Played at St. Louis Harrahs today, where a WSOP-C event is in town. My stack went on a roller coaster today, started up $600, then was down $400 like 30 minutes before I left, finally ended up $51 after a total of 7 hours. Early on in the session, sat down at 1/2, I raised pre with J
J
, HU on the flop, caller from the blind leads into me 9
8
7
. I call, turn is a 3
, he leads again and I folded. In retrospect this is probably a call here, but it was an older guy and meh. Next hand I get versus the same guy, raise 9
8
, he calls from the blinds. Flop K
4
2
two tone, he leads again. I'm thinking damn, twice in a row? I float it with zero equity. He checks an A
turn bringing a second flush draw and I bet rather large. To my surprise, he calls. I'm thinking he has a king at this point. I bomb river on a T
, he tanks and tanks and tanks... and folds. I show the bluff (I usually show these since I bluff extremely rarely).
Shortly after this we both move to 2/5 (I had played about 1 hour at 1/2). Some guy opens to 20, two callers including the same from previous hands, I squeeze to 100 with 9
9
. He calls and check shoves a 6
5
3
flop. The shove is like 300 into 550 to me, I feel like this villain is capable of doing it with just the A
. Anyway, I call and hold up against A
K
, so my read was good here.
Most questionable hand I want to review today:
Folds to very good player on button who opens (I think he opens pretty much any two here), I 3 bet from BB with J
8
. We're very deep, maybe 250BB. He calls.
Flop A
K
5
I cbet 2/3, he called.
Turn 7
I bet 2/3 pot. He raises 2.5x my bet. I fold...
Thoughts? I will need to review this hand more later.
Anyway, I took notes on a lot more hands but I don't feel like writing too much right now. Another questionable hand, some old guy who recently sat down raised my 5x open with QQ to 25bb after a couple callers, with 50bb behind. I tank for awhile... finally just say **** it and shove. He has Aces. Oops? Bad play or bad luck? Don't really know what people are 3 betting with in St. Louis... I actually won this hand, which is the first time I won an all-in as the underdog ever since I started this blog
Anyway yea. I suppose I'll keep a seperate tally for St. Louis- players were SIGNIFICANTLY better at my table than in Oaklawn. I guess I was mostly playing 2/5 instead of 1/2, but DAMN. Perhaps in the future I'll want to split 1/2 and 2/5 as well, but meh for now.
Debating whether I want to play even more poker tonight after dinner, or play Valkyria Chronicles with my buddy I'm staying with!
St. Louis total: +$51, 7 hours.
Everything total: +$3828, 73 hours.