Deal Or No Deal.

The first part of this blog is going to go over my wins and loses so far the month. Then I'm going to go over a certain situation that came up in my last session.

I've played 2 tournaments, and 2 cash games sense my last blog.

The first tournament was a 10 dollar re buy. It had a nice long structure thanks to me. I played really well. But, I got myself into this one situation which I think is worth noting. I had the nut flush draw and I was pushed all in on the flop and I was getting 4 to 1 on my money. Mathematically it would be impossible to fold. I knew though that I was the best player at the table and I would really hate to call all my chips off with just a draw. I made the call and someone else also had a flush draw so 2 of my outs were dead. I sucked out, and ended up winning the tournament. First place got 190. I profited 140 sense I spent 50 dollars in re buys So +140.

Later that night I played a small cash game. I was really tired and played like shit. I luckily only lost 5 bucks though I prolly should have lost more. -5. My next cash game I made +7 dollars. I felt like I should have made more. I was playing too loose for an 8 handed game. The table was crazy loose. I played the opposite way I was suppose to. I should have played tighter and waited for one of the many idiots at the table to dump there chips off to me.It seemed like there was never a pot less then 30 dollars. Which is kind of crazy for a 25-50 game. Once it got to around 5 handed I started doing very well. Though the last like 30 minutes I think I played badly cause I knew we were cashing out soon and I didn't really want to play a big pot. It put me in a position where I was bluffed out of this one pot. Though I was really in a position where I couldn't call. At the end though I was at +7. I also played a tourney where I broke even in.


So according to my last blog I was down 108 for the year so
-108
+140
-5
+7

So According to my math I'm up +32 for the year


Yesterday we played a 50 dollar freeze out tournament. The biggest tournament buy in we have ever done by far. (though are cash games have got in much larger). Only 7 players played. The blinds started out really small compared to the blinds and the blinds went up slowly (thanks to me and mike). I started out playing fairly aggressive. Normally I would play really tight in the beginning cause I can easily sit back and wait for a hand with out any risk of blinding myself to debt. The reason I didn't though was cause every one was just sitting around waiting for hands. I thought this would be a good point to play aggressive and hopefully accumulate some chips. Early on this was working very well. Though eventually I got myself into some dicey situations where I made a few bad reads against Jared and got short stacked. But, I'm a short stack ninja and play to win (oh and sucked out once) and ended up heads up.

Me and Mike played heads up for nearly 2 hours. First place got 300 and second got 50. At one point Mike had a 2 to 1 chip lead on me and he offered me 100 and he would get 250. Now I've been ridiculed for not taking this deal. I'm well aware that mike is the better heads up player but to be honest I wasn't playing badly. It wasn't like I got crazy lucky against mike we were jabbing back and forth and there was no way mike was that big of a favorite. I was one double up away from being about dead even in chips. If that would have happened I think I would have been the favorite to win. Not because I'm a better player then mike but because, my confidence would have been threw the roof and mike would have been super pissed that he hadn't been able to finish me off. There is so many other reasons why I didn't take the deal also.

The first reason is cause I hate making deals. (though not taking deals has fucked me over twice) I feel it just doesn't work with my competitive nature. The second reason was by mike offering me a deal when he had a chip lead it kept the idea in my mind that I could still win this. Also I wanted to prove to myself and to everyone else that mike isn't THAT much better then me. I well aware that mike is a better player then me. Everyone thinks though that I can't even hold my own against mike. I wanted to prove them wrong by coming from behind and beating mike. And I didn't. Even as I write this I'm going back and forth in my mind about if I should have made a deal or not. Near the end the blinds were about to go up. Which would have meant mikes chip advantage would give him more of an advantage but also it would have meant there would have been less skill involved and would have given me a larger chance to win. Another thing to take into acount is I was becoming tired and I was losing my concentration near the end. So the deal may have been smart Looking back I'm glad I didn't take the deal. I would have just laid in bed going damn I wonder what would have happened had I not made a deal. And I'm positive had I won nobody would have asked hey "Thomas Why didn't you take that deal?"

Damn it seems every post I make is gigantic. And the worst part is I still have more to talk about. But it's completely un related to poker. (I'm the degenerate gambler I have to talk about all the other shit I gamble on also.) I'd just like to say thank you colts you have made me 50 dollars. Also I might have a weight loss bet I'd have to lose 50 pounds in 6 months. I really think I could do it. The bet is only for a 100 bucks. Which if it was for 150 I think I would prolly be more convinced to do it. I think this blog is getting too long, So I think I'll end it now. Till Next time.

-The Degenerate Gambler-