The River Will Giveth and the River Will Taketh

Posted by icemonkey9 on Apr 26, 2009 in 50nl, 6max, computer | 0 comments

This weekend really represents the first time I've ever played 100nl 6max on both Saturday and Sunday for 4+ hours each day.  I got in a good amount of hands today, and the good positive news in all this is that I'm not discouraged or tilted.  I did make one tough call at the river that was in retrospect a bad call, but other than that it was just "one of those days" where the villain shot ahead at the river constantly.  This hand was the "worst beat of the day" which is just ugly:

Just gross, but I got my money in good.  Normally I would have just raised again preflop but against the squeezer I'm trying to get action and a raise here totally announces I have KK or AA in this spot against these players.  What I hoped for was someone with a lesser hand like TPTK while I had overpairs would stack (which happened) and take it down ... but I lose the 88-22% situation which will happen.

The rest of the day saw some bad river situations where villains hit their gin card, or more tragically, I'd hit a big river only to find out I was way behind.

• I rivered a straight ... whoops he flopped and slow played a boat.
• AK suited gets it in as nut flush draw + overs, hits A on river, he had flopped a set.
• AK hits TPTK on river (all rag board) he hit set on turn (which he flatted).
• AA < KT , kinda gross.
• AK loses coinflip AIPF vs QQ (fair enough).
• AKs < AJo AIPF vs loose mid-stacked fish.
• K3 in steal spot on BTN hits 2 pair, villain calls to river with top pair, river pairs board, his two pair wins.

So, those were situations where things just didn't go my way, and most of the time I got out of the situation losing a $35-$50 pot which is better than losing $100 pots I suppose.  Looking back at the hands, AA just got no action today (nothing new there) except for the one bad beat, and I hit sets at 7% which usually doesn't help (although they haven't held all month!).

Anyways, probably calling it a day and hope to come back tomorrow ready to rock n roll at the tables and "get in on that Sunday juice" as someone put it.  Like I mentioned before, I feel fine, where before if I looked at the results say at the beginning of the month I'd be bitching/tilting/quitting big time.  I just had an unfortunate day, it'll happen, and I'll be ready to go tomorrow.  See you then.