Run bad, run good.

I've been running so bad at cards for the last 2 months or so. It's tough to write about how you are playing when you are always losing. Recently I have been running pretty average, but I'm playing awesome.

I haven't cashed in the Sandia tourney since Super Bowl sunday. I always make it down to the final 2-3 tables but can't get anything going. I recently cashed in 2 Isleta tournies. I ran bad at the end of both of them though, should've been 1st for both. In the first tourney the top 5 get paid, so we were down to 5 and I built my way up from a short stack to medium stack. The shortest stack went all in for like 3 big blinds. This old guy calls and I look down at QQ. I over shove all-in. Old guy makes sure that if I knock out both players he gets 4th place money. So he calls and I am up against AK spades and AJ off-suit. Flop comes down A J x. Worst flop ever, at least the short stack will get knocked out and I move up in the money. Guy gets running spades to make a flush, I was sick ended up busting 5th.

The other tourney we were down to 4 people so we were all in the money, I was a big stack along with this other guy and two short stacks. I was in the big blind with 44 and a short stack pushes all-in. I call and he has QJ, your typical coin flip. Guy fucking flops a straight. The the other shortstack makes some retarded all-in with 82 suited against the other bug stack and sucks out on him. We are sitting there almost dead even in chips, so we end up chopping the money 4 ways.

The next day I go play 1/2NL at Sandia and buy-in for 120. Very first hand I get 22. 5 people call and the big blind raises to 10. I call and about 3 others do. Flop comes down A 2 3. I bet out $18 and this other guy raises to $30. (which isn't legal so that shows you how dumb he is.) I shove all-in right away and he calls. Guy has A3 off-suit(LOL). He's sittin' there screaming, "ACE OR THREE ACE OR THREE." Of course a three comes on the river. Re-bought for 100, and ended up having Aces cracked by 33. Three was my unlucky number that night.

Finally running decent though. I decided that instead of playing in tournies on full tilt all the time I'm going to sign up with a poker room and get some rakeback. I signed up for cake poker, which seems to be a deal going for US players right now. You get 33% rakeback, plus a first time deposit bonus up to $500. So I deposited $500 last friday and ran it up to $650 that night. A couple nights later I was up to $800, but I took a few bad beats and was back down to 6. Then this past Tuesday, I think it was, I was running hot and playing higher than I was before. Instead of 50c/$1 NL, I was playing 1/2NL four tables at a time and I even opened one table of 2/4NL. I ran my cake acct up to 1,000. (plus I've accumulated $20 in rakebake LOL)

My rebate came in from the gov't. (Here's comes some degenerate behavior.) So I take out $100 and go to Sandia with all intentions of playing some poker. This is this past thursday night by the way. Well somehow I end up at the blackjack table. I was running decent but these assholes kept coming in and messing up the cards for me, because they play so bad. So I'm only down maybe $25. I drop like $30 at roulette for some reason. Drop $17 at craps real fast. I have like $28 left and go back to black jack, I run reqal hot for a while and I'm up to $175. I put down a $25 bet and barely win. So I parlay that into a $50 bet and win that, that was enough gamble for me, so I cash out and head home.

Insert more degenerate behavior. Last night I get off work and am ready to dominate at Sandia. Who woulda known that I end up at blackjack AGAIN. I have $250 in my pocket to start the day, that is from the night before's fiasco. I was break even at blackjack for like 20 mins then I went on a sick run of cards, it doesn't help that people are so fucking afraid to hit a 15 vs a dealer 10. If you knew basic addition you can see that of 13 cards in the deck you can get 6 of them and not bust, thats almost 50/50 you will not bust when you hit a 15!! LOL they would rather hope the dealer busts. (which only happens 25% of the time!) Anyway I drop 100 and I'm about to make my way to the poker room, but get distracted and end up in the High Limit room playing blackjack $25 a hand.

I bought in for $125, leaving myself $25 for gas or something incase I bust. I had a sick run of cards andwas up to $575 or so. I made the dealer $50 in tokes because I was betting for him too. A new dealer came and after he shuffled the decks I ran cold, so i cashed out $450. I played 1/2NL for the rest of the night. At one point I had $400 in front of me (max buyin is $200) but I ended up leaving even on poker for the night. It was so sick too because I played about 5-6 hours of poker and only saw 5 pocket pairs. I saw 22, 22, 22, KK, AA. I won a small pot with 22 when I flopped a set. And I won a decent pot with AA.

A guy was steaming real hard because he just ran into Aces the hand before so I knew he was going to raise, so I limped with Aces. of course he raises to $12 (he has about 25 more) and this other lady has about 35 in front of her and she calls the $12. I make it $60 and they both go all-in. The lady turns over A10 (LOL!) but the other guy never reveals his cards. I ran KK into AA but I played it good and lost the minimum. I'm playing so good right now, my confidence has always been high, just helps to run decent for a change.