4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Putney, UK; Full Tilt,Mansion; $50 NL and PL; $13 and $16 SNGs at Stars
Posts: 3,170
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Monday night sucked the big one. I mean the REALLY big one.
I blew $400 in 120 or so hands.
It was a £30 rebuy tourney, live - 49 players, first prize £2,000 ($4,000). I rebought 3 times, added on, then got knocked out 9 hands into the post-rebuy period. $300 gone, just like that (of course, I knew the buyin was much bigger than I would usually play, but it was live, it was for fun, it's cool).
I'm not one to moan (ho fucking ho) but I tilted something rotten when this arsehole encouraged a noob player to call after I'd pushed over her limp. She was obviously going to fold, but changed her mind and her A8o beat my KQs. As we all know, when we lose we look for things, people, superstitions to blame - and I had this dude who had seriously breached poker etiquette. Man I was steaming, and as a result I wasn't able to enjoy the rest of my short-lived tourney.
I got a cash game going afterwards, nice low stakes, but had no luck there either. I picked up AA in MP and called a PFR. 2 other callers, so 4 people saw flop with a decent pot. Flop is 782, and the first player to play pushed (we were only playing with 20BB stacks btw, so he was basically putting $40 into a $25 pot). Next guy folded, I called, other guy folded, dude turns over 67. River is a third seven and I am stacked.
All fine. But then, this guy who claims to be a winner at 10/20 NL starts telling me I was asking to be stacked by not re-raising pre-flop. My thinking - whcih I am still very happy with - is that I had seen a lot of maniacal post-flop play with marginal hands/air, and I was willing to risk having a greater chance of being sucked out on for the chance of tripling or even quadrupling up. I lost to 67o, which I'm sure would have folded to a re-raise - but why on earth would I want them to fold? Anyway, if you think this was foolish play on my part, please tell me.
So, not a successful night at all. I wish the buyin had been lower - £15 rebuy, I'd have come home £100 down but able to live with that so much more. Ah well, what can you do.
Luckily, the next night I made just over 3 buyins at $100NL in under 150 hands. Which has calmed me down a lot.
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