As the title implies I am going to Scotland. This will be my first trip out of the country so Melissa and I will be going to get our passports and all of that good stuff. Melissa has a really good friend named Jeff and he met a girl named Laura online and she lives in Scotland. They have been dating and seeing each other for quite some time now and they have decided to get married. He is going to move out there so they are going to have the wedding out there. Melissa is going to be a groomsman in the wedding with a kilt and the whole deal so that will be interesting. I am not in the wedding so my plan is to wear pants and not the kilt, but we will see what happens.
This is all going to be happening in October so we have time to save up. We found a really good website and for me and her and her Mom it will be around $2700.00 round trip. That is a pretty daunting figure, but when you break it down the tickets are like $500 a pop, which isn't bad. There will be more expenses such as a hotel and maybe a rental car. So I am going to be going a little cheaper than usual over the next couple of months. If I start a new job I will just let them know that one of my conditions is that I can take a week off for this and if I am still here then I will be getting another week of Vacation is September. I am guessing that we are going to board Bella some place while we are gone. We are both pretty excited about this, Melissa hasn't ever been on a plane, and I haven't been on one since coming home from the Army in 2001.
I played a session yesterday and it went pretty well, nothing overly big happened. I wound up winning about two and a half buy ins so that is good, gives me a little cushion since I am very under rolled for this level. I cracked this guy two times he had KK both time, once I had AQ and the other time I had QQ, so I guess you can say I ran pretty well. I played one hand and it was really rather weird and I am not sure if it was overly weak tight or just a smart play. I posted it on 2p2 and everyone was telling me that I played it too weak. I don't have the hand history with me since I am at work, but I will give you the low down.
The effective stacks are 100 big blinds or $10.00 at .05/.10 blinds. I raise 99 in middle position, not under the gun but the next player. It is folded to me and I make my standard raise to 4 big blinds or .40. It folds around to the big blind who smooth calls the bet and we go the flop heads up. The villain is your normal player for this level, his stats are like 30/8 or something terrible like that. While it is a small sample, he doesn't really seem to be too aggressive or overly good.
When he makes the call I am putting him on a wide hand range, but I am counting out AK, JJ, QQ, KK, AA. No one is really slow playing these types of hands. I am thinking his range consists of a lot of Broadway cards (these are cards that are used to make a Broadway straight AKQJT, so hands like KQ, QJ, QT, and AT stuff like that) some suited connectors and even some hands likes J8 or Q7. The flop comes out QJQ and he checks to me. This is a heads up pot and 98% of the time I put in a continuation bet but I decided to check here. There are multiple reasons for this, I don't like the idea of betting and having to fold to a check raise, I think a Q or a J is a large part of his range. The pot is not huge but I have decent show down value.
I don't remember what the turn is, but it is irrelevant and he checks again. This in my opinion is where I should have bet. Some people will check a Q or a J on the flop but they will usually bet the turn, he might check it thinking I will bet but I don't think this guy is that smart a player. The river is a 2 and he bets .70 into a pot of .85 and I call, he shows me 22 for a rivered full house and takes the pot. Some people are wondering why I am calling the river bet if I am not betting myself. The reason for that is because just about anyone will bet if checked down like that, I win a decent amount of pots because I call river bets when people think that I have just given up. After I posted it on the forums everyone told me that I should have just bet the flop and taken it down, I think a better play is betting the turn, but whatever.
It is important to break down hands like this and really look at each action, you can't go along thinking that if you won the hand you played it perfectly or if you lose that it was the poker gods. You won't improve as a player if you think this way.
I went to class last night and it went pretty well. I was talking to Sifu and a lot of the 3rd hour people about what happened with the card house and they let me know that if I wanted to go up there and get my money they would back me up. Sifu kind of hinted around that he would have just taken the money that night. I wasn't sure that I wanted to fight 5 or 6 guys, I know for sure that it would have been 3 but it could have been more. Vic and Kieth and some of the other guys expressed interest in going up there with me and just taking what is mine. It is very tempting but it is just not enough money to start a bunch of shit over. If it was like $500 or more I would have just handled it then. I am chalking this up to experience, don't do business with cheap assholes who have no concept of what they are doing. I googled Trent's name hoping that my blog about him would show up but it doesn't, at least I didn't see it, it would be awesome if it kept him from gaining business because of it.
Well, that is all for now. Until later.
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