with K9 and I'm up against Rogers 78s, a King in the window and I collected another $10KO. Nothing really happened, stole a few blinds. Down to the 3 tables, blinds up to 3k/6k and I have 46K in the BB, Matty Dick shoves UTG for 36k, next guy calls for 28k and the SB throws in his last 25k or so? I look down at AJ and call and I'm up against KK vs QQ vs Matt's 66 and Matt spikes a 6 to win a pretty big pot and catapolt himself into the top 3 or 4 chipleaders in the tournament while I'm down to 10k and we are down to the final 2 tables. First hand of the new table, 2 people limp in for the 6k, I look down at 10's and put in my last 10k, Matty calls in the SB and Monty in the BB re-shoves for about 80k which I was happy about, I wanted the protection, everyone folds and Monty tables AQ off suit and he flops a Queen and I was out. I was happy with the way I played, I think I had to gamble on the AJ hand but looking back on it I think I could have folded but perhaps thats just ROT. Anyway, I went home and played about 8 SNGS, won 2 and finished heads up in another so I got a small profit.

Woke up this morning and drove out to Gosford RSL for the APL monthly regional invitational. 10K starting stack. 25 min levels. A half decent structure. My first table and I got Chimp on my left, I got Benny about 3 seats to my right and I got Monty three seats to my left, pretty fun table. First blunder came with KK, blinds 50/100, I raise to 325 after Ben limped UTG+1, some old spastic fuckwit calls on the button, BB calls and Ben calls, flops J62 rainbow, I bet out 650 when its checked to me and the old spastic fuckwit, lets just call him TOSF for now makes it 2k to go, I call, idiot move, shove Shep shove! Queen on the turn, I check, he checks, I really got no idea where I am in this hand. Rivers a 5, I check and TOSF bets 7k! WTF! I tank for like two minutes and eventually fold, he shows me 55! I said "nice bluff on the flop" and he replied "wasn't a bluff I had a pair". Next hand Benny doubles up with AA vs TOSF's J-8 off suit on a flop of Q-6-2 rainbow, yes Q-6-2 rainbow, you read it right and to put the icing on the cake, after the 10 on the turn TOSF called for a King, River was a blank and TOSF said "lucky I didn't hit that King" WTF! What is wrong with some people. Anyway I go busto a few hands later. Some guy who thinks he is a pro raises it to 500, I call with 9h10h with about 8k behind me. 3 other calls. Flops Jh 7h 2s, checks to him, he c-bets 1.5k, I make it 7k to go (this is a bet I've been trying out lately, the "I'm commited" bet) Folds to him and he instantly says "I'll just put you all in", I snap my last 1k in the pot and he shows AK off suit? Huh? What? That's a joke right? Anyway his AK holds up, I feel like puking. I hang around for a bit to see how some of my friends were going like Chimp, Benny, Pete, Nugent and Blake. Was funny watching Hulbert go busto with AK like usual, when will he learn AK and top pair ISN'T the nuts, anyway he got out, shaking his head, I think I said something about him not being able to fold AK ever or something, he said something back, then I said something back along the lines of keep grinding out the 7 cent wins on pokerstars. I think it's pretty funny how me and Pete have won more money online in 2 weeks than he has his entire life in poker. I seriously don't think he realizes how much he embarrasses himself at APL and that he is the laughing stock of the league. Then I spoke to Shell for a while, she's cool, then I heard out Blakeys "bad beat" where he commited his entire stack with KK on the turn with a board of 28910 vs 2 people who called a sizeable bet on the flop, he lost to 67. Just a word of advice, overpairs in deepstack tournaments are dangerous. If you get all the money in on the turn with just an overpair, you are usually going to be in trouble. Then I went home, played a bunch of SNGs. Ran KK into AA, ran QQ into KK, ran JJ into QQ, ran KK into AA again but luckily I spiked a king this time! About time! haha. Played 5 SNGs at once, won 2 of them, cashed in another, nice little profit that took us over the 500 mark. Anyway thats all. Hope you enjoyed it.