Sunday, June 14, 2009

At this rate I will be rich in 3 weeks...

FINALLY!! Made it to Palm Springs at 6:15 and checked in to a hotel and was given a poolside patio room. Sweet!!!
Went over to THE SPA casino to play their nightly tourney but alas...cancelled:<(
Decided to play in the cash game($1-$3 NL) and,after a half hour wait,I was rewarded with AA in my first hand AND THE DEALER BUTTON!! SWEET!! Two limpers and then a $12 raise and a call in front of me. I decided to narrow the field right there and raised $36. Fold...fold...fold...call.
The flop is A-4-4. I have flopped the FH. Now most people would be elated with that but I still remember a hand from last year in Vegas where I had QQ and the flop was KK. To make a painful story short: there were 4 players all in and they all had a FH. Mine was 2nd best. AA-QQ-JJ-88 were the hands. Down $200 in 5 minutes.OUCH!!
This time though I thought that there was no way I was losing this one.
The player in front of me leads out for $50. Hmmm...what does he have? What does he think that I have? Does his brain even work like that? Hmmmm....raise or call? Raise or call? I go into the tank....screw it,I am going to try and trap this guy. I call the $50. Next card is a Q. Again he makes it $50. This guy is begging for a call...or is he? Too much thinking here. I put him on perhaps A-K,A-Q...maybe A-J or simply an overpair. I cannot put him on the 4 as he called a raise at the beginning and my reraise. I know that I have him so I decide to shut it down right there and I go all in for my remaining stack of just over $100.
He thinks and thinks and I know that he is toast. He folds and turns over 10-10. COOL! I muck my cards of course and he is none too happy.
I might have been able to make some more but I do not want him to see a cheap river card with some whimpy ass call.
Played for the next hour but had nothing to work with as my highest hand after that was Q-4.
Started to get tired and hungry so I packed it in for a tidy profit of $72.
Not much,but much better start than last year.
Tomorrow I will hit the cash game around 2:00 and try and keep you posted.

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