More Lessons Learnt
I was away this weekend so no long sessions. However played the night before I left and seems I spoke too soon about the record start to the month. I had a nightmare. Played mainly cash but also two multi tables, mixture of horrid luck and awful play resulted in a really bad night.
Multi table’s - Entered two $55 MT and picked up some decent hands early on. However went out of both in the mid stages by making two almost identical amateur mistakes. Both times involved me hitting a hand and slow playing it. The best example on my second MT. Blinds were at 100 200. I had KQ on the bb. There were 4 limpers, also the sb limped and I checked. Already 1200 in the middle, I had about 3.6k. Flop was a lovely 2 K Q , Rainbow. I checked the flop when I definitely should have bet. I figured that there were 4 more people to act and one must had a K or a Q and would fire out a bet. Instead it checked all the way round. The turn is a 8 so not too bad as none with i.e. J10 AJ etc has hit a straight. The small blind now bets 400 and I raise, everyone else folds and the sb pushes in. It seems a good chance to double up as he could have anything on sb i.e. q 8, k8, k2, q2 etc, a lot of hands that my 2 pair beat. He could also have a king and was also trying to check raise from sb on flop. In the end I call and he has 88 and I am out. Great example of always betting flop in a multi way pot if you think your ahead. It was big enough to take the 1200. Even if I get a caller I get info i.e. straight draw, 1 pair etc, by checking I let a lot of potential hands hit i.e. straight draw , pocket pair etc. My first instincts were to feel unlucky at being hit by a 2 outer but it was definitely my fault, a huge error, one I will try hard not to make in MTT again. I was frustrated with myself as I know a lot better than that!
Cash- This was just a train wreck all night. I had a couple of horrible situations early on, its those types of situations where you don’t feel you played bad but that the situation shafted you. Good example, I had QJspades. I raise on big blind to $4, the sb calls. Flop is great, Q 4 8, the 4 and 8 are spades. I bet the pot which is around $10. The sb calls (after his initial check). I now put him either on a straight draw, flush draw or maybe second pair (from my notes I think he’d raise with top pair. The turn is a J, so I have top 2 pair and flush draw. I bet $17 now, im a bit worried he could have 9 10 but hope that this bet will let me find out. He just calls, now I really put him on a flush draw or a trappy straight. I think he’d have given up on a pair now. The turn is a spade, think a 3. He now bets all in $68. This is tough, ive made my q high flush, however theres a range of hands I have him murdered with, he could have hit straight on turn and doesn’t put me on flush as ive been betting since pre flop, he could have trips, he could have a smaller flush. He could also have not much but figures he played it like a draw and the 3rd spade scares me. The two hands that beat me are ace and king high flush. As he was on sb he could have any of these hands so I definitely call as I beat the majority of them. To my horror he has AKs, he never raised or reraised pre flop. It worked perfect for him. He made a loose call on flop but guess he figured his A and K were good as well as draw. I don’t think I did too much wrong but the cards fell perfect for him.
I also got a couple more similar to this where I was done on a river. After that although I didn’t full on tilt my game went down hill. I played too loose, made several calls I shouldn’t chasing draws and pretty much played badly. I was due a run of not great cards ad the start of the session I had these 3 situations that cost me $130ish, there was no need to tilt but im afraid I did to an extent, rather than play solid and win it back. It s not like I got horrendous beats either, just bad situations where I had to loose money. I could have dome off at that stage but I carried on and lost more through poor play. The only thing I’m proud of is that I wanted to move up stakes and chase losses but I stopped myself doing it.
In total I ended up around $500 down for night, if I hadn’t played so bad on multi’s and then hadn’t semi tilted after some beats on cash I reckon I should have limited this to $200 at most. It just shows how quickly it can turn around in this game and how much I have to learn. Still $600 up for month but time is limited to play at the moment.
Multi table’s - Entered two $55 MT and picked up some decent hands early on. However went out of both in the mid stages by making two almost identical amateur mistakes. Both times involved me hitting a hand and slow playing it. The best example on my second MT. Blinds were at 100 200. I had KQ on the bb. There were 4 limpers, also the sb limped and I checked. Already 1200 in the middle, I had about 3.6k. Flop was a lovely 2 K Q , Rainbow. I checked the flop when I definitely should have bet. I figured that there were 4 more people to act and one must had a K or a Q and would fire out a bet. Instead it checked all the way round. The turn is a 8 so not too bad as none with i.e. J10 AJ etc has hit a straight. The small blind now bets 400 and I raise, everyone else folds and the sb pushes in. It seems a good chance to double up as he could have anything on sb i.e. q 8, k8, k2, q2 etc, a lot of hands that my 2 pair beat. He could also have a king and was also trying to check raise from sb on flop. In the end I call and he has 88 and I am out. Great example of always betting flop in a multi way pot if you think your ahead. It was big enough to take the 1200. Even if I get a caller I get info i.e. straight draw, 1 pair etc, by checking I let a lot of potential hands hit i.e. straight draw , pocket pair etc. My first instincts were to feel unlucky at being hit by a 2 outer but it was definitely my fault, a huge error, one I will try hard not to make in MTT again. I was frustrated with myself as I know a lot better than that!
Cash- This was just a train wreck all night. I had a couple of horrible situations early on, its those types of situations where you don’t feel you played bad but that the situation shafted you. Good example, I had QJspades. I raise on big blind to $4, the sb calls. Flop is great, Q 4 8, the 4 and 8 are spades. I bet the pot which is around $10. The sb calls (after his initial check). I now put him either on a straight draw, flush draw or maybe second pair (from my notes I think he’d raise with top pair. The turn is a J, so I have top 2 pair and flush draw. I bet $17 now, im a bit worried he could have 9 10 but hope that this bet will let me find out. He just calls, now I really put him on a flush draw or a trappy straight. I think he’d have given up on a pair now. The turn is a spade, think a 3. He now bets all in $68. This is tough, ive made my q high flush, however theres a range of hands I have him murdered with, he could have hit straight on turn and doesn’t put me on flush as ive been betting since pre flop, he could have trips, he could have a smaller flush. He could also have not much but figures he played it like a draw and the 3rd spade scares me. The two hands that beat me are ace and king high flush. As he was on sb he could have any of these hands so I definitely call as I beat the majority of them. To my horror he has AKs, he never raised or reraised pre flop. It worked perfect for him. He made a loose call on flop but guess he figured his A and K were good as well as draw. I don’t think I did too much wrong but the cards fell perfect for him.
I also got a couple more similar to this where I was done on a river. After that although I didn’t full on tilt my game went down hill. I played too loose, made several calls I shouldn’t chasing draws and pretty much played badly. I was due a run of not great cards ad the start of the session I had these 3 situations that cost me $130ish, there was no need to tilt but im afraid I did to an extent, rather than play solid and win it back. It s not like I got horrendous beats either, just bad situations where I had to loose money. I could have dome off at that stage but I carried on and lost more through poor play. The only thing I’m proud of is that I wanted to move up stakes and chase losses but I stopped myself doing it.
In total I ended up around $500 down for night, if I hadn’t played so bad on multi’s and then hadn’t semi tilted after some beats on cash I reckon I should have limited this to $200 at most. It just shows how quickly it can turn around in this game and how much I have to learn. Still $600 up for month but time is limited to play at the moment.
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