Live Game at Oceans, Pwned,

Last night at about 10:30 I decided to go to Oceans to play the 2/3 game. My first table was interesting, but overall pretty tight. I was very card dead so couldn't get anything going there. Then the game broke and got to a new table where there was much more action. Last night the first card I looked at was an ace far too often. Then the second card was always a rag, kind of frustrating. I was down a little over a hundred and hadn't really gotten into any big pots.

One guy had recently sat down at the table, and I could tell he was a pretty good player, but was a little too loose and aggressive. And the way he had to talk about everything really annoyed me. I knew I was going to make a play at him at some point when I thought he was getting a little too frisky. So I limp UTG+1 with QJo. The guy loved to play his position and raise when there were limpers out, I had seem him show down hands as weak as 64s where he raised in position. He raised to 15, and I called and we were heads up to the flop. K73, 2 hearts. I check, he bet 18, I thought and raised to 50. He thought forever and then called. Turn 5, I though for a bit and shoved in my final 110, he thought forever again and called with A5o. I guess he put me on the flush draw. I have no idea what he was doing on the flop, my read was perfect. I don't know if he actually thought his Ahigh was good. Now I was just hoping to hit some hands eventually the capitalize on his looseness.

One thing I started to do was make many small raises with my suited connectors and stuff, to control the size of the pot. I knew if I limped, there was a pretty good chance he would raise to 15. I rebought for 200, and started to win some small pots with my small raises and built up to about 260.

This one awful calling station to my right limped on a straddle hand, and I raised to 21 on the button with TT. Flop 234, and of course he's sitting on A5o. When I bet the flop he actually picked up his hand and acted like he was going to muck it, then decided to call. The turn I put him allin and he thought for a bit and called. I don't really know what to think of this player. From watching him throughout the night I didn't really think he knew what he was doing, and so didn't really think he would be putting on an act with the fake muck. So I doubled up his $100. A little later I get aces and raise to $15 with 1 limper out. The SB who was a very tight preflop player called me, and the limper mucked. Flop comes KK5. He checks, I check. Many people would want a bet on this flop, but I don't like it, mainly because of how I had seen this guy play before. In situation where he didn't have a huge hand, but was convinced that he had the best hand, he would value bet. So I wanted to limit losses if he had a K, but allow him to think he had the best hand if he had a pocket pair or hit something on the turn. Turn come J, and he leads out $14. I call, river 2, he bets out $30. Now I am a little worried, but I call because I think he bets there with AJ, but of course he turns over AK. Yipee, I run good.

Little later I pick up AK UTG+1. I have $110 in front of me, and plan to limp to hope my loose friend behind me decides to raise (which he will with anything that looks decent). He makes it $15, and the C/O, button, and SB all call. At this point there is only one play... shove, it's the perfect squeeze spot against the loose raiser, and people who are calling him because they know he's loose. Not to mention I have a big hand. I shove, he thinks for a while, then calls, everyone else mucks. He turns over AA... and that's the end of my night. The guy played well, I will give him that, but I knew I could capitalize on the way he played, but that night he just ran red hot. I think he had about $800 when I left.

Crappy -$500 live session where it seemed that nothing wen't my way. It was really weird, because I played super tight early on, because I was getting zero cards. Then at my first table, the first two times I raised, I got reraised. At my second table, the first time I raised I got reraised also. Just a weird night, hopefully I can turn it around. Poker-wise this Spring break has sucked, I'm down a few hundred online because my internet sucking has stopped me from playing very much. I hope it turns around, I might give Oceans another shot sometime. On the good side, my Spring break has been good in all other aspects. I have gotten to spend time with alot of friends and family, which is very nice.

-Boooom