Poker and Basketball???

Well, the two rarely, if ever, mix unless a sports bet in involved, but this post will contain a little of both. Only three relevant hands from yesterday's poker, but they both resulted in big pots. Two I took down, the other one I got felted. All are in a .25 NL game with a $12.50 buyin.

#1

I have QQ in the big blind. It is folded around to the small blind who thinks for a second before raising it to $2. I raise it to $6 think he is on steal. He goes all in and I call. He flips over AA. GG me. I rebuy for another $12.50.

#2

There is a guy at the table who is literally raising every hand to $2. I mean every hand. Not just some of them. All of them. The previous hand he had picked up A-10 and been beaten in a big pot by JJ. He was left with $10 which as about the same as me. So the next hand he is in the big blind. I picked up 88 and limped in. Per his usual move, he raised to $2. I went all in. He called with 6-5 of diamonds. He almost sucked out on me, but the 8-8 held on and that guy was essentially done. As soon as the table figured out what he was doing people were lying in wait for him. His strategy was very effective short term but it was doomed in the long term.

#3

My favorite of all. I'm in the small blind with A-5 os. It is folded to me. I raise to $2. The big blind calls. The flop comes out 2-10-5. I bet $2. He calls. "uh oh." I might be in some trouble. Except, the turn came a big ole beautiful 5. I bet $4. He calls. The turn is a blank and I go all in. He calls. SHIP IT! It was a nice $40 pot.

Arkansas appears to be in the market for a basketball coach. Several of the local media outlets have reported that if the Razorbacks do not win the SEC tournament then Heath will be out. I hate that Heath did not succeed here but the reality is he did not. A change must be made.

Poker hasn't gone so well...

nor has sports betting. I keep getting high pocket pairs (JJ, QQ, KK) and they keep running into aces. Each time I lose a big pot. And I'm not afraid to play big pots. Two other hands that come to mind that maybe I could have or should have played differently.

I pick up 88 in the small blind. I raise to $2. The big blind goes all in. I call. He flips over AK. There is an A on the flop but it's all spades. I have a spade, he doesn't. The turn is the king of spades giving me the flush. The river is another K giving him the full house. GG me.

I pick up 5-6 in the small blind. I call the big blind as it's just me and him. He raises it to $1 (we're playing .25 NL) so I call. The flop comes 7-8-9 with two diamonds. I check, he bets $1 and I go all in for about $10. He calls and gets a diamond on the river. GG me.

I also lost two sports bets for a total of $55. That certainly didn't help.

Hopefully Arkansas will have a new basketball coach soon. Stan is a nice guy but he has severly underperformed for five years.

Not Much Poker...

I played a little bit last night with virtually no success. I did win a sports bet which was a nice BR boost. I did not play at all on Tuesday night as it was FAT TUESDAY and I spent the better part of my night on Dickson Street enjoying the reverie.

Arkansas basketball is done for. They might play in the NIT, but I wish they would just fire the coach and move on.

It was a bad day for poker...

I didn't play well and I made some really loose calls that didn't pay off. My KK got cracked by trip 10's. My QQ ran into a set of 9's. My AK couldn't outrun 8-8 and on and on. It wasn't my day. The previous day had been pretty good. This one was bad. I think the final tally was $34 for the day.

Softball season is starting. If you haven't been to a collegiate softball game, save yourself the trouble as they usually ain't worth it. I doubt this year's team will be any different.

I'm such a donk...

I played a lot of ploker over the weekend. I made the final table of a $5 MTT. I stacked a few people in the ring games, I finished second in the only SNG I played. I had the rake up to over $60 which was gonna leave me with a really nice BR. But I had to go and donk off $75 dollars last night so the BR is about the same as it was on Friday. It currently stands at $329.

Arkansas routed Ole Miss on Saturday to stay one game out of first in the sec west. They have a losing conference record and they are one game out of first. Amazing.

Frank Broyles announced his retirement on Saturday. There may be a lot of people excited to see him go but I am not one of them.

Happy Anniversary...

Five months. And they said we'd never make it.

Poker was pretty good yesterday. I got felted twice. But I doubled up three times. One of the double ups came in a .50 NL game. I bought in with $25 and had run it up to $34 when them hand came up. I had pocket 6's. I limped in as did three other people. The flop came 4-4-6. I'm licking my chops cause I know I'm gonna take this one down. It's just a matter of how much can I get. Well, I check. The next guy folds and the third guy raises to $2. I min raise to $4. The last guy folds. as does the other player. The initial raiser calls. The turn is a K. I bet out $2. He goes all in. I can't call fast enough. I have him covered by a few dollars. The river is a blank and I'm north of $65. His comment was "Nice Flop."

I finished second in a $11 SNG. For the day, it was a $31 profit. Not too shabby for someone who plays as badly as me.

The up and down world of poker...

I didn't blog yesterday cause I didn't really feel like. I had lost about $30 at poker plus another $22 on a sports bet so I was down over $50 for the day. Well, last night, I got that back and then some. So today, though a little late, I feel like sharing. Tuesday nothing was working for me. No flushes, no sets, so high pocket pairs. No nothing. Well, Wednesday there were several pocket pairs, two sets and a flush. All produced a nice profit. And to add to it all, I collected pocket Aces one time and got felted for $13. I immediately rebought and ran that $12.50 up to $40 before quiting that game. Then I won a $11 SNG for a nice profit. In the SNG, I won a really big hand by rivering a full house to beat the other two players left. They both had a club flush. I held QJ and the flop contained a QJ, both of clubs. The turn was a club and we all got it all in. The river was a beautiful J. One guy was knocked out and another was crippled. I won two hands later.

I'll be attending the Arkansas/Ole Miss game this weekend but only because the in laws are in town. The Hogs were blown out by Miss State last night virtually ending any chance of making the NCAA tournament.

Felted on a Full House...

I played quite a bit yesterday and would've been even for the day had I not lost a my whole stack in a .50 NL game. I was dealt pocket 10's. The flop was 8-j-Q. The turn was a 10 and the river was a Q. I have a full house, 10's full of Q's. My opponent held pocket J's. GG me. I guess I could've been worse. I did accumulate $13 in rake.

Poker was Good...

I played quite a bit of poker over the weekend and did rather well. I managed a $70 profit from poker and $56 in rakeback to push the BR well over $300. It hadn't been there in quite a while. I think a lot of my success was because I was very patient. The play on WPEX seemed to be very agressive this weekend. Waiting on some good hands allowed me to take advantage of some of the agression. A couple of times it got the better of me and I lost some big pots but on the whole, I came out ahead. I managed to make the final table of a MTT but I busted out 10th, 9 got paid. Not surprising as I don't really have the moves to succeed that deep in a tournament.

Arkansas lost at LSU on Saturday. They are now 4-6 in the SEC and still right in the thick of the western division race. Unbelieveable.

Bad Poker, Good Sports Bets...

I managed to win two sports bets for $77 total. That is a pretty nice pad to the bankroll. Unless you lose about $90 playing poker. A couple of lose calls and a couple of suckouts take the bankroll down pretty quickly. My diamond flush lost to quad 6's. My kk lost to an A on the river. And 77 will never beat JJ without some help. All three of those pots cost me my table stack. But I am still in the game. My BR not gone. Just a little less than before. I'll keep on plugging away, accumulating rake and hoping for a big score.

Good women's basketball is bad. Bad women's basketball is hell.

Being a bad poker player isn't a good thing...

I managed to only lose about $15 playing poker yesterday, but it wasn't because I wasn't trying. I managed to take $12.50, run it up to $40 and then drag it all the way back down to $0. I also managed to get AA cracked by trips for a $25 loss. Then I managed to lose $33 on a sports bet (sports betting is bad, much like crack). However, in an attempt to lose more money, I called an all in bet for $25 with 99. My opponent had AA. But a 9 on the flop saved me and some of the previous losses came back to me. I know how the guy felt as I've had AA cracked more than my fair share of times. And he claimed it was the second time it happened to him on that table yesterday. So had I not lost the $33 bet, I would've only been down $15 playing poker.

Arkansas hosts Auburn tonight in BWA. They are 11 point favorites which makes me think Auburn is the team to bet on cause Arkansas really only blows out the other team if I bet against them but I might try anyway. If they do not win tonight, the season will be officially done as there will be no way short of running the table that they will get in the NCAA tournament.

I must've won at poker...

because I started the day with $327 and ended with $310. However, I lost $22 on a sports bet so the only thing I can figure is that I won a few bucks playing poker plus I collected $10 in rakeback. So I must be right on track for the week.

I turned in my rough draft of chapter 4 to one of my committee members yesterday. I hope to have the feedback soon so that I can move forward. This represented a really big step.

SNG's, Rakeback and the Colts...

All three were good to me over the weekend. Ring games were not so good to me as I made some loose calls and tried to bluff at the wrong time on more than one occasion. I won a $20 SNG and a $10 SNG each for a nice profit. In fact, those were the only two SNG's I played. I played a couple of $5 MTT and didn't cash in either. I won $50 on the colts and my weekly rakeback amounted to $61 so after playing for a week, my bankroll is the same as it was last week. I don't think that's good, but somehow it can't really be bad.

The Razorbacks blew the KY game on Saturday as we all knew they would. They had a 14 point second half lead and lost by 8. Auburn comes to BWA on Wednesday night so I guess we'll see how it goes.