In my last entry I think I said I was going to take at least a week, probably 2 weeks off. I ended up going out and playing the very next day, $4/$8 limit at Red Rock. And I proceeded to dump off another $200.
I don't feel like I played THAT bad. I've been getting crushed at limit, but I think you're definitely going to see some big swings in limit. But I don't know. It's very frustrating. I had a bunch of hands that didn't go very well.
For example, someone raises, I reraise with JJ, get 4 bet. 3 people in. 2 bets go in on the flop, I end up calling down, and her 8-8 hits a set on the river. :P Or I limp with J-9, flop J-9-8, get raised on the river when an ace hits that also brings the flush, and I fold. Various other hands... draws don't get there, etc.
It's just frustrating. The scariest part to me is that I don't really know if I'm playing terrible or if I'm playing these hands OK and I'm just losing. I don't really care about the losing but I want to make sure I'm not just playing completely terrible.
Then there are some spots I just don't know about. For example, there's a raise directly to my right and I 3-bet with J-J. Lady cold calls it. Flop comes J-10-x with 3 hearts. I don't have any hearts. I bet, get called, turn I bet and get called, river I bet and get called. She has A-K. I figured I was going to bet the flop. On the turn I figure I'll bet, I don't want a flush draw to get there for free, etc. Then on the river I'm going to bet and fold if I get raised. That's probably true of the turn as well. But I just bet all the way, get called down, lose to A-K. Is that bad? I seriously have no clue.
In that hand, you have to figure she has something at least DECENT since she put 3 bets in preflop, but you never know. People do weird shit in 4/8. But I guess you have to give that SOME respect. A-K is definitely a possibility. I don't know what she could be calling me down with that doesn't beat me. A-Q or A-J or A-T with the ace of hearts for sure, but would she put 3 bets in preflop with that? Maybe A-Q. I guess she could have Q-J for the straight draw, but I have two jacks and it has to be pretty hard to call with just a straight draw on the turn there.
But then again, who knows. I guess I could have check-folded the turn, but that seems WEAK. And on the river, if I check I'm not going to fold to a bet so I think I made the right play there (assuming I would fold to a raise, which I would have).
Maybe I'm just running bad, not sure. I sure hope so. I think I'm going to continue to give limit a try for a while. It's really fun, lot of action.
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