Average Saturday (10/30/2011)

I stuck to my goals and kept emotionally cool Saturday.  I logged 9 hours and finished up +$400.  I was really close to having a big session, but several situations did not go my way.

I lost a $260 pot AA < K9o, I raise $80 pre, short-stacker gets al in and runs down a straight, fun as always.

Around 4:00 a.m I just missed out on a huge pot.  I isolated $25 pre with Kh Jh on one limper pre.  4 people end up calling (including the limper).

FLOP:  As Th 2h

I'm generally checking this back 5-way and taking a free card.  A very casual player leads out $40, I obviously have to call here.  3 other players end up calling.  The pot is now already $280 going into the turn.

TURN:  5c

Casual player now leads out $70.  This situation sort-of sucks.  Especially if you run like I do.  It's $70 to win $420.  I only have to be good 16.6% of the time to break even.  I think I have at least 12 outs (9 hearts, 3 queens).  I should be good at least 25%, even if I hit one of my outs and no further money is put in on the river.  Also the way the hand has played at least one of the other players is going to call the $70.

So I call, (meh to bad) regular behind also calls $70, 4th guy finally folds.  Pot is now $490.

RIVER:  5s

You mother fucking clown.  You're actually going to put out this shit card here?  5 of spades wonderful.  Can't I peel a black queen one fucking time.  Son of a bitch.

Casual player now leads out $200 all in.  I fold in complete disgust.

Regular starts tanking.  He turns over Ad Jd face-up and starts rambling about how he thinks the villain has A2.  He eventually calls,  casual player MUCKS.  FUcking lol.  WHAT?

How in the fuck do these terrible players win these pots?  No way AJ should be good there.  Mayble like 1 in 10 times.  But here we have a regular who was in the mood to call off.  I just think this is a terrible call in the long run.  Him even being in the pot pre-flop OOP against my isolation range is questionable.  But I wouldn't expect him to understand that.  But I didn't expect him to make such a hero call.

Anyways,

So heres what happens if I run good Saturday.  AA holds up vs K9o pre, +$260

I bink a heart or queen and win at least +$500

And that's +$1160

And I actually have a good week.

But you obviously can't win 1k every night, not even close.  At this point I am happy to win any amount during a session.  I want to be grinding out steady profit, not going for home runs, but I still felt sort of pissed off when I missed that draw for some reason.  It just felt gross how I was completely priced in because of the equity and expectedly whiffed.

Logged 40 hours this week and only finished up +$600 so far. Since Wednesday +1k.

I'm feeling somewhat tired but I may play tonight.  Sunday's are usually a good action night and I hate missing that night.  However, I've played 4 nights in a row so this is really pushing it.  I will stand up every 2 hours and really evaluate how I feel if I decide to play.  Updates soon.

-bag