And that's how the cookie crumbles...

#1 11-01-2005, 06:58 PM

Wow...ever get a session where everything just starts to collapse? I was 3 tabling and felt I was doing well, up on all 3...then all of a sudden within a very short period, everything crumbled on every table. It's like ur cards did a flip and can no longer win. Here are a few hands during the disaster.

This first hand was the most painful, and was juss right to get the whole thing started.

Hand 1:
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Preflop: Hero is MP3 with 6[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 6[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]. CO posts a blind of $2.
UTG calls, UTG+1 calls, [color=#666666]2 folds, Hero calls, CO (poster) checks, Button calls, [color=#CC3333]SB raises, [color=#CC3333]BB 3-bets, UTG calls, UTG+1 calls, Hero calls, CO folds, Button calls, SB calls.

Flop: (19 SB) J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 2[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 6[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] [color=#0000FF](6 players)
SB checks, [color=#CC3333]BB bets, UTG calls, UTG+1 calls, [color=#CC3333]Hero raises, Button folds, SB folds, [color=#CC3333]BB 3-bets, UTG calls, UTG+1 calls, Hero calls.

Turn: (15.50 BB) K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] [color=#0000FF](4 players)
[color=#CC3333]BB bets, UTG calls, UTG+1 folds, [color=#CC3333]Hero raises, [color=#CC3333]BB 3-bets, UTG folds, Hero calls.

River: (22.50 BB) 2[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] [color=#0000FF](2 players)
[color=#CC3333]BB bets, Hero calls.

Final Pot: 24.50 BB

He turns over KK

Hand 2:

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Preflop: Hero is SB with J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
[color=#666666]2 folds, MP1 calls, [color=#666666]1 fold, MP3 calls, [color=#666666]1 fold, Button calls, [color=#CC3333]Hero raises, BB calls, MP1 calls, MP3 calls, Button calls.

Flop: (10 SB) J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] [color=#0000FF](5 players)
Hero checks, [color=#CC3333]BB bets, MP1 calls, MP3 folds, Button calls, [color=#CC3333]Hero raises, [color=#CC3333]BB 3-bets, [color=#CC3333]MP1 caps, Button folds, Hero calls, BB calls.

Turn: (11.50 BB) 2[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] [color=#0000FF](3 players)
Hero checks, BB checks, [color=#CC3333]MP1 bets, Hero calls, BB calls.

River: (14.50 BB) 3[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] [color=#0000FF](3 players)
Hero checks, BB checks, [color=#CC3333]MP1 bets, Hero calls, BB calls.

Final Pot: 17.50 BB

He turns over QTo, other guy flopped set of 9's.

Hand 3:
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Preflop: Hero is UTG+1 with Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
[color=#666666]1 fold, [color=#CC3333]Hero raises, [color=#666666]5 folds, SB calls, BB calls.

Flop: (6 SB) 7[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] [color=#0000FF](3 players)
SB checks, BB checks, [color=#CC3333]Hero bets, SB calls, BB folds.

Turn: (4 BB) 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] [color=#0000FF](2 players)
[color=#CC3333]SB bets, Hero calls.

River: (6 BB) 4[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] [color=#0000FF](2 players)
[color=#CC3333]SB bets, Hero calls.

Final Pot: 8 BB

He turned set of 9's.

And it continues like this for a few minutes, and all of a sudden I go from up about 20BB to -25BB. Not fun. Any advice/tips to handle these situations?

PS - what's with the color defect?