Shorty's Wednesday

The Tilted Texan and I made off on what is becoming it seems my weekly journey to Shortys on Wednesday. I believe I got in the game at about 3 pm and Tex was in the same game shortly after. This was the 3rd no limit game opened already as the room was pretty packed again.
The only real hand that comes to mind was the 2nd one that I was dealt.

I bought into the game for $400 and I am in the bigblind on my 2nd hand w/ 64ss. There is a player across from me that on my first hand loss $400 w/ top pair top kicker after slow playing it on the flop a waiting for everyone to catch up to him before he decided to put all of his money in. Well he rebuys for $300 and he prompty makes it $25 to go. One player calls and I decide to get things started right away and I call along w/ the one limper from under the gun. We see a flop of Js 6H 2d 4 handed. I check as do all 3 players behind me. The 4h peels off on the turn and there is no doubt in my mind that I have the best hand. I want to get as much action as possible and I am fairly certain that the idiot that raised is trying his little slowplay maneuver again. I decide to check eventhough I would normally lead out here. I think the reason is if I bet I could likely get called by at least 2 of the players and I could easily get counterfeited on the turn. I knew someone would bet the turn behind me and it would be easier to take the pot down with a checkraise in this spot or just go to the river with 1 opponent. The under the gun limper bet a very weak $25 and the preflop raiser just called. This confused me as I was sure that he would raise the turn no matter what. Well I was right and wrong about this. The other character folds and the action is on me. I decide to checkraise to $70 trying to get action from the preflop raiser. The utg bettor folds as exepected and the other guy decided it is time to make his move. He reraises to $215 more back to me and I start to count out my chips. I know that the only hand beating me is JJ, but this is a gamble I am gonna take most of the time. I call and ask if he has the set and he looks at me like I am crazy and says " No I have kings." He said it in a tone that there is no way he does not have best hand. He turned out to be right as the Kd hits the river and he drags the pot. He said he was sure I had ace jack. I said nice read sir.

These are the types of hands I have not been getting unlucky with over the past month or so. I played for only about 3.5 hours tonight and made that $300 back along w/ almost a full buyin profit to show for the trip. I really can't remember any hands along the way except for one where I made trip 10's on the turn after raising preflop. I busted the same guy from the earlier hand for his last $200 or so as he had already given most of his money away to others.

I will possibly be playing at Harrahs tonight at some point as my wife and I are going to the city for some kind of party tonight. I am not sure what to really classify this as. If I do play is will likely be the last session before Biloxi next week. I can't wait for that. I can not ever remember being so amped up about an event before.

A friend of mine Jerrard has started a blog also. We use to his local games and casinos probably 4-6 nights a week a few years ago. For varous reasons we both took breaks over the past year and a half. I have started playin a bit more and I believe he would like to follow suit. I am hoping that he starts playing a bit more as it gets lonely riding by yourself back and forth from time to time. His first post talks about how he got started. You can find it online at http://www.thehonestplayer.blogspot.com/ . I enjoyed reading it and thinking about the past. When I get some time I may talk about some of the same stories as I am sure we have quite a few.
The few people that read this I do welcome any thoughts that would make this more enjoyable to read.
Lata.

Fast Food Restaurants

I don't believe that I have many pet peeves, but stupid people are definitely the biggest one! I HATE stupid people. I don't know why they just annoy the ever living shit out of me. I do not think that people that work at fast food restaurants have ever been accused of being the sharpest tools in the toolbox, but it seems as if they are getting dumber than ever. I would bet that a few years ago they any given fast food joint would fuck up my order probably 3 out of 10 times. I would bet that now it seems like they fuck it up in someway at least 60% of the time. I may be just the 1 unlucky soul in this department, but I seriously doubt it. They don't even have to fuck up the order to show you how stupid they are. It really just shows in the questions they ask you when you order.
I have a quizno's by my house and I get a sandwich for lunch there at least 3 times a week. First of all, If I worked there and someone went there that often and ordered the same fucking thing every single time I probably would not even have to ask them what they want. Oh no, not these fucking idiots. This is an example of my normal exchange w/ the same woman every time I go there.
Dumb Idiot Bitch: What can I make for you today?
Me: I would like a regular oven roasted turkey w/ only extra cheddar cheese.
DIB: Would you like tomatoes on that?
Me: (very calmly) No thank you, Only cheddar cheese.
DIB: You don't even want mayonaise?
Me: No, I only want meat and cheese on the bread. I don't even want the little sprinkles ya'll put on the sandwiches. After that you can put it through the little toaster machine!
DIB: Ok sir no Problem. (At this point they make the sandwich and put the sprinkles half the time anyway.)

After a few moments, the sandwich comes out of the toaster and the same girl gets it and does one of two things. This is every single time I might add. She either takes it upon herself to just put lettuce on it or she says " You don't even want lettuce on your sandwich?"
When she goes w/ option one I really get aggravated b/c she tries to start picking it off and says would you like me to make you another one? I usually say yes just so she can start to be as aggravated as I now am. If she goes with option two, I usually say something to the effect of " Does only meat and cheese include lettuce?" She replies very seriously and not sarcastic (as far as I can tell) No I guess it doesn't.
She then wraps up my sandwich and rings it up.
This is the strangest part. I get this same sandwich and a Gatorade every time 3 days a week. I swear that my total has not come out to be the same amount 2 times in a row ever. It totally amazes me.

Anyway I am curious if anyone else feels the same way as this absolutely annoys the shit out of me. I go through this every single time I go there. I really would love to not go there b/c I feel like I get dumber every time I walk in, but it is right by my house and I really do not like Subway.
Nothing poker related for today. I just wanted to get that off my chest. Any comments regarding this would be welcomed if anyone happens to read this. Am I just the stupid one? Maybe so.
Take care!

Wednesday @ Shorty's

First off I wish Shortys was closer to my house although I am sure my wife would not like it so much. I do like the fact that they have raised the cap on the 5-5 nl game which was 300 or half the biggest stack. They actually did even better than changing it as they now have none at all. You can now buyin for the standard $500 which is the norm in most 5-5 games. This has really helped the action as the 5-10 game is not killing all the action in the room anymore. No one seemed to understand why the game sucked when everyone is buying into a 5-10 game w/ $200 or $300.
I was down early as I was not connecting w/ any flops and if I did connect it just was not quite good enough. I was down to about 200 left in front of me and I looked down at Q10dd and decided to make it 25 to go. I was looking to just play a hand really as 90% of the time I will just see a flop w/ this holding at Shorty's b/c raises really do nothing but create a big pot. I was ok w/ this in this case as I was looking to gamble a bit. So I make it 25 and Big Mike ask me if I realized the straddle was on. Oops, I sure did not sir. So we promptly see a flop 7 handed I believe for $25. Flop is: 10s 6d 4d. I would say that will work. It checks to me and I lead out for $65 trying to get some action for the rest of my money. It folds to a guy from Houma named Jaime who for whatever reason never seems to believe I have a hand. He checkraises me allin. Ok, I call. The turn is a diamond and the river is an 8. I reveal my hand and he studies it and says " Nice catch Davey" and shows 10-8 off suit. I had to point out to him that I did not need to catch anything b/c he had already started congratulating himself on a good call b/c he said he put me on over cards or a flush draw. I had to let him no (in a nice way ofcourse) that I would never have led into 6 people w/ just 2 over cards. I think he understood but who knows. Anyway, that pot moved me back to even and the rest of the night went well.
One funny thing b/f mentioning a few hands, Mike was down to about $70 bucks when he called the floor over for more chips. The floor guy (Shaun) tells the dealer $500 behind. This would mean that Mike's money is in play for the hand. Mike objects and tells him that he will wait for it to get here. I ofcourse open my mouth and tell him that I hope he flops top set against a hand and makes only $70. Oops!!! He sees a flop w/ 99 and the flop comes K 9 4. Bahahahahaa. The preflop raiser leads out for $40 and Mike puts the rest of his chips in. The guy calls and then Mike turns the 4th 9. The preflop raiser had KQ and was going no where no how if you know what I mean. I laughed my ass off for about 20 minutes as did Shaun when I naturally informed him about what happened. Mike took it well as it was ofcourse better than losing the hand.

A few hands I remember:
I had AA utg and I limp in. I swear this is the first time I do this in probably 6 months as the limp reraise hear normally kills your action if someone does raise. I just decided to change it up if you will. About 4 people limp to Jaime from earlier as he is on the button and he makes it $30 more. I actually contemplated calling and just playing very cautiously, but I notice every single player getting there $30 ready to go. I make it $105 total and it folds to Jaime. He announces allin and has me covered. I had right around $500. I was fortunate to say the least as he had KK and I turn an ace to end that. A little side note as the stacks were being counted down Tim H. says to the dealer to mess w/ me: Dealer you forgot to burn a card. I looked at him and then down. I said "as long as the turn card stays you can burn as many as you want." We had a cheap laugh and went on to the next hand.
I had AA one other time and just made it $20 from early position. We see a flop 7 handed again (YES 7 HANDED). Needless to say I am not gonna get crazy. Flop 10 8 4 w/ 2 clubs. Not a bad flop. I Lead for only $45 as I feel I can find out the same info as if I bet $80 and I want to control the pot as much as possible. I get 2 calls and we see an 8 on the turn. I liked that card as the str8 draw nor the flush draw hit. I bet $85 here and get one call from the blind who had flush draw stamped right across his head. The river bricks and he checks. I didn't even consider betting and show AA and put a few ones on my cards for the dealer b/f he even shows/mucks his cards. After I get the pot this little prick on the side of me says: hey did you forget the dealer." I almost slapped him as even if I wanted to forget the dealer it was none of his fucking business. I said "I am not sure why don't you ask her for me." He actually does which surprised me and I like the dealers reply. She says " Yes honey he got me before I shipped him the pot." He felt dumb and was quiet for the rest of the night.
I called off about $150 on a flopped str8 flush draw which I didn't hit and I did not feel the need to bluff on the river. Good thing b/c it would not have worked as the guy would never have fold his top pair jack kicker.
I did make one decent lay down which saved me a bit of money. I call a $25 preflop raise from late position from a player that plays a lot of hands, but he really doesn't get out of control. Most people think that he does b/c he just seems to be in a lot of pots. We see a flop 3 handed of 10 8 5 w/ 1 spade. I check along w/ the other guy and Pf Rzr bets $40. I call as I want to see his action on the turn and the other guy folds. The turn is a 3 which is no help to me. I check and he bets $100. I look at his stack and he had like $220 left. I really believe that if I call this 100 and he bets again on the river it would be a tough fold as not much will have changed. If he has me beat already w/ an over pair he is certainly gonna bet and if he is bluffing he is definitely gonna bet and I will have to call off $200 to win the pot w/ top pair. I really do not love doing this when I am this unsure. I tell him that I am gonna give him the pot and if he really had a hand he just got unlucky b/c not many people at this table are gonna fold this hand. He asks to see my hand and I said I would if he showed me his. He showed me a set of 10's and I revealed ace 10 to him. He agreed that not many at the table fold there and he drags his pot.
It feels good to make a laydown at the right time every now and then as opposed to my laydown w/ the flush a week or so ago in which I made a terrible lay down. This one was not that great but it definitely save me a hundred bucks or so.
That is all I have for now. I am not gonna get to play this weekend as I am looking forward to spending time w/ my wife and daughter as we are going to Houston for my Brother in laws graduation from Chiropractor school. It should be fun.
Lata

Nice night online and Summer Olympics

Just a quick update. I have not been doing much lately except watching the olympics. I think I am actually hooked on them. I came home today and started watching a handball match or game. I have no idea what it is called. Anyway. it looks kind of like a basketball court w/ soccer goals at the end and noone can go inside what looks like a 3 point line except the goalie. It was crazy, but I still watched. I also watched water polo. This sport is very boring. My favorites so far is swimming and beach volleyball. This Michael Phelps guy is an absolute freak. I do not think he can lose and the relay tonight they nearly lapped the field. Watched a special on him today and they said he eats 8000 calories a day. I have been on a meal plan eating 3000 a day and it is hard to do sometimes. I could not imagine doing this in a healthy fashion. I am more impressed w/ this than his swimming I believe.

While watching tonight I played a few sng's. I played 3 to be exact. 1 single table in which I was the first to bust. 1 two table in which I finished 3rd for a nice little profit. I also played a 45 man sng in which I won. This was easily the most ridiculous sng I have ever seen. There was hideous beat after beat for about 40 minutes for everyone at the table. It became almost predictable.

I am getting anxious for the end of the month to get here. I am really looking forward to going to Biloxi for 6 straight days(at least). I am excited to play a lot of tournament poker w/ a few cash games mixed in. More to come on this as it gets close.

Tommorow is Wednesday and this means I will be leaving work early to go to Shorty's. I hope it is as nice as it has been. I will try to pay more attention to any interesting key hands so I can talk about them.

Good Night Online

I had planned on going to Shortys tonight, but because of the weather and more importantly the need to spend some time at home w/ the family I stayed home. Once everyone fell asleep I logged onto Stars and entered the $55 1 rebuy 1 addon tourney. After almost 4 hours I busted in 2nd place for $1590. I was in for $105 so it was definitely a good night to stay home.

I was above avg the whole time as I entered the final table 4th in chips. The chip leader busted almost everyone at the table. He had me outchipped about 5-1 to start heads up play and it did not take long. I folded the first hand and on the 2nd he raised and I pushed allin. He had 99 and I had ace9 of hearts. I hit an ace on the turn, but he rivered the case ace to seal the deal. Could have gotten interesting if I win that, but I am not complaining.

It felt good to finally make a decent cash. I played this tourney last week and went out 9th when it was paying 9. This week I had cashed in 4 of 7 mtt's but had no quality cashes. This makes it 5 for 8 and much more substantial.

Another Fun Night at Shorty's

Wednesday at Shorty's lived up to the hype once again as the small poker room in Baldwin was buzzing w/ all sorts of people that wanted to play poker and really not much of a clue how to do it. When arriving it took about 30 minutes to get a seat in the game and when I did it was not the best of lineups. I sat in the 4 seat and had two of the best players that play there to my right driving much of the action. A kid named Cody and Tim Hebert. The only pot I can even remember at this table was a hand where I put the straddle on and 3 limped in. Tim popped it to $65 in the blind and I just called w/ KK on the straddle and one straggler behind called. Flop was 9-8-2, Tim checked and I bet and took down the pot. This was the only pair I had bigger than 99 in the 7 or 8 hours I played. That was not meant as a complaint as I am completely fine w/ that is this game.
I did witness possibly the most blatent slow roll I have ever seen. We are only 6 handed as we are waiting for the table to fill back up after the tournament had just started. This old man opens the pot for 25 after I had limped as I was seeing just about every flop shorhanded and he gets 2 callers and I decide to sit this one out. The flop comes 9 high and Tex leads for 40 into the pot from the blind. This kid on my right calls and the old man makes it 140. At this point I think even the people playing black jack in the pits are aware that this old man has atleast JJ. Well this kid is not convinced and calls the hundred after a minute of deliberation. The turn is a 7 and the kid checks and the old man bets 300 to set the kid in as he has 280 left. The kid starts thinkin out loud how he is not sure how he could lay it down and everyone at the table is looking at each other wondering why not! He decided to call and reluctantly puts his chips in the pot. The old man holds his hand out and says and I quote "Good Call, Nice Hand" Everyone at the tables head snaps around in amazement and I am already questioning my read of the hand. The kid then proudly(all of a sudden) flips over his Ace 9 and I look back at the old man with a you have to be shitting me kind of look. He looks at me, shakes his head for about 5 seconds(seemed like 5 minutes if you know what I mean) and then tables QQ. What the fuck was that about! The whole table went nuts including Gene D as I believe he may have something to say about this at some point. I was truly shocked as this guy is always in the poker room and really does know better.

Anyway, after that happened a few of us go eat and I comeback only to have the entire table pissed that I have been gone for 2 hours. They actually called my name on the intercom so I called the poker room and he said I had 2 minutes to get back. I told him that wasn't gonna happen and it said he was gonna have to pick me up. I was ok w/ that and took my time. When I did get there I found that he decided to not pick me up so I sat right in my seat. About half the table was pissed as I believe I had 5 buttons. Oh well! I proceeded to win like 5 of the first 9 hands that I played and added about 500 to my stack. There really aren't many hands that stick out b/c it was one of those night where you look down and you are up a couple of buyins w/out doing very much. I love those nights as I did not play any big pots and just kind of won the ones that nobody else wanted. We racked up and made it home fairly early. I hope to visit them again this weekend. We'll see.

" Hey Braaa why'd you slow roll him like that. That's fucked up!"
-GeneD after old fuck slow rolled the young kid.

Shortys On Sunday w/ Mean Gene & Ruttley.

What can I say I love that place and I wish it was closer to my house. A few friends of mine have said they do not like to play there b/c no one ever folds. I could not disagree more. If you like to play suited connectors and a lot of draws this place is heaven. But shhhh don't tell anyone. You are priced in to everysingle draw you can pick up and the implied odds for small pairs are out of this world. If you can manage to not get unlucky at this place a decent player may really never lose (knock on wood). I probably should not have even said that as I am slightly superstitious. In all honesty I love the place, but you do have to adjust your play somewhat. I for one am very cautious w/ big pairs and fold them on the flop and turn quite often. I know that I fold the best hand quite often, but I am ok w/ that as I prefer not to go broke w/ one pair that often.
As for Sunday Night, if anyone read Gene's blog about his hand w/ KK I am still jelous. I have been playin this game for a while, but still have not learned how to get 2 people to put $300 in the pot preflop w/ k5 and kq and I could give a shit if it is suited. I guess i'll keep trying.
Well the only hand I think I may have played differently is as follows. I am in blind w/ K5dd and call a preflop raise of $20 b/c naturally 5 or 6 others did. It goes w/out sayin that I would love to flop a flush draw as I really am not crazy about flopping a king. Well flop comes out Ad10d10c. I flop my flush draw but didn't want to bet out and have to call a raise. Well no one bets and a free card comes off. The 2 of diamonds and I turn the nut flush on a paired board. I lead out 25 to see who is gonna pay me off w/ a 10 or a worse flush. I get only 1 call and it is from this crazy woman that has already called Ruttley's $60 prelop raise w/ q5 and smoked his KK w/ a QQ board. So she calls and the river is the jack of clubs. I am pretty sure I am good and bet out $45. She very quietly announces that she is allin and has me covered as I have about $400 in front of me.
I quite honestly didn't know what the shit to do. After a few moments(as I tend to act quickly and prolly should take a little more time) I think that she is pretty strong. My only read on her besides her being strong is the fact that she can have absolutely any 2 cards here. The jack is a bad card if she has a 10 b/c most people w/ have j10, 10/9, or something of that nature. I decide to fold as I am fairly confident that I can find another spot to mix it up w/ her. Before folding I ask her if she would show me if she had j10. She says yes and i fold. She tables 78dd for a obviously weaker flush.
The sad thing is that my read of her being strong was correct b/c she loved her hand. She just had no clue of how bad of shape it was in. I for one never raise w/ her hand there so I could not imagine that she would have. IMO she just as easily could have turned over 10/2 as j/10.
Anyway it all worked out after a few more hours as I racked up to leave up about $800. The only problem w/ that was I played my last hand w/ my chips in the rack and picked up JJ. I rzd preflop and saw the flop 3 handed. It was 8 high and I bet $50 and got minrzed on the flop(I hate that). I call and turn is a 9. Guy bets $150 and I told the guy that I was pretty sure I was gonna let him bluff me since I was leaving. I then said that I had a crazy thought that he might have slow played a monster preflop to try and smoke me b/c he was stuck in the game and it was about to break. I fold and he shows me 2 queens. I guess it is a good thing I was leaving b/c I likely would have given him a few hundred more. He was not all that happy about me folding as he said "he knew I had jacks or tens." Sorry I could not be of more help sir.
Anyway I will likely be back there on Wednesday as the action is crazy on Wednesday due to the shitty tourney they run. I honestly don't know where these people come from.

Well as I type this I finished 2nd in a $27 45 man sng on stars for a little over $200 profit and I had the privledge of watching Gene drag a $3 sng for $15. Congrats Gene.
Oh I did let Ruttley bluff me out of a pot on the flop when I flopped the dummy end of the straight. I know I had you beat if you read this one day. lol.

If anyone reads this feel free to let me know what you think as I am pretty honest when talking to others about there play(whether I am right or not who knows). So it will not bother me if you think I am a complete dumbshit. Wow now I know how people end up w/ these long ass posts.