The free fall continues. I played last night at Red Rock ($2/$5 NL) and it was absolutely brutal. I dropped $750 in what I believe was 2.5 hours. I feel like I played OK, but the one big call I made was maybe really bad. I don't know. Either way, here were some of the hands.
Guy raises to $20 in early position. Another guy calls. I reraise to $60 with AKs. They both fold. Yay. :-)
Lady raises to $25 in early position. I reraise to $60 with A-K offsuit. Guy cold calls. Lady reraises to $160. I fold. She ends up showing A-A.
I open to 15 with A-K offsuit on the button. The two blinds call, including the A-A lady from the other hand.
Call $10 with 4-4 in early position (someone straddled). Guy raises it $35 more, I call and another person calls. Flop is T-9-3, I check/fold.
This one was a tough one. I limp on the button with 7-7 after one or two others limped. I have been raising this lately but I decided to just limp. In fact lately I've been essentially raising any pair from any position. I figure I should cut back on that, but I don't know if this is the right time to cut back. I don't think my decision affected this hand at all, but anyway, here's the rest of the hand.
Flop comes out T-5-3 with a flush draw. Limper bets out $15, I call. Turn is the magic card, offsuit 7. He checks. I bet $40. Now he check-raises me to $130.
I felt like that was weird. Like if he had the straight, why wouldn't he just bet it? He already bet the flop. I just wasn't sure. So I called.
River was a 4. He bets $260.
At this point, I probably should have just folded. However, here's what I was thinking. That was a very scary card. Good bluffing card. I didn't really think that card could have improved his hand. He either turned the straight (bet with 4-6 on the flop, hit) or he is continuing a bluff. The flush didn't get there. The only other good straight draw could have been 6-8 (turn the double gutter) and although I wasn't thinking about that one at all at the time, it wouldn't make a ton of sense because he would have just had to bet $15 with total air on the flop with that. But like I said I didn't really consider that. So eventually I felt like since I felt his betting line was weird on the turn, I didn't think this card (although scary) was good enough to make me fold, and he could easily be bluffing here. Also although I don't know how much weight I should put into it, but he was not moving at all and I didn't get a super confident feel from him or anything. So I called.
He had 5-6. Bet the flop with middle pair, picked up a gutshot on the turn and decided to check-raise for whatever reason, and hit the straight on the river. Damn it.
I pick up 10-10 in the blind. There was a button straddle. Girl (who is pretty terrible and loose) raises to 40. I reraise to 105. She calls. Flop comes out 9-8-x. I bet $100. She calls. Turn is a jack. At this point I have $300 left and there is $400 in the pot. I didn't really know what to do, but since I picked up the draw I figured I wasn't going to be in that bad of shape, so I just pushed for $300. She thought about it for a bit, said something like the jack was a bad card and she thinks I might have turned a set, and she folded. She was trying to make it sound like she folded an overpair, but I seriously doubt it.
Finally, guy raises to $25, another guy calls, and I reraise to $60 with K-K. They both call. Flop is 10-9-x. Checks to me, I bet $130. Original raiser folds. Next guy goes all-in for a min-raise. I call obviously. He flopped a set of 10s. I said "nice hand" and he said "yeah, it was", which just pissed me off even more. I followed him to his vehicle later that night and strangled him to death with his own shoelaces and took my money back, which felt great. I also used his library card to rent several books that I have no intention of returning.
So that was my night. Lost $750. I think I'm going to drop down to $1/$3 at Wynn for a while, still a decently big game compared to like Red Rock 1/2, and hopefully it can get my bankroll and confidence back up a bit.
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