Crappy tournament play

Was hungover after celebrating my girls 25^th birtday the day before so I played day 1 feeling fairly bad.

Also managed to win like 2-3 hands all day. Most hands went something like I raise, flop is good for a cbet and I get raised and folds. Or raise, I hit nothing on a drawy board, I check and someone bets. Tried calling someone down in a huge pot with A-high in what I'd consider a fairly good spot but the river came a horrid card and I had to fold.

After 5 or 6 levels I was down to half my start stack or a little less and I have the big blind. UTG raises to 2.5 which he does a lot, two calls and back to me and I make the call with K3ss in spades. Flop comes QJ3 with two spades and I have one pair and the 2^nd nut flush draw. Good enough for me and I check hoping to God or any other higher power that cares to listen for a cbet. UTG bets a little over 1k which is very close to pot and UTG+1 calls, a Danish gentleman raises to 2.5k or something and I decide that with all the dead money in the pot it's worth it to get my 9-14 outs in for about 8k here despite not really thinking that I'll get them all to fold very often. Only thing I'd hate to be up against would be the nut flush draw and a strong made hand but more often then not I think people will have some other combos. If two people have sets or top 2 and I get it in 3way I'm in very ok shape too. Thus I ship and UTG and UTG +1 folds. The Danish guy thinks for a little bit, says something I couldn't really hear and shrugges. Then he calls me with top two and turn is a blank and river a Q and I'm out. I kind of hoped that he had Ts9s when he tanked but no such luck.

Board: Qs Js 3h

Dead:

equity win

Hand 0: 50.932% { QJs, QJo }

Hand 1: 49.068% { Ks3s }

That's fairly close to a flip.

Going to play a team event with Daniel, Daniel and Dan (I kind of stand out as far as names goes, don't you think?) today for 300€ per head and I guess that could be fun. Gotta get some more live experience anyway, this year I've played something like 4 tournaments and that's just not enough. I will do probably like 5-6 bigger ones and hopefully a few small ones next year and maybe go to Vegas. Feeling fairly good today after haveing breakfast and saying godbye to Micke Norinder and a couple of retired soccer players (one scored a few times back in 94). Might actually play good today.

The casino is located next to a strip club so the room where the tournament play took place looked a little funny sometimes: http://twitpic.com/7mlclw (NSFW kinda). And you should just see one of the WC's. There's pictures of naked ladies with really big boobs who looks like they've been on a diet of one broccoli/day for the last 20 years.

Anyway, overall this has been like most poker weekends, except that I had two in a row. Good food, too much to drink, reckless spending on weird stuff (I can't wait until dad sees his christmas present) and a whole lot of tilting on different things.

Might actually launch a fairly cool thing with my blog sometime in the somewhat near future. Keep on reading.