Twice, again, tonight I picked up Queens and ran into Kings - stacked off both times. 'Nuff said!
I played 715 hands tonight, and here's the stat's on the Pocket Pairs - as they happened...
The figure at the beginning is the hand-number:
(w)=Won, (l)=Lost, ([k])=Lost to Kings, (*)=Flopped a Set, (f)=Folded pre-flop
#009 QQ x 1 (l[k])
#011 44 x 1 (w*)
#048 99 x 1 (l)
#088 88 x 1 (l)
#111 JJ x 1 (w)
#129 QQ x 2 (l)
#217 22 x 1 (l)
#246 99 x 2 (f*)
#264 KK x 1 (w)
#281 KK x 2 (w)
#303 22 x 2 (l)
#317 22 x 3 (w*)
#354 22 x 4 (w*)
#356 99 x 3 (l)
#374 33 x 1 (l)
#378 88 x 2 (l)
#384 22 x 5 (w)
#388 55 x 1 (l)
#397 88 x 3 (w)
#406 AA x 1 (w)
#412 44 x 2 (w)
#422 QQ x 3 (w)
#429 66 x 1 (l)
#438 55 x 2 (w)
#451 88 x 4 (w*)
#455 55 x 3 (l)
#469 JJ x 2 (l)
#470 JJ x 3 (w)
#509 22 x 6 (l)
#531 55 x 3 (l)
#537 JJ x 4 (l)
#541 QQ x 4 (l[k])
#561 44 x 3 (f)
#631 66 x 2 (w)
#640 88 x 5 (f)
#643 44 x 4 (f)
#667 QQ x 5 (w)
#677 AA x 2 (w)
#693 55 x 4 (l)
#698 77 x 1 (w)
#701 AA x 3 (w)
#711 33 x 2 (w)
#714 22 x 7 (l)
So, I picked up 43 pocket pairs during the session. That's 1 every 16.7 hands - as near as can be to the statistical average. Of those hands I folded 4 pre-flop. From the 39 pairs I saw the flop with I made a set 4 times. That's only once in every 9.75 hands, and the average should be once in every 8.7, so it's not too far below.
However, that's not the whole story - I mis-clicked on hand #246, when I was dealt pocket 9's and would have hit a set on that flop, if I had called (as I intended to).
So, overall, 43 total pocket pairs, and including the pre-flop folds, I would have hit 5 sets. That's an average of 8.6, so is virtually spot on - I can have no real complaints tonight, except for the fact that I made diddly-squat when I did make the sets, as I got no customers on any of them - seriously, made the absolute minimum when I had the goods.
When you put this up against the fact that twice tonight I ended up getting it all-in pre-flop with pocket Queens, and both times ran into Kings is where I lost the bulk of my stack. My total buy-in for the evening amounted to $14.00, and I cashed out (beleaguered) with a shade over $7.00, Probably my biggest losing session in a long time.
There was some other really nasty hands, along the way, that cost me severely. Like 3 hands in quick succession where I picked up A-J and lost to A-K (blind on blind) another with A-Q which met another A-K and one with A-10 that ran into A-J (where I flopped top-pair and the nut flush draw and stacked off when the flush did not arrive). At the time I had a stack of about $10 (after reloading with $5.00 and building it up), those 3 hands, I would say in the space of 10-15 hands, bumped me back down to $3.00, and I had to work it back up to $7.00 before I called it quits.
It really should not be this hard to win at least a couple of these hands. You would think after playing 715 hands that once or twice I might come up against an opponent with just less of a hand than me, but I am seriously getting paranoid and it is affecting my play. Every hand I am convinced I am beat - because usually I am.
I picked up Aces 3 times this session, and only once did it go down to the river, and the boards were as wet as you could imagine. One saw a flop of T-J-Q of hearts, and I had Ac-As, the other guy was calling all my bets and shoved on the river - he had T-8 (flopped bottom pair and was chasing a straight and a flush with just the 8h). I'm amazed, the way I am running, that he didn't get there.
Another time I had Pocket Jacks and made a set on the turn, but my opponent had made a straight which improved to a flush, on the river, and I lost half my stack.
I just hope this run comes to an end very soon and I have a good session to get some of my losses back.
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