Getting Hammered (5/7/2011)

I am getting hammered on the tables right now.  Down -$800 in the first 40 hours played this week.  Nothing can go right.  I've been mistake free, it just hasn't been my week.  I was break even until Friday where I lost close to 2 buy-ins in 3 hours.  The last hand I actually got felted with a bottom set of 55 on the board:

Kh 6h 5s

It was a 7-way limped pot in a complete maniac game.  I checked from the SB, 1 raiser to $20, 2 callers, I re-raise to $70 total.  1 fold, two callers.  The pot is now $200 and I have about $400 left on the Turn.  TURN:

4c

Really fucking bad, but not the worst.  I'm now first to act in a pretty miserable situation.  After thinking a minute I made it $200.  I was worried about the straight, but I'm not sure how else I could have got out of this situation.  This is an insane game.  The players are just as likely to have a missed flush draw at this point or even worse.  78 gets there, but so be it.  I guess I could have bet $120 and folded to a shove, but I wanted to charge draws and crushed hands full.  Or I could have checked and assumed he made the straight, then if he gave me the right odds I'd just call and try to boat up the river.  This sounds really bad, and it usually is.  You need quite a read to make a check here, and this isn't a heads up pot.  Additionally, if there are two checks the 2nd villian is likely to be shoving no matter what he is holding.  I don't mind shipping with the set here, I know anyone else in this situation holds up with QKo in the same game.

So the villain to act next shoves $450 all in over my $200 turn raise, maniac folds, and the action is on me.  At this point it's a snap call, I only have $200 left to win a +$1,000 pot.  Even if my set is crushed by the straight I have the equity to call and boat up on the river here.  Still good over 20% of the time. 

RIVER 9

He held up with 78, I failed to get there with the set.  So that capped off the misery this week.  Two really big pots did not go my way this week.  The one mentioned above.  And the +$1500 pot suck-out on Sunday which I probably talked about in my last post.

I still feel I'm playing mistake free, just not running well at the moment.  I'm not going to miss Saturday night, but may take off Sunday.  Let's see if I can run like shit for the 6th night in a row!  I'm really doing my best to try to remain as unemotional as possible, focused, and mistake free.  I know most players would have lost a few buy-ins more during this down-swing.

-bag

Comments

[alexandra]

I wanna play with those guys!! :)