Chasing Chris Ferguson

I have been dancing around, playing micro stud, micro HE and managing to do nothing more than hang onto my bankroll, such as it is. I was $1 ahead and played with that hoping for a parlay but it wasn’t meant to be.

Today I played in the PokerNews Freeroll. It only paid 1^st which was a $7,500 seat to the SAPO and $1,500. I made it to #28 and busted out on the AK of diamonds vs 88. The best hand I made the whole time was when I was all-in with 44 against QQ and made quads.  There were 3 hands total that I lost too many chips on, but I don’t regret playing them. Two hands I was in the BB with no raises and flopped a draw that didn’t get there.

The 3^rd was a 9-10h on the button for a $300 raise, flop was 7h 8h 3d, I called the bettor who had a buttload of chips, and who would have called had I raised…I was hoping for a card to trap him, but of course nothing came and I folded.

Why does it seem the more outs a hand has, the bigger you miss it??

Unlike other freerolls I have been in, mostly the players were good, aggressive or both. I did lose a good pot early on when I raised preflop with AJs and a Q4h called. Flop was Ad 4s 7s I bet out and I got chased to the river where a Qd popped up. I was glad to see the chaser last about another ½ hour and get snapped off.  He was behind me and raised every hand, of course I never had anything to call him with. When you are not catching anything decent to play, it is hard to get in and mingle with something marginal like QJ when there is a constant raiser behind you.

The game was tough, not only for the quality of most of the players, and the fact I never really had anything, but there were 4 or 5 players sitting out all the time. I REALLY wish something could be done about this. Why the hell do these bozos take their seat and never play? I will NEVER understand this.

When I qualified for tomorrow’s Round 2 in Stud (yes I know, not my best game) I was 22^nd or something and already reached the top 88 to qualify. It was 3 a.m. and I was falling asleep. Then I sat out and went to bed, as nothing more could be gained by me torturing myself by continuing. Well, maybe tourney points or something, but I wasn’t after those.  I ended up in 9^th place while sleeping! Too funny.

But to start a tourney and never play, just is so ridiculous and irritating to me. I also have to wonder, if these nitwit sleepers never took a seat to start with, what difference might it make to the outcome of the whole thing?  Would the cards run different because the invisible man wasn’t there to be dealt in? I can’t help but think it would affect the outcome somehow. Also, there wouldn’t be as much blind stealing going on when the sleepers have the blinds.

There were some weird plays I saw of course, but an odd one was 4 callers and the button flat called with KQh. He won with top pair, but I do think that was a dumb play on his part to flat call. But, he was still in when I went bust so what the hell do I know?

So tomorrow I will try the Freeroll Round 2 and hope the card fairy smiles on me and I can add to my poor little bankroll! 

This entry was posted on Saturday, November 24th, 2007 at 6:00 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.