Played 1/2 for a few hours at the Nugget last night. Lost about $400. I'm cool with it though. Didn't have much going on, and I lost pretty much every big pot I played. I didn't play perfect, one of the worse sessions for me lately. At the same time I don't think my mistakes cost me that much. I was just running into bigger hands, missing draws and missing flops.
Huge opportunities too. I sat down with $1000. There were 2 other people with that much and I sat directly to their left. They were playing pretty tight so another guy sits down with $1k, and I sit directly to his left. Then this guy sits down with like $5k, he's talking shit about playing 25/50 NL, etc. I put the rest of my money on the table so I'm sitting there with $1700 waiting for the big hit. It never materialized.
Few hands (some interesting, some I'm just venting or showing you why I didn't win):
I look at the guy to my right (who has about $900). He looks at his cards and plain as day, I can see he has two black fives. He limps. I have 86o and limp behind. We are in middle position. I think the synergy between 55 and 86o is so huge. If you flop 579, 457, you get his stack. Period. I can just overbet it and there's no way he's getting away. Or if I flop 57x, I can call down knowing exactly where I am and knowing what I can get away with.
Unfortunately the button raised to 12 and we all call. Flop is 877. Checks to Mr. 55 and he bets $30. I know 100% I have him beat at this point, and I raise to $85. Maybe could just call, but I wanted to get other people out. In retrospect raising to $60 would have been the perfect play, but oh well. Now it folds around to this other lady with over $1000 and she is like "all in". Fine, I fold. I got screwed on that though. She said she flopped 8s full.
I go to the bathroom and come back. I have to wait a hand for my big blind, or I can just come in for $4 on the straddle. I straddle. Folds around to the button (same lady as in the last hand) and she makes it $12. I look down at AQ. I reraise to $40. She asks what I have (about $1400 or so, she has about $1200), tanks for a while, and calls.
Flop comes JcTcx. I have the ace of clubs too. I bet out $65, she calls. Alright. Turn, brick. I check, she bets $100. I fold. She shows AA. She is like "what did you have? You didn't have anything right? You were just raising me because I raised your straddle?" I told her sorry I can't tell you what I had. Overall it's a good thing if people think I'm raising them light. I'm playing SUPER fucking solid so anything I can do to look bad or crazy is a good thing.
Just other hands that were annoying - I raise TT preflop and am against AK and 99, ace on the flop and 9 on the river. If the flop was T9x I double through for the full $1700 because I was against the big stack. Limp with 63hh, flop is Th5h4c, I call relatively small bets on the flop and turn and miss everything. I didn't hit anything all night long.
Overall I ended up losing $400 but like I said, I'm not worried about it. Although I could have played better (I was under the influence a bit), I didn't play terrible and looking back at my hands, I played decent. I definitely was lacking focus in some of the areas I'm trying to improve on, like watching other people when I'm out of the hand.
No biggie. Tonight I'm not playing, and tomorrow I'm going on an all day hike. Maybe Sunday. Honestly I think I was poised for a giant win if some of the hands went differently. Next time!
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