Two-tabling
Added hand numbers because it was helping me keep things in order with my process, but also is interesting because it shows how far apart each hand was.
(AA) 716 - Villain’s play on the second hand in makes him my immediate target.
(A5o) Was caught up playing my aces at the other table and checked with one player left to act on the river with a straight.
(Kh8h) 717 – Next hand after the aces. OK, the call of $1.44 on the flop was horrible, I know, but I was a little blinded by flush draw/gutshot/over, and distracted by playing two tables and checking with a straight at the other one, and pissed away AA profit. More on this later.
I clearly can’t play two tables, take player notes, and take blog notes; it’s too much. Cutting one out. See what I give up for you, faithful readers? ($4 --> $3.98, 14 Hands)
(ATs) 720 – Knew my overs were outs; villain was splashing around with garbage. As you can see.
(99) 724 – Villain is shoving his chips around with anything, but I slow it down when he calls the flop.
(AQo) 729 – Back to some sugar at a table I should be destroying like I was Marsh.
(99) – 733 Cursed by this hand this session. Bad flop raise on my part. Bet/raise/fold just never happens, I was just being stubborn to try and raise him off his hand, and that just doesn’t happen when someone bets into you at microstakes cake. So long sugar.
+1
(ATo) 739 – “n Austin” had AQ. Interesting hand from a perspective of learning these villains. That flop call before I finally folded was confusion on some level, but I should have folded after one bet, not two.
(JTs) 742 – Villain reraises extremely light. I know I’m gambling on the flop, though, plain and simple; I have no fold equity. Oh well, the Ferguson system protects you against some ill-advised gambles here and there.
+2
(AQo) 756 – Nerve-wracking hand that I played slow when it was safe, and fast when it was dangerous. Brilliant!
I was clinging to this table shorthanded despite my preference for 10-handed because I really had a bead on seat 1 and 10, and wanted them to pay me. Instead…
(AKo) 763 – God, it all comes full circle. I mean, this villain was a light-calling d0nk, the guy who went to the felt against my aces with QTo on a KQx flop; that’s why I stayed three-handed. Eh, can’t sweat it, it wasn’t a bad play against a guy who calls big pf raises with QTo and then calls off his stack with second pair no kicker.
Wow, a very frustrating session that started off by stacking a donk with my AA on the second hand, and ends with me doubling up the same d0nk in a race.
$7 --> $.74
50 Hands
Sigh. Doyle sums up this session for me with his comment in the middle of the AA vs. KK Farha/Gold hand on HSP:
“If my daddy knew I was loser in this poker game, he’d come out of the grave and beat the heck out of me.”
My dad is alive and wouldn’t beat me or care if I was loser at a poker game, but yeah.
O8
Clearly time to play O8. I’ve been studying my Farha, and want to put it into practice.
Farha says not to chase the chop, but with me being the fourth caller, if I wasn’t quartered, it felt +EV. Of course, I was quartered.
I know Farha likes this play; a big rule of his is to play scoop potential aggressively. It didn’t work out, but given opponent ranges and not actual holdings, I know Sammy would stick it in there every time in that position (TWSS). So I bust in 4 hands, but I’m OK with the decisions, here.
$5 --> $0
4 Hands
Clearly time to stop O8. I’m good at hold’em, right? Maybe I was at some point.
NLHE
(JJ) Some villains bust out before I can enter a note on them On my first or second hand, I just couldn’t play JJ for a three-bet pf. Turns out I was way ahead, but I like how I played it.
(AQo) Almost got him… prairie dog took forever to fold, and I thought I was going to get both villains all in with the best hand, there.
(KQs) No worries, pd pays me off, instacalling my river shove.
Pd now shoving every hand, and someone else is getting it. CRAP.
What’s going on? Guys I know I had notes on are not showing the notes.
(AA) Dammit, the table was so shove-happy and lostbankroll calling so light, I really thought I would get the call there.
And it is NUTTY with the shoving and calling.
Why do the poker gods hate me so? And wtf is with 99 tonight? Destroys me when I have it, destroys me when others have it.
It is sick for pd to have that kind of stack, it really is.
Sparred heads up with pd for a while, which was probably murder on the rake front. Way too fast paced to note hands, but I got him for one big one, and there was a lot of back and forth otherwise. Probably up a couple bucks from the heads up session.
I’m concerned about this notes thing. They were persistent before, and now I feel like I had notes on opponents that aren’t showing any note icons. WTF?
(AT) pd continues to be a target. He’s far from the worst d0nk I’ve seen, but he’ll call light, and won’t bet light, so he lets you catch up, and then pays you.
Table refills, and I go card dead for a few orbits.
If doctar had some notes, he’s know not to bluff pd. He gets props for the call, when it’s more that he’s a station and less that he made a good hero call.
Nice hand, pd. What a time to be card dead.
TT goes worse than nowhere. Grrrrr. My fault, I overplayed it and should have just called the pf reraise. A combo of trying to raise when I know I have a better hand than pd, and card-deadness for umpteen orbits making TT look like AA.
Wow, what a night. Lost track of time, now I need to quit (and pd left anyway). Bah. 131 hands in a sea of d0nks for $.66.
$4 --> $4.66
131 Hands
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