Day 19: F#$* ME!!

The night started well for me. Immediately after work two co-workers and I took the company Lakers tickets and went to the game against the Pacers, sitting in the 10th row. By far the best Lakers tickets I've had. The game was good, a lot of nice dunks by the forgotten Michigan man Maceo Baston and Kobe faked a nice injury when he missed a lay-up and the refs didn't call foul.

Kwame also had a nasty dunk...


The game was over around 10:30 pm and after the game I headed to HP to make my daily quota.

I didn't get to HP until midnight and I sat down and won about $100 pretty quickly with AQ on a Q high flop. I got up to $500 when I raised with KQ and caught a King on the flop and another on the river to beat some guy's pocket jacks. Once I got up to +$300, I should have left immediately. I thought about leaving because it was already about 2:00 AM but I stayed. Retarded.

After that it was downhill. The first hand I lost I called a $25 raise pre-flop with 7-9 suited. The flop came J-8-x and I bet $30 to try and slow any players with the jack down. However some guy went all-in with AA and I folded. I was chopped down to about $250 at a certain point when the same guy raised to $25 and everyone called. I had J-10 so I called as well. The flop came 9-J-Q. I bet $40 at a big pot and the guy went all-in again. I stupidly called and he showed KK, taking away two of my outs. I missed and he won the pot. After that I was down to about $55. I went all-in with 88 when the blind raised. He called and told me he was behind and I doubled up when he missed with whatever he had.

Not too long after that I called a small raise with As3s. The flop came AJ3 rainbow and the raiser bet out $40. I went all-in for about $100 more. The other caller asked if I was all-in and when he found out I was, he called. The raiser folded. I told the guy I had two pair and he said he was way behind. Then the 10 came on the turn and he says "now I have two pair too." Then the 10 on the river and he says "Now I have full house" and he had A-10. Good game me. It was already 3 am so I didn't want to buy back in, plus I lent $200 to the Ethiopian player that I referred to a while back.

I know to the rookies this looks like a dumb thing to do, lend money to some random guy at the casino. But this is a player who (1) I respect his poker game and (2) He basically lives at HP. In the poker world, a lot of loans are given on any night if a player is out of cash or has maxed their limit or whatever--you just have to be careful who you loan to. For example there was a guy walking around the tables last night bugging all the big stacks for $5. This guy I would not loan $200 to, lol. But this other character (I think his name is Heptu or something) should be good for it and maybe in the future this will come back to help me. I've never done this before but I know it goes on every day. There is even a player "Bill" who lends to everyone and keeps tight records of who owes him what. I'm assuming he charges interested or I don't know why he'd do it.

So (Heptu) owes me $200.

Overall I was really unhappy with myself. I easily reached my target of $200/night and surpassed it to +$350. Then I tricked it off on draws. The last hand was unlucky but that is bound to happen when I start chasing draws and other BS. It was one of those drives homes where I'm kicking myself in the ass for not leaving. But to keep it in perspective, it was a very limited loss of one buy-in and hopefully I will make it back soon. I've noticed somewhat of a pattern in my wins/losses where I have two winning sessions and one loser and this held true last night.


Summary: 3 hours (12:00a - 3:00), -200 (one table)

Monday Night:
200NL: -200
Overall: -200
Hourly: -66.67/Hr.

To date:
4/8 Limit: +201
6/12 Limit: +170
40 NL: -79
100 NL: -114
200 NL: +8821
December: +1628
Overall: +8999