Saturday, November 10, 2007
Suck outs!
Suck outs!!!!! That is what I have been experiencing as of late and not in a good way. I guess it comes from playing online a lot. Since I see twice as many hands as live play it seems like I get sucked out on twice as much. I played in the FTOPS $200 + 25 NL shorthanded tourney and didn't do very well. I contribute it to the fact that I worked the night before and didn't go to sleep at all when I got home. Lesson....Don't expect to be able to focus when you are running on only 6 hours of sleep in the last 48 hours. As much as I wanted to win and or just finish in the money I was actually glad to get knocked out so quick. I could then go to bed and get some much needed rest. The past couple of days my bankroll online has fluctuated due to people hitting 2 and 3 outers on me. It got as low as $14 at one point only to see me sit in a .25 .50 NL cash game and work that $14 into $103 and then turn around and turn it into $203 in a .25 .50 PL omaha high game, all withing the matter of a hour. Maybe I should just play short stacked constantly because when I am I play like a genius. My main focus right now is to be more patient when it comes to my bankroll and not play in games that are too large for it. This is a major problem and keeps most people from going pro. Now if I can just convince myself that the reason I get sucked out on some much is because I keep getting all my money with the best hand. It's the truth it's just hard to accept. Until later Hit that felt hard!
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Since Greg is talking about bad beats I thought I would share.
So I decided to post bad beats from this moment on so I can look at them at laugh, after I am done being pissed off about them, lol.... I have tried to take a new outlook on bad beats as there is nothing I can do about them since I usually get my money in with the best of it, and I even put bad beats on players myself, so it happens!
During a $30 freeze-out tourney
I pick up a few pots and try to play patient and wait for a decent hand. Blinds are at 50 100.Person in 2nd position raises to 400 and everyone folds down to me. I am in the big blind with 100 in and 98off. I put the raiser on a good hand AK AQ, two big cards. The flop comes out 10 7 3. I have an open ended draw and I think a pair of 8s or 9s will also win the pot. I check to entice a bet since I think the player has missed the flop totally, and he bets 700. We are basically even stacked with almost 3600 left. I figure he would fold to a raise, but it has to be for all his chips since if I just raise say 700-1000 he might call and be forced to put in the rest of his chips no matter what comes out, or he might go all-in there since he has 400+700=1100 already in the pot and if he calls my raise he would have 1100+1000=2100 in the pot with less than 2000 left. So I decide to move all-in and if he does have a big pair then I have 8 outs to hit. He calls all-in and flips over KK. Crap I read him wrong, but still have 8 outs. The flop was 10 7 3, turn J. I hit the str8 and he is drawing dead. Lucky for me.
AA vs J10 blinds 200 and 400. A player from middle position goes all-in for 3400 chips and it folds around to me on the big blind. I look down and am pleased to find AA. I instantly call him and we flip over our cards. He had J10off and the guy next to me says he folded J10. So I am in good shape. The flop brings J72, and the turn brings the case J. The river is no help. I lose to trip Jacks.
Later in the same tourney blinds 300 and 600. I am no the button and no one enters the pot before me, I raise to 2000 with 10 8 of diamonds, and try to pick up the blinds. The small blind pushes for another 2000, big blind folds, and I decide to call since I only have another 3000 in chips and figure he has two overs AQ KQ such. He has AA, lol. The same guy that cracked my AA now has AA. The flop comes QQJ, turn 9, river 7. I turn the straight.
After the tourney we played a cash game. I have around $50 in my stack. The blinds are $1-$2. I limp in with 66 in middle position, a player behind me raises to $10, and a player behind him raises to $40 in the big blind. It gets back to me, and I should fold here, since I am probably up against a higher pp. But I decide to gamble here since I figure the initial raiser has a hand like AK or AQ or KQ. and I am sure he will call since he is playing pretty loose. The initial raiser goes all-in and the big blind calls. So it is 3 handed the hands are 66 for me, AKhearts for intial raiser, and QQ for the big blind. I am way behind. The flop comes 1076 of hearts. I flop a set and the other player hits the A high flush. I need the board to pair. The turn is a blank and the river is a Q. So there is an A high flush, and set of Qs over set of 6s. I should have folded preflop, and ended up coming in 3rd, but would have gotten all my money in regardless on the flop since i hit a set, and would have lost it all no-matter how the hand played out, but the only way for me to have made the right play was to fold preflop.
I lose a few more pots with top pair on the flop, turn a straight and flush draw, only to miss the river and lose more chips when someone made a move on the flop with a str8 draw.
Last hand of the night and worst beat. I have 33 in middle position and the pot is raised before it gets to me to $5. I smooth call since there are 2 players in before me and 3 after me. The flop comes J73 two clubs. The intial raiser bets $15 and I put him on a hand like AJ or KJ. I still have another $70 left and decide to just smooth call since I have a good hand and there is $25 in the pot plus his $15=$40. I hope to get more players in the pot and hope a good turn card comes off, dont want a club or course. 2 players call behind me so there is $90 in the pot now. The turn is a K of spades which puts 2 spades and 2 clubs on the board. I go all in for the rest which is about $55. I get called by the next player and the other two fold. I put the caller on a J or maybe even KJ but I think he would have raised on the flop, so maybe a J with two clubs. The guy called with damn 68 of spades???? No draw no pair on the flop and turns a flush draw, and you know what happens next. Of course the donkey catches a spade on the river..*$%@ suck out city. I tried to think where I went wrong with the hand. I guess I could have re popped the flop bet of $15 when I hit my set to $30-$40. But I wanted callers with the flush draw or top pair weak kicker, even second pair to stay in since I am a huge favorite. On the flop I am 92% to win verses 68 spades, and on the turn 84%. Well I tried to remember that all I can do is get all my money in with the best of it, I want that guy to call, and double me up. I guess next time I will make a small raise on the flop since my hand is pretty disguised. But then again who calls needing runner-runner anyways???
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