Madman1701's Blog: 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