Upside Down Night

Boy howdy, if all you had to go by in judging how to play solid poker were my results from last night, you'd get your junk cut right off over the long term. My 4-1 favorites, like KK vs. Q9s all-in pre-flop, were getting dusted off right and left, but whenever I got in a lower pair vs. a higher pair I was rivering sets like crazy. I even managed to win a short-stack desparation all-in call with 42s vs. two over pairs with a 2 on the flop and a 4 on the river, thank you very much.

After bubbling in two of the three tournaments I played and crashing out early in the third, the true crowning glory of the night came when I cleverly spent 45 minutes at a $100 NLHE ring game. I chucked a whole bunch of junk hands, stole the blinds a couple of times and whiffed on several flops, then hit TPTK on a J-high flop and got it all in against a flopped set of 4s. Hah! These 49-1 dogs are no problem, apparently, as I went runner-runner for Jacks full of Aces and doubled up instead of getting stacked.

Seriously.

Couldn't have played it worse and my reward is a profitable night putting me a step further away from what once seemed an almost inevitable return to bankroll oblivion.

I guess that's poker.

The Glory That Was the Hammer

Every once in a great while, a hand comes along that reminds me of what used to be in the poker bloggerverse.



And he shoved into me on the river.

This lead to a fairly deep run--not to the level of the two $3 MTT FTs I pulled in the last week--until I made the huge tactical error of getting AA in vs. AKo, which of course leads to a KKx flop.

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, the Dodgers Suck, You Know..

And so it's on. The unexpected Cardinals are facing down the overrated Dodgers. That's a good enough reason to stay awake and alert, but then there's the friggin' Mookie!

No guarantees on the awake or alert parts, but I am registered for the Mookie and I will play in the damn thing.

Holy shit. Torre is bringing in Jeff "Frickin'" Weaver with the bases loaded in the fourth. I guess he can't get demoralized and give up facing one batter. Like clockwork, he gives up an obvious extra base hit that is called foul and mysteriously is NEVER shown on replay. WTF? I mean they show every foul tip from five different angles and we don't get to see this one replayed even once?

So let me get this straight. If this is playing out just the way Joe Torre wants it to, does that mean he hoped to be up by only two runs if the Cardinal pitchers proved unable to get anyone out? If so, he should be fired. I'm just saying.