This hand caused me to go on a tilt to lose another $200

#Game No : 2191488285
***** Hand History for Game 2191488285 *****
$50 NL Hold'em - Saturday, June 11, 17:00:15 EDT 2005
Table Table 36916 (6 max) (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 2: allstate67 ( $79.35 )
Seat 3: zeljo77 ( $51.7 )
Seat 4: rbtby ( $39 )
Seat 5: Pokerbunny88 ( $157.9 )
Seat 6: thebull04 ( $31.37 )
Seat 1: hat_trick_ ( $20.5 )
rbtby posts small blind [$0.25].
Pokerbunny88 posts big blind [$0.5].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to zeljo77 [ As Ah ]
thebull04 calls [$0.5].
hat_trick_ folds.
>You have options at Table 36852 (6 max) Table!.
allstate67 raises [$3].
zeljo77 calls [$3].
rbtby folds.
Pokerbunny88 folds.
thebull04 calls [$2.5].
>You have options at Table 36852 (6 max) Table!.
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9c, 6d, 8d ]
thebull04 bets [$5].
allstate67 calls [$5].
>You have options at Table 37233 (6 max) Table!.
zeljo77 raises [$20].
>You have options at Table 36852 (6 max) Table!.
thebull04 is all-In [$23.37]
allstate67 folds.
zeljo77 calls [$8.37].
** Dealing Turn ** [ Kc ]
** Dealing River ** [ 3d ]
zeljo77 shows [ As, Ah ] a pair of aces.
thebull04 shows [ Tc, 7h ] a straight, six to ten.
thebull04 wins $69.49 from the main pot with a straight, six to ten.
Game #2191493745 starts.

So pissed off that I posted it in the wrong forum. Should be in hand histories.

Originally Posted by Bo G

So pissed off that I posted it in the wrong forum. Should be in IAB or preferably not at all

FYP

"Donk makes fairly atrocious preflop call, flops huge, gets paid off. News at 11"

Edit: Just noticed that you were not the raiser preflop. Reraise preflop.

I think its reasonable to expect to lose AA hands once in a while. You are only about a 90% favorite for any given hand and in this case you had two hands in. Perhaps you should have resraised PFR but in any case you will still lose them.

BTW, tilt is a difficult thing to control. Maybe after a loss like that you should just make it part of your stratey to stop play for 15 minutes and do something else.

Originally Posted by DimitriT

BTW, tilt is a difficult thing to control. Maybe after a loss like that you should just make it part of your stratey to stop play for 15 minutes and do something else.

work on controlling your tendencies to tilt, thats the only way to become a great player. Check out DavSimon's SnG strategy guide section on tilt... I completly agree with his take on it.


- sed

$200 is 4 buyins, one buyin of tilt should be enough to recognise it but 4 hints at a big problem with your approach to the game.

well a reraise here was very appropriate...it never woulda happened if you did

This is exactly why I play 10 7 .... in cash games that is

Hey, it gets beat once in a while. If you're properly bankrolled, then it isn't a big deal.

I can't believe an AA rundown put you on tilt. When you lose with these hands (and you will), usually you lose a lot of $. AA and KK offer frequent huge upswings, and an occassional huge downswing here and there.

Control tilt by expecting the inevitable to happen. You looked at the board, 7T was the nuts, and you didn't put him on it. Would anyone on earth expect you to?

You wanna know something? Losing a hand never puts me on tilt.

I go on tilt because I'm tired, bored, bubbled a tournament. Stuff like that. Never because I lost a hand.

if you can't handle AA getting beat, don't slow play.

The answer is obvious and you know what it is.

-'rilla

you couldve gotten this hand heads up... homeboy playing T7o is an idiot for playing it in early position, but it worked out for him.


i would like to see a large reraise preflop after someone bets 3$, kick it up to 10$ calling that big of a raise with T7o is suicide.





learn to control your emotions, its only one hand.. i lost two buyins last night, but it didnt affect my play at all... move on to the next hand, take a deep breath, drink a beer, abuse tobacco, do whatever.

Thanks guys. This was like a support group. I know I should have reraised it and I know I made a mistake but what is done is done. Just needed a place to vent.

we have a great bad beat forum.

Wow. This is somewhat similar to what I did last night.
Pulled an AA, and just called a raise preflop instead of reraising it again - trying to disguise my hand and hoping for an A in the flop, getting really late and tired, or too jumpy on the call button I dunno. Result is that it's 4-way, not so hot for AA.

Anyhow flop comes color coordinated with a K high card. Fine, bet them out of it right? Nope - the initial raiser jumps in before me (I was in late position) and ups it to $2 - at that point I wasn't certain whether or not he had KK, Kx with 1 or 2 pair - so I called - again stupid - raise or fold raise or fold - turn shows non-flush trash, I called on the turn again - just trapped at this point - and river shows non-flush 10. I see it again and it turns out one of the other callers had 10-10 - very few outs for him on this hand (same as me really) and he just got lucky. The initial semi-heavy raiser had K-Q, so I had him beat.
I had him on KK or Kx, and figured that his raises were substantial enough to chase off any stupid calls.

I could deal with a bad beat from a stupid caller.
I couldn't deal with my poor play - when I should have reraised or gone allin post-flop I just sat on it with a confused read on the raiser and very few outs. Stupid.

After that I decided (at 2am) that now not only was I tired but I was spanked as well. So I sent myself to bed for the night to rest off the lack of confidence.

Now - would my reraising preflop and then betting hard post-flop have chased anyone out? I don't know for sure - but I know that I would not be crying about my poor play.

BTW - this isn't a knock on your play. Hek I'm just a damn noob at the holdem game anyway. But it's fun as hell. Now, just got to make it fun, and profitable

The thing about AA: it's OK to very occasionally slowplay it or just call a raise. It's less OK to do that when it seems at all possible you will see a four way or five way flop, because then your AA is getting close to meaningless without a third ace on the board. It's absolutely not OK to do this against multiple opponents and then just call down and hope.

You should have reraised to at least $6 preflop. Joe-Joe-Idiot-Boy would have been long gone. OFTEN players on the button will call with relative garbage and try to get lucky.

I lost a similar play the other night when I raised 5x blinds and the guy on the button called with a small pair and tripped....but what's new?

Sorry for the bad hand, but don't let a 1 in 100 shot ruin your whole session.