SuitedSixes' Sordid Small Stakes Story: Days 3,4, and 5

[SuitedSixes]

I had a few losing online sessions in the last few days. Although, the results weren't good I really felt like I played the way I want to, was disciplined and stuck to my starting hand requirements despite some bad beats. I did a much better job of putting my opponents on likely hands. In one particular session, I had two Ace high flushes beaten by straight flushes. The funny thing about that is that in all of my playing I have only had two straight flushes, and neither time was I up against an Ace-high flush, so I had decided that was going to be one of the advantages of playing more suited connectors and one-gaps. In one of the hands, I had a K-high flush and was concerned about the A-high flush. When the A fell on the river, I was blind to the possibility of the straight flush and paid the guy off. On the second hand, I did see the possibility on the board, replayed the hand in my head, and it just didn't make sense for my opponent to play the way he did to be holding what he had to be holding. I was wrong and paid the guy off. If those two hands, and one other where I lost my flopped Ace-high straight to a rivered full house went differently, I would have had better results to report. Funny how three hands can make that big of a difference.

In my Tuesday night sessions, I found myself in, what I thought was, an ideal situation. I had position on a very loose playing calling station. He sat down with $12 and left with over $65 . . . most of it mine. He would call any pre-flop raise with anything so it was very hard to put him on anything. I would have a high pair that I would raise pre-flop. He would check and call, check and call, and then come to life when a low card hit the board, and I just knew he had two-paired his 32o, and he did. It was very difficult to play against him, but I felt like I should get up and find another table, but I stayed because, in theory, he would eventually pay me off, but he didn't subscribe to that theory and left before I could get him.

I had two extra nights off from work this week so I put in two B&M sessions that more than made up for my lack of online success. I went to both the Desert Diamond and Casino del Sol. I was very unsure of myself my first few B&M sessions that I played, but I am very comfortable now and enjoy the change of pace and social atmosphere of playing in the casino. I feel like the locals are always trying to push me around when I first sit down and I end up getting paid for the first several hours until they figure out I know what I'm doing. There are frequently three people in the pot at the showdown. There is lots of chasing of runner-runner straights and flushes, and I am sure to make everyone pay for their cards. The rake is pretty tough to beat in the 3/6 games (both jackpot games), and despite the fact that I am really not properly bankrolled for 4/8, I just think that I have a better chance of turning a profit there, and so far I do. After a while at the 3/6 game, you've seen a few people re-buy for $100 a few times and you just don't see that money anywhere on the table (because it's underneath). I figure the rake is taking $100 off the table every hour. I had two +30BB sessions at 4/8 this week. That has more than made up for my dismal performance online. I beginning my normal days off this weekend, so I'm not sure how much playing I will get in, so I will be back on Monday.

Five day totals: 43.85 table hours (-4.36 BB)

[SuitedSixes]

Since reading SSHE, I am paying more attention to the specific number of outs that I really have. Previously, I just kind of estimated whether I had the pot odds to call, or not. . .
Party Poker 0.50/1 Hold'em (8 handed) converter

Preflop: Hero is BB with 9[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]. MP1 posts a blind of $0.50.
UTG calls, UTG+1 calls, MP1 (poster) checks, MP2 calls, CO calls, Button folds, SB completes, <font color="CC3333">Hero raises</font>, UTG calls, UTG+1 calls, MP1 calls, MP2 calls, CO calls, SB folds.

Flop: (13 SB) 6[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 4[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(6 players)</font>
Hero checks, UTG checks, <font color="CC3333">UTG+1 bets</font>, MP1 folds, MP2 calls, CO folds, Hero folds, UTG folds.

If this was a rainbow-flop, I wouldn't be concerned by the J. My actual though process was, "I have two outs to make three of a kind . . . but one of those is a heart, leaving me with one out . . . muck.

Turn: (7.50 BB) 6[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(2 players)</font>
<font color="CC3333">UTG+1 bets</font>, MP2 calls.

River: (9.50 BB) 9[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(2 players)</font>

And there it is.

UTG+1 checks, <font color="CC3333">MP2 bets</font>, UTG+1 calls.

Final Pot: 11.50 BB

Results in white below: <font color="white">
UTG+1 shows Jc Qh (flush, queen high).
MP2 shows Qc Ah (flush, ace high).
Outcome: MP2 wins 11.50 BB. </font>

[stoxtrader]

nice post - and very good thought on the 99 hand.

[Losing all]

Happy B-Day? The cake is a little gay, but whatever [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Losing all]

Hard not to cap an A high flush with no pair on board. The few times the monster is under the bed will be made up for by the vast majority of times it isn't.