it s funny; it's not so much the big gross pots (set-over-set, flush-over-flush, AA losing to KK, top 2 always running into bottom set on drawy boards) that tilt me, it's the accumulation of small and midsized pots lost to absurdly bad opponents that have made playing so difficult to handle since starting back up.

tonight i played a 3rd session, calm cool and collected, ended up down a little less than a buyin. there was this guy, "Henrik76" who seemed bad and spewy and too laggy as soon as I sat next to him. I played 4 pots with him :

***** Hand History for Game 2192384875 ***** (Boss)
$100.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, May 24, 12:45:03 ET 2010
Table Table TH 731 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Seat 4: Blobs189 ( $102.55 USD )
Seat 5: Raul32 ( $107.15 USD )
Seat 6: HERO ( $100.50 USD )
Seat 8: Henrik76 ( $95.13 USD )
Seat 9: pacorro24 ( $20.00 USD )
Seat 10: *SILICIO* ( $173.92 USD )
Henrik76 posts big blind [$1.00 USD].
HERO posts small blind [$0.50 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
pacorro24 folds
*SILICIO* folds
Blobs189 folds
Raul32 folds
HERO raises [$2.50 USD]
Henrik76 calls [$2.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop **
HERO bets [$6.00 USD]
Henrik76 raises [$19.00 USD]
HERO calls [$13.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn **
HERO checks
Henrik76 bets [$33.00 USD]
HERO raises [$78.50 USD]
Henrik76 folds
HERO wins $45.50 USD
HERO wins $107.00 USD from main pot


***** Hand History for Game 2192388816 ***** (Boss)
$100.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, May 24, 12:51:55 ET 2010
Table Table TH 731 (Real Money)
Seat 8 is the button
Seat 3: Kendo$ ( $124.05 USD )
Seat 4: Blobs189 ( $112.05 USD )
Seat 5: Raul32 ( $107.15 USD )
Seat 6: HERO ( $149.50 USD )
Seat 8: Henrik76 ( $38.63 USD )
Seat 10: *SILICIO* ( $171.42 USD )
*SILICIO* posts small blind [$0.50 USD].
Kendo$ posts big blind [$1.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
Blobs189 folds
Raul32 folds
HERO raises [$3.50 USD]
Henrik76 calls [$3.50 USD]
*SILICIO* folds
Kendo$ folds
** Dealing Flop **
HERO bets [$6.37 USD]
Henrik76 raises [$12.74 USD]
HERO raises [$139.63 USD]
Henrik76 calls [$22.39 USD]
HERO wins $110.87 USD
** Dealing Turn **
** Dealing River **
HERO shows
Henrik76 shows
Henrik76 wins $75.76 USD from main pot


***** Hand History for Game 2192408868 ***** (Boss)
$100.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, May 24, 01:32:24 ET 2010
Table Table TH 731 (Real Money)
Seat 10 is the button
Seat 1: finglas ( $99.00 USD )
Seat 2: pacorro24 ( $18.50 USD )
Seat 3: ticoocit ( $17.25 USD )
Seat 4: Blobs189 ( $113.25 USD )
Seat 5: Raul32 ( $115.25 USD )
Seat 6: HERO ( $146.36 USD )
Seat 7: Zef95 ( $72.93 USD )
Seat 8: Henrik76 ( $77.15 USD )
Seat 9: poolbar1 ( $61.00 USD )
Seat 10: *SILICIO* ( $201.95 USD )
finglas posts small blind [$0.50 USD].
pacorro24 posts big blind [$1.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
ticoocit folds
Blobs189 folds
Raul32 folds
HERO raises [$3.50 USD]
Zef95 folds
Henrik76 calls [$3.50 USD]
poolbar1 folds
*SILICIO* folds
finglas folds
pacorro24 folds
** Dealing Flop **
HERO bets [$6.37 USD]
Henrik76 calls [$6.37 USD]
** Dealing Turn **
HERO bets [$15.93 USD]
Henrik76 calls [$15.93 USD]
** Dealing River **
HERO bets [$120.56 USD]
Henrik76 calls [$51.35 USD]
HERO wins $69.21 USD
HERO shows
Henrik76 shows
Henrik76 wins $152.80 USD from main pot


***** Hand History for Game 2192409884 ***** (Boss)
$100.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, May 24, 01:34:51 ET 2010
Table Table TH 6630 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Seat 1: winchi ( $59.90 USD )
Seat 2: finglas ( $133.85 USD )
Seat 4: HERO ( $106.25 USD )
Seat 5: Raul32 ( $182.59 USD )
Seat 6: *SILICIO* ( $215.70 USD )
Seat 7: Henrik76 ( $40.37 USD )
Seat 8: poolbar1 ( $100.90 USD )
Seat 9: Blobs189 ( $129.60 USD )
Seat 10: -MONTY- ( $112.57 USD )
Raul32 posts small blind [$0.50 USD].
*SILICIO* posts big blind [$1.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
Henrik76 raises [$3.00 USD]
poolbar1 folds
Blobs189 folds
-MONTY- folds
winchi folds
finglas folds
HERO raises [$10.50 USD]
Raul32 folds
*SILICIO* folds
Henrik76 calls [$7.50 USD]
** Dealing Flop **
Henrik76 bets [$29.87 USD]
HERO calls [$29.87 USD]
** Dealing Turn **
** Dealing River **
Henrik76 shows
Henrik76 wins $79.24 USD from main pot

These little mid-sized pots don't seem like much, but it has been a constant avalanche of nauseating b.s. from the get go since starting back up. These pots are my bread and butter. Playing good hands vs bad, predictable players. The coolers and beats vs other regs even out in the long run, but when these players constantly take 50-100bb pots off of me, their money just gets throw around oh-so-quickly to other competent players.

if any one of these pots doesn t fuck me in the ass, I go from a small loss to a small win. if they all go my way (2 of them are mine about 65% of the time and all three go my way about half the time) I go from having yet another losing session to a decent win. there s just absofuckinglutely nothing i can do about it right now besides grind until the absurdity comes to an end.