Avoided Disaster Tonight (12/19/2010)
Sunday, December 19, 2010 at 5:45AM Just got back from a tough live session to say the least. During the first 6 hours I was down -$320 playing 1-2. This was the most I've been down in a single session since I moved out here and perused poker full time. The money was all lost as two flopped sets were destroyed by straights. Really nothing I could do during that time. At the 6 hour mark I took a break and tried to regroup. I tried to look at it as a positive. I was interested in how I would respond to running that badly during 6 hours, and losing so much with 2 monster sets flopped.
I came back from 1-5 a.m and ended up winning +$240, so only down -$80 on the night. I was thinking about trying to stay on the last table past 5 a.m until I at least broke even. It would have most likely happened if I was ever dealt a top 20% hand again. But I was incredibly card dead the last two hours like usual and I didn't feel much would change. Also I was damn tired. Who goes 10 hours+ without being dealt pocket aces live anyways?
I'm planning to put in at least one or two more long live sessions before I take off for the holidays. The 22nd and 23rd are likely candidates. Those days should have decent action live with so many people on vacation.
Tomorrow should be a nice change of pace. Not forcing myself to play live on Sunday should be refreshing. I also have that date with the girl I couldn't even pick out of a line-up. I'll give it a 5% chance she's good looking enough to continue going out with, yeah I'm a pessimist. My fault for being that drunk at the club I suppose.
I also want to put in some good volume online tomorrow. Online has been a nightmare since the last $1500 bonus I cleared, so I might keep it to a pathetic 4 tables until I win at least 2 buy-ins if that ever happens. At least 16 hours online from Sunday-Tuesday, gogo! Fucking online.
-bag
Reader Comments (4)
Nice comeback. I ended up playing against a couple 5-10 Borgata regs this past weekend at a 2-5 table because they were waiting for others to show up. The game was awesome. It played like a 2/4 6 Max online game with lots of light 3 betting and some 4 betting.
I did a cold 4 bet shove to $250 and showed J9 suited to the table, haha... got some props from them for it.
The biggest pot while I was there was like $2000 when one of the regs 4 bet with 87s and flopped 2 pair against a guy who tried to trap and flatted with KK pre-flop. Whoops lol...
Blah... a cold 4 bet. Not a cold 4 bet shove. I had like $720 when the hand started so I was showing that I was committing myself because I knew they'd understand that.
Fk,
That sounds like a crazy game. Seems like you enjoy live more, I don't blame you. I take it the KK did not suck out after the flop? That game sounds like a ton of gamblers. Do you really think they were all solid players? Or were some just spew? I've played with guys from high stakes blowing off steam on low stakes games before. They are sometimes hilariously bad because the money is like pennies to them and they don't care. However, I did play withe one last weekend who was very frustrating to play against because he was pushing thin value on all streets to insane extremes. Also he opened very large, which made many hands unprofitable to play.
-bag
KK didn't suck out. It was some nitty old guy who flatted pre and got all pissy when most of the money went in post-flop.
The 5-10 reg said something like... "I put $150 in with the worst hand and you stuck $1000 in with the worst hand so tell me who plays worse." lol... taptaptap on the glass.
At my table the 5-10 regs were actually trying so that sucked. There were 2 nits, 1 kid who thought he was good but in reality sucked and overplayed his hands, and the rest were average at best. They wouldn't make horrible mistakes but they made several small ones like not pot controlling and not sizing their bets properly.