When I played in the Mook last week, fuel55 was railbirding a bit after busting out then said that he was at a $10/20 NLHE game. “I like to test myself an hour or two a week at that level every week,” he said. Well heck, I already had a horrible donkified few hours of NLHE Friday night, so why not give fuel’s theory a try?
Saturday morning, I put my measly $651 Stars bankroll (roughly 8% of my total bankroll) and sit at Table Azha, a $5/10NLHE full ring table. 32 minutes, 32 hands, I played seven or eight of these hands, won a big $135. The quick summary:
- Checked from bb with Q-5o and folded to the rag flop
- Limped with 9s-8s after another limper, then button raised it to $70 to take the pot
- Folded 10-8o in bb to the $40 raise
- Call the min raise from sb with Kh-3h, then fold the A-Q-x flop
- Get Ad-9d in bb, button raises to $40, sb calls and I call. Flop comes 3h-3d-8d, we check and let the button bet $80 to take the pot
- Fold sb with 3h-2h to a limped pot
- Raise UTG to $45 with Ad-Ks and the bb calls. Flop 7d-Jd-9c is checked, I bet $75 to take the pot
- Next hand I limp with Ks-Jh and four see the flop of Qh-10h-6d. It’s checked to UTG (tight multitabler) who bets $30 and I call (blinds fold). Jd hits turn, UTG checks, and I bet $75 which he calls. Kc is not very good, but UTG checks it so I’ll hope my rivered two pair is good. Low and behold, UTG had Js-10s for the lesser turned two pair.
- With J-J, I raise to $45 in early position and CO calls me. Flop comes Kc-10d-5h, I bet $75 and he folds.
- I limp with pocker 4′s along with three others, flop comes no 4 so I’m outta here
Any big lesson learned here? Well, it’s always stupid to put a bunch of your bankroll at risk (bankroll management, remember?). By far the dumbest thing is that it is likely I’ll now do this again, less tempting fate than increasing the likelihood that I’ll do something stupid. I’m not good enough be testing myself; heck, I wouldn’t want a open-book take home test for crying out loud. So I think I’ll hold off trying this again soon. Unless I do it again.
Thanks for stopping by. I’ll end this with Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, where I head from here to see where this place takes us.
- Creativity Breeds Madness: fuel55 is just solidly moving his way up the NLHE food chain. Impressive stuff to follow, inspiring really.
- Poker Nation: I was introduced to Tuscaloosa Johnny by Linda and got to have a very nice dinner at the Rio. Very, very good guy. Very good guy.
- MissT74: Tanya had a nice run at the WSOP, long-time blogger and playa.
- It’s MY life…as uninteresting as it may be: Erin from Raleigh with the pretty purple blog.
- Mommy off the Record: Looks like a highly trafficked blog of a Mom sharing mommy-ing and times with her youngin. Some very good stuff on blogging as well, so check this out.
- Bread Crumbs in the Butter: Canadian mother of four kids under ten, plays soccer herself, pretty neat stuff. We stay in our poker blog world most of the time, then I stumble on these other worlds out their and it is some fascinating stuff.
I’ll update this in the AM as I’ve been railbirding Jason Strasser going deep in the Stars Sunday Million (currently 10th with 70 players left). We’ll see if strassa2 can take this down. Hope this is a great start to the week. ADDENDUM: Jason got busted after a great run in 14th, 88 calling his move over the top with A-Qo. Doug Kim showed up to rail the last thirty minutes, and it was like popcorn to the pigeons all the birds chatting him up. Even Lee Jones piped in with a shoutout. Doug starts his job tomorrow. I told him he needs to be ready with a good story when they ask everyone what they did this summer.