Sunday, May 15, 2005
Busting Out of a Slump
As most of you have probably witnessed I havn't been playing my best poker lately. And when you aren't running well $100 NL can get expensive, so I havn't been playing much. I brought up stars to see if there were any good tourneys getting ready to start, but I struck out. So I sat at an empty $2/$4 limit table at stars and waited for someone to join me. My first table filled up quickly with 2/4 regulars I remember (and who probably have me on their fish finders) from years past, and I left up $10 after a few minutes. I sat at another 2/4 table and struck gold. The guy I was playing against was a real jopke. I busted him twice for $40 in about 10 minutes. He was 3 betting the river with missed draws, etc like I'd fold for one more bet at that point.
So I had about $115 when he rebought for his entire roll... like $461. I'm thinking cool! If I can keep this table empty I'll bust this guy. But the table quickly filled up. I lost a decent pot and almost left the table up like $70, but I decided to stay for a little longer. Good Choice. I was getting good cards, making good hands with crappy cards, and getting action on everything. Before I knew it I had broke $200. The bad player was losing pots to me regularly but winning them from other people. A typical pot he was it would be $40 and he'd call down with JQ and no draw and river a Jack to win. I kept winning getting action left and right. At one point I got AA UTG, raised and had the entire table call. AA held somehow. The idiot called with J5, flopped a 5 and called me down. Soon I was upto $250 then $300. I couldn't believe it and things were still running well.
I peaked at about $420. At this point variance caught up to me and my top pair big kicker got outdrawn on river by a guy calling down with bottom pair and making a crazy two pair, AK not hitting, SF draw missing in 4 way capped pot, etc etc. I was getting a little steamed (or as steamed as you can get being up 75 BBs in less than an hour and a half) so I left, taking exactly $340 with me, for a nice even $300 profit.
Right before I left (and probably afterwards) the idiot went on raging tilt. He at one point was upto $600 and then like 15 minutes later was down to about 300 when I left. He was raising/3 betting almost everypot preflop and after. He capped the turn and 3 bet the river with 96 clubs when the board had AKxx all hearts. Fun stuff. I looked him up later and he was playing a $55 sng and was doing decent in the $215 sunday tourney. BUT he went on tilt there too.
http://pokerhand.org/index.php?page=view&hand=63453
http://pokerhand.org/index.php?page=view&hand=63452
With the average stack at about 4500 he went from 7200 to broke in two hands. Big surprise.
Also today, I cleared a bonus at stars and had two more winning sessions. Very good feeling to add over $500 to your bankroll in one day playing a couple hours of 2/4.
--Tad
So I had about $115 when he rebought for his entire roll... like $461. I'm thinking cool! If I can keep this table empty I'll bust this guy. But the table quickly filled up. I lost a decent pot and almost left the table up like $70, but I decided to stay for a little longer. Good Choice. I was getting good cards, making good hands with crappy cards, and getting action on everything. Before I knew it I had broke $200. The bad player was losing pots to me regularly but winning them from other people. A typical pot he was it would be $40 and he'd call down with JQ and no draw and river a Jack to win. I kept winning getting action left and right. At one point I got AA UTG, raised and had the entire table call. AA held somehow. The idiot called with J5, flopped a 5 and called me down. Soon I was upto $250 then $300. I couldn't believe it and things were still running well.
I peaked at about $420. At this point variance caught up to me and my top pair big kicker got outdrawn on river by a guy calling down with bottom pair and making a crazy two pair, AK not hitting, SF draw missing in 4 way capped pot, etc etc. I was getting a little steamed (or as steamed as you can get being up 75 BBs in less than an hour and a half) so I left, taking exactly $340 with me, for a nice even $300 profit.
Right before I left (and probably afterwards) the idiot went on raging tilt. He at one point was upto $600 and then like 15 minutes later was down to about 300 when I left. He was raising/3 betting almost everypot preflop and after. He capped the turn and 3 bet the river with 96 clubs when the board had AKxx all hearts. Fun stuff. I looked him up later and he was playing a $55 sng and was doing decent in the $215 sunday tourney. BUT he went on tilt there too.
http://pokerhand.org/index.php?page=view&hand=63453
http://pokerhand.org/index.php?page=view&hand=63452
With the average stack at about 4500 he went from 7200 to broke in two hands. Big surprise.
Also today, I cleared a bonus at stars and had two more winning sessions. Very good feeling to add over $500 to your bankroll in one day playing a couple hours of 2/4.
--Tad
