Quick Above Malibu Recap

True to my word, I went into loose-aggressive mode at Above Malibu last night, after standing on the fire escape to watch the lunar eclipse. While out there we also spied some chick in the building across the alley giving a guy a hummer, made all the more interesting by the fact that she was alone, crying with her face in her hands, twenty minutes later.

On the first hand of the tournament, I raised out of the BB with a crappy king. The button called and folded to my flop bet. On the second hand, action folded to my SB, QTo. I raised. The BB called for a Q-8-x flop. I bet the pot, he called. The turn was an 8. I bet just shy of the pot, and he pushed. Oops. Fold.

I stayed in loose-aggressive mode, though, raising more than my share of hands and slowly building my stack back up. There were two unfortunate hands that sent me packing early.

Hand #1 - 94o in the BB, three limpers and I saw a flop of 2-4-6. I was worried that one of the limpers in particular, the player UTG, had an overpair. I checked. Everyone else checked to a turn of [2-4-6]-2. Now I felt I had to take a shot at the pot, because if he did have an overpair, he couldn't stand to give a free card on the flop. Only the UTG player called my pot-sized bet. I was confused to say the least. I thought he might have caught the river ace with a holding like AQ. We both checked it and he turned over KK. Suffice it to say that although he confused me (which, I guess, is good from his standpoint) I was not impressed with how he played the hand.

Hand #2 - 99 in the SB. The button made it 3xBB to go. It meant he had a hand, but was it overcards or a pocket pair? Stuck with an ugly decision, I called for a flop of 3-5-7. I decided to take a chance and pushed. He called with TT. That crippled me, and I went out a short time later when I pushed 96o as the limits were about to increase and lost to KJo.

On to the ring game, where I made a nice $50 profit on my $20 buy-in. Key hands: K5o in the SB turns into quad kings on the turn and gets action from a full house; 44 in EP turns into quads on a flop of 4-4-6; 45s makes the nuts on the river when a flopped set of deuces gives the other four players two free cards (he mistakenly assumed that a player to act behind him would bet the turn); 42o for a raise turns into a straight on the turn.

Ok, ok, so this isn't the sexiest write-up ever. I promise better from Foxwoods next week. I'm focused on other things today.