Carbon Poker FINAL GAME!!

[Poker Orifice]

Well it's the final game of the Carbon League today - - gl everyone.. except for xxMomma (lol).

Looks like Poker Orifice just about has this season wrapped up - 40+ pts. above the rest of the field 'except' for xxMomma... so it's GAME ON!!!!!

(figures this game's happening when I have a ton of stuff on the go... needing to get to the bank before it closes for my job... eek!!.. If I get KO'd early at least I'll be able to take care of work... but of course the 4King Carbon League takes precedence.. lol)

[Logan]

GL to you too PO, but more to Momma and the Diamondbacks

Interesting final game.

1.Wild Vixens ... 446pts
2-???????
Terminators ... 367pts
Tumbleweeds ... 365pts
Diamondbacks ... 363pts

[Terminal Frost]

Good job and good luck tonite PO.

Tight race there Logan, good luck to your team!

[Poker Orifice]

ugh.. going terribly at the moment. Really HATE my table selection (damn CARBON!!!)... TONS of limpers & loose passive calling stations.
I'm down to <10bb's.. allin now with AQ.. oh.. no callers.

[Poker Orifice]

also noticing that xxMomma has a huge stack in early going... sigh
Me.. I'll turn a flush, value bet it.. get called & lose to bigger flush that they hit on the river, lol

[Poker Orifice]

Oh oh.... I just sucked out huge with Q9s.... he's mad at me. Feels kinda good to suckout. I don't have it happen often enough. Feels weird... but kinda good. Neat. Gotta try getting it in bad more often.

GOOD LUCK in the Team Race!! Looks like a really close one!

[Dan Abnormal]

AM I GONNA BITCH ABOUT THE GAME TODAY<, HEll NO I feel great and if the last two hands would of paid off Id be playing first place right now

out 15th and for once I feel I made some good calls

QQ got raised up and I pushed all in 9K of chips and lost to a ace high straight. DO YALL REALIZE 2 months ago I would of never made the call to go all in when I got raised and it will pay off up the road so this put me down to 3.4K

NExt hand TT PO pushes all in QQ I push all TT I lost ONCE AGAIN,, 2 months ago I would of folded DO i hate those beats HELL YEA but they werent bad and I made some really good calls early on. In fact one stupid fold I made early on would of put 3 people out at my table, 4 Diamonds on the flop, at the turn 3 all in pushes and I fold and the diamond falls on the river and 2 pairs takes it. Those hands still have me mixed as the other night I went all in on the same scenerio but I had the ace and the 5th suite didnt hit and I was out.

Yea I could of just rested when I had 9K and relaxed but I thought I had good hands and played them I like I thought I should and it didnt work out, but it worked out a lot better than waiting around to be blinded out. I want to play to win and if that means going out too early, then next time it could mean big money. SO WHAT IM SAYING

I FEEL DAMN GOOD ABOUT MY PLAY ON THIS FINALE AT CARBON, and compared to week 1 to week 8, I didnt really care who I bet against If I felt I had a hand and did put pressure on some players who IMO KICK ASS and they folded. I also returned some pressure on these same players if I had the goods.

I want to run with the big dogs and I consider many of you here (a lot of you here) big dogs and I had a hell of a game today and one of the few times I was really in a postion to make big moves, they didnt pay off, they will next time or the time after.

GREAT PLAYING WITH EVERYONE HERE, AND I HOPE IM STARTING TO TURN A CORNER

[Poker Orifice]

I thought you played great today AbsDan. I was actually about to send you a pm to tell you so, then decided to check out a few threads, thinking I'd find a post by you and was going to link to pm from there. Reason being -> I was quite impressed by your play today (no joke at all man.. you played great!).

That QQ hand you took a big hit on was a huge drag, QQ is good there 100% of the time imo.... then floping the set... only to have them flop a broadway straight... Argh!!... At least you were still drawing live there but didn't hit it (unforutnately.... I was cheering you on from my livingroom!!!).

The 10-10 running into my Q-Q was pretty unfortunate for you there too. Today I was actually playing ALOT tigher than usual (which I hated doing) because of the Leaderboard race for 1st place overall (if xxMomma won the game I'd need to place in 4th to take 1st overall down.... and if I went out in Top20, she had a great shot at taking down the league). I raise/folded a couple of hands I wouldn't normally ever have folded.... and folded some stuff preflop (in later levels), like AJs, 88 and a few other marginal folds where I might've been ahead or at least flipping. A fairly big hand on the final table I made another fairly big fold.. one of those WA/WB type hands (way ahead or way behind).... I'd raised with 99 from BTN, BB who was CL just 'called'. Flop was 8-7-7, BB checks.. I lead out ~2/3 pot... they called.(2-tone flop with two hearts... also the type of flop that makes for alot of draws from a hand that'd typically be just 'calling' in Blinds (with a big stack & when stacks were still deep enough to have some implied odds). Turn comes a blank '3'... and BB leads out ~1/3 pot (3,200-ish).. with ~10k behind I was in a tough spot... did he just turn a boat?.. did he flop a boat? Did he only 'call' in BB preflop to a BTN raise with a pair higher than 9-9? (I think AA.KK.QQ,JJ is reraising me there pre). What do I still beat???? A drawing hand leading out on turn, thinking my cbet was with air... like a AK, AQ, AJ, KQ, ATs, KJs hand that missed? (cuz I wouldn't have cbetting there in that spot under the conditions.... but did they know that?). Was their small'ish' turn bet a steal attempt... hoping I was really just c-betting the flop with air? .. 'OR' did they have a f'n MONSTER that they were hoping to induce a re-raise allin by me? I chose to fold..... (albeit a bit grudgingly, lol).... I really didn't beat much of anything at that point... except a bluff or a stab with a lower pkt. pr. by BB (66,55,44).... everything else had me crushed. I said, "damn... folding 10-10 here".. which meant 99 (lol).... WasherWoman laughs (< of course... always one with respect for other players on the tables, lol)...Then "Ramster' says a couple of hands later.. 'good fold' (either to make me feel good about the nitty fold... or because it was actually a good fold, lol).

Yah... so anyways... back to the TT running into the QQ. Typically I'd be shoving a wider range than I was today.... TT was for sure an ez call there (with the amount of chips in the pot you were getting great odds... and vs. my 'typical' range there... the TT was in great shape!!!.... I'd probably be shoving normally there with 88+, AK, AQ, maybe AJs < maybe not the AJ though because you had raised a UTG limper I believe... and if not mistaken I do believe you were sitting in UTG+1... and therefore I did put you on a big hand. Was just happy to see it wasn't as big as mine that time.

Anyways.... 'GG' AbsDan. Well played sir!!

[Poker Orifice]

Oh yah.... I got lucky with a bad shove while on 9bb's.. 100/200 with Q9s... I had wanted to shove over any limpers once I saw the hand & HJ (or MP) limped in... but then DarkRalph raised (but I actually was super busy at the time... & thought he'd limped in too)... figured I was up vs. two limpers.. and sitting on BTN (I think?.. or SB??.. pretty sure BTN).. I shipped the Q9s.. thinking that they'd be on too weak of hands to want to committ to the call.. seeing as they'd only 'limped' in (or so I thought.. "OOPS"). So.. I got lucky when my Q9s > AKs (same suits... eeek).
After that I had a few monsters.. .and then was totally cardead but seemed to come up with a hand when needed (usually in later levels on Carbon priv. tourneys I find you don't really need a hand.... just need to have some courage to get your chips into the middle... either over someone you figure has rooom to fold & is capable of it... or on blinds you figure won't call you down light (it's usually pretty effective... those blinds on Carbon get pretty insane & I find if you're not pushing while still sitting with a decent stack, you'll be in trouble very quickly).

Again... "GOOD GAME" today AbsDan. Its unfortunate that you only placed 15th as it wasn't an indication of how you'd played the game.