Bam, dropped 4 buyins in only 329 hands. I was getting hammered by a mega-donk. This guy was shoving with total air and chasing impossible draws. After initially dropping several buy-ins of which i wasn't fortunate enough to win anything, i got pockets tens:
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normally i would think very hard about calling this allin bet, but against this guy it was a no-brainer. He had pushed his 2 previous hands aswell and was raining all his hands.Unfortunately for me he got Jacks this time and obviously i didn't win.
The donk is now running hot suckout out and bluffing everyone. Then comes the next hand:
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Standard raise with Aks, especially to isolate the mega donk. I hit my TPTK on the flop, which on this board isn't a monster, but against this type of player it is.
No funny business, just valuebet ur ass off. On the turn i maybe should have overbet the pot, instead of just pot it. On the river comes a bad card for me, and he shoves. Against normal player i probably would lay this down, but against this guy, i only had to be right roughly 1 out of 3 times to make the call right. As this guy had been shoving a LOT with air the orbits before it was an easy call. And the donk shows J3... nice hand!
In the meanwhile, it wasn't just these few hands that went bad, but every big bluff failed. Some guy hit a 2-outer with his underpair, while i was trying to push him of his hand, and a lot of hands like that. All-in-all, i was running bad.. period. Then came the hand that made me quit the session as i had enough.
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The hand before this one, villain had 3-bet me and another guy out of the pot preflop. Now i find Aces on the button. I raise and he reraises me. Nowm i'm in an extremely profitable situation. I have position on someone, who rerasies me while i have aces. Partially because this guy is somehwat shortstacked, i choose to flat call him, forcing him to play his hand out of position instead of letting me bet. He checks the flop and now, i know he has a weak hand, probably Ax. He would probably have bet any pp in that situation and probably a flushdraw too. So now, i do something i don't usually do, I decide to play my aces even weaker and check behind.
The turn brings another spade and he bet's pot. I now know i have the best hand, and push him allin and he calls with his flushdraw. And of course, another spade falls on the river. Now, some of you might say, why don't you just bet the flop and nothing of this would have happened. To them i can say is this. I play play poker to win money, not win pots. I still stand fully behind the way i played it. Heck i got some1 to put all his money in with only 20% chance of winning the pot. I'll take those odds any day. Sometimes you have to gamble, with giving people a free card or a chance to bluff. And sometimes that goes wrong. So be it.
Good thing about this session is, i did not tilt one bit. I kept playing very good the whole way, but sometimes there's just nothing you can do.
1 comment:
Although these runs suck, you should be proud of yourself that you kept playing good poker and that you are able to sit out at these moments and take a moment to put things in perspective. I think alot of players are simply not capable of doing this and waste alot of money.
Looking back at the results of 329 hands is ofcourse looking at short term results which is tempting but it just doesn´t make much sense, you know this ofcourse. Maybe a couple of thousand of hands says a bit more.
Good luck on your upcoming sessions...
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