"I have to tell you that at that point I sure don't feel like no professional poker player and if I was asked at the time to give a logical explanation of my actions I would simply say, Shut up and deal."
- Shut Up and Deal, Jesse May
New Year's Eve at the Aladdin and I am getting killed playing $1-2 nl. I don't want to use this blog to complain about bad beats, so let's just say that on a couple pots I had guys drawing dead and they still got there. Meanwhile every single dealer coming in from the $2-5 nl game is saying how crazy it is, how more than half the pots are all-ins. So I feel myself going on tilt in the $1-2 game after I make a Big Move that gets snapped off and I am super stuck now and I grab my chips and take the open seat in the 2-5 game.
There's no question it's too big for my bankroll right now but at least I am not going to let myself go on tilt at this limit. NC John is in the game and I tell him I'm just going to be playing mindless automatic poker, tight multitabling internet rakeback style.
I see what is driving the game. There are two major league calling stations and one major league maniac. NC John has to reload after losing to a one-outer against one of the calling stations, when his set of jacks loses to quad sixes. But then John wins a $1,600 pot with a set of eights. Incredibly he doesn't bust anyone and there has been no new movement on our sidebet race.
I basically play two pots past the flop. The first I have A-5 in the blind and flop top two and make a couple hundred off a big ace held by a player I've seen around in local cardrooms. He doesn't recognize me in my party shirt, sunglasses, and bright red paper new year's eve hat.
The other pot I call a $15 raise with 8-9 offsuit and flop trips and win over four hundred against pocket aces. That gets me above even for the night and I leave to take part in the festivities shortly after.
Happy New Year!
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2 comments:
I don't mean to nitpick, but doesn't drawing dead mean 0%? I always thought people who said that someone "got there" on them when they were drawing dead were either (a) confused/confusing, (b) Phil Helmuth, or (c) both.
Or does it have some alternate definition, such as, you can only be saved by runner-runner strait to runner-runner trips/quads?
It's a figure of speech which is not to be taken literally. The literal truth is actually the opposite.
Sort of like when you wrote, "I don't mean to nitpick"
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