Thursday, July 3, 2008

Why do I bother

I'm in such a shitty mood about poker right now, so much so that I don't know why I bother. It pretty much started this afternoon. I decided I was going to play some HU LHE.

Sit down, 1st hand. BTN raises, I 3 bet AJh. Flop comes Qh 2h 2s, I lead out, call. Turn 10h. I check raise, river blank, it gets 3 bet. What does he have? Q2. Next hand I raise KJ OTB, he folds. Next hand. BTN raises, I call 109o. Flop comes 589r. I c/r the flop, villian 4 bets it. Turn J. C/c, river 2, c/c. Villian has.....67o. Flopped the straight. He quickly runs from the table.

Next person sits. In the 1st 5 hands makes TPGK+ 4 times. Then turns a nutflush, then flops a staright, then 2 sets, then a Q's full of 2's again, then a 1010 board, they have Q10, I have J10. They proceed to tell me how they've been running hot all day, blah, blah, blah*. At one point they won 10 consecutive hands at showdown. Not junk on my end either.

I couldn't bear it anymore, so I took a break, then sat at another table. I picked up a couple of small pots w/marginal over marginal. Then I picked up raised OTB. Villian calls. Flop QJ2r, villian check calls. Turn 5. Villian check calls. River 2. Villian cr's. He shows down, Q2. Now this is where it gets interesting again(I'm not a huge rigged theororist, but randomness I've wondered about). The Q2 FH seems to set of a heater. With in the span of 9 hands, I lost KK to A10o on this flop, [Jh Tc Jd 5s] [As] ,QQ to K5o on this flop [Kd 4d 8c 5d] [4s] ,AKs to 99(even pretty much going in, but when in the middle of this, bs), QQ to K5o again [Ks Js 7c Td] [7s] , then QQ to J9s on this board [Ah 9s 8h 2d] [Jc]. The last hand really did me in, i said fuck this and left.

On so many dry boards, do i seriously have to fear every single occasion that an overcard hits? That's such BS. 71/29, 72/28, 44/55(usually fair enough), 72/28(wtf twice in 5 hands?), then to finish it with 83/17 and i lose them all in such a short span? Seriously, gimme a break.

*I starred this because I really don't know that i've experienced this. I've had some ok sessions where things were better than normal. I've run extremely cold, but never hot. I've never won more than 5 consecutive hands going to showdown(in whatever form, HU, doing flips, whatever), but I've lost more than ten hands going to showdown numerous times. Seems as soon as I start to heat a little, I get severely coolered. Repeat that a few times over and it turns to tilt.

Then to top it, my PAHUD is jacked. It's telling me some stupid error and has basically returned to trial form. The forum over there had a general generic comment to get a new reg code, of course that doesn't work and support seems slow as hell tonight. Fantastic.

Some times I really do hate playing against fish in LO8. I know that 9/10 that my equity is greater going into the pot, yet they still manage to win pots out of sheer stupidity. One guy called down the flop and turn w/3rd pair Q kicker(I had K's up) with absolutely no redraw, spikes a 9 OTR. Everyone always says these people are great. I'm so infrequently the recepient of their retardation in significant(toruneys) or big pots that they just drive me mad. I'd rather play a slightly competent player, as they are much easier to control.

I was planning on coming on here and talking about how I signed up for deucescracked and what it's like, but I'm still pretty pissed. Maybe another day.
After seeing holdem manager there used so frequently and what it offers and with the problems with PAHUD now and what Ptracker seems to be lacking, I may have to switch.

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