07/03/2011 - 7 Game, 7th Place.

Yesterday I played a little bit of $2/$4 Limit O8 which got me up to $1330ish during the afternoon. Took a break and went to play the home game. Took out £40 from le banque, sat with £20, we intended to leave at around 10pm, and I worked it up to £78.

Been a while since I talked about any hands so may as well bring up the hands from the homegame I played. The first hand I won was in the Stud 8 round. We played £0.25/£0.50 with a £0.05 ante and did so for all the Stud games. We wanted to play one level higher but the host we generously call The Oracle denied it.

So anyway I fold a bunch of hands in that first rotation and get dealt 74A with a 74 of clubs. We were 4 handed. Maxcel completes the bet with a 3 up and I make it two bets with my all important Ace to represent Aces and well, because with that Ace I'm winning. Antony comes in on a low card and makes it 3 bets and Maxcel caps it up. I'm not really concerned they have much of anything other than some nice low cards, I'm pretty sure my Ace is winning. Call, call. They both get paint and I'm FTA with the Ace up. I get an offsuit 2 and lead out. Both call. They catch good on the next street and I bink a 6 for the made 76 low. So I bet and both call, chasing me down for half the pot! Love it. I think I hit an 8 of clubs next and they paint off again, both with low draws, my Ace is still good for high. So now I have a flush draw. I lead and both call. River I get an offsuit 3, giving me the lock low but sadly nothing other than Ace high for high. I bet, Antony passes, assuming he missed his hand, and Maxcel calls and I show my hand. He shows a measly pair of fives with 4 to a 76 low (drawing dead) but that's good enough to take half.

I fold a lot then it's PLO. I get KK24rb in the SB and there's no straddle on. Richard passes, Maxcel calls. I just call it and try and hit a set (otherwise I'm done). Antony checks. Board comes out K-T-x, x being some sort of low card I think. I lead out for almost pot, Antony raises pot, Maxcel folds. I dwell up and eventually move in and he calls with the QJ9 wrap straight draw. He hits his straight on the turn but I bink quads on the river to send his hand down in flames.

I fold a lot and we're 5 handed then it's Super Stud. That's 5 card 7 Stud Hi/Lo played pot limit, you discard 2 cards in 3rd and play from there. I get A24 rainbow. I limp FTA and Antony raises it up pot. Richard calls and Maxcel reraises, Martin's out and I decide I have to fold right there or move in. I like my hand too much so I move in and both call. Maxcel's got 3 low hearts, can't remember what Antony had, something low. Anyway I catch bricks but eventually I get 3 kings. Maxcel gets a low heart on 4th but both brick off so I scoop with the trup kongs.

In that game I also fold a big hand. I make a 6542A on 5th St and check it, Maxcel is showing 234 and Martin has A6A showing. He checks it and I check to Maxcel. Surprisingly he takes a free card. He catches a 5, I brick and Martin catches something he likes. Anyway he checks, I check and then evenutally  fold my hand when Maxcel bets. He had A234 with a pair on 5th and caught that wheel on 6th.

Next few rounds I spew off a bit, bluffed a hand in 2-7 NL where I got dealt 88844, got called postdraw by a T low. Get AQo in NLHE, 3-bet squeeze pre and c/f a 7-9-4 flop with a 2-suit. Lewy tells me he hit a set. Get 79s and limp. Antony raises to £2.20 (20p BB so 11x). I'm sitting on £45. Someone else called and I decided to call after I saw that he had 200 BBs, making sure implied odds were there. Flop comes 7 high and he bets ~£8. I call. Turn and river are K and Q, we check it down and he shows 88.

Eventually we start playing Svitten. In Svitten, it's PLO but you get dealt 5 cards and you have to make the best 5 card poker hand inside your holecards (with one draw going to the flop) as well as make the best Omaha hand on the board. So it's a split pot game and the way you scoop is you have the best Draw hand and then try and make the best Omaha hand. I folded a bunch of hands and then played AA. I raised it pre, flop came 443 w/ a flush draw. I had AA56x so I drew 1 and got a Q. We put it all in 3 ways and I had the best high hand so I got half the pot. I made my straight on the river but somone already had a boat. An A on the turn or river would've scooped me the pot.

Final hand of the night I get 78TJ all diamonds. I raise it up and everyone calls. Flop comes 563 and that 9 would be really useful right there. Sure enough I draw 1 and get an offsuit 9 and Antony and Maxcel put it all in with me on the flop. One has a set for the Omaha and other has a straight for the Omaha and the best they can muster for Draw is a pair. I hit a bigger straight on the turn, river's a blank and I say the three words they don't wanna hear in Svitten, "Straight and straight." I scoop a huge pot and we finish the session.

Get back and play the $26 7 Game again. I also play the $5.50 O8. I bust in the O8 and get 7th in the 7 game for $111. Not going to complain about that win, but I should've been more aggressive. I was too card-dependent.

Not sure what I'll do today but I'll play that tournament again and probably will for times to come.


Full Tilt BR: $1418.22
Stars BR: Still $103

Signing off before I sign on (JobCentre lol),

-LV