A break away

[peterbirks]

Having set fire this morning to nigh on $300 at $5-$10 (note, not so annoyed, because I really was unlucky, and I was only playing one table, and I didn't make any reall errors of judgement in a long long session), I decided to pop up to Gutshot to see messrs Lloyd, Young, Gryko, Demis Hassibis, Tony Dobson and Allan Engel, none of whom I have seen for a while. The Youngster was not only late arriving, but then managed to be the first out of the last 18 in the long long freezeout (day 3 of 3, 90 minute clocks). His A8 in the BB was quite enough for a reraise against a button stealer. Unfortunately button stealer had QQ, and good night.









I then lapsesd when I saw Mr Young eating some cheesecake. Bloody nice it was, too. Why is it that I can't do anything that gives me pleasure without suffering unfortunate consequences? Another extra 15 minutes at the gym, tomorrow, methinks.

Comments

[andy-ward-uk.livejournal.com]

"His A8 in the BB was quite enough for a reraise against a button stealer."

Or was it ? From the look of the chip stacks at the time, the button is not committed after his raise. I would say he's most unlikely to call the reraise with a worse hand than A8.

Which means that the reraise is effectively a bluff. Which isn't to say it was wrong, but I think "A8 ... was quite enough" is at least misleading.

Personally I always double-check myself before making a marginal play with A7-A9. It's very vulnerable to being called by exactly those hands which are beating it, and those hands only.

Andy.

Don't ask me guv

[peterbirks.livejournal.com]

I should have written (although I feel I did imply) "as far as David was concerned, his A8 in the BB...."

My own views on this are suitably ignorant. I suspect that I would pass anything less than AQs.

Or, with A8, flat-call and then push all-in if there was a rag flop (if an Ace comes or an 8 comes, I might put in a pot-size bet, intending to call any raise).

Then again, I'm tired at the moment.


You managed to get out for only $30 including your bonus? I dream of that. I was $600 down on the day a couple of hours ago, sitting at a table which seemed to have a never-ending feed of loose aggressive players, none of whom I could get anywhere near on the flop. I've got it back to $400 down on the day now, and the last LAG is down to his case $100.

This is a tough game when you are going through a protracted bad run (9 weeks and counting, I guess). A tough tough game.



Pete

Gutshot

[ribmeister.livejournal.com]

I'm old good friends with Tony Dobson. Only ever had the priviledge of heading down to the gutshot one weekend. 'Twas a 10 Rebuy NLH tournament, won it off a tenner ;-), left never to be seen again. Mark Wraith invited me down, he won't make that mistake again. After I left I was told people said I looked like "Russian Mafia". Also played a sit and go there, won that also. They're a bit shit down at the Gutshot aren't they? ;-) 100% record.

Re: Gutshot

[geoffchall.livejournal.com]

There could be a reason why the Gutshot mob thought ribmeister looked like Russian Mafia. Just have a look at the photo people. Short of a Mercedes with blacked-out windows I don't think you could do anything to make yourself look more that way!

Re:The Mancs

[peterbirks.livejournal.com]

I just assumed it was what passed in Salford, Knutsford or Altrincham for style....