I busted out just before the second break in today’s WCOOP event.
I was just never able to get anything going. I flopped a pair of aces with a big kicker, someone flopped a set. I tried to steal the blinds with a marginal hand, I got 3 bet. I picked up QQ, everyone folded to my raise. You know, that kinda thing. No real bad beats to speak of, but nothing really working for me either.
Yesterday I went to hang out with some friends and bought an ipod mini so aside from my pathetic performance in the WCOOP I didn’t get to play at all yesterday. I came back home today at like 5 and hung around for a while and at 11 I said “Hey why don’t I actually play?” So I quickly hopped on 4 $10/$20 6-max tables on Party Poker and came out $705 ahead.
I took some real ugly beats at the beginning. Probably my favorite was 35 in the big blind, SB has J4. The flop is 467, he bets and I call. Turn is a 4 he check raises, I 3 bet, he caps. River is a 4 and he checks. I giggle and check behind. Things worked out in the end obviously cause you don’t make $700 in an hour and fifteen minutes at 4 $10/$20 tables without things going your way obviously. I’m pretty scared of what’s on the other side of this variance hill I’m on currently.
So after quickly throwing away all of my chips in a charity tournament, I decided to put in a real poker session. I plopped down at a $30/$60 table with a mega-fish and 2 6 handed $10/$20 tables. Bing Bam Boom, 15 minutes later I’m up $588 and the session is going good. Then my hands stopped holding up and I started missing flops like it was going out of style. My bluffs weren’t working. It sucked.
My favorite hand was when I raised with K9s and a mega-fish called from the BB with 92s. Flop was AQ4 with one of each of our suits he bet I raised and he called. Turn card was a J of his suit he bet and again I raised feeling strongly that I had the best hand, he called. The river was an offsuit 2. He checked and I had to debate whether to show down my hand that I thought still had a reasonable chance of being best, or betting to gain a little value in getting some sort of hand to fold (doubtful).
I think against his range of hands the check was best, but this one specific time a bluff probably would have worked. Oh well. A solid $842 losing session. Hey, you can win every time, can you?