Double Or Bust
What happened to day 6 of the DoB?
Saturday, August 18th, 2007 | Double Or Bust | No Comments
I have found that the most important part of playing poker on the internet is an internet connection. If you can’t connect to the internet, I don’t care how good you are, you are not going to win any money. True, you won’t lose any either…
Over the past week or so my connection has been spotty. Then, earlier this week my connection up and died completely. The cable company came out and slapped a band-aid on the issue, but have not resolved it completely. Apparently that’s going to happen early next week. I did play a day 6, I just wasn’t able to post about it until now.
Level: .10/.25
Minutes: 94
Won: $19.70
Hands: 109
BB/Hr.: 25.15
BB/100: 36.15
VP$IP: 26.61
This session is a perfect example of how I go about playing online poker. I’m almost always working on something else at the same time. I pretty much sit back and play strong hands or play hands from late position. While winning several $2 and $3 pots and a couple $9 - $12 pots, I didn’t lose a single pot over $2.50 until near the end of my session where I lost $9.50 after flopping top set. I would have loved to have stayed and played longer at this table but simply ran out of time.
The hand that cost me the $9.50 was pretty straight forward. A player limped from first position. Another player limped between us and I raised with pocket 9s. The button called and so did both of the limpers. On a flop with 2 spades and 9 high, the guy in first position bets $4.00 which is about half his stack. The middle limper folds and I min-raise which is enough to put the button all-in if he decides to call, and also puts the first position guy all-in. The button folds and the bettor calls. He turns over A/4 of spades for the nut flush draw. I was able to dodge the spades, but wasn’t able to dodge the guy’s runner-runner straight.
I was happy to get my money in on that flop. Even if he makes his flush on the turn, I would still have 10 outs to make quads or a full house on the river.
In 90 minutes at this table, I didn’t face one tough decision. I made one play at a pot with 2/2 after the board double-paired on the turn to counterfeit my hand. Other than that, it was pretty much ABC poker.
DOB - Day 7
Friday, August 17th, 2007 | Double Or Bust | 3 Comments
Level: .10/.25
Minute: 60
Won: $29.20
BB/Hr.: 58.40
BB/100: (102.46)
VP$IP: 26.32
This session was pretty quiet for the first 45 minutes. In that time I didn’t play a pot worth more than 4 or 5 bucks. Then, in a matter of about 5 minutes, I won two pots that doubled me up.
The first hand I had J/9 and the board came 9 high. We got all the money in against a guy who only had about $3.00. Turns out he had 10/10. I turned a third 9 to bust him.
Then I picked up pocket 8s in late position. It’s folded around to me so I raise to .75. I get called by a player behind me and then the player in the small blind raises another $2.00. I call and the player behind me calls. The flop comes 9 high with a beautiful 8 and no flush draw. The SB bets out and I smooth call hoping to get the guy behind me to come along for the ride. He folds, though. On the turn the SB checks and I bet out a little over $13.00 and get called. The river is a King and I put in my last $6.00 and the SB folds. I’m thinking now that it may have been better to raise on the flop. If he had a pair of 10s or Jacks in that spot, he’s likely to have come over the top for all my money giving me the full double-up. Plus, if either player had 10/J (which is certainly possible), I would have been in real trouble on the turn.
Dob - Day 5
Saturday, August 11th, 2007 | Double Or Bust | 1 Comment
Level: NL .10/.25
Minutes: 61
Won: (25.00)
Hands: 83
BB/Hr.: (49.18)
BB/100: (60.24)
VP$IP: 30.12
Today’s loss is really a shame. I was playing quite well for the better part of an hour. I laid down 2 pair when I knew a guy made his straight on the turn (it got shown down by another guy who had top pair, top kicker), and I stole a couple pots after check/calling the flop and then betting out on the turn with no hand. So, I was feeling pretty good.
Then, for some unknown reason, I decide to limp with 8/6 offsuit from under the gun. A loose aggressive player limps right after me and then a weak/tight player from middle position raises. I decide to call figuring the guy in the middle will follow and I can get away from most any hand if I don’t flop anything. So the flop comes 6/6/2 with two diamonds. Well, I’m now married to this hand and am going nowhere. You can see how the hand played out here, but somehow after flopping trip-sixes, I ended up with the 3rd best hand.
Looking back at the hand, since the weak/tight player reraised the turn, I really should have been able to get away from that hand. Wow, I played that poorly. Yikes!
Today I limped in to far too many pots from out of position. I’m mad at myself for not raising more. I got myself in to weird situations. True, I was able to get out of a couple of them, but I should have never been stuck in them to begin with.
What I find funniest is that up until the beginning of this week, I had been on quite a roll at the .10/.25 table. I had 13 out of 15 winning sessions over the past 2 weeks. Then, as soon as I started blogging it, I’m now on a 0 for 4 run. No sweat, I’ll turn it around tomorrow.
DOB - Day 4
Friday, August 10th, 2007 | Double Or Bust | 1 Comment
Level: NL .10/.25
Minutes: 7
Won: (25.00)
Hands: 5
BB/Hr.: (434.57)
BB/100.: (845)
VP$IP.: 33.33
Well, this was my shortest session yet. And, I think it will be difficult for it to happen much quicker.
I had sat out and watched for 1 orbit prior to taking a hand. During the first orbit, I got to see first hand that the player two to my right was an ULTRA aggressive player and willing to put his money in in really bad spots.
Nothing special happened for the first few hands, and then I picked up A/A under the gun. I raise to .75 and get re-raised by a guy in late position. When hyper aggressive-boy calls in the middle, I decide to just smooth call to trap him for all his money on the flop as he has been over-betting the flops to take down some pots. My plan worked to perfection. We got all the money in on the flop. He’s in bad shape with only an inside straight draw, which of course hits on the turn. No biggie, I take it in stride. The guy who had re-raised preflop had K/K and was far more upset about the end result than I was. I just knew that since I had position on this guy, I would get my chips back from him shortly, assuming he stuck around. I was right. You can check out the comeback hand right here. (I love my overbet on the flop.)
DoB - Day 3
Thursday, August 9th, 2007 | Double Or Bust | No Comments
Level: NL .10/.25
Minutes: 136
Won: ($10.30)
Hands: 177
BB/Hr.: (9.09)
BB/100.: (11.64)
VP$IP: 24.34
Well, apparently I can’t commit to the whole double or bust thing. OK, that’s not true. I’ve just had two very crazy sessions in a row. Tonight I was working on a project while playing poker on the second screen. The table was an interesting mix of loose and tight players. I was lucky enough to have the most of the loose people on my right, so I was able to avoid some sticky situations, which was nice.
Well, I can’t say I was card dead this session. I had aces twice. Sadly the aces collectively won me $3.10. A/Q was my biggest money maker, though. I had raised from middle position and got 1 caller. The flop was a lovely A/Q/Q - I checked and got the guy to bet. I checked the turn and the guy bet again. My check raise on the turn was a little too big and the fish flew off the hook. Somehow I found a way to lose $10 bucks in this hand where I made a straight on the turn but was OBVIOUSLY behind when I called the guy’s $7.00 all-in raise. I knew he had 10/J and yet I called anyway… I’ll be able to lay that down when I grow up, right?
I’m going to try and play my DoB tables earlier in the evening as I think I’m playing too late and am not making good decisions based on being tired. I’m being fairly disciplined when it comes to starting hand selection based on position, which is a good thing. I’ve gotten out of the way on several hands where I would have lost large pots hand I gotten involved. Now, I need to make some adjustments to my betting sizes on the flop and turn based on what I’m trying to get my opponent to do. This is especially true when it comes to flopping big hands. I think I could have earned a lot more money on the hand where I flopped the full house. But, I made too big of a bet on the check-raise and scared the guy off.
We’ll see what tomorrow brings!