Trip Reports and Promises

So I’ve attempted a few blog entries and just haven’t been happy with the results of them. This is in part due to the fact that I haven’t been pleased with my play. There are so many things going on in my life that it’s easy for me not to blog, but I’m not going to use this as an excuse anymore. This means more blogs more often.

Things have been turbulent as of late. My last Vegas trip was short, pretty much a break even or slightly down affair, and I just really didn’t want to be playing live. I headed back to Arizona after a week and having not played to many live sessions. When I did play I was bored out of my mind, partly due to the fact that I had been playing a ton of Pot Limit Omaha online, so live NLHE felt like an Amish interstate (no offense to the Amish, Mike). I continued an on going trend of getting stuck early by running bluffs and over playing hands or just playing really poorly, basically. I did log one live PLO session with a group of guys that were visiting Vegas together and they were pretty solid I was up and down a lot, but finished stuck $60 overall, not great. I went right in to a NLHE game that was going and proceeded to run the game over in about 45 minutes. I ran $200 up to about $900 and cashed out a winner on the day.

The WTF was that guy thinking hand of the session was my 2nd hand at the table. I call with T-8 suited from middle position with one caller in front of me. I don’t like to open limp, but can get away with it in this game. After two other players call behind me a very loose aggressive older man makes it $8 out of the big blind. I know most the players will call so I call and get the expected odds behind me. The flop peels of 5 T T and our friend makes it $20 in to a $38 pot. This seems like a pretty weak bet to me so I pop it up to $60. It folds to him and he thinks and asks me why I made it so much. I tell him that “I dislike money” and his bet “seemed pretty damn weak.” So of course he goes “well I’m all in then”, I insta-call and wait for him to show me his hand…….. (drum roll)………..K7os for a whopping no pair and no draw. So, I was like “WTF”, and drag the pot with my flopped trips.

I’ll run up another post about my online sessions in a bit. Meanwhile you can also enjoy this Baffled, thanks to Highwaytime.