Waring! Donkeyitus is Highly Contageous!

NickyOD

When you are continuously hitting flops you feel unbeatable but when you keep missing them, can't win a coinflip, or keep getting outdrawn by maniacs on a downswing of ass reaming proportions then you feel like you don't know how to play the game at all. When that happens its very easy to lose focus and get put on tilt, loosen up your opening hand range or making looser calls. Over the last 3 weeks I've managed to avoid this superbly but last night I finally realised I was not immune and was infected with a monster donkeyitus virus so bad that I'm sure I started getting those nasty lesions like the people in that movie Outbreak. This hand was mild in coparison to some of my other plays.

Some retard min raises in the SB and I probably should reraise with ATo in the BB but I decide to smooth call and try and *ahem* "outplay" him on the flop. Flop is A-6-3 with 2 hearts. He checks to me and I think "ok, its an easy take" so I bet the pot certain the baby pot will slide over but then he min raises. Ack! Now what? I don't put him on a bigger ace because he's not clever enough to check raise with it. A flush draw is possible but unlikely really. He'd probably just flat call. This is looking a lot like 66 but I just can't rule out JJ-KK thinking he can "resteal". Trust me in a morons mind that is a logical play for this flop instead of betting out. No seriously, trust me ok? I call and decide to let him pay off my ace. The turn is a non heart ten giving me 2 pair. Lovely! he checks again. Oh well I guess he's not going to pay it off then, but just in case he is drawing to the flush I'll bet close to the pot and take it here. I've got no problem taking it down early......he raises 5 times my bet! wtf does THAT mean? Well **** me what to do now? Why oh why didn't I go with my initial read on him having 66, but he played it so wierd! Christ I can't fold top 2 here can I? Maybe he has A6. yeah yeah that makes sense, he's overplaying A6 or maye just A3. I can push now and take all he he has! YES YES YES. *cue evil laugh* I move up the slider all the way, the chips go flying in. He calls instantly. He has 66.

DOH!

River....... Ace.
I hit 2 of my six out twice and took down a $245 pot.

Heeeeeeeeeee Haaaaaawwww!!!

NickyOD

Aparrantly it also effects my typing skills. Waning not "Waring"

karlh

don't you feel even a little bit guilty!?

Tackle

Well you learned your (very profitable) lesson.

Jaden

I don't see how you could make this guy out to be a retard on this play alone.

Min raise pre-flop - Not such a bad play for a small pair. I would bet bigger myself heads up, but min raise is fine if yer playing for set value and just want to make sure the BB won't be playing any 2 cards.

Check-Raise on the flop - I would have done the same heads up, unless the flop was really scary. Nothing bad about this play.

The Turn re-raise by him was a very good play. He's hoping you've hit 2 pair at this stage, and there is no made flush available. Calling this re-raise is a very suspect play. You HAVE to put him on trips here.

Ahead all the way, outdrawn on the river. Ah well.

NickyOD

Jaden wrote:

I don't see how you could make this guy out to be a retard on this play alone

I left out the fact that he was a calling station who couldnt' fold a hand to save his life. errrr wait that was me. No he really was a bad player. I wasn't judging him on this hand alone. He lost $300 in an hour at the table, in the end going on tilt and pushing preflop with A7s for $70.

careca

NickyOD wrote:

Aparrantly it also effects my typing skills. Waning not "Waring"

lol

dropsy

NickyOD wrote:

When you are continuously hitting flops you feel unbeatable but when you keep missing them, can't win a coinflip, or keep getting outdrawn by maniacs on a downswing of ass reaming proportions then you feel like you don't know how to play the game at all.

Guess we've all been there, Nicky. Thankfully I'm on a decent run at the moment but it did occur to me recently that when things are going well it is mainly because when you get your chips in as favourite your hands stand up whereas you get outdrawn in similar situations during a bad patch - both circumstances obviously affect your confidence which affects your play which affects your confidence etc. For me, the real warning signs are if I start regularly getting my chips in as a dog along with a mindset that says 'how come every time I have a decent hand, someone else has a better one' = the slope just got a lot more slippy.


Question for you - if you were in the middle of a good run of cards do you think you would have ended up a) in that hand and b) playing it any different?

NickyOD

dropsy wrote:

Question for you - if you were in the middle of a good run of cards do you think you would have ended up a) in that hand and b) playing it any different?

At the time I was on a run of bad suckouts and was determined to take some big pots to get back to winning ways. Normally I'd play much more conservatively. My focus was non existent at the time.