Oh What a Night

Early May back in 2007. I love that song, but this blog is about having more balls than brains. After being flush with cash for the first time in a long time at Full Tilt, I decided to screw around a bit and enter some higher entry fee satellites. So, what do I do? Go out and win the first one for an entry into a $150 tourney, which I actually can't play due to upcoming travel. So, $163 in $T. Then, I decide to REALLY gamble it up and play a Super turbo satellite on FT. That is one of those that you get 100 chips and blinds are 15/30 to start and go up every 3 minutes. Since I run bad, I end up in the BB on the first hand where I see 5 people push ahead of me. Oh, by the way, did I mention that this sat is Omahahahaha, of which I know very little. Well, I look down at my 4 cards and nothing seems to match or look very good, so I fold. One guy wins and 4 guys are knocked out. Ok, that works. Next hand, I get xKKx. Push baby and I take it down.

Get AAxx 4 hands later and bust someone else. Down to 2 people and this guy just keeps berating me for my bad play. Now, a couple of things about that. Do I suck at Omaha? Sure I do. But, can you really tell anything about my skillz during a super turbo satellite? I don't think so. Well, this donkey won again giving me a nice score of $216 T$. Pay the fat kid.

So, onto the cash games. I donk off a couple of buy ins at Bodog when I decide to get adventurous at FT and play big. And I mean big...at least for me. I sit down at a $5/10 NL table. Not just any $5/10 table...a deep stack one meaning you can buy in for $2k. Here we gogogogogogo!

I tread water for a bit, then lose a pretty big hand with KK with an A on the flop. I am down to $1500 and decide if I ever get back to my original $2k I am done. So, I build it up to about $1900 and then start to fall back again when this magical hand comes up.

FullTiltPoker Game #6343761774: Table Fay (deep 6) - $5/$10 - No Limit Hold'em - 2:15:26 ET - 2008/05/09
Seat 1: KrakenOut ($500), is sitting out
Seat 2: Nevrborn ($2,380)
Seat 3: OutPlayAsians ($500), is sitting out
Seat 4: kmoneyk10 ($2,148)
Seat 5: Abby17 ($1,625.50)
Seat 6: HONKYdonky ($2,009)
kmoneyk10 posts the small blind of $5
Abby17 posts the big blind of $10
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Abby17 [5d 4d]
HONKYdonky folds
Nevrborn raises to $35
kmoneyk10 folds
Abby17 calls $25
*** FLOP *** [2d 7d 7c]
Abby17 checks
Nevrborn bets $50
Abby17 calls $50
*** TURN *** [2d 7d 7c] [9d]
Abby17 checks
Nevrborn has 15 seconds left to act
Nevrborn bets $150
Abby17 raises to $625
Nevrborn has 15 seconds left to act
Nevrborn raises to $1,770
Abby17 calls $915.50, and is all in
Nevrborn shows [Kd 5h]
Abby17 shows [5d 4d]
Uncalled bet of $229.50 returned to Nevrborn
*** RIVER *** [2d 7d 7c 9d] [9s]
Nevrborn shows two pair, Nines and Sevens
Abby17 shows a flush, Nine high
Abby17 wins the pot ($3,254) with a flush, Nine high
Nevrborn adds $1,245.50
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $3,256 | Rake $2
Board: [2d 7d 7c 9d 9s]
Seat 1: KrakenOut is sitting out
Seat 2: Nevrborn (button) showed [Kd 5h] and lost with two pair, Nines and Sevens
Seat 3: OutPlayAsians is sitting out
Seat 4: kmoneyk10 (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 5: Abby17 (big blind) showed [5d 4d] and won ($3,254) with a flush, Nine high
Seat 6: HONKYdonky didn't bet (folded)

Ok, so what in the world was this guy doing? K5? He beats....ummm, he beats nothing. He likely doesn't even beat anything but a huge bluff. Even then, I might have A high. I guess he was thinking I might fold here, but wow, if the play is always this bad at 5/10, I might have a new home. I saw someone call a 4 bet all in pre flop in blind vs blind with AT. WTF?

So, all in all, it is shaping up to be a great May - i have almost all of April's losses recovered and working on putting up my best month since 2005 on my $10k tourney score.

Finally

Ok, what is the most likely thing to happen when you are in the midst of your largest downswing in the last few years. A MTT win, of course. How bout Daily Double A on FT last night. To the tune of $2185.

What started out as a tourney to just blow off some steam and maybe get to bed early turned into a late night success. Dropped about 500 chips early pushing edges that just weren't there, and then doubled up with AQ on a Q high flop to some donkey with 55. So, it was off to the races. Actually, no it wasn't...it was about 4 hours of hovering at or below average constantly with my stack at risk. It was only when it got to about 100 ppl left that I had a decent size stack. I was in 3rd with 90 to go and no worse than 9th all the way until 2 tables left. Then, the fun started. I sucked out in grand style twice on my way to victory. QQ and TT were no match for my donktastic AJo that perfectly flopped an Ace. That gave me a super size stack that I proceeded to donk down to small levels with 5 left. Then, my super poker skills made A2s a much better hand than AK. And it was down to 4. From there, I stole, I believe, 4-5 pots in a row each time adding 40-50k to my stack. I busted #4 and #3 which put my HU with almost identical stacks. 1.2MM for me and 1.1 for my opponent. I proceeded to play my usual game of bad HU poker and he ground me down to about 650k without working up a sweat. Then, my A8 beat his K7 all in pre flop and I suddenly had a lead and a new found focus. I got my stack up to about 1.6 versus his 700k when my new favorite hand, Q9 beat his Q8 on a Q high flop.

So, pay the man his money!!!

I am still horribly in the hole for April and May, but this is a nice cushion.

If only Bodog would get me my checks, life would be good.

Bleh Bleh Bleh and Bleh

So, AI decided to go off for 35 in the Nugget's blowout win over the Rockets which propelled Frank to the fantasy basketball title and a disappointing second place finish for me. I hadn't lost a game since the second week of JANUARY. Very frustrating. But, it does come with a payout of about $450 so that will help.

Another bad day of poker yesterday with a roughly $150 loss. Mostly due to losing the following:

AA loses to 43s
KK loses to JJ
AA loses to JJ

AQ loses to AK
AJ loses to AQ
QJ loses to KQ

The last three all included flopping top pair of course. Somehow, on the last three, I probabyl managed to lose the minimum, which in actuality scares me because it shows how passively I was playing.

But, oh well, here is to another week.

Good luck me!

Big sports day

So, plan on spending the day watching the final round of the Masters and a bunch of guys that no one thinks will do anything but choke. I think 5 shots is too much for Tiger to overcome, but if Immelmann does not play the first 4 in even or better, I will take Tiger.

Made the complete comeback last night in my fantasy basketball final. I start the day up about 11 pts and have 3 guys playing today, including Lebron. Best bet is TMac against the Nuggets, because they actually look to play less defense than the Bulls. Frank has 6 of his 8 playing today. Best bet is this will be decided by some extraordinary performance...sure hope it comes from one of my guys.

Also, had a $100 winning day last night to make it 3 in a row. Finally had a good run at HU at FT. Made 3 BI's there and lost a bit at the $200 at Bodog.

Back to back winners and a long comeback

Posted another winning day yesterday...grinding out an $80 win for the night. Big hand was a complete suck out by me when I had QQ and got it all in against AA. Q on the river FTW!!

Fantasy basketball - my team, after being down 130 pts on Wed, has pulled to within 15 with 2 days to go. My best bet for improvement is Boozer or Miller. And Frank has Iverson at 89...and he has 2 games to play. Hopefully, the back to back will take its toll on him. At least I have made it close.

Attitude means everything

Spent the evening listening to 2 videos as well as playing 1 table of $100 NL at Bodog. Amazing what a clear mind can do. About 2 hours and there was not one tricky decision. Up 2 BI's for a good night. Still a long way to go, but a good start.

Abby17

Deuces Cracked

Just signed up for it. Doing the month by month with no initiation fee. My goal is to watch at least 2 videos per week and also, if I ever start winning again, or get up my FT pts high enough, I am going to get a video iPod to play the videos on.

Only fell to 27th in the Bodonkey standings. Not bad for a second to last finish. I look to be 1 final table away from the Top 18. My guess is some of the bottom feeders will drop out as this goes on, which will make it tougher to earn enough points for those 5th and 6th places finishes that I am famous for.

Looking to possibly sat into some of FTOPS VIII. Now that you can turn that into $T at FT, I am guessing the sats are going to be pretty soft.

Abby17