Bad night of bad beats

The poker gods are back to slapping me in the face with the deck again. Friday night was just not a good night of poker for me. I buy in for $200 and proceed to play zero hands for about the first hour. Every pot is raised to about 6x's the big blind. Its $1-$2 and I guess everyone feels the only way to play is to raise it to at least $12 pre-flop. I don't catch any cards that are worth calling that pre-flop. No pairs, no AK or AQ. Nothing. I finally get involved in a pot and it cripples my stack. I'm in the BB and the table limps around to me. I have Q 10 and check my option. Flop comes 9 J J rainbow. There are 5 people in the pot so I assume that someone has to have a J. It checks around to the button who bets out $10. SB folds and I call and it folds around and we get one more caller. The turn is an 8. I make my Q high straight and feel I'm good. I bet out $25 and both guys call. I'm figuring that both have a J so I'm now scared of one of them hitting a full house or already being there. What I don't want to see is a face card as I'm sure one or both would have something like A J, K J, or Q J. Of course the river brings a K. I check as does the other guy. The button fires out $25. I know I should fold as I'm almost positive that the guy has K J. But, I'm hoping that maybe he just has A J or Q J and there is enough money that I decide I can't fold. I call the 25 and the other guy folds. I show the straight and the jackass decides to wait a second, look at the board and then turn over K J. What the fuck is wrong with people. Why do they feel the need to slow roll when they know they have the nuts? I showed first even though I called him. I hate assholes like this.

I take a modest hit and am down to around $100 left. I decide I'm not going to buy in for more than the $200 as I don't want to go in the red on the night. I fold just about everything for the next hour. I end up down to $35 and put it all in on a raised pot with 2 callers when I get A Q. We end up 3 way in the pot and both of the other guys check it down and I catch my Q on the river and rake in the pot. I take my stack back up to over $100. My next hand I am dealt 10 10 in the SB and push all in on a raised pot and end up taking it down pre-flop and rake in another $30. I end up building my stack back up to $150. About 5 hands later I am dealt K K in late position. I raise it to 4x the big blind and the BB ends up making it $45. The guy has been super tight and I just feel that he probably has AA. I can't fold it pre-flop so I just call rather than doing what most people would do and push all in. The flop comes 3 9 7. Great flop for me, but I still think the guy has AA. He go's all in which puts me all in. I go in the tank and I know I should just fold it but instead of going with my gut, I talk myself into him having Q's or J's. I call and he tables AA. The turn is an A and then the river is a K. I turn over my K's and grab my phone and head towards the door.

On my way out a guy I play frequently with starts talking with me. He has made a couple of good cashes during the Venetian Deepstack tourney and is on a decent run this month. We talk about a couple of things and he asks if I was playing the 7pm tourney and I said no that I was on my way home. He offers to buy me into the tournament for a 60-40 split and I accept. First place is usually around $6000 so I'll take a $2400 profit on zero buyin.

I sit down at what would become the absolute worst collection of poker stiffs I have ever played with. Seat 1 and 2 are what I will call Luckbox1 and Luckbox2. Seats 3 and 4 were from Russia and couldn't speak a lick of english and played like they have never seen a poker game before. The others were a bunch of calling stations. Ideally, this is a table I would love to sit at as I should be able to run the table over. But then again, you can't beat luck and the luckboxes struck early.

Seats 1 and 2 take down all of the big pots by catching trips and boats and running runner runner straights and flushes. It was amazing. When their hands were tabled it was just shocking. That they were calling people down with bottom pairs and A high and just getting lucky as hell. Either they were elite soul readers or just had a horshoe crammed up their asses. Seat 2 knocks out 4 people and builds up an enormous chip stack. We started out with 7500 in chips and the blinds were 20minutes. they moved pretty quick and I managed to take a couple of small pots when I run into luckbox in seat 2.

Blinds are 100-200 and I raise on the button after she has limped in. I make it $600 to go and everyone folds to her where she calls. I have 9d 10d. I know I need to hit the flop hard or I'm probably behind. The flop comes 7 k 10 with 2 clubs. She checks and I bet out $1200. She calls. The turn is an A. She checks and I bet out $1800. She thinks and then eventually calls. The river is a J of clubs. So now the board has 4 to a straight with 3 clubs. All you need is a Q and you have the straight. She checks and I bet out $1900. She insta calls and I just say I guess you have the Q and she turns over K 3. K fucking 3!!!! She said there was just too much money in the pot not to call. there were a million hands that could beat you. What the fuck!! So I'm down to $3000 now. Great. I manage a double up when I hit trips on the flop with 44 and get back up to over 7000.

The next big hand I play cripples me and was probably a bad play on my part, but hell, I couldn't not call. I had A 6 of hearts in the BB and the blinds were 200-400 with a 25 ante. There were 4 limpers and I check. The flop came 10 8 K with 2 hearts. I check and it checks around to ms luckbox in seat 2 who bets out $800. 2 guys limp and I call as does the other guy. the turn is the 3 of diamonds. So now there are 2 diamonds and 2 hearts. I still am drawing to the nuts. I check and ms luckbox bets out $2200. both guys call and i think about it. There is just too much money in the pot not to call. I hit a heart that doesn't pair the board and I've got the nuts. I call. so does the other guy and the flop comes 2 diamonds. Great. can't hit shit. I check and ms luckbox bets out $2400. one guy calls and ms luckbox shoes 8 7 diamonds. she hits her flush. at least this time she was betting her bottom pair and got lucky.

Again i'm down to about 3000. I'm below 10 bb and know i'm at an all in mode now. blinds are 300-600 with a 50 ante. ms luckbox calls the 600 and the guy next to me go's all in for his last 4000. I have A Q and decide to take my chances and go all in for my last 3000. the blinds fold and ms luckbox hims and haws and finally calls for another 3400. you know, because you are "priced" in right!! I know i'm ahead as I show my A Q. the guy who went all in first shows J 7 of hearts and ms luckbox shows K 4 diamonds. flop comes A 4 8. no hearts or diamonds. the guy gets up and begins to leave as he is pretty sure he is going home. I just need my hand to hold now. We all know where this is going. The turn is the K. Great, 2 pair for the dumb bitch. I've still got outs as an A, Q or 8 will do. Can I catch one? Nope. Ms luckbox can make a full house though. 4 on the river. I grab my phone and begin to stand up. The guy next to me, who I've played with before just shakes his head. And this is the part I can't stand. It just shows you know nothing about poker. The luckbox in seat 1 proceeds to say, well you were priced in. you had to call with your stack. She says I know, that is why I called. Do you even know what priced in means?? hell no you don't. I tell them she wasn't priced in. She had odds to call, but not priced in. If she felt like gambling, fine. so be it. but you don't call an additional 3400 when you only have 600 invested with K 4 and 2 guys all in. You have to think at least one has an Ace or at least a pair. Even if they have K they have your kicker crushed. Whatever. The dumb bitch won't make the dinner break after having over 40,000 in chips after 5 levels. Why can't I get lucky like that? Oh yeah, I don't stick around in the hands she does.

So go's another day of just shitty poker for me.

Sunday I have the tournament on full tilt where if I finish in the top 150 I win a main event seat. Lets see if I can make it past the second level on this one. maybe I can go on an online heater and just play my way into it. being that you only have to finish in the top 150 a lot of people will play very tight late so if you are behind and needing to chip up you can steal a lot of pots so we'll see what happens. So far there are 1327 people registered. I expect to see a lot more tomorrow as its a $500 tourney. But then again, a lot of people are afraid of getting their money out after the gov't froze all the money in the banks a couple of weeks ago. Full Tilt has managed to get around it so I'm not worried. would be a nice way to end the month if I can win my main event eat for $8. Good birthday gift for myself.

Sorry I haven't written much RB, just not a lot going on and I haven't played but about once a week now with the bad runs I've been on.