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Fitting in at NL10
thestoryteller, May 11
I was kind of lonely at the NL10 tables last night. I felt like I didn't fit in.
There were all these really tight players sitting around the table, not calling my PF raises with AA, KK, QQ, A8s, 82o etc.
"Hey, does anyone want to play with me?"
"No."
"Why?"
"Because you're too loose. You're raising trash like 77 on the cut off. You're a looser."
"Am not!"
"Looser!"
"Stop it!"
"Loooooooser!"
I amuse my lonesome self by stealing the blinds from UTG for a couple of orbits. Then a couple of guys come in and start spewing chips. They suck out and double their stacks, much to the consternation of the tight kids. Wow. These are obviously the cool kids at the table!
"Hi! Can we be friends?"
"No."
"Why? I want to learn how to suck out too! Maybe we can suck out together!"
"You're too tight. You don't give yourself room to suck out," said one, as he got his chips in with an off-suited three-gapper, "You're a tag!"
"Am not!"
"Tag!"
"Stop it!"
"Taaaaaaaag!"
It was too much for a poor grinder to take. Next hand I got 88 and raised it on the button. Two callers, one of them short stacked. Flop was AJT. I checked. The next guy checked. The short stack shoved all 45c of his money into the pot.
Well, I was sure he had at least a pair and I was getting 1:5 odds to call and I could count my outs on the fingers of one hand with three fingers missing, but I really wanted to fit in so I called and the next guy folded.
The turn was a queen. The river was a 9. The short stack showed A2 and I proudly showed off my straight.
"Hey, look! I hit a runner runner gut shot straight! I sucked out! Wanna play?"
The short stack left without a word. Maybe he thought it was a fluke.
But I really hope I see him again so I can show him that it was no fluke. I really do know how to suck out!
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Think they'll let me play?
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That moment...
thestoryteller, May 10
I have these moments when I am just 99.99999% sure that I shouldn't call, and I call anyway. Doesn't happen as much anymore, but it happened once yesterday and that was enough to turn a breakeven session into a session with a 60bb loss.
It was my last hand, the board had 5 hearts including the ace and I held the queen. The villain bet the flop, check/called the turn and check/shoved the river for something like twice the pot.
I requested time, went to pee, answered the doorbell and returned upstairs to click on "call". Argh...
I wonder if Hitler felt that way in the summer of 1941? He was probably sitting in Berlin with all his commanders going, "don't do it mein fuhrer! Don't do it!" There was probably even a little voice in his head saying the same thing. And Hitler probably responded, "I don't care! I am 9 countries up! Dat Stalin is a donkey! Ve vill infade Russia, and de man who tinks about bringing varm undervear vill be shot!"
Anyway I shut down the computer after that and went to teach one of my students. He paid me for the month yesterday so that took some of the edge off (I mean, I was only 6 dollars down at poker, but I am a sensitive new age guy and such things affect me... very... sniffle...).
Poker is going to be pretty intensive this month as the mid-year examinations are over and a lot of my tuition students are cancelling lessons for half the month. That means no extra income but plenty of time to work on poker.
So I woke up this morning and sat down for a three hour session, reminding myself that I had to play properly. It was all going okay until I hit an AA vs KK situation for 100bb. It was especially galling because I was the one with the AA this time and though we got it all in on the flop, he rivered a king. Thankfully, I bounced back thanks mainly to this table:
Hand one: doesn't involve me, but never trust a donk who can't spell the word "nothing".
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Hand two: it was not clear who SHARKPGH34 was talking to. On hindsight, probably me. Looks like itlgirl misunderstood and upped the donkey disrespecter factor!
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Hand three: um... don't call a PF raise at full ring with JQo? No, wait, call a PF raise with JQo, but for goodness sake top up your stack first, you miser.
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Submitted by : thestoryteller POKERSTARS GAME #17346218040: HOLD'EM NO LIMIT ($0.05/$0.10) - 2008/05/11 - 01:10:00 (ET)
Table 'Forsytia III' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: SHARKPGH34 ($4.40 in chips)
Seat 2: CajunFryer ($13.65 in chips)
Seat 4: Karen668 ($18.95 in chips)
Seat 5: itlgirl ($5.85 in chips)
Seat 7: JasHogan ($9.85 in chips)
Seat 8: Kfuse ($8.50 in chips)
Seat 9: Thiagoware ($12.90 in chips)
SHARKPGH34: posts small blind $0.05
YoU x WiN ! said, "im out yall"
CajunFryer: posts big blind $0.10
Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to Karen668  
Karen668 : raises $0.30 to $0.40
itlgirl: folds
YoU x WiN ! has returned
SHARKPGH34 said, "hit n run huh?"
JasHogan: folds
YoU x WiN ! is sitting out
Kfuse: folds
YoU x WiN ! said, "i got enough chips now"
YoU x WiN ! said, "haha"
YoU x WiN ! said, "lol"
SHARKPGH34 said, "haha gl bro"
Thiagoware: folds
YoU x WiN ! said, "thats what i do"
SHARKPGH34: calls $0.35
CajunFryer: folds
Flop(Odds) (Pot : $0.90)
  
SHARKPGH34: checks
Karen668 : bets $0.70
SHARKPGH34: raises $0.70 to $1.40
Karen668 : raises $17.15 to $18.55 and is all-in
SHARKPGH34: calls $2.60 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($14.55) returned to Karen668
Turn(Odds) (Pot : $8.90)
River (Pot : $8.90)
Showdown
SHARKPGH34: shows   (two pair, Queens and Jacks)
Karen668 : shows (three of a kind, Jacks)
Karen668 collected $8.50 from pot
Summary
Total pot $8.90 | Rake $0.40
Board
Seat 1: SHARKPGH34 (small blind) showed and lost with two pair, Queens and Jacks
Seat 2: CajunFryer (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: Karen668 showed and won ($8.50) with three of a kind, Jacks
Seat 5: itlgirl folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: JasHogan folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: Kfuse folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: Thiagoware (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
And immediately after that, the SHARKPGH34 says, "that's rediculous"
No, what's ridiculous is that you don't know how to spell ridiculous. Get out of my way, shark. Don't you know we Chinese eat your fins for dinner?
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NL10 going okay now
thestoryteller, May 09
Well, after sessions with Lachlan and Lazyfish, I'm finding NL10 much easier. I run into fewer situations where I'm lost, and I feel more in control of my game. Most importantly of all, I've been WINNING at 6.5ptbb/100 over the last 5K+ hands instead of LOSING at 3ptbb/100. My stats have also loosened to 16/13, way up from my old stats which were tight as a nun's ass.
So I'm not ASSRAPING NL10 yet, but at the very least I'm giving it a gentle pat on the fanny each time I pass go.
Thanks everyone who helped out by giving advice and offering help, like collegesucks, Mikyor, Sheitan, Midian, Semper, Sennpu, Lachlan, Yaffie, Lazyfish and a whole bunch more whom I can't remember.
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