Well … I guess there’s a lot to talk about when it comes to my poker game. My boy Matt witnessed me re-raise someone $400 with middle pair and a weak kicker. I was quickly re-raised $289 more and I folded based on my read of the situation. My evaluation of this play is only positive. While I was obviously beat and made what seems to be a bad play, I went with my read on the player and was not scared to raise him. Not once during this hand did I feel I misplayed it, but I did pick a bad spot to challenge this particular player, who had been betting bad the whole way. The only difference is that I could have played tighter and not even been involved in the hand, as I was in there with 6-8 off-suit. But I’ve come to the conclusion that I play to win money. At no point, no matter what size stack I have, do I play to preserve money. If I am playing to preserve money, I might as well leave once I am up. I’m not saying that I play to lose…but I don’t play to sit on chips. I play to use them and win them.
Anyways. Since my last entry I’ve been to the casino twice. Once on Thursday night/Friday morning and the other on Saturday night/Sunday morning. In both instances I built a big stack of 1500 and over. Both times I left on a down swing. I believe both nights I was up at a peak of around 1100. Friday morning I left up $691 and Sunday morning I left up $124. Pretty disappointing to leave with a profit of $815 when it potentially could have been $2200. But that is not EVEN the big story. Here is the big story:
As of my last entry, my bankroll was at a very humble $342. Because I regularly play the $200 game, this is a pretty weak bankroll but I knew this. So Thursday night I went to HP planning to build this bankroll. Unfortunately, I quickly lost $200 when this hand occurred: I’m UTG with AsJs. I limp. Everyone limps. Then the big blind, who I know is a wild/aggressive/gambling player, raises to $45 in what I thought was a steal attempt. I re-raised him all-in, hoping to re-steal. Everyone folded to him and he made the call with 99. His nines held and I was down to a $142 bankroll. I did a short-buy for $100. Lost it. Now I’m down to $42 fuckin’ dollars! So I hit the $40 table. Took a couple losses. Then was down to $20. This is not looking good for my new bankroll plan. Well, amazingly I doubled up twice with 5-6 off suit and then some other hand. Shortly I built that $20 to about $250 on the $40 NL table. I then changed tables to the $200 and worked my way up to $1600 all off that $20. Pretty crazy and made me pretty happy. Later that night all the tables were condensed down to one table and it was a great table with a few loose players and one fine ass woman who was really nice. She kept all of us awake. Anyways I was playing pretty well at this table but at about 5:30 a.m. my game started going downhill so I took off.
The next night I went was Saturday night and my game was on point. I got KK cracked by AQ in a crazy ass hand. Guy raised to $15, everyone called. I raised to $115. He calls, everyone folds. Flop comes J-8-3 rainbow and he pushes all in. I call and the turn is an ace, he wins.
I also took a bad beat on my final hand when my QJ two pair on a board of J-6-3-Q was trumped by an ace on the river and the other player had A-3. It was ugly seeing that he called all the way with bottom pair and an ace kicker. I had to shake after that as I was pissed off to the utmost. Overall, I’m definitely feeling very good about my game. I’ve won my last four sessions, although they were all pretty small wins (with the exception of the $691) and six out of my last seven, and eleven out of my last 14. I just don’t know where the money goes. Fuck! That’s why I’m trying to build the bankroll, so that all my poker money stays in one place.
Game: $200 NL
W/L: $762
Game: $40 NL
W/L: $195
Current Bankroll: $1157
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