random AC night trip
Holdem results ($2/$4 LHE) session 1
Time played today: 5-6 hours
Results today (green=win; red=loss): -$47.00
Results for Borgata: -$ 47.00
Holdem winnings (Atl City) 2007: +$ 503.00
decided to go down to AC again with some of my bros in the spur of the moment, this time we ended up hitting up the Borgata. first off, everything there is pretty much upgraded compared to most casinos since it is only a few years old. I heard some crazy shit about the Borgata though, a lot of hometown heroes trying to be cowboys at the No Limit area so I bought in for $200 at the $2/$4 limit tables. Played for about 5-6 hours and I ended up -$47
it was a sunday night so i didn't expect the place to be packed, but it took about a half hour wait to get a seat at a table. i sat down at the same table with tim and a bunch of grandpas/grandmas, and i thought...fucking perfect. old people are notorious suckers for spewing chips and paying you off. i wasn't card dead, but I ended up folding most of my premium hands anyway because I got outdrawn...that shit happens, so it didn't phase me. I had pocket aces and pocket kings and lost about $50 altogether on those hands, I didnt think there was any other way I could have played them. Lost with pocket aces by someone rivering a two-pair when he had K-10 offsuit, 10 on the flop and he hit a king on the river. Lost with pocket kings to someone turning a two-pair, but I forget how that hand played out. Anyways, after about 3 hours or so, I found myself down about $100.
its easy to try and complain shit on getting outdrawn and what not, but thats just poker, shit happens. you want people to try and draw out on you when you are ahead. this is how you win money, because over the long run those mistakes will not be profitable and you will have the upper hand. i see far too many people blaming their losses like "dude, this one hand i put in....." The problem is, first off, most likely it took them several of hands to lose their money, and secondly....one hand should not be sufficient to blame your problems on. one stack is one stack, if you believe you made the right decisions then in the long run if you run that simulation over and over again, you will have a positive expectation.
there were a couple of things I noticed about my play in the car coming back to new brunswick. while I think I played decent poker tonight, I know I lost my aggressive edge in limit poker. I recalled how I played the first time I went to AC and played limit and I am sure I played much differently compared to the last few times I went to the casinos. I think seeing too many people get drawn out on in limit, and personally observing a lot of my hands turn from being ahead on the flop to losing on the turn and river, I have subconsciously developed a tight passive profile. the slight fear of opponents re-raising on flops has been automatically translated into "must be two-pair or better" in my head lately, and I know it at least 2 instances, where I folded the winning hand due to a lot of aggression on the flop when I held top pair, top kicker (or high kicker) against a semi-tricky board (straight possibility) and to see the winner of the pot have middle pair.
This hand stuck out to me that made me realize how passive I had become.
I was in middle position with A-9 offsuit.
2 callers before me and I called. (I think I would have normally raised)
3 more players call, 6 people to the flop.
FLOP: 9 8 6 rainbow flop I believe.
2 people check to me, I bet
1 fold
small blind raises me (he has been pretty wild, didn't respect his raise much)
big blind re-raises (this raise had me worried since I thought he had to have something good enough to re-raise with)
1 fold
then it came to me and I folded.
I forget what came on the turn and river but I think they were low trash cards.
Small blind flipped over Q-9 for top pair, queen kicker
big blind flipped over K-8 for middle pair.
This kind of situation happened twice to me tonight, and both times I would have taken down the pot, it was a big wake up call to my playing style. Small blind had been sort of wild so I knew people were talking about him and how retarded he was, (he was catching a shit load of cards and re-raising with nothing sometimes). The fact that the big blind re-raised the small blind automatically switched on an "Auto-fold" button in my head to think that it was two-pair or greater. If i hadn't been so fucking passive lately and realized the fact that the big blind MUST know the small blind is wild and he was just raising because he thought top pair was good against the small blind, I probably would have 3 bet it, knowing I had top kicker. But the whole time I had been passive and thinking of possibilities like him having a made straight and shit like that.
i can't believe it took me this long to realize how passive my play had become and how quick i was to assume/give credit to players who play like garbage.
for the next time I go to AC, i will make sure to re-read on some passages in my books that I've neglected for awhile, I've lost my aggressive edge in limit, and that is something that is profitable to me. much work needed to be done on my limit game and I'm thinking about trying out $3/$6 LHE.
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also, fuck the Borgata, I don't care if thats where the young people hang out nowadays, and the waitresses are better looking, I'm in AC to make money.
i feel so much more at home at the Trop.
Time played today: 5-6 hours
Results today (green=win; red=loss): -$47.00
Results for Borgata: -$ 47.00
Holdem winnings (Atl City) 2007: +$ 503.00
decided to go down to AC again with some of my bros in the spur of the moment, this time we ended up hitting up the Borgata. first off, everything there is pretty much upgraded compared to most casinos since it is only a few years old. I heard some crazy shit about the Borgata though, a lot of hometown heroes trying to be cowboys at the No Limit area so I bought in for $200 at the $2/$4 limit tables. Played for about 5-6 hours and I ended up -$47
it was a sunday night so i didn't expect the place to be packed, but it took about a half hour wait to get a seat at a table. i sat down at the same table with tim and a bunch of grandpas/grandmas, and i thought...fucking perfect. old people are notorious suckers for spewing chips and paying you off. i wasn't card dead, but I ended up folding most of my premium hands anyway because I got outdrawn...that shit happens, so it didn't phase me. I had pocket aces and pocket kings and lost about $50 altogether on those hands, I didnt think there was any other way I could have played them. Lost with pocket aces by someone rivering a two-pair when he had K-10 offsuit, 10 on the flop and he hit a king on the river. Lost with pocket kings to someone turning a two-pair, but I forget how that hand played out. Anyways, after about 3 hours or so, I found myself down about $100.
its easy to try and complain shit on getting outdrawn and what not, but thats just poker, shit happens. you want people to try and draw out on you when you are ahead. this is how you win money, because over the long run those mistakes will not be profitable and you will have the upper hand. i see far too many people blaming their losses like "dude, this one hand i put in....." The problem is, first off, most likely it took them several of hands to lose their money, and secondly....one hand should not be sufficient to blame your problems on. one stack is one stack, if you believe you made the right decisions then in the long run if you run that simulation over and over again, you will have a positive expectation.
there were a couple of things I noticed about my play in the car coming back to new brunswick. while I think I played decent poker tonight, I know I lost my aggressive edge in limit poker. I recalled how I played the first time I went to AC and played limit and I am sure I played much differently compared to the last few times I went to the casinos. I think seeing too many people get drawn out on in limit, and personally observing a lot of my hands turn from being ahead on the flop to losing on the turn and river, I have subconsciously developed a tight passive profile. the slight fear of opponents re-raising on flops has been automatically translated into "must be two-pair or better" in my head lately, and I know it at least 2 instances, where I folded the winning hand due to a lot of aggression on the flop when I held top pair, top kicker (or high kicker) against a semi-tricky board (straight possibility) and to see the winner of the pot have middle pair.
This hand stuck out to me that made me realize how passive I had become.
I was in middle position with A-9 offsuit.
2 callers before me and I called. (I think I would have normally raised)
3 more players call, 6 people to the flop.
FLOP: 9 8 6 rainbow flop I believe.
2 people check to me, I bet
1 fold
small blind raises me (he has been pretty wild, didn't respect his raise much)
big blind re-raises (this raise had me worried since I thought he had to have something good enough to re-raise with)
1 fold
then it came to me and I folded.
I forget what came on the turn and river but I think they were low trash cards.
Small blind flipped over Q-9 for top pair, queen kicker
big blind flipped over K-8 for middle pair.
This kind of situation happened twice to me tonight, and both times I would have taken down the pot, it was a big wake up call to my playing style. Small blind had been sort of wild so I knew people were talking about him and how retarded he was, (he was catching a shit load of cards and re-raising with nothing sometimes). The fact that the big blind re-raised the small blind automatically switched on an "Auto-fold" button in my head to think that it was two-pair or greater. If i hadn't been so fucking passive lately and realized the fact that the big blind MUST know the small blind is wild and he was just raising because he thought top pair was good against the small blind, I probably would have 3 bet it, knowing I had top kicker. But the whole time I had been passive and thinking of possibilities like him having a made straight and shit like that.
i can't believe it took me this long to realize how passive my play had become and how quick i was to assume/give credit to players who play like garbage.
for the next time I go to AC, i will make sure to re-read on some passages in my books that I've neglected for awhile, I've lost my aggressive edge in limit, and that is something that is profitable to me. much work needed to be done on my limit game and I'm thinking about trying out $3/$6 LHE.
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also, fuck the Borgata, I don't care if thats where the young people hang out nowadays, and the waitresses are better looking, I'm in AC to make money.
i feel so much more at home at the Trop.
posted by mikey k at 4:19 AM
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