I've had it with online poker

Fatboydim

Yesterday was my worst day ever in contrast to NickyOD's
I had qualified on stars for the Barcelona Freeroll. Making my way through 176 players to finish 2nd in a 30FPP event.
So yesterday it's 300 ish entries... a long way to go and I haven't played a hand for the first fifteen twenty minutes. Not even my BB. Then I get Aces UTG. I raise 4x BB to 80. I want a few callers but prefer a raiser to go head to head. I get what I want. Mid-pos a guy raises to 480. Comes to me... Do I want to see a flop and let him catch? No. I've got the best hand at this stage... If he thinks he can beat it -it's going to cost him all his chips. He calls - KK. Fair enough... can't blame him for calling... Flop - no one improves. Turn is a rag... And here it comes... river is a king.

Ok so that happens.

I'll play cash for a little while and see if I can earn my way into the $380 Barcelona qualifier by turning my £230 into that amount.

I have a Q 6 clubs and decide to flat call - I hadn't played many hands and if I hit I should make money. The flop comes 456d not a great flop but I've got top pair. SB bets $4... I think that seems an odd bet so I don't think he has the flush yet... If he had the straight he'd bet more to get anyone with a diamond out of the way. Same goes for a week flush and a higher pair. So I'm pretty certain that top pair is ahead and so raise to twelve. If he reraises me I know I'm beat and I'm out of there. Turn comes an 8c. He bets 12... I don't believe him.. I consider raising but I don't think he'll go away. He has a diamond. So I flat call. River comes Queen.. I now have two pair. But it's a queen of diamonds. I must be beat. But he only bets twelve. He couldn't have been betting all that way with second pair could he? Maybe he had A6 or hit the 8... Possibly trips. There's a slim chance I could be ahead. But for $12 more I want to see what he has.

I will buy a pint to whoever guesses correctly and post the answer later.

Needless to say I lost the hand.

This is then followed by a hand where I am dealt J 9 on the BB. No raisers so we see a flop. It comes: Qc 7s 8c so I have a chance of a straight. It's bet in two places but not too heavy so I decide to call and see the turn. If I don't hit I'm outta there. But I do hit a 10h comes. I now have the nuts at this time. No other hand can beat me... So I raise the pot... A guy goes all in one folds and I call. He has two pair qs and 10s. Ten comes on the river.

I still have some cash left amazingly and several hands later get AKs I'm short stacked so try to take the blinds with an all in. Get called by pocket 6s and no ace or king comes. Cleaned.

jtsuited

i hope you were getting fantastic pot odds to call with your gutshot draw. I don't think you can complain about this particular hand because on the flop you only had four outs to hit your straight. You were lucky to catch.

NickyOD

jtsuited wrote:

i hope you were getting fantastic pot odds to call with your gutshot draw. I don't think you can complain about this particular hand because on the flop you only had four outs to hit your straight. You were lucky to catch.

That wasn't really the point he was making. He got 4 outered on the river.

**** happens. Roll with it Len. This is the nature of tournaments. You are going to have long losing streaks where you just keep missing or get outdrawn a lot. Yesterday may have been a great day for me but this has still been a very bad month in which I have still lost money.

Fatboydim

jtsuited wrote:

i hope you were getting fantastic pot odds to call with your gutshot draw. I don't think you can complain about this particular hand because on the flop you only had four outs to hit your straight. You were lucky to catch.

Well of course... I was getting 4/1 - That's the point... I said if I didn't hit on the turn I would have gone out of the hand... So to hit and then with one card to go lose to a four outer is pretty tough. I'm not saying anything about it being a bad beat - or the other guys play... It's simply online poker.
And whilst writing this another example. I raise with AJ utg... no callers around to big blind. He's shortstacked and goes all in with J 10. I call has it's only another 400 to me And if I lose it won't hurt. flop comes K67 turn 8 river 9.

BTW you haven't guessed on the hand.

Fatboydim

Yep you're right Nicky... But I do think that once the money has run out of my online accounts or I hit my withdrawal targets... That's it. I'll stick to live play where I seem to do much better.

Perhaps I have too many distractions at home. Alwways working or doing something at same time.

BTW - you haven't guessed either... There's a pint in it.

NickyOD

Fatboydim wrote:

BTW - you haven't guessed either... There's a pint in it.

A3 with just the 3 of diamonds?

Fatboydim

NickyOD wrote:

A3 with just the 3 of diamonds?

So close I probably have to give it to you - 10 2os with the 2 being the diamond.

RasTa

Ah he was chasing a straight flush. Dont play internet poker anymore. Only live games

bohsman

Why call when the 4th diamond comes, at this rate your better off raising as only a picture diamond can really call a raise

Fatboydim

bohsman wrote:

Why call when the 4th diamond comes, at this rate your better off raising as only a picture diamond can really call a raise

You're right of course - I felt it was worth the twelve dollars to see him and that my betting patterns didn't match anyone chasing the flush as I had initially reraised his bet. - and given that this guy was chasing one card in the deck he may well have called any raise or reraise anyway. So whilst the play you suggest is correct I think with this player it would have cost me more money.

Hectorjelly

Lets see: KK vs AA all in preflop. Ok this is a bad beat
Q6 vs T2. This isnt a bad beat. You both played it horribly, and there was no need to put even 1$ in on the flop. You dont limp with Q6s to hit top pair on a three to a flush board. You call on the end is just handing over $12.
J9 vs QT. On the flop you have 3 clean outs. You need to be getting 10 to 1 or more to make this call, unless you were playing bad players with big stacks and you think one of them has a big hand. You were unlucky to lose on the river but again there was no need to get there.
Aks vs 66. 50 50

So only 1 real bad beat. Hardly need to give up online poker!

Fatboydim

Hector where in my post does it say the words BAD BEAT.

It's completely up to me the way I play... If I chose to play 72off I can. I'm simply pointing out some interesting hands in a short space of time. Hands that demonstrate bad play, bad luck and bad timing. I'm not saying my play was great or anyone else's was terrible... except maybe 10 2 os.

But clearly you must only ever play the top hands and only ever lose to bad beats. I salute you