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The consolidation of my poker accounts continues. I've emptied a couple of Crypto skins and banked the cash. I've also been playing a bit on BetFred to try and clear a long standing deposit bonus, $250 for playing 2500 raked hands. I'm up $40 on my initial deposit, which is 40 Big Bets at the level I'm playing and I've played around 2300 raked hands so hopefully I can get that one out the way this week.
I've not done much else apart from that, the odd SNG go here, the odd 5 Card Draw session there. My SNG play is getting better, finishing ITM a fair percentage of the time. First places are being elusive though. Take, for example, a SNG I played yesterday.
It's down to the final two. My opponent has been pushing all in preflop a fair amount of the time when he was first to act. And I've been folding. The stacks at this point are in my favour, something like 8000-5000. I've got a pair of 7s. I raise. He calls. Flop is all low cards. I push. He calls with 73s. He has a pair of threes on the flop and maybe an unlikely straight draw. Needless to say, he hits another three on the turn. Basically a two outer.
So the stacks are something like 10000-3000 in my opponent's favour. I get my stack up to around 6000 over the next 10 hands and then I get a pair of nines in the hole. I raise. He re-raises, I push and he calls and shows pocket 6s. Now I don't believe in precognition but I had a feeling I wasn't going to win the hand. And PokerStars obliged by putting up a 6 on the river. So I lost that tourney thanks to my opponent hitting two 2-outers in 10 hands. Absolutely marvellous. Isn't poker a fantastically frustrating game!
Moving on, I entered an InterPoker freeroll organised by RakeTheRake. I had a poor start and was in the bottom 10% for most of the first hour. I recovered from this to get into the top thirty. Unfortunately, I had a top 5 player to my left. So, it's all folded to me in the small blind with AQs. I raise. Top5er calls. There's a queen on the flop. I bet the pot. He pushes and I make the call. Top5er has QTo so he's dominated. "Woo Hoo", you might think but as I remarked in a previous post domination is overrated and he hit his ten on the turn and I was out. At least he apologised though.
Moving on to the Bloggerment. In contrast to the InterPoker freeroll, I had a great start, hitting a set against Al Eleven, the San Jose Salmon himself, early doors. I didn't extract as much as I could have though but I was in first place. My stack took a hit thanks to Mair. She raised from early. I reraised not an insignificant amount with my Kings. Mair called and we saw the flop. Of course, an Ace fell on the flop. I had to c-bet. Mair called. I felt she had an Ace. I probably should have checked the turn and taken a free card to my two outs but I put out a small bet which Mair called, basically guaranteeing that she had the Ace. At showdown, my kings lost to AJs. I was a bit miffed as I didn't think Mair's call of my reraise was a good move. I'm a tight player, generally playing less than 10% of hands. What did she put me on? What hands does a tight reraiser has that she is ahead of?
I was having a few connection problems during the Bloggerment. By the time I'd sorted that out, I was down to about 6BB. With a few judicious all-ins I got this back up to 10BB for a bit but then was eliminated when my SB open-push with the Hammer was called by the eventual winner's AQo.
I finished off the evening playing some $0.50/$1 NLHE 6max and won about $5, almost recouping my Bloggerment entry fee.
And that, as they say, was that.
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