Tuesday, June 22, 2010

It can't get much worse than this

Things are very quickly going from bad to worse.

After my recent experiences I decided to take a couple of days away from the tables to try and come back refreshed and not playing so negatively - always believing that I am going to lose, then this happened.....

Hand number 4 of the evening. I pick up Poket Jacks in the BB and there has been only one raiser, so I re-raise and he makes the call. Flop comes down 5-6-5, two hearts. He leads out and I re-raise, he calls. The turn is the Kd - I bet, he calls, then following the river 4c we both ckeck and he turns up pocket Q's (I was convinced he had something like A-Q - unfortunate to run into a bigger pair, when you have Jacks).

That left me seething a bit, as I had lost about 1/4 of my starting stack. So, about 5 hands later I pick up Ah-Qh in the cut-off. There have been a couple of limpers, so I pop it up to 4xBB and get one caller.

The flop is J-Q-5, two clubs. He leads out for about half the pot and I make the call. Maybe I should have re-raised at that point, but I was trying to maximize this position. The turn comes 2h and he leads out again. I now put him on a Queen, maybe even K-T, but I wouldn't be expecting the flush draw to be leading out on each street.

Again, I just call. The river is about the worst possible card - Ac. This completes a K-T straight and the flush, but makes me 2-pair. He leads again, for about 1/3 of the pot and I have to call. He turns up Kc-8c for the rivered nut-flush. How the freakin' hell do they always get there!!!

I'm now down to just over $2.00 after starting with $5.00, so I add another $3.00 to my stack (now in for a total of $8.00). A couple of hands later I pick up pocket Tens in mid-position and raise about 3xBB, I get re-raised from the button, so I picture this guy is trying to steal, maybe with a reasonably decent hand. His raise is about half his stack, so I decided to push and he insta-calls, turning up the Cowboys. Insane, another over-pair.

The final straw comes about 10 hands later, when I pick up the Bullets. I never limp or try to slow play them, so with two callers ahead of me I raise 3.5xBB and get two callers. The flop is 6h-Qs-3h (there's always a flush draw when you see a flop with Aces, it's the law). Player 1 leads for about half the pot and P2 folds. I re-raise the size of the pot and the stacks end up in the middle. He turns over 6s-3s (holy sh*t). This guy called over 3*BB pre-flop raise with 6-3 suited and hits the jackpot.

I'm totally busted. This all happened in under 60 hands (and playing Rush, on Full-Tilt, that's less than 15 minutes).

What have I done to anger the poker gods?

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