Quick update from last night. Few hands of interest. I was playing 2/5 at Wynn. Scoping out the 5/10 game as well. If they got 5 players I was going to give it a shot, but it got up to 4 and eventually broke.
Older guy that was playing pretty bad named "Moe" was at my 2/5 game. He got moved to the main game. I got a table change, moved over when I could, and was seated directly to his left - perfect. I was playing $1100 or so and he had around the same. He raises to $30 in middle position. I have AA and make it $80. Two guys behind me call, which is going to make this hand pretty difficult to play. Gets back to Moe. He thinks about it... says he's going to raise and throws in the 80. YES. I'll just come over the top and win it preflop or maybe even get all in. He says "all of it" and goes all in. Dream situation. I say "all in" as well. The others both fold. He says "Do you have a big pair?" and I flip up the AA. Flop is 10-10-7. Turn 9, he says "I got it" and flips up 9-9. River 3. They count it down, I owe $947. So I lose a $2050 pot getting all in preflop with AA. That hurts. It's going to happen 20% of the time, but it hurts.
Later this old lady (who clearly plays a ton of poker - she talks like shes the shit and knows whats going on) raises to $20. Moe calls. I have KK and raise to $80. Lady calls. Flop 10-3-2 rainbow. She has around $550 behind. Checks to me, I bet $115. She raises to $330. Has about $220 behind. Fuccckkkkkkk. I wanted to call really bad. Thought about it forever. Pocket tens was a huge possibility. 3s and 2s, I didn't know if she would call with those preflop but you can't rule it out. No draws out there really - she doesn't have 4-5. Jacks and queens could be it, but I figured that she would be scared to check raise me with those hands, because my hand looks exactly like what it is - a big overpair. So I fold. She told me "unfortunately that was a good fold" and that she flopped a set with pocket 3s. Saved $550 on that hand.
Last hand, I messed this one up. I raise in middle position with K-J to 20. I'm actually trying to cut down on raising with these unsuited 10+ type of hands, but I raised this one in the hijack. Get 2 callers. Flop is A-5-2 with 2 hearts. Check to me, I bet $40, guy in position calls. Turn is an ace. I figure this guy could have a heart draw or an ace. I also thought about my range and if I had an ace, I might check here, so I check. He checks behind. River is a 6. I check. He bets $125. Long story short, I call and he has A-Q. My train of thought is, he could have an ace or a flush draw, and I beat pretty much all of the flush draws. Where I messed up is that I didn't really consider how many combinations there are of each. Even with two aces out, there are a lot of aces. All suited aces of the other two suits, plus all AT+ offsuit hands, let's say. That's a lot. For flush draws, he could have all suited connectors, maybe suited 1 gappers, and all 10+ suited cards. I don't have time to do the math right now but it seems like there are WAY more ace combinations than the flush draw combinations. Also, I had no reason to think this guy was going to bluff me. It sounds stupid now but I just didn't think about it at the time. This fucking guy bought in for 500, is sitting there watching Breaking Bad on his iPad, obviously he's not bluffing. Oh well, I fucked that up. $125 down the drain.
Overall I lost $1350, my biggest loss of the year. I played well I thought, and I'm not even that mad about the last hand. I had decent reasoning (or the start of decent reasoning) but I didn't really think it all the way through. And the aces hand, what can you do. I have like $1700 equity in that pot, ugh. So fucking sick. Definitely my biggest pot I have ever lost all in with aces preflop.
-1750 so far this month, but still up huge in the last month. Plus I think I'm playing really well. Folding to that set yesterday was huge - so many people double that lady up there. I'm still doing some things I need to stop, but I really feel like I'm playing very well right now. I'm very confident. Also yesterday when I took that aces beat, I honestly don't think it affected me. I just laughed it off, grabbed $800 out of my pocket and played on. And folded the KK to the set within the next hour when it would have been so easy to call it off. I'm not saying that I'm the best, but I do feel like I'm playing well and when you play well, good results will come.
Looking forward to my next session. Watch out, I'm coming for you!
