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psycho22mantis
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Interests: Pocket aces, kings, or ace-king. Guitars also. Guns also.
Expertise: Major and minor chords, open and barre alike, also fifths, sevenths, minor sevenths, and a few fun scales. 99 percent safe hunter in theory, 100 percent safe in practice.
Occupation: Retired
Industry: Business
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Member Since:
5/18/2004
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| Tonight we played a normal game and I lost in the bubble. I just
kinda steadily lost money, didn't get much in terms of starting
hands. I got some mediocre hands, but I seriously did not hit
anything on the flop ever. I eventually went all in on K-10
suited, which I guess was kind of a stupid move since I could have
waited for a little bit better hand. But I figured I'd make my
move, and I was called by Bend who unfortunately had A-10, which made
me an underdog to win the pot. Obviously I lost and his ace beat
my king so I was out. Andrew was short stacked versus Bend, and
unfortunately for him when he made his move (which he had a flush),
Bend called (with his higher flush) and Bend won.
Oh, one funny hand was an easy flush possibility on the board (just
needed one of the suits) and Victor had raised and/or called large
raises the whole time, and I
think Andrew had a pocket pair in the hole, sixes or something.
Victor ended up only having two
pair or something, but Andrew had a full house which he thought was
only a three of a kind. Thinking he had three of a kind, he just
called a mediocre bet on the end instead of raising, and he won
anyway. BUT he was mad a little since he could
have gotten a lot more money than the 80 cents or so he made with the
hand. Sufficed to say, I bet Andrew will be paying more attention
to his hand from now on (he was pretty...disgusted would probably be
the best word...with what he realized he had done and the opportunity
he had missed; it was funny, but poopy).
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| Bend reminded me that I lost one additional game in the past that I
neglected to mention. Way to go Bend, thanks for reminding me.
Anyway, tonight we played two, count'em two games of poker. We
had 4 players, with Will being the fourth player and the usual
three. I'm glad Will knew how to play, it gets bothersome trying
to have newbies keep up with us and teaching them how to play.
Anyway, 5 dollar buy-in like normal, started with pot-limit. I
don't remember many hands, but there was a lot of good quality poker
being played so I was impressed and also was able to have fun. I
trapped once or twice with a set, bluffed once or twice with nothing,
established a chip lead. Andrew ended up being knocked out by
either Ben or Will, I forget, first. So Ben went all-in, I called
(it was about a dollar) and then Will called also, so we started a side
pot. I ended up getting a flush, but Will had the full house
already so it didn't matter. Ben was goneand Will had a really
big chip lead over me as we went heads up. I went all in on the
next hand, and lost to a full house again. Two hands, two giant
losses of money to two full houses. Fortunately, we decided to
play with two paying spots so I got my money back, Will made 10 dollar
profit.
It was only 10pm or so, so we decided to play again. This time,
Andrew got an early chip lead, basically taking a portion of my chips,
Will's chips, and also ALL of Ben's chips (who ended up going out
first). I was able to stick around until Will got knocked out by
Andrew (no full house to save you this time Will!). So Andrew had
about a 8 to 1 chip lead on me, maybe even more, so we folded a few
hands before the flop to eachother, then I got A-J suited, so when he
called me on the big blind, I went all-in and he called really quickly
and flipped over a few queens. I guess it was kind of bad timing,
and I ended up losing, which means I got my money back. So I
didn't win or lose any money after two games, which doesn't exactly
help, as I am still down a bunch of money, 53 dollars to be exact,
which isn't bad considering 50 of it is from tournaments. So I'm
down three dollars in for fun friends games, and fifty dollars down in
tournament play.
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| Stupid brown streak.
Game before tourney - lose $5
Tourney - Make it to final table! but lose $25 (on the first
final table hand; I was seriously 12340398573498 dollars ahead at the
first table, but unfortunately you have to turn in all your chips and
re-cash for the final table)
Next game - lose $5 on the second hand.
Get that away, I think I'm going to change my play style, SOMETHING YOU ASSHOLES HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE!
Maybe I will finally win a game, and every game after.
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| Tourney = loss
Next game on closing Olympic day= loss
Next game at Hilovsky's= loss
Last game with Sykora = loss
Anthony's house = loss
As you can see, there's a disturbing trend. I've lost 45 dollars
in the last 5 games. I'm in the negative red poopy zone stupid
again, -13 dollars to be exact. I need to win the next tourney so
I can be back in non-loser zone again.
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| The other day we played a 6 handed game, which was pretty cool but
there was some new blood (and new-bies) at the table. First to be
knocked out was Andrew-2, I forget how he was knocked out, but I think
it was by Bend. Bend got pretty short stacked towards the
beginnging but managed to come back. I was up pretty much the
whole time, but not as much as Andrew-2's friend Josh's friend.
She took some of everyones money towards the beginning and managed to
become the chip leader in a short time. Which is funny because me
and Bend were pretty much the only people driving the action at the
table. Every time one of the others had a good hand, they would
raise 5 or 10 cents (5 cents was the small blind, and 10 was the big
blind) so there were a lot of people in a lot of pots, albeit small
pots. Andrew-2's little brother Jason was doing ok, but he
steadily kept losing chips. One hand, he had A-Q, and about a
dollar left in chips. The flop comes down Q-Q-x and Andrew-2, who
was out at the time, said something like "Jason, if you have a queen,
put all your money in." Jason laughed a little and didn't put all
his money in. Next card was something that helped no one and
someone bet and I think he called. He had baited the trap and
Josh was falling for it. Last card off was an ace, so he had
queens over aces, by far the best hand. Jason finally bet
40 cents, and Josh called. Jason won. What a trap that
was! I think he earned about 60 cents with the best hand of the
entire game. Soon after, he lost all his money to Bend.
Another notable hand was where I got to play for free as the big blind
with 2-3 offsuit. It was a 4 way pot. The flop came down
3-4-5, and I had an open ended straight draw, about the best flop I
could get with 2-3 offsuit. I bet (a REAL amount instead of 5
cents) and everyone called. Next card off was a 6, so I had
a high straight. I think I bet 60 cents or so and Josh's
friend dropped out so it was me, Bend, and Josh. I figured there
was an easy straight out there, so either I would win, or be splitting
the pot with someone. Next card off was useless and I bet like a
dollar or more and they both called, so I was scared someone may have
gotten a flush (there were 3 diamonds out there). Turns out Bend
had two pair or something, and Josh had ace-high. So I won.
I also ended up busting him soon after. Him and his friend left
(she cashed out early with 6 dollars) so it was just me versus
Bend. I had a good sized lead over him, and it went back and
forth for a while until I lost two pair versus his three of a kind when
he went all in. So he had the lead, then I gained it back a
little and it went back and forth again, until the end. I had
A-3, the flop came down A-x-x and Bend moved me all in. I called,
kinda wanting to end the game as it was getting late and my World of
Warcraft patch was done downloading so I could play it. Ben had
A-10 and the next cards didn't help me so I lost. It was kinda
stupid, I should never have called with that hand, so I was mad a
little, but more mad at myself for making such a newbie stupid
move. That probably won't happen too often anymore. So I
think I'm down to +32 dollars total.
Which is great, because I was invited to a no-limit hold'em tourney
with Ben's brother's friend from work or something. It will be a
25 dollar buy in tomorrow, with multiprizes for finishing ahead.
First place is 250 dollars.
QUESTION MARK, GIMME 250 DOLLARS.
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