The session

[heniek31]

Had a couple of hours a session yesterday and just a thought. This is not bad beat tread or bragging, just a reflection :ok. I spend most of my poker time playing on Pokerstars. I recently moved up a ladder and been playing 50/$1 tables and feeling comfortable. The day before I made about $100 at the tables and won stud tourney for 130, so I was pretty upbeat and ready to go. Very confident (or maybe over confident. I sat at 2 tables and BANG. Few loose calls and after 20 minutes I was down $250 :eyes:$. I confess, I made few calls to many, which is not my style. Especially one. Guy on the button raised 3rd time running x4 and I called with 96 of spades on BB. I know I shouldn't be in that hand. Anyway, flop comes 832 with 2 spades. He over bets for $12, I re raised him to 30 and he goes all in (buy in is $100). I got gut feeling, that he didn't have a pair and didn't connect and I call :eyes. 3rd spades comes on the river and I'm rubbing my hands for him to turn over AQ of spades :\. As I said, Shouldn't be in that hand. So, here comes a turning point. AM I right to reload and carry on? AM I on tilt? Do I really want to play? I sat out for 5 minutes, had a drink and came back to the tables. Opened 2 more tables. I totally blacked out last 30 minutes (I swear to it) and decided to play ABC poker and no stupid stuff. After 2hrs I was up about $90 and then comes the hand: PokerStars Game #13439022911: Hold'em No Limit ($0.50/$1.00) - 2007/11/24 - 12:40:30 (ET) Table 'Salvia' 9-max Seat #7 is the button Seat 1: Grim Reaver ($117.40 in chips) Seat 2: pburgh virus ($67.90 in chips) Seat 3: jkr1 ($18.60 in chips) Seat 4: paulafar ($66 in chips) Seat 5: Lottsof Luck ($17.90 in chips) Seat 6: heniek31 ($147.95 in chips) Seat 7: pajunk ($46.35 in chips) Seat 8: kokokolo ($39.40 in chips) Seat 9: ZepHendrix ($86.50 in chips) kokokolo: posts small blind $0.50 ZepHendrix: posts big blind $1 *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to heniek31 [8c 7c] Grim Reaver: raises $2 to $3 pburgh virus: folds jkr1: folds paulafar: folds Lottsof Luck: folds heniek31: calls $3 pajunk: folds kokokolo: folds ZepHendrix: folds *** FLOP *** [5d 6h 9s] Grim Reaver: bets $5 heniek31: calls $5 *** TURN *** [5d 6h 9s] [Ts] Grim Reaver: checks heniek31: bets $10 Grim Reaver: raises $10 to $20 heniek31: calls $10 *** RIVER *** [5d 6h 9s Ts] [Qc] Grim Reaver: bets $36 heniek31: raises $83.95 to $119.95 and is all-in Grim Reaver: calls $53.40 and is all-in *** SHOW DOWN *** heniek31: shows [8c 7c] (a straight, Six to Ten) Grim Reaver: mucks hand heniek31 collected $233.30 from pot *** SUMMARY *** Total pot $236.30 | Rake $3 Board [5d 6h 9s Ts Qc] At this point I'm closing all tables with $20 down for the day. And I'm happy with that :D. I didn't have a chance to reflect on my play till late this afternoon. I had about 4 hrs on the train and reading new Poker Player. Runner up of WSOP 2006 Paul Wasicka has perfectly summed up my session :notworthy:notworthy:notworthy: Aftershock "If you look at bad beat objectively, you really dint win or lose any money on any given hand, because your good and bad luck will even out over the course of your lifetime. So all that's left is how you let a hand affect your future play determines whether you win or lose money". I love poker :ok.

[Mr Intensity]

Re: The session Phew!:loon I thought you were going to lose that one to KJ:unsure. Massive well done on not tilting and shame about the good read not working out. I love Poker too:ok