Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Trainwreck hand

Last night, I played nearly well enough to come out in the black. My downfall was a single hand of the 86 I played; it sure was a trainwreck, though. It crippled me, and I hit the felt not long after. Instead of reupping at a different table, I did something I've never done before -- I added chips from my stash and reupped in the same seat at the same table. After reupping, I won back over half the chips I'd lost, so the session wasn't a total loss. If I'd only had the sense not to bet so heavily on the trainwreck hand, I would have had a nice gain. Live and learn!

Here's how the trainwreck hand went down (I've removed the screen names of my opponents):

Table 'Ahrensa IX' 9-max (Play Money) Seat #8 is the button
Seat 2: (44244 in chips)
Seat 4: (78150 in chips)
Seat 7: (54200 in chips)
Seat 8: neostreet (39300 in chips)
Seat 2: posts small blind 100
Seat 4: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to neostreet [7s Ac]
Seat 7: raises 500 to 700
neostreet: calls 700
Seat 2: raises 2300 to 3000
Seat 4: folds
Seat 7: calls 2300
neostreet: calls 2300
*** FLOP *** [Qs Ad 2h]
Seat 2: bets 9200
Seat 7: calls 9200
neostreet: calls 9200
*** TURN *** [Qs Ad 2h] [9c]
Seat 2: bets 5000
Seat 7: raises 5000 to 10000
neostreet: calls 10000
Seat 2: raises 5000 to 15000
Seat 7: calls 5000
neostreet: calls 5000
*** RIVER *** [Qs Ad 2h 9c] [2c]
Seat 2: bets 17044 and is all-in
Seat 7: folds
neostreet: folds
Uncalled bet (17044) returned to Seat 2
Seat 2 collected 81800 from pot
Seat 2: doesn't show hand

I figured seat 2 had a two pair of aces and queens, a two pair of aces and nines, trip 2s, or a full house of 2s full of queens or aces, all of which had me beat.

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 86 hands and saw flop:
- 9 out of 13 times while in big blind (69%)
- 10 out of 16 times while in small blind (62%)
- 40 out of 57 times in other positions (70%)
- a total of 59 out of 86 (68%)
Pots won at showdown - 9 of 13 (69%)
Pots won without showdown - 3

Even though I've extended my maximum losing streak to 5 sessions now, I'm still not discouraged; I've been through these downswings enough before to know they don't last forever.

delta: $-15,800
balance: $931,037

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