Game scheduled to be 7 handed. 2 late comers, and one extremely early goer. He would be rewarded though, more than he could have ever imagined.
4-handed and a raise on the SB to $2 and everyone calls. Flop comes interesting enough with an Ace and a King. Lead out by Lesrach and flat from preflop raiser Armuk. Turn is another Ace and Lesrach bets out again, to which Armuk flats once more. River is what is known as a blank and Lesrach bets out $29. Armuk raises $30 and surprisingly, Lesrach folds. Armuk flips over Quads and this is only the beginning of things to come for our good friend Armuk. Oh yeah, this was the very first hand of the night.
Limp in middle position is met by a raise to 3.50 by Srich, called by BB Kime and Armuk. Flop comes 2 10 3 with 2 diamonds. Kime leads out for $6 and Armuk flats. Srich ponders a bit before reraising $15 more. Kime folds and Armuk thinks a while and then calls. Turn is a diamond and Armuk shoves all in. Its more than $80 more for Srich and he reluctantly folds what seemed to be an overpair at the very least. In this situations where a player has that sick feeling that they are beat, there are very few inidividuals with the will power to lay down monsters. Kudos to Srich for being that player, even if it was for one hand only.
Preflop raise from Lesrach to $2.50 and Armuk flats once more and reraise to $10 by Natamgon. Both players call and they see a flop of 7 8 9 with two spades. Check by Lesrach and lead out by Armuk for $10, which is promptly reraised to $20 by Natamgon. Armuk quickly announces putting preflop reraiser all-in for all he has. Natamgon tells Kime to ready the bounty on his head if he is a beat and flips over bullets. Armuk flips over 10 6 for a straight and Natamgon is drawing thin. A sliver of hope on the turn as the board pairs 7 but an 8 on the river drops him back to earth and Armuk takes down a nice pot. Once again the question of how strong Aces are is raised, especially on a dangerous looking board as this. We would all like to think that we could get away from this, but only time will tell how we play the strongest preflop hand in holdem.
Short-stack Jushin, a common place for him early in most sessions raises in the CO and is reraised by new player Cirque on the button. Folded back to Jushin who cannot wait to get it in with Jacks. Insta-call by Cirque with bullets and to add insult to injury flops and Ace and seals the deal. Believe it or not, Aces do hold sometimes. can you say rebuy?
Massive multi-limp pot late in the session and short-stack Jushin pushes all-in $30-ish. Folded back to Armuk who is feeling invincible of late and calls with deuces and is ahead of Q9s. Duck on the flop and its all over for Jushin who rebuys 20 minutes later.
Thanks again for reading guys. If any of the attendees have any hand they want to include or a hand that I stated incorrectly, let me know.
Good luck on the felt!
Friday, December 14, 2007
Monday, December 10, 2007
I've got Aces...no good?
What a night. The perfect example of why odds are just numbers, and it's the actual cards that decide the winners.
Unfortunately, due to extreme stupidity on my part, the transcript of details on the hands this night have been lost forever. All is not lost however. The team will try to reconstruct what happened on this very special of nights.
Lots of big cards dealt preflop.
Lots of beats.
No, Aces are no good tonight.
Resident LAG raises preflop. The chief TAG reraises in the BB and LAG obliges by calling after it's folded to him. LAG has position as the hand flops. Everyone oohs as the flop reveals to be QQQ. TAG checks and LAG bets out. TAG proceeds to check-raise all in. LAG is covered, and instant calls. TAG senses he's beat and turns over his Aces. LAG then turns over his Queen the nuts, accompanied by an Ace kicker to wipe the remaining sliver of hope from the TAG.
Tricky bastard(TB) wakes up with Aces preflop and raises. Two seats down, he gets reraised by generic tight player(GTP). TB smoothcalls and blanches as a King hits the flop. Betting out gets a reraise from GTP. All in, TB turns over his Aces. GTP turns over his Kings to confirm TB's fears. Turn and River are no help, and GTP takes the pot down.
Maniac catches KK and limps to find LAG with AA. Raise, re-raise and all-in take their course and once again, Aces find themselves against Kings. A deal is struck to run the board twice, and this time, the aces hold spectacularly. An ace on the first flop sets the standard, and another ace falls on the second board to seal Maniac's fate. LAG doubles up and stacks his chips with glee.
Revenge is sweet though. Not an hour through, and Maniac calls a raise from UTG with K5s. A reraise from LAG kicks everyone else out. Thirsty for blood, Maniac calls the raise. Flop gives Maniac 2 pair and the stage is set. Maniac check raises all in and gets a call. TPTK is no good and Maniac doubles up through LAG.
In a limped pot, 6 players glance at a 2 K 4 flop with 2 spades. Tricky bastard leads out for 5 and is called by Generic Tight Player and New Aggro. Turn is the most beautiful card in a deck, the Ace of Spades. TB leads out again for 10. GTP seems to reluctantly call, but does so anyway. NA thinks a while and raises 15 more for a total of 25. TB seems to be doing some computation in his head and after a long time reraises 15 more. NA glances at TB and reraises allin, TB instacalls and NA looks visibly worried. TB turns over KT of spades for the 2nd nuts and NA has a wheel draw and is drawing dead.
Funky-Loose-Tight-Aggresive(FLTA) gets a play with Maniac in the last few hands of the night, pitting his straight/flush draw against top pair. FLTA agrees to run it thrice after his all in call on the flop. The first two runs see Maniac's hand holding up, but hope springs eternal as the final turn gives FLTA his straight.
Unfortunately, due to extreme stupidity on my part, the transcript of details on the hands this night have been lost forever. All is not lost however. The team will try to reconstruct what happened on this very special of nights.
Lots of big cards dealt preflop.
Lots of beats.
No, Aces are no good tonight.
Resident LAG raises preflop. The chief TAG reraises in the BB and LAG obliges by calling after it's folded to him. LAG has position as the hand flops. Everyone oohs as the flop reveals to be QQQ. TAG checks and LAG bets out. TAG proceeds to check-raise all in. LAG is covered, and instant calls. TAG senses he's beat and turns over his Aces. LAG then turns over his Queen the nuts, accompanied by an Ace kicker to wipe the remaining sliver of hope from the TAG.
Tricky bastard(TB) wakes up with Aces preflop and raises. Two seats down, he gets reraised by generic tight player(GTP). TB smoothcalls and blanches as a King hits the flop. Betting out gets a reraise from GTP. All in, TB turns over his Aces. GTP turns over his Kings to confirm TB's fears. Turn and River are no help, and GTP takes the pot down.
Maniac catches KK and limps to find LAG with AA. Raise, re-raise and all-in take their course and once again, Aces find themselves against Kings. A deal is struck to run the board twice, and this time, the aces hold spectacularly. An ace on the first flop sets the standard, and another ace falls on the second board to seal Maniac's fate. LAG doubles up and stacks his chips with glee.
Revenge is sweet though. Not an hour through, and Maniac calls a raise from UTG with K5s. A reraise from LAG kicks everyone else out. Thirsty for blood, Maniac calls the raise. Flop gives Maniac 2 pair and the stage is set. Maniac check raises all in and gets a call. TPTK is no good and Maniac doubles up through LAG.
In a limped pot, 6 players glance at a 2 K 4 flop with 2 spades. Tricky bastard leads out for 5 and is called by Generic Tight Player and New Aggro. Turn is the most beautiful card in a deck, the Ace of Spades. TB leads out again for 10. GTP seems to reluctantly call, but does so anyway. NA thinks a while and raises 15 more for a total of 25. TB seems to be doing some computation in his head and after a long time reraises 15 more. NA glances at TB and reraises allin, TB instacalls and NA looks visibly worried. TB turns over KT of spades for the 2nd nuts and NA has a wheel draw and is drawing dead.
Funky-Loose-Tight-Aggresive(FLTA) gets a play with Maniac in the last few hands of the night, pitting his straight/flush draw against top pair. FLTA agrees to run it thrice after his all in call on the flop. The first two runs see Maniac's hand holding up, but hope springs eternal as the final turn gives FLTA his straight.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Kings rule! (Simei 5/12/2007)
The game started with the usual suspects, 7 of them to be exact. 5 new players an hour later, and all but one were all able to get a hand or two in. First two hands saw Renpecs flop back to back sets and get value for both. His image definitely helped in maximizing his winnings. As with most regulars in the game, history if a very strong factor and will continue to be so until everyone suffers random amnesia attacks.
A min raise preflop by Armuk to a dollar was reraised by Gansch to 3.50 more, four flat calls later and its another multi-way pot preflop. The first 3 cards were a rainbow A J Q. After Armuk bets out 5 bucks, Gansch once again reraises to 15. Folding back to Armuk, he calls, and heads-up to the turn. A harmless 5 on the turn and Armuk checks to Gansch who really likes his hand and bets out 25, which Armuk calls. An even more harmless 6 lands on the river and once checked over to Gansch who bets an odd 15. Obviously a value bet, Armuk reluctantly calls and quickly flips over Kings. Gansch shows Top and bottom pair, AJ. Hand played out normally, although one could question the slowplay of the Kings preflop led to its downfall. Slowplaying a hand does have its merits, but sometimes aggression is your friend. No reason to play postflop when a massive raise preflop will get the job done, as the next hand illustrates.
After raising preflop the last hand to 5, Lesrach raises again with the same amount. Jushin smells a move and reraises to 15. Folded back to Lesrach who rereraises to 45. Jushin instafolds, and gets rewarded by being shown he made a good laydown. Lesrach tables Kings and the whole table acknowledges the strong play. I don't, well actually yeah, it's a strong play. But Lesrach is still a donkey. Dont ask me why. Lets just say I have a read.
Armuk flops a monster a couple of hands later with KJ and unfortunately does not get any action. That tends to happen when you flop full houses like that. Unless someone has another draw, they just fall in the realm of "awwww, thats amazing!" Doesnt that just bite when that happens?
In a limped pot that saw the half of Singapore participate, the flop comes out A J 5 with two hearts. Kime leads out for 3 in early position and gets called in 2 spots. Gansch raises it to 12.50. Nyar reraises to 25 and Kime and another Armuk fold. Vogii reraises all in for another 35. Gansch folds and Nyar seems to reluctantly call and asks if Vogii is on a flush draw. He flips over middle set of Jacks and Nyar is almost drawing dead with A3. An interesting hand from the several standpoints: First was the limp in late position with Jacks, can either be considered incredibly tight or just plain passive. The reraises in several spots were obviously plays by weaker aces, and the oddest or most ironic thing about it was the weakest ace was what was left to face the mid set.
A raise from early position player Gansch to 3.50 had 4 callers and they all saw a flop of 4 Q T with 2 spades. Gansch leads out on the flop with 11 and is check raised all in by Jushin who puts in additional 34 for Gansch to call. Almost instantly he calls and flips over KQ offsuit for top pair. Jushin turns over A4 of spades and is ahead on the flop. Bricks on the turn and river and Jushin sits out after busting his first buyin. Important to note here was the instacall of Gansch who seemingly dismisses a stronger Queen or any stronger hand. Speaking to him about the hand, he tells me that his read prompted the call and nothing else. Something you can never fault Gansch is that he goes with his read and he sticks with it. No regrets, no second thoughts. You have to admire that in a poker player. Too many a times do we hear ourselves going, "I know you have nothing, but Im folding" Gansch is one of the few players that actually considers and executes plays based solely on reads. But no matter what I may say about him, Jushin still thinks it was a donk call. The man is entitled to his opinion, especially when its correct.
A bit later, an aggressive Nyar raises preflop to 5 and get 5 callers. Flop comes 4 J 3 with 2 spades. Checked to Kime who bets out 15. Flat call by SB Armuk and Nyar pushes all-in having both Kime and Armuk covered. Kime instacalls and Armuk folds after much thought. 2 and 5 on the turn and river respectively. Kime flips over 34 for two pair and Nyar mucks AJ. Interesting aspect about the hand was the shove by Nyar to isolate to at least one player. As he mentions after the game, he knows that one person has a flush draw, which Armuk had actually, and one had top pair. Unfortunately, he ran into two pair. But this will not happen often enough to make the shove unprofitable.
Biggest hand of the night was a doozie. Nyar raises preflop to 6.50 and is minraised by Renpecs to 13. Flat call by Lesrach and Ejoy minraises to 26. Folded back to Nyar who pushes allin, having everyone in the table covered. Both Ejoy and Renpecs call and they flip rigged hands, typical of those seen in Poker Shows. AA for Nyar, KK for Ejoy and JJ for Renpecs. Nyar tosses around the idea of running the entire board multiple times and after a brief discussion, is dismissed by the other two. A king on the turn sends a massive 300 pot towards Ejoy. One could ask why Renpecs called the allin when it seemed that his pair was beat. He was not necessarily pot committed as he still had more than 80 behind. But anyone who know Renpecs, reasoning to him on this issue is close to pointless. Nyar suggesting the running of boards, even being a massive favorite, shows that a continuing trend of poker players. They have seen enough beats to recognize good business sense and just cut losses, because gambling with one pair against two other pairs with 5 cards to come is simply to risky.
One hand saw one of the biggest raises preflop, to 8 buy Nyar. Called in 4 positions, they all saw a flop of 4 J 7 with 2 spades. Nyar bets 13 on the turn and folded back to SB Armuk who calls. A Ten of clubs on the turn and Armuk checks to Nyar who bets 20, which Armuk calls. River is a Queen of clubs and Armuk once again checks to Nyar who thinks for a while and bets out 30. Armuk considers the possibility of runner-runner flush but eventually calls with 89 and a turned straight. Nyar tables AA, and the best hand preflop in NLHE gets cracked once again.
These are some of the highlights of the night. If any of the participants feel I left any important hands out, please let me know and Ill add them as soon as I can.
Thanks for reading guys and good luck at the tables
A min raise preflop by Armuk to a dollar was reraised by Gansch to 3.50 more, four flat calls later and its another multi-way pot preflop. The first 3 cards were a rainbow A J Q. After Armuk bets out 5 bucks, Gansch once again reraises to 15. Folding back to Armuk, he calls, and heads-up to the turn. A harmless 5 on the turn and Armuk checks to Gansch who really likes his hand and bets out 25, which Armuk calls. An even more harmless 6 lands on the river and once checked over to Gansch who bets an odd 15. Obviously a value bet, Armuk reluctantly calls and quickly flips over Kings. Gansch shows Top and bottom pair, AJ. Hand played out normally, although one could question the slowplay of the Kings preflop led to its downfall. Slowplaying a hand does have its merits, but sometimes aggression is your friend. No reason to play postflop when a massive raise preflop will get the job done, as the next hand illustrates.
After raising preflop the last hand to 5, Lesrach raises again with the same amount. Jushin smells a move and reraises to 15. Folded back to Lesrach who rereraises to 45. Jushin instafolds, and gets rewarded by being shown he made a good laydown. Lesrach tables Kings and the whole table acknowledges the strong play. I don't, well actually yeah, it's a strong play. But Lesrach is still a donkey. Dont ask me why. Lets just say I have a read.
Armuk flops a monster a couple of hands later with KJ and unfortunately does not get any action. That tends to happen when you flop full houses like that. Unless someone has another draw, they just fall in the realm of "awwww, thats amazing!" Doesnt that just bite when that happens?
In a limped pot that saw the half of Singapore participate, the flop comes out A J 5 with two hearts. Kime leads out for 3 in early position and gets called in 2 spots. Gansch raises it to 12.50. Nyar reraises to 25 and Kime and another Armuk fold. Vogii reraises all in for another 35. Gansch folds and Nyar seems to reluctantly call and asks if Vogii is on a flush draw. He flips over middle set of Jacks and Nyar is almost drawing dead with A3. An interesting hand from the several standpoints: First was the limp in late position with Jacks, can either be considered incredibly tight or just plain passive. The reraises in several spots were obviously plays by weaker aces, and the oddest or most ironic thing about it was the weakest ace was what was left to face the mid set.
A raise from early position player Gansch to 3.50 had 4 callers and they all saw a flop of 4 Q T with 2 spades. Gansch leads out on the flop with 11 and is check raised all in by Jushin who puts in additional 34 for Gansch to call. Almost instantly he calls and flips over KQ offsuit for top pair. Jushin turns over A4 of spades and is ahead on the flop. Bricks on the turn and river and Jushin sits out after busting his first buyin. Important to note here was the instacall of Gansch who seemingly dismisses a stronger Queen or any stronger hand. Speaking to him about the hand, he tells me that his read prompted the call and nothing else. Something you can never fault Gansch is that he goes with his read and he sticks with it. No regrets, no second thoughts. You have to admire that in a poker player. Too many a times do we hear ourselves going, "I know you have nothing, but Im folding" Gansch is one of the few players that actually considers and executes plays based solely on reads. But no matter what I may say about him, Jushin still thinks it was a donk call. The man is entitled to his opinion, especially when its correct.
A bit later, an aggressive Nyar raises preflop to 5 and get 5 callers. Flop comes 4 J 3 with 2 spades. Checked to Kime who bets out 15. Flat call by SB Armuk and Nyar pushes all-in having both Kime and Armuk covered. Kime instacalls and Armuk folds after much thought. 2 and 5 on the turn and river respectively. Kime flips over 34 for two pair and Nyar mucks AJ. Interesting aspect about the hand was the shove by Nyar to isolate to at least one player. As he mentions after the game, he knows that one person has a flush draw, which Armuk had actually, and one had top pair. Unfortunately, he ran into two pair. But this will not happen often enough to make the shove unprofitable.
Biggest hand of the night was a doozie. Nyar raises preflop to 6.50 and is minraised by Renpecs to 13. Flat call by Lesrach and Ejoy minraises to 26. Folded back to Nyar who pushes allin, having everyone in the table covered. Both Ejoy and Renpecs call and they flip rigged hands, typical of those seen in Poker Shows. AA for Nyar, KK for Ejoy and JJ for Renpecs. Nyar tosses around the idea of running the entire board multiple times and after a brief discussion, is dismissed by the other two. A king on the turn sends a massive 300 pot towards Ejoy. One could ask why Renpecs called the allin when it seemed that his pair was beat. He was not necessarily pot committed as he still had more than 80 behind. But anyone who know Renpecs, reasoning to him on this issue is close to pointless. Nyar suggesting the running of boards, even being a massive favorite, shows that a continuing trend of poker players. They have seen enough beats to recognize good business sense and just cut losses, because gambling with one pair against two other pairs with 5 cards to come is simply to risky.
One hand saw one of the biggest raises preflop, to 8 buy Nyar. Called in 4 positions, they all saw a flop of 4 J 7 with 2 spades. Nyar bets 13 on the turn and folded back to SB Armuk who calls. A Ten of clubs on the turn and Armuk checks to Nyar who bets 20, which Armuk calls. River is a Queen of clubs and Armuk once again checks to Nyar who thinks for a while and bets out 30. Armuk considers the possibility of runner-runner flush but eventually calls with 89 and a turned straight. Nyar tables AA, and the best hand preflop in NLHE gets cracked once again.
These are some of the highlights of the night. If any of the participants feel I left any important hands out, please let me know and Ill add them as soon as I can.
Thanks for reading guys and good luck at the tables
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Preflop
Hi guys, welcome to the very first post, of this, the official source of all the information on our various home games and the degenerates that lose money in them.
My main intention for making a blog for each game was to provide some important insight into people’s style and perhaps help them and others improve. Oh yeah, its also nice to call them a donk when they obviously made the wrong play. That’s right, im talking to you deadaxiom, what the hell are you thinking folding queens preflop? Donkey!
Another cool thing I plan to post is some detailed interviews on all our players. We may never be interviewed by CardPlayer or Bluff magazine so this could be the closest thing we get to defamation and misfortune.
If you guys have any suggestions on any other cool thing to write about, please let me know. Also, if you guys feel like posting your own little articles, send them to me. Ill be sure to post them and take the credit.
First game to be blogged will be tonight and I expect it the chips to be flying. There’s gonna be blood. There’s gonna be some kind words exchanged. There’s gonna me a million dollar pot. Ok, there wont be a million dollar pot, but there will be various bodily fluids spilled.
Maybe a little introduction is in order. Im sure I covered this in my other blog, but what the hell, I like typing and you're bored. Why else would you be reading this garbage? I came to Singapore more than a year ago and had a massive case of a poker itch. Thank God that Betfair was in town and I was saved. Watching big named pros John Phan, Tony G and Gus Hansen really made my week. During that event, I met SillyCow, who invited me to a 2/5 $500 game and promptly lost several times over. I focused on improving my game and played a lot online. Joined PokerXFactor and it helped my tournament play tremendously. Cashed in some ok tournaments and built a nice bankroll for myself. Then I chanced upon a link to a Singaporean poker site headed by DM101. I could see how desperate he was for someone to talk poker with because he were talking on Yahoo Messenger just an hour after we chatted on the forum. Then the site grew and we were invited to several games. Finally, a game at Simei would spark be the beginning of a group of players whose lives would suddenly turn upside down when they meet a strange visitor from outer space that gave them the supernatural power to turn spoons into forks. Ok, the last part didn’t happen, but you got to admit, I must be smoking something gooood to be coming up with shit like this.
And this is where we stand at the moment. At a time where we struggled to get 6 people to come and play, we now have a waiting list. At a time when the biggest profit of the night was 30 bucks, now this is just a preflop re-raise. At a time when tight were right, now loose aggressive players run over the table. And where there was a once group of poker players, now stands a group of friends who have the supernatural power to turn ball pens into pencils which turn into forks whenever they are hit by sunlight. Wow, this shit is good!
Check back tomorrow for our first official game recaps!
Thanks for reading and good luck at the tables!
My main intention for making a blog for each game was to provide some important insight into people’s style and perhaps help them and others improve. Oh yeah, its also nice to call them a donk when they obviously made the wrong play. That’s right, im talking to you deadaxiom, what the hell are you thinking folding queens preflop? Donkey!
Another cool thing I plan to post is some detailed interviews on all our players. We may never be interviewed by CardPlayer or Bluff magazine so this could be the closest thing we get to defamation and misfortune.
If you guys have any suggestions on any other cool thing to write about, please let me know. Also, if you guys feel like posting your own little articles, send them to me. Ill be sure to post them and take the credit.
First game to be blogged will be tonight and I expect it the chips to be flying. There’s gonna be blood. There’s gonna be some kind words exchanged. There’s gonna me a million dollar pot. Ok, there wont be a million dollar pot, but there will be various bodily fluids spilled.
Maybe a little introduction is in order. Im sure I covered this in my other blog, but what the hell, I like typing and you're bored. Why else would you be reading this garbage? I came to Singapore more than a year ago and had a massive case of a poker itch. Thank God that Betfair was in town and I was saved. Watching big named pros John Phan, Tony G and Gus Hansen really made my week. During that event, I met SillyCow, who invited me to a 2/5 $500 game and promptly lost several times over. I focused on improving my game and played a lot online. Joined PokerXFactor and it helped my tournament play tremendously. Cashed in some ok tournaments and built a nice bankroll for myself. Then I chanced upon a link to a Singaporean poker site headed by DM101. I could see how desperate he was for someone to talk poker with because he were talking on Yahoo Messenger just an hour after we chatted on the forum. Then the site grew and we were invited to several games. Finally, a game at Simei would spark be the beginning of a group of players whose lives would suddenly turn upside down when they meet a strange visitor from outer space that gave them the supernatural power to turn spoons into forks. Ok, the last part didn’t happen, but you got to admit, I must be smoking something gooood to be coming up with shit like this.
And this is where we stand at the moment. At a time where we struggled to get 6 people to come and play, we now have a waiting list. At a time when the biggest profit of the night was 30 bucks, now this is just a preflop re-raise. At a time when tight were right, now loose aggressive players run over the table. And where there was a once group of poker players, now stands a group of friends who have the supernatural power to turn ball pens into pencils which turn into forks whenever they are hit by sunlight. Wow, this shit is good!
Check back tomorrow for our first official game recaps!
Thanks for reading and good luck at the tables!
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