Live Donkeying

I played poker last night after a full week off. I am still "offline" from online poker because I don't have a computer I can use in order to play, and I'm not desperate enough to find an internet cafe/university library... although I'm getting pretty desperate.

I was supposed to be getting a computer from my aunt, but apparently it's crashing every 5 minutes and is basically worthless, so yeah I'm still without a CPU at the moment, which totally sucks. I'm not sure when I'll even be able to get myself back up an running, it looks like it could be another couple of weeks before I even have access to a shitty computer that I can load Poker Stars on to, and I will not be able to multi-table whatsoever because it's such a shitty machine.

I would just go ahead and buy a computer, but most of my savings are going towards a vacation in June with my girlfriend so I wont really be able to afford one until late in the summer probably... so yeah that sucks.

Last night was pretty rough, I was very card dead over the 5 hour session. I was dealt TWO pocket pairs, 77 and 44, I folded the 77 to a PF raise and re-raise. I paid $4 PF to see a flop in position with the 4s and didn't catch a set. I was dealt AQo once and I folded PF to raise, call, all-in (i was OTB and all that action was in front of me). No AKs, no AA-88s not even AJ or suited broadway cards.

It's a $40 max buy-in, I topped up for $10 once and $20 later on, so I was stuck for $70

I was dealt 10-7s a couple of times, I think I took down a small pot with top pair, and I double-barreled 10h-7h with a flush draw successfully and took it down on the turn.

The only pot I ever got all-in with - my stack was around $37, I had 8-6o OTB and limped into a 5-way pot. The flop was 6-7-8 rainbow, MP bet $6 and I pushed all-in for another $30, he called with Q-9. The turn was a 5 giving him the straight, but I luck-boxed an 8 on the river for a full-house.

Many rounds later I didn't do anything interesting, I made a couple bad folds with middle-pair out of position when I had the best hand. I folded a K-high flush draw to a raise and re-raise, I would have hit the flush, but I didn't want to put in $70 with no fold equity as a 35% fav at best.

At the end of the night I cashed out for exactly $70, so it was +/- 0, dead break-even. I wasn't very happy with my play, although when you are playing <20 hands an hour of 11-handed Nl40, you don't really get a big enough sample size to figure out what's going on and I was pretty card dead. I wasn't playing too sharp though, it wasn't the regular crowd and I was kinda annoyed at how little poker was being played and how much pointless banter and TV watching/beer drinking was going on. Plus I wasn't high at all.

It was a very so-so night, but I'm glad I got to sling some chips and get out of the house.

There was in total 1 interesting hand that I'm gonna share.

Hero is in the CO with Ks Qd and a $95 stack a couple hands after I more-than doubled-up with 8-6

EP calls $1, MP calls $1, Hero calls $1, SB folds BB checks

Flop: Qs-Js-2s, pot is $4.50

Everyone checks to me, I bet $3.50, BB calls, MP calls.

Turn: Qs-Js-2s, Jh, pot is $15

BB bets $10, MP raises to $30, Hero folds

I probably should have raised preflop, but I usually don't mind seeing a multi-way pot with broadway cards, so thats why I just limped. Obviously that was a pretty good flop for me, if someone bet into me I had an obvious big-reraise, but sadly I just got 2 callers.

When the J fell on the turn I didn't like my hand so much, I'm not drawing to the nuts, my top-pair is trumped by the JJ sitting on the board and there was lots of action in front of me, so I folded.

BB went all-in and MP called
BB- 8s-3s for the flopped flush
MP- Jc 9s for trips+FD

The river was another 2 giving MP a 1-card full-house.
I am not too upset with how I played this, although maybe I'm too results-based.