5/2/06

Went to a different venue to play a cash game, low stakes 20-40 so I wanted to test my theory there. I sat and I looked around and only saw two guys I knew. One was a player who've I've played with since this whole Hold'em thing stated and another was a guy I haven't seen since the turn of the century in LA. I didn't even know he played poker, so it was good to catch up.

I bought in for half of the max buy-in, something I like to do, not really the right thing but what can you do. I sit in seat 2 with a loose player in the seat one and a loose player with is friend in seats 7 and 8. I'm playing my BBS and not hitting the flops at all or not hard enough. In one hand, someone goes all in with about 800 and I look down at 76o, and I'm thinking looks good. I call and he turns over pocket eights and I am thinking DOMINATION. The flop comes 2-J-7 and I am kinda alright, it did feel that one of my cards would come out and with the board finishing up 5-4, I lose most of my stack and rebuy again for half the max.
BBS Denied

Analysis - Overcards vs BBS is ok for me but overpairs are very hard to comeback from. I don't think any of my BBS have come back from an overpair, it would be nice but it hasn't happen yet. Pre-flop I was behind already 85/15 and was 83/17 dog after, that 7 stopped the bleeding a little bit.

After buying, I was thinking of tightening up but what fun would that be? I look down at ATo and I raise to 3xBB. I get the guy at seat 7 to call along with four others, they've been calling all my raises after that 76o hand. With the flop coming Q-J-T, I put in a feeler of 300 and everyone folds except for seat 7 who calls, chased some people out but no information gained from seat 7. An A comes out on the turn, giving me two pair and without a flush draw on board, I'm just worried about Broadway. I bet 300 again and he calls. A T comes on the river making me Tens full, and I try to trap by checking but seat 7 checks so I turn over my Boat and he checks his cards and mucks his hand.
BBS-effect served

Analysis - At that point, most people on the table, I think, labeled me Loose-Aggressive, which I am and not really. I really think the beauty of playing BBS is that players can't put you on a hand, not even a range of hands. If you play the same holding a BBS and a premium hand, players will really have a hard time figuring you out.

By the end of the night, and the table winding down, I am up around 1k for the night and still wanting to play. But when a player asks to play a "One hand Satellite," I just call the floor to ask him to cash me out. WTF?

Game Result - 1000
Running Total - 1660