09/03/2011 - ^Peeeeeeeeeak!^

Yesterday I started off on the $2/$4 Stud 8. I had a great table but I got killed, guys literally spewing losing hundreds of dollars to everyone except me, playing hundred dollar pots every hand which I wasn't involved in. When I did hit a good run I'd get AA and get them cracked, so I'd run my $64 up to $150 and then watch it all slip away. When my hands held they usually ended on 5th St. At least I got rolled Aces again - and got SOME action! Seriously though most of the big pots I played I had them by the balls and they sucked out for half. I had 23459 all clubs on 5th (in that order!), 6th I make a wheel, one guy makes the AK flush on the river and the other guy who started with buried TT got a T on 6th and rivered a boat. So that was good for my implied odds but the fact is I should've scooped the whole pot and they were drawing dead to half. That is what is most frustrating about split pot games. You have them by the balls and they hit some ridiculous miracle not to scoop you, but to get half the pot - because that is all they could win - and they were a huge dog to get any of it. You just can't seem to hit your freeroll, you know? Other times you get it, you have like 4 outs with 1 card to come, 4 outs on a pure freeroll and you hit it. I've played huge pots before in PLO8 where I have the low locked up and a gutshot and put the guy all in, he shows his 2 pair or set and no low, exactly what I thought he had, we're all in and BOOM! Gutshot comes in, and I'm like "THAT'S WHAT WE CALL A FREEROLL MY FRIEND!"

So anyway, I had a sad face. I had around $1380ish and gave up on the Stud 8. I don't remember if I mentioned it but yesterday I was playing Stud Hi $1/$2, won a big $60 pot with a K high straight. That put me on $1475 before that Stud 8 session. Stud seems like a goldmine. Guys constantly paying you off with the worst of it every single hand. You raise with an Ace door and they will call with two Eights. Most times you have that beat except in obvious steal situations. But it's not too different in any poker game online - I mean - you rarely sit in any variant of poker online and think "I can't beat this game" or "These guys just aren't giving their money away". So yeah, sad face, and I took a little break and eventually sat on the $2/$4 O8 full ring and fired up a couple of $12 PLO8 sit n gos. 2 tables of the $2/$4 and two SNGs. I won both SNGs for $49.50 each and won a bunch of money on $2/$4, righting the ship and putting me on my peak.

No progress on Stars. I *almost* played some but thought "Nah I'll focus on Full Tilt and fix those losses."

Full Tilt BR: $1573.02

Stars: STILL $103.

Signing off,

-Lucy