It’s Just Bad Luck

Posted by icemonkey9 on Apr 10, 2009 in General | 0 comments

Today I had a sweat session with pal BW who is one of 100nl's ($0.50-$1 blinds) biggest winners. It's really cool of him to help me out when things get tough and we had a session today where after losing the umpteenth hand and I said "I'm sorry I just really can't continue this" and he responded (not exactly) of "I understand, it's just bad luck" which he's right. I just don't know how to deal with it ... because it just won't end. Let's get to the hands. Mainly with this session I got into some crappy situations and made the wrong move. I guess that happens ... sigh.

Doomed

The villain here is an 11/7/2 over 700+ hands and I flop TPTK. The min-raise to my cbet is really bizarre and there's no way I fold to that so I flat and catch another Q on the turn. Check-calling to that bet pretty much commits me at the river anyways, so the check-raise is an okay move here but it's still a crappy spot, what does a nit like this do this with? KK hopefully but it just might be a set. Sure enough he flopped the set, turn the boat, and I hit the river Ace high flush which was meaningless.

Sucky Sucky

Again, not a great hand but a tough/bad spot to be in. The villain is a 60/0/3 over 44 hands and folds like never after checking his street stats. I flop top and bottom and he leads into me so I raise it up ... probably not enough but it was a pot sized raise. He flats. The 9 on the turn doesn't fill the flush. He leads into me again. Another set?! I give it a raise, he stacks, I tank. I make a case for both folding and calling and BW agrees that I have to call this against this guy. He shows 8To (WTF?!?!!) for the hit gutshot on the turn. So, he led into me and then called a pot sized raise with a double gutshot ... and hit. Bleh.

Standard

Pretty standard stuff, unlucky to have AK suited and run into AA.