Unsuccessful Return to Poker [363 Hands / -$58.60]

Posted by icemonkey9 on Sep 16, 2008 in General | 0 comments

Well I made some +EV plays and came out on the wrong end a couple of times. There were one or two tough hands (at least in my mind) that also came out with really bad results. That added up to me having to cut my session short due to exceeding my stop-gap negative session limit of -$60. Also I may not get another session in today due to family and work ... so I'll have to stew on this for a while. I'm not really upset ... just disappointed and taking it in stride. Looking back at the hands it looks like I got a bit spewy with my steals and then had a couple of hands that I just made the right play but lost (first two posted).

Lets have a closer look ...

AA Cracked by 2 Outer on River

No other way to play this hand from my perspective. I was a 95-5 favorite when I got all the money in and he hit is two outer.

Great Read = Really Bad Result

Villain here had just take a couple of bad beats and was looking like he was steaming. I really know I am ahead of his range here given the circumstance and his line of 32/23/1. I get my money in as a 60-40 favorite. Not a huge "bad beat" but I felt I made the right play here given his stack size and history.

JJ in a tough hand for me ... played incorrectly?

I 3bet the JJ from the BB and he flats me. One over so I make the cbet, and he does this weird barely min-raise. I think my mistake there was flatting it (shove time? maybe not ...). The A on the turn scares the hell out of me and I shut down and I think he picked up on that. The more I look at the hand and the villain stats of 36/18/1 the more I think he had something like AQs or even KK or AA and had me beat.

Fish eats the Shark?

The villain here is 82/0/.7 over only 11 hands, so no real reads but we know this is the beginning of a real fish line here. I undersized the flop bet ... which I am shaking my head about right now. He calls. He min-raises my turn bet ... I mean really? I was thinking he had something stupid like 43s or A3s or even a set of 6s at this point. I figured maybe floating here could result in something good (stupid). I gave up and on the river he shoves ... I fold ... and he said in the chat box he had A3 of hearts.