Where to start

OK it has been over a month since my last post. I have no excuse, just a reason, I have been running so badly, I was either A) Embarrassed or B) Afraid you might think I was on a constant gripe. Every situation I have been in has gone the other way. It includes, in this hand I flopped quad Queens against a guy who turned quad Sevens. I got paid off in the hand and hit a mighty $66.00 high hand bonus, but if I had been in a room with a bad beat, I would be somewhere around $4,000 - $15,000 richer. But that is not all, three hands later I pick up pocket 7's, the flop comes Q 7 2 Rainbow, and I end up getting busted by top set. Three hands later? OMG it was unreal, the same two pocket pairs come right back, and bit me in the ass.
Now of course, I have had a couple of wins among the terror, but nothing significant, over the last Month, I have played 12 sessions, I am 3 - 9 over those 12. It is just sick, one session was a 22 hour marathon, where no matter what I did, what I had I would get turned and rivered.

But as I said I am not here to Bitch, I am trying to be as positive as possible. So we will start off with my last session. I played at the MGM and ended up +$190.00 in 3 hours. There is not a whole lot of interesting things to say, but I did start one thing, I basically made a transcript of every hand I played, I kept notes in my phone the entire time, and it forced me to play extremely tight.

Here are some stats for this session.
# of Bets Called Pre-flop, then fold to re raise: 7
# of Hands: 89
# of Flops: 30
# of Turns: 9
# of Pots Won: 5
# of Showdowns: 4

Now when I was playing yesterday, I felt I playing pretty tight. Now looking at these statistics I see that I was not even close to playing tight. Add my bets called pre-flop where I folded and I was involved in almost 40% of the hands, maybe this is why I have been getting so much loose action, or why Todd & Mike joke about me calling everything. Because if I was in my mind "Playing tight" and this is the result, what was I doing before this?

Maybe I have just lost my mind? But seriously that is way too many hands to be playing in a three hour session. Granted I stayed out of the way of danger, but still I was seeing too many flops. Now in my defense, this was a pretty tight table overall, and I almost always saw the flop out of the blinds, in 8 button rounds that means I should have seen the flop 16 times which is just about half of the hands I called pre-flop. So what is your take? too loose? Seems like it would be, Do I only count hands I limped in with rather then the blinds, unless I called a raise out of the blind, etc?

Well here is the interesting hands from this session. In late position I limped called a raise from the button to $9.00 with the Ah 5H. We went 3 ways to the flop, with the Small Blind to act first. The flop of 8H 3C 4H came down, and the Small Blind checked to me. I checked as well. The button bet $25.00, and the SB made it $50.00. I smooth called the $50, leaving about $80 behind. The button then re raised to $100.00. The SB folded and I pushed all in. I know it was only $30.00 more, but I was hoping too get all my money in here at this point. I was sure all my outs were good.

See this particular player, was an easy read, I put him on Pocket 7's maybe 9's, no set. But I did figure my Ace as an out. I was right it was pocket 7's. Well the turn card locked up the hand as the 2C came on the turn giving me Highwaytime's favorite straight, "The 5 high Wheel."
I ended up being + $207.00 in this hand.

Another hand in this session I limped 2 Black Aces under the gun, we went 6 ways to the flop. The flop of 8H 7H 5D came down. The SB bet $15.00, I called and so did anther player. the turn was the 10H, SB checked, I checked and the other player bet $20.00 SB called and I knew he had a flush, I folded. this hand only cost me $17.00, but does show that UTG, I never have and I should be raising my premium hands. As a side note: I would normally straddle, but I was working on playing tighter, trying to, as Highwaytime says, "Make better business decisions."

All in all this is a good start, I am -$1170.00 for the month. would be nice to get at least one more nice win under my belt my months end. Wish me luck, I have not had much of that lately.


I sign off as they all sing,

"The Duke Is Back And Your Gonna Be In Trouble, Hey Now, The DUKE is BACK!!!!"


El Diablo