I hate .50/1

Well apparently I don't have what it takes to beat .50/1. It really is frustrating especially the way today went. First off I played 2 $30 stt's with my tourney $$ that I was talking about yesterday. I bubbled both of them, which reminded me why I stopped playing stt's in the first place. They are so frustrating emotionally. Then I played 5, $20 heads up matches and won all of them. After that I played a $20 4 person heads up, and won both those matches. I then lost in a $5, 4 way heads up match. I don't know why but I seem to do so well in heads up. Maybe I should do that more often. Even the other night I was drunk and just playing for fun, and obviously not up to my game, and I still went like 8 for 11 in $20 heads up.

Anyway I ended up turning the 215 tourney $$ into $240 which is ok, and would have been a lot more if the stt's went well, and I didn't get fluked on the bubble. So after that I played cash games and the $3 rebuy satellite I was talking about yesterday. I finished 34th when 13 got a seat which was frustrating. I had an all in pot which if I won I could have sat out for the rest of the tourney and got the seat. I did get it all in behind however with JJ to AA, which didn't really make me too upset, as the players are so bad in those it's thought to fold JJ pree flop. The cash games were so frustrating. I hit sooooo many sets and still ended the session -171 after 5 hours of play. I feel like I ran well except for maybe 4 hands that I just got badly set up and all 4 times the pot was 200+. So I guess to loose over 500 on 4 hands and come out down 171 is not that bad, just frustrating more then anything. I think I played well for the most part, except for maybe 3 hands that I made some dumb mistakes. I think I might take a couple days off the cash games, and just play tourney's, I am just so frustrated with .50/1 right now. Not sure if it's my style, maybe playing too passive as my friend Bill Sparks was saying (if you look at the comments from the last entry), but I think I might need to re-evaluate my game. Anyway here are some of the hands from today, I think I only put in 2 of the big pots I lost in:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/43609 - Interesting. I raise the flop to see a free river card if needed. That all goes to shit, but I still have good odds to call on my draw. Turn doesn't really change much as I'm not sure if 2 pair or trips are good if I get there. River gives me 2 pair and after he checks again I'm thinking my 2 pair is good for the side pot. Not sure if I'm good for the main but I try and win some on the side. He check raises me and I'm committed to call even though I don't like it at all and I am pretty sure I'm beat. Some how I'm good for the side and the main.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/43610 - Whoops

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/43611 - That's about right

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/43612 - Trying not to do this as much, but once in a while I still do it. Worked out well here.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/43613 - Gayed again. My thinking is that the only hand I'm worried about is 88, and if someone has it whatever, not much I can do. Other then 88 I am ahead of all the other hands, AK, AA, 10J, any flush draw, I think this is just a hand that you can't really avoid going broke

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/43614 - Sweet. This worked out perfectly except for the runner runer

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/43615 - I knew exactly what would happen here as you can see in the chat.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/43616 - ty for the donation.


Well I'm off to bed, but hopefully I will be back tomorrow with some news about a big tourney win. I'll be back........