SNG Part II - Day 9

Not a good night in poker land... The first part of the evening went OK... I then went to go watch Lost with the wife and decided to come back for more fun.... bad idea... First let's look at the SNG numbers...

October SNG Breakdown
Desc	Oct 19	MTD	ITD
Games	5	41	477
1sts	0	5	58
2nds	1	8	68
3rds	1	4	52
4ths	1	5	48
5 - 7	2	12	142
8 - 10	0	6	109
ITM%	40%	41.46%	37.32%
ROI	-9.09%	26.39%	14.21%
Net$	-25	595	3690

1. 2nd - AT lost to 44
2. 4th - AKs lost to 55
3. 7th - AJ lost to A5
4. 7th - QQ lost to JT
5. 3rd - K4 lost to A7

So as you can see, I was pretty unfortunate most of the way.

One of my SNGs, I had a big lead and then I made a couple of donkey moves that ended up costing me.... oh wait... check that... I just read my post from yesterday.... please strike the previous sentence from your memory.

Unfortunately, the bad luck from SNG play carried over to ring play as I decided to get a change of pace and hit to the 5/10 tables.. Caribbean was a ghost town so I only played a few hands and then I headed over to Party. The tables I sat down at were prime for the pickings; but this happened to be one of those nights were T2s was hitting his/her flush on the river.. and other such non-sensical plays. I guess I did jinx myself after stating that I had 7 straight winning sessions.

Ok.. I have to post at least one hand that I ran into at the good ol' 5/10 tables. Please note that chenxio8 has a VPIP (i.e. basically his flop percentage) of over 65%.

***** Hand History for Game 2903305877 *****
$5/$10 Texas Hold'em - Thursday, October 20, 00:57:09 EDT 2005
Table Table 71073 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 3: xxxxxxxx ( $268 )
Seat 6: xxxxxxxx ( $270.50 )
Seat 9: chenxio8 ( $348.50 )
Seat 1: wilwonka ( $143 )
Seat 10: xxxxxxxx ( $508 )
Seat 8: xxxxxxxx ( $109 )
Seat 7: xxxxxxxx ( $250 )
Seat 2: xxxxxxxx ( $186 )
Seat 4: xxxxxxxx ( $282 )
Seat 5: xxxxxxxx ( $250 )
xxxxxxxx posts small blind [$2].
xxxxxxxx posts big blind [$5].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to wilwonka [ Js Ad ]
xxxxxxxx folds.
xxxxxxxx folds.
chenxio8 calls [$5].
xxxxxxxx folds.
wilwonka raises [$10].
xxxxxxxx folds.
xxxxxxxx folds.
xxxxxxxx folds.
xxxxxxxx folds.
chenxio8 calls [$5].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 5s, 6c, 6h ]
chenxio8 checks.
wilwonka bets [$5].
chenxio8 raises [$10].
wilwonka raises [$10].
chenxio8 raises [$10].
wilwonka calls [$5].
** Dealing Turn ** [ Td ]
chenxio8 bets [$10].
wilwonka calls [$10].
** Dealing River ** [ 2h ]
chenxio8 bets [$10].
wilwonka calls [$10].
chenxio8 shows [ 2c, Qc ] two pairs, sixes and twos.
wilwonka doesn't show [ Js, Ad ] a pair of sixes.
chenxio8 wins $104 from the main pot with two pairs, sixes and twos.

I only have myself to blame. Had I kept up the aggressiveness, he probably would have folded. To add insult to injury he rivered me on the very next hand. I did get him back a few rounds later when my flopped set was beat by a turned straight (on a 4 diamond board by the way) which ended up getting beat by a rivered boat.

All in all, I had about a $200 setback today which ain't bad .... considering...

I do believe a few shout outs are necessary:

Thanks to members of the labelled Poker Mafia for continually linking me up and chatting it up with me.. As always.. good times.. and great writing by those guys.. but I don't have to tell you that.

Also thanks to SirFWALGMan for explaing his pocket Queens dilemma.

Scurvy Dog, as always, has good stuff and further elaborated on my Cryto-mania contetion.

And finally, thanks to Mr Rini for putting my Justification post on his PokerFilter site. How cool was that to see a story that I had written there.

I have more things on my mind; but they will have to wait. No poker tonight.