Sunny Day

So I spent yesterday trying out Poker Ace HUD instead of HEM's hud. I hate it so much. I'm buying HEM cuz that's where it's at. Ace hud just doesn't hold a candle to HEM.

Other than that, my pokering took place at the Sun's $1/$2 NL tables. Same shortstack strategy, I bought in with $60. Ran really cold with the cards, doing a heck of a lot of folding, and it seemed the few times I had a hand "strong" enough to limp with the rest of the crowd somebody turned up with a real hand behind me and bumped it to the $15-$20 range, making me void my $2. I slowly trickled down about $15 from blinds and missed flops, I'd won a pot with AQ and one preflop that was straddled, so it was really more than the $15 I was down, but $15 total (I was running really card dead). At this point I got my first real hand of the night and here's how it went down.

The player to my right has been giving money away like a fiend. He'll play any pair if he flop it, but he hasn't gotten overly aggressive at all over the night. The player at the far end of the table has been fairly tight in general.



When the first guy bet I didn't give him credit at all for the flush, but I didn't want to raise just yet because doing so would definitely pot commit me, and if my read was off then I just forced him to take my money and I'm drawing dead. Calling here to see what develops on the turn seemed prudent. When the other guy raised, I was hoping for the first player to fold so I could shove. He's been very tight preflop, and it was extremely unlikely that he made the initial call with a couple of hearts. More likely was that he held 2 big cards one of which was either the K or Q of hearts.

Of course this all became moot as soon as the guy who opened the betting shoved another $100 on top of the guy's raise. I sat there a second or two, pondering if this was also a move with a FD, and then realized he's been calling a lot of bets with losers, not betting them. He was nice enough to show me the flush he flopped, amazing.

I eventually switched tables, as many of the table left and refilled, the table became much tigher, and more aggressive. When that was all said and done I was down $63 from the session in 3 hours of play. I found a great new table though. This was definitely a profitable spot, and I was looking to start building myself a stack to do some damage with.

Sadly, the cards kept at their terrible pace, combined with horrendous plays that unbeknowst to the players, saved them. Check out this little gem.



So the guy makes the amazing play of not checking his option with A3, but making a raise to $20!!! Then of course my deuece slams the flop. Superb, lol.

And then there was this hand that annoyed me. It's not like I had a great anything going on, but I mean, the guy bets 2x pot with ace high! And shuts me out on my gutty that completes, which at the time made me want to punch a baby. Would've felt great. When nothing's going right for you, hands like this actually seem like a loss.



So that was that. My buddy was done, and I told him this was my last orbit. I'd made back $22 of what I lost earlier, so hey I recouped a bit. My last hand of the night paid dividends though, check this out.



This really sucked. The guy had just been so passive all night long, and now he shoves this river? Could he really be doing this on a busted flush draw? I wanted to call so bad, I mean the pot was pretty big at this point, but I just didn't think there was any way I could win. I got him talking to me a bit. Convo went like this, and it wasn't forced or anything, natural.

I let him know I was in a tough spot, and said:
"Aw man this sucks, can you just show me if I fold, cuz this is just bad"
"Can't do that, I wanna see if I can get the rest of those chips you got there"
**Hold up my five chips, 25 chip, 2 $5's and 2 $1's** "This is all I've got though"
"Have you ever heard of pot committed?"
"Nope.....Sorry guys I'm in a tough spot. Is there any way I can beat you?"
**At this point I just don't see how I can be winning, he HAS to have a Jack**
"I hope not"
I give it a few more seconds thought and fold my J9 face up, and he shows me AQ for Queens over deuces, tough river for me. Got lots of equity, and lost $44. Boo-urns.

So that ended my night, and 2nd session took another $23 off my face, making my total for the night ($86) over 4.25 hours. ($20.23)/hour or (5.05BB)/hour

There's always tomorrow.