Another Tough Day at Pokerstars

Posted by admin on Mar 11, 2009 in 100nl, coolers | 2 comments

This blog is definitely getting doom and gloomy. Kind of depressing, sorry about that. I do like to write about non-results type of stuff, but for those of you that remember, one of the purposes of this blog is to allow me to vent. Maybe you feel like commiserating and that's fine too. Anyways another long day at the tables. Three hideous coolers and one botched hand played horribly. It's been a while since I've played a hand that badly, so I can't feel too horrible but it is a wake up call.

Let's Get the Bad One Out of the Way ... Ugh ...

Good grief, this is easily the worst hand I've played in 4 months. No question ... just brutal. The villain is an idiot who plays a tight passive 13/4/2 style. I had just suffered two coolers where people flopped sets on me in 3bet pots so I am definitely seeing tilt play it's part in my thinking process. I remember at the time I put him on KK or AK and figured to test his raise one time by calling his flop raise and re-evaluating. The Q on the turn puts me way ahead of AK or KK so I did the dumbass thing and decide to stack off. Holy cow what a bad decision ... folding that flop is the 100% best move and I just refused to believe that a third person in a 100 hand stretch hit a set against me.

3bet Pot against a 22/17/4 Loose Aggressive Player

Against a player like this that's kinda loose and definitely aggressive (he folds to a 3bet only 20%) that I have plenty of hands on, getting it in on the flop with TPTK after I 3bet squeezed preflop is the right move. He just hits a set and got it in way ahead.

Getting Limp-3bet from a 36/11/2 Fish and I have QQ

Every time I play I see the donks all do some manuever. Last week was all about donk betting flops. This time I see the donks limp-3betting hands. They've done with with ATs, AK, KK, AA ... but mainly has been with the big hands. So I have QQ in this situation and he's a half stack so I get it in, and he shows KK.

AK Suited vs a 30/17/3 Maniac (700+ hands!) hits TPTK

I first pull off the mother of all squeeze bets, and get the one caller from the one maniac at the table. He plays a 30/17/3 style over 700+ hands so this guy really could have anything because his range is so wide. I hit TPTK in this 3bet pot, and of course I'm stacking off. Wow he shows AA and I lose another stack.

Hit a River Boat against a 36/0/8 Fish

The pure definition of a cooler card right there in the form of the river 9 giving me the 3rd nuts with the 99988 full house. He shows up with JJ for the second nuts. Another stack gone ... another small piece of my heart died.