Monday, April 11, 2005

Most frustrating week ever!!

The title says it all. But first let me do my BR update...13 weeks over now and my BR is at $4240 which is approx. a loss of $400 for the week. Three days this week I lost $450. I count 5 times I lost $900 of my own money where my pp's tripped on flop but lost. Two times I count where my flush was made and lost about $300 of my own. Flushes were the demise of my week. If I had trips I lost to them and if I had the flush I lost to a boat. Funnily enough, a few other times I had trips there was 3 cards to a suit on the board but no one had a flush but what this causes is to severely limit the profit I can make on the hand. I fucking hate flushes!! Other situations that didnt help my cause, I get AA and zero action (many times). Or I get AA and get severely compromised on flop and my bet is reraised huge - have to fold. See example below...

PokerStars Game #1501231748: Hold'em No Limit ($1/$2) - 2005/04/10 - 13:04:17 (ET)Table 'Cygnus' Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: bluey1000 ($200 in chips)
Seat 2: Spectatr ($150 in chips)
Seat 3: DJSnorzBlow ($214.80 in chips)
Seat 4: Fox 002 ($346.80 in chips)
Seat 5: barelyhetero ($291.65 in chips)
Seat 6: granbu ($97.55 in chips)
Seat 7: 5y78h4g ($210.15 in chips)
Seat 8: kwalsh22 ($132.60 in chips)
Seat 9: bouh ($490.65 in chips)
DJSnorzBlow: posts small blind $1
Fox 002: posts big blind $2
bluey1000: posts big blind $2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to bluey1000 [Ac Ah]
barelyhetero: calls $2
granbu: folds
5y78h4g: calls $2
kwalsh22: folds
bouh: calls $2
bluey1000: raises $6 to $8
Spectatr: folds
DJSnorzBlow: folds
Fox 002: folds
barelyhetero: calls $6
5y78h4g: calls $6
bouh: calls $6
*** FLOP *** [2c 4c 5d]
barelyhetero: checks
5y78h4g: checks
bouh: checks
bluey1000: bets $16
barelyhetero: calls $16
5y78h4g: raises $44 to $60

A lot of people wouldnt be able to fold their aces in this situation but from my read I was most likely beaten. There is a small chance he may be on a draw or have say TT, JJ but I am willing to lose $24 to that. I saw him either with A3 proctecting it from any flush drawers, trips protecting from any flush or straight drawers, even a 45s. It also looked like a scared raise but I just didnt feel like gambling my entire stack on it. Was I wrong? If I was I only lose $24...

Here is one of my flush killers from Friday night 2am where from observation the play has been terrible filled with lots of bluffs and heavy betting on marginal hands...

PokerStars Game #1494938451: Hold'em No Limit ($1/$2) - 2005/04/09 - 05:15:20 (ET)Table 'Hungaria' Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: bluey1000 ($299.65 in chips)
Seat 2: rezanyc ($194 in chips)
Seat 3: Lotsa Leaks ($200 in chips)
Seat 4: TheCookie ($335.65 in chips)
Seat 5: orlov ($360.50 in chips)
Seat 6: oomphalos ($73 in chips)
Seat 7: goose58 ($98.90 in chips)
Seat 8: mrose120 ($137.30 in chips)
Seat 9: noR¡ver ($126.90 in chips)
bluey1000: posts small blind $1
rezanyc: posts big blind $2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to bluey1000 [Td Th]
Lotsa Leaks: raises $4 to $6
TheCookie: folds
orlov: folds
oomphalos: folds
goose58: folds
mrose120: calls $6
noR¡ver: folds
bluey1000: calls $5
rezanyc: folds
*** FLOP *** [Ts 4h Jh]
bluey1000: checks
Lotsa Leaks: bets $14
mrose120: calls $14
bluey1000: raises $26 to $40
Lotsa Leaks: folds
mrose120: calls $26
*** TURN *** [Ts 4h Jh] [7d]
bluey1000: bets $50
mrose120: calls $50
*** RIVER *** [Ts 4h Jh 7d] [Qh]
bluey1000: bets $76
mrose120: calls $41.30 and is all-in
*** SHOW DOWN ***
bluey1000: shows [Td Th] (three of a kind, Tens)
mrose120: shows [Kh 2h] (a flush, King high)

This guy should've folded PF but like many beginners any suited hand looks playable. I check reraise big to stop any chasers. My only mistake on this hand might be not pushing in on the turn, but seriously if he will call a $50 bet isnt he just as likely to call all-in? but I agree I should've pushed anyway. Even with the flush board on the river I wasnt going to fold blindly so I paid to see. This loss put me slightly below $4k and I quit for the night right then and there. These trips losing to flushes is how I lost a majority of my money last week and had me so infuriated by the weekend to have it happen to me over and over again...aaarrggghhh.

It doesnt look like I have any other of my bad beats saved which isnt surprising because I was too busy throwing stuff around my room and fighting with my bed. If I can just avoid a lot of these outcomes I know I can make a lot of money at this level even counting the times I am actually outplayed.

It is so surprising to me how willing people are willing to call you down to the river with middle pair. I would never even consider doing that unless I had some kind of draw to back it up.

Anyway, I feel there is no reason I cannot win huge in any week and I will do my best to avoid the flush losses or at least limit what I will call to see it. May the streets fall in my favor this week!

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