15 April 2008

Limit: NL100

I started the day 5 tables on Stars and 1 on Party. As has been the case for some time now, the doom switch is tripped on Stars. Nothing happening and suckout after suckout in smallish pots. In fact, I only had 1 loss of over 36 blinds all day, yet Stars sucked about 3 buyins out of me. Its just a mind-numbingly incredible bad run.

The one hand I lost my stack was, simply put, an egregious error. I had AK in a 3bet pot and the flop comes down KJT. I bet out $18 and my opponent raises it to $45. Now since its 3bet, I have my opponent on TT+,ATs+,AK. My analysis goes like this: TT is a set, JJ is a set, QQ is open ended, KK is a set, AA beats me, AK chops, AQ is a straight, and I beat AJs and ATs. Nice, huh? And I tend to discount AJs and ATs since he still likes his hand a lot. So I figure I am way behind. But just to be sure, I convince myself to call the bet to make him fire again. So I call the bet and he fires again, that is to say he pushes the rest of his stack on the turn and I convince myself that I am priced in and I probably am not getting my $ in too bad. He turns over TTT. I was definitely priced in but my $ was most definitely not going in good. Just an incrediblely stupid play. 70 blinds I pi$$ed off.

Play on Party went really well, so much so that the gains offset the losses on Stars. This is something given that I only played 1 or 2 tables out of 6 on Party. It was just substantially different. The doom switch wasn't on all the time. I was making good hands at the expected rate. I actually had people making 2nd best hands against me. When I called down an over aggro player with a small pair he did not end up rivering a set. You know the drill. WTF is going on with Stars? I hope I pull out of this crud soon, because if not, I am just going to have to change sites.