It’s Been All Bad [Enjoy the Hands]

Posted by icemonkey9 on Nov 7, 2008 in General | 2 comments

Well this month is starting out just like last month. I could just copy & paste my entries from the first 7 days of October and it'd be the same story for November. I did experiment with 9 tables and actually enjoyed it and never fell behind. However, my 22" 1600x1050 monitor doesn't quite cut it as the numbers on the tables are super small and hard to read.

Anyways the action at the tables has been horrific. My sets are getting busted. Big pairs are getting me slaughtered. I can't remember the last time I hit a draw, and I keep getting outflopped. There's not much else to say other than that. I think overall I am handling the tilt pretty well although today I did start to shake and fortunately Zachvac was online to calm me down from poker-suicide watch. I stopped playing and am done for the day. I just hope I can regroup and get into a good mindset for next week when I plan to play a ton of hands.

So here's some of the horrific beats, I guess part of my poker therapy is to wine and bitch about it and then post the hands. I don't feel horrible or pissed off and my blood isn't boiling but I'd be lying if I didn't say my confidence and outlook wasn't hurting because it really is, but that's part of playing a lot of poker. These are all hands from the last 1k hands in my HH roughly over the last 3 days...

Hand 1 - Big pocket pair gets cracked

Ouchville. Not much else to say after that hand.

Hand 2 - Can JJ be considered a cooler?

Now our villain here is a 82/10/2 ridiculous idiot and has just been calling and min-raising with draws ... obviously I drove myself straight into a brick wall.

Hand 3 - AA cracked by J2

Our villain is a 70/30/3 freak of nature. I actually figured he hit his flush at the turn, so me calling there was pretty dumb, but I figured I still had outs. Just blew up in my face.

Hand 4 - Set of Flopped Queens Cracked

Our villain here is a 44/12/2 player (see the pattern? man the fish are getting their cards!) here call down my 1/2 pot bets with a double gutshot and hit his card on the river.

Hand 5 - Trip Aces ... and I got outflopped (controversial play by me?)

Okay I have a ton of history against this villain and he's a nitty/solid 11/10 player and usually shows up in big pots with big hands. I limped here with AQ as basically a move to disguise my hand, and at the flop figured I would just let him outplay himself since I was really most likely to be very far ahead since only AT, AK, or TT had me beat. Things got real dicey at the river but I figured a shove there might scare off a better hand if he didn't have a boat and only an AJ would could really call that bet. (In hindsight he had the odds to call no matter what, although he did tank for about 20 seconds to make that call) Anyways he made a great river read, and to my unfortunate surprise I was beat the whole way. Trip aces with Q kicker, and I was outflopped.