Two tabled... glad to come out green

Tonight I played a NLHE Turbo S&G on Full Tilt... lost and pre-flop all-in with the best hand twice to bust before the money.

Then I accidentally played a 6-player Limit Hold'em game... I came in second. I *should* have been first, but again, I got unlucky. But hey, I haven't cashed in a tourney in awhile, so I was pleased.

After a break I played two $50NL 6-max tables on stars. I did good and one table, then faded. I did bad at the other table, then shot up. But I finished both sessions in the green.
Behold the roller coaster. Starts slow...


Here's an example of my downfall early in the game:

The guy had a short stack and he was stacking with T/x or two clubs or whatever in that situation.
Oh well. I'm not folding in that situation ever.

I also made some bluffs and got called. I remember getting $15 invested and folding on the turn when a guy called and I had $1.75 more to call. This jleex87 guy made the "brilliant" observation that I was bluffing that hand, and proceeded to taunt me.
I told him to talk when he could afford a full buy-in, and that I'd double up anyway. I said those things to get him to taunt me more, and to make him more interested in proving me wrong (I'm passing on some tilt).
After that, ehen I'd lose $ in a pot he'd ask me if I'd doubled up yet and then laugh.
When he raised and I saw a PP, I said a prayer.

Hallelujah!
He left the table immediately after this hand... in silence.

This hand requires a little explanation.
I'd been playing with the same guy on my left the entire session. He had never 3-bet, but did so when I tried to steal with J/9. I let the time run for awhile, told him I had J/J, then folded.
I'm pretty sure he had me crushed with a Q/Q+ hand.
A bit later I notice him make a dumb 3-bet against someone else. It could be tilt or maybe I overestimated him? I'm guessing he was steaming because his big PP didn't get paid off to my "J/J."
Not too long afterward this hand came up.
He opened UTG, there was a caller, I 3-bet with Q/Q, and he shoved. Now, I thought back to the hand where I claimed to fold Jacks, and then his bad 3-bet close afterward, and I figured he was tilting. He could be shoving with 9/9+, Ace/face, or A/Ts+. So I called.

When I saw the flop I got sick (not that I could see his hand, but A/K was his most likely hand I figured).
Fortunately, Queens have been really good to me this week. I've made several sets with them.
Kings on the the other hand have been shown some brutal beats. And I don't just mean with me. It seems like everyone I railbirded this week had a K/K loss.

The other table I played at was less eventful:


I'm not going to bother posting hands for that table. Nothing interesting. That dip is when I was bullied off a pot by the big stack at the table. The rise is when I made a set of 8's against him. Unfortunately he folded before I could get stacks in. Oh well.

So anyway, session-wise, I finished both sessions in the green. Good good!
I'm feeling very comfortable at $50NL 6-max. The suckers are plentiful, and I feel like I know what I'm doing. Plus I got some big hands that actually paid.

I'm off to bed now. It's almost 2:00am.

Bad day

It has been a rough day for me. My soon-to-be-ex wife moved out today. Our kid is staying with her for the night. This is my first night alone in my house.

Paintings are off the wall, furniture is missing... all her stuff is disappearing.

I've started to reach for the remote to the TV several times already, but the TV is gone too. There's just dust and a picture of my friend's kid on the entertainment center.

Empty. Everything seems to empty.

I bought some beer but only had one. Pouring a second now, but I've never been one to use alcohol to cope. It's a social lubricant and sometimes I use it to get tired and fall asleep, but I do not like getting inebriated anymore.

I played a matrix game on Full Tilt. I played my first one yesterday but had some bad luck on every table.

Well, tonight was about the same.

I got screwed over by suck-outs twice to cripple me, and shoved with A/J pre-flop. The caller (the small blind) had a tiny pair, but it held up.

Meanwhile at the other two tables I was uncalled on the flop with A/A and uncalled pre-flop on the other. I got some nice hands, but they never paid.

All-in on the flop here. Yep.


Feh! I get felted again.


My last table. I went out 7th on the other three... ugh. Going our 7th makes me sick. The opponent is really tight and I rob him blind hand after hand. Then he shoves pre-flop.
easiest call ever...

No surprise.
Nice flush, dude.

I continue to rob the guy blind. After awhile we're even in chips.
Then I'm winning.
Then I'm crushing him.
Eventually he shoves his last 1,200 with J/6 and I make the easiest call ever with A/T which somehow holds up.

So I win one table. But I still lose $ overall.

Anyway... pisser of a day.

Comfy experimenting at $50NL 6-max

I experimented with a $50NL 6-max table a couple days ago, had a good experience, so I tried it again last night.

I'm not rolled for it, so I only played one table... boy was my table juicy.

Price me in why don't ya?


I'd normally open to $2, but I was IM'ing with Zachvac and only opened for $1 due to a misclick.
The only tightwad at the table moved in, in position, so being distracted by Zach probably saved me some $.


Again, against the tightest guy at the table. He was not good post flop. I think he'll only stack with something close to the nuts.


This guys's stats were something like 60/5. That is, he wants to see every flop, but he needs a hand to open. What he was thinking on the river, I don't know. But he did this thing a couple times, and someone else at the table did it once.

Tards!

Calls $15 into a $50 pot. Won't put his last $19 into an $83 pot.

I *thought* that Ace was my ticket to stacking him. I'm guessing... maybe Q/Q or K/K? I guess I should have moved in earlier. The board was pretty harmless though. Oh well.

This lady was terrible.

She hits her gut-shot draw, and gets no value out of it.
Terrible!

My bluff gets called:


And with that hand, Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, I'd like to rest my case that my table was soft.

I don't expect that I'll get a table that soft any time in the near future. It was beautiful. But I felt really comfortable at $50NL 6-max and I never felt that comfortable at $50NL Full Ring. I'm not rolled to move up, but I think I'll continue to single table until I lose a couple buy-ins, or until I get some cushion in my bankroll.

Here's how I've been doing. Still not playing a lot (only 1 table, 1 hour last night). Anyway, the greyed stuff at the bottom was already posted here.

CardsChat Team Event #3

My daughter had a soccer game, but I have a head cold and sitting in the sun seemed like a bad idea, so I stayed in and played the CardsChat poker forum team event.

I didn't do as well as I hoped, but here are some interesting hands...

My teammate wins a nice one:


Neither of there two were on my team, but zoinks!


I had one big pocket pair the entire game:

I had J/J another hand, and took the blinds with it as well. That could have gone much worse I guess.

The trap. I'm the BB.:

That was my favorite hand of the night BTW.

Feh!

After this hand someone made a "Poor Penguin keeps getting drawn out on" comment, because I had been drawn out on the past several times I was involved in a pot.

And, a little bit later I'm out:


It wasn't a heartbreaking loss. He pot committed himself with those cards cards and he had plenty of outs.

I was pretty disappointed in my finish. I came in... I think 15/46. But I was aiming for at least a top 12. I just wish I could have contributed more. Certainly the head cold didn't help, nor did the uncooperative deck, but I just feel like I could have done things a little different to finish in the top 1/3. I mean I guess that's just one more place... but still... that's not enough.

I'm a noob-tard

Last night I lost two buy-ins at one table, and nearly a buy-in at another table.
I was spewy and suicidal at the table.

The biggest tard move was getting K/K, having someone call my 3-bet, and then stacking on board that had an Ace high flop. I was just mad at the flop and then punished myself. Bankroll masochism at its finest.

On the other table... I came back and my 3/3 flopped a set. I failed to notice the flush draw (deerrrrrr!) and he rivered the flush. It was only $2.75 or so to call by the end, so even if I noticed I had to call. But still, what angers me is that I didn't see it.

I should not have been playing poker last night.

I won a few buck on the other tables, but was a big loser overall. I don't have stats, but I'd guess I lost about $55 last night. Probably about $35 of that was avoidable. Maybe even $40.

My bankroll on PokerStars sucks now.

Bah... enough bitching. What I need to do it get back to the non-greedy grinding mindset. No tricky plays, fold when I'm beat, etc.