Female poker geek anonymous

So on Friday night on whim, I decide to go to Commerce. No reason, just that I've had the urge to play some live ever since Vegas. So even though I was tired, I down a big can of Red Bull and say to myself I'm good to go. And I was. After hearing the sad loss of the Dodgers to the Yankees on the radio (sigh!), I arrive at Commerce well and quickly.

Cash games are kinda slow. There's only 3 20/40 games going (two main and one must move) and it's Friday evening... Not only that, but I immediately get my seat, which means that the must move is not a very stable one. Still, I buy in and suddenly find myself in a wild and fast game.

After just a few minutes I get a tap on the shoulder. I've got this thing that after so many blackjack backoffs, whenever I'm in a casino and somebody taps me on the shoulder I get really paranoid and jerk (as in move) quickly around. Oh hai! It's Dale (numbnuts), just wanting to say hi! We chat a bit and the whole table suddenly looks at me: "Wait, we thought she was the unexperienced player, fish, what is she doing talking to the Commerce reg like they're long lost friends".

After I lose almost a rack where my AK K-high flop goes down in flames against a flush draw that hits on the river (in a preflop capped pot with 4 customers). and some other standard hands which I don't remember, the game breaks. I don't have to wait long though and get moved into a nitty main game.

Yes, but nitty game actually means, I can bluff now, hehe. I 3barrel QJs on a Khigh board (4, 2, 1 opponents per street) and take it down! Yay! I hit a full house with T7 in a 4way limped pot on the button (2pair on the flop, FH on river). And some other hands I don't wanna bore you with. I regain my losses and am actually up 200$ now.

So Dale and I go grab a beer and talk for like half an hour. We talk about hands and how online is meh and getting meh-er by the hour. But also just normal stuff. In any case I make it back just in time before they wanted to rack up my chips.

I would like to tell you more interesting stories, but there aren't really. I could tell you some tidbits that there were a lot of regs, so I wouldn't be amazed if we clocked 40hands/hour (no shenanigans at river, quick blind movement), very nice. However, we had the antics of LA's friendliest with all the card throwing and cursing, oh boy, I missed thee', fair asian ladies. I was up to being up 1 rack, before I gave some pots away, was down and finished the session up 90$. Yay 2BB! By now it's 3:30am, yaaaawn. Still, a great time was had by yours truly.

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Online poker was ok. I played some Limit Omaha 8 at Pokerstars, when I couldn't get any action at LHE and was very happy with results. I mean the games are really aggro postflop, so it's a bit like navigating a mine field. But when people call with PLO hands (89TJds, JJTTds, QQ34), it's not that hard. It's 6max, though, so I still have some post flop I need to plug a bit. So far nutpeddling has been pretty easy, though. Maybe I should change my game, heh.

Been losing / breaking even with RB+bonus at FTP, so not much to say there :P

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Completely happy about the World Cup results, obviously. Been following football A LOT. It's like that every four years, I get so invested, pfftt. The game on Saturday against Argentina is very scary. I'm praying for 2006 when we beat them in the Quarterfinals also on penalty kicks, that would be so so sweet. I remember I woke my daughter up from her nap on that occasion, because it was all just too much emotion and I needed to yell when Lehmann stopped those goals, she was just 5 months old back then hehe.