Sigh

Well, I got crushed today. Mostly by playing pretty badly, especially towards the end of the session. I started the day down 6K pretty quickly after an untimely bluff at 10/20. Then for the next few hours I grinded back and was up 3K at one point. Then disaster strikes for the 2nd day in a row and I find myself down $13k for the day. When you lose over 100bbs 9 different times in a day, that is just horrific. Arg. Oh well, not gonna let it affect me too much. Still have a good month going.

Here some of the hands from today.

No-Limit Hold'em, $20.00 BB (5 handed) - Hold'em ManagerConverter Tool fromFlopTurnRiver.com

SB ($5478)
BB ($12251)
UTG ($4708)
MP ($2000)
Hero (Button) ($7818)

Preflop: Hero is Button with 9, Q
1 fold, MP bets $80, Hero raises $220, SB raises $470, 2 folds, Hero calls $260

Flop: ($1060) 8, 6, 5 (2 players)
SB bets $670, Hero calls $670

Turn: ($2400) 9 (2 players)
SB bets $1200, Hero calls $1200

River: ($4800) 8 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero checks

Total pot: $4800

Results:
Hero had 9, Q (two pair, nines and eights).
SB had 10, 10 (two pair, tens and eights).
Outcome: SB won $4812

Here I make possibly the worst check in the history of poker on the river. So preflop, I call his cold 4 bet with a hand that plays OK just because he made it so small and we are really deep. I flop a gutter and he makes a continuation bet. I call. I turn a pair and he bets against. Now here I think it's pretty interesting that hes firing against, because if he has AA/KK I'm not sure what he's expecting me to call with that he is ahead of. I will surely be folding QQ/JJ here a decent amount of the time. So when he double barreled I really felt he was full of it. So I call again, the river is an 8 and he tanks and checks to me. I should be shoving this river like 100% of the time because I just don't see him having a c/c range. But during the hand I leveled myself into thinking that my pair of 9s was going to be good often enough. I suck.

No-Limit Hold'em, $10.00 BB (2 handed) - Hold'em ManagerConverter Tool fromFlopTurnRiver.com

Hero (BB) ($2523)
SB ($1616)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 10, 7
SB bets $25, Hero calls $20

Flop: ($60) 4, 6, 3 (2 players)
Hero checks, SB bets $50, Hero raises $170, SB raises $320, Hero raises $2321.50, SB calls $1214.50

Turn: ($3229) J (2 players)

River: ($3229) 4 (2 players)

Total pot: $3229

Results:
SB had A, A (two pair, Aces and fours).
Hero had 10, 7 (one pair, fours).
Outcome: SB won $3231.50

Here I spew shove the flop with my gutterball and bd flushdraw because I couldn't really see all too many hands that this villain would 3 bet the flop with. Owned.

No-Limit Hold'em, $20.00 BB (2 handed) - Hold'em ManagerConverter Tool fromFlopTurnRiver.com

BB ($4135)
Hero (SB) ($4171.50)

Preflop: Hero is SB with Q, 4
Hero bets $40, BB calls $30

Flop: ($100) 7, 6, 3 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $80, BB raises $360, Hero calls $280

Turn: ($820) 3 (2 players)
BB bets $520, Hero calls $520

River: ($1860) 6 (2 players)
BB bets $1283, Hero raises $3238.50, BB calls $1919

Total pot: $8264

Results:
Hero had Q, 4 (two pair, sixes and threes).
BB had 7, 7 (full house, sevens over sixes).
Outcome: BB won $8269.50

Here is some more spew. I float the flop c/r with my gutter, bd flushdraw and overcard. I turn a flushdraw so I decide to call villains turn bet. The river pairs the 6 to put 2 pair on the board. Villain bets the river again, at which point I decided I could rep 6x a decent amount and get him to fold a lot. Unfortunately he had 77 for the nut full house. GG Me.

I probably won't be playing too much poker in the next few days, which is probably a good thing after the beat down I took today(especially the last 300 hands of todays session). I will keep you guys updated if I do as well as if anything noteworthy happens while I'm home in VB. Later.