Been Awhile

It's been awhile since I posted anything on here. We are thinking about selling our house and buying a bigger one, so I have been busy fixing up our house (painting, flooring, etc.) Because of this I haven't played much live poker. I have been playing a little online each night on Full Tilt. I really haven't done much in regards to my bankroll there, I haven't lost anymore but I haven't gained either. Kinda stuck in neutral.

I did play in our weekly Wednesday tournament at work last night, but played very poorly and finished 14th out of 17 players. Not good. Check out the following hand and how I played it like a donk:

Level 1 (100/200 blinds) 3rd or 4th hand of the tourney so everyone is around 10K in chips (9 handed table)

UTG+1 makes is 600 to go. I look down and see AKo and re-raise and make it 2600 total. It folds to the button who folds, but one of his cards flashes towards me and I see the As. It folds back to the original raiser and he reraises another 6K.

Now I know this player very well as he is a good friend and we talk poker on a daily basis. He is known as an aggresive player so when he initially raised to 600 his range of hands that he would do this with is very wide. However my usual table image is that of solid, somewhat tight aggresive and he knows this. So when he re-raised me the extra 6K it smelled of a mid to really big pair. I kinda discounted pairs 99 and down, figuring he would just go all-in with those. So I put him on TT or higher. Having seen the As, I knew I was down one out and was not sure I wanted to at best race so early in the tournament for all my chips.

I eventually folded and showed just the Ad, and he then flipped over AKo himself. Arrgghhh, bad read on my part. Oh well.....

I was bled and blinded off and made a stand with ATo and ran into KK.

Tonight at my casino (www.big-o-casino.com, actually my house :-) ) We are having a Cinco de Mayo Tournament - $50 buy-in. So far we have 22 players signed up, so it should be pretty fun. I have hosted 3 other $50 buy-in tournaments at my house and have finished on the bubble in two of them and was first out in the other. So I am hoping to break that terrible streak and actually cash.

I will post a tournament report tomorrow.