Good start, very unlucky mid and ending
I’m not gonna go into much detail about the various bad beats I endured today.. virtually every tourney I busted out of was at the hands of a bad play by another player and a miracle river/turn card. This is pretty standard in poker though and I think with time I’ll be able to just see past it. In the end, I feel much better when I know I’ve played the best, regardless of the immediate results. Yet, posting these two hands as I think I played them exceptionally well.. but still lost in the end:
Had some history with the guy.. I felt he would try to reshove on a big draw to try to take away a pot from me. He didn’t show much strength through the hand.. was basically floating me on successive streets. When he shoved there on the river, I immediately thought “ok.. now u got your flush draw..” I didn’t quite put him on such a disaster of a hand though.. My 66, with the open ended st8 draw on board looked like a monster.
This one came right after the 66 hand I’d lost so disastrously. At this point, I decided to trap the guy HU or convince him that I’m on a tilt/bluff. When the Q high flop came and he bet out 1/3 the pot, it clicked that he must have hit that Q. Connecting the dots.. if now I reshoved, I figured he’d put me on a tilt steal and call off with any Q. Worked perfectly.. until the turn…
My final hand of the session.. busted from my 6th tourney today with AK. I raise entire POT preflop. Dude calls me with 32. Flop comes 3K2.. I bet hard, he raises, I shove as I’m already only 8bb behind anyway. Didn’t improve and busted out. How sick eh?
