Poker Update for April 6, 2005

I played for about an hour and a half last night on Party Poker. I won $30 for the session, although I am not all that sure that I played all that great. I feel like my game is starting to improve. I am still trying to run everyone over, and this really is a bad idea at Party Poker where virtually everyone is a call station. I need to learn to check more when I miss the flop.

I played a $10+1 sit-and-go and placed fourth. I played pretty good, but I made two big mistakes. One, I called an all-in bet pre-flop with KQ from the big blind. I had the guy covered and a decent hand, but I forgot to realize that I was an underdog to any hand with an ace. Unfortunately, he had an ace and won the pot when neither of us improved. My second mistake was when I pushed with an unimproved 66 on the flop against a short stack. He called me with a pair of sevens and I pissed away some more chips.

I played a little $25 NL and I lost essentially my entire stack by folding decent hands to well-timed bluffs and by making bluffing weak hands against the nuts. I also played about 20 hands at $100 NL. This table had a maniac at it so I left rather quickly. I did take down a decent sized pot against him when he passively played A2o and I had T9s. He didn't bet the flop when an ace flopped (I had position) and only made a small bet on the turn, which actually gave me a flush draw. There was one other caller also, which I liked alot. Anyway, he checked the river to me after I caught my flush. I made a smallish bet (1/2 the pot), which he called.

I spent most of the night playing $2/$4 limit hold'em. There was a complete maniac who was catching all sorts of hands with crap. The largest pot of the night happened when he caught runner-runner 3's when he held A3o. Luckily, I wasn't in that hand, and in fact, I played this maniac quite profitably. He didn't suck out on me once, although I knew my time was coming so I left the table sooner than I probably should have. I guess this is the biggest evidence of my waning confidence. If I was confident, then I would have stayed and tried to rake in some serious dough. Below I am going to paste in a few of the key hands that I won. You should be able to quickly identify who was the maniac. I particularly like the $44 pot that I won with ace-high.

$2/$4 Hold'em - Wednesday, April 06, 21:25:00 EDT 2005
Table Table 39288 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 1: kustak ( $109 )
Seat 2: K_Tsottles ( $30.75 )
Seat 4: egoisti ( $91 )
Seat 5: Streak10 ( $93 )
Seat 6: BCRock ( $105 )
Seat 7: chefrm ( $283 )
Seat 8: edrudd ( $57 )
Seat 9: cthemanb ( $162.5 )
Seat 10: frazwood ( $67 )
Streak10 posts small blind [$1].
BCRock posts big blind [$2].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to frazwood [ Qc Kh ]
chefrm folds.
edrudd folds.
cthemanb folds.
frazwood raises [$4].
K_Tsottles: pretty lucky
kustak calls [$4].
K_Tsottles folds.
>You have options at Table 36806 (6 max) Table!.
egoisti folds.
Streak10 folds.
BCRock calls [$2].
** Dealing Flop ** [ Kd, 8s, Ks ]
BCRock checks.
frazwood bets [$2].
kustak folds.
BCRock raises [$4].
frazwood calls [$2].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 8c ]
BCRock bets [$4].
frazwood raises [$8].
BCRock calls [$4].
** Dealing River ** [ Kc ]
BCRock bets [$4].
frazwood raises [$8].
BCRock calls [$4].
frazwood shows [ Qc, Kh ] four of a kind, kings.
BCRock doesn't show [ Td, Th ] a full house, Kings full of tens.
frazwood wins $50.5 from the main pot with four of a kind, kings.

$2/$4 Hold'em - Wednesday, April 06, 21:37:28 EDT 2005
Table Table 39288 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 4: egoisti ( $73.25 )
Seat 5: Streak10 ( $87 )
Seat 6: BCRock ( $80 )
Seat 7: chefrm ( $272 )
Seat 9: cthemanb ( $165.5 )
Seat 10: frazwood ( $86.5 )
Seat 8: dadybrawls ( $106.5 )
Seat 1: qa1000 ( $97 )
Seat 3: nothingmaker ( $34 )
Seat 2: TheMaddmann ( $100 )
Streak10 posts small blind [$1].
BCRock posts big blind [$2].
TheMaddmann posts big blind [$2].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to frazwood [ Kh Kc ]
chefrm raises [$4].
dadybrawls calls [$4].
cthemanb folds.
frazwood raises [$6].
qa1000 folds.
TheMaddmann folds.
nothingmaker folds.
egoisti folds.
Streak10 folds.
BCRock folds.
chefrm calls [$2].
dadybrawls calls [$2].
** Dealing Flop ** [ Qc, 3h, Jc ]
chefrm checks.
dadybrawls checks.
frazwood bets [$2].
chefrm calls [$2].
dadybrawls calls [$2].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3c ]
chefrm checks.
dadybrawls checks.
frazwood bets [$4].
chefrm folds.
dadybrawls calls [$4].
** Dealing River ** [ 4c ]
dadybrawls bets [$4].
frazwood calls [$4].
dadybrawls shows [ Ts, 9h ] a pair of threes.
frazwood shows [ Kh, Kc ] a flush, king high.
frazwood wins $43 from the main pot with a flush, king high.

$2/$4 Hold'em - Wednesday, April 06, 21:41:27 EDT 2005
Table Table 39288 (Real Money)
Seat 7 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 4: egoisti ( $47.25 )
Seat 5: Streak10 ( $86 )
Seat 6: BCRock ( $76 )
Seat 7: chefrm ( $250 )
Seat 9: cthemanb ( $165.5 )
Seat 10: frazwood ( $113.5 )
Seat 8: dadybrawls ( $162 )
Seat 1: qa1000 ( $63 )
Seat 3: nothingmaker ( $34 )
Seat 2: TheMaddmann ( $98 )
dadybrawls posts small blind [$1].
cthemanb posts big blind [$2].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to frazwood [ Ah Qs ]
frazwood raises [$4].
qa1000 folds.
TheMaddmann folds.
nothingmaker folds.
egoisti folds.
Streak10 folds.
BCRock folds.
chefrm folds.
dadybrawls calls [$3].
cthemanb folds.
** Dealing Flop ** [ 5h, Tc, Jd ]
dadybrawls checks.
frazwood bets [$2].
dadybrawls calls [$2].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 5c ]
dadybrawls checks.
frazwood bets [$4].
dadybrawls raises [$8].
frazwood raises [$8].
dadybrawls calls [$4].
** Dealing River ** [ 6h ]
dadybrawls checks.
frazwood bets [$4].
dadybrawls calls [$4].
frazwood shows [ Ah, Qs ] a pair of fives.
dadybrawls doesn't show [ Qd, 4h ] a pair of fives.
frazwood wins $44 from the main pot with a pair of fives with ace kicker.