Won in Spite of Myself
I went to the Muck last night on my regular Tuesday trip. Went early to play a nice long session and what happens is that the game is full and I can not get a seat. I have to wait around for two hours just to get a 10/20 seat and then the 30/60 seat opens right after that at 4:00pm. I take my seat in a full game and start off playing well. Usual line up of donkey players mixed in with some good ones. I proceed to actually pick on one of the good players on tilt and eat up about $700 of his chips because he insists on paying me off with the worst hand. I lose my usual suck out hands to the donkey players, but manage to keep my head well above water for three hours. I am up about $900 and then the game starts to break as we lose some players to the tournament that I just don't play in much anymore because the structure sucks so bad. We get down to 4 handed, and I proceed to just get my eyeballs sucked out by the only bad player left at the table who just keeps chasing me all the way with the worst hand and manages to make the hand on the river. Exhibit #1) I have AQ on the button, he is in SB with 8,10 off. I raise, he calls $45 cold with his hand. Flop Q,7,9, rainbow. He checks, I bet, he raises, I three bet, he calls. Turn, 10, check bet call. River 10, he bets out I just call as I had I a feeling he just sucked out. Sure enough running 10's got there. More than one way to make an open ender. That happened with two pair, called down with 4th pair when I had A high. I proceeded to dump over $1000 into that guys stack. Then the worst part is he quits and I can't even try to get my money back.
The game then stays three handed for about 30 minutes and I get some of my money back. A few more players show up and we are now 6 handed again. I proceed to play well enough to get back up over $1200, and then they change the game to $20/40 because they wanted to fill the game and the other players would not play $30. At that point it fills with a few donkey players, and one good one who I had not played with before. He ran great and I started to play like an idiot. Horrible blind play, calling with weak hands out of position. Limping with weak hands like K,Q off and partially hitting flops and then not being able to get away from them when I know I was beat. The worst is calling a player that never bluffs when you know you can only beat a bluff. Fricking stupid. I manage to pull my head out after about a 45 minutes of that play with my stack decimated back to only up $300. I play some more, but now I am card dead and can't catch any hands, draws, or otherwise make a hand. I have not been seeing any big hands for the last two weeks. I think I have had QQ's once. I have just had to make shit up. It worked for a little but I only managed to get back up to around $500 up. I quit at 1:30am up $483, and booked what should have been a loss as a win. I should have made so much more money. I just played one of the worst sessions in a month but still managed to eke out a win in spite of myself. I guess I should take solace in that.
Aaron skipped today's tournament as he is playing $1000/$2000 mixed games at the Bellagio. Sounds like he is doing well, hope he books a big win. talk to you soon. SJ
The game then stays three handed for about 30 minutes and I get some of my money back. A few more players show up and we are now 6 handed again. I proceed to play well enough to get back up over $1200, and then they change the game to $20/40 because they wanted to fill the game and the other players would not play $30. At that point it fills with a few donkey players, and one good one who I had not played with before. He ran great and I started to play like an idiot. Horrible blind play, calling with weak hands out of position. Limping with weak hands like K,Q off and partially hitting flops and then not being able to get away from them when I know I was beat. The worst is calling a player that never bluffs when you know you can only beat a bluff. Fricking stupid. I manage to pull my head out after about a 45 minutes of that play with my stack decimated back to only up $300. I play some more, but now I am card dead and can't catch any hands, draws, or otherwise make a hand. I have not been seeing any big hands for the last two weeks. I think I have had QQ's once. I have just had to make shit up. It worked for a little but I only managed to get back up to around $500 up. I quit at 1:30am up $483, and booked what should have been a loss as a win. I should have made so much more money. I just played one of the worst sessions in a month but still managed to eke out a win in spite of myself. I guess I should take solace in that.
Aaron skipped today's tournament as he is playing $1000/$2000 mixed games at the Bellagio. Sounds like he is doing well, hope he books a big win. talk to you soon. SJ
posted by Seattlejohn at 6:21 PM
4 Comments:
when you refer to the muck, are you refering to the Muckleshoot Casino? IT looks like a nice poker room from what you can see on their website
Yes, that is correct. It is an ok place. If you are looking to play higher than 10/20 it is the only place besides Marysville that you can go, and north is way too far for me to drive. Besides they do not always get a big game up north, and they run 20/40 and 30/60 everyday at the Muck. I do not like how they run the room, but they are getting a little better with accomodating the players needs. The games are always good however. Thanks for the comment. SJ
do they run an omaha or omaha split at these levels? Do they run any no limit at levels higher then these $1-2 and $2-5 that every casino has?
No they do not run any omaha games at all, they run some stud now and then but just at the 4/8 level. There is only one place that you can play no-limit and that is up in Marysville. It has a $200 buyin and a cap of $500 per bet, so it is not a true no-limit game. Washington does not allow a bet larger then $500 so thus the cap. I have never played nor do I plan to play that game up there. It sounds stupid. Diamond Lil's in Renton runs an omaha split game at the 6/12 limit but not a regular basis. You need to call to see if it is going. It starts in the late afternoon if it goes at all. Good luck. SJ
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