CARDRUNNERS

Okay...it's time to go insane again!! yippee. Vegas is a lot of fun hanging out with the boys, but poker is not going too well. I basically ran blazing hot for about two weeks, but things are starting to take a major turn for the worse. It's okay, because I've made a ton of money in the past couple of weeks but it's still infuriating to lose just about every big pot. Middle set isn't good enough, I need quads or better.

I'm gonna post some hands bc I'm bored and feel like venting. Maybe this blog will stop being so poker heavy at some point...that point isn't yet.

I run aces into ace king

dude check/calls 66 in a 4-bet and bustos me

i hate the river

middle set no good!

kings have to be good when i flop middle set...right?!?!

whatre the odds of kings holding up on a jack high board...0%?

i have kings, you have KQ on Qxx...lets go bust!!

hmm...are aces ever good here?

blah...gonna go eat at shintaro tonight to make me feel better...poker is the blowy

Dear Blog,

Well, today was certainly busy. Poker as afforded me a strange lifestyle. I take care of both of my parents basically and today they both had doctor's appointments. I snuck a few hundred hands in before I rounded up the parents and headed to the hospital.

I dropped them in ducked out to do some quick splurging. I wanted something poker related to read so I scooped s copy of the Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide. I'll give a review when I'm done. I don't play many tournaments but maybe this will serve as motivation since I'm trying to go to the PCA.

I went back to the hospital but forgot I needed to blow some money at my favorite store Best Buy. I grabbed NBA Live '08 which I meant to buy last night when I was in there. All opposition, get your money up, two weeks, I'll put the money on the tables. I also wanted the Touch so I go browse CR's site on the go so I went ahead and spent money on another Ipod which is Ironic because I already have an 80GB which isn't full yet.

16 days til marriage, 17 days to my birthday. (Please poker world, send me some strippers)Me and the wifey planned a honeymoon cruise so I better work extra hard over the next couple weeks before we leave. I'll have 6 days without play. I guess she's worth it though.

Anyway, thats enough for now. i logged 2,238 hands. Ended my run at $417.25. Not as good as yesterday but definitely happy with the continuing of an upward trend of poker.

Damn this post is getting long. Here's a hand analysis for your troubles.

First thing and most important to note here is slow playing in multi-way pots is -EV. I flat called the 3 bet after I'm reraise a villain calls looking to set or fold. My implied odds are very good here and a set is most certainly worth felting. I set the villain leads, I cold call to let the BU hang himself and somehow God blesses me with two two outers. Is it Christmas already? (Note: Calling 3 bets to set mine is -EV in most cases unless stacks are deep or you're certain your opponent has a strong hand. Here, I'm almost sure his hand is strong which heavenly influences a call. If I was on the BU and made the same raise and got 3-bet, i could assume that his range was wider than big pairs and AK and would have to fold because I wouldn't get paid enough when i actually did make the set.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1549024

I'm out,

-Locks18

Just finished a marathon (atleast for me) session of 5+ hours. I played 2K hands and booked a $650 win.

I started off the session playing more conservative, similar to the style in the Stinger, Andrew video today, thing were going pretty well. ****I'm doing the hands in the order of the session.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2291989 - Flop the nutz, a little worried about being prerolled but he shows up w/ an overpair and flush draw and I hold. Its kind of surprising to note that you are only a 65% favorite in this spot.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2291999 - Guy chases the bare str8 draw (w/ no flush draw) to the river and hits. Sick. ********** Runovic holds over me the whole day and induces a tilt. 70% fav when most of the money went in.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2292013 - Same guy. This is how its been lately. When I need to get there I can't but when they need to they do (note my draw is a lot better then his). 41.5%

Now I'm a little upset but still playing well. Tired of this guy holding over me lately. I actually end up stacking him when I set over set him and he has no redraws. Then my famous WiCane Dumb Blowup of the Day.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2292026 - Hate my play on all streets. I guess he did a good job of creating the blowup. Only 30% equity.

That hand pretty much ignited liftoff and I went on tilt. If you haven't noticed it is by far the biggest issue i have in poker. I then proceeded to lose set over set in a 3 handed game and was down 1.3K at my lowest point. I hover between down $400 and 1K then hit a monster pot.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2292048 - I like the way I played this althought it pretty much is a cooler.

From there I won a few nice pots and lost a couple others. I'm still tilting too much but still haven't hit that rush I'm looking for. I play great in spurts but sometimes run to many multi-street bluffs (although this probably helps me get paid off so much).  I went 1-4 in the $500+ pot flips.

I'm not sure if I will be playing tonight. But gl at the tables.