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February 2007 Log Entries

February 24, 2007, 12PM: Played 9 hours at Quest Casino - Spokane
$10/20 Texas Hold'em

What a frustrating session this one was.  I get my money back from the 3-6 game in the first hour of the session.  Then Daryl hits a gutshot after peeling the cheap one on the flop. (I flopped top 2).  No more sugar, no more sugar for that game.  But my stacked stayed oscillating around 300 for most of the session.  Then beat number one (of memory, oh there were more, but I was able to recover from most of them hense the oscillation) comes in.
 
I have AA vs A7s ...  Flop 875 rainbow....river you guessed it 7.
 
So I take a break by going to ram at the craps table, cause I know If I continue playing at this point I will just tube off the rest of my chips.
 
I go over my lobby time and my chips get pulled, but the floor was nice enough to put me first on the list for the feeder game.
 
I get into the feeder game, and the play seemed pretty tight, so i was about to make a move or two and steal a few pots. Then beat #2(that I can recall, I actually suffered more) came in.
 
I have K8s in the cuttoff, and it is a kill pot, there is one limper and the so I 2 bet, button calls, bb reraised, limper and kill call, I call, button call.
 
Flop is KT8 rainbow.  I think nice, 3bet raiser bets, fold, fold, I raise, button 3 bets, better folds, I call.
 
Turn comes a 9, I think, well he could have flopped top 2 or a set, then I would be fucked, or he could been raising with the only draw possible QJ which he just hit, so I check, he checks.
 
River comes another 9, I think fuck well if he was 3betting the flop on the button with a bigger K, Im screwed, so I check, he bets, I make a crying call cause I dont have many chips left.  He rolls over the hand I least expect to see 89, fucker caught miracle miracle.
 
Im steamed so I pick up my last $20-some and quit.

Last Update: March 24, 2007, 9:35PM | Permalink

February 24, 2007, 11AM: Played 3 hours, 12 minutes at Quest Casino - Spokane
$3/6 Texas Hold'em

Was ramming with Jesse, started the session off nicely, hit a set, nut flush, etc. Was up over a hundee at first.  Then got caught up in the action and tubed off my win plus some.  Just kept missing my big draws, and got outdrawn on my big hands. 
 
Played one hand from a straddle, got raised by a lady I thought played pretty tight, so placed her on AA, KK, QQ, AK, AQ.  I had 2-4o and peeled her raise.  Flop came 2-4-8 rainbow, I bet she raised, I raised, she raised I called (I think I have the best hand, putting her on the big pair now for sure, so I want to make sure it doesnt come an 8 on the turn or the river pairs the turn card)
 
Turn comes a 6, I bet she raised, so I call just in case that 6 or 8 comes and Im fucked.
 
River comes a 4....I think bingo for sure now.  I bet, she raised, I raised, she raised, I raised, she raised, I raised, she raised her last few chips.  I roll my hand instantly thinking I have the winner.  GOD NO... she had 88, fuck.

Last Update: March 24, 2007, 9:38PM | Permalink

February 23, 2007, 9AM: Played 2 hours, 12 minutes at Ringo's - Spokane
$3/6 Texas Hold'em

Just got into Spokane and I was a little tired so me and Jesse went to grab a little grub and play a little.  Feeder game was tight.  My chips went up and down just a little, but I took a 10-30 win outta it anyhow.  Then the main game was just insane.  I picked up a nice pot, a few hands later the maniacs wanted to play with a Kill, everyone agreed.  Since I was tired and really didnt feel like tubing off my 1st win in a while.  So we packed up and left.

Last Update: March 24, 2007, 9:38PM | Permalink

February 11, 2007, 7PM: Played 4 hours, 12 minutes at Butte Depot
$2 No-Limit Texas Hold'em

Got stuck big in this game.  Ran into situations where I have to play people off. (Flop top set, guy value bets after making his flush on the river -- Flop 2nd nut st8 against the nut st8) Was down to $13, after my last and final rebuy, and took that up to 2 and some change before the game broke.

Last Update: March 24, 2007, 9:41PM | Permalink

February 8, 2007, 11AM: Played 8 hours at Lucky Lil's - Butte
$3/6 Texas Hold'em

Have to find the details.
 
Hit the machine, so I thought I would ram a little.  Was still playing good at first, but wanted to portray myself off like I was ramming.  Took a couple hideous beats and started playing like an idiot, chasing bottom pair, gut-shots, runner-runner flush draws.  Just wanted to issue beats like I was taking, playing cards that I got beat by.  Was retarted.

Last Update: March 24, 2007, 9:36PM | Permalink

February 6, 2007, 7PM: Played 3 hours, 18 minutes at Lucky Lil's - Butte
$3/6 Texas Hold'em

Another winning session felt good.  Game was kinda a pos when it first started and I was just tubing off my chips not able to pick anything up for the 1st hour I played.  So I decided to take a little break and when I came back, 2 players had nice size stacks and the rest of the table was short stacked, but still pretty full.  Actually started to pick up a few hands and ended up getting even and winner.

Last Update: February 7, 2007, 5:13PM | Permalink

February 6, 2007, 6PM: Played 1 hour at Lucky Lil's - Butte
Free-Roll No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (1st out of 20 Players)

Freeroll's in MT are not a real tournament.  You start with little chips and blinds increase quickly.  They just get people gathered to start a game, and get other's with little bankrolls a chance to play more often.
 
I just stumbled down there to play and didnt realize about the freeroll so I really didnt give a fuck about it.  The first hand I played I shoved all-in in the dark.  Couple of times I would strattle all-in.  Other times I would see all the limpers and shove, picking those chips up.  Basically was all-in for me until it got down to one table, and I had an avg stack for 5 players.  Now it was time I could actually sit there and play real poker.
 
After doing that I actually played pretty well and was able to get it heads up where we split the 50 for 1st and 30 for 2nd.  Taking 40 each so we could play in the live game.  The extra 10 to win wasnt worth it to either of us to play it out.

Last Update: February 7, 2007, 5:09PM | Permalink

February 3, 2007, 11AM: Played 1 hour at Lucky Lil's - Butte
$2 No-Limit Texas Hold'em

This session was the reason I hated fucking logging.  I finally desided I needed to log again.  But its the same thing.  Taking fucking beat after fucking beat.  I dont have time that much to play, so when I take a loss or at least a big loss it hurts.  I really lost it this session did something I hadnt done in a while destroy 2 cards in the deck, and I actually did it twice.  Both times same two cards AA.  Was stuck 1200 and got another 100 and got some back and decided to call it good.

Last Update: March 21, 2007, 11:50AM | Permalink

February 2, 2007, 5PM: Played 1 hour, 42 minutes at Lucky Lil's - Butte
$3/6 Texas Hold'em

Just stepping in to play a little before work.  Played pretty solid, until one of the looser players at the table called my raise in the small blind with 4-8o.  But for him payback was a bitch.  I had just caught a couple of hands, and Im in the bb with 4-6o he raised it and another player in late position reraised, 4 players had already called the intial raise, so I thought fuck it, cap it.  (4-6o is a player I knows favorite hand - Johnny) flop was K-4-6 2 hearts, I said check and raise, and the intial raiser says ok and bets, 4 callers, and I checked and raised. One player called between me and the initial raiser, and the initial raiser capps it. Turn comes the 4h, I check, hoping the the player in between me and the raiser made his flush as I really wanted to bust him.  He checked also and the initial raiser bet, and I check and raised again.  River came a blank and I fire.  Me full, him nut flush.  But as the hand was going I was saying my hand reminded me of a late night talk show on NBC.  As I turned over my hand I made the comment "Here's Johnny".  Kinda made the other player mad and he got up and cashed out.  Was that bad of me not to actually think of pissing him off cause he always provides action to the game.  Him and his wife are always good at blowing off his retirement check every month.  He told the dealer that he wont play with me in the game anymore.  But he always says shit like that.  I guess we will see if I lost his action.
 
After that hand I didnt pick up shit and came off about 50+ in chips just call-folding.  Got caught up bs-ing with my neighbor.  I have to stop doing that, every time I catch my self bullshitting, I end up just peeling off chips.

Last Update: February 3, 2007, 1:13AM | Permalink

February 1, 2007, 8PM: Played 1 hour, 42 minutes at Lucky Lil's - Butte
$3/6 Texas Hold'em

Havent been feeling well and just needed to get outta the house.  Splashed some chips around earlier and didnt pan out to well, Then I switched tables and the game was tighter than a nun's pussy.  Played my big hands and tried to steal a little here and there, then about 30 min later we had a new set of players at the table and the game had some action again.  I picked up a few good hands.  Then peeled off a few more chips and got up and left.

Last Update: February 1, 2007, 9:19PM | Permalink

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