Monday, July 16, 2007

Poker :: Luck is gone to hawaii

Last night had a tough one :) First losing session in July, and first time when I was sixtabling. First hour was horrible, couldnt get anything going. Ran AA into QQ big fireworks preflop and Q high flop - down a buyin, then lost another buyin flush over higher flush, KK on T high flop lost to AT for another buyin, AA vs 33 somehow managed to save some chips on raggy flop (including a trey), so I was going down quite fast. Then I saw AA on the button on one table with two limpers ahead, and KK in the big blind on another table, and then my internet connectivity went down :) All in all 1.25 buyin down.
Then an hour later got internet back, and promptly lost another 2 buyins by playing good hands too fast and paying off completed draws too often. Meanwhile added two NL400 tables which I payed more attention to and battled some of the chips back. Made few laydowns, interesting one was this:

Me (MP) : [AJc], raise 4BB
Player1 (LP) : call
Player2 (BB) : call
FLOP : 533 two clubs
BB : check
Me : bet 8BB
LP : raise to 16BB
BB : call
Me : call (thought of reraising, but minireraise and a BB call stinked)
TURN : K clubs
BB : check
Me : check (maybe bad again, but imho its either im far ahead or already dead at this point, and if im ahead, they're drawing to four outs max each - two treys and two cards to fill their pocket pairs, for those less observant on fullhouses ;)
LP : raise 2/3 pot
BB : reraise allin
Me : fold - pot is huge but also the probability of fullhouse; not too hard laydown in cashgame - I invested only 20BB so far and to call another 80BB even for possible ~300BB pot isn't profitable in the long run.

In the showdown LP AA lost vs K3s. BB special and slowplaying AA pre ftw :)
Subtotal for the night is 1.5buyins down which isnt too bad knowing I was 3.5 buyins down at one point. "Only if" my big favs would've held up, it could've easily been best session so far. But all these "almost" count only in hand-granades as someone wisely said :)

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