another 1k hands of plo and a few tournies

friday nite played a nice long session.

started around 7pm and played the $75 nl mtt and got bounced in the 3rd hand. i pick up KK in the bb and folds around to sb. sb raises 3x and i 3-bet him pot, he insta-shoves and i called figuring i was coolered by AA. he somehow shows up with TT, flop comes K67, turn 8, river 9. gg me and then he shit talks a bit. i told him he sucks, he tells me to check his stats, i look him up on opr, he has like 35k in profit over the last 120 days so i shut my mouth and accept the fact that i got "outplayed".

during the same time i played a $26 turbo satellite to the 6-max limit holdem ftops event. it had something like 70 runners with 7 seats paying. it got down to about 22 people and i had just below an avg stack with 4200 and blinds of 200/400. in the bb i got 52o and it folded to the sb who was sitting on about 2000. he just limped to my surprise and i checked. the flop came T43 and the sb checked. i bet my open ender and sb check/raised and i pretty much had to go with it so i 3-bet and sb 4-bet all-in. i assumed he had flopped a junky 2 pair or a half decent Ten but no, he had the almight K5o for no hand no draw but the best hand. i failed to improve and was crippled and went out 18th seatless.

i played the $26 8pm and was on a roller coaster for the first hour and it felt like a victory to have 2800 at the break even though we started out with 3k. early on in the 2nd hour i doubled up with KK vs AQo and was in good shape. i lost a few small pots and then a good sized one when i snap called a 11bb button push from a bad player with KJs in the bb. it's a definite muck but i'm a little rusty in these tourny spots and thought he was pushing a wide enough range to make it worth while. he was fairly weak with 77 and i lost the flip and a little less than 1/2 my stack. after that hand i got moved and played very bad. with about 12bb's i decided to make a blind steal w/ JTo from the hijak. the button called as did the sb who both had me well covered. the flop came down AKx w/ two spades and i had no spades. the sb checked and for some reason i decided to rep strength and bet out 1200 of my remaining 2k. the button immediately raised, sb folded and i pathetically folded getting a bazzillion to one on my last 800 chips. mistake 1 was blind stealing w/ 12bb's and mistake 2 was continuing a steal with no chips when getting called in two places. i shoved my 700ish stack w/ A9s utg after that and ran it into AQo and busted deservingly.

so during all this i was playing 4 tables of 100plo. i felt like i was playing well and was probably up quite a bunch before it came crumbling down and i lost a couple big pots playing deeper than the usual 100bb's. on one table i had two extremely loose passive players on my left that were absolutely killing me. they cold called every raise i made and never folded to a c-bet and i was often check/folding turns to them. i guess it's my fault cuz i didn't adapt in time and i probably should of started check/folding flops when i whiffed or maybe even just shut down the table altogether and find a better table.

so combined that with getting horribly outdrawn on in the 9:15pm $26 plo tourny i started to get a little irratated. (see tilted) so i made an executive decision to donk off my short stack in the plo tournament so i could shut down my cash tables before i started tilting. when i checked my pokertracker to see what i was up for the session in cash i was actually down $14 after being up close to 4 buy-ins or so. this pissed me off as well.

so i chilled out for an hour or so playing xbox and clearing my head. i came to realize that plo is just a massively swingy game and sometimes im going to be up and lose it back and sometimes i will be down a bunch and win it back. poker is just one long session that way and i don't need to worry about the wins and losses day to day or even month to month for that matter.

i logged probably another 300 hands of cash after my break and finished up $147 for the night in cash which felt good.

i haven't played since except for a little home game saturday night in which i finally one a game. we pretty much play a turbo sng with anywhere between 6-8 guys and most are chopped heads up according to chip equity. we usually only get 2 games in a night but we were all hyped up for the 3 games so i didn't get home till 4am. the first game was $20 buy-in and i busted w/ TT vs AKo. 2nd game was a $40 buy-in when i got short with high blinds i busted with KJs vs AJo. 3rd game was a $20 buy-in and i pwnd it outright for a cool $120. the final heads-up hand had me shove my opponent in with Q3o on a AQ8 rainbow board. he snap called me with 75soooooted and i managed to hold up. it's a good game. it's also the first game i've won outright in probably close to a year. :(

tg.