Transferring Wealth One Dollar At A Time
{Warning: tl; dr. Also contains unnecessary whining.}
Frustrating.
That's the only word I can think of for yesterday's session.
It was one of those days when almost nothing went right. Thankfully I can use the word 'almost' or it would have been a disaster of epic proportions.
I went down three buyins early somehow as I whiffed time and time again. Every big pair ran into at least one over card on the flop. No sets. No draws filled - OESFD + brick + brick = aaigh. I ran aces into sets three times. All the usual stuff.
Luckily, I was able to mount a comeback. I did actually hit a set of tens and got paid by a player taking his TPTK to the mat. And someone was willing to stack off preflop with TT against my aces. I got all the way back to within one lousy happy meal of even, but I didn't quit playing. That would have made too much sense.
Instead, I got mixed up a hand. A make-or-break-the-session hand.
Lots of preflop action. I go along for the ride with 8c7c on the button. The money is all in by the turn. A set of aces, a set of queens, and my lousy naked flush draw. I don't remember if I flopped it or turned it - I think it was flopped but I didn't pick up any additional outs on the turn - but I was getting better than 6-1 on a huge pot with one card to come when I called off the rest of my stack. Marginal but man that would have been sweet. All three of us had big stacks.
Broke.
I built up again, this time to within a 50 piece McNugget meal of even. I enjoyed flopping a straight (on a monotone flop) with 69s from the small blind against the big blind's QQ - no frush outs for you. So close - again - to even for the session.
And then I turn Broadway and can't get away from it when the board paired on the river. I just couldn't decide if my opponent had the boat or just an overpair. Duh.
I trap an aggrotard in a blind vs blind battle, he shoves with air on the flop with KJs against my jacks. Boom river king.
Lose a flip against a shortstacker who squeezes with jacks. Really? Against like 4 opponents?
Sigh.
It's hard to tear yourself away and I really need to stop checking - ever- the cashier during a session. I played much much longer than I should have because I kept thinking if I can just win one more pot I can get back above the X 'dollar' mark. If I'd just quit after making my point total for the day I would have been slightly better off.
At the end of the day I basically reversed the last two winning sessions. Not a huge deal but still:
Frustrating.
And for future reference all bad beat story payouts (if any) will be made in c2008 Zimbabwe dollars. Or Sklansky bucks. Your choice. Maybe I should add FT points to the list.
That's the only word I can think of for yesterday's session.
It was one of those days when almost nothing went right. Thankfully I can use the word 'almost' or it would have been a disaster of epic proportions.
I went down three buyins early somehow as I whiffed time and time again. Every big pair ran into at least one over card on the flop. No sets. No draws filled - OESFD + brick + brick = aaigh. I ran aces into sets three times. All the usual stuff.
Luckily, I was able to mount a comeback. I did actually hit a set of tens and got paid by a player taking his TPTK to the mat. And someone was willing to stack off preflop with TT against my aces. I got all the way back to within one lousy happy meal of even, but I didn't quit playing. That would have made too much sense.
Instead, I got mixed up a hand. A make-or-break-the-session hand.
Lots of preflop action. I go along for the ride with 8c7c on the button. The money is all in by the turn. A set of aces, a set of queens, and my lousy naked flush draw. I don't remember if I flopped it or turned it - I think it was flopped but I didn't pick up any additional outs on the turn - but I was getting better than 6-1 on a huge pot with one card to come when I called off the rest of my stack. Marginal but man that would have been sweet. All three of us had big stacks.
Broke.
I built up again, this time to within a 50 piece McNugget meal of even. I enjoyed flopping a straight (on a monotone flop) with 69s from the small blind against the big blind's QQ - no frush outs for you. So close - again - to even for the session.
And then I turn Broadway and can't get away from it when the board paired on the river. I just couldn't decide if my opponent had the boat or just an overpair. Duh.
I trap an aggrotard in a blind vs blind battle, he shoves with air on the flop with KJs against my jacks. Boom river king.
Lose a flip against a shortstacker who squeezes with jacks. Really? Against like 4 opponents?
Sigh.
It's hard to tear yourself away and I really need to stop checking - ever- the cashier during a session. I played much much longer than I should have because I kept thinking if I can just win one more pot I can get back above the X 'dollar' mark. If I'd just quit after making my point total for the day I would have been slightly better off.
At the end of the day I basically reversed the last two winning sessions. Not a huge deal but still:
Frustrating.
And for future reference all bad beat story payouts (if any) will be made in c2008 Zimbabwe dollars. Or Sklansky bucks. Your choice. Maybe I should add FT points to the list.
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