5 a.m. (Dawn)
"I'm untiltable" - Sox Lover
"That's how you play A5" - Ron Lad after hitting a three outer on the river to double through Sox Lover.
Observation? Soxlover is totally tiltable.
Posted my first loss of January. Lost 80 bucks, pretty much all of it to F-train though, so, you know, I'll get it back next week.
Not much interesting to write about*, which for the Crackhouse game is interesting in itself. It was a very chill, quiet game without the usual clash of personalities. Everyone seemed to rally around the goal of tilting me, though. They tried to get me to start having my mother over to "cater the game." They tried reminding me incessantly that I folded the winning hand to Mrs. Soxlover's push. Grr arrggh. But, they eventually settled on placing a call to Vegas to have a poker blogger call me a horrible poker player on speakerphone, after being told that I was sitting right there listening.
(Yes, this happened once. Though, instead of a speakerphone, I was sitting right next to him. Yes, I am still bitter.)
The other day Karol told the Buckingham Game host that I had a Wednesday cash game, but she wouldn't recommend it.
I was frankly pretty annoyed, but tonight, even without some of our usual attendees, somewhere between my second stacking, but before the re-re-straddling portion of the evening, I remember thinking there are few people out there that I'd rather play with.
Alceste's cutting commentary, ostensibly designed to get him banned so that he can focus on his online game without fear of my killing him for not coming, Ron Lad's vain pleas for someone to "tell the blogs about this" whenever I make some crazy move, F-train's endless quest to teach me not to play results based poker (F-train: "it was a good fold even if you hit! DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHY? Dawn: Uhh...yeah...cause I didn't hit? F-train: How do you still have chips?), phantommut's patented fold his blind when it's checked to him so he "doesn't get in trouble," Mary's slow evolution to the darkside and of course, Ari's nightly "what the hell? You guys could have anything!" call with Ace high.
And you know, if you're really really lucky, Gus will give you the "you know what, I'm really tired, so I call," speech.
* Ok, I lied. Ron Lad raises from UTG + 1 to 1.50, phantom makes it $6 to go, Ari calls and when it gets back to Ron Lad, he makes the call. The flop comes T86. Ron Lad checks, phantom instantly moves all in. Now, he is an avowed reader of the blog, so I put him on a flopped straight. But Ari says "you are so full of it. I know you have nothing!" But she folds. Ron Lad, however, must have taken what she said to heart because he calls.
Phantom turns over AA.
The turn is a 3 and the river is a 3.
RonLad says: "I got there. I have a boat" and turns over 63. Off. I told him to stand in the corner and put him on timeout.
"Dawn. There is no timeout at the Crackhouse." At which point, F-train who had burned through four buy-ins with genius moves like trying to bluff me into folding and pushing into Phantom's KK with 99 decides to quit moping on the rail and rebuy. And then he cleaned everyone...and by everyone, I mean me, out.
Sad Pandarific.
"That's how you play A5" - Ron Lad after hitting a three outer on the river to double through Sox Lover.
Observation? Soxlover is totally tiltable.
Posted my first loss of January. Lost 80 bucks, pretty much all of it to F-train though, so, you know, I'll get it back next week.
Not much interesting to write about*, which for the Crackhouse game is interesting in itself. It was a very chill, quiet game without the usual clash of personalities. Everyone seemed to rally around the goal of tilting me, though. They tried to get me to start having my mother over to "cater the game." They tried reminding me incessantly that I folded the winning hand to Mrs. Soxlover's push. Grr arrggh. But, they eventually settled on placing a call to Vegas to have a poker blogger call me a horrible poker player on speakerphone, after being told that I was sitting right there listening.
(Yes, this happened once. Though, instead of a speakerphone, I was sitting right next to him. Yes, I am still bitter.)
The other day Karol told the Buckingham Game host that I had a Wednesday cash game, but she wouldn't recommend it.
I was frankly pretty annoyed, but tonight, even without some of our usual attendees, somewhere between my second stacking, but before the re-re-straddling portion of the evening, I remember thinking there are few people out there that I'd rather play with.
Alceste's cutting commentary, ostensibly designed to get him banned so that he can focus on his online game without fear of my killing him for not coming, Ron Lad's vain pleas for someone to "tell the blogs about this" whenever I make some crazy move, F-train's endless quest to teach me not to play results based poker (F-train: "it was a good fold even if you hit! DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHY? Dawn: Uhh...yeah...cause I didn't hit? F-train: How do you still have chips?), phantommut's patented fold his blind when it's checked to him so he "doesn't get in trouble," Mary's slow evolution to the darkside and of course, Ari's nightly "what the hell? You guys could have anything!" call with Ace high.
And you know, if you're really really lucky, Gus will give you the "you know what, I'm really tired, so I call," speech.
* Ok, I lied. Ron Lad raises from UTG + 1 to 1.50, phantom makes it $6 to go, Ari calls and when it gets back to Ron Lad, he makes the call. The flop comes T86. Ron Lad checks, phantom instantly moves all in. Now, he is an avowed reader of the blog, so I put him on a flopped straight. But Ari says "you are so full of it. I know you have nothing!" But she folds. Ron Lad, however, must have taken what she said to heart because he calls.
Phantom turns over AA.
The turn is a 3 and the river is a 3.
RonLad says: "I got there. I have a boat" and turns over 63. Off. I told him to stand in the corner and put him on timeout.
"Dawn. There is no timeout at the Crackhouse." At which point, F-train who had burned through four buy-ins with genius moves like trying to bluff me into folding and pushing into Phantom's KK with 99 decides to quit moping on the rail and rebuy. And then he cleaned everyone...and by everyone, I mean me, out.
Sad Pandarific.
posted by Dawn Summers at 4:57 AM
31 Comments:
Okay so maybe I'm a little tiltable.
And it was a two outer.
Hi, First time here, will visits more often.......
Wait to go Dutch!
This makes me sound a bit like David Sklansky.
Do you see why?
P.S. Don't let me down here, Chugarte...
I'm not sure why I'm being brought into this. Because you think you are smarter than Ken Jennings?
You were brought into this because you're good at playing the "if that's true then what else is true" game.
Because you think you are smarter than Ken Jennings?
Judges?
Well, not the answer that we were looking for, but I guess we'll accept that. We were looking for an answer that involved an underage prostitute.
5 a.m.? How late did the game go? And whatever happened to the whole pledge to sleep in 2007?
I was about to chastise you for not reading dawn's other blog. and then i remembered. :-(
"I got there!"
Awesome. I'm using that one tonight when going on a pair draw.
well, to be fair drizz, he was on a two pair draw.
We were looking for an answer that involved an underage prostitute.
Had I known about that story I assure you that I would have shelved the Ken Jennings joke. I considered making a "supremely ugly" joke also referencing Magriel but that also would have been passed over in favor of "thank heaven for little girls."
In his defense (and as I write this I am starting to think that there is no truth to the Sklansky/underage connection at all, aside from his creepy looks), if we assume that there was a 40% chance that she was of age and a 5% chance that he would be caught, he had odds to hit that. So he should enjoy his Sklansky Freedom.
I know it was a huge suckout, but Ari's whole "I know you have nothing" spiel before (and after) she folded took the sting out of having my Aces cracked by 36 off.
A loose image is supposed to lead to getting paid off when you have a monster hand. Stupid fundamental theorem of poker....
How much money did Ron and Mut have behind them? That call just seems really, really weird as I think about it...
Calling with bottom pair to suss out a contuation overbet from AK is my guess. I would have only expected that play from Ron against Fisch or Dawn.
I started with about twice Ron's stack, if I recall correctly. I think Ron flopped two pair and checked to me anticipating the all-in, but I frankly don't remember what the board was; I'd just decided based on pre-flop betting that it had missed him and pushed to prevent the Crackhouse suckout.
When he insta-called I knew I was too late.
Sorry, should have also explicitly added that I don't think Dawn has the correct flop here. There was an earlier hand where everyone assumed I'd flopped a straight when I held Aces (saw those a couple of times last night), and that was the flop she assigned to this hand. If Ron reads this maybe he'll comment and straighten us out.
The call makes far more sense now - although now I don't understand why Dawn was sending Ron to the corner if he called with two pair. One of these days I am just going to have to stay to the end of the night again :)
I believe Dawn is correct, the two threes came on the turn and the river.
Mary, as always I defer to you. As I said, when he called I figured I was beat and stopped paying a hell of a lot of attention.
But man, that makes the call truly bizarre.
I like mut's version better because it would vindicate my analysis of mut's strategy for Dawn's KK.
Assuming Mary and Dawn's recollections are correct, that also means I earned enough Sklansky dollars to buy a Sklansky Hummer.
And no, not that kind of hummer.
This is also a great opportunity to illustrate why I fold crappy hands in my unraised blind. Consider:
I hold 6 3 off. It checks around to me, I bet seven times big blind to steal the one blind out there. The donkey to my left check raises two times my bet. One other call. The pot has become tasty so I call too.
The flop is T 8 6. I've caught a piece, so I check, then donkey goes all in. I've put $2.25 at risk with 6 3 off and now I'm forced to...
Oh, never mind.
That should have been "$8.25 at risk" - preview is my much neglected friend.
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None of that scenario makes any sense to me, phantommut.
When limped to you, why raise instead of checking? You are trying to steal less than $2 when you are unlikely to win the hand but the potential gain on your free look at the flop is huge.
Then again, if it is so hard to get away from BPNK, maybe mucking isn't a bad idea.
It was meant to be humorous (riffing on the Ron call, see....). Another miss, I guess.
No new posts here or on alarmingnews (and i can't check clareified anymore) - no comments today from Karol or Dawn - i wonder what the odds are that they are in AC again...
high
My fault, phantommut. I realized for the first time that you reraised Ron.
It's the Crack House, what do you expect? I was ready to re-buy.
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