Still Alive

It's been about a month or so since my last post. Since then I've been on a really bad streak that has turned around only recently. How bad? About -$1,000 bad. Towards the end of the streak I found that I was playing either scared or way too aggressively. I would switch between two extreme gears, neither of which was very profitable.

A typical session would begin with me playing my regular game. Inevitably, I'd take a bad beat. They're part of the game and by now I should be able to just roll with them. I'd copy the hand out to analyze later and I'd continue playing. However, without even noticing, at this point I would now be playing either scared or tilted. Just any little beat would do it.

I don't know when during the -1k streak this started happening but I suspect near the the latter end. I was running really shitty to start this bender. I mean really shitty. Like set over set three times in two sessions shitty.

Anyway, I ended up cashing out a good amount of money to make myself feel better. Since then I've been grinding away at 25NL and 50NL and I'm happy to say that my game is back on track. My bankroll isn't where it was a month ago, but it'll get there soon enough. I might even deposit the cash I withdrew if I feel my game is back all the way. We'll see.

I've also been out to the casino to play 2/5 limit the last two weekends, and each trip was very profitable. The game is just a complete joke and I'm confident I can crush it on any given night.

But let's get to some hands:

Hand 1: 25NL
Seat #2 is the dealer
Seat 2 - CPTNBLUEBEAR ($25.06 in chips)
Seat 3 - JUNIOR24XX ($39.40 in chips)
Seat 4 - IMBRAINDEAD ($24.39 in chips)
Seat 5 - PLOUPLOUF24 ($23.27 in chips)
Seat 6 - Hero ($49.30 in chips)
Seat 1 - GOSUMINH ($29.92 in chips)
JUNIOR24XX - Posts small blind $0.10
IMBRAINDEAD - Posts big blind $0.25
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [ ]
PLOUPLOUF24 - Folds
Hero - Raises $1 to $1
GOSUMINH - Folds
CPTNBLUEBEAR - Folds
JUNIOR24XX - Folds
IMBRAINDEAD - Calls $0.75

Flop:
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IMBRAINDEAD - Checks
Hero - Bets $1.50 -- standard 3/4 cbet
IMBRAINDEAD - Raises $3 to $3 -- standard donk cr
Hero - Calls $1.50 -- my rockets are still ahead very very often, and I don't mind letting him see a turn on this very dry flop

Turn:
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IMBRAINDEAD - Bets $3.25 -- donks less than 1/2 the pot
Hero - Raises $11 to $11 -- time to valuetown him
IMBRAINDEAD - Calls $7.75 -- most often his line indicates an overpair to the board, so I'm value betting my rockets on just about any river

River:
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IMBRAINDEAD - Checks
Hero - Bets $30.10 -- stick to my read and obfv; if he has a 7 then congrats him
IMBRAINDEAD - All-In $9.39
Hero - returned ($20.71) : not called

Showdown:
Hero - Shows [ ] (Two Pair, aces and sevens)
IMBRAINDEAD - Shows [ ] (Full house, sevens full of threes)
IMBRAINDEAD Collects $46.45 from main pot

Very appropriate name.

Hand 2: 25NL
Seat #5 is the dealer
Seat 5 - WFORCIER ($14.13 in chips)
Seat 6 - BADBEATREMO ($19.35 in chips)
Seat 1 - YOSSARIAN23 ($7.79 in chips)
Seat 2 - BUSTER3522 ($10 in chips)
Seat 3 - Hero ($60.30 in chips)
Seat 4 - DANCEOFDDEAD ($65.73 in chips)
BADBEATREMO - Posts small blind $0.10
YOSSARIAN23 - Posts big blind $0.25
BUSTER3522 - Posts $0.25 -- post
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [ ]
BUSTER3522 - Checks
Hero - Raises $1.25 to $1.25 -- 5x b/c of post
DANCEOFDDEAD - Calls $1.25
WFORCIER - Folds
BADBEATREMO - Folds
YOSSARIAN23 - Folds
BUSTER3522 - Calls $1

Flop:
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BUSTER3522 - Checks
Hero - Bets $2.75 -- bet top 2!
DANCEOFDDEAD - Raises $6.17 to $6.17 -- raise from position includes lots of semi-bluffs...
BUSTER3522 - Folds
Hero - Raises $19 to $21.75 -- ... so make him pay
DANCEOFDDEAD - Calls $15.58 -- flat call here for so much is most often a made hand and a made hand on this flop, with me holding top 2, would mean either an overpair or 22, but 22 would shove here almost always, so his range is pretty narrow at TT,JJ,QQ since KK/AA would 3-bet pf almost always

Turn:
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Hero - All-In $37.30 -- not a great card given the above read but i still need to shove for value
DANCEOFDDEAD - Calls $37.30

River:
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Showdown:
Hero - Shows [ ] (Two Pair, nines and eights)
DANCEOFDDEAD - Shows [ ] (Two Pair, jacks and twos)
DANCEOFDDEAD Collects $119.20 from main pot

River pairs the board and he takes it down with JJ. Pretty braindead call on the turn by him. Not sure if I should be slowing down when the Q comes out. I doubt I'm folding to any turn bet and I don't want another spade coming out so I'm happy with the turn shove.

That's it for now. I'll be putting in some solid sessions so expect more posts.