Brutal

I had my worst session so far in the cash games today. I played for 3 hours and was down $400. It's funny that this session really hurt me the most more then any session I have even played. And in the past I have had loosing session of $1500, and I had less money then I do now. I think it's kind of a reflection of how my poker game is becoming more "mature".

The session was really sick. I played for 3 hours which is about 1400 hands 8 tabling, and the biggest pot I won was $40. That really is sick. I couldn't win a pot. It was so frustrating. It was truly amazing how many huge hands I had to lay down. I played a second session later tonight and right off the bat was down about $200. Once again just getting smoked over and over again. Set up all day long, and had to fold so many huge hands again. Finally, after a while, I started to hit a few hands, and won a couple of nice pots. I ended this session up $81 after 5 hours, which is a bad rate, but good for the confidence, and a good comeback. I also played in a $3 rebuy satellite for the Sunday tourney. Paying the top 8 out of about 400. I made it, really grinding it out as I was in last place from 135 left all the way to 35 left. Man those players are bad though. I think I'm going to try and play those every night and just use the tournament $$ to play Stt's. So later on today when I get up, I'm going to play some $30 stt's with the tourney $$ that I won. Hopefully I will profit a good amount and I will be back to where I was 3 days ago when I started .50/1, after having just about as bad a run as I hope I will have to face. So anyway although it has been a tough couple of days, I am still motivated to do well which isn't always easy after having a bad run, especially when you just move up stakes.

So anyway here are some hands from today:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/43255 - Well played AA. I never really re raise AA pree flop but though I would switch it up this time. Had a feeling that everyone else would call and I just wanted to see the flop heads up. For some reason when you play a short stack and check the flop they never ever think you have a hand. This is a good flop for me as either he has a 2 outer of he is probably drawing dead. I check behind with a little gamble because he's not folding a pair anyway so I might as well get his chips if he has AK.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/43256 - Badly played AA. My thinking pree flop is that he either has KK QQ or JJ. By just flat calling I get all his chips if the flop comes low, and I minimize the pot if a K, J or Q comes. As it turns out I played the hand badly because I gave him the chance to catch up, and if I had raise big pree flop there is a good chance that we would have been all in.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/43257 - This is basically what has happened all day long. He gives me odds to call for a boat but I'm pretty sure he has the straight.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/43258 - Couldn't hit a draw to save my life at this point.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/43259 - All day long

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/43260 - Basically 90% of the hands I played today went like this.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/43261 - Nice call

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/43262 - What can I do

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/43263 - So frustrating. Every time I make a hand I have to fold. I had a bad feeling about this hand after he called the turn, so I made a blocking bet on the river. I can't see me being good here so I let it go.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/43265 - Same old.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/43266 - Lost min here again. You really have to careful about betting the river at this level. Even when the turn is checked.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/43267 - It's hard to extract max. Value on the river because I am always worried about getting raised.


Sorry if this was hard to read. It's now 9:22am and I haven't gone to bed yet so I'm a little out of it. I will be back later on tonight hopefully with some good results from stt's........