AIPS 6-Max

Christ am I pissed off right now.  I played well in the first hour, got the chip lead at one point, and was in the Top 10 for most of the hour after that.  But I was completely card dead in hour #2, and as my stack started to dwindle, the big stack was on the button when I had the BB - he kept betting into me, most assuredly with air, and I had NOTHING to play back with.  NOTHING.  Christ, QTo would have been ahead of his range.  Immensely frustrating.  And when it was my button...Q3o, 94s, 38o...rinse...repeat.  The table was playing a bit loose with quite a few calls and I'll be damned if I'm going to commit with absolute trash. 

Then I'm down to about 3k with 150/300 blinds and I wake up with JJ.  I shove.  Get called.  He has QQ.  Of course he does.  But wait, I flop a J.  Beeyooteeful.  Turn Q.  Good night.  $2 profit for my efforts.  Full Tilt returns to thoroughly fucking me after a good night last night. 

Sunday Thoughts

* A fine job by the Mets bullpen.  And lookie here...the Phils are back knocking on the door.  Hey, at least there's the possibility of the wildcard now as well. 

* Well Jim Nantz is back on NFL coverage again, and he's still calling a first down "the first".  Never one at a loss for words, Jim has somehow lost the second word in the very simple-to-say phrase "first down."  I suggest you find it again, Jim.  Soon.  You're driving me nuts.

* The Chargers got thoroughly fucked by referee incompetence and equipment incompetence.  And yes, I am pissed enough to say it to Hochuli's face if I ever had the chance.

* Stepped up to a $20 SNG tonight.  Had the joy of running top pairs and overpairs into THREE flopped sets.  Thanks for coming. 

Super Donk

Sat down at a $.10/$.25 pot-limit table last night.  Lost a buy-in when I ran a set of 6s into some guy's two-pair, and saw him turn a boat.  So this table breaks up and I buy back in at another table. 

Oh my God.  There's a guy at this table that, if he didn't play EVERY hand, he played well over 90% of them.  And he would call just about anything down to the river - sometimes just overcards, sometimes bottom pair, he'd even call with a busted draw. 

I turned my $20 buy-in into $85 at one point, mostly thanks to him, then went completely card dead and ended up at about $65.  And it could've been better.  I was just waiting for any hand to sting this guy with.  I see a free flop from the big blind with A5 and the flop is A52.  Bingo.  I bet it, the clown raises me, and we get it all in (I have him covered).  He flips over A9.  The turn is a 4, the river is a 3 and we chop the damn pot.  Grrrrrr.

I won tons of moderate pots off of him with hands like 33 that completely missed a flop - but would outpace his crap like 9 4 offsuit when he never hit a 9 or a 4.  If you had *anything*, it was worth just calling him down.  If you had the goods, you just shove your chips in and he'll call you.  Incredible. 

Usually at these tables, the average pot is about $3-4 per hand.  The average pot at this table was over $11. 

Usually at these tables, if they're not full, there's maybe one person waiting to get in.  At this table, there were as many as six people waiting to get in. 

So finally this guy leaves.  Immediately, the entire table collapses.  Everyone stuck around just to take his money. 

He's a welcome addition to my "friends" list.