Tuesday, September 1, 2009

more losses tonight


The blog of poker player on a downswing must be the most boring thing in the world. Sorry.

There are no real hand details to give for tonight, really - I played 3 tourneys and I think I played 6 hands - three of which knocked me out. One was pocket kings who found pocket aces in the first level. One was a shortstack shove from the button that was called by BOTH BLINDS. (my first hand played of that tourney, no shit). I had shit and they didn't, I was gone. The last was probably a bad call - called a shove with 66 (I was short myself, 6-7 BB) - a race against AQ, which I lost.

No cards, no flops, steals called (or reraised), nothing you can do but watch the chips melt away. Out in 8th, 6th, and 8th. No shot.

Need another day off, it looks like. Thursday is our cash game, double stakes this week ($1/$2 blinds), so I hope to have a big turnout and a good time. Maybe I'll catch a hand or two.

Seems like wishful thinking right now.

2 comments:

Memphis MOJO said...

The last was probably a bad call - called a shove with 66 (I was short myself, 6-7 BB) - a race against AQ, which I lost.

Why is this a bad call? Aren't you hoping for a situation like this where you can double up and get back in the game.

You lost the race -- it happens, but not a bad call, just one you have to make that didn't work out.

When your are on a losing streak, it's easy to be too hard on yourself.

diverjoules said...

Good Luck at your cash game Matt. And I agree with MoJo. WHen you shoved you were ahead with 66.. Racing yes. But still ahead. I did the same thing last night with 55 trying to build up my chip stack. I too was flipping against AKo. Need chips to run deep. And deep is where the money is. :-)