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Coolered: GroovyT's Poker Babble

GroovyT's Poker Babble

October 09, 2008

Last night I grinded a little online and made a couple Gs, then hit the sack again because I still had recuperated from the 40 hour stretch of being up on the trip here. Today I headed down to the casino around 6pm and was luckily immediately seated in a pretty fishy $10/25 NLH game (I'm not sure why I got an immediate seat cuz there was quite a list....Joe said he'd been waiting 5 hours).

I played my standard raising half the hands I was dealt and just never getting played back and getting paid when I hit. Then just before 2am I limp with As8s along with a bunch of others and see a nice little 753 all spades flop. Action goes this old asian guy bets out $75, I raise to $250, button raises to $650 with 75 (he claimed later), and to make a long story short the young Internet SNG kid in the BB wakes up with 6s4s for the flopped straight flush. He smooth calls and I immediately have a horrible feeling. Anyway, turn is a blank and I double him up for about an $11k pot. If we are playing deeper I'm pretty damn sure I check the turn and just call any bet on the river because I was so sure he was slowplaying. Whatever, what a fucking cooler.

After that I lose a few hundred in another dumb pot, fold 2 more hands, and just got the hell out of there while I still had a small profit left on the session. So annoying. I mean, I still made a little money so could be much worse, but still freakin' annoying.

Not sure what I'll do now, maybe hit up a little online. That hand sort of zapped the poker urge out of me.

Pretty crazy how it is constantly drizzling here because of the huge amount of mist coming off the Falls. Definitely a neat area which I should try to explore one of the days here. Maybe I'll do a little shopping tomorrow which I need to do because I brought nothing to wear for my brother-in-law's wedding in BC where I'm heading straight from here on the 17th.

I'm really getting an urge to play the WPT event even more now. I wish I hadn't of lost that huge cooler tonight. Oh well, see how the next couple sessions go. Problem is the tourney buyin is half the money I brought out here and I don't want to leave myself too short for cash games if the tourney doesn't work out.

Anyway, just felt like ranting about that dumb hand. Take it easy guys.

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