PL Omaha HI/LO

Just took down my first ever PL O/8 trney, im pretty pumped, just a 5.50 buyin but fun time. funny how aggressiveness is the key in even that type of trney when the blinds get up there.. I had the regulars pissssed off, but actually played pretty well, had the chiplead most of the trney, early on I hit quad Aces and quad Jacks in consec hands and got guys all in to scoop the entire pot.. very nice. I cant write much about the game because im no expert, but i think of course just not getting overly involved without the nuts by the turn is the key.. strong betting and playing your A23's are very key. fun time tho, also won the 5.00 headsup trney right before that... hadnt made alot f money today, but won 2 of 2 trneys and playing well again.

North Florida Poker Classic Key Hands

Played in Day 1C of the NFPC today, deep stack trney, 20k starting chips and 30min levels, 3 day event. Started off pretty good, and I wanted to post a couple of my interesting hands.

I wasnt seeing much early picked up a few small pots, then with blids about 100-200 I get 78 clubs in late position, 2-3 limpers ahead so I decide to raise it up to steal either preflop or on the flop. 2 Callers, flop was 2310, utg player leads out with a 600 bet, i raise him to 2000 and a player in the blinds folds UTg calls, turn is another deuce he checks, i bet 3000 saying PLEASE FOLD.. he calls, river is a J, he checks, it was early I decided to give up so I check, ready to muck my hand and he says,You got me, 5 high. He had 45suited and was chasing that open ender.. WOW my 8 high takes down a 12000ish pot. The button player cant believe it, he is so pissed he said he folded JJ.

Then a few hands later, I am in the small blind with J8clubs, a few limpers around and I call. Flop comes out 78Q all hearts, no one bets, and turn is the J hearts. So, I have 2 pair but 4 hearts on board, i check again and it checks around. Finally river comes out, a beautiful J of Spades for a full boat. I bet out 2000, BB RAISES me to 5000, I looked at the board, I was pretty convinced he had A high flush, so I reraise him to 10K, hoping he will shove about 15 more to get me all in, and he does, but then i was like damn. Does this guy have me beat? I thought maybe JQ, but it didnt seem like it. I started thinking maybe 77 or 88.. either way I called, he turns over J7, and I double my stack to about 50K.

Lots of others, but then after 2nd break i started to take some hits.. misplayed a couple of hands, got reraised and had to fold.. Went from 42K to about 25K, really hurt, one hand I lost 14000 when the top pair on the board 7 paired, I had 99 and was looking good on the flop, guy check raised me all in when the turn came out a 2nd 7 so I had to fold.

My last hand of the night, with just 30min left in Day 1, i got QQ in the big blind, i have 25500 chips left, blinds are now 600/1200, button raises to 2400, SB calls, I reraise it to 12500 trying to take down the pot there, Button calls, flop comes out J high, BEAUTY! I shove my last 13K chips in.. The dude says "This is probably a bad call" and calls and turns over AQ.. As usual, an A hits the turn and I am outta there. Bad beats hurt worse live, because theres such a finality of it all. I hate it.
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MTT leaderboard trney, WSOP package win

Wow, took some days off, got focused and play an almost perfect trney in the mtt leaderboardtrney yesterday. doubled up first hand when i slowplayed KK on a Q high board and got AQ all in with me. built my stack steadily the whole trney... didnt really play many huge pots, not one suckout all in, i did have a big hand with KQ vs AA when i called a raise K on the flop, he bet I called, K on the turn and I bet out and he jammed his whole stack in with AA.

The only questionable move I made was with 4 left, Sliekas was raising alot with big stack, I called with KQ suited and this was the 3rd or 4th time this happened, playrus21 kept jamming all in and it felt like he was squeazing, in the spot, so i felt his range was wide and I called for 70K or so I barely had him covered, he actually had a good hand this time, 1010, but I spiked K on the flop, took the chiplead and never gave it up. I dont like KQ all in but this had happened numererous times so I had a reason for finally calling him down I felt he could have almost anything here and my equity was strong.. just for #s sake I put him on top 30% of hands here and I was 54% vs that range.. I dont love that call even now, but i was third in chips, and needed a big double up to win so i went for it.

Anyway, I was just going to say, sometimes if youre running bad, a few days off the tables will make u play alot more solid when u come back.

Talk to you guys soon..

wiz

ps., im going to start posting links to some of the poker books i have, i think i have most all of them! but I really like a few and this is a good one.. a few upper level moves u can use from time to time.. great stuff here.

Where's Wiz

Working on some life level stuff guys and girls.. not playing much for a couple of weeks. I'll be in the big Saturday MTT tourney, might be moving from sunny florida this month. Doing some consulting work for company so thats going to take up most of my poker time this month. Need to get my head back in the game anyway, and I hope when I come back to it, I'll be 100% focused. I'll try to post some blogs here and there for the next few weeks.