Pulling an All Nighter and Lessons in Tilt Control
Swongs. Lots of swongs. That bests describes yesterday, or rather the morning period from yesterday to around 8:20 AM this morning - when I finally closed the tables.
Most of the previous day can be gathered from my above two posts - but just to summarize:
- Started the day with the 350€ I had on Ladbrokes and playing NL50 --> dropped down to near busto
- Recovered by playing 2 NL20 tables back up to over 11 stacks up
- Took another break to eat and refresh (2:00 am)
- Decided to play NL50 again with full concentration and table selection
That is where the story left off. In good spirits I decided to find myself some fish on the tables and to play comfortable tight aggressive position poker against them and to put in some remaining volume. Main reason was that I wasn't really tired yet and still feeling that I was playing my A game.
The session was going well, with me winning lots of small pots and chipping up nicely. Then it happenes again. In quick succession I have two hands vs the same player who I have been sitting IP against and waiting to catch. He is 68/38 and a Maniac. He loves bluffing and shoving his money into the middle postflop. I therefore take quite passive lines against him since its the most +EV imo.
Play hand
Preflop: Hero is CO with A:s, K:c.
UTG calls $0.50, 4 folds, MP3 raises to $5.00, Hero calls $5.00, 4 folds.
Flop: ($11.25) T:c, 5:c, A:d (2 players)
MP3 bets $11.00, Hero calls $11.00.
Turn: ($33.25) 9:s (2 players)
MP3 bets $39.50(All-In), Hero calls $34.43(All-In).
River: ($107.18) J:s (0 players)
Hero gets uncalled bet back.
MP3 shows two pairs, jacks and tens(T:h J:d).
Hero shows a pair of aces(A:s K:c).
MP3 wins with two pairs, jacks and tens(T:h J:d).
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Play hand
Preflop: Hero is UTG2 with Q:d, Q:s.
Hero raises to $1.75, 4 folds, BU calls $1.75, SB folds, BB calls $1.25.
Flop: ($5.5) 4:h, T:d, 3:h (3 players)
BB bets $5.50, Hero calls $5.50, BU folds.
Turn: ($16.5) 4:d (2 players)
BB bets $16.50, Hero raises to $42.75(All-In), BB calls $26.25.
River: ($102) 2:c (0 players)
BB gets uncalled bet back.
BB shows a straight, five high(A:s 5:c).
Hero shows two pairs, queens and fours(Q:d Q:s).
BB wins with a straight, five high(A:s 5:c).
Twice I get him with 85% equity, twice I lose and just like that I was suddenly down again. At this point in time I really needed to pull myself together in order not to start tilting. Due to the large amount of fish that I had found I didn't want to simply get up - but obviously NL50 Ladbrokes was starting to get to me. After all I was running over 5 stacks under EV at this point in time (close to 6 stacks even).
I therefore opened up a Red Bull at 5:30 in the morning - and decided to battle it out. Although I didn't win any of my money back from the Maniac (even though I was later on sitting IP from him with nearly 300 BB effective stacks) I did manage to have some of my other hands hold and to recover the losses + more.
The positive aspect was of course being able to listen to the WSOP Final table on the side - since I had reduced the volume to just 2 tables at the end.
Here my month on NL50€ at Ladbrokes so far
Total Graph NL20€ + NL50€ yesterday (you can figure out the NL50 stretches by looking at the EV ;D)
Suffice to say: I think the volume goal of 3,5k$ rake in 45 days is still reachable - but I'm not sure if I will or even want to make it. It will certainly require NL100 and a lot of NL50 sessions. Good that I still have the entire month to decide 
I can already see that my 600$ drop in the last 700 hands is hurtful 
heheh