It had to happen

My visit at Aspers on Friday quickly pulled me back to ground after feeling sooo good about life and Poker for the last few weeks. I quickly busted the tourney making a terrible call with TP to find that I was outkicked. I bet and then called the shove with TP and he showed me AQ to my KQ. I got up and wished good luck to everybody when the dealer put a K on the turn and I couldn’t believe my luck and apologized to the other player. Well, Ace on the river. And I haven’t even read the book. A re-suck-out definitely hurts more than a normal suck-out as you come from the emotional high of having sucked out on somebody and therefore get smashed back to the ground from a higher point when you get re-sucked-out on. It is never over before it is over I guess.

I then played some Roulette as the cash tables had not started yet. The Roulette was good to me and made me £ 40.

I got to the cash tables and bought in for £ 120. After my last live cash session in B’ham I felt quite good about playing that game but I was clearly mistaken. I managed to stack off with 77s in the third hand I played. I am so fucking angry about the way I played that hand it is unreal. SO FUCKING ANGRY ABOUT MYSELF! Hand goes like this: Straddle to £4 is on. A few limpers join the fun. I find 77 on the button and make it £ 21 to go. Straddler calls and limper to my right calls. Q45 rainbow flop. Checked to me and I make it £ 53 basically committing myself. I get shoved on and make the disgusted call and get shown AQ. I reload for another £120 and decide to rock it up. I get small pay offs with TP hands and pocket QQ. Then lose a bigger pot with a straight to a flush. Last hand of the night was AJs. I called an UTG raise from late position. As did two others. Flop JT6 rainbow. UTG bets, one player calls I shove my £90 over the top. Player to my left calls with his last £40, UTG goes all-in as well and the other player states “there is too much in the pot to fold” and he is clearly right with that. UTG shows AJ and the other both players are showing KQ for the up and down + overs. 9 on the river to make the straights and I am going home at 1 am. I played so fucking badly all fucking night. The table was actually very nice with about 4 complete idiots at the table. One guy was in for £ 800 by the time I left. He was massively pissed and kept making gifts to people with terrible bluffs und 4th pair kind of hands. Only problem was my seat. I had all the good players (5) to my right and they kept isolating the fish nicely so I never really got the chance to get involved. I know normally its good to have the dangerous players to the right but on this table it was a weird dynamic as the 4 fish were sat next to each other on my left hand side and the other 5 capable players were sat to each other on my right hand side. I find the best position at this table is clearly the seat right after the fish. You can raise or min 3-bet lots of the time and therefore make the other nits fold and get the fish heads up.
But I could have easily made a profit at this table if I would not have decided to stack off early on and to then win it back by desperately trying to find a shoving spot. I’m such a donkey.

In B’ham I played my absolute A game and was super in the zone. Furthermore there was one big difference between the B’ham and the Aspers cash game. In B’ham the table was full of nitty students that were playing underrolled and therefore they were easy victims to run over if you are aggressive. In B’ham all night only one player joined the table for about one hour which I would call a massive fish. The style I played there fitted perfectly in the environment. In Aspers it’s the other way around. You get half the table with loose passive people that don’t care about calling a 4-bet with J9o OOP and the other half of the table is just sitting tight waiting to make a hand and trying to get paid off. I just need to change my approach next time as there is no reason to be overly creative. I should have limped a few more suited Aces and connectors or something in position in order to make a hand but when I was in position with a hand like this, one of the regs had already made a pot size raise and after the limpers being in already it was normally something between 9 and 20 quid when it came round to me. I definitely learned another lesson.

Most annoying about the 77 hand is that I just randomly assumed that I could run over the table although I was only at the table for 3 hands so I had no read or information at all at this point of time. I just should have limped behind in position flop a set or not and play the hand straight forward without getting too fruity when having no information about the table. This is not supposed to be another whiny whinge post. I didn’t get sucked out on or anything. I was just in the worst seat at the table and played terribly. So I fully deserved to get £240 stuck.

I am still positive about my game at the moment and as I am going to Gibraltar this week I will have a good opportunity to turn things around again and I promise I will! I will be spending my Thursday evening in the Gala Casino in Gibraltar probably play their £20 FO and play some £ 0.5/1 later on. Yes they have got 0.50/1 tables there. Brilliant isn’t it!

So what exactly have we learned:

I am not fucking invincible

Other people give a fucking shit about how good I am feeling

I have no fucking, in stone carved right to get all the money of the fish

Not everyone who does look like a fucking fish turns out to be one

I am a fucking massive fish if I am not playing my A or at least B game

Do not fucking over think a hand against a moron player but have a proper fucking thought process against a capable player before making a decision

Apply some fucking seat and table selection rules to the game. If you can’t get a better seating position than the toilet seat just do not fucking play

As mentioned before I am not crying or am in a bad mood or anything. I am just a angry about my own idiocy.

Online I made the step up to NL25 and had some first profits. The level of play does not seem to change on PKR between NL10 and NL100. You rarely get more than 3 capable players on a full ring table. I hope the game stays as soft as it is and I hope I can keep up the running well.

Didn’t get on the scale this morning so I can’t update the weight stat. I suppose no one is really interested in that stat anyway.

TriTraTrallala Trutfish

Poker:

Stars: - $70
PKR: + $294
Live cash: + £ 163.50
Live tourney: - £ 82