.25/.50 NLH SH 9/5/07

Opening balance: $428.53

Buy in : $40.00 + $40.00 + $40.00
No. of hands : 89
Left with : $0

Closing balance : $308.53

Running total: -$91.76/217
-183.5ptbb/217

Dreadful session. Utterly dreadful. Couldn't get action with good cards, could get action with bad cards. Lost top two vs. set on the flop, top two to a straight on the river, outkicked numerous times. Changed tables after the second buy in.

Then I starting doing well. Built up to $75ish, planning to stop when I hit $80. One buy in down is ok. After that, it all went wrong. Tried to bluff the maniac out in a blind vs. blind where I had KQ and it was obvious he wasn't going away. Lost about $40 in that one. Then tilt-4 bet with A8o (same hand I just lost to) and got mashed by AA. Very bad.

The first buy-in went half to a lack of luck, not getting any action except when I was behind. I bluffed off the second half as follows

Seat 5: YagaS ( $19.40 USD )
Seat 1: DrTMMG ( $50.75 USD )
kASSpar posts small blind [$0.25 USD].
DrTMMG posts big blind [$0.50 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to YagaS [ 4s Kh ]
3 folds
YagaS raises [$2 USD]
1 fold
DrTMMG raises [$6.50 USD]
YagaS is all-In [$17.40 USD]
DrTMMG calls [$12.40 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 5h, Td, 7h ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2h ]
** Dealing River ** [ Jd ]
DrTMMG shows [ Ah, 8s ]high card Ace.
YagaS doesn't show [ 4s, Kh ]high card King.
DrTMMG wins $37.10 USD from the main pot with high card, Ace.

I don't like his calling me, obviously. Partly because I think he doesn't have a good enough hand, but I guess the thing there is, I should like people calling with bad hands like that and I should stop complaining just because he had my number.

Here goes the second buy-in about ten hands later:

Seat 4: walta888 ( $36.30 USD )
Seat 5: YagaS ( $41.75 USD )
Seat 2: Pokersaft ( $46.20 USD )
Seat 1: DrTMMG ( $67.45 USD )
Seat 6: kASSpar ( $47.75 USD )
Seat 3: big_tony_88 ( $21.50 USD )
Pokersaft posts small blind [$0.25 USD].
big_tony_88 posts big blind [$0.50 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to YagaS [ Js Th ]
walta888 calls [$0.50 USD]
YagaS calls [$0.50 USD]
kASSpar folds
DrTMMG raises [$3 USD]
Pokersaft folds
big_tony_88 folds
walta888 calls [$2.50 USD]
YagaS calls [$2.50 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8s, Tc, Jc ]
walta888 bets [$0.50 USD]
YagaS raises [$3 USD]
DrTMMG raises [$11 USD]
walta888 folds
YagaS is all-In [$35.75 USD]
DrTMMG calls [$27.75 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6c ]
** Dealing River ** [ Qs ]
DrTMMG shows [ 8d, 8c ]three of a kind, Eights.
YagaS doesn't show [ Js, Th ]two pairs, Jacks and Tens.
DrTMMG wins $84.75 USD from the main pot with three of a kind, Eights.

My preflop call of the $3 is a bit dubious, but I have good implied odds and pot odds. When he reraises on the flop, I thought about letting go but this was the first good flop I'd had all session. The guy was also pretty aggressive, especially against me with my appalling image. He could've had AJ or an overpair, maybe AcKc. I'd do it over again, this is the loss that hurts the least.

The third buy in was just awful.

If I take one more hit, I'm going to drop down to .10/.25 LH and build up again. It sucks that I've hit a big rough patch at the start of this new attempt to play properly. Something I've thought about doing before but never gone with is not rebuying at a table. It never seems to go well, as I'm generally chasing my losses. If I find a fantastic table, then I'll do it, but other than that it seems a bad plan. Better seems to be to leave for half an hour and find a different table. It's not like they're in short supply.