Do not mess with him--he is actually a good buddy of mine, and he is a Nit with a capital "N". Placed him on the 8s as soon as he smooth-called you, and a nice laydown on your end, for certain!

I run WORSE than bad, Mossy, you got there at the halfway point of the session from hell. Even my buddy remarked that he had not seen anyone ever run so badly...stuck for $800, and I only regret the final $100 loss...and even then I flopped 2 pair .

To begin, my suck-outs were small...I hit 2-pair, bet it all the way, villain sucks out on the river with a straight. I hit TPTK, bet it 2 streets, villain sucks out on the river with the flush, sets up for the c/r, but I do not pay him. AA cracked on a monotone board, and a monotone turn. I speculate with about 50+ suited connecters/gappers/pocket pairs, and I do not get a SINGLE draw to hit. Or even come close. Or a set.

These small nibbles add up to -250.

Then, I get 88, UTG raises to $7, I call, as do 2 others.

Flop comes Q82

FINALLY! Hero gets paid! Right?

UTG leads for something small, like $12. I just call, as does one of the others. UTG is a loose, desperate player, and I know he has, at best, a pair.

Turn is 9. UTG shoves for $100ish. I call, expecting a showdown. Other villain re-raises all-in. This guy is a total fish, calling pre-flop raises with Q2 and all kinds of junk...did he really call the flop bet with a gutshot and hit it? In either case, I am committed at this point, so I call him off.

Yes, he did have JT. Yes, he did catch his gutterball. Yes, UTG has TPTK. No, the board did not pair. -$250.

I get up, catch something to eat, and come back. Re-buy for $300, and Mossy joins the table.

I steadily climb up to about $350 with pure trash hands and c-betting. Then, I get a chance at redemption, AA in the big blind! And a villain to my left raises to $28, with folds around. I give him a nice smooth call.

Flop comes Q72, I forget the suits. I ready myself for the check-shove, and I check. He shoves, telling me he lacks a queen, easiest call ever. King on the river. Guess what he had?

-$200 and whatever I gained prior to this.

The next hand, I get A9s in the SB, and someone raises to $10, but I am on tilt by this point and call. 2 other callers.

And the flop comes AQ9. Yes, AQ9. PFR c-bets $15, and I min-raise to $30, I plan on shoving the turn, but the villain raises $45 on top. I know I am beaten, but I still find it hilarious that I am being put in another spot where 2 pair is no good...I call, if only because it would serve as the perfect capper to a great night.

Besides, he can also be on the straight draw, flush draw, or have AK, which would get me the win, right?

Turn completes the flush. River is a K, completing the straight. I show down saying, "please tell me that you have me on the flop." He did, with AQ. I make that laydown when I am not completely on tilt in my sleep.

So yes, a summary:

--Aces dealt twice, cracked both times, once for a lot.
--Rivered about 100 times.
--0 draws hit.
--1 set, which someone beat me with a gutterball.
--No real top-pair type hands to speak of.
--Stuck for $800

But hey, the 2 seat said that he "never saw someone take such a beating and remain so classy." Cool?

Sorry to hear that you did not run much better, Mossy. I have never, ever run this bad before, ever. My older buddy said he never saw anyone run so bad before.

If anything, I apologize to Mossy for not being able to take advantage of the opportunity :P. I did not see Beata there tonight, but I DID see one of the Cat's friends...he told me how he got his nickname .

yeah i figured once he called that i was behind, but if that is true then i shouldn't be c/r in that spot anyway, its like im turning my hand into a bluff. I should have either lead the flop or just flatcall his 10. I suck

you actually limped here...i remember as much because i saw you reaching for $12 and fumbled the chips in your hands a few times, i had already looked at my 75s and was thinking about 3betting you. but then you limped and that guy threw out $27 so i changed my mind lol.

and i thought you guys were all-in on the flop. was i really at your table jeeze

Ah yes, I was UTG here, and it was 2 hands later I received the A9s. I was going to open raise, but when I do that UTG, I get 3 callers and have no isolation, so I wanted to put myself in position to 3bet...but after the guy raised to $28, I had my isolation, so I knew that smooth calling was best.

In either case, I thought I disguised my hand well and knew I had the villain in a spot after seeing his flop action. But wow, as I said, that was only the last of the real "coolers" of the night...the ones that happened before you arrived were just as bad.

And yes, on the A9s hand, we were all-in at the flop, but I was going to shove the turn, anyway...villain saved me the trouble, and although I lay that down 7 days a week and twice on Sunday to a flop 3bet, I was on extreme tilt, and had not nearly enough behind to really care if I went home busto. I still find it humorous that every possible hand combo that I felt I had beaten on the flop ended up improving by the river.

Meh im sure it will turn around tomorrow.

I have a Connecticut Sun game to work in the AM, I probably wont play until either Monday night or the weekly Wednesday.

PS. Any good sports bars around the Norwich/New London area? Wish I could hit up a Buffalo Wild Wings or something but there are none around here.

Tomorrow is a no-go for me, too drained >_<.

I do not know any sports bars around the Mohegan area, sadly, although I would not mind knowing the information, myself.

But let my story be an incentive to all to join my table in the future--you will get better hands, and I will get the hand needed to make the hand profitable for you .

Man, how do you win $1400 at 1/2? I find it hard to win that much at 2/5, nevermind 1/2...people make regular donations?

I was the 7 seat on Friday, and it was a solid table, for sure...no idea how I walked away a winner given that I was dealt very little.

The only difference between Saturday and Friday is that Saturday dealt me hands that ended up being proverbial coolers--Friday was simply a case of being card-dead, save for a set that actually paid.

Haha, nah, I lost a 300bb+ pot and actually wanted to kill everyone all night.

Old grandma raises to $7 and everyone calls. I'm in the sb with 5h8h. The flop comes out 5d Qh 8d. It gets checked to grandma who c-bets $20. One dude goes all in for about $90-100ish. It folds to me, where I go over the top for about $200. It gets to Grandma and she's tankin'... and I mean she took about 5 minutes and I wanted to call the clock so bad but my heart had felt like it stopped and I was just trying to compose myself. So she's looking like she's about to fold, counting out the denomination and then stacking it up again... and then she goes "I call."

Flips over AA. I stand up, because I run so ****ing bad I put IWSJ to shame and I'll put my money on me all day on that. Ace right on the turn and I think I dropped to my knees when it hit. Like omfgOMFOGMOFMOGMG how can you call with AA there when I haven't played a hand all ****ing night. A freakin 2 outer, I wish I ran like that.

Anyways, I'm gonna pull a IWSJ and avoid the sun for awhile... or at least until I can get something together and play 2/5.


Jaybert - I was railing my buddy playing 2/5, which table were you at? It was a huge mess all night, I've never seen a must-must move table before (lol). Later on in the night they had made the must move table my friend was sitting at a main game.

a two outer if you don't count the board pairing the Q or the river pairing the turn card. Bottom two pair routinely counterfeited LDO

Yeah what he said. I mean sure it hurts, especially if you've been running bad lately, but it's not that hard to lose a bunch of all-ins in a row when you're 70%. Plus if you're expecting to lose when the money goes in and you're ahead, its not going to make actually losing feel very good so yeah not a good mindset.

And IWSJ; tough sesh but stuff like that happens and you shouldn't get discouraged. You always seem like you're getting your money in good so just think of running bad in those cases as a rubber-band effect: sooner or later it should snap back and you'll have a nice heater where you're dodging everything (not necessarily accurate but hey, it makes me feel better when I think that way).

Also I actually lost a pretty sick $1400 pot recently at 1/2 similar to yours where I flopped a set of kings against a spaztard and slowplayed it, and he ended up spiking a gutshot broadway on the turn and the money went in. While obviously it sucked that I let him get there, I would play it the same way accepting that he'll bluff off his stack most times drawing thin, and get there a small amount of the time. That time I just happened to lose, no big deal it happens.

I know this, which is why I stay classy--it happens, and it is no reason to get all bent out of shape. Heck, your set of Kings sounds a lot like my set of 8s--I slowplayed a rainbow, un-connected board, and someone happened to call a flop bet and get there with a gutterball.

It does indeed happen, but it happened over and over and over >_<.

Does your buddy routinely play 2/5, just out of curiosity? I am only asking because that is my neck of the woods.

(enters sarcasm mode)

Put me to shame? My least-terrible beat of the night was one in which I had a 2 pair including top pair--you had a lousy BOTTOM 2 pair!

(end sarcasm)

But in all seriousness, I apologize that you are running as badly as I am, maybe not last night, but your TRs are filled with set-over-2pair and similar losses quite a bit these days, as well.

But moreover, don't let it get you down to the point of avoiding the game--the only reason I did was because forces outside of the game interfered, and even then, they only lasted a week .

For real, leaving now. Green Red Sox hat, blue "Better than Ezra" T... Watch out Ezra.

I'm in a rant mood.

Why does Ms not post upcoming tournaments so people can plan for them? They'd probably get a better show up for them also.

I mean they have a summer tourney coming and no schedule for it yet.

Tilts me

I know many others who are wondering the same thing, including my buddy and I at last night's table.

"Older Guy hit a set".

[QUOTE=IWearSportsJerseys;19402474]Do not mess with him--he is actually a good buddy of mine, and he is a Nit with a capital "N". Placed him on the 8s as soon as he smooth-called you, and a nice laydown on your end, for certain!

Wow, "Older Guy" and "Nit with a capital "N". I'm feeling quite flattered.

Mossy, good laydown with top two against my set of 8. I'm not sure I can laydown top two there, even as "Nitty" as I am. I can't remember how exactly the hand played out (old age - memory goes first), but I remember I played it kind of strange cuz I wanted Mr. Spew that was between us not to fold....I knew he'd make his move and stack-off. I did like the "Bo Knows" shirt - Bo was the man. I didn't know who you were until later in the session.

I was heads-up with IWSJ one hand, and I tried this "nervous twitch/feign folding" action to try and get a read off him, but I got no reaction; it was as if he was familiar with the move

IWSP: rough nite for you, but I know you'll bounce back....and lot's of class in handling the coolers.

Ha, I knew the nit would awaken and post here . But that is selective--I called you "good buddy", too!

However, to be fair Mossy had bottom 2 against your set. But I remember you saying something along the lines of being "insecure with bottom set"...don't be traumatized by my 8s blowing up to a turn gutterball .

To be fair, you were not even close to the biggest nit at the table...8 seat shoves $500 randomly into a pot of about $15, and the 10 seat is there holding Kings. He says something along the lines of "I know I am ahead, but I don't want you to spike an ace and win." Seriously, how do you not call that?!?!? I know the 10 seat well, and I lost quite a bit of respect for him after that. He left an easy $500 on the table.

And touche, but I knew my 7s were good the moment you checked the flop and the turn. That was probably the 2nd largest pot I won in the final 2 hours of the session ($16!).

But hey, what can I say, I need tirade lessons...especially in the AA vs. KK one with the K on the river. Did you hear the guy with KK actually justify what he did on the flop with his shove? I said something along the lines of: "I am only calling with better hands, you sucked out, be quiet please."

ah, the joys of a 5/10 rollercoaster session till 5AM this morning (up to 2900 in profit, down to 1300, back up to 2900, down to 1200 loss, end night fkg even, hahaha), now have to recoup for week of work...wanted to pop in to say what's up and let you know a fellow moheganite is out in vegas for the month and video blogging his daily experiences on youtube...i don't want to get in trouble for posting a link so just go to site and search "confessions of a not-so professional poker player" sure you'll enjoy it because billy is a great kid and a very solid player...peace (and g'nite )

Nice comment ass, do you think I didn't know that? I didn't think it was necessary to state the obvious, LIKE DUH.

Anyways, I'm sorta over it, I guess I was just really blown by the fact that this woman would call $200 when she had only invested $27. And with 2 people all in, I still don't understand how she could ever think she was good. I handled it super well and didn't say anything after the hand was finished. I knew what she had, and if I ran better I would want the call, but these past few weeks at Mohegan haven't been the best.

Robgarf - is billy the young greek kid?

Young kid slicked back hair kinda....Billy....plays at fw a lot 5/10?

I'm still steaming about him calling my bluff in a 1700$ pot with ace high! LOL good bro though.

Last time I saw someone call a bluff with ace high, villain had a pair of deuces off a 42s wheel/flush draw whiff. It was an expensive mistake for technically being right >_<.

that's him

beata, the greek kid you're thinking of is george

Blaze6980, pick up ur mail.......

Well, back home in cozy Massachusetts. Got knocked out of the 11 pm in 50th or so. Severely short stacked with 44. Went all in on my sole BB (dead small) and got called by A8 (ace on river ofc)

I lost a big pot at the end of level 3 when a player who appeared to be very bad (called two players all in with QTo on a K 9 x board) also went all in with A7s with no pair no flush draw into a tight player who showed strength.)

Anyway, I had AcJc and raised from MP1 (I think) and villain called from the SB. Flop came T xc xc no other draws. Villain bet out 2k into 2800ish and I stupidly just called. turn 2. He goes all in for 3800. 6800 pot, my thought process is 2 overs and a FD. I call.

River a blank. I never really recovered.

Sat and played some 1/2 with some great guys who were big baseball fans and we talked about all kinds of baseball talk.

Won a big hand when my AA held up when I three bet to 40 and got (3!) callers. Had an SPR under 1 when I pushed and got called by one player on a KsTxXs board. turn 5, river "A".

Made back my tourney buy in plus $24.

I met 2 other 2p2ers who I will let them volunteer their identities, but, circumstances did not allow me to chat too much with them.

Had fun though.

I was one - it was nice meeting you. After talking to that same floor you pointed out to me, I'm aware there are many more 2p2ers who quietly play their game there than I expected.

Anyway, I've blown most of my live roll so I've been trying to nit up with a short stack. Twice tonight I lost a $100 BI with a flopped 2 pair AK to a rivered straight and rivered set. One was to the guy next to me who I told I was only playing JJ+. PF he bet $15, I popped it to $45, he calls, I flop 2 pair, he LEADS OUT with a string bet to $75, I call/shove my last $30, he hits his set of nines on the river and he rakes the pot. That was about all I could stomach for the day.

Wish I could have hung out, but, I gave myself a 6pm deadline to get home.

Next time, I would love to hang out, have some beers and chat about poker.