Rocky Cash Games

I busted out of the CT tournament in the middle of the pack, as usual. Too much PF poker -- need deeper stacks. Plus, I made one very poor play, which is a killer given stack sizes.

Close tournament table, open cash game tables. In this hand tonight, my aces hold up. Whaddyaknow. After I raised UTG, I'm just hoping everyone doesn't fold, given the rockiness of the game. When BB calls the small stack push and then calls my reraise, he's gotta have a hand. The flop is almost perfect, except for the two spades. I'm 95% sure I'm way ahead, because BB would have made it 3 bets PF with KK or QQ. If he has AQ, I'm going to get some more. If he has AK, I'm going to get it all. If he has KQ, oh well.

I get the sense that the cash games are tightening up on all sites. Or at least there's less donks from the current reload constraints. I dunno, maybe this is just my limited experience from occasionaly play. My SNG results remain steady, but the cash games seem tougher. I'm playing my same game, but the results are flat. If it weren't for the occasional hand like above, my cash game results would be very flat. Standard play, win the occasional big pot, pack it in and move to the next table. The running back plan.


The Bodog Challenge Update
Starting Bodog Bankroll on Jan. 14, 2007: $31
Bankroll at Last Blog Post: $117
Gain/Loss: $94
Current Bodog Bankroll: $211
Total SNGs played: 25 (lots of HU SNGs)
Cash Game Table-Hours: 2.5
Sports Bets: 1 (2-team parlay -- Bears -3 and Patriots +3)

I’m starting to dislike the Bodog SNG structures. The early levels are OK, but after the 50-100 level, the blinds double at each stage and therefore escalate way too fast. I’m in pushbot mode whether I’m a big or smaller stack, based on the size of the smaller stacks at the table. In one game, I was pushing with decent hands as a big stack into stacks of 6-9 BBs. Someone asked, “Speak, do you have a monkey pushing buttons for you?’’ Apparently my play set everyone on tilt, as they started calling my AQ and TT with hands like T8 and J9 out of frustration.