Tilting or just bad beats?

[Wevie]

I hope this doesn't end up being a bad beat post. It isn't meant that way.

I'm running cold today. Real cold. I hope this is just variance and not tilt.

All opinions welcome.

Hand #1

Blinds are going to whipe me out if I don't do something fast.

#Game No : 2571698191
***** Hand History for Game 2571698191 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $10 Buy-in + $1 Entry Fee Trny:15029227 Level:5 Blinds(75/150) - Sunday, August 21, 06:36:46 EDT 2005
Table Table 35326 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 7: HERO ( $853 )
Seat 10: PDdiamond ( $2672 )
Seat 3: ericjj40 ( $525 )
Seat 1: pokerghost19 ( $1390 )
Seat 9: Ergot ( $350 )
Seat 4: joesmarts ( $2210 )
Trny:15029227 Level:5
Blinds(75/150)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO [ 8c 8s ]
PDdiamond folds.
pokerghost19 folds.
ericjj40 folds.
joesmarts raises [350].
HERO is all-In [778]
Ergot is all-In [200]
joesmarts folds.
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9s, 6c, 7d ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qs ]
** Dealing River ** [ Ac ]
HERO shows [ 8c, 8s ] a pair of eights.
Ergot shows [ 3s, As ] a pair of aces.
HERO wins 503 chips from side pot #1 with a pair of eights.
Ergot wins 1050 chips from the main pot with a pair of aces.
Game #2571699478 starts.

Looked like a standard blind steal attempt from the button. Not the first time we had seen this.


Hand #2

Level 4 and I don't like my stack size again. OESD on the flop.

***** Hand History for Game 2571754587 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $10 Buy-in + $1 Entry Fee Trny:15029507 Level:4 Blinds(50/100) - Sunday, August 21, 07:11:58 EDT 2005
Table Table 35307 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 7
Seat 3: DampArt ( $545 )
Seat 10: frequency1 ( $1075 )
Seat 9: Bob1962 ( $500 )
Seat 7: HERO ( $685 )
Seat 8: cusanus ( $1902 )
Seat 1: AreEier ( $665 )
Seat 4: shapy111 ( $2628 )
Trny:15029507 Level:4
Blinds(50/100)
There is no Small Blind in this hand as the Big Blind of the previous hand left the table.
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO [ Jd Qc ]
cusanus folds.
Bob1962 folds.
frequency1 folds.
AreEier folds.
DampArt folds.
shapy111 calls [100].
HERO checks.
** Dealing Flop ** [ Th, 5d, 9h ]
HERO is all-In [585]
shapy111 calls [585].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 5h ]
** Dealing River ** [ 6d ]
HERO shows [ Jd, Qc ] a pair of fives.
shapy111 shows [ Kc, Kd ] two pairs, kings and fives.
shapy111 wins 1370 chips from the main pot with two pairs, kings and fives.
HERO finished in seventh place.
HERO has left the table.

I'm just waiting for the opportunity to steal and along comes an OESD that I got to see for free. I think slow playing cowboys was incorrect on his part.

Hand #3

Level 6 and Bubble. QJs? Anytime.

#Game No : 2571707730
***** Hand History for Game 2571707730 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $10 Buy-in + $1 Entry Fee Trny:15029229 Level:6 Blinds(100/200) - Sunday, August 21, 06:42:33 EDT 2005
Table Table 35131 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 4
Seat 2: HERO ( $975 )
Seat 3: android21 ( $3220 )
Seat 6: mariomarr ( $1025 )
Seat 10: Lulu42 ( $2780 )
Trny:15029229 Level:6
Blinds(100/200)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO [ Qs Js ]
HERO is all-In [975]
android21 folds.
mariomarr folds.
Lulu42 calls [775].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4d, 8c, 3c ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2h ]
** Dealing River ** [ 6s ]
HERO shows [ Qs, Js ] high card queen.
Lulu42 shows [ Th, Ts ] a pair of tens.
Lulu42 wins 2050 chips from the main pot with a pair of tens.
HERO finished in fourth place.
gg
HERO has left the table.

Bad timing?

Hand #4

Looks like I may actually make some chips with this one. Oh wait, what's that on the river?

#Game No : 2571779734
***** Hand History for Game 2571779734 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $20 Buy-in + $2 Entry Fee Trny:15029774 Level:2 Blinds(15/30) - Sunday, August 21, 07:28:12 EDT 2005
Table Table 13784 (Real Money)
Seat 8 is the button
Total number of players : 8
Seat 2: HERO ( $770 )
Seat 8: visaoemradi ( $735 )
Seat 9: Mangekopp ( $775 )
Seat 6: wizwip ( $1600 )
Seat 10: wnypooh ( $675 )
Seat 7: Kenaibear ( $760 )
Seat 5: oxgard ( $1215 )
Seat 3: Rngj2 ( $1470 )
Trny:15029774 Level:2
Blinds(15/30)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO [ Ad As ]
HERO raises [125].
Rngj2 folds.
oxgard folds.
wizwip folds.
Kenaibear folds.
visaoemradi folds.
Mangekopp folds.
wnypooh calls [95].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 7h, Kd, 5c ]
wnypooh checks.
HERO bets [130].
wnypooh is all-In [550]
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HERO calls [420].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 9s ]
** Dealing River ** [ Kh ]
HERO shows [ Ad, As ] two pairs, aces and kings.
wnypooh shows [ Kc, 6c ] three of a kind, kings.
wnypooh wins 1365 chips from the main pot with three of a kind, kings

4BB preflop should drive out most. (OK, its the 20's). King on the flop, I'd like some action from that. Pocket cowboys probably would have raised me. 1/2 pot bet to get the call. Thoughts?

Hand #5

Only level 3, but I just got beat down to a short stack.

#Game No : 2571796380
***** Hand History for Game 2571796380 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $20 Buy-in + $2 Entry Fee Trny:15029772 Level:3 Blinds(25/50) - Sunday, August 21, 07:38:57 EDT 2005
Table Table 14437 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 8
Seat 7: HERO ( $390 )
Seat 9: SlackerPhi ( $570 )
Seat 5: mrkunt ( $1490 )
Seat 6: Jaymoney005 ( $1720 )
Seat 10: O3PEH ( $630 )
Seat 1: ztchops ( $750 )
Seat 3: jeffs53 ( $2000 )
Seat 2: NEWASIA ( $450 )
Trny:15029772 Level:3
Blinds(25/50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO [ Jc Js ]
O3PEH folds.
ztchops folds.
NEWASIA is all-In [450]
jeffs53 folds.
mrkunt folds.
Jaymoney005 folds.
HERO is all-In [365]
SlackerPhi folds.
** Dealing Flop ** [ As, 5c, Kc ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 9s ]
** Dealing River ** [ 5s ]
HERO shows [ Jc, Js ] two pairs, jacks and fives.
NEWASIA shows [ Kh, Tc ] two pairs, kings and fives.
NEWASIA wins 60 chips from side pot #1 with two pairs, kings and fives.
NEWASIA wins 830 chips from the main pot with two pairs, kings and fives.
HERO finished in eighth place.
HERO has left the table.

What else could I have done with JJ? Had to call it.



My question is, since I've been running cold today, does any of this look like I'm tilting?

[tigerite]

Nope. You appear to have caught cold, it's been happening to me the last two days too. They are all standard, you can make arguments for the QJo being a check-raise or something, but it seems fine.

[axeshigh]

There isn't much wrong with these hands. Losing coinflips and running into big pairs happen.

[silencee]

looks fine to me.

[Wevie]

Ah, whew, thanks everybody.

I'll just keep grinding it out.