et tu, 2-7 triple low draw?

man, wtf...

last night was fucked.. UP.

ok so i join the 109$ HORSE again about 45 minutes before it starts. by the time its running, ive made back the buyin playing 3/6 2-7 triple draw, so im basically freerolling.

then the tourn starts. first thing i notice, there are 47 people in it. this is not the comfy little field i hoped for. next thing i notice, the table im at is packed with total rockstars. eg: perljammed, who ranks 99.99% in tourn rankings on stars.

so im already uneasy. whatever tho, i play my game and by the time the first break ends, im chip leader. not only because im catching acceptable cards but because everyone at the table is pretty much either a total donator or a NLHE rockstar and playing like complete chimps game but LHE. so im really stacking up in razz, stud, etc.

then things get.. complicated.


first hand after break i get dealt KK in LHE. awesome. i raise, in the CO. i get 2 callers; both blinds. donk the flop QJ4 flop, SB folds, BB calls. 9 turn, donk, and get reraised by BB. what.. the.. fuck? QJ? J9? i 3 bet because i have outs, and because its standard dbag procedure to CR the turn with *any* piece of the flop, putting me on AK or a pocketpair, and the BB was indeed a monsterous dbag. he 4bets and im like, christ, ok fine, so i call, and cc a brick river.

he flips T8o. yes, he peeled HU with a gutshot.

and there goes my chip lead. now im in 6th place (still in the money), but the problem is that these total jokes are stacking off to eachother like crazy, and im not in a position to capitolize on this until i end up in the following exchange in razz:

a K showing brings in, i raise next with 42 A. folded back to the K, who calls.

4th st brings K4 to my right, i get a 7 for a smooth seven low draw. K4 *bets*.

really? ...really?? i figured he just wanted to stack off and go home so we get in a RR war.

5th st: xxK49 42 A79

again, i RR, and we get into yet another war. i get him all in (hes covered), but im left with about 1/4th of my original stack behind.

6th st: xxK498 42 A79J

uh oh... you gotta be fucking kidding.

thats right folks, i score a K on 7th and nuclear douchebag nails a 6 and shows a 5A in the hole for a 8 low to my whatever.

i play close to the vest and manage to chip up briefly in stud, then i flop top two on a QT8 (two spades) board with a backdoor low, end up busting against 88xx with no low coming.

just totally gruesome insane bad play all around, hands i werent even involved in were tilting me the whole tourn.

armageddon occured shortly thereafter courtesy of the 5/10 2-7 triple draw game, where i lost 300$ in about an hour largely due to me being a totally ignorant fuckwit as to basic strat. going to read up more on it today, hopefully that should help.

im also not ready to give up on the horse tourns; im going to take another stab or two at it i guess but i promised God last night i would cash out 500$ on principle, and so i will tonight.

i do plan on playing out of my roll in the cash HORSE games tho, i seem to have a sustainable edge there, but i will also be realllllly looking for holes in my game for the next few days...

anyway, to cap things off, i lost a buyin at .50/1 PLO on prima, which suuuuucked since i was up half a BI when nbugu joined and proceed to stack me off in a major way when i stubbornly refused to give him credit for his top set, assuming he was going to war with a draw.

dumb read = no chips. selah.

hope tonight goes better.