Downhill and FAST

Yah, it was that kind of night...

Here's how it started:

***** Hand History for Game 2821849790 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $20 Buy-in + $2 Entry Fee Trny:16311598 Level:3 Blinds(25/50) - Tuesday, October 04, 00:44:23 EDT 2005
Table Table 14918 (Real Money)
Seat 10 is the buttonTotal number of players : 8 Seat 3: mhouseslp ( $1410 )
Seat 4: Fulldragh22 ( $735 )
Seat 1: BigHeeb91 ( $635 )
Seat 10: cbender3 ( $535 )
Seat 9: Ten9Spades ( $650 )
Seat 5: WIDOCMIKE ( $770 )
Seat 7: Four2OneDog ( $1580 )
Seat 2: bigjimm11 ( $1685 )
Trny:16311598 Level:3Blinds(25/50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to BigHeeb91 [ Jc Js ]
mhouseslp calls [50].
Fulldragh22 folds.
WIDOCMIKE calls [50].
Four2OneDog folds.
Ten9Spades folds.
cbender3 folds.
BigHeeb91 raises [225].
bigjimm11 folds.
mhouseslp folds.
WIDOCMIKE calls [200].
** Dealing Flop **
[ 9s, 4s, As ]
BigHeeb91 is all-In [385]
WIDOCMIKE calls [385].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 7h ]
** Dealing River ** [ Td ]
BigHeeb91 shows [ Jc, Js ] a pair of jacks.
WIDOCMIKE shows [ Ts, Ac ] two pairs, aces and tens.
WIDOCMIKE wins 1370 chips from the main pot with two pairs, aces and tens.
BigHeeb91 finished in eighth place.
BigHeeb91 has left the table.


Okay, sure.. it was getting to be panic time ( it was level 3) and a measily 4 x the bb raise wasn't enough to push the bb off his A-10 os. Yay.

Then, in the very next tournament:


***** Hand History for Game 2821918723 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $20 Buy-in + $2 Entry Fee Trny:16312183 Level:2 Blinds(15/30) - Tuesday, October 04, 00:56:57 EDT 2005
Table Table 14519 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 5: Rzeznik1085 ( $368 )
Seat 1: BigHeeb91 ( $770 )
Seat 7: jfg999 ( $725 )
Seat 4: jptufguy ( $1210 )
Seat 10: ActionMan70 ( $730 )
Seat 6: Mk2323 ( $167 )
Seat 8: Thucydides ( $1145 )
Seat 2: silvrbritchs ( $1230 )
Seat 3: denalipark ( $880 )
Seat 9: AlienAnt ( $775 )
Trny:16312183 Level:2
Blinds(15/30)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to BigHeeb91 [ Qh Qc ]
AlienAnt folds.
ActionMan70 folds.
BigHeeb91 raises [90].
silvrbritchs folds.
denalipark folds.
jptufguy calls [90].
Rzeznik1085 folds.
Mk2323 folds.
jfg999 folds.
Thucydides folds.
** Dealing Flop ** [ Jd, 5c, Td ]
BigHeeb91 bets [200].
jptufguy raises [400].
BigHeeb91 is all-In [480]
jptufguy calls [280].
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ad ]
** Dealing River ** [ Js ]
jptufguy shows [ 5s, 5h ] a full house, Fives full of jacks.
BigHeeb91 shows [ Qh, Qc ] two pairs, queens and jacks.
jptufguy wins 1585 chips from the main pot with a full house, Fives full of jacks.
BigHeeb91 finished in tenth place.
BigHeeb91 has left the table.

Okay, sure... I should have smelled something fishy when the guy min-raises me on the flop. Now, I have had fish do this to me with top pair after a big raise preflop, so I was hoping he was holding a jack. Whoops. Beware of the fish who don't believe in setting traps with a guy betting into him. The other day I held A-K, flopped top two when the flop came down A-K-6, and lost to a flopped set of 6s. Today, it's just an over pair losing to a flopped set.

I guess this means I'm done with PP until after Vegas. Just can't afford to take the morale hit when I lose like this. I held the nut straight today and bet every street, only to be rivered by a 10 high flush. Dan Harrington tells me that I made the right play (betting on every street 3/4 of the pot and giving the guy horrible odds to draw to the flush with two clubs on the board), but it just seems like it hurts me more than pays off. I hate leaving you with a bad beat story, so I'll end on this note. I cut out as much of the inimportant stuff as possible, but you'll get the picture. We begin right after I bluffed off my entire stack into a guy who checked the turn and the river with a J high flush. This was the largest comeback of my PP history:

***** Hand History for Game 2821631038 *****NL Texas Hold'em $20 Buy-in + $2 Entry Fee Trny:16310764 Level:1 Blinds(10/15) - Tuesday, October 04, 00:07:38 EDT 2005Table Table 14981 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the buttonTotal number of players : 10
Seat 1: BigHeeb91 ( $5 )
Trny:16310764 Level:1Blinds(10/15)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to BigHeeb91 [ Ad Jd ]
BigHeeb91 is all-In [5]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3s, Qs, 7s ]
Dealing Turn ** [ 3d ]
Dealing River ** [ Ac ]
BigHeeb91 shows [ Ad, Jd ] two pairs, aces and threes.
LrcyByTrick wins 20 chips from side pot #2 with two pairs, queens and threes.
jab2112 wins 745 chips from side pot #1 with two pairs, queens and threes.
LrcyByTrick wins 745 chips from side pot #1 with two pairs, queens and threes.
BigHeeb91 wins 25 chips from the main pot with two pairs, aces and threes.

A few hands later:

***** Hand History for Game 2821664639 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $20 Buy-in + $2 Entry Fee Trny:16310764 Level:2 Blinds(15/30) - Tuesday, October 04, 00:12:55 EDT 2005
Table Table 14981 (Real Money)
Seat 1: BigHeeb91 ( $25 )
Trny:16310764 Level:2Blinds(15/30)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to BigHeeb91 [ Kd Kh ]
BigHeeb91: i DARE you to raise everybody
cards4days: o wait let me finish this real quick you can watch from the sideline
BigHeeb91: common jackass
** Dealing Flop **
[Qd, 5d, 7d ]
** Dealing River **
xtremholdem shows [ Qc, Kc ] a pair of queens.
BigHeeb91 shows [ Kd, Kh ] a flush, king high.
xtremholdem wins 1225 chips from side pot #1 with a pair of queens.
BigHeeb91 wins 90 chips from the main pot with a flush, king high.

Anyways, I was able to pick up the blinds the next time around when I raised all-in bringing my stack up to T135. When the short stack made a move on my BB and everybody folded, I called and flopped my jack, crippling him and shipping another T150 to my stack. I went heads up outchipped 7 to 1 (approx 7,000 to 1,000). Blinds were at 150/300 so a lucky coinflip got me up to 2,000 and I started stealing blinds with all-in moves holding any ace or king. When he limped from the SB with Qs and I checked with 9-6 and the flop came 10-9-9, he lost another T2,000 putting us almost dead even. The final hand was nothing dramatic, just pocket 6s holding up against j-8 when he flopped an 8 and I turned the 3rd 6.

All in all, a horrible night. 1 win, 5 5th place or WORSE finishes.

Vegas in 2 more days... 2 more days...