Party Poker 1/2 Hold'em (9 handed) converter

Preflop: Hero is MP2 with [Kh], [Jh].
1 fold, UTG+1 calls.

Flop: (5.50 SB) [7h], [5s], [6c] (2 players)
UTG+1 checks, Hero bets, UTG+1 calls.

Turn: (5.75 BB) [Ad] (2 players)
UTG+1 checks, Hero checks.

River: (5.75 BB) [9s] (2 players)
UTG+1 checks, Hero checks.

Final Pot: 5.75 BB



Tilting is my single greatest problem. I can memorize hundreds of hands, the most profitable way to play a draw, and different player types. But when I've been running cold for a stretch, and then get a bad beat or two, I start doing crazy $hit like this.

I won't bore you with my bad beat from this session, let's just say K-K vs. the monster 9-4 offsuit. LOL

BTW Villain is loose/passive. His check/raise was out of the ordinary but I really didn't think he had flopped the nutz because he seemed smart enough to slowplay it with this board (I was right about that!).

Still, though, I think my response on the flop was a big ole F-U to all sense of logic and reasoning.

I was at least thinking enough to figure if he bets out on the turn he's got his hand made, and I'd fold unless it's a heart. His check on the turn seemed weak, but I couldn't gather up the cajones to fire at the non-heart Ace, when I have absolutely no hand.

On the river I figure I may as well cut my losses. He doesn't let me buy the pot 1 time in 6.... especially after I checked the turn. By then I had put him on a pair + either an OESD or a gutshot draw from the flop, and I think he's calling me down with any pair cauz he's a bit of a calling station and that's what they do.

I stopped playing for the evening after this hand (and only at an overall loss of 20BB, so not a big loss, but it was affecting my game, so I forced myself to stop).

working on tilt is important

if it costs you even .5BB/100 hands, it is a major leak

I tilt too. i dont know how to stop though.

Thank you Mr. Obvious. :wink:

I don't know how to counteract the tilt while it's happening, and to play through it. Maybe at some point I'll be better able to do so. Anyway, I figure stopping for the evening as soon as I believe it is affecting my play is the best way to handle it.

That said... there is a strat aspect of this hand. How do y'all play this hand against a LP / calling station type player?

until you learn to play through tilt, stop playing if you are overbetting your marginal hands

i find that i tilt less and less as i get used to all the different things that can happen

You ever feel like sometimes you are talking to a brick wall? :twisted:
:wall:

Overbetting this hand would have been me firing on the turn and river against a villain w/ pocket 4's who's going to see that river, and probably call me down.

Looking back on it, I actually don't hate my play. If I just call his flop raise, he bets the turn and I fold. This way if I hit a heart, a K or a J, I think I can bet into him on the turn when he checks to me.

If I miss, as in this case, he checks to me, and I get a free river, which, if a K or J, will probably win the hand for me. I get all this for the low low price of 1SB.

If he still bets into me on the turn, I fold.