Poker

I figure I might use this blog to keep track of my progress in poker as well. I'll title all the poker posts "poker" (creative right?) so if you're not interested, you can skip over them. Anyways, I had a pretty crappy night tonight. I was running horribly so I was proud of myself for cutting my losses after only 1 multi-table tourney and 2 heads up and stopping for the night instead of the usual routine of playing higher stakes when I lose to try to win the money back more quickly. The night was highlighted by the following hands in my multi table tourney - KK vs. 67 suited all in preflop. He hits a pair and straight draw on the flop, turns the straight. AA vs. AJ off all in preflop. Flop was A 10 4, two diamonds, pretty good right? Well not when the turn and river are both diamonds and he has the J of diamonds. Those two were both against shorter stacks than me (and my stack never got above the starting stack to begin with) so I was still alive until the following hand: Blinds 25/50, I have QQ in the small blind. Under the gun limps, one more limp, late position raises to 250, I only have 750 so I push in. I have actually been smooth calling preflop with hands like QQ, JJ, and AK more recently (and almost never reraise w/AQ or worse preflop unless I'm shortstacked and pushing in). I haven't decided if this is a good strategy or not yet, though it isn't really relevant to this hand. I guess mixing it up is the way to go. Anyways, back to the hand, under the gun comes over the top all in for like 4000, late position raiser calls (uh oh). Under the gun has 2 2 (fucking retard, though I would've been thanking him if he could've pushed the original raiser out with AK) and other guy has KK. Whatever, it wasn't a big tournament or anything, I just couldn't get anything going. It continued with my heads up games - I flop two pair, they turn a flush, etc, etc. Hopefully it'll get better tomorrow...