TUES 15th NOV - UPDATE

Just sick.

NL CASH - $50 NL

Hands (Total): 1714 (17067)
$ won (Total): -$342.25 (-$273.20)
Current BR: $726.80

Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch! Down 7 buy-ins since last update. Absolutely screwed. Just wanted to play "a little" before bed tonight. Unbelievable. Here's a few hand histories...

Hand 1

I over bet the flop and turn here as I know this opponent will call me down with KQ-KT and after his flop and turn call, I know this is his most likely holding. Probably should have checked behind on the river, but as I was pretty sure he would pay off my value bet with KQ,KJ still, both of which, along with KT were his most likely holdings.

Hand 2

Called re-raise pre-flop as I knew if i hit, he would donk off all those pretty chips. After flop, most likely he has an overpair so i call to hit a T,J or 8 and take all those pretty little chips. Turn, bingo. Give me those pretty little chips. River...or not.

Hand 3

Only 15 outs twice and runner runner outs. Not enough. A really good way to play AA from him aswell.

Hand 4

You'd thought I would learn my lesson. But no. This time only 14 outs twice and less runner runners. This was only a 50/50 because of that but of course, it was one that I lost.

Hand 5

Lush.

Hand 6

Just as nice. Found the betting pattern extremely amusing. He MUST know that third 7 is coming. There simply isn't any other way anyone could think that they would win this hand. What a donk!

Hand 7

After the hand I say, "got to call with implied odds there, makes sense" being sarcastic and very pissed off. He replies "yes, I guess you have". What? Really really really frustrating.

Hand 8

Couldn't be a bad session without one of these mixed in.

Hand 9

Then all of this really made me tilt. In my defense, I check the flop because he is extremely loose and will usually bet with nothing. I guess that his check behind should have told me he has extremely strong. However, my head was exploding at the time, so this thought process wasn't too clear. Called the turn as I he could have been doing this with AJ,9,A8, KhT, QhT, JhT. With the nut flush draw and possibly the best hand, I stand my this call. River check/call was probably poor, but I was getting 2-1 and in my tilty state I thought he would bluff this river the same way.

Hand 10

Lastly, calling for value gone wrong. On the flop he could have AK-AJ and I'm beaten. He could also have KQ,QJ,QT,A9,A8 or another random hand. Felt I had to call down with the the small bet sizes and nature of the board. But once again, I was wrong.

I'm so pissed off. Got back to 1 buy-in up over 15K hands, which is dreadful, but finally thought I was playing better. 1K hands later, and I'm 5.5 buy-ins down again. In 1101 hands in my last session I go dealt 42 pocket pairs. Statistically, I should average 65 for the session. 41 times I saw a flop. On average, for this session, I should flop 7 sets. Given I only saw 41 flops I should have flopped 4.5. I flopped 0. Nor did I turn a set, nor did I river a set.

A massive big cooler for me!

Finally moving on...

STTs - $12s

Games (Total): 49 (133)
$ won (Total): +$124.80 ($285.00)
Current BR: $885.00

They are really weak. And they pay off the bonus at a startling rate. Every set I get ~$6 from bonus + rakeback. Very handy. Especially when I'm trying to counter my massive coolers in cash and mtts. Speaking of which....

MTTs - $11s

Games (Total): 4 (4)
$ won (Total): -$26.40 (-$26.40)
Current BR: $523.60

Rubbish. Decided to play 4 MTTs on Stars. One was a FPP satellite to the Stars Million. 9 places, I'm 7th with 14 left. Another was the $10,000 guaranteed. I was 3rd after the re buy/add on period ended. Just started a $5.50 turbo and was ~50/100 in a 180 man $11 all at pokerstars. So, for no reason what-so-ever the pokerstars client decided to disconnect. And decided further not to reconnect. Mozilla connected to the Internet, IE7 did, MSN Messenger did, AIM did, Full Tilt Poker did, even Party did, but not Pokerstars.

I go onto 2+2 to see if anymore has the same problem or a solution. Nope, a few lags, but nothing major. So I reset the net. Nope. I reset the computer. Nope. I re-install the pokerstars client. Nope. So I give up.

After an hour, it randomly decides to re-connect. I'm out of the turbo, out of the PS Million sat, out of the $11 180 man, and have 2000 chips left at 500/1000 in the $10000 (which actually had a prize pool of about $19000 by the end). Decided not to re-enter just in case I could get any money back in compensation. Still waiting on that.

Either way, I will not actually be recording these tournies and will start again from 0.

TOTAL BR: $2135.40

Next week better be an improvement! Famous last words.

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