First Royal


I've been playing poker since 2005 and I've never had one. A few straight flushes but never a royal. Of course it had to happen in a freeroll but I'll still take it. I had been playing tight and it served this punk right for reraising me with pocket 4s. I was all-in here for my tournament life but had a ton of outs where I was actually 50% equity on the turn. 

Unfortunately still busted 10 out of the money. Had a few more all-ins, A♣7♥ vs K♠2♠ and ended up flopping trip aces to survive, then K♠Q♠ vs A♠3♠ where I spiked a Q to win that one, but with blinds 500/1000 and ~10k left I jammed A♥3♥ from early position and ran into A♠Q♥, and ran out of suckout equity. Actually ended up being my 3rd straight top 100 finish. The first one was mainly surviving on mostly short chips without winning many pots, but got a good run of cards in the 2nd but went card dead for awhile and then lost about 1/2 my chips with AK on a K77x board vs 97. I bet the flop, villain called and heads up with about 3k in the pot and opponent having 3k behind. So I put him all-in on turn and got the bad news. Then blinds got to the point where I was in push/fold mode and shoved in the SB with K♦7♦ and ran into BB's A♥J♥ and got no help.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Righting the Ship

Image
Had another bad session yesterday. Actually I didn't play badly at all, I just took two horrible beats. I was taking a shot at NL $50 too. Lost to JJ twice. One hand I had 55 in a raised pot, I called from the BB, and flopped a set (9-6-5 flop I believe). Anyway, get it in with a half stack, he has JJ, river J. Great. Another hand I have KK and resolve to play a big pot with it. I raise to $3, SB calls. Flop comes 9 high, he checks, I bet pot, he calls. Turn is a blank, same action. River is a jack, he shoves for the remaining PSB, I call. He has JJ, sigh. Really wish I didn't keep getting two outed. So tonight I decide to take a shot at $100 NL (6-max of course) after the Red Sox beat the Rockies 2-1 due to great pitching to take a 2-0 lead in the series. I sit in with $100, leaving me a measly $5.12 if I lose it. But I resolved to try and get up $45 and then leave. If I go broke I take a break or redeposit or whatever. Sick and tired of grinding it out at NL $25 just to get t...
Read more

Update

Didn't realize it had been almost 2 months since I last updated this. So yeah, really just haven't been playing at all. A few weeks ago I was available to log in and play a nightly LOLmaha but the site couldn't connect. Didn't think much of it, said "oh well" and did something else. But when I couldn't log in again or get on the actual website itself then I started to think something was up in the poker room. Looked on twoplustwo to see if there were any posts about it, and someone wrote that the management on another forum referred to the players as "FREE ROLLING SCUM". LOL. Can't find that post anywhere on the online internet though and too bad because that would be a fun thread to read I'm sure. 🍿🍿🍿. I can't really blame them for that sentiment though because the only time the site had any type of traffic was during the Sunday night freeroll. Then of course there were other players like me on there that were pretty much ...
Read more

Fantasy Football Spreadsheet

A few days ago I was looking online for a point calculator for fantasy football (too cheap to spend the $10 on StatTracker). Something where I can enter the players stats and calculate the total points. Unable to find one, I made it myself, in excel. I figure it might be useful to someone who happens to come across this post, so here's the link to it. It uses the default yahoo league configurations, so if your league is different you'll have to go and change some of the numbers in the formulas, or positions, or whatever. Otherwise you put the stats in the left hand column, and the points will appear on the right. I made it so there are no partial points, and so it rounds down. For example, if your QB has 249 passing yards, you will get exactly 9 points, not 10, not 9.9. The only points it does not calculate is points allowed for team defenses. You will have to manually enter it on the right hand column yourself. I have provided the guide for yahoo leagues. So there you have i...
Read more