Sunday, January 24, 2010

The Job Interview

The interview wasn't really what I expected. I expected to be grilled with the usual questions that interviewers ask, such as "Why do you want to work here?", "What are your strengths and weaknesses?", etc. Though it wasn't like that at all.

He just explained the type of things that I would have to do. It's a contract job, so he explained that I would have to fill out my own time sheets, e.g. documenting my hours and what I did during those hours. I'll be helping out a bank employee, to take the load off of their work. I'll be doing a lot of spread sheets and things. Keeping that bank employee (my boss basically) is #1 priority. Keep that person happy and they'll feed me work which will give me more hours. Once in awhile, the interviewer said he'll have I.T. jobs for me to do down in his area, but still my #1 priority is the work the bank employee gives me, which must be completed first. I.T. stuff is way more fun for me than doing spread sheets, but priorities are priorities.

After the interview he told me to call another person to discuss my salary. I called this person and he said he'd have to discuss things with the interviewer first. So I'm waiting there. Meanwhile the interviewer and I will have a meeting with the person I'll be helping out at the bank and that person's boss. We're aiming for this Tuesday. So things are heading into the right direction, except for the losing session today @ 5NL. Lost 1.5 buy-ins, but it's not the end of the world. I didn't even feel tilted at all. I have my focus on another type of game right now ;)






Thursday, January 21, 2010

No Poker For a Few Days

I have a job interview this Friday. It's a decent paying office job, so I need the time to think about the questions I might be asked during the interview. I can't get caught up playing a long session of poker. Good Luck to everybody though!

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

280ish Hands @ 5NL

After reviewing my play earlier today at 10NL, I reassured myself that I didn't play too poorly.

  • 2 x AA vs. Underpairs
  • KK vs. AA
  • Full house vs. Full house
  • Set over Set
In 3 of them I lost 100bb, we weren't deep-stacked, so I guess I had to go with some of the decisions. My KK vs. AA all-in preflop, reminds me of the Sammy Farha vs. Barry Greenstein hand. Sammy had Kings and Greenstein had Aces. The blinds were 300/600 w/100 Antes. They both got it all-in preflop and created a pot of $361.8k. Farha with his Kings, went all-in preflop with around 300BBs. Is it right to go all-in preflop with KK that deep-stacked? I don't know if I would stack off with KK preflop sitting behind 300BBs. Well I did stack off today with KK, luckily I only lost 100BBs.

So I climbed back on the horse or maybe pony I shall say, and took a stab at 5NL. There were 2 memorable hands that I remember.

9To vs. 77...


Picked up 9To in LP. Cut-off and Button were tight players, so I knew if I called, I'd most likely win the Button. Also we have players playing with around 200BBs, so I see it worthwhile to play these suited connectors in position. 8d4h7d flop. Villain bets 1/2 pot, I call. Another 4c falls on the turn. 1/2 pot bet by Vill again. I'm thinking he could have an 8x, trip 4s, 7x, flush draw. I have 2 over-cards and an open-ended straight draw, so I look him up on his turn bet. Little do I realize that I'm drawing dead. One of the best cards in the deck falls for Villain on the river, a Jack of clubs, completing my straight. If it was a blank, Jd or 6d, I might have saved half a buy-in. Only when he re-re-raised me on the river, I got the bad news. Thought for awhile and paid him off. Maybe in the old days, I would do something crazy and shove, but at least I didn't do that now.

55 vs. QTs


At least this hand made me some profit. Pretty much never folding a set here. He'll rarely have a higher set and he would have raised preflop with QQ. Finished up $3 or so.

The End.

First Major Shot at Full Ring 10NL

Well I decided to take a shot at Full Ring 10NL today (played 1300 hands), with about $227 in my bankroll. I won about 2 buy-ins playing 167 hands of 5NL earlier and was feeling confident. I started 4 tabling 10NL. Was pretty much break even, but noticed I was still down about $4. Then I realized that missing $4 was from the rake. Wasn't liking 10NL already. I kept playing and this hand happened:


Caught AKo in LP sitting with 190bbs. Raised and got called by the cut-off with 140bbs. Both of us with healthy stacks. Flop came TdKdAc, top 2-pair here we go. Potential straight and flush draw, no time to play this slow. I didn't put him on a high pocket pair, I would have expected him to raise with JJ+ and AK. Turn was a Qs, anybody holding a Jack would have the nuts thus far. I put out of a little feeler bet of a little less than half the pot. I got called. River was a Kh, filling up my hand with KKKAA. A really great card for me as it filled up Villain's set of Qs for QQQKK. I really thought he had a J for sure. Something like AJ or QdJd. Was really surprised to see he had Queens full. The pot was $3.35 by the river. I was pretty much ready to check/call him on the river if my hand didn't improve. An interesting river card would have been the Jack of Diamonds. I'm most likely going to check/call that river card too. I wouldn't pull anything too crazy in those two last situations.

Then things started to get bad...

One of these @ 1:58PM:


Then this one @ 3:15PM:


This one... @ 3:27PM


Flopped tripps 3:28PM:


Flopped a set of 4s @ 3:39PM (had clicked sit out at next blind):


$218 + 5NL winnings = $227 - 10NL losings - rake = $192

Weeeeeee back to 5NL I go. Surprisingly I wasn't very much tilted. I just had had enough at that time though.