First downswing of the Month and Year

Hi there.

Well, enough is enough and I've quitted the tables for today with about 50$ lost.

I can blame 15$ - 20$ to bad play, but to be honest it should be 15$ or less.

The rest of the money simply was lost PF or on the flop with all in moves.

I think I've got to review some information regarding playing TPTK hands on dry boards / drawy boards.

I guess on dry boards getting raised usually means a strong hand on the other side where drawy boards can mean someone trying to buy cheap turns / free rivers.


Today, for what i can recall since i still don't have HM up, i lost three times ( almost in a row ) with AQ in a flop with Qxx: to a runner runner straight, to a backdoor flush and to a gutshot.

So in all of them i had my money in correctly.

The first beat i took today was shocking, in my opinion. I was facing weak players, and I knew that.

Had AK on the BB and raise, the MP ( weak! ) raise ( he usually raised any two figures, or Axs or Kxs, small pp ), button called ( he calls raises with anything ) and I re-raise for two reasons: if a K or A hits, i would get paid because they wont let go off the hand and when i CBet, even if they call, I'm positive sure if i check the river they will bet less then half the pot so they will make the river cheap, in case they didn't hit anything an Ace or King can't beat.

Flop comes: As3h5h

I bet, MP calls ( put him on a sure Ax or FD - flush draw ), button raises all in or almost all in ( can't recall ) and I thought he had something like Ax or FD or TT, 99, 88 since he has done that before and on a regular basis.

He could have a set but since he didn't had me covered I knew i could get the MP to play and even if I lost to Button against a set, which was unlikely, I would profit with MP FD chase.

I re-raise all in and MP calles.

MP showed 2h4h and Button showed A2off. Well, i don't know if my play on the flop was totally wrong, but one thing i know: i wasn't expecting any of these hands.


Later on i lost TPTK to a middle pair chaser that hit runner runner straight, when i knew exactly what he had and pushed him all in.

I'm not going to put here all hands i lost but just want to showed the one i ended my session: table with 2 tight players who were only playing pps, scs and figures hands, one that played anything and another loose/bad player, but tighter than the one that played everything.

I get AA UTG raise to 5xBB instead of the standard 4xBB and the MP ( half stack ) calls ( loose #2, bad player ) and button calls ( loose #1, calls everything with anything ).

Flop: 9QQ with a FD.

I bet the pot, MP calls, button folds.

Turn: Q

I bet the pot, MP calls.

River: x

I bet his stack ( not much at this point ), he calls and showed JQoff on his hand.

And that was it, goodbye for tonight.


ps.: lost 7 times to 3 and 2 outer river cards and 3 times to runner runner on this 1 hour session. Tomorrow will be better, worst is impossible

Still, even with this session, March objectives need to be updated. Instead of 600$, they are at 700$!