Like father? Not really...
I took the day off Friday so I could head up to Atlantic City with my father to kick off the weekend.
My father had a heart attack recently. A little over a month ago now, and he asked if I would escort him to A.C., and be a kind of eyes and ears incase anything was out of place with him.
As it turns out, nothing was wrong with my father. He bought into the Borgata's 50k guaranteed tournament, while I sat down at the cash games.
After waiting about 15 minutes or so, I took the 7 seat at a newly opened 1/2 table. The table was extremely passive, I cannot think of one time in the first half an hour that a pot got over 100 dollars, or got called down to the river. I saw no all-ins until atleast an hour and a half after we started, I think it was mainly because of boredom.
If I can remember correctly, the two guys in the one and two seats were brothers, and apparently both Marines, or former Marines, I never asked if they were still serving, but they both played like Marines, hard, and gambling.
The third seat had an older gentleman who only bought in for 100 dollars, and quickly bled that away while he waited for a 20/40 limit game to get going, he never pushed, only called, and always seemed to be on a draw.
The fourth seat was another older gentleman waiting for a seat to open in a 2/5 game, and he seemed more concerned with reading his newspaper than he was playing, he didnt last more than two rotations before he was called away. The man who took his place was probably a godsend for everyone at the table for two reasons. One, he called top or middle pair, or flush draws in almost every hand he was in. I cannot honestly remember him folding a hand if he saw a flop, the best part about him was, when he had something, he bet out, if he was drawing, or had nothing better than two pair, all he did was call.
In the fifth seat was a very talkative fella from New York, who played almost every hand, and liked to raise to 24 dollars any time he decided to raise.
I occupied the sixth seat.
A guy from Pennsylvania, who was apparently trying to learn the game sat in the seventh seat, he was an extremely passive player, who ended up overplaying his pocket Aces that got busted by a baby flush not too long after the game opened up. He too only bought in for 100 dollars, I dont think that helped him, because he layed down good hands to insane bluffs because he was scared to lose his money.
A kid who looked like he just graduated high school sat in seat eight.He was just another passive player, who ended up showing that he could really be bullied out of pots if he didnt have a strong hand.
A very quiet guy took the ninth seat( most tables were only playing nine handed). He didnt last much longer than a couple of hours because he too liked to draw out, and missed much of the time.
I found out early that I was going to have to time my bluffs at this table, and that I would have to make them few and far between. Alot of guys at the table who went through their initial buy-ins were rebuying, and that allowed me to keep a certain feel for the table. Unlike Caesars where I was used to having new people sit at the table almost constantly and fucking up the flow of the game. These fellas made it extremely easy to play during the course of the day. Im not the greatest player when it comes to reading opponents, but this table helped out alot in making decisions during the course of hands.
I never got mixed up too much with the calling station in seat four, and when I did, I was usually able to keep the pots small if he caught up, or take a chunk out of him here and there when I did win.
The only particular hand that I can remember with the seat four guy went like this.
I was on the button and I looked down to Q/9 of hearts. Seat four guy limped, I limped, and the small blimp completed. The big blind said 10 on top. Fourth seat calls, I call, SB calls.
Four of us see a flop of Q/Q/5.
SB checks, BB bets our 40.
Fourth seat guy goes all in for somewhere around 260.
I call, SB folds, BB folds.
Fourth seat flips over Aces, I show my Q/9, which holds up, and I take down the pot while fourth seat rebuys for the first of many times before two in the afternoon ( we started playing around 11 in the morning)
Another hand that stands out while I was playing against the Marine in seat one.
Im in middle position, and I look down at a pocket 9's. I raise it to 11, folds around to seat one, who reraises me to 25. Folds around to me, and I just smooth call.
Flop comes A/8/10.
Seat one bets out 50, and I smooth call.
Turn brings a duece.
Seat one bets out 75, I put him on a 10, or Kings, so I re-raise to 200. He thinks for a minute, and taps his cards, shows me his pocket J's and says nice "big slick".
I see the J's, wince a bit, and show my 9's. Im pretty sure the bluff affected him, over the course of the next ten hands or so, he raised, and rammed and jammed any pot he thought he was ahead in. He eventually calmed down, but he actually ended up running his stack up after the loss to me.
Nothing else spectacular happened. I feel I played good solid poker, made the right moves when I needed to, and got lucky at very fortunate moments.
Bought in for 200. Cashed out 713, for a +513 dollar profit.
I could have made more, or lost it all, but I had to cash out because my Dad busted out of the tournament around three in the afternoon, and we had to split.
Im feeling good about my play again, so hopefully things work out for me in the coming New Year.
Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year, yall!
My father had a heart attack recently. A little over a month ago now, and he asked if I would escort him to A.C., and be a kind of eyes and ears incase anything was out of place with him.
As it turns out, nothing was wrong with my father. He bought into the Borgata's 50k guaranteed tournament, while I sat down at the cash games.
After waiting about 15 minutes or so, I took the 7 seat at a newly opened 1/2 table. The table was extremely passive, I cannot think of one time in the first half an hour that a pot got over 100 dollars, or got called down to the river. I saw no all-ins until atleast an hour and a half after we started, I think it was mainly because of boredom.
If I can remember correctly, the two guys in the one and two seats were brothers, and apparently both Marines, or former Marines, I never asked if they were still serving, but they both played like Marines, hard, and gambling.
The third seat had an older gentleman who only bought in for 100 dollars, and quickly bled that away while he waited for a 20/40 limit game to get going, he never pushed, only called, and always seemed to be on a draw.
The fourth seat was another older gentleman waiting for a seat to open in a 2/5 game, and he seemed more concerned with reading his newspaper than he was playing, he didnt last more than two rotations before he was called away. The man who took his place was probably a godsend for everyone at the table for two reasons. One, he called top or middle pair, or flush draws in almost every hand he was in. I cannot honestly remember him folding a hand if he saw a flop, the best part about him was, when he had something, he bet out, if he was drawing, or had nothing better than two pair, all he did was call.
In the fifth seat was a very talkative fella from New York, who played almost every hand, and liked to raise to 24 dollars any time he decided to raise.
I occupied the sixth seat.
A guy from Pennsylvania, who was apparently trying to learn the game sat in the seventh seat, he was an extremely passive player, who ended up overplaying his pocket Aces that got busted by a baby flush not too long after the game opened up. He too only bought in for 100 dollars, I dont think that helped him, because he layed down good hands to insane bluffs because he was scared to lose his money.
A kid who looked like he just graduated high school sat in seat eight.He was just another passive player, who ended up showing that he could really be bullied out of pots if he didnt have a strong hand.
A very quiet guy took the ninth seat( most tables were only playing nine handed). He didnt last much longer than a couple of hours because he too liked to draw out, and missed much of the time.
I found out early that I was going to have to time my bluffs at this table, and that I would have to make them few and far between. Alot of guys at the table who went through their initial buy-ins were rebuying, and that allowed me to keep a certain feel for the table. Unlike Caesars where I was used to having new people sit at the table almost constantly and fucking up the flow of the game. These fellas made it extremely easy to play during the course of the day. Im not the greatest player when it comes to reading opponents, but this table helped out alot in making decisions during the course of hands.
I never got mixed up too much with the calling station in seat four, and when I did, I was usually able to keep the pots small if he caught up, or take a chunk out of him here and there when I did win.
The only particular hand that I can remember with the seat four guy went like this.
I was on the button and I looked down to Q/9 of hearts. Seat four guy limped, I limped, and the small blimp completed. The big blind said 10 on top. Fourth seat calls, I call, SB calls.
Four of us see a flop of Q/Q/5.
SB checks, BB bets our 40.
Fourth seat guy goes all in for somewhere around 260.
I call, SB folds, BB folds.
Fourth seat flips over Aces, I show my Q/9, which holds up, and I take down the pot while fourth seat rebuys for the first of many times before two in the afternoon ( we started playing around 11 in the morning)
Another hand that stands out while I was playing against the Marine in seat one.
Im in middle position, and I look down at a pocket 9's. I raise it to 11, folds around to seat one, who reraises me to 25. Folds around to me, and I just smooth call.
Flop comes A/8/10.
Seat one bets out 50, and I smooth call.
Turn brings a duece.
Seat one bets out 75, I put him on a 10, or Kings, so I re-raise to 200. He thinks for a minute, and taps his cards, shows me his pocket J's and says nice "big slick".
I see the J's, wince a bit, and show my 9's. Im pretty sure the bluff affected him, over the course of the next ten hands or so, he raised, and rammed and jammed any pot he thought he was ahead in. He eventually calmed down, but he actually ended up running his stack up after the loss to me.
Nothing else spectacular happened. I feel I played good solid poker, made the right moves when I needed to, and got lucky at very fortunate moments.
Bought in for 200. Cashed out 713, for a +513 dollar profit.
I could have made more, or lost it all, but I had to cash out because my Dad busted out of the tournament around three in the afternoon, and we had to split.
Im feeling good about my play again, so hopefully things work out for me in the coming New Year.
Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year, yall!
posted by SoveriegnOne at 2:41 AM
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