Monday, October 14, 2019

Live by the sword...

I have not been running well lately... and what does that force one to do? Evaluate if its run-bad or play-bad... Because run-bad can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. It starts with innocently enough with me passing on the following spot.

playing in a 3 table league. UtG is a reg and winning player in the league... Level is 100/200, 10k effective. He opens to 400 . I am in HJ with Ah8h and call. BB calls...

Flop is Kc 2h 4h... He bets $1k into the 1300 pot...
I think and raise to $3k...
BB folds.... UtG JAMS.
Its up to me to call $7k to win $13k. If he has a K and 1 heart then I am about 40% equity with the over and the draw...
(All 27 players are still in)

In the end, I decide not to draw and fold. I learn later he says he had 5h6h... Which is a way wacky shove?? But was still debating my fold for days... But most often, with UtG opener, and this board, shove is AK, right?

Fast forward a week and I an losing small hand after small hand and I have run my starting stack DOWN to about 60% and I open KJs and get two callers... Flop is K high and I check-raise JAM all in... I got called by a flush draw... who went on to win the hand with a 1 card straight... Ugh...

Sunday I am playing online... I am making a deep run in an IGN with $3k up top. with about 80 to the bubble, my Ax gets there over KK. ON THE BUBBLE, my KK shove survives Ax call. Then after the bubble, my Ax again gets there over a KK. With about 30 left, I steal shove with Js9s and double up after getting called with my hand in the cookie jar. 10 left and I am 8th, but still have 18 BB. We are 6 handed and the Button shoves a million chips into my AA... and I get my legs cut out from under me by Qs9s. Almost the same situation I had with the Js9s steal. So I am not allowed to complain here... I got my fair share of breaks... But oh man, when you settle for 10th and a measly $165 when its $3k up top, it still hurts...

ok, back to studying...