Blind spot

I made a very bad call on the final hand of last night's session. An opponent who had me covered went all in on the turn, with the board supporting a straight. All I had was second pair. I had no business calling. I confess that I didn't see the possibility of the straight; that's been a recurring blind spot for me over the years. Part of the problem was that it was late and I was tired. It takes energy to grind, and I just didn't have enough of it.

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9    36      50   12    30        0

delta: $-200,000
MTT with rebuys NLHE balance: $46,247,000
2019 balance: $12,243,250
balance: $58,827,510

Blind spot

I seem to be stuck in a one step forward, one step back holding pattern. The longer this extends, the further away I get from the golden ratio. If it extends long enough, I'll never be able to get back to the golden ratio again. Obviously, I'm hoping that won't happen!

On Saturday night, the bulk of my losses all came on one hand. That hand helped show me a really big blind spot in my play-- namely, the inability to imagine my opponents having big pocket pairs. Here's how it went down:

Table 'Adrastea VI' 9-max (Play Money) Seat #4 is the button
Seat 2: (12000 in chips)
Seat 3: (37500 in chips)
Seat 4: (16100 in chips)
Seat 5: (62000 in chips)
Seat 6: (9500 in chips)
Seat 7: neostreet (39600 in chips)
Seat 8: (46300 in chips)
Seat 9: (40302 in chips)
Seat 5: posts small blind 100
Seat 6: posts big blind 200
Seat 2: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to neostreet [Ah Kc]
neostreet: raises 200 to 400
Seat 8: calls 400
Seat 9: calls 400
Seat 2: calls 200
Seat 3: calls 400
Seat 4: calls 400
Seat 5: calls 300
Seat 6: calls 200
*** FLOP *** [Jh Ad Qc]
Seat 5: checks
Seat 6: checks
neostreet: bets 800
Seat 8: raises 1200 to 2000
Seat 9: calls 2000
Seat 2: calls 2000
Seat 3: calls 2000
Seat 4: folds
Seat 4 leaves the table
Seat 5: folds
Seat 6: folds
neostreet: calls 1200
*** TURN *** [Jh Ad Qc] [8h]
neostreet: checks
Seat 8: bets 13200
Seat 9: calls 13200
Seat 2: calls 9600 and is all-in
Seat 3: folds
neostreet: calls 13200
*** RIVER *** [Jh Ad Qc 8h] [Ac]
neostreet: bets 24000 and is all-in
Seat 8: calls 24000
Seat 9: calls 24000
*** SHOW DOWN ***
neostreet: shows [Ah Kc] (three of a kind, Aces)
Seat 8: shows [Qd Qs] (a full house, Queens full of Aces)
Seat 9: mucks hand
Seat 8 collected 82800 from side pot
Seat 2: mucks hand
Seat 8 collected 51600 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 134400 Main pot 51600. Side pot 82800. | Rake 0
Board [Jh Ad Qc 8h Ac]
Seat 2: Seat 2 mucked [Qh Th]
Seat 3: Seat 3 folded on the Turn
Seat 4: Seat 4 (button) folded on the Flop
Seat 5: Seat 5 (small blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 6: Seat 6 (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 7: neostreet showed [Ah Kc] and lost with three of a kind, Aces
Seat 8: Seat 8 showed [Qd Qs] and won (134400) with a full house, Queens full of Aces
Seat 9: Seat 9 mucked [Ks 8c]

I'm not sure I would have played the hand differently if I had been able to imagine the pocket queens, but that fact that I wasn't even able to imagine them is a bad sign; I really need to work on this blind spot.

delta: $-56,500
balance: $895,387