Wednesday, January 28, 2004
My poker hiatus ended tonight. I am allowing myself to go to the casino each time I hand something in to my advisor, which I did today.
Lost $120 playing 3/6, which I can't afford to do on a regular basis. My second losing trip out of 7 so far, but it puts me at a total of -$100 for the seven trips, which isn't bad, but I should be doing better.
Three genuine bad beats for about $50, two coin flips for another $40 and about $30 of bad play on two hands where I should have laid down. I only really invested (i.e. bet post-flop) in seven hands out of around 100, so a couple of bad beats really hurt me.
Two of the bad beats were against the same guy. Board showed Kc-3d-2s. I held A-3 and bet, everybody folded but him. Kh came on turn, He bet again, I called, thinking he had trash (I should have raised at this point - I wasn't certain he had trash - if he called my raise here I would have folded if he bet out on the river because it would mean he had probably had my 3's beat, and he would have folded if he were playing junk). 8 came on the river. He bet, and I called. He had 8s-6s. He did have junk, but made 8's on the river.
Then I had $6 left with j-t, and board showed 10-8-2, I bet, two called, he raised, so I went all in. Turned out he had 8-2. He was playing 8-2 and he wasn't even in with a blind!
Anyhow, that's how it goes.
But the hand that really got my goat wasn't really a bad beat:
The small blind left the table, which meant that me and the guy to my left were both in for big blinds. Everybody folded, but I figured I couldn't fold (contrary to the strange etiquette where the little blind is supposed to fold if nobody calls the big) since we had two bigs at the table, so we both checked. Anyhow, flop comes 2-5-6, and I'm holding A-6. The table's telling me to check to the end (which I think is supposed to be the follow-up etiquette), so I check, and the other guy checks too. Then 8 comes, and the guy to my left bets 6, and says, "Aw, come'on gimme some action." So I call him. Another 6 comes on the river, giving me the set. I check, he bets, and I raise. Of course, he has the 7-9, which maybe serves me for check-raising there, but whatever. I hadn't noticed the straight possibility, which I blame on the table telling me to check.
I didn't play the hand well - the pot was too small to call with 6's on fourth street - but I feel I was suckered into it by the stupid-ass etiquette coupled with the "aw, come-on, let's play" - without the etiquette I would have raised him before the flop and taken his blind.
Just needed to get that off my chest.
¶ 12:46 AM
Lost $120 playing 3/6, which I can't afford to do on a regular basis. My second losing trip out of 7 so far, but it puts me at a total of -$100 for the seven trips, which isn't bad, but I should be doing better.
Three genuine bad beats for about $50, two coin flips for another $40 and about $30 of bad play on two hands where I should have laid down. I only really invested (i.e. bet post-flop) in seven hands out of around 100, so a couple of bad beats really hurt me.
Two of the bad beats were against the same guy. Board showed Kc-3d-2s. I held A-3 and bet, everybody folded but him. Kh came on turn, He bet again, I called, thinking he had trash (I should have raised at this point - I wasn't certain he had trash - if he called my raise here I would have folded if he bet out on the river because it would mean he had probably had my 3's beat, and he would have folded if he were playing junk). 8 came on the river. He bet, and I called. He had 8s-6s. He did have junk, but made 8's on the river.
Then I had $6 left with j-t, and board showed 10-8-2, I bet, two called, he raised, so I went all in. Turned out he had 8-2. He was playing 8-2 and he wasn't even in with a blind!
Anyhow, that's how it goes.
But the hand that really got my goat wasn't really a bad beat:
The small blind left the table, which meant that me and the guy to my left were both in for big blinds. Everybody folded, but I figured I couldn't fold (contrary to the strange etiquette where the little blind is supposed to fold if nobody calls the big) since we had two bigs at the table, so we both checked. Anyhow, flop comes 2-5-6, and I'm holding A-6. The table's telling me to check to the end (which I think is supposed to be the follow-up etiquette), so I check, and the other guy checks too. Then 8 comes, and the guy to my left bets 6, and says, "Aw, come'on gimme some action." So I call him. Another 6 comes on the river, giving me the set. I check, he bets, and I raise. Of course, he has the 7-9, which maybe serves me for check-raising there, but whatever. I hadn't noticed the straight possibility, which I blame on the table telling me to check.
I didn't play the hand well - the pot was too small to call with 6's on fourth street - but I feel I was suckered into it by the stupid-ass etiquette coupled with the "aw, come-on, let's play" - without the etiquette I would have raised him before the flop and taken his blind.
Just needed to get that off my chest.
¶ 12:46 AM
