Worst playing I've done in a while... |
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Posted Wed Jul 14, 2004 6:15 am GMT by snoogins47
Well, that's not necessarily true, just two very large mistakes (and one slight error in judgement) that cost me some decent $. We had a homegame marathon last night/this morning (about 11 hours of poker, and nobody would play anything but hold'em. bleh ;P)
Tournaments were 20 bucks in, 10-14 people a piece. Side game I played was .25/.50 NL, 20 buck buy, and we had one 5 person tourney for 10 a piece.
I busted out near the middle in all the big tourneys, won 20 in the cash game, and won the 5 seater.
Get this though... error #1:
Get top pair with shit kicker on the BB, bet the flop, get called, turn pairs up the bottom card, I bet, get called. River comes, I bet, re-raised all in by a girl whom I know to be a pretty tricky player (she has a pretty decent concept, but isn't afraid to bluff)
I lay it down, and she actually had second pair. Oh well, not a huge loss, didn't cost me that much.
Ended up short stacked and pushing in desperation with A9s and getting called by AJ. Goodbye me.
Then cash game, I make a quick 20. Total profit = 0.
Second tourney, I'm doin well for myself, take down the bounty off the guy who won the last tourney, get a huge chip stack, get to the final table of 8 out of the 14.
Playin around, playin well, building even more.
And then I misread my hand. That's right folks.
I've always been one to check my hand preflop, burn it into my head, and not look back. Well, I did this. "9T spades" I say to myself, over and over.
All the cards are out, the board is like 6 JQKA, rainbow. I bet, get raised. I figure I've got the nuts, if there's any chance he's bluffin, I have to just put him all in, I can't possibly lose, and with no rake, it doesn't matter.
I do so, he says "lets chop it" and flips his T. I flip over..
8s9s.
No clue how that happened. Could've been a card mixup with the muck, was most likely just the fact that I was on 2 hours of sleep catching up to me, but I lost about 1/3 of my stack at that point. Did decently after that, but nothing huge, didn't cash.
Net profit = 0.
5 Seater tourney, I win. Net profit = 30 dollars.
Last big tourney, start with 10, top 3 pay, six left, I'm short stacked, but not horribly (I'm in fourth.)
I'm on the button, it folds to me, I have about 6x the BB left. I raise all-in blind, in an effort to steal.
Somehow, in all my genius, I didn't realize that the small blind was very short stacked as well. Brilliant move on my part: try to steal blinds with a short stack behind me to act.
needless to say, he called, my cards turn out to be 93o, he's got TT, and most of my stack is gone.
Net profit on the night = 10.
Not bad, slightly under a buck an hour ;P
The moral of this story, I think, is that FOCUS AND CONCENTRATION IS KEY!!
I'm not a bad player. I'm not some complete shark, but I'm a consistent winner at homegames, online low stakes, I usually do well in the tournaments I play in...
But tonight, I cost myself large amounts of potential profit, and how? Was it because my opponents were better than me?
No. I beat myself. I didn't have the focus and concentration that I needed to play my A game, and it completely bit me in the ass.
So anyway, learn from my mistakes... failing to pay attention for ONE HAND can be the difference between winning and busting out.
Of course I didn't learn this fact tonight. It just reinforced the idea that one has to be in tip-top mental shape in order to play their best game.
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Posted Wed Jul 14, 2004 11:38 am GMT by als24
I've done the think you have the wrong cards move before too, and I think just about everyone has. I did it once thinking I was suited clubs instead of the real hand of club and spade. Now I just look at my cards after every card turned up, regardless of what I think have, people who haven't been paying attention think it is a tell that I do or don't have something, but no, it is just idiot insurance for me.
Posted Wed Jul 14, 2004 12:16 pm GMT by jwrussell
ROFL, idiot insurance, I love that!
I've done this a couple of times. It ALWAYS hurts.
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