A lot of today's session was very frustrating. I tried to make way too many bluffs (main factor of swings), plus I had some real trouble making hands. It felt like at times people could see my cards. I wasn't getting any action on my big hands no matter how aggressive I was playing, but every time I was vulnerable I just got run over. This hand nearly sent me on some major tilt (http://www.pokerhand.org/?1577107). It's probably a good play by this guy not stabbing after his attempted squeeze, but it's so rare to see people not continuation bet in situations like these.
Here are some hands:
Bluff
I'm not sure how I feel about this one. The problem with blind on blind battles is that it's really hard to assign a range for your opponent. I've played with this guy before and he's not afraid to play back at me, especially in position, so I found it difficult to put him on a ten. I tried to make my hand look like a slow played big pair, because I will often do that on paired boards. I liked raising the turn because I felt he was on medium strength Jack, and my line is so strong. Plus, if he calls, I have 4-10 outs to still win the pot. I bricked of course, and here was where I might have made the biggest mistake. I decided to shove my last $112 to try and put any Jack to a really tough decision. I think this is bad because the river is so harmless, that any hand willing to call a check raise is most likely going to call now as well. It was also really poor by me to discount a Ten so heavily, as hands like T8, T9, JT, QT, KT, and AT are all calling as well as some other, lower suited tens.
Good Read
I like this hand a lot for a couple of reasons. First, I don't really like this guy because he made an "pwned" comment after a hand he won from me earlier, plus he really isn't that good but he certainly thinks he is something special. The reason I made this play is because of the size of his raise. A hand of real strength won't raise this flop because it's a very dry board and their opponent will fold a worse hand way too often. A medium strength marginally made hand has to raise more than this to protect the hand while still trying to extract value. This leaves only a bluff, so a rebluff (might actually have been best hand)is in order. I make the same move in position all the time because most people aren't willing to put in a 3 bet bluff here.
It was still nice to make a little bit of money, and this did actually put my Full Tilt account over $10k. I want to play all of this month at 1/2 and only move up to 2/4 if have > $12k by the beginning of next month.
My two weeks of hell school-wise are over, so there should be plenty of time to play poker and hopefully make lots of money. I think some of my friends are coming up this weekend (Bob, Bri, and Dino), as well as my parents, so that should be a good time. Lauren and I are going to try out a Chinese restaurant here shortly, so that will be a nice treat after a day like today...
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