Was down 380 £after 3 hours. Suddenly went on a little rush and found myself being up £140!
The inevitable monster pot was coming. I misplayed this hand so badly it is unreal. Problem is that I still don't know how to play it. I was about £700 deep when I found 99 UTG. It was the fourth consecutive hand I open raised and the two nits to my left flatted immediately although they normally fold everything. Now it comes round to a PokerStrategy.com player is plays fixed limit mid-high stakes. Hand goes as follows
Game: NL Holdem £1/£2
UTG £700: Raise £9
EP1: Call £9
EP2: Call £9
MP1 £305: Raise £55
Folds back to UTG
UTG: calls £46
EP1: folds
EP2: folds
I just couldn't find a fold here as I thought that it is just too nice of a spot to squeeze. Both EP's will raise the top of their ranges against my open and my range could have been weak anyway. I was pretty sure that the opponent was good enough to make this play. Problem is I didn't know how to proceed with the hand. If I put him on a pre flop move then I could just 4-bet shove PF as I couldn't fold to a 5-bet shove anymore. I flatted which in hindsight was probably worst thing to do.
Flop: 8s7s6c
UTG: checks
MP1: bets £75
Now, how am I supposed to get away from my hand on a board like this? I don't need to call PF if I fold such a board? Right?
Pot is £203 now and opponent has roughly 170 behind. I ended up check-raising him all in and he snapped me with TT's. Blocking 2 of my straight outs and killing my set outs. The board blanked out and I lost this massive pot. Can I check/call the flop here? A bit ugly that hand. A shame I couldn't bink. Would have loved to sit with a £1000 stack in the game.
It's all not too tragic as I can concentrate on winning again and not just expecting to be losing just because it would be about bloody time. I could have kept the losses smaller though.
My girlfriend just managed to bink a job at PricewaterHouseCoopers and is very happy. This is something that makes me very happy! Nothing better than a happy girlfriend that doesn't moan about her shit job anymore. Normal working hours for her as well. Very good! And when we move in our now apartment in January she will have a only 3 Minute walk to the office.
I am going to Hamburg for a week in January and hope to play some cash at the Casino at the Esplanade there. I think it's a NL400 game but supposedly redic soft. Not as much limping as in Gib but opponents are supposed to give full payouts very light.
As a nice finish I give you one more picture of my new bath tub. It was still kinda under construction here:
5 comments:
Looks like a realy nice place you have there. i think you played the hand fine, once that flop came down its standard just unfortunate that he had just about the worst hand in his range for you.
Hamburg February weekend of the 20th as well mate..do it...BULLDOZER!!! Erm, can u reply letting me know what the Hamburg bigwigs had to say please?
@ Isaac
Yeah, his hand is really bad for me. In total it just felt wrong to play a 600BB pot with 99.
@ Paul
lol. Yes, I completely forgot to do the translation for you. I hope I manage today. It was rather disappointing though as far as I remember. I tried to postpone my trip to Hamburg to the end of February but couldn't. I hope to be able to go again in February.
I'd play that hand identically...but that's irrelevant cos I suck! :-D You run really well at life...view out of my window at the moment is like Basra...
...and I just realised that it's only a 300bb pot.
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