An Evening of Poker
I`ve played poker for most of the evening with hardly a break. All-in-all it`s been a good session, if not the most profitable.
The first event was The Online Forum Challenge freeroll. I`m not really a fan of big field freerolls (1271 runners), even less so of late but I enjoyed playing this one. For a start none of the tables I was at had any real maniacs at them, and I was playing pretty well. I maintained an above average stack for a good long time before a card drought hit me and I ended up going out in 191st. I had the best of it after the rag flop with my pocket jacks but I was up against a large stack and he chose to call my all-in with AQ. He spiked a Q on the turn, and to add insult to injury another on the river. What really made the game fun was listening to Hold `Em Radio who were broadasting the event live. During the first break I signed into the chat room using my usual DangerMouse tag and the guys at the radio station played "my" theme tune for me lol.
By the time I was out of the OFC game the K9 Poker Tour International event had started over at PKR. It`s a great looking site but I just don`t get on with it that well. Plus I had the weekly buy-in for 5th Street starting at the same time. I`m not a fan of multi-tabling so I decided that I`d take a few risks and either accumulate chips quickly or bust out early. From UTG I flat called 150 with J-10S, a few other callers, then a raise to 450 from the SB. I called and the flop brought a 10 x x flop. The SB pushed all-in and I called. At the showdown I was ahead against AQ but again the turn betrayed me and I was out.
That left me to concentrate on the 5th Street game. I`ve been doing consistently well in these. In the last three I`ve had a 1st and a 3rd. Well todays was a blast! At the final table I had the highly aggressive PocketAcesAreGood on my right. Now he likes to play very aggressively and doesn`t hesitate to push all-in. With chips he`s very dangerous and as he was chip leader he was pushing a lot. I`d had no decent hands for some time and was happy to see pocket tens until of course Aces pushed all-in. I decided to be cautious and folded them. It paid off in the long run because a little later when he pushed again I called with JJ and found him with 66. My jacks held up and I`d doubled up. Well this starts off some friendly "smack" talk between us and he says he`s going to have to set a mouse-trap to get me. Well lets say things didn`t quite work out the way he wanted. The only person setting mouse-traps was me. The funny thing was I told him I was going to double up off him again if he kept pushing all-in to steal my BB. That`s when this little beauty popped up
My second royal flush, just hearts and spades needed to complete the set now lol. Actually when the king dropped I didn`t immediately realise I`d hit the royal, I just saw the flush and knew I`d won the hand. I finished off my opponent a while later when he repeated his mistake pushing all-in from the SB with 55 only to find me with AA.
The final three were myself Wade79 and Sniggle. Wade took out Sniggle to gain a small advantage in chips and we played a tough heads-up. He managed to gain an edge and never let me back into the game. I almost managed to drag myself back into the game with a major suck-out and a little later a beautifully slowplayed (if I say so myself) AK from the SB. I flat called and he raised, I came right back over the top all-in and he called revealing A-5. In the end though he took it down to win his first 5th Street game. A very deserved win too WTG Wade.
Ok last game of the evening and the end of what was supposed to be a short post. Funny how that happens, I sometimes don`t really feel like posting but once I start typing it just flows, anyway I digress. The last game was a K9 Poker Tour buy-in at Vegas Poker 24/7. I needed a good result at this and I had to finish ahead of Coconeely and 1JugHead to pull some points back on the monthly leaderboard. Well I suceeded in that, although I only beat Jug by two places. I finished on the bubble A-10 vs BigMoody`s QJ. A very frustrating result, I needed the prize money at that site and although I was only slightly ahead it`s still annoying to lose with the best hand pre-flop. I may have brought it on myself. I had a couple of hands I could have called with against the runaway chip leader Larrykiller, but I chose to fold them. Still, there`s no way to tell, I could have lost with those too. On the bright side I`m pretty sure I`m in a strong 2nd place on the leaderboard. The money tour is so competitive and I want a monthly win really badly. Not to mention the end of month heads-up for the winner vs Shaggy has rolled over and is worth $300.
The first event was The Online Forum Challenge freeroll. I`m not really a fan of big field freerolls (1271 runners), even less so of late but I enjoyed playing this one. For a start none of the tables I was at had any real maniacs at them, and I was playing pretty well. I maintained an above average stack for a good long time before a card drought hit me and I ended up going out in 191st. I had the best of it after the rag flop with my pocket jacks but I was up against a large stack and he chose to call my all-in with AQ. He spiked a Q on the turn, and to add insult to injury another on the river. What really made the game fun was listening to Hold `Em Radio who were broadasting the event live. During the first break I signed into the chat room using my usual DangerMouse tag and the guys at the radio station played "my" theme tune for me lol.
By the time I was out of the OFC game the K9 Poker Tour International event had started over at PKR. It`s a great looking site but I just don`t get on with it that well. Plus I had the weekly buy-in for 5th Street starting at the same time. I`m not a fan of multi-tabling so I decided that I`d take a few risks and either accumulate chips quickly or bust out early. From UTG I flat called 150 with J-10S, a few other callers, then a raise to 450 from the SB. I called and the flop brought a 10 x x flop. The SB pushed all-in and I called. At the showdown I was ahead against AQ but again the turn betrayed me and I was out.
That left me to concentrate on the 5th Street game. I`ve been doing consistently well in these. In the last three I`ve had a 1st and a 3rd. Well todays was a blast! At the final table I had the highly aggressive PocketAcesAreGood on my right. Now he likes to play very aggressively and doesn`t hesitate to push all-in. With chips he`s very dangerous and as he was chip leader he was pushing a lot. I`d had no decent hands for some time and was happy to see pocket tens until of course Aces pushed all-in. I decided to be cautious and folded them. It paid off in the long run because a little later when he pushed again I called with JJ and found him with 66. My jacks held up and I`d doubled up. Well this starts off some friendly "smack" talk between us and he says he`s going to have to set a mouse-trap to get me. Well lets say things didn`t quite work out the way he wanted. The only person setting mouse-traps was me. The funny thing was I told him I was going to double up off him again if he kept pushing all-in to steal my BB. That`s when this little beauty popped up
My second royal flush, just hearts and spades needed to complete the set now lol. Actually when the king dropped I didn`t immediately realise I`d hit the royal, I just saw the flush and knew I`d won the hand. I finished off my opponent a while later when he repeated his mistake pushing all-in from the SB with 55 only to find me with AA.
The final three were myself Wade79 and Sniggle. Wade took out Sniggle to gain a small advantage in chips and we played a tough heads-up. He managed to gain an edge and never let me back into the game. I almost managed to drag myself back into the game with a major suck-out and a little later a beautifully slowplayed (if I say so myself) AK from the SB. I flat called and he raised, I came right back over the top all-in and he called revealing A-5. In the end though he took it down to win his first 5th Street game. A very deserved win too WTG Wade.
Ok last game of the evening and the end of what was supposed to be a short post. Funny how that happens, I sometimes don`t really feel like posting but once I start typing it just flows, anyway I digress. The last game was a K9 Poker Tour buy-in at Vegas Poker 24/7. I needed a good result at this and I had to finish ahead of Coconeely and 1JugHead to pull some points back on the monthly leaderboard. Well I suceeded in that, although I only beat Jug by two places. I finished on the bubble A-10 vs BigMoody`s QJ. A very frustrating result, I needed the prize money at that site and although I was only slightly ahead it`s still annoying to lose with the best hand pre-flop. I may have brought it on myself. I had a couple of hands I could have called with against the runaway chip leader Larrykiller, but I chose to fold them. Still, there`s no way to tell, I could have lost with those too. On the bright side I`m pretty sure I`m in a strong 2nd place on the leaderboard. The money tour is so competitive and I want a monthly win really badly. Not to mention the end of month heads-up for the winner vs Shaggy has rolled over and is worth $300.
posted by DangerMouse at 5:15 AM
4 Comments:
Good game on Sunday Neil. I enjoyed our heads up battle. Congratulations on the Royal Flush too. I was playing a hand in the OPU game when you got it so didn't see it. Have yet to get one myself.
was a great hu and was nice to see that royal flush
Excellent Royal mate :)
Royal baby ;), and great HU !
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