More losing

Played some more $4/$8 last night.  Dropped $180.

I did some stupid things.  For example, in one hand I had 8-6 suited.  Flop gave me some backdoor outs (flush and straight) so I called a bet, maybe that was stupid in the first place.  Then on the turn an ace hit (flop was 10 high) and the ace gave me a flush draw.  Guy bet and I raised him.  He called.  Then on the river I missed, he check-called with J-10.  Pretty retarded to raise as there's really no reason to think the guy is going to fold.  And why I was in there in the first place I'm not sure, probably shouldn't have been.

Then in this other pot I raised with K-Q in early position (probably a mistake already) and got 3 bet, and I just 4 bet it since that closed the action.  Probably stupid, but there were 2 people stuck in the middle so I thought maybe it made sense, but probably not.  Then I flopped a gutshot and ended up calling him down.  On the river I hit a king (flop was ace high) and he checked to me, and made it obvious if I bet he was calling.  I bet anyway, and he had A-10.  Probably should have just checked it back.

So I probably made a ton of mistakes throughout the night.  I think tightening up preflop would help me out a lot.  Really just playing a lot more straightforward and tight would help.  I think I should probably be doing that, and then when I do get in there with a premium hand, semi-bluffing or even straight up bluffing late in the hand makes more sense.  Not getting in with shitty hands like KQ and trying to outplay people or whatever, thats just stupid.

And of course there were plenty of times where I could have hit and didn't, or got drawn out on.  Heads up I get 4 bets in preflop with K-K, other guy has A-Q, flops a Q and rivers another Q.  Getting the $68 in that pot back in my stack would have helped the bottom line a bit.

Oh well.  The pain continues.