lol live poker

So, while i'm visiting the homeland for the week i decieded to hit up the local casino (the old stomping grounds) and play some live poker. First off, live poker blows!! I can't believe how much i use to like it, and how much i don't now. I am use to seeing anywhere from 500-700 hands an hour playing online...lastnight, i saw about 20-25 hands an hour. If your card dead for like 100 hands or so...thats 3 or 4 F ing hours!!!!!!!! The game is soooooooooooooooo sssssslllllllloooooowwwwwwwwww its ridiculous! Anyway, i put in about an 8 hour session, and ended up making like $310, so i really shouldnt be complaining, but online poker and live poker really are 2 different games. In 8 hours of poker i hit ZERO sets, not a single F ing straight, and 2 flushes that come to mind (one of them i got paid nicely) and thats about it. Never picked up AA or KK...got QQ once and lost a $150 pot when some crazy asian picked up AK and spiked his K, and thats about it. 8 hours of small ball poker. The table was truely filled with donkeys the whole night though. It seemed like everytime one of the donkeys would bust, they'd call in a biggerr donkey. I planned on leaving around 1130 or so, but i was there until 2am, and even then, i shouldn't have left since there were still 4 MONSTER donks at this table.

My 3 fav. hands of the night. 1) its like my 5th hand or so, i pick up AK and make it 12, 4 guys call...flope comes Q88...the small blind leads for 12...LOL...im next to act and fold, the other 2 guys fold, and the small blind tables 45 offsuit HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...then proceeds to mumble something and stare me down like he just pwnd me. 1b) very next hand i pick up AQ...raise it again...dude in the small blind, now the button, calls...flop comes AQ5 (jackpot!!!!) i bet 15...he min raises to 30...i make it 80..he smooth calls (im still loving life thinking at best he has A5, but he probably doesnt even have that...turn comes a 9...i check (slick)...he bets 20...i check raise him to 100, he mucks...ty sir...keep trying to pwn the only good player at the table. 2)i wont get into all the action here, but it was a raised pot...6 guys saw the flop (standard) board came 934 rainbow....sb checked, bb bet 15...ALL OF THEM CALL THE 15...the small blind who checked, now check raises to 100..the original better tanks, and calls the 100 and hes all in...everyone else folds...get ready for this...the check raiser had 84 for middle pair...the guy who called the 100 all in...oh he had a gutshot A5 HAHAHAHAHAHA i swear to god this happened...84 held and he won like a $270 pot...needless to say by the time i left, that guy was now stuck over $600 lol.

ANyway, the moral of the story is that live poker can really be lol sometimes. Its SOOOOO much easier to pick out the donkeys and the scared money, that i feel like eventhough i'm playing insaenly tight, becuz im use to playing 9 or 12 tables at once and HAVE to play tight, there is no way i'm gonna lose money 95% of the time. I made a sick 3 bullet bluff on this guy becuz he was about as scared money as there ever was at a poker table, and i knew he didn't have the stones to call the $50 river bluff without top pair...he tabled middle pair has he folded...i showed him my chinese flush LOL. Later i made a pretty sick river call with 3rd pair for $40 when i knew this guy was betting his missed draw...half the table thought it was a sick call (which it was) the other half thought i was a huge donkey lol

Ok, enough babling, vacation is over on sunday, and its back to online poker for me then...i may be hitting up the casino one more timer while i'm here, if i do, im sure i'll have some similar stories

murph