By Adanthar on August 13th, 2008 (more posts by author)

The second half of my stay in Fresno turned out to be a lot of fun. It was divided into three parts - the main event (lasted an hour; got two pair in against a set, then got my last 10 BB in with KK vs. the mighty 72 sooted. oops!), a few business meetings that went pretty well, and hanging out with shaundeeb watching him grind 25 tables' worth of donkaments. The guy is sick for that one thing alone, but he also manages to play good while doing it, too. I wish I could do that :(

Apparently, Shaun'd been having a pretty bad downswing for a while there, but it ended in spectacular fashion - he had a 20K day or so on Saturday, then won the FTOPS HUment on Sunday while I was sweating him, for another 115 grand or so. The HU tourney was hysterical; every time we saw any of his last 3-4 opponents make a big move that made no sense, we turned to each other, said "flush draw" in unison (no cheating involved, it was just obvious), Shaun would call/raise as appropriate and the other guy's hand would be a flush draw, which all somehow missed. Then there was the first hand of the semifinal that got posted in BBV; Shaun raised nines, the other guy (an aggro HU regular) 3-bet, Shaun of course 4 bet, the other guy tanked and 5 bet shoved, Shaun snap called and, obviously, the other guy had A8/was thinking on the exact wrong level. (Flop ace; river Shaun's 4 flush.) He then said "I thought you'd fold JJ-99" in chat. Why would anyone ever fold a middle pair on the first hand of a HU SNG?

While Shaun was doing that, I was playing my own weekend donkament sessions and basically posted an 0 for 13 ITM line in non-Cake tourneys while going 3 for 3 on Cake. This made me pretty suspicious that I was playing too much Cake and not adjusting properly elsewhere, which Shaun agreed with. So, when I got back the other night, I played another half dozen donkaments. Results: three random bustouts, one bubble on Stars, one 45'th place on Stars in the 150+12 100K where, as far as I can tell, I just played my cards, and, in my one Cake tourney - the 30r 20K - a second place finish that I got because I lost a 70/30 on the final table 6 handed, chopped another 3:1 3 handed, lost *another* 3:1 heads up and then got coolered/lost a huge flip to end it. Basically, lately, I've owned Cake (both literally and metaphorically) while simultaneously getting nowhere on every other site. It's not really a surprise because I've been putting in such a high percentage of my hands on Cake lately, but it definitely looks like I need to ramp up my aggression on sites that aren't as ridiculously soft as Cake is.

One other thing - the weekend accounted for lots of pics. Most of them are probably terrible :) but will probably be posted anyway :( when Kyle has the time to sort through them. Keep an eye on Kyle's blog - it'll be funny.