Quote Originally Posted by Greedo017
one kindof funny thing, is hand 313, he called you down when you had two pair and he had second pair crap kick, probably figuring you were bluffing at it because you were making "normal" bets, which is very out of your style . You did this same thing in the second to last hand, calling him down with bottom pair, figuring he was bluffing at it, i'm guessing for similar reasons. except he was wrong and you were right. why are you always right michael, why?
Whoops, missed your reply earlier, and it was one of the more interesting ones.

Ok, hand 313, I limp in looking to trap / check raise and hit the flop majorly with top two pair (and unlikely to be counterfeited or anything like that, much less vulnerable than a hand like 76 on a 762 flop).

He checks his Q and I check right behind him, which makes him obviously feel that his Q is good there. He goes for a check raise on the turn and I just call, so he still probably feels he has the best hand. Unfortunately for me the 8 comes on the river, which is a scare card for both of us, but since he checks the river I feel comfortable that he doesn't have an 8 and therefore bet what I think he can call. Not really sure what you mean by "normal bets" here. The main similarity between these two hands are both players limping preflop and checking the flop, but they are interesting hands for sure.

Hand 322, he limps, and I check. I check the flop and he checks behind me. I'm really not putting him on anything here, as he hasn't shown that he's the type to slowplay a hand heads up. I catch the 2 on the turn, and a lot of people would probably lead out here, but what's the point of betting it? He'll only call if he has me beat, so I check it to him again, where he will almost always bet since he's such an aggressive player. Again, there's no reason to raise the turn because he's only going to call if he has my mediocre hand beat. If my read is wrong and he was slowplaying something big on the flop, I also lose the minimum amount by playing it this way. I check to him on the river and he takes one last stab at the pot, and I still have every reason to believe that my hand is probably the best, and call once again.

the thing i like about reading your hand histories, is every decision you make is well thought out, i agree with your reasoning. It makes me feel like i suck really bad, because what you think about makes perfect sense, and its not like its really complicated. i should be able to think that too, but i know i make ten times the bad decisions that you do. i almost get the feeling that I/other people do know and think everything that you do, but we're just not disciplined enough to do what we know we should because that urge to gamble gets too big.
Haha, I'm only human. I'm on a 3 week drought right now without any MTT cashes (but 5 bubbles ...) which is out of about 15 MTTs, and its the longest drought I've had in quite some time. I've had some bad luck / bad beats at times, some bad stretches of cards pretty often, but also a lack of discipline and patience. Its much easier for me to play my A game while I'm in a stretch that I have been at the top of my game recently. Its much harder to work yourself out of a rut. Usually reading / posting histories like this and talking about them helps me focus more in MTTs though. I wasn't that surprised when I finished 2nd in a MTT the day that I made this thread. Speaking of which, maybe looking this over again will help me get out of my rut, and start thinking more clearly again.