-15 buy-in downswing / recovery

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T8Suited Canada. Feb 05 2008 03:48. Posts 1276

So one day (last Friday) I decided to play poker and poker Gods decided to deprive me of whatever little poker intelligence that I had. Results: Worst session evah! 511 hands 21/17/4 -$555.2 -54.32 PTBB

It all started with this mild bad beat:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/377529 AQ Reraised pot top pair

Next in line
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/377528 KQ Opponent was an avid 3-bettor preflop that's the only reason I called and then I flopped those stupid 2 pairs

From there on I lost my ability to play sanely. Such as this:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/377527 ATd FAIL

And this
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/377525 JJ Not as bad as the previous hand but I snap-shoved this preflop

And this
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/377526 AK Probably standard

Finally I decided to quit after this hand
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/377530 65d I got extra outs on turn, but it became HOTW material for my opponent.

Saturday. Longest session evah, as I tried to atone for my tilty Friday session. 4282 hands 20/13/2.8 -$74.45 -0.87 PTBB. Hands are listed chronologically

It started of extremely well:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/377532 KK Opponent must be thinking: "Does he have top pair? Maybe he does have trips. Now no way he has quads."
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/377533 KK Flopped Ace turned out to be innocuous

And then this hand happens
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/377534 42d HOTW. For my opponent. I didn't like him very much, and I thought playing 200BB deep would slow him down, but instead he pwned me good

The wheels fell apart quickly
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/377535 QQ ABC opponent, stacked
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/377536 T9s What the hell was that turn bet? "When in doubt shove" didn't work here
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/377537 53d Looked like a combo draw
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/377538 ATh No reads at the time. Opponent turned out to be squeaky tight
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/377539 85c One of many failed bluffs on this night. No one would fold top pair for me

At this point I bottomed out at -9 buy-ins. Finally some positives happened -- I caught some hands and ran into some donkeys
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/377541 KK
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/377542 AJ Brutal turn sexy river brutal opponent

And then I decided that I have to bluff off another stack
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/377543 AQh Reraised pot, had a few outs, but at the end it was smash head against wall time

Luckily that was last debacle of the night. Things were all rosy from here on. I managed to earn $400 stacks on 2 tables and $200+ stacks on 3 others just when I was about the quit:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/377544 JJ I thought the extra large reraise meant he wanted a fold.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/377545 QQ Tough situation for otherwise decent opponent
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/377546 KK Letting opponent hang himself
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/377547 AKh Nice hand nice pot
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/377548 65s Botton pair+FD didn't get there, which was a good thing.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/377549 44 No one would fold top pair for me on this night. Good thing here.

And finally a productive session tonight (Monday): 1687 hands, 19/12/3.4, $732.10, 21.70 PTBB/100. And I was 8-tabling, too. 4 more than what I usually play.

Even though results were good I played quite scared tonight. At one table there were 2 really aggro players trying to run over me with preflop reraises EVERY SINGLE TIME. And then there was nutshot2 making plays at me at 2 of my tables. What did I do to you? Why do you have to target me?

Stacking events. These are all good:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/377512 KK vs 2 players, one of which was a donk
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/377513 JJ Standard cooler

And at this table SSDEX and Cookeman were taking turns trying to run over me. At one point I was playing so tentative that I folded KJs UTG and folded AT on the button. In any event I got the last laugh against SSDEX. Twice:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/377510 QQ "Perhaps he's got AK instead"
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/377511 KK "Perhaps he's really got AK this time"

Finally, some adventures against the MTT master:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/377516 44 Standard, he couldn't outdraw me
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/377514 AK I was saying byebye to my 1.5 buy-ins when I saw my hand fail to improve on the river.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/377515 99 I had a decent bluff-catcher

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SPEWTARD Peru. Feb 05 2008 07:10. Posts 4307

j/k nice recovery

Rise and Shine

NotSorry United States. Feb 05 2008 09:52. Posts 2603

Damn and I thought my 6BI downswing was terrible.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.