Instantly down 1 BI again...

And once again, battles all the way back to finish +1 BI. Damn i'm good.

and to pull an old old cliche:

NOT.

DubsPoke

(p.s. at least I'm having fun though! Seriously, I'm enjoying the game more than I ever have before =)

Another Positive Day

Up 1 BI after about a 1.5 hour session. That despite losing a buy-in right at the start through a combination of bad luck and terrible play.

I'll try to describe the scenario as best as I can despite not having the HH in front of me.

I'm sitting in the CO with Qh7h. The table is mostly tight players with one fish. I like isolating fish as I generally try to win big or lose small against them. This fish was playing 49/3 over a small sample size (15-20 hands) and was sitting on a 4 buy-in stack. I was licking my chops. I raise 3x BB, get called by shorstack on the button (he is of no concern as he is exceptionally loose-passive and easy to play against). BB Fish defends and calls as well

Flop comes 346 rainbow. Checked to me. I raise 3/4 pot, a sizable amount. Button folds. BB calls? Hmmm....oh well, I have a gutter, two-overs and a backdoor flush draw.

5h on the turn. Beautiful. BB Fish raises? What? Hmmm...I repop 3x his donkbet. He shoves instantly. Talk about transaparent. His range is any 7 for a split pot, or any 2 for the butt-end of the straight. Only hands that beat me are the 78 combos.

I call pretty quickly, figuring that this is split and we can move on to the next hand.

River. 8c.

I look away from the screen at the tv briefly. Look back at the screen. I'm broke at the table.

WTF!?

Opponent had 7c9c. Hit a wonderful 3 outter to rake the entire pot. Bastard and his stupid luck.

My mistake in the hand was reraising after his donkbet on the turn. I have position and the second nuts at this point with an opportunity to improve with the flush draw. I should flat call here and let him fire again at the river. I can make my decision then and essentially control the size of the pot. If we're tied, no use increasing the pot size just to pay off Pokerstars.

Ahh well...lesson learned: DONT FORGET ABOUT POSITION!

I battled back and got positive for the day, my only goal for now.

DubsPoke

Access Restored: +3 BIs

Had a good 2 hour session after work yesterday and finished up 2 BIs despite have AA < QQ for 1.5 BIs and a set beat by runner runner flush all in on the flop for 3/4 a BI.

Primarily because of a SuperSpewtard. Definition of a SuperSpewtard: playing a cash game like the 1st hour of a rebuy, shoving ATC preflop in an attempt to build a big stack where he then slows down and tries to bully the table.

Unfortunately for this SuperSpewtard the table filled quickly with good players that were onto his game.

He lost approx 10 BIs in 180 hands. While he had his fair share of suckouts to get up to above 5 or 6 BIs at the table, he always seemed to lose that stack despite slowing down slightly.

After SuperSpewtard left, the table broke but not before the comments came out on how each person remaining at the table had played him previously and actively looked to sit down with him.

I hope he's back tonight.

DubsPoke

1st Hand Today

and it continues....



fuck.

EDIT: Just to let you know, I ended up playing for 1 hour, 221 hands and finished with 1/5 BI profit (a rate of 11.76 BB/100). Managed to stay focused this time around.

Done making positive posts...

Because every time I do, I proceed to get my ass handed to me on a f'in platter.

Down 7.5 BIs in 1230hands. Pathetic.

Combination of coolers (2x KK vs AA, 2x I had Kxss suited and my opponent held Axss for a better flush) and playing terribly combined with life tilt (I work in financial industry for a mutual fund company...in sales...)

and my big hands aren't getting paid off.

F'in bullshit.

My decisions are clouded and I'm just not cutting it. Time to drop down again for a while.

This is what I've been dealing with btw. This shit adds up fast:



cockfuck timed down before he called with his nut flush as well. asshole.