One of the sickest marathons ever
I've never had a "win" feel like such a loss.
I played over 5k hands yesterday -- something I havent done in quite some time (by design). The tables were so juicy and I had been running well and playing well and I saw no reason to stop. Of course that was around hand 1100.
I proceeded to have one of the most swingy sessions ever with multiple 4-5 buyin ups and downs until I finally settled up a pittance. 3500 of the hands were at 5/10 and the other 1500 were a combo of 2/4 and 3/6. The real story is about table King Mesa on FTP 5/10nl. The hero being yours truly and the villain being oboy80, an "unorthodox" (read: donktacular) 56/17 lunatic who and the 5 us regulars sitting with him at the table drooling. Not to mention the 20 (yes, 20) players on the waiting list trying to get a seat.
I first sat at the table around 1:30am. Things weren't going spectacular when i sat but it was nothing too terrible. I was still up over 3k on the day and looking for someone to help me get back some of the gains I had given up. Enter oboy80. For the next several hours, oboy continually sucks out and sets up all of us regulars on the table as he amasses buyin after buyin. Giving up one, taking back two. I had donated a good 3k to him on various hands. He was tough to play against because he was so reckless. Shoving in a lot of spots. I pussed out on two hands against him. I should have called at least one of these based on the speed of his bets but I'll fully admit that I simply couldn't pull the trigger.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1399659 At this point I didn't know what he was capable of honestly. I hadn't seen him overbet the river like that ever. He had been minraising with strong hands mostly so the huge bet really looked like he didn't want a call. plus the speed of his bets were so fast, typically when donkeys bet real quick it's on a bluff. when people have something good postflop, they usually have to take a second to at least consider how much to bet. On this hand on the river i had $1538 in my stack and he insta insta insta bets 1530 -- so fast i have no idea how he typed it so quickly.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1399662 This one was much later in the night and again I pussed out and folded to his shove. he has busted diamonds here plenty enough to call, and the whole reason I checked instead of bet was to induce that bluff. classic case of inducing a bluff and not following through to make the call.
Both of these hands illustrate me screwing up some fairly basic deep stack concepts. I shouldn't have kept building a big pot on the turn if I wasn't ready to play a big pot on the river vs someone who isn't afraid to shove in a lot of hands in the face of "weakness". I was struggling with that vs just trying to get max value out of this guy who was loosely throwing money away. Easy to play monday morning quarterback I suppose, but I think either blocking or committing myself to c/c, especially on hand 2, is superior than c/f.
In the grand scheme though, those hands only accounted for a small bit of the downward turns on this graph. It was pretty amazing really how it seemed like simultaneously on 3 tables i'd stack 3 people, then 5 minutes later i'd be getting 2pair cooled by flopped flush on two tables simultaneously followed by a set that can't dodge an OESD with 1 card to come. Easy come, easy go i guess. Although how "easy" it the money comes in is pretty debatable... haha.
So around 5:30am rolls around. No seat has changed on our table in roughly 4 hours since I got there. villain is still sucking out left and right and cooling even the hottest running regulars. It was a sight. Soon, this hand:http://www.pokerhand.org/?1400364 went down. Pretty sick huh? Thank God I didnt see the flop... lol...Not long after that oboy gets all in preflop with A9o crushing AK and before we know it he's got almost $13,000 on the table. The waitlist swelled into the low 20s -- almost unheardof.
It took another two hours or so. Surprisingly, this guy actually didn't hit and run. Two hours later, about 7:30, he finally busts. I kept playing until about 8:30am since there were several other very good games as well. I finished down about 2600 at oboy's table overall - not reaping any fruits of my labor. Standard.
And as you can see the final downward turn at the end of my graph, coupled with the fact that my wife had already left for work 45 minutes previously and the fact I had been up for around 22 hours straight made me decide to just pack it in and live to fight another day. Pretty sick though. I crawl in bed around 9:00am and although my body and eyes were dragging, my mind wouldn't stop going over this hand or that hand that I could have played better. It just wouldn't stop. I couldn't get to sleep until almost 10. 4 hours later it was time to get up since I had a commitment at 2:00. Still going strong now at 8:45pm haha... but it'll probably be a fairly early night for me tonight.
All things considered, one of the worst parts of this marathon was towards the begining when I was up 5k after about hand 1100 or so. I pulled up AIM and took a few minutes to tell some of my closest poker buddies that the "poker gods" were finally smiling on me after such a drought. I really did sit back and just take a moment to be thankful that my hard work was finally paying off. I was playing excellently, reading hands well, and my hands were olding up for the most part. It was nice.
It was also short lived.
lol :-)
Next time there will be a positive blog entry I promise. Sorry for all the doom and gloom all the time. With Jay's help keeping my mind and game sharp along with my students sending me hand history after hand history -- forcing myself to analyze and defend my stances on how to think about playing certain hands -- I really feel like I'm playing some of my best poker ever...despite some mistakes on the above hand histories.
Aaron
I played over 5k hands yesterday -- something I havent done in quite some time (by design). The tables were so juicy and I had been running well and playing well and I saw no reason to stop. Of course that was around hand 1100.
I proceeded to have one of the most swingy sessions ever with multiple 4-5 buyin ups and downs until I finally settled up a pittance. 3500 of the hands were at 5/10 and the other 1500 were a combo of 2/4 and 3/6. The real story is about table King Mesa on FTP 5/10nl. The hero being yours truly and the villain being oboy80, an "unorthodox" (read: donktacular) 56/17 lunatic who and the 5 us regulars sitting with him at the table drooling. Not to mention the 20 (yes, 20) players on the waiting list trying to get a seat.
I first sat at the table around 1:30am. Things weren't going spectacular when i sat but it was nothing too terrible. I was still up over 3k on the day and looking for someone to help me get back some of the gains I had given up. Enter oboy80. For the next several hours, oboy continually sucks out and sets up all of us regulars on the table as he amasses buyin after buyin. Giving up one, taking back two. I had donated a good 3k to him on various hands. He was tough to play against because he was so reckless. Shoving in a lot of spots. I pussed out on two hands against him. I should have called at least one of these based on the speed of his bets but I'll fully admit that I simply couldn't pull the trigger.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1399659 At this point I didn't know what he was capable of honestly. I hadn't seen him overbet the river like that ever. He had been minraising with strong hands mostly so the huge bet really looked like he didn't want a call. plus the speed of his bets were so fast, typically when donkeys bet real quick it's on a bluff. when people have something good postflop, they usually have to take a second to at least consider how much to bet. On this hand on the river i had $1538 in my stack and he insta insta insta bets 1530 -- so fast i have no idea how he typed it so quickly.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1399662 This one was much later in the night and again I pussed out and folded to his shove. he has busted diamonds here plenty enough to call, and the whole reason I checked instead of bet was to induce that bluff. classic case of inducing a bluff and not following through to make the call.
Both of these hands illustrate me screwing up some fairly basic deep stack concepts. I shouldn't have kept building a big pot on the turn if I wasn't ready to play a big pot on the river vs someone who isn't afraid to shove in a lot of hands in the face of "weakness". I was struggling with that vs just trying to get max value out of this guy who was loosely throwing money away. Easy to play monday morning quarterback I suppose, but I think either blocking or committing myself to c/c, especially on hand 2, is superior than c/f.
In the grand scheme though, those hands only accounted for a small bit of the downward turns on this graph. It was pretty amazing really how it seemed like simultaneously on 3 tables i'd stack 3 people, then 5 minutes later i'd be getting 2pair cooled by flopped flush on two tables simultaneously followed by a set that can't dodge an OESD with 1 card to come. Easy come, easy go i guess. Although how "easy" it the money comes in is pretty debatable... haha.
So around 5:30am rolls around. No seat has changed on our table in roughly 4 hours since I got there. villain is still sucking out left and right and cooling even the hottest running regulars. It was a sight. Soon, this hand:http://www.pokerhand.org/?1400364 went down. Pretty sick huh? Thank God I didnt see the flop... lol...Not long after that oboy gets all in preflop with A9o crushing AK and before we know it he's got almost $13,000 on the table. The waitlist swelled into the low 20s -- almost unheardof.
It took another two hours or so. Surprisingly, this guy actually didn't hit and run. Two hours later, about 7:30, he finally busts. I kept playing until about 8:30am since there were several other very good games as well. I finished down about 2600 at oboy's table overall - not reaping any fruits of my labor. Standard.
And as you can see the final downward turn at the end of my graph, coupled with the fact that my wife had already left for work 45 minutes previously and the fact I had been up for around 22 hours straight made me decide to just pack it in and live to fight another day. Pretty sick though. I crawl in bed around 9:00am and although my body and eyes were dragging, my mind wouldn't stop going over this hand or that hand that I could have played better. It just wouldn't stop. I couldn't get to sleep until almost 10. 4 hours later it was time to get up since I had a commitment at 2:00. Still going strong now at 8:45pm haha... but it'll probably be a fairly early night for me tonight.
All things considered, one of the worst parts of this marathon was towards the begining when I was up 5k after about hand 1100 or so. I pulled up AIM and took a few minutes to tell some of my closest poker buddies that the "poker gods" were finally smiling on me after such a drought. I really did sit back and just take a moment to be thankful that my hard work was finally paying off. I was playing excellently, reading hands well, and my hands were olding up for the most part. It was nice.
It was also short lived.
lol :-)
Next time there will be a positive blog entry I promise. Sorry for all the doom and gloom all the time. With Jay's help keeping my mind and game sharp along with my students sending me hand history after hand history -- forcing myself to analyze and defend my stances on how to think about playing certain hands -- I really feel like I'm playing some of my best poker ever...despite some mistakes on the above hand histories.
Aaron
posted by WiltOnTilt at 8:11 PM
1 Comments:
Do people ever talk about the concept of 'reverse tilt'? I always have to be super careful with my play after I start off a session hot...cause getting too overconfident in myself makes me give lots of the profits back!
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