socalpokerjoe (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} socalpokerjoe) wrote,@ 2008-02-22 08:54:00 |
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Last Saturday at Ocean's 11
I had a brutal $3-$6 Hold 'em session at Ocean's 11 last weekend. Got into the room at about 10:30 pm and there's about 7 names on the $4-$8 Omaha list and the $4-$8 hold 'em list was twice as long. So, i sit down for $3-$6 hold 'em. As Mike McDermott would say, for me, $3-$6 hold 'em is "like wiffle ball". I can typically take $100 off of any $3-$6 game i've ever sat at w/in a few hours, be social, laugh, joke, break balls, get creative with the cards, make some bluffs (stupid or calculated) and have some fun just being at a card table. No grinding.
Well, that night was not a typical session. It was brutal, file under anything that can go wrong, did go wrong. Just some real bad luck with the cards. One hand I was in the big blind w/ 4-2, flop a set when the board comes down 5-4-4. I'm stuck about 10 big bets at this point so i'm jamming the pot with this total fish hanging on. Finally, he pops me back on the river and all i can think of is that he played pocket 5's like a champ. This donkey tabled 5-4 off-suit that he played from the cutoff. Brutal. If I had top pair with a King, I got beat by top pair with an Ace. I hit an open ended straight in a Monster (well, monster for $3-$6) Pot and ended up having to chop. I was all in for three bets pre-flop with pocket 10's, flopped a set, and barely got paid on it. That kind of nonsense.
It was good to be in the cardroom though after being in the house most of the day, with the exception of hitting a large bucket of balls at Encinitas Ranch in the late afternoon.
I have a pretty exciting couple of days ahead of me. Tomorrow night i'm taking Maureen back to Pechanga and then on Monday I have two clients coming into town from Oregon. Monday night we're going to West Bistro for dinner, staying at the resort at Barona, playing some cards, and then Tuesday Morning we're teeing it up at Barona Creek for some on-course product testing.
Should be exciting.
-20 Big Bets for the Ocean's session leaves me at a measly +$106 for the year.
I had a brutal $3-$6 Hold 'em session at Ocean's 11 last weekend. Got into the room at about 10:30 pm and there's about 7 names on the $4-$8 Omaha list and the $4-$8 hold 'em list was twice as long. So, i sit down for $3-$6 hold 'em. As Mike McDermott would say, for me, $3-$6 hold 'em is "like wiffle ball". I can typically take $100 off of any $3-$6 game i've ever sat at w/in a few hours, be social, laugh, joke, break balls, get creative with the cards, make some bluffs (stupid or calculated) and have some fun just being at a card table. No grinding.
Well, that night was not a typical session. It was brutal, file under anything that can go wrong, did go wrong. Just some real bad luck with the cards. One hand I was in the big blind w/ 4-2, flop a set when the board comes down 5-4-4. I'm stuck about 10 big bets at this point so i'm jamming the pot with this total fish hanging on. Finally, he pops me back on the river and all i can think of is that he played pocket 5's like a champ. This donkey tabled 5-4 off-suit that he played from the cutoff. Brutal. If I had top pair with a King, I got beat by top pair with an Ace. I hit an open ended straight in a Monster (well, monster for $3-$6) Pot and ended up having to chop. I was all in for three bets pre-flop with pocket 10's, flopped a set, and barely got paid on it. That kind of nonsense.
It was good to be in the cardroom though after being in the house most of the day, with the exception of hitting a large bucket of balls at Encinitas Ranch in the late afternoon.
I have a pretty exciting couple of days ahead of me. Tomorrow night i'm taking Maureen back to Pechanga and then on Monday I have two clients coming into town from Oregon. Monday night we're going to West Bistro for dinner, staying at the resort at Barona, playing some cards, and then Tuesday Morning we're teeing it up at Barona Creek for some on-course product testing.
Should be exciting.
-20 Big Bets for the Ocean's session leaves me at a measly +$106 for the year.
