Had a great time playing live this weekend- a 10 handed cash game, blinds .1/.2, 20 Euro buy-in, lots of drunk and stoned people to rob with my nittish play. It was really more of a friendly game, but I still robbed two buy-ins with a set of Jacks v a pair of Queens and a flopped straight v a set. Other than that, I think I played about 10 hands and that was it. I can't really call it a poker game though, as it was just the lads, a tsuanami of booze, more dope than a rasta, and a good time. Still, it's good to see that live games can get people out and about- it counteracts the somewhat solitary nature of playing online. Another good thing is that way in which you can pick up tells. This is especially easy with drunk guys as they do mad things like reaching for chips as soon as they see their cards.
Having recovered from my live "game", I hit the cash tables on Betfair to see what was happening. The 10 dollar tables were pretty full, but I was card dead. In about 240 hands over 2 tables, I picked up Kings once and maybe 2 smaller pairs. I got no real action when I bet and eded up about 2 dollars down in blinds. I was feeling a little tired after that and figured that I could play a $2.50 S&G as it would only last about 45 minutes. I won that by being on the better side of a few coin flips when the blinds were high and that put me about 5 dollars ahead for the session- not a terrible result.
Today was a bank holiday so playing a few hands was on the agenda. Curiously the $10 dollar tables were empty. I almost yielded to the temptation of taking shot number two at the $20 dollar tables, but I managed to stick to my Bankroll management rules. Instead, I decided to go to the $4 dollar tables, where I sat down for 120 hands. Almost immediatelyI lost a buy in when I pushed all in after flopping a set and was called by a player with an open-ended straight draw. He certainly did not have the odds to call but he did anyway and hit on the river. I didn't mind so much as I made the correct play of charging him too high a price for him to make the correct call. Over time this is a profitable move.
On the other table, I picked up a few small pots with small hands and was up about 1.50, so I was down 3.50 overall. This did not last long though. On the first table, I picked up AKh on the button and raised to 0.2. I got 3 callers and flopped a King (Top Pair) and a flush draw. This made me feel like I was on pretty strong ground as I had both a made hand and potentially 14 cards that would improve matters. To make matters better, one of the other callers pushed all in, and this was called by me and another player. At this stage it was a 10 dollar pot, and I could feel the bad beat coming. Luckily, i was well wrong- pusher 1 turned over Ace-rag and the second player was drawing to a weaker flush. As iy happened, the flush did hit on the river, but I would have won anyway. I finished the 120 hand session with a profit of 3.40, which works out at 35.4 BB/100 hands. The same result at the 10 dollar table would have also been a somwhat acceptable 14 BB/100 hands.
I don't plan to play anymore today- it's study time. I will look at another chapter of Killer Poker By The Numbers, by Tony Guerrera. It's my kind of book as it is mathmatical and takes an in depth look at the various probabilities that come up in poker. Since my objective is to always bet hard when the odds are on my side and to avoid betting when the odds are against me, this is the kind of book that interests me.
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