The Poker Bus

A day in the life of…

So today was another example of how extreme the swings have been getting lately. I start off today losing 1100 dollars right off the bat online. Five hundred of it was at 5/10 and the other six was at 15/30. I ended up taking a nap that lasted like 8 hours. I sleep like a baby after a loss for some reason. After I wake up I join a 5/10 short handed table and a full 10/20 table. The six handed table ended up being a good match up for me. Sometimes I have problems with them but I netted about 200 dollars. I caught a little bit of fire at the 10/20 table and made almost 550 dollars. I felt real comfortable there b/c it was a full table and I knew almost everyone at it b/c they all usually played 5/10.

So about an hour and a half after waking up I put an almost 750 dollar dent in my 1100 dollar deficet for the day. I headed to the Bellagio at about 11:30 pm and was hoping to try to break even on the day. I started out good and was within a hundred bucks of breaking even. My table was pretty good. I had at it Stanley Steamer and Lady I Would Seriously Consider Punching in the Face.

If you have ever seen Stanley Steamer before you will immediately know who I am talking about. He where sunglasses, has two ipods with him, a psp, and a sidekick. The guy needs his own fuse box. Anyways, he is always, I mean always on full blown tilt. He plays about 50% percent of his hands, the vast majority of them by just calling, and gets pissed if he has to fold. I mean if he has to fold, he is angry, literally. I’ve never seen him do good. I have no clue how this guy stays in the game.

Lady I Would Seriously Consider Punhing in the Face never wins either. She always buys in for like 200 bucks and rebuys a whole bunch. She loves calling and being a bitch. Im pretty sure Ive never seen her fold a blind to a raise or 3 bet. To be fair, she does raise her fair share of weak hands also. I cannot beat this bitch and it couldn’t bother me more.

To make an already long story a little shorter, I won $145 in this game. I was pretty disappointed. I took some nasty beats and will highlight a few:

Bitch opens for a raise, gets 3 Bet, and I four bet out of the SB with AA and they both call. Flop comes 773. I bet, bitch raises, other guy folds, I 3 bet, she 4 bets, I 5 bet, she calls. Turn is a ten and I bet and she calls. River is a King, I bet she raises. Fuck she hit her KK I think and call. No she hit her 1010!@!!! WTF? I 4 bet out of the blind and she doesnt slow down on the flop until it gets to 5 bets?!?!? This type of shit always happens to me against her. Sometimes people hit 2 outers, no problem, but only she is stupid enough to put 9 small bets in before she gets there.

Stanely Steamer open limps and I raise with 99. The flop is 10 8 2 and he check calls me. Turn is a 4 and he check calls me. River is a 3 and he checks and I check behind (I probably should have bet) and say “nines” and we flips over A5 for the back door gutterball straight!! I was astonished. I didnt say anything but the guy next to me did. He snaps off, “well this guy is raising like every pot, I was going to call him down with Ace high”. Bullshit excuse to play like a tard. First of all, I raise any pot I enter first in. Second of all, I wasn’t playing that many hands. And third of all, this guy would go literally insane if someone did that to him.

Another hand I raised 44 in one of the only spots where the both blinds weren’t guaranteed to call and get 3 bet by the button who is holding AA. The flop is KJJ. I check and he checks behind for I dont know what reason. The turn was my 4 and I check raised him and he called. Well the river was another jack conterfeiting by turned boat. I also ran KK into AA once. That always hurts.

So all in all, the fact that I still made it of there with a profit, should be a testiment of how good the game was and the fact that I was playing pretty well. I ended up down about $200 for the day, which isn’t bad at all considering all the circumstances. I’ll take it I guess.

Oh Yeah, the Bitch was up huge at one point before dropping about 1500 in chips and rebuying back in for 200. Of course none of it was to me though.