Good Run - Kinda

So another weekend has come. I didn't play all week after my cash fiasco last weekend. I booted up 3 tourneys today and cashed in 1. I was going to play the 2 $5.50 2R1A but decided to play the Big $55 instead since I was going to spend that much on the buy-ins and rebuys anyways. Needless to say it went horrible in the 2 tourneys. I just finished the $11 $10k GTD. I made it far, just shy of the FT unfortunately. I was actually card dead for most of the tourney and picked up double ups in crucial spots that led to my deep run. I don't think I have any overly interesting hands to post, they were mostly pretty straight forward. I'll go through my database tomorrow and see if there's anything post-worthy. But in the end I went soooooo card dead it was unreal. I had 2 whales at my table that were raising like crazy so it made stealing blinds and just playing in general very difficult, especially with a short stack for most of it. Here is the results e-mail though!

PokerStars Tournament #591010586, No Limit Hold'em

Buy-In: $10.00/$1.00 USD

1421 players
Total Prize Pool: $14210.00 USD

Tournament started 2012/07/28 14:30:00 CT [2012/07/28 15:30:00 ET]

Dear madman1701,

You finished the tournament in 15th place. A USD 88.10 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

Fuck Cash

The title says it all. Every time I play cash I lose a ton of money to stupid situations. I always seem to, more often than not, find myself in a situation where I am stacking off with the second best hand than people are stacking off to me. And these aren't all spots where people can say "oh you're obviously beat there". I am so frustrated it's unreal. Here's a graph for the month so far:

Today was going good where I was up ~75$ on the day...that's the upswing there at the end of the graph. Then it all went to shit.

The villain in this hand was playing 31/21 over 91 hands. There was a spot a few hands ago where he raised and I 3-bet and he shoved my flop c-bet....I ended up folding even though I did make a pair so I wasn't sure what he had. I got stubborn this time and paid for it.

Poker Stars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.25 BB (9 handed) - Poker Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

MP3 ($27.95)
CO ($10.76)
Button ($37.64)
Hero (SB) ($38.71)
BB ($17.56)
UTG ($25)
UTG+1 ($46.25)
MP1 ($25.10)
MP2 ($10)

Preflop: Hero is SB with , 
6 folds, Button bets $0.62, Hero raises $1.90, 1 fold, Button calls $1.38

Flop: ($4.25) , ,  (2 players)
Hero bets $2.70, Button raises $7.90, Hero raises $34.01 (All-In), Button calls $27.74 (All-In)

Turn: ($75.53)  (2 players, 2 all-in)

River: ($75.53)  (2 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: $75.53

Results:
Button had A, K (one pair, Aces).
Hero had A, J (one pair, Aces).
Outcome: Button won $73.53


This is the hand where I should have turned it all off. This hand actually happened before the one above. Pretty standard cooler spot...but they BOTH out-flop me. Sign of inherent run-bad on the way.


Poker Stars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.25 BB (9 handed) - Poker Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Button ($26.15)
SB ($19.70)
BB ($13.74)
Hero (UTG) ($72.25)
UTG+1 ($9.65)
MP1 ($25)
MP2 ($26.50)
MP3 ($19.46)
CO ($40.63)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with , 
Hero bets $0.75, 6 folds, SB raises $1.90, BB raises $13.49 (All-In), Hero raises $71.50 (All-In), SB calls $17.70 (All-In)

Flop: ($53.14) , ,  (3 players, 3 all-in)

Turn: ($53.14)  (3 players, 3 all-in)

River: ($53.14)  (3 players, 3 all-in)

Total pot: $53.14

Results:
SB had J, J (three of a kind, Jacks).
BB had 10, 10 (three of a kind, tens).
Hero had Q, Q (one pair, Queens).
Outcome: SB won $51.14


This hand I should have gotten away from. I think I was on the tilted side. I turned it all off after this one.


Poker Stars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.25 BB (9 handed) - Poker Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

MP3 ($27.72)
CO ($18.25)
Button ($28.73)
SB ($30.96)
BB ($30.18)
Hero (UTG) ($25)
UTG+1 ($11.73)
MP1 ($11.69)
MP2 ($30.83)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with , 
Hero bets $0.75, 4 folds, CO calls $0.75, 2 folds, BB calls $0.50

Flop: ($2.35) , ,  (3 players)
BB bets $2.35, Hero calls $2.35, 1 fold

Turn: ($7.05)  (2 players)
BB bets $4.84, Hero calls $4.84

River: ($16.73)  (2 players)
BB bets $11.75, Hero calls $11.75

Total pot: $40.23

Results:
BB had 6, 6 (three of a kind, sixes).
Hero had 10, 10 (one pair, tens).
Outcome: BB won $38.42


FWIW my top 2 hands were $13 and $10. Hope tomorrow goes a hell of a lot better.

Brutal 2 Hands

So today was the first time I played cash in a bit. Lets just say I'm not off to a great start. I only played for a bit over an hour because I ran god awful, lost 2 buy-ins consecutively at the same table and just didn't want it to get any worse.

Here are the 2 hands where this happened:

The villain in this hand was playing 24/18/3 over 124 hands and seemed to be half decent. His small flop bet through me for a loop so I popped it up a bit. The turn I bet a bit on the small side wanting him to come along. The river I can't get away as I hit 2 pair and my stack is only $2 more than his raise.

Poker Stars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.25 BB (9 handed) - Poker Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Button ($50.81)
SB ($21.50)
Hero (BB) ($27.48)
UTG ($10.98)
UTG+1 ($47.89)
MP1 ($15.10)
MP2 ($45.86)
MP3 ($38.03)
CO ($30.21)

Preflop: Hero is BB with , 
1 fold, UTG+1 bets $0.75, 3 folds, CO calls $0.75, 2 folds, Hero calls $0.50

Flop: ($2.35) , ,  (3 players)
Hero checks, UTG+1 bets $0.75, 1 fold, Hero raises $2.25, UTG+1 calls $1.50

Turn: ($6.85)  (2 players)
Hero bets $3.75, UTG+1 calls $3.75

River: ($14.35)  (2 players)
Hero bets $9, UTG+1 raises $18, Hero raises $11.73 (All-In), UTG+1 calls $2.73

Total pot: $55.81

Results:
Hero had Q, J (two pair, Queens and Jacks).
UTG+1 had 6, 6 (three of a kind, sixes).
Outcome: UTG+1 won $53.81


Hand 2:


The very next hand. Pretty standard.


Poker Stars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.25 BB (9 handed) - Poker Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

CO ($50.81)
Button ($21.40)
Hero (SB) ($25)
BB ($10.98)
UTG ($74.22)
UTG+1 ($15.10)
MP1 ($45.86)
MP2 ($38.03)
MP3 ($29.46)

Preflop: Hero is SB with , 
6 folds, Button bets $0.75, Hero raises $2.40, 1 fold, Button raises $12.05, Hero raises $22.50 (All-In), Button calls $8.60 (All-In)

Flop: ($43.05) , ,  (2 players, 2 all-in)

Turn: ($43.05)  (2 players, 2 all-in)

River: ($43.05)  (2 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: $43.05

Results:
Button had A, A (one pair, Aces).
Hero had A, K (high card, Ace).
Outcome: Button won $41.11


Hopefully tomorrow will go better. I have a few tourneys scheduled as well so I hope to give it my all and make some cash.