Mojo improving

Last night I got some much-needed mojo back. I was out sick from work and slept the whole day feeling pretty shitty. Unfortunately as the day goes on, the heat in my apartment just continues to build up until I'm sweating for no reason just watching TV. This caused me to head to Hollywood Park for a session in some air conditioning.

I got there at 9:30 p.m. and left at 12:00 a.m. up $650, which balanced out the $600 that I lost last Thursday. I'm now 1/2 in my sessions since I issued myself the challenge of going 10/13 in my remaining July session. I'm not counting my Full Tilt towards these sessions as I don't really expect to make money on my Full Tilt play but to work on my tournament skills.

Here's a shot of my table last night.


***ALERT: NEW BACKDOOR STRAIGHT FEATURE -
TABLE BREAKDOWN****



As you can see by that very important "alert," I'm doing table breakdowns starting like, right now dude. How do you like that? Because this blog has gotten so boring and irregular, I'm adding a breakdown of my tables to liven it up (and give me something to write about).

Hopefully no one that I play with will ever read my blog, but I guess that may be inevitable at some point. They will either (a) compliment me on my writing, (b) kick my ass for clowning their play, or (c) keep quiet and use what I've written against me in hands against me.

In seat 1 we have a donk #1, but he is a very creative donk who makes a lot of moves and has beaten me for a good amount of money before. I'm pretty sure I wrote about it but I'm too lazy to find it in the archives. Last night he called my raise when I had AK (he was the only caller) we checked it all the way to the river as I missed the entire board and on the river he took a stab for $35 and I called him with AK high. He showed me A-8 high and thought it was funny that I called him. He blind raises a lot to generate action, asked me to pay for my hand after I bet a guy out of a pot (I accepted but the dealer had already mucked my cards), and he loves to call raises to try and crack people (he got someone good with 7d4d). I'm always happy to have him sit down at my table because he (1) is not very good and (2) generates a ton of action.

In seat 2 is an extremely tight, good player who plays regularly. He's an "Ally," meaning I try not to get involved in pots with him and he does the same. There's a mutual respect for each other's game and although we're not 'friends,' we pretty much stay out of each other's way. There's really only about five players that I do this with.

In seat 3 is an old guy with a huge stack. I was only involved in one hand with him. An early position player raised to $20 and everyone called, including #3, who was on the button. I was in seat 4 and called with Ah7h. The flop came 4c5c7s. I checked and everyone checked to the big stack, who bet $65 into a pot of about $120. I had seen him bet on the button when it was checked around to him before, so I thought he was taking a stab. I raised to $160, he thought for a long time, said "even if you have a flush draw I like your odds" and folded. This is when Seat #1 said "I'll pay you $15 to see your hand" but the dealer had mucked. I told seat #4 he made a good fold and that I put him on an overpair like 88 or 99. He said he had TT and I told him I had a set of sevens.

I'm in seat four causing a ruckus.

Seat 5 is an infamous Hollywood Park chaser. This guy has chased me down several times and I repaid the favor yesterday when I raised with AdQd, he called with three other callers. The flop came J-T-4 with one diamond. I checked, he bet $35 and everyone folded to me. I called, thinking my overs could be good and looking for the backdoor flush draw along with the nut straight draw. The turn was a 4. I checked, he bet $60 and I insta-called. The river was a K. I stupidly checked, he checked and showed J-8 off-suit. As I dragged the pot feeling somewhat bad for the beat I had just given him, I convinced myself if he's calling my raise with J-8 off-suit, he deserves a bad beat. The very next hand I'm in the big blind and he's in UTG (Under the gun). He is steaming and insta-raises to $20, an obvious pot builder. Six people call and I'm praying for anything decent so I can re-raise and take the pot down. I look at my cards and have 6h3h. Raise! I make it $105 total and he suprisingly calls as the rest of the table folds. The flop is horrible for me: Qc9c8s. I hear the player in seat 3 curse under his breath, so I put him on something like KQ or AQ, decreasing the possibility of seat 5 having a queen. He has about $150 left so I put him all in and he folds. Seat 3 tells me that he folded J-10 for the nut straight. I told him he would have gotten paid because I had AA (lol). Seat 1 then rabbit hunts the turn and it's the ace of clubs so now seat 1 is excited that I would have lost all my money when I turned the set, had seat 3 played the hand.

Seat 6 is just gross. The first hand I saw, he chased his gut shot then took an obvious stab on the river and lost. I kind of screwed up in my first hand with him, which was my only real loss of the night. I raised with JhTh, he was the only caller. The flop came 3-5-6 with two diamonds. I bet out $35 and he insta-called. The turn was the 9 of spades. I bet $50 and he thought for a while before reluctantly calling. I have him on diamonds here and the turn is the 8 of diamonds, completing a multitude of draws. I check, he checks, I say "Jack high," and hes shows A-4 off-suit (open-ended straight draw on the flop) for the win with ace high. After that hand I won my money back from him by calling his bluff on the river when he was chasing me again.

Seat 7 was never at the table.

Seat 8 was a good player that I've played with a lot and I got tired of his re-raises yesterday but never had much to call him with.

Seat 9 was short-stacked the whole night and actually wasn't that bad but he ended up losing his stack with Kh3h on a board of A-Q-T-8 rainbow when the tightest player on the table (seat 2) had the nut straight.