More Borgata
The Borgata main event is tomorrow. I have table 43, seat 3 which is completely irrelevant except that the guy sitting next to me talking to his girlfriend on the phone in our hotel room, Mr. Matt Matros, has 43-4. Running good, running good.
Speaking of running good here are some hands from a live session I played last night. The game was 300-600 HO.
- Hold em, I open with 55, two people call in the field, Bobby Belande calls in the blind. Flop 842 rainbow, I bet, one guy calls, one guy folds, Bobby calls. Turn 3, Bobby leads, I raise, other guy folds, Bobby three-bets, I call. River A, Bobby bets, I raise, Bobby three-bets, I call, Bobby has 65o. I mean what the fuck.
- Hold em, UTG raises, UTG+1 three bets, I four-bet UTG+2 with AA, MP calls 4 cold, the other two call. MP is a high limit east coast hold em pro who I know and have played with a number of times before. Flop Tc7c7s, checked to me, I bet, all call. Turn 4h, checked to me, I bet, MP raises, the others fold, I three-bet, MP four-bets, I call. I check-call the 2c river and he has AcJc. I mean what the fuck. For some reason if the guy raises the turn and just calls my three-bet and then get there I don't care but WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS GENIUS DOING FOUR-BETTING THE TURN? Oh and after the hand I sort of gave him a weird look and he said, "Have to get even somehow." Sigh.
So after that I just quit.
Tonight I had dinner with Matt, Peter Feldman, Joe Tehan, Rob Hwang, and Russell Rosenblum. At some point I realized all of these guys have won huge money in tournaments and I haven't. This got me thinking about something that was on my mind during the $2500, so I asked everyone if they thought they would make a big score like that before it happened. Everyone said yes. See I just don't feel like that. Like when I made it to the money in that tournament a few days ago, I was just thinking, "Oh it's nice to play with Barry and Mike Gracz and EFro and all these guys and I'll bust out soon and play some golf tomorrow." I don't know, maybe I should stop playing them if this is my attitude. I'm never surprised when I bust from a tournament or lose a hand I'm supposed to win. People often compliment me on how well I take bad beats in big pots. Maybe it's because I'm expecting them!
Yesterday Rob and I played golf and I played well. Today we played with Matt and Peter and I played like shit. We gambled today but not yesterday obviously. Running good, running good.
Speaking of running good here are some hands from a live session I played last night. The game was 300-600 HO.
- Hold em, I open with 55, two people call in the field, Bobby Belande calls in the blind. Flop 842 rainbow, I bet, one guy calls, one guy folds, Bobby calls. Turn 3, Bobby leads, I raise, other guy folds, Bobby three-bets, I call. River A, Bobby bets, I raise, Bobby three-bets, I call, Bobby has 65o. I mean what the fuck.
- Hold em, UTG raises, UTG+1 three bets, I four-bet UTG+2 with AA, MP calls 4 cold, the other two call. MP is a high limit east coast hold em pro who I know and have played with a number of times before. Flop Tc7c7s, checked to me, I bet, all call. Turn 4h, checked to me, I bet, MP raises, the others fold, I three-bet, MP four-bets, I call. I check-call the 2c river and he has AcJc. I mean what the fuck. For some reason if the guy raises the turn and just calls my three-bet and then get there I don't care but WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS GENIUS DOING FOUR-BETTING THE TURN? Oh and after the hand I sort of gave him a weird look and he said, "Have to get even somehow." Sigh.
So after that I just quit.
Tonight I had dinner with Matt, Peter Feldman, Joe Tehan, Rob Hwang, and Russell Rosenblum. At some point I realized all of these guys have won huge money in tournaments and I haven't. This got me thinking about something that was on my mind during the $2500, so I asked everyone if they thought they would make a big score like that before it happened. Everyone said yes. See I just don't feel like that. Like when I made it to the money in that tournament a few days ago, I was just thinking, "Oh it's nice to play with Barry and Mike Gracz and EFro and all these guys and I'll bust out soon and play some golf tomorrow." I don't know, maybe I should stop playing them if this is my attitude. I'm never surprised when I bust from a tournament or lose a hand I'm supposed to win. People often compliment me on how well I take bad beats in big pots. Maybe it's because I'm expecting them!
Yesterday Rob and I played golf and I played well. Today we played with Matt and Peter and I played like shit. We gambled today but not yesterday obviously. Running good, running good.
posted by Chris Fargis at 1:26 AM
7 Comments:
On the first hand with Bellande, did you say "i mean what the" because it was 5 6 off, or just out of frustration. I mean I don't play much limit, but he was getting (if i calculated correctly) 7.5 to 1 preflop to call preflop, and from there he's doublegutted. Was I missing something?
No, nothing about how Bobby played the hand, it was just a real cooler on the river.
Thanks for blogging and including all this candid, day-to-day stuff about how poker's going for you. Just wanted to drop a line since I read everything but don't really have much to say. I don't play very good. =P
On seat arrangements -
In the home game I play in I've had the second best player (1st me of course) to my left at least 5 or 6 times, and only once or twice on my immediate right. These are bi-weekly tournaments with two a night of between 20-30 people, and it's frustrating how often I end up seated with him on my left. Computer seat arrangements are rigged!!!11
On MTT expectations -
I feel the same way. For instance, playing the small buy-in Foxwoods tournaments I fully expect to be almost busted by the 100-200 level when a starting stack has 10 big blinds after an hour, yet I've played five, cashed once, bubbled once, been close to the money twice, and lost a gigantic pot for a probable chip lead with 50 left once.
I think if you expect to win every tournament you enter you will be sorely mistaken since if you're even money you're only supposed to cash 10% of the time. There's a whole lot of luck in tournaments and if you expect to win you will lose much more often and be tilted by bad beats, not getting above your starting stack umpteen times, or losing big pots, etc.
I strongly disagree with anyone with the mentality of being able to win every tournament. It's destined to tiltland. If you expect the worst it makes running good that much sweeter.
I'm pretty sure they didn't think they would win every tournament, just that those previous winners had felt that they were going to make a big score at some point (perhaps soon?). They felt they were going to win a big one.
Right. I don't feel like I'm going to make a score in one of these any time soon.
im more curious why "mp" cold called a 4 bet with AJc.
i mean, i guess he's worried about getting even, but when i'm down i'm more partial to worrying about why i'm stuck
but hey... that's just me
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