O-Poker

After being up and down this week, I headed into tonight up about 1/2 a buy-in for the week following a horrible week last week.

Things didn't go well last night.

*****EDIT*****: To answer one of the comments - Yes, I know I played a couple of these hands about as horribly as possible (very weak tight). This is not how I normally play. That is why I posted them - to show how poorly I was playing/tilting. I was playing not to lose instead of to win and was making bad calls. I try not to sugar coat things on the blog. I'm in a much better frame of mind today and know that I will be back on track in no time. ***********

Hand 1 - Early on in the session, I got all in as a 68% favorite with 1 card to come and lost.

Hand 2 - I'm sure that I was tilting after Hand 1 and played this hand horribly on all streets. The guy was 33/25 but his river aggression was pretty low, so it should have been an easy fold.

Hand 3 - I'm thinking the frustration got the better of me again. I got all in on the flop with two overs and a flush draw - only to be really far behind on the flop and dead on the turn.

Hand 4 - I don't think that there was any to get away from this against a shorty. Anyone fold this?

Hand 5 - DQB - The only bright spot of the night.

Overall, I wound up losing four buy-ins on the night. That puts my 2/4nl November total to down 13 buy-ins after being up 33 buy-ins last month for a net Oct-Nov of up 20 buy-ins.

October = Great. +13.5k cash games + 1.8k in rakeback = $15.3k

November to date = Horrible. -5.2k + $600 in rakeback = -$4.6k

October + November = OK +$10.7k

Oh, the joys of cash games!!!

I have looked over most of the November hands and other than the coolers and bad beats, I probably spewed close to 2-3 buy-ins from bad calls and bad timing on bluffs. I don't think that I have been playing anywhere close to my "A" game this week - clearly effected by the 1st week of November.

I have re-read my old "Slump Busting" post and it still all applies. I am going to re-read it each of the next few nights before I start playing. I'll probably stick with 4 tables more often than 6 tables.

My new plan

1. Move down to 1/2NL
2. Regain my confidence.
3. Play my "A" game each session. If I feel like I am playing bad, I'm going to take a break or stop for the night.
4. Play a minimum of 25k hands at 1/2NL before hitting 2/4NL again.
5. Try to mix a few new things into my game.
6. Shoot for a PTBB/100 of 5.0 for the duration of the 25k hands.
7. Re-watch the cardrunner cash game videos that I thought were most helpful and saved.
8. Not play cash games while watching TV and sitting in the recliner.
9. Not play cash games while watching TV and sitting in the recliner.

This shouldn't be taken as a rant or sympathy post. It is more of a self realization. I'm not happy with how I am playing this week after running ridiculously horribly last week. I know that I am a lot better than I have been playing this week and plan to prove it to myself.

Today I was sitting at the type of table that you search for. It just happened to fall into my lap. I wound up dropping two buy-ins at the table but could just have easily been up 5 times that many buy-ins. It was full of ridiculous calling stations and bad hyper aggro bluffers.

Here is a screen shot of the table stats.

$2/$4NL table with $86 average pot and Table Voluntary Put $ in Pot of 49.2; Preflop raise % of 21.8%. I wish I had the cold call preflop stats and cold call 3 bets preflop stats. There was one guy that called just about any raise on any street with any pair or any draw. He hit a gutshot against my set. He also made a set of 10s against my AK on a A109 flop (2 spades). I think that I saw him flat call $80 preflop oop with K9o against KK - only to make a K high straight on the river.











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I have a busy week ahead - not sure how much I will be able to post this week. I think that I have only gotten in 700-800 hands since the last 50K hands update, so I will probably update that once I hit 20k hands at 2/4.

I am going to try to play my 2nd HUC match on Monday and will post the details after the match.