It has been a long time since going to Lac Leamy. I came "out of retirement" last Monday and went back. I haven't gone because it's such a long drive and there isn't much action... well I was wrong. Other than the really annoying drive, the action is still awesome. I went last Monday, yesterday (Sunday) and tonight (Monday).
Last Monday I cashed out ~$200 profit. Made my money on one hand basically. Called a preflop raise of $8 with AK in the SB. The original raiser was the button and a terrible player. Stacks off extremely light, so cold called pre in hopes of hitting a K or A and hoping he had any piece and would bust. 4 handed, flop was K Q 7, checks around to the button who bets $30 into $32, which was his standard betting line if he had a piece. I shoved for just over $200 and he called with K8.
On Sunday I cashed out ~$120 profit. I was there for just over 4 hours and had never folded so many hands preflop in my life, I don't even know how I got over a $300 stack. I won like 2 $50 pots and won big pot with Ad Jd. I limped UTG with Ad Jd, 3 more limpers, flop is 10d 8d 5x, I lead out $8 into $12 insane crazy asian player who is a regular and will play any hand makes it $30 with like $100 behind. I re shove knowing he's calling but putting him on a weak 10 or even a weak pair. Assuming I have 9 outs to the flush and 6 over cards, I was happy with my play. He ended up having A T and I hit a flush - that was the end for that night, folded forever after that hand.
Tonight was by far my best session at the casino since I have gone. I was running really hot, it was awesome. Having Le Canadien sit at the 1/2 table for fun made it that much better. It was a really fun table.
I had a few big hands which I will talk about.
I limp with AJ in MP after 1 limper, 1 limper after me, button makes it $5, all the limpers call. The button raiser was a younger player who stacks off really light - I mean extremely light. He called off his whole stack ($50) on a limped pot pre, with A2 on a 2 8 Q flop. Doubled up by hitting an A, so it was obviously a stack that was ready to be dumped all over the place - The flop came Jh Th 5x, I led out for $15 into $20, he called. The turn was a Jh Th 5x Ax, I bet $30 this time, he thought for a few seconds and really looked like he was gonna raise which I wanted, but he flat called. The river brought J T 5 A A and I bet $50 into $90 and he shoved for $50 or something and he had KQ.
I'm in the BB with AcXx, I'm pretty sure the action was checked around til the river and I bet $25 into $50 (totally forget how the pot got this big). The board was Kc Qc Tc 8c 5x and I bet $25, the player re shoves for $17 more I call, he has Kx2c, wp.
This hand I get involved with Le Canadien. I raise preflop UTG+1 with QcTc to $10, it folds to him on the button and he calls, the blinds fold. This limit is really low for him, and he was playing like a lagtard all night, so if you hit well, you are like 90% getting action. The flop was Ac 6c 7x, I bet $12 into $23, he makes it $30, I call with my flush draw. Turn was a Ac 6c 7x 9x. I check and he bet $75 into $83. I thought for sure the pot was bigger for him to bet $75 cause I don't think I call $75 into $83, the odds are awful, however, he had over $400 to start the hand and so did I so the implied odds were in my favour, unless he puts me on a flush draw. Anyways, I thought for a few seconds and then called assuming I have 12 outs. If I had the naked flush draw, I would probably fold. I put him on AQ, AJ, AT, A6, A7, A9 - and he will hopefully pay me on the river. The river was a disguisable 8 for my gutterball and I just shoved instantly hoping he puts me on a busted flush draw and he called with 66. I had now over $700.
I called a $10 raise from Le Canadien with 55 after one other caller in front of me, one more caller behind me. Flop was J T 5, Le Canadien bets $25, I make it $80, he calls. Turn was a 3 and he checked, at this point, I put him on AJ, KJ, KQ since he probably re-shoves the flop with AA, KK, QQ, JJ, TT, JT. After writing this out, I realized I made a really dumb shove on the turn. With $190 or so in the pot, I could have bet $125 or something for a value bet, but I think that makes my hand look to strong. I think shoving here really makes my hand look like a bluff and it doesn't look like a set. Usually a set wants to value bet here. Against any other player at the table, I go to value town big time, but since it was against Le Canadien, he calls off light here. He thought for a few minutes and said he folded KK - 2 minutes later he said he had QJ, so who knows what he had. I just wish I value bet him instead, oh well.
I had put him on some major tilt after the Q T hand and I took that into consideration on the previous hand where I flopped a set. This hand was similar but I obviously took it way too far against him. I limped UTG with 33, he had around $340 again - he was a roller coaster up and down all night, as is a crazy LAG player - and he made it $25 on the button. $25 was his standard raise once he started tilting. I called with awesome implied odds and with a stack of like $800 and hoping to flop a set and get paid. Flop was A 8 3, I checked, he bet $50 into $53, I shoved and he thought forever and folded. I really thought he was calling here, he said he had AK, I believe him, therefore my move was retardedly dumb. I could have cold called here and gotten so much more out of him. But raising here gets more money in the pot and more value for me so I should have made it $125 or something like that.
Ugh, after writing all that, it seems I made 2 really stupid moves against him, and it's pissing me off cause I played really stupid. Hopefully next time I think before I just instantly shove in with a monster. It just sucks cause he's the only player I would do that against since he was just calling his stack off every single time with top pair weak kicker or draws etc. Fuck I'm dumb... whatever $1,000 at the casino in a week, I'll take it. I'm playing well, running well and always do well at the casino, so hopefully the steak continues. Thanks for reading...
Monday, October 27, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
In Niagara Falls Ontario...
...Marine Land is the place to go. Whoever came up with that jingle must have made a fortune since it will be embedded in my brain forever after not hearing it for like 10 years.
Anyways, so I made the trip to Niagara falls to watch Marc at the WPT final table taping. I went down with Adam, Marco, and Frank on Thursday morning to catch the FT at 4. We checked into the hotel at like 3 and Marc met us there and we headed over to Fallsview to catch the action. Oh and by the way, $199 a night for a family suite with a view of the falls - 2 queen beds, a king and jacuzzi - sounds like a sick deal. Except... $11 for internet PER laptop, cheap cost there.
The atmosphere was amazing there. So much going on when we got there, we insta hit up the bar. No drinks were allowed in the showroom, so we downed as many as we could before the final table started to get us riled up - which obv worked. We were screaming so hard for that Q to come it was unreal, hopefully you'll hear it on tv. Marc got 5th as we all know, that was disappointing, but a huge congratulations to you, Marc, for such a sick finish yet again. Your win will seriously come any time now.
We all went out for drinks and dinner after and hung out at the Keg, it was nice. Then Adam, Marco, Frank and I went to the LCBO and got a 40 of absolut, 26er of Grey Goose, 12 tall cans of Heineken and a partridge in a pear tree. We had a great night in the Hotel room, Adam was crushing the $77 6-max MTT at midnight and got really fucked with 12 left like the dumbest hand ever but I can't remember it exactly... I think it was a 3 outer AK vs A9 all in on the flop or 7 4 2. A9 played that hand really well. Adam and I got to bed at 4am, Marco and Frank decided to go for breakfast with kevvybrown then and no clue when they got back. Got some extra time to sleep so we didn't have to check out at 11:30 we were able to check out at 12:30 so we did that and headed home.
I have some pictures on my blackberry but can't find my USB cable to upload them on here, hopefully next time I'll have it around.
Anyways, so I made the trip to Niagara falls to watch Marc at the WPT final table taping. I went down with Adam, Marco, and Frank on Thursday morning to catch the FT at 4. We checked into the hotel at like 3 and Marc met us there and we headed over to Fallsview to catch the action. Oh and by the way, $199 a night for a family suite with a view of the falls - 2 queen beds, a king and jacuzzi - sounds like a sick deal. Except... $11 for internet PER laptop, cheap cost there.
The atmosphere was amazing there. So much going on when we got there, we insta hit up the bar. No drinks were allowed in the showroom, so we downed as many as we could before the final table started to get us riled up - which obv worked. We were screaming so hard for that Q to come it was unreal, hopefully you'll hear it on tv. Marc got 5th as we all know, that was disappointing, but a huge congratulations to you, Marc, for such a sick finish yet again. Your win will seriously come any time now.
We all went out for drinks and dinner after and hung out at the Keg, it was nice. Then Adam, Marco, Frank and I went to the LCBO and got a 40 of absolut, 26er of Grey Goose, 12 tall cans of Heineken and a partridge in a pear tree. We had a great night in the Hotel room, Adam was crushing the $77 6-max MTT at midnight and got really fucked with 12 left like the dumbest hand ever but I can't remember it exactly... I think it was a 3 outer AK vs A9 all in on the flop or 7 4 2. A9 played that hand really well. Adam and I got to bed at 4am, Marco and Frank decided to go for breakfast with kevvybrown then and no clue when they got back. Got some extra time to sleep so we didn't have to check out at 11:30 we were able to check out at 12:30 so we did that and headed home.
I have some pictures on my blackberry but can't find my USB cable to upload them on here, hopefully next time I'll have it around.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Overdue Update
I haven't made a post since April which is way too long. I haven't made any posts mainly because I didn't play at all this summer because of work. The long dreadful days at the golf course 6am-3pm or later Monday to Friday and 6am-10am on weekends everyday until August 31st. My girlfriend was also home from Maine for the summer so I was working everyday and spending all my evenings with her, so I didn't have any time to play poker which was fine. She went back to school in the first week of August but work was still hectic, so I just figured I would wait until the busy season is over until I start playing again because I don't want to play for like a half hour then go to bed.
School has started again and I am finishing up my BEng Degree this fall at Carleton which is awesome, I can't wait. Work has slowed down, I am working 3 days a week now to make some extra money to pay for rent. I finally moved out and live in Stonebridge with 2 guys I work with. It feels so good to be out on my own rather than living at home and doing so many chores all the time, freedom is nice.
I also took up golf this summer which is sweet. I took advantage of working at a golf course having free rounds so whynot play. I have always played but only once or twice a year, so I am obviously terrible. I work at Cedarhill so it's a nice course to learn on since it's short and not hard. At the beginning of the year I was shooting in the low 100's and I am the sort of guy to get angry when I shoot a bad shot and I shouldn't be mad because I never play the game. But it started to get frustrating when I was playing 4-5 times a week, however I did improve playing that much and that felt awesome. I ended up buying new clubs since I was getting a crazy deal from the Asst. pro in the Pro Shop and he offered me a brand new set of Callaway X-20 Tour irons for $800 which I thought was a pretty sick deal, so I bought those. I don't play with a driver, 3 or 5 wood, strictly irons because I can't hit a driver worth my life and I haven't learnt yet, so I was always using my 3-iron off the tee which is fine since I hit it well, but I lose so much distance at longer courses like the Marshes or Stonebridge. Long story short, I am consistently shooting mid 80s now and hopefully I will be hitting a driver next spring. My best round of the year was an 81 at Stonebridge from the blues which is approx. 6400 yards, so pretty sweet.
On to poker. I wanted to try playing MTTs to see how that would fair. I have always been a great cash game player so I figured trying out MTT's as something new would be cool. I have played a few before and have won some $4.40s so I couldn't be that bad of a beginner. Anyways, I took $300 and played strictly $4.40s and the occasional $11 MTT and I found myself down to $45. I was just on a really bad run of cards and couldn't catch a single break whenever it got deep. My confidence was so low I didn't want to play anymore. I would talk to Adam about it and he would just tell me to keep playing and that I wasn't doing anything wrong, just in standard MTT variance which I was not accustom too. I'll tell you right now, I am totally used to it and it's great. I've been running much better lately. I made 4 or 5 final tables and took 9th, 5th, 3rd, 3rd, 2nd. The second place finish was annoying, but it was nice to build the roll back up. I had 170k to 110k and got it all in PREFLOP with AQ against 9 2... I made it 6k, he made it 21k, I shoved and he called with 9 2. Board ran out 9 5 4 A 2. Happy to say that I have made some profit since starting the MTT experience. So far it's been a fun switch to try something new than the awesome fun grind of cash games.
To top it off, my live game doesn't seem to be rusty either. I ended up chopping heads up in a $80 deepstack tourny at a local game for $520. I will be posting about that tourny in my next blog, which will be soon.
School has started again and I am finishing up my BEng Degree this fall at Carleton which is awesome, I can't wait. Work has slowed down, I am working 3 days a week now to make some extra money to pay for rent. I finally moved out and live in Stonebridge with 2 guys I work with. It feels so good to be out on my own rather than living at home and doing so many chores all the time, freedom is nice.
I also took up golf this summer which is sweet. I took advantage of working at a golf course having free rounds so whynot play. I have always played but only once or twice a year, so I am obviously terrible. I work at Cedarhill so it's a nice course to learn on since it's short and not hard. At the beginning of the year I was shooting in the low 100's and I am the sort of guy to get angry when I shoot a bad shot and I shouldn't be mad because I never play the game. But it started to get frustrating when I was playing 4-5 times a week, however I did improve playing that much and that felt awesome. I ended up buying new clubs since I was getting a crazy deal from the Asst. pro in the Pro Shop and he offered me a brand new set of Callaway X-20 Tour irons for $800 which I thought was a pretty sick deal, so I bought those. I don't play with a driver, 3 or 5 wood, strictly irons because I can't hit a driver worth my life and I haven't learnt yet, so I was always using my 3-iron off the tee which is fine since I hit it well, but I lose so much distance at longer courses like the Marshes or Stonebridge. Long story short, I am consistently shooting mid 80s now and hopefully I will be hitting a driver next spring. My best round of the year was an 81 at Stonebridge from the blues which is approx. 6400 yards, so pretty sweet.
On to poker. I wanted to try playing MTTs to see how that would fair. I have always been a great cash game player so I figured trying out MTT's as something new would be cool. I have played a few before and have won some $4.40s so I couldn't be that bad of a beginner. Anyways, I took $300 and played strictly $4.40s and the occasional $11 MTT and I found myself down to $45. I was just on a really bad run of cards and couldn't catch a single break whenever it got deep. My confidence was so low I didn't want to play anymore. I would talk to Adam about it and he would just tell me to keep playing and that I wasn't doing anything wrong, just in standard MTT variance which I was not accustom too. I'll tell you right now, I am totally used to it and it's great. I've been running much better lately. I made 4 or 5 final tables and took 9th, 5th, 3rd, 3rd, 2nd. The second place finish was annoying, but it was nice to build the roll back up. I had 170k to 110k and got it all in PREFLOP with AQ against 9 2... I made it 6k, he made it 21k, I shoved and he called with 9 2. Board ran out 9 5 4 A 2. Happy to say that I have made some profit since starting the MTT experience. So far it's been a fun switch to try something new than the awesome fun grind of cash games.
To top it off, my live game doesn't seem to be rusty either. I ended up chopping heads up in a $80 deepstack tourny at a local game for $520. I will be posting about that tourny in my next blog, which will be soon.
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