Thursday, January 12, 2006

flushed down the toilet

So my last three MTTS have been a disaster.

On all 3 occassions I flop two pair with two cards of same suit on the flop. On all three occassions I bet enough to push ne1 with a flush draw off. but on all three occassions I get called. and to insult to injury on ALL three occassions. the flush card comes on the river.

hello ppl, was my strong preflop raises not enough for you to fold your 93s,64s, and 72s(of all hands losing to the hammer makes you feel the worst).

Im also going to give up live play for a while, while I get my act together.
my last outing a couple of weeks ago was embarrassing in a DC tourny.

Its funny walking down the stairs at break time of the SE, behind 2 guys (and them not knowing your there) calling you all sorts for only playing high pocket picture cards as they saw me turn over AA and KK. the only other hand i had to show was when i went all in with 87s on an 874 flop and getting called by some1 who flopped a set of 4s

The were also hurling the abuse for me checking down JJ in the hole after calling a preflop raise. and an A high flop coming up with 2 spades. as soon as the hand was over i knew myself of my mistake but why i made it i need to reflect on anyways the other guy turned over TT. i do acknowledge that i was a muppet for that one.

Im now seen as a weak tight player, one guy at the table was calling me "The Rock" all night.
dont think he has forgiven me for calling his all-in with A-9 with K-4s (and hitting my house on the flop) I made a bad read on him I thought he was trying a blind steal with muck. (altough i held muck as well (but my thinking was I might be slight favorite and if i win this hand it puts me pretty even with the 2 CLs)). This was b4 Xmas.

Ive played 5 live events and came 3rd in one and bubbled in another. this has me on a slight loss from live play. but I really do need to sort out my play. Im making too many mistakes.

Time to read Harrington on Holdem so until i can read and understand those books ill leave the coat on the hook at home and not venture out for live play for the time being.

Im off to India on friday week also for 3 weeks. Id love to bring the laptop but the missus wont have any of it :(