What is it with these people?
Last night was a little rough. My free money Party Poker account took a bit of a hit early in the night, although I was able to recover most of it. I ended down $11 on the night, which is good, since I was down around $55 at one point. But one hand really sticks out. Dealt KK in late position, I bet the pot. This was a $25 PLHE table, so the blinds were .25/.50 and my bet made it $2.75. I don't remember how many callers I got, although I think there were a few because my aggressive play had been backfiring all night, so I had richly rewarded a few of the players at the table when my big hands caught small flops. Anyway, the flop comes J high with two diamonds. First player to act bets out 50 cents. I immediately make another pot-sized bet, which now was over $12. He has $14 left in front of him and he moves the rest of it in. On the turn I catch a K and I'm feeling good, but the river is a third diamond. Of course, he has 73 diamonds.
Of course, this was the same guy who earlier in the night called my pot-sized bets preflop and flop, putting himself all-in, with 33 on a 992 flop with two diamonds. I was making a move at this point with my AQ diamonds, but of course I didn't make my flush.
As I heard on TV sometime yesterday, sometimes you're the dog, and sometimes you're the hydrant.
Thankfully, I did recover. I must say I have to give myself credit for not going on tilt, even though there were several occasions where that would have been understandable. But the early going was just brutal. I tried waiting patiently for big hands or calling with connectors when the pot odds justified it, but I just couldn't coordinate my pocket with a flop.
Oh well, at least there's some people playing good poker somewhere. Let's look at a few of them:
POKERSTARS CARIBBEAN ADVENTURE: Day 2 is in the books and it looks like most of the big names were in a hurry to get to Tunica or Atlantic City, since they're nowhere to be found in the final nine. The final table includes Michael Westerlund, Alex Balandin, Greg Debora, Patrick Hocking, John Gale, Nenad Medic, "Miami" John Cernuto, Christian Kruel and Steve Zolotow. Obviously, these must all be pretty darn good players in order to still be alive at the final table, but the only name I recognize is "Miami" John. Of course, that's probably due to my own ignorance. The Swedish Westerund is leading the pack with over 1 million in chips, but Balandin and Debora are close behind with over 800K apiece.
JACK BINION WORLD POKER OPEN: The $500 LHE event was won by Texan Campbell Davis. He gets $134,058, plus an entry into the the $10,000 main event.
WSOP ATLANTIC CITY: I have not had any luck finding a source for updates on this event. Pokerpages and Cardplayer, which are both usually very good about posting results, haven't listed anything yet, and I can find nothing at the casino or Harrah's websites. I'm still working on it, though.
Of course, this was the same guy who earlier in the night called my pot-sized bets preflop and flop, putting himself all-in, with 33 on a 992 flop with two diamonds. I was making a move at this point with my AQ diamonds, but of course I didn't make my flush.
As I heard on TV sometime yesterday, sometimes you're the dog, and sometimes you're the hydrant.
Thankfully, I did recover. I must say I have to give myself credit for not going on tilt, even though there were several occasions where that would have been understandable. But the early going was just brutal. I tried waiting patiently for big hands or calling with connectors when the pot odds justified it, but I just couldn't coordinate my pocket with a flop.
Oh well, at least there's some people playing good poker somewhere. Let's look at a few of them:
POKERSTARS CARIBBEAN ADVENTURE: Day 2 is in the books and it looks like most of the big names were in a hurry to get to Tunica or Atlantic City, since they're nowhere to be found in the final nine. The final table includes Michael Westerlund, Alex Balandin, Greg Debora, Patrick Hocking, John Gale, Nenad Medic, "Miami" John Cernuto, Christian Kruel and Steve Zolotow. Obviously, these must all be pretty darn good players in order to still be alive at the final table, but the only name I recognize is "Miami" John. Of course, that's probably due to my own ignorance. The Swedish Westerund is leading the pack with over 1 million in chips, but Balandin and Debora are close behind with over 800K apiece.
JACK BINION WORLD POKER OPEN: The $500 LHE event was won by Texan Campbell Davis. He gets $134,058, plus an entry into the the $10,000 main event.
WSOP ATLANTIC CITY: I have not had any luck finding a source for updates on this event. Pokerpages and Cardplayer, which are both usually very good about posting results, haven't listed anything yet, and I can find nothing at the casino or Harrah's websites. I'm still working on it, though.
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