bloggy-style post 09/21/2017
Broke my record for longest session I've ever played - 7 hours. Got myself a nice, fat, $8.80 food comp out of it too. Unfortunately it didn't end well results-wise - I lost my whole $200 buyin. I felt kicked in the stomach like the session not only drained 7 hours out of my life but $200 out of my wallet, and I was like, why did I go through all of that just to lose? That was my biggest disappointment was how I let myself get overconfident like I can't lose - I know better than that, I know that any time I sit down at the table there's a chance I could lose my whole buyin. It hadn't happened in a long time and I let myself believe it would never happen again. I don't mind learning but I get frustrated when I keep making the same mistakes over and over when I know better. I've since calmed down significantly, but still, I don't like feeling like that, poker is a game and a game is supposed to be fun.
Anyway, it's not like I lost every single hand I played. Here are a few that I won:
Got dealt AA twice, it held up both times, but the first time was during an Aces Cracked promotion window so I WANTED them to lose
Limped along with K3s after a few limpers and flopped quads. A villain called me all the way down with ATs.
completed in the SB with K9o, flopped KQT, turned a 9 and my two pair miraculously held up. Won a pretty big pot actually.
Flopped a set of 4s on a T74r board, turn and river were K, won a good pot off a villain who limped in with AKo and thought he made the nuts on the river
Had a couple big-blind specials where I made a straight after getting to see a free flop with trash like 25o
I'm sure there were a couple more hands I won, but those are the ones I remember.
Here are some notable hands that I lost:
Flopped a set of 9s on a QT9 board. A villain had flopped a straight and I didn't boat up.
Flopped a set of 6s on a 764 board. 3 villains all flopped straights and I didn't boat up.
limped along with K4s, flopped top pair, turned 2 pair, a villain had flopped a better 2 pair
limped along with KQs on the button, flopped top pair on a safe board, another villain had limped in with AQs.
Those are the only big hands I remember losing (I'm sure I lost others as well), but as always there were several where I raised a premium suited hand before the flop and flopped or turned a flush draw that didn't get there, limped along in late position with a suited ace or king (I often raise suited aces in late position to try to get to see a four-card flop but when I'm losing I get timid) and flopped or turned a draw that didn't get there, or actually flopped a pair only to see four clubs hit the board.
I actually don't remember getting dealt very many premium hands. I got aces twice, ATs, I think AKo once, and I really don't remember many others.
There was a guy who sat down after I'd been there for 6 hours and just started hitting two pair after two pair after two pair after two pair - dude just couldn't miss, and after an hour he had so many chips he had to ask for a colorup to color up $500 of his blue chips to red. Not going to lie - I was jealous. When's that going to happen for me???
The good news is I'm still winning at the PLO tables on Global Poker. I've even started learning a shortstack strategy that's profitable for PLO, so I'm still up for the year by several hundred dollars.
Feedback welcome as always,
DTXCF