Gotta Love 6max [533 Hands / -$4.50]

Posted by icemonkey9 on Sep 10, 2008 in General | 1 comment

First I want to comment on something that Zach posted for yesterday's blog ... absolutely I am just going to have fun with poker on the cruise. If I'm playing with drunken flush-miners (yes, they exist) then I'm either going to have a very fun profitable time, or get bounced in disgusting fashion. Since I am more than used to this type of live setting, there's no way I'd let it interfere with my wonderful vacation! So, poker will just be part of the entertainment onboard the ship - but I am looking forward to it quite a bit!

So ... 6max. I love it a lot more than full ring that's for certain. But I am learning to roll with the punches. Today had 2 really bad ugly stack losses from two sessions today ...

44 Hits Set ... runs into bigger flopped set.

Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how'd you like the play? Just ugly. Had to get my money in here on the flop ... just one of those things. It happens, and of course you've seen me hit trips to take a stack away from AK countless times, so this is bound to happen.

Slowrolling SOB shows the nuts over my flopped middle set

This SOB ... I wish I could set his face on fire with a blowtorch. It's funny because there was a thread on slowrolling on CC and I thought that it must rarely happen. Sure enough on the flop this guy took forever on the flop to call and was giving some speach about "hmm you got a set" and "should I call" then at the end said "I got the nuts sucker!" or something to that effect and showed me his "well played" 57s. It's the kind of crap you can get away with on the internet but will get you stabbed in a parking lot at a live casino. Also on this hand you might wonder with my flopped set why such a weak raise on the flop. The villains in this hand had AF over 15 each and had seen them stack off against light raises on the flop and turn so I was actually trying to induce an all in from one of them.

So after my flopped middle sets equal two stacks gone I fought my way back. After that last hand I almost shut it down to prevent tilting ... but then I saw the other two tables I was at and couldn't believe the goldmine I had stumbled upon ... three fat stack fish at two of the other 3 tables left open. So I stayed, I won, and damn near found myself even.

So the lesson learned here is that by controlling my emotions I put myself in a great place to play solid poker and just make the right plays. Since I was at table with terrible players, I won, and as it turned out (didn't know until the end of the session) ended up down only a little bit.

So, glad I am keeping a fantastic poker attitude and it's helping me win (or not lose). I want to put in two more sessions today and then it's vacation time until the 16th and I will not be online playing since the cruise ship charges a whopping $0.75 per MINUTE to access the internet if you have your own laptop. I'm hoping I can find some hack or something hehehe ... who knows. Anyways, probably one last entry tonight, so I'll see you then.