Failed to get anything going yesterday. The very first hand I raised
when we were 3 handed, the big blind calls and we see a
flop. Maybe it really is going to be my day! He checks, I bet, he calls.
on the turn. He checks, I bet, he calls.
on the river and he donks for pot. FOLD. Damn game.
I basically folded until level 5. Meanwhile, Rastafish sat down to my immediate right and made three sets in his first orbit at the table. I got bored in level 3 and started putting every hand in my phone but literally all I did was fold. Did the same in level 5 but actually played a hand or two. So let's try this; hopefully it won't be too boring, I wouldn't want to drive away my huge audience.
Level 5: 200/400/50, playing 22,450SB. 
Fold to Rasta's button raise of like 3.5x. He shows AK.
Btn. 
Fold to a raise from some random, pretty boring 'cause I'd really like to open a hand from here or the cutoff as the blinds are super nitty.
Co. 
Folded to me, so I get a chance to prey on the nitty blinds and pray they don't wake up versus me. Make it 1,025 which is a little bigger than normal, but the bb is definitely peeling any two to an exact minraise. Get it through. First one in the W column all day.
Hj. 
I raise to 1,750 behind two limpers, who both flick in the extra juice and we go three ways to
. I bet 3,300 and took it down.
MP. 
Fold. It's still difficult to not see this hand as an auto open in tournaments!
+2. 
Open to 800, fish to my left calls, then the active guy on the button makes it 1,700. I know if I flat then the fish behind me flats, which is okay but it then means I probably need to flop a pair which is hard to do. Regained the initiative instead as I think I win it here sometimes and he peels with loads of worse hands. I make it 4,900 and the button calls.
. I now have a pretty easy bet, make it 4,400 and he snap folds. The interesting thing about this hand is that, after he busts a few levels later, he comes to find me to ask me what I had when I "limp-raised his button." I guess that probably helped me win the hand. He thought I limped and the guy behind me minraised, which reveals a horrible misconception of two players' tendencies and that also means that he wasn't paying as much attention as I thought he was. He told me he had TT and was calling to hit two outs 'cause I definitely had AA or KK. The solace is that I'm clearly good at hiding the strength of my hand, even if it sometimes completely by accident!
+1. Fold
UTG. 
Fold
BB. 
Fold to a raise from Rasta in the small blind unopened. Never know whether to go to war with him in these blind v blind scenarios, because as much as he's supposed to be bluffing at least sometimes, he just never is. Obviously my exact hand isn't the time to take off versus him, but I'm probably folding way more hands than I would against most players just because he's pretty likely to have it.
SB. 
Fold
Btn. 
Fold to a raise from MP somewhere. Pretty annoying when we have blockers and nitty blinds!
Co. 
Fold to the same guy. Thought about 3balling 'cause he seemed to be getting out of line, but it folded round and he showed KK. Good job I'm a complete puss.
Total: 12 hands, now playing 31,57512 hands in one blind level seems like a bit of a joke, right? Anyway to conclude, the table broke a few hands later, I got moved to an incredibly active table where I found 73o every hand, wilted down to 14k at 600/1200/200 and jammed the hijack the hand before the break with 93o, the small blind snap called and the big blind tank folded. Nice to know it wasn't getting through either. He flips over A9s. Marv. 3 on the turn to stay alive though. This table broke and I moved onto an incredibly soft table, with the chip leader to my left. First hand I found was 55 utg. Jammed 14bb and got snapped from the whale on the button, but then the big blind tank folded so definitely folded some of his outs. He turns over the
and the flop comes
. Only need to miss most of the deck now. The
pairs the turn and the
lands on the river. If I win the flip I have average stack and 30bb on the easiest table in the room so I'm going to consider myself very unfortunate not to have flipped better.
Going to come back and do it all over again when the £500 deepstack comes to town. Will be selling bits and pieces in the live staking thread nearer the time. Until then, I just need to wash off this hazy feeling I get when I play 10 hours of tournament poker and make some pairs on buyin poker. Goooooooooo.
Peace.
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