Run bad continues.
Played a 5/5/10 mainly with 25 double straddle and occasionally more. Stand up game hands killed me. Lost 4.6k in 7 hours. $100 per player and three people standing including me. 8 players, 7 to pay out if you lose.
Game is 5/5/10/25/50 and hero is in first $5 blind. Rec who is sitting (won atandup game already) limps in CO (covers hero). Hero (3.5k effective) raises to $400 in sb with Td9d.
Why so large? Well, there is a rec in the bb and a pro in the 25 Straddle still standing and I want to isolate them out of the pot. Right now my EV of paying out the standup game is -233, but if one of them sits, it goes to -350. Additionally, if I win goes to +$100. So I increase my EV by 333 if I win, and risk an incremental loss of EV of -120 if one of them wins. So there is a whole lot at stake here for me which the players sitting down do not have at stake.
Rec (2k effective) standing up still in BB calls 400. Folds to CO limp calls.
Flop $1,285 Qd8d5d, we flop a flush. We cbet $400. Rec In BB jams for 1.6k. Rec in CO jams for 3.1k effective. Hero snaps. Turn is a 4d, river brick.
BB has Qx no diamond. CO has Ad9s. Got 6 outed because Jd gives me a straight flush. 75.5% equity for the main pot and almost the same in the side bar runner runner boat. And that is 9.1k pot scooped if I won. The difference between a 4.5k win and the 4.6k loss I had.
And just like that we are on a $25k downswing over the last 65 hours. For 2024, we are up $340 over 195 hours. Since going pro, we are up $61k over 625 hours. The hourly rate is currently at $98 since going pro.
Rough times, but I have to recognize at the same time that games only exist because recreational players will win a significant amount of the time. It is what it is. The game was insanely good. Still feeling good about my play and bankroll management overall.
Last edited by Mlark; 02-14-2024 at 10:14 PM.