I started a session of 2/4 NL with flopping the nut flush , 3 way All In , and I'm up against pocket aces and 2 pair...the 2 pair caught filled up to a full house on the turn, and won the massive $400 pot, not sure why he was in the hand to begin with , pocket aces guy raise preflop , then mr 2 pair called with a K9 offsuit and I called with my AJ suited...after that hand I tilted another 2 buyins..i am extremely upset about the way I allowed a bad beat to tilt me . A good player can't get emotional about bad beats or coolers, I really have to work on this , as this is probably one of my most major leaks...
I was still jonesing to play poker so I decided to take it easy and play a $11 - 18person tourney , I figured I can easily tilt here and play dumb and still play poker, but I played well and took 1st place..
My bankroll is at 2790 , a december profit of 790 so far...
I haven't played much online since friday , and yesterday me and a few friends drove down to Atlantic City to play in the World Series of Poker - Circuit , Event #2 , $300 +40 was the buyin . We got there about an hour before it started , one of my friends decided to donate to Harrahs by playing Black Jack , but somehow managed to break even and another friend managed to luckbox his way to a $2400 slot machine win, jeez.
I sat at my first table and didn't play a hand for he first 4 full orbits , I didn't get dealt any good hands either so I had plenty of time to study my table, I wasn't looking for tells or the way ppl twitched their eyes while betting out, instead I focused on betting patterns ,
I played very few hands , there were a few ppl on the table that loved to limp but would fold to a reraise , so I took advantage of stealing the antes and sometimes 2 or 3 limps included.
An unltra aggressive guy to my right was shortstacked and pushed all in while I had the button, I looked down at AK and called...blinds folded and he flipped over, shockingly , pocket queens, but the door card was a nice ace and I took him out!!
I didn't really get dealt any good pairs, but I had AK 3 or 4 times and was able to steal blinds and antes ..I also had AK vs AQ and when an ace came on the river he pushed all in , I called , he was eliminated.
I made a few bad folds, where a desperate shortstack pushed all in while I had the button, I called with pocket 44 and the big blind reraised . The reraise wasn't that much more and I had the right odds to call , but the BB was also shortstack and was pushing in a lot prefop to steal blinds, so in this situation, I had to put him on decent pair or maybe AK , I folded and the BB showed pocket KK and original raiser showed nothing , on the flop a 4 came out. It hurt, I knew I had right odds to call but my read was right , but perhaps my math was off.
our table finally broke and I got moved to a table where I was shortstack , I got to the new table just in time for me to be the big blind , 3 players limp in and I check my option with a miserable looking 10 8 offsuit, flop comes 10, 8 ,A rainbow, and I thought,kaching!! I check, one player bets the pot , and another player heistates and calls , it comes to me and I push all in , one dude folds and next guy instacalls and flips over AK , turn and river are blanks and I double up!!
The table was very wild and loose so I waited for some premium hands, but nothing really came my way. After 4 or 5 orbits I was sitting in the small blind and everyone folds to the button , and he pushes is shortstack all in , I look down at AQ and push all in , and to my surprise, the BB pushes all in covering the both of us
and he flips over pocket KK , at this point I realize that I made a critical error , instead of coming over the top of the buttons all in , I simply shouldve CALLED . Why would I try to isolate with only the BB left to act? Obviously for the BB to have gone in he would have to have a premium hand, perhaps beating me , especially since there was an All in and then another reraise all in before him, obviously he would only enter with a major hand , and had I just called, I would be able to fold if the BB pushed...
so , original raiser had A9, I have AQ and BB has pocket KK , and some douchebag from the other end screams 'i folded an ace' ......well that didn't stop the case Ace from showing up on the flop and earning this massive pot , wow!! I was stoked and was 2nd or 3rd in chips on the table
And this brings us to my last hand of the tourney, I'm the button and someone limps ahead of me, I look down and I see QcJc , so I limp too , SB folds and BB raises it to 3x , limper thinks for a minute and calls, and I decide to call too , flop comes Kc 4c 9c, wow, a flopped flush and I'm last to act, nice ,and I think how can I make money off this , BB checks, limper checks and I decide to move all in figuring its a nice pot and let me take it here, to my surprise the BB , who is original raiser starts thinking and says 'i have to call' and limper ,who is chip leader as well pushes all in ...we all flip over and I show my Q high club flush, BB shows pocket aces , red aces and limper shows pocket 44 , with 4 on flop he had a set, turn was a blank , river was a king and pairing the board giving limper a full house and knocking me out..
After losing a major hand I want to think back and see how I went wrong or can I blame it on being cold decked..I never like to play QJ , did you know that the name for a QJ is 'TROUBLE' ...
I don't mind my limping in with QJ on the button, but after the BB raised I guess I shouldve folded , eventhough limper came along and I felt I had good odds, but at the end , I played a marginal hand and lost..
I may go back to AC and play another event, not sure or just maybe a regular tourney at the borgata, I hated the harrahs poker room , it fails in comparison to the borgata ,
later
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3 comments:
Don't be too hard on yourself dude, the QJ hand was just a cooler. You got unlucky, nothing wrong with the preflop call, you were getting great odds and you hit a dream flop and was at least 70% favourite to win the hand, he gets lucky on the river - that's poker!
I usually say the same thing you did about "shouldn't have been in that hand anyway".
But you did have good odds and hit a great flop. Getting all your money in ahead is the best you ask for every time. Once that flop came, there is no way you are folding to anything.
Stop limping on the button with Q-J. Actually, don't limp on the button ever unless you have a plan, like a limp-raise if it is warranted. If you had raised on the button the BB would most likely have re-raised with A-A (unless he was a complete donkey). If he had and the limper called or came over the top, you could have gotten away from the hand and kept your stack. If the limper folded and you called, you would have won a nice pot. You raise not only to define your hand but the hands of others in the pot. And that's why you don't limp on the button. Had to chime in on this one. Let me know what you think.
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