Tilt Play

Sammy Farha is playing a huge pot with Bryan Watkins. The flop came Q72, and they both checked. The turn came (Q72) 4 and Bryan bet and Sammy called. The river was (Q724) J with no suits. Bryan moved in for over 200,000. Sammy thought for five minutes. He finally turned over the QJ and folded!! I don't know that I have that fold in me. I look around the room and see that there are still a lot of tough professionals left. Unlike, last year, when there were no bracelet winners in the last 21, this year I can see at least 9 bracelet winners in the final 27. I greet this news with mixed emotions. Winning this event will be tough, but Matt's great structure is doing its job. I feel like I will get more opportunities in the future, although I will face tougher fields when I do get my chances. It's a fair trade-off.

First of all how can you not notice Farha's brilliance in folding top two pair with three nonsense cards that probably gave Watkins a set of one of the under cards. It was probably a set of sevens or worse yet queens. Worse than that is Lederer looking at that call and understanding it. And then experiencing it and learning through it. I wish I could read a person like that.

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Now onto other matters. I've had a strange and depressing night. I have two midterms tomorrow, and I haven't studied yet. I'll probably drop at least one of the two classes. Unforseeable (hah!) events have taken place tonight that took precedence over midterms, or at least denied me the ability to concentrate no what could be the hardest subject I've ever studied. I included the (hah!) because I should have probably seen what was going on.

BUt let me talk about other things.

Went to Casino night tonight. Played caribbean stud. Horribly game to play for money. Thank god it was play money. Lost after a few ups.

THen went to see someone about above mentioned events. That just compounded things.
So after apologizing I went out for a cigarette. COuldn't find one, so just called up Chris and asked him pick me up for the poker game. WHich I wasn't going to go to incidentally because of the midterms.

He arrives and I go and cash in for 10 dollars. THe game is Limit Hold 'em 10c/20c.

Played so aggressively and so loose that it aggravated the players around me.

One hand.

I'm the big blind and the hand I have is As8h and there have been two raises in front of me and three callers. So what do I do? Reraise. I cap the raise out pre-flop. FLop comes up Ad3s4h. Another round of betting, and I jam my chips in there. Get three people out. It's just me and two other players in the hand. I'm pretty sure they both have sort of straight draw or at least paired aces high kicker.

Turn comes (Ad3s4h)Jc. Another round of betting that maxes out with me maxing and raising it to high hell. THe river's a bullshit card. 9h I think. not too sure.

I get one person out, and It's just me and another player at the table. Keep going for a while. Until there is about 9 dollars in the pot. Finally we both just call and show.

His A6 to my A8. Rake the pot. BUt a few hands later I give it back to him in some other tilted play hand. It's defnitely bad to play when you have other things to worry about.

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Although I chased a 8D9s straight draw that came down 6h7dqh. for some odd reason. I raised and reraised and got pock kings and a pair of queens out of hte hand. it was just me and another player who had been calling my raises. He informally asked me if I would call all his raises. and I said yes. because at this time the hand had come down. 6h7dQh5s4s. had the nuts. So to save us both the heart ache we just decided that we carried the betting to the end. turned the cards over. he had 8c9c.

Split pot.

I pulled too many Gus Hansen hands and in the end started paying for it. lost 12 dollars in all. I felt bad for a busted out player and donated 2 dollars to his cause which in the end became 10 dollars altogether after everyone else donated. It was a friendly game and we showed it.

But I defnitely don't like playing agressive. Most of hte regular players were strangely surprised and annoyed at the change of play on my side. It might have irked them just a bit.

I peaked at about 2200 chips. and I dragged it to 200 chips and then back to 700 and then to 100 and then lost it all to one player after I played the entire hand in the dark.


PLHE is definitely a good game, but a harsh game to play aggressive, since most people won't fonld easily to you.