Alright, so today started off alright. Went to work. While at work I looked through the college catalog and signed up for some classes. I start on Monday. Good thing is because I can transfer sooner than I thought, but I will be one of the older people in my class....
After work I headed to the 4th Street Poker Tour game. Normally when I am on my way I leave work and head straight there and get there early enough to hit up a bar. Tonight I got there somewhat early but I wasn't in the mood to go to a bar, so I drove around looking for a starbucks to get some coffee and try my new laptop out there. Well I drove around in LA for about 35 minutes and couldn't find a Starbucks. How is that possible to be in LA and now find a Strabucks in 35 minutes? I also was hungyr but couldn't find anywhere to eat...I have to remember that next time we go to Will Calls house, no one around there likes to drink coffee or eat. But I did see atleast 5 billboards that said "Where's John Salley?". I wanted to ask "Where's the beef?" cause I was so hungry
At 4th Street I have been doing really bad lately. I have exactly 0 points for this winter season. I had a good feeling going into the game tonight, that I was going to do better than normal. Here are a few key hands that I played...
1st hand I actually played I was in the cut off seat with blinds at 25-50. I had A9o and raised to 200 and everyone folded so I picked up the blinds and a couple of limpers. Next hand I was involved in I was on the button with AcKc. I raised to 200. Got 1 call from Gerrit, who is known as a loose player. Gerrit says "I shouldn't make this call but oh well". Flop comes 7 2 4 rainbow. he checks, I bet out $250 and he calls. Turn comes a 9. he bets out and I think and fold, he shows 1 7, I believe that he had a set of 7s. The very next hand I pick up AdQd, I raise to $150 from the cut off and get 1 caller from Rob V (who I don't know much about). flop comes A 7 5 with 2 clubs. he bets out $200. I raise it to $600. he thinks for a while and reraises me all-in for about $525 more. I think for a minute about if he called me with A 7 or A 5 cause he might have done that. Finally I call, he flips over Jc8c with the flush draw, so I am ahead. turn comes 8 and river is a blank so I double up to about $3100. I get moved to table 3. Only played 1 hand at table 3 where I was in big blind and no one raised. I had 8s3c, flop comes K 3 7 with 2 clubs. I bet out $200. everyone folds except the button raises to $500. I show him my 3 and fold. After that hand I get moved again to table 4. At table 4 I was involved in about 2 hands. I kept folding and Zack was to my right with a short stack. Everytime it got folded to him and I was big blind he would go all-in and I would fold. One hand I had AKo and raised it and everyone folded and I picked up the blinds. Then came this crucial hand. I was in big blind and Zack was in small blind and like I said he had been moving all-in on my blind everytime. So action goes fold, then Elliot(a very aggressive loose player) raises it $400, with blinds at $75/$150. Elliot has been known to raise with garbage. Zack reraised all-in as I suspect as he only had about $850. I look down at AcQc and moved all-in over the top for a raise of about $2200 more, trying to isolate Elliot and get heads up with Zack because I am pretty sure I had him beat or 50/50 at worst. Everyone folds around to Elliot who thinks and says " I don't know how I can fold this hand" and calls. He flips over KK. Zack flips over AJo. Flop comes x Q x with 1 club. so I have a pair of Queens. turn 6. river 5c. So Elliot ended up taking both of us out. I am not going to let this get me down. I believe that I played as well as I could tonight, the best I have played on 4th street in a long time. It just sucks that I have been doing so well in the cash games at commerce and I can't even make it to the chip up at 4th street. Well I guess "that's poker". Hopefully I will get to play some at Commerce this weekend. Will update more later
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