Here are some hands that went down last night.
Limp with J-9 offsuit after some others limped. Flop comes out 9-8-4. Guy to my right bets 15 (about a pot sized bet). I raised to 30. I actually meant to make it 35 but messed up. He called. Turn came a queen. He checked. I bet 22, he called. River is a jack, giving me 2 pair but putting the 1 card straight out there. He checked again. I bet 30. He called. He had Q-8. :P
I thought I played that hand fine, and I thought my bets were pretty good. Flop raise, fine, although I could have made it more. I wanted to isolate and didn't want to get in too much trouble by putting too big of a raise in. On the turn I was more than willing to fold to a raise, like if he had J-T, but he didn't raise. On the end I make 2 pair. I was planning on checking behind if I didn't improve, but since I made 2 pair I thought it was reasonable to put another small bet out there and get value from something like A-8, A-9, whatever. Of course, he turned 2 pair and I hit the only 3 outer I had to lose additional money.
Hand 2 : Guy raises to 7 in early position. I call with 2 red queens. We see the flop 5 handed. Flop is A-8-5. It checks around. Turn is a blank. Checks to me, I bet 9, get 2 callers. River is another 5. Checks to me, I bet 16, get 1 caller. Queens are good. I was pretty happy with this one. Pretty much every other person playing 1/2 there would just check it down I'm sure, and certainly would shut down after getting called on the turn. So I got a little extra value there.
Hand 3 : I raise to 7 with K-K, get 3 callers. Flop is J-10-3. I bet 21, get 1 caller. Turn is a queen, giving me the straight draw. I'm out of position and don't love it, but I still want to get value where I can so I bet 30. I'm going to fold to any raise. Girl calls me again. River is a 5. I bet 35, she calls. I turn up my K-K expecting it's good, she turns up a set of 3s. :P
Then just a couple annoying hands. I have 9-9 in the blind and raise it 7 more after a bunch of people limp. Flop comes 10-7-x. I bet out 20. This lady down the table raises me 20 more. I fold. She is all like "I just wanted to see where you were at". LOL, give me a break. Preflop she was also saying something like I was raising a lot, and do I really have it every time, etc. Which made me want to call more on the flop. At that point, I thought she might be raising me somewhat light but I just figured I'd let her have this one and if she kept doing it, I'd be more willing to keep her honest later. However as the night progressed I think that was literally the only pot she played. So I was pretty happy with myself, not getting sucked into her obvious BS talk. Preflop she probably even had me beat, who knows. I'm really really happy I didn't put an extra dime in on that pot.
Then the always annoying hand where I'm in the big blind with J-J and make it 11, early position limper girl (previously had the set of 3s) now raises it to 32 and just so obviously has a super strong hand. She's like "I have to raise" and double-checks her cards before putting the raise out. I know she has me beat, and she only has like $160 more. I'm getting 2:1 on my call, and she has about 8 times the size of the raise in her stack, but I know I'm going to have to hit a set to win so I just fold. I figure it's a good play especially since I'm not going to know if she has A-A or K-K or whatever (maybe Q-Q?) so it's going to be hard to play even if I do hit a set. I'll just blindly stack off if she flopped set over set. So I fold and she shows me A-A.
Basically just another super annoying night of poker. I'm losing a ton lately and it's extremely frustrating. I think I played really well yesterday. I made some great value bets in my opinion, although if anyone reading this thinks otherwise feel free to post. The J-9 and K-K hands were just sort of unlucky I think, I feel like I could have gotten called by a bunch of weaker hands there and my bets were good. Then the other hands were just annoying to lose.
I ended up losing about $190 over 2.3 hours. I'm trying to stay positive and play my best. I think I played really well yesterday so that is a good feeling, but losing doesn't feel good. I'm on about a $1700 downswing right now and it feels shitty. It's crazy too, a lot of that has been playing 1/2. Some of it has been bad play, but I haven't been getting much luck either I think.
Going to play again tonight, but I'm definitely feeling beat down after these losses. Staying positive! :-) I know I can turn it around and I'm playing fine, especially when I'm really concentrating and focusing on playing my best.
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