Session 13...
Today continued the crap. I started off nitty and waiting for bigger hands, and waited, and waited. Flopped 2pr early with Q9 from a blind and c/r'd flop on KQ9 two tone board...knowing draws call. I lead turn for pot and fold the table. Nice $70 start to the day. But, the deck goes cold again.
I overlimp ducks and flop the set oop. Again, players are really betting their draws today, so I have no reason to think they won't. I check a ton oop, so c/r is how I have to balance when I run this poorly. It's my plan, but 4 others check behind. Of course, diamond hits turn and ep players lead and raise. I'm out....no longer with odds to draw to boat. And, yes, I saw the flush. Suxors.
However, later I pick up QQ in MP in a straddled pot. For the back story, read here:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/17...t-pre-1162373/
Crazy, sick spot. Long and short, I made the call because I felt SB had a lot of AK in his range after the laughter, and felt like villain behind me would start the avalanche with either AK or KK...hoping AK since he kept saying "I have to call with this hand, but I'm not raising pre with it." Sounds like SB and villain behind me could be sharing AKs hands.
I was wrong, though. SB tabled the aces....confirming my first read of "act mad when you're happy." Oh well. Villains behind me tabled, respectively, AKdd, KJhh, and 44.
5way all-in pot with side pots all over the place, 3 floor personnel watching the chips, at least 10 spectators surrounding like rubber-neckers in traffic jams, and my lunch arriving at the same time.
$950+ pot and flop brings ThTc9c. Turn....Ks. River.... the most beautiful, bail-me-out Qd I've ever seen. I scoop all but $40 of that pot, and about have a heart attack on the spot.
So, after a couple days of loose-ish payoffs, one good call yesterday that got wrecked by a lucky set popping, I get bailed out by the same Gods that took it all away in one hand. I still contend the QQ call is at worst a small mistake....but very high variance. And, after running the ranges I put the players on at the time, I actually was the favorite at 30% in the 5way....with SB at about 28%. In actuality, SB was a smashing fave at 47% with me 2nd at 18%.
I hate spots like these. So much so, the players were all super nice and saying things like wow...huge pot. Or, nice hand on the river for you. Or, man, I was so close...if that river had only been the 7....bla bla. One looked at me and said, "I bet that makes your Friday, huh?" I said, "Make no mistake about this hand......I didn't enjoy any part of it at all. But, I may start to enjoy it in my mind next week."
I can't stand 2-card bingo. Which is exactly what that was in reality.
Net today : $596 bankroll.. $1378
Hours today: 4
Hourly today: $149/hr
Overall net: +$781
Overall hours: 41
Overall hourly: $19/hr