More 2/5 the last couple days. I've been trying to get on an earlier schedule but whenever I try to get to bed earlier I end up not being able to fall asleep right away and then end up sleeping late anyway. Hopefully having to be up by 9am (I know, god forbid) on Saturday for the Badger game will allow me to fall asleep earlier and get on more of an afternoon playing schedule.
Yesterday got in an ok session, about 5.5 hours. I've been feeling so lethargic lately and have had a tough time getting in long sessions. I think I have a minor bug or something because I've had a minor sore throat for a few days that isn't getting better or worse. I've had bugs like this before and they pass eventually but its sort of annoying when they are here because its not enough to keep me home but it still affects me throughout the day. Anyways, on to the session.
Before dinner break nothing much happened that I can remember. The first hand I got back I was dealt T
T
. It limped to me on the BB and I made it 25, getting 2 callers. The flop came A
Q
J
. With my flush draw and gutshot I led out for 50, getting one caller. The turn was the Q
. I bet again, this time 85, and he called again. Not sure if this bet is correct, but I thought he would fold hands like KJ with the K
or other junky pairs with a
that might have peeled the flop. As it were the beautiful K
would bail me out on the river. I shoved all-in and my opponent grudgingly called. "Royal" I announced. It was good.
After this hand I built my stack up a bit more before losing a couple hands. In the first I ran bottom two pair into top and bottom pair in a limped pot. I checked J2 from the BB. The flop was A
J
2
. I bet out and was raised. I think raising overreps my hand and I'm not getting called by worse, so I just called. The turn came the 9
, which went check-check. The river was the 7
. I bet out to get value from any one pair Ax hands he might have had. He called and showed A2.
In the second hand I limped 5
6
from the button after a few other limpers, and the BB made it 25. I called after one other caller and the flop came A
9
4
. The preflop raiser made it 15, the other guy looked disgusted and folded. Now this bet was less than 1/5 the pot size and there's no way I'm letting him get away with this. A lot of time this is going to be KK or QQ trying to get a cheap showdown. I make it 65 and he thinks for a while and calls. At this point I'm on a bit of alert because the only other explanation for his small be other than trying to get a cheap showdown is that he is slowplaying a monster. The turn came the 3
, and he checks. Having picked up some equity with my open-ender, I bet again, trying to get him off if he decided to peel one with his underpair. He raised, and I thought for a while and folded. Here I made a mistake I think. To draw to an open ender I need to be getting about 4.75:1. The pot had 3.65 times the bet I needed to call in it, and he had 2.25 times the bet still in his stack. So getting 5.85:1 with implied odds, I should call. Unfortunately, I miscalculated the pot in the moment, and by my calculations it was almost exactly break-even even with implied odds and so I folded instead of making a high variance play without any edge.
Implied odds are the odds we use to account for future betting. So even though the pot doesn't have enough to call for our draw, if we can count on future betting, it can still be profitable to draw even not getting the correct price directly from the pot.
Shortly after this I left with a decent chunk of profit. However, once I realized my mistake I was not very happy since that is a dumb mistake that I only made because I was tired and not playing my A game anymore, despite it not being that long of a session.
Played again today for about the same length. I didn't write any hands down because honestly nothing stuck out. I folded what seemed like more than average and won a bit mostly just from taking small pots down on the flop. Overall very satisfied with my play.
Planning to play tomorrow for as long as I feel alert and probably take the day off Saturday for football and also just because I need one right now.
Last edited by cushlash; 09-21-2012 at 04:47 AM.