Saturday, 1 October 2011

I hate Anna Kournikova

Not the tennis player. I'm sure she's fine and rarely gets cracked.
I hate AK though. I would say I was dealt it between 15 and 20 times in the 354 hand session I just played. I won with it once. That one time, everyone folded round to my open from UTG, for the first and only time today.
Highlights of the other 14 or so times included at least 3 river fourflushes and more than 2 river gutshot straights.
This was one of the major features of the last session, though another prominent one was the high number of coolers, particularly 2 pair over 2 pair. There was also a hand where I'd check-called all the way with 2nd pair and a flush draw (with K9♥) and I raised the river which was checked to me on the button when I made my flush, to be check-raised by A4♥.
These coolers were on top of the standard suckouts from players who can't fold a single hand pre. It made me think that I was probably not playing at my best if I was playing hands that were easily 2nd best. I certainly noticed that I kept overplaying KT, but naturally stopped this sort of silliness immediately.
I managed to regain a little ground from some well timed bluffs, such as the following risky one.

Poker Stars - $0.02/$0.04 Fixed Hold'em (6 players)
Poker Stars Hand Converter Tool from CardsChat.com

SB: $1.44
BB Psychomobil: $0.56
UTG: $0.75
MP: $1.54
CO: $0.75
BTN: $0.66

Pre-flop: ($0.03) Psychomobil is BB and dealt 2h 6d
UTG calls $0.02, 2 folds, BTN raises to $0.04, SB calls $0.03, Psychomobil calls $0.02, UTG calls $0.02

Flop: ($0.16) 7d 5s 5h (4 players)
SB checks, Psychomobil checks, UTG checks, BTN bets $0.02, SB folds, Psychomobil calls $0.02, UTG folds

Turn: ($0.20) 7d 5s 5h 9s (2 players)
Psychomobil bets $0.04, BTN calls $0.04

River: ($0.28) 7d 5s 5h 9s 4h (2 players)
Psychomobil bets $0.04, BTN folds, Psychomobil returned $0.04
Outcome: Psychomobil wins $0.27

However, the coolers/bad beats kept coming. Here's an example of both.

Poker Stars - $0.02/$0.04 Fixed Hold'em (6 players)
Poker Stars Hand Converter Tool from CardsChat.com

SB Psychomobil: $1.12
BB: $1.14
UTG: $0.73
MP: $0.56
CO: $0.61
BTN: $1.01

Pre-flop: ($0.03) Psychomobil is SB and dealt 5c 2c
UTG calls $0.02, MP calls $0.02, CO calls $0.02, BTN calls $0.02, Psychomobil calls $0.01, BB checks

Flop: ($0.12) 7d 6c 3c (6 players)
Psychomobil bets $0.02, 2 folds, MP calls $0.02, CO calls $0.02, BTN calls $0.02

Turn: ($0.20) 7d 6c 3c 4s (4 players)
Psychomobil bets $0.04, MP folds, CO calls $0.04, BTN calls $0.04

River: ($0.32) 7d 6c 3c 4s 7c (3 players)
Psychomobil bets $0.04, CO raises to $0.08, BTN calls $0.08, Psychomobil calls $0.04

Showdown:
CO shows Kc Tc (king-high flush)
Outcome: CO wins $0.54

I finished the 354 hands down $0.78. I was relieved that it wasn't more.

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