Grubby at PokerWorks

I’ve been having some vivid dreams of being tortured.

One was getting Tasered, which didn’t have an effect on me, so then they took a drill to me.

Another had me stabbed in the shower.

Opponents’ rivered flushes are really getting to me.

Coincidentally, my Full Tilt account somehow went bust.

Every now and then I’ll try a credit card and get denied; this time, my MasterCard went through and put me back in business.

I had 45 minutes to kill before heading out for a drinking binge and rather than enter a sit-n-go, I opened two 3/6 6max tables and a 5/10 heads-up.

6max used to be my best game and now it’s my worst. It’s been killing me, yet I keep returning because of the action. Aside from the horrid draws people catch, I think one of my weaknesses is my predictable continuation bet. I raise preflop with most anything in position, and opponents will make a play, with the standard pattern check-bet-call, check-bet-fast raise, and then I have to let go. Or if I’m first to act, the pattern is bet-call, bet-raise. The times I play back at them when I don’t think they have anything are the times I’m wrong.

If I don’t predictably bet the flop but bet on the turn instead, the pot’s kept small and players don’t seem to fight for it as much or think that I’ve hit some big hand that I’m slowplaying.

So that in addition to mixing up my predictability was my strategy this time going into the 6max.

The 5/10 heads-up was an afterthought, thinking I’d do a quick hit-and-run if I was up $20 or so. A guy was sitting with $100, so I sat with $100.

Thought I’d share the chat transcript from that heads-up game:

chatty cathy: ?
cc: 5 8?
cc: your on tilt
cc: its not right
cc: yhou should stop playing
cc: because i won’t

(At this point I’d rebought for another $100 and was down to $60. I did consider stopping, but I felt he got lucky on a few key hands. I also realized he was letting most things go when I bet on the flop, so if he kept playing the same and didn’t catch on to what I was doing, I could rebuild with a lot of small orphan pots.)

cc: ok
cc: happens to all of us
cc: then stop lettinme push you around
cc: nh
cc: wow
cc: nice river

(I reraise AQ, flop is 7-2-5. I bet, he calls. Turn is A. I check, he bets, I call intending to check-raise the river thinking that if I raised here he’d fold. River is 7. I check, he bets, I raise with my last $5. He has A2.)

cc: jesus
cc: loll
cc: nice runners!
cc: nh
cc: ah look
cc: you got 130 now
cc: all cause of that happy 7
cc: that paired the board
cc: and &$!!ed me over
cc: yayyy

(At this point I’m shifting gears and raising more, thinking he’s tilting. I ask him if he is.)

cc: lol no
cc: you wish my friend eh
cc: i don’t really tilt
cc: too often

cc: ?!?!
cc: kk?!

(I slowplay KK.)

cc: FT has made as much off this heads up
cc: as i have
cc: unbelievable
cc: the rake is uggeee

(He has $166.50, I have $99. He’s up $66.50, I’m down $101. Full Tilt has raked $33.50 so far in half an hour, which I actually think is pretty low for heads-up play.)

cc: ogh god
cc: you have jj

(I raise with AJ clubs, he reraises. Flop is 7-4-10 with two clubs. He bets, I raise, he calls. Turn is 6 clubs. He bets, I raise, he reraises, I pause for dramatic effect and then just call. River is J. He bets, I raise, he reraises, I cap. He has 77. Biggest pot of the session and I’m almost back to even.)

cc: !&!%in 77
cc: 77!
cc: flopped a set.
cc: @@%#in 7’s…
cc: are you kidding me
cc: woww
cc: happens i guess
cc: ok
cc: you earned it
cc: nj
cc: few sweet hands in there
cc: those fackin 7’s ewh?
cc: unbelievable
cc: yeh?
cc: i bet
cc: you didnt suckout
cc: you just played well
cc: that’s why I said nice job you earned it

(I’m oblivious to most of his chat. I just want his money. He’s at $110, I regained my buy-in and am at $242.)

cc: ah i dunno about a suckout i turned an open draw
cc: aa easy to crack
cc: you just outplayed me
cc: i know
cc: you were sneakyt

(His friendliness is starting to get to me, because I think that he thinks he’s trying to make me play differently. It doesn’t work.)

cc: if youd raised i woulda folded
cc: for sure
cc: lollll
cc: theres your cracked hand

(I raise with A9, he reraises. Flop is A-J-7. He bets, I call. Turn is 6. He checks, I check. River is 9. He bets, I raise, he calls and shows KK.)

cc: happy?

(Not until I get all his money. He’s at $69, I’m at $280.50.)

cc: i wish
cc: what is with oyu and Q 8?

(Heads-up, I tend to raise with it.)

cc: you tend to have it
cc: and with with it
cc: win with it

cc: nice set eh?
cc: gotta be
cc: here’s 10 then

(I see a free flop with 94. Flop is T-4-4. I check, he bets. Turn is K. I check, he checks. River is 5. I bet, he pauses to chat before finally calling and shows T-3.)

cc: i like how you stutter checked the turn
cc: you wanted to bet that so badly
cc: loll

(This wasn’t actually the case, which is why I don’t put much into online tells. I was playing two other tables.)

In the end, I won back my money plus his and broke even on the 6max tables.

It was now midnight and I was headed out with $150 in drinking money.

More on that next time, which includes Dr. Bronner’s magic soap, coconut ice cubes, and a girl saying, “Okay, but no sex.”

This entry was posted on Monday, July 30th, 2007 at 2:54 am and is filed under Uncategorized.