Friday, June 13, 2008
Good Run
So I’ve been on kind of a good run lately. If you let me have a pass on one session where I lost $2 at Greektown a few weeks back, I’ve had 9 winning sessions in a row. I gotta be honest, it feels pretty good. I think I may be starting to develop a misguided perception of my own abilities - kind a like the crank addict who thinks he’s indestructible….that is, until he tries to wrestle the 280 pound county sheriffs deputy in the parking lot at the corner Quickie Mart and gets cracked in the forehead with a steel police baton.
So now I’m sort of waiting around for my own poker version of getting cracked in the forehead.
Anyway…
This last weekend, I was a bachelor, sort of – the wife and kid went to Indy for a wedding. With all of this freedom, I decided to head to Greektown. After struggling for like an hour and a half to get there (the freeway was closed), I was finally able to get on a table. I won one big kill pot with top set in the first hour. Then, they kicked us off of the table to make room for the heartland poker tournament. So, I spent an hour and a half getting to the casino and an hour getting home. My payoff – 1 hour of play and up $62. Yipeee! Now I know why people play online poker.
Then, later that evening, I headed out to VanKeno’s for a home game. I haven’t played in a home tourney for a loooooong time. We played a $60 NLHE Heads up tourney. Since I got a first round bye for being such a skillful poker player, we played a cash game (NLHE $1 blinds) to start. I won a big pot off of Finkle when I woke up with A-A in the big blind. A late position player raised. I called as did Finkle. Ya da, ya da, ya da. We both spike sets and I win a stack. Then, I won a stack off of Boone when my AJ turns a boat vs. boons AQ (top trips with a Q kicker).
In the heads up tourney, I pull a the worst possible draw – a former champ, the black widow of poker. She disposes of me with little effort and in quick fashion. I dunno. I read a book on head’s up poker that said when you flop top pair, it’s the same as flopping a set in full ring. So when I flopped top pair against the black widow, she kept check-raising me and winning huge pots when I was out kicked.
Anyway in the cash game afterwards, I started off pretty hot. I played loose and wild and won some big pots. I was up to like $500 before I tightened way up (when the table started getting loose/wild). Then, I slid back to like $300 before calling it a night at 4a.
Here’s the JJ chart for your viewing pleasure.
So now I’m sort of waiting around for my own poker version of getting cracked in the forehead.
Anyway…
This last weekend, I was a bachelor, sort of – the wife and kid went to Indy for a wedding. With all of this freedom, I decided to head to Greektown. After struggling for like an hour and a half to get there (the freeway was closed), I was finally able to get on a table. I won one big kill pot with top set in the first hour. Then, they kicked us off of the table to make room for the heartland poker tournament. So, I spent an hour and a half getting to the casino and an hour getting home. My payoff – 1 hour of play and up $62. Yipeee! Now I know why people play online poker.
Then, later that evening, I headed out to VanKeno’s for a home game. I haven’t played in a home tourney for a loooooong time. We played a $60 NLHE Heads up tourney. Since I got a first round bye for being such a skillful poker player, we played a cash game (NLHE $1 blinds) to start. I won a big pot off of Finkle when I woke up with A-A in the big blind. A late position player raised. I called as did Finkle. Ya da, ya da, ya da. We both spike sets and I win a stack. Then, I won a stack off of Boone when my AJ turns a boat vs. boons AQ (top trips with a Q kicker).
In the heads up tourney, I pull a the worst possible draw – a former champ, the black widow of poker. She disposes of me with little effort and in quick fashion. I dunno. I read a book on head’s up poker that said when you flop top pair, it’s the same as flopping a set in full ring. So when I flopped top pair against the black widow, she kept check-raising me and winning huge pots when I was out kicked.
Anyway in the cash game afterwards, I started off pretty hot. I played loose and wild and won some big pots. I was up to like $500 before I tightened way up (when the table started getting loose/wild). Then, I slid back to like $300 before calling it a night at 4a.
Here’s the JJ chart for your viewing pleasure.
