Things went south last week...VERY SOUTH! I had a TILT moment that I shall never forget...basically the TITLE SAYS IT ALL...Let's put it this way...I almost went broke...my wife goes out of town and all hell breaks loose at the UB tables. B- you had quite a point that you made in that comment, but it was more than the TD tables...it was the 7&7's on top of it...That's the bad news.
The good news is that I made a final table this week in my 3rd or 4th online tourney of the year. I finished 8 out of 974 for a whopping $120+. That made me feel pretty good. I took some time off after the debacle last week and it helped. I've been trying to lay low on the poker tables these days. I've played 2 SnG's and got 1st and 6th. The sixth place finish had an interesting final hand that has me wondering. I guess i'll get right to the point...
Preface: Tourney is playing VERY SLOW. For some reason everyone is either multi-tabling or on dial-up. Anyway, we are down to 6 and the blinds are 100/200, stacks are relatively even, I have about 2700 (in 3rd place), and there are two stacks around 1500-1800. I have been actually playing pretty tight, but have not shown down hardly any hands (actually 1 hand only where I had top 2 pair and put a guy all in with only top pair weak kicker, only to river a chop pot - I had AJs in the sb he had ATo). But the thing is, even though i've been playing very TAG, i've had good hands in good position that are not getting called preflop...so I was actually thinking that the table may think i'm trying to bully and steal using position only...so...on to the hand: KTs UTG+1 (thats UnderTheGun+1 Chris..or..the guy to the left of the guy next to the big blind :^} ), and raise to 600, which was my standard raise with good cards. The CO (thats CutOff, or the guy to the right of the button)makes it 1000 to go, and it folds around to me...I hem and haw and almost fold, but the pot was laying me 400/1900 or about 4.5/1...so I call. Flop is Q J 3 with two clubs (I have hearts and there aren't any on the board). I pause about 3-5 seconds and shove the rest of my chips in (2100 in to the pot of 2300. The re-raiser in the CO thinks for what seemed like an eternity and calls with 99. The turn and river blank out and i'm down to less than the bb and go all in on the very next hand w/ 94o (the snadly - remember that snad?!!), but run into the same guy with AQ who takes it down.
Here is my thinking into how I played it wrong: 1.KTs was probably not a hand I should've gotten involved in...as I said I had been playing TAG (TightAggressive), but not showing down many hands...therefore, I have a LAG (LooseAggressive) image. Even though I realized that, I still played it...or basically got caught with my hand in the cookie jar. I maybe should've played even tighter, but the blinds were racing and I had to make a move. 2.calling the 400 (a min. raise btw/) was correct I believe, but the JAM after the flop was sorta out of character for me. Although, if I had a hand like AK/AQ/JJ, I probably play it the exact same way. The thing is...a quick all in just seems like a draw to me in that situation...even if i waited for more than 5 seconds, it still looks fishy. 3.A bet of 1/2 to 3/4 of the pot would've taken it down for sure. I know I can't call that with the hand he's got and two overs on the board.
Well, I know that was probably a lot of explanation for basically a coinflip...he was 56%, I was 46% to win...but it's good to re-live it, although frustrating.
Thats all there is for now...I hope to not TILT so much in the future, but, as I said before, I will not forget it!
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