Looking over my stats from the last year I would’ve thought I lost over $450 in a session more often. But no, today was only the 4th time since Thanksgiving that I’ve spilled over a buy in and a half at the 1/2 tables. Usually I go home from my big losses kicking myself. Wondering why I chose that 1 time out of a hundred to limp aces. Or why I didn’t switch tables after having a losing image in a tough game for quite some time. But today I had no regrets. I didn’t play TOO bad. I wasn’t OVERLY card dead. I didn’t try to pull off an ill timed bluff, And I never ran into any coolers. How the hell did I lose so much freaking money(-$453 to be exact).
Lets flashback to Monday which was supposed to be my rebound session after Saturdays debacle. Monday was a day in which I was TRULY card dead. 7 hours of nothing to the point I became unfocused and passive to a fault. A key hand came hours into my session in which my passiveness led me to limp UTG with AK. Everyone limped to the button who pops it to a measly $7. Blinds call and I miss an opportunity to re-pop it to try to take down all the preflop money and maybe get heads up. Instead I just call inviting the string of callers along for the ride in the bloated pot. Flop is K44 (2 hearts). SB donks for like $30 and I have to raise for value and to protect my hand against the flushes. Also someone having a 4 is slightly unlikely but if he repops me I’m folding. So of course I get another caller whos a short stack and the sb folds KQ. Of course with the pot size and the turn being a total brick I have to get it in for his last about $45 or so and lose to his 47 offsuit. That session ended with me down near -$250 with plans of an early Tuesday session to make it up the next day.
I woke up Tuesday hoping to just get a winning session in for 2nd half of my overnight trip. I knew not to chase my $250 from the day before. I had to treat this as its own session and hopefully come out ahead. One thing I told myself was that I was going to be more assertive. If I was going to go down today I was going to go down with a fight….be aggressive and force the action at times. Quickly my strategy paid off and I was up to the tune of +$225 about 2 hrs into my session…but then the card deadness hit again. I ended up right where I was the day before folding hand after hand and slowly bleeding money to missed draws and missed flops. I finally got outta there up $83 when I realized nothing was going my way for the better part of 4 hrs. Probably a wise choice.
Which brings us to Wednesday.
We opened up a new table at about 10:30AM and like the day before I decided I was going to be aggressive. Especially in position opening a lot of pots. It worked out for me early when I opened 85s on the button and got a street of value out of flopping middle pair to pick up a small pot. That was the highlight of my day.
The cards just wouldn’t cooperate with what I wanted to do. I was stuck getting hands like Q2 offsuit all day in position and getting my borderline playable hands like SC’s and Aj off UTG or in the blinds. I called a few preflop raises with the KJ suiteds of the world and small pocket pairs and whiffed miserably every time. Actually called a $12 open which had 3 callers on the button with 98s…which got min raised by old man nit in the blinds and called all around…so now I have to waste $24 on a stupid hand when I know the flop is going to be T52 rainbow. Could old man nit ever ask for a more perfect flop after making such a dangerous move. And of course he takes down the big pot on the flop unscathed.
There were really no terrible players at my table. Nobody to really target. After a few hours stuck for about $200 I realized It was time for a table change…but I had taken the bus to the casino and It was picking up In 2 hrs. 2 hrs just isn’t enough time for me to go to a new table set up an image and get reads on the other players. It would’ve just been 2 hrs of me ferociously trying to get back even. That’s why I hate taking the bus (or 1 or 788 reasons why). I decided to stick it out.
As I said, I had a few playable hands and didn’t really run into coolers. Heres 3 spots where I could’ve easily played more tight and not lose as much but It really could’ve gone either way.
Early in the session I flop am open ended straight draw and call a $6 bet by a seemingly under average player. Then I pick up a flush draw on the turn and the clown bets just $6 again after I check. There are actually 2 flush draws on the board now. I could easily just call but I decide I have TONS of fold equity vs. this weak bet with 2 flushes and straight draws on board so I pop it to $30. Now he shoves and I have to call $60 into a pot of about $85. I call…he flopped a set…I brick.
Same player an hour layer. He limps EP…I have QQ on the button and raise $16 with a few other limps out there. He’s my only caller and the flop is Kxx all clubs. I have the Q of clubs. He donks $20 into me. I hate my options at this point. If I don’t have the club it’s a fold or raise but with the flush draw I decide to just call. Now the turns a red rag and he bets like $30. At this point I call. Rivers a brick and he bets $20 into the $135ish pot. With him having only about a hundred behind I cant really make a river shove here to knock him off his weak king. Hes never playing JJ this way so I know Im beat…but I throw in the $20 anyways just to see how big the King was he called a $16 bet with preflop. It was Kjs.
My other losing hand came in the Hi-Jack with AK in which I opened for $13 and got called by both the blinds. Flop is QJ6 2 diamonds. Both check to me. This is a good flop to check behind because it hit’s a lot of their calling range and I also have outs to a good made hand and 3 outs to the nuts. However I decide a big enough C-bets will knock them off a lot of hands with equity like lower PP’s, Aj and some straight draws. So I pop it to $30. Get 2 calls. Turns a black 6. Checks to BB who goes $40...I begrudgingly call which is probably a mistake and the small blind shoves $200 thus ending the hand and showing pocket jacks.
These seem like average hands from a mediocre session. But when you go 5hrs without winning so much as a $30 pot thes hands are magnified. And thats exactly what happened. On my last hand I raised $12 in MP with ATs and ran into QQ. Suprisingly enough the flop wasnt AQT and I got away only losing $12. Pretty much the norm for the day.
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