Another Day Another U
Traffic has been abysmal at VIP Poker for the past few days. I keep going back looking for that Phat Donk I wrote about on the 21st. Hoping to find him and some of his friends at that full ring $5/10 table again. No luck, though. There was one $5/10 table going, but it wasn't looking that good, so I went down to a $1/2 table instead. There was nothing going on at $2/4 or $3/6. Horrible traffic.
While waiting for my blind to come around I saw there was a $20/40 5-max table with an 88% view flop percentage. Curious, I clicked on it, and there he was! Uber Donk! He gets cleaned out at $5/10 full ring, so what does he do? He moves to $20/40 short hand! If stack size is a fair estimate, he wasn't doing very well at $20/40 either - sitting there with 14 BB in front of him. I was half-tempted to give that table a shot, but I just am not ready for that kind of BR fluctuation.
I decided one table of $1/2 wasn't going to be enough to keep me interested, so I opened a second $1/2 table at Pacific. Both tables were quite loose - just how I like them. True to the current pattern I went down about 8 BB on both. And, true to form, I logged off an hour later up a few BB on both. Its almost like it takes my cards an hour to warm up or something - then the draws start hitting. Very strange. I did have one lucky break. I was in EP and 2 players had posted extra blinds. I had KJo, so I raised first in, hoping to fold most everyone else. Seems I had forgotten I was in cold-calling hell, as 4 of us saw the flop QJ7. I came out swinging and got 2 calls. I turned another J, and got called again. Everyone folded to my river bet, though. Straight draws maybe.
Proving once again, better lucky than smart!