Bad Beat/Vent/Brag thread

[GreyCrow]

Friday night home game blinds are 6/12k

I am utg and I look down at AK spade I have a stack of 206k and am confused as to which way to play it. We are FT bubble

I decided to bet 76k thinking it might be enough to bully everyone

Utg2 jams their last 89k utg3 jams their 300k stack SB tanks and eventually folds BB folds as well and I figure wth and shove

Utg2 has JJ and utg3 has AA

Flop is 9, 10,Q ok now a jack which is slightly difficult as 2 are already out

Turn is a Q and a groan from SB

River is an 8 giving JJ a straight AA the rest of my chips after giving utg2 89k

SB folded 99 for a turned full house

 

[MrKK]

Friday night home game blinds are 6/12k

I am utg and I look down at AK spade I have a stack of 206k and am confused as to which way to play it. We are FT bubble

I decided to bet 76k thinking it might be enough to bully everyone

Utg2 jams their last 89k utg3 jams their 300k stack SB tanks and eventually folds BB folds as well and I figure wth and shove

Utg2 has JJ and utg3 has AA

Flop is 9, 10,Q ok now a jack which is slightly difficult as 2 are already out

Turn is a Q and a groan from SB

River is an 8 giving JJ a straight AA the rest of my chips after giving utg2 89k

SB folded 99 for a turned full house

Pretty ugly spot with those stack sizes and blinds. I'd raise less, like 30k or even min-raise and see what happens.

If only smaller stacks play back at you then you can comfortably get it in. If you get action like you got then you could fold and still have 180k depending on how much credit you give UTG3 (you're never folding to UTG2). This is results oriented though; in most cases you're always getting it in with AKs and your stack size and just ran into a cooler.

How far off money bubble were you? Does making FT mean anything in your home game?

 

[GreyCrow]

Pretty ugly spot with those stack sizes and blinds. I'd raise less, like 30k or even min-raise and see what happens.

If only smaller stacks play back at you then you can comfortably get it in. If you get action like you got then you could fold and still have 180k depending on how much credit you give UTG3 (you're never folding to UTG2). This is results oriented though; in most cases you're always getting it in with AKs and your stack size and just ran into a cooler.

How far off money bubble were you? Does making FT mean anything in your home game?

Yeah I figured I was pot committed at that raise size.

Ft is more bragging rights - money bubble was 4 left.

If I stack up there I feel good about making money

 

[go you pups]

Played in a $350 event just recently. 989 runners and bubbled final table. If only I could have folded this hand...

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Can't do much unfortunately about that one Reg


I got badly outboated on the river tonight with my most hated hand pocket 8s

I turned a set, then rivered a boat when the board paired 9s, bloke has 98 for a bigger boat (case 8 on the turn)

 

[go you pups]

Did I say previously that pocket 8s are the worst?

 

[go you pups]

Did I say previously that pocket 8s are the worst?

Like seriously

Short stacked and have to rip it with them, called by any 2 broadways, they always hit

I have such a better hold ratio with 6s and 7s, sometimes I nail a set with 7s, but 8s, nope, never bail me out at risk and the even more infuriating thing with that hand is I always get stacked by it when I had AK/AQ etc like the other week when UTG donkey limp jams on me when I have AK and a ton of equity to get there by the river

 

[Reginald Perrin]

Like seriously

Short stacked and have to rip it with them, called by any 2 broadways, they always hit

I have such a better hold ratio with 6s and 7s, sometimes I nail a set with 7s, but 8s, nope, never bail me out at risk and the even more infuriating thing with that hand is I always get stacked by it when I had AK/AQ etc like the other week when UTG donkey limp jams on me when I have AK and a ton of equity to get there by the river

I love 88. They quadded up for me in the APL Million and I got somebody to call an all-in bet on the river (with them at risk) with A high.

 

[go you pups]

I love 88. They quadded up for me in the APL Million and I got somebody to call an all-in bet on the river (with them at risk) with A high.

I made quads with them 2 nights in a row earlier in the year

Now back to getting royally screwed over by them (reckon I've whinged about them for at least 4 years)

Did you cash in the million by the way?

I won a ticket last year, sold it for $1100

 

[Reginald Perrin]

I made quads with them 2 nights in a row earlier in the year

Now back to getting royally screwed over by them (reckon I've whinged about them for at least 4 years)

Did you cash in the million by the way?

I won a ticket last year, sold it for $1100

Cashed small, a little over $4K.

 

[go you pups]

Cashed small, a little over $4K.

Better than nothing mate

There's some players who buy multiple tickets to that, play multiple flights, try and take the biggest stack through to day 2. Not exactly a fan of that structure, seeing they'd forfeit chips from other flights

Rebuy bullets for sure, but can only rebuy once you've been stacked. I'm pretty sure APL wants the Jackstar to be their premier event eventually though.

 

[go you pups]

Speaking of APL

Thoughts on rebuy/add on style turbos? Like 50k start, 50k add on, or 75 + 75, 50 + 100 etc?

But yeah, I do not perform well in them, chip up card and freezeout are the only 2 formats I cash in. I've tried treating them similarly to chip up games, but I just do not get the run good, or I fall behind when the blinds go up due to them being deeper stacked, just trying to figure out best how to approach them.

 

[Reginald Perrin]

The Lady Perrin has granted me leave to tick the WSOP main event off my bucket list, tickets to Vegas has been secured.

 

[GreyCrow]

The Lady Perrin has granted me leave to tick the WSOP main event off my bucket list, tickets to Vegas has been secured.

Well done thats brilliant - keep us updated

Oh and here is my reaction

 

[dirty2]

The Lady Perrin has granted me leave to tick the WSOP main event off my bucket list, tickets to Vegas has been secured.

That's awesome!

I am so... ****ing jealous

 

[dirty2]

Frustrating night at the poker didn't win a hand... Got bluffed off my pocket 8's when I had the winning hand frustrating as ****.

Next week maybe.

 

[GreyCrow]

Final table blinds 30/60k I have 100k and see 55

Utg bets 60k min chips I'm in the cutoff + all in

SB folds BB has another 40k to call and does and utg also calls 330k in front of me

Flop is 10,3,Q - utg bets 60k and BB folds saying you better not be on a draw

Utg turns over KJ - yep on a draw

6 on the turn

A on river to complete the draw and I bubble the money

 

[go you pups]

Didn't take a chance Sunday night at the final table with J9 and only 3 bbs left (300k) in middle position and it would've been good and knocked out the short stack in the BB alas he doubled up, so I had to rip it blind UTG as the TD kept dealing suckouts and my 300k would've been gone by my SB, walked into 7s which held and bubbled for the money

Went with my gut last night though, folded ace rag/pocket 5s a few times when I would've been dominated, had way worse cards to play with but still found a way to take a 2 way chop, only needed to suckout once on the bubble (QT vs AQ hit trip tens), every time I had 2 broadway's I won those hands. Other players just didn't play it well enough and bled.

 

[GreyCrow]

The change of luck determined by a card

Had a rollercoaster run last night - all in for my last 13k and tripling up just before rebuy to decide not to do so. Then small up and downs before having 21k left in the BB 4/8k ( cards werent even good enough utg) and 2 raising and calling a 16k bet - ehh no look all in and binking the J on the river to get above 65k

Then in the space of 4 hands getting that to 220k

Get into a tussle with a sticky player and their kicker is better - I never felt they had anything but the 7 and was trying to push them

Final 2 tables

Look down at AK suited and UTG goes all in for 60k - ok I'm calling that - then the sticky player dithers a moment and puts 60k and I shove over the top and they tank hard

My thinking was if 60k player wins its 60k and if sticky player was dithering they dont have a pocket pair - but they eventually call - and its another 95k - ok if I win I have over 300k if I dont I make money off of ditherer

QQ v AT v AK

Q on the flop along with a Ten - uggh and my J or K doesnt come out and I have 35k left

My mate next to me said when I shoved Aces or Kings - so thinking on that should I have played the hand?

I am trying to lose that passivity which would see me fold that and regret if I hit - but I am now recognising the opportunity to bank up for final table

 

[MrKK]

The change of luck determined by a card

Had a rollercoaster run last night - all in for my last 13k and tripling up just before rebuy to decide not to do so. Then small up and downs before having 21k left in the BB 4/8k ( cards werent even good enough utg) and 2 raising and calling a 16k bet - ehh no look all in and binking the J on the river to get above 65k

Then in the space of 4 hands getting that to 220k

Get into a tussle with a sticky player and their kicker is better - I never felt they had anything but the 7 and was trying to push them

Final 2 tables

Look down at AK suited and UTG goes all in for 60k - ok I'm calling that - then the sticky player dithers a moment and puts 60k and I shove over the top and they tank hard

My thinking was if 60k player wins its 60k and if sticky player was dithering they dont have a pocket pair - but they eventually call - and its another 95k - ok if I win I have over 300k if I dont I make money off of ditherer

QQ v AT v AK

Q on the flop along with a Ten - uggh and my J or K doesnt come out and I have 35k left

My mate next to me said when I shoved Aces or Kings - so thinking on that should I have played the hand?

I am trying to lose that passivity which would see me fold that and regret if I hit - but I am now recognising the opportunity to bank up for final table

That seems a really straightforward shove with AK there. There's some nice dead money if the caller folds, and if he calls then you'll be flipping at worst and likely have him dominated (as you did). Plus you can't go broke if you get a shitty run-out.

 

[go you pups]

The change of luck determined by a card

Had a rollercoaster run last night - all in for my last 13k and tripling up just before rebuy to decide not to do so. Then small up and downs before having 21k left in the BB 4/8k ( cards werent even good enough utg) and 2 raising and calling a 16k bet - ehh no look all in and binking the J on the river to get above 65k

Then in the space of 4 hands getting that to 220k

Get into a tussle with a sticky player and their kicker is better - I never felt they had anything but the 7 and was trying to push them

Final 2 tables

Look down at AK suited and UTG goes all in for 60k - ok I'm calling that - then the sticky player dithers a moment and puts 60k and I shove over the top and they tank hard

My thinking was if 60k player wins its 60k and if sticky player was dithering they dont have a pocket pair - but they eventually call - and its another 95k - ok if I win I have over 300k if I dont I make money off of ditherer

QQ v AT v AK

Q on the flop along with a Ten - uggh and my J or K doesnt come out and I have 35k left

My mate next to me said when I shoved Aces or Kings - so thinking on that should I have played the hand?

I am trying to lose that passivity which would see me fold that and regret if I hit - but I am now recognising the opportunity to bank up for final table

I assume sticky player sucked out with the AT, so don't be hard on yourself here, they made a very bad call when you ripped it over the top of them with the far superior hand and got bailed out for the sidepot, far too many players bleed chips in this situation later on in the turbo limping in/making calls in early position only for someone in late position to wake up with a monster, then they either have to fold or call off with an inferior hand.

I copped one on Tuesday night

Getting shit cards or missing every flop (125k game), 3-6kbbs UTG rips it, I'm UTG+2 I've got queens and rip my last 69k in, big stack next to me goes in the tank for a minute then calls and rolls over A9h, other short stack has 7s which I'm not worried about, even though he had me slightly outchipped also.

Should've been a ******* donation and got me healthy for the night, but nah copped a Barry Greenstein on the river. 2 all ins and still happy to call off with the middling ace when he could've been dominated by 1 of us, lucky he had slightly more equity that we both had pocket pairs and he was the only one who had 1 over.

 

[GreyCrow]

I looked for a cheating thread but this came up on my tweeter feed

 

[dirty2]

Crazy... Not surprising but.

Dealers can get jobs elsewhere? Well... Let's hope not.

 

[dirty2]

Thought playing poker would be a bit easier on my old body.... But I think I strained my butt cheek Anzac day lol..

It hurts and feels like what it felt like after doing my hammy.

 

[GreyCrow]

Playing a 30k stack turbo and get down to 12.5k before building back to 50k plus. Ok some lucky cards but oh well

Pocket KK man life is good raise to 6k 4/800 blinds after it limps to me with 4 callers

2 drop out 2 stay in

Flop is 79j

I Check check bet o 7k - this player bets when he hits but folds to pressure - he has the Jack guaranteed.

Because he is a folder I decided to jam all in

One more drops out and original bettor thinks then calls.

AJ called it

Jack on the turn and I lose 32k

It was your mate Smoooothy

 

[go you pups]

I assume sticky player sucked out with the AT, so don't be hard on yourself here, they made a very bad call when you ripped it over the top of them with the far superior hand and got bailed out for the sidepot, far too many players bleed chips in this situation later on in the turbo limping in/making calls in early position only for someone in late position to wake up with a monster, then they either have to fold or call off with an inferior hand.

I copped one on Tuesday night

Getting shit cards or missing every flop (125k game), 3-6kbbs UTG rips it, I'm UTG+2 I've got queens and rip my last 69k in, big stack next to me goes in the tank for a minute then calls and rolls over A9h, other short stack has 7s which I'm not worried about, even though he had me slightly outchipped also.

Should've been a ******* donation and got me healthy for the night, but nah copped a Barry Greenstein on the river. 2 all ins and still happy to call off with the middling ace when he could've been dominated by 1 of us, lucky he had slightly more equity that we both had pocket pairs and he was the only one who had 1 over.

I went on a shit run for over 3 weeks after this

Got 3 cashes over the last 10 days, a chop, a 5th and a win

I'm trying hard to find what works for me, unfortunately the competitive side in me wants to win and get regular results so I don't have to play out of what I've earned from my weekly pays. So I'm trying to find a balance of making some money, but playing games I enjoy/am confident in.

So I am on track to play around 50 games this season, the last time I did that was also season 2 last year (I seem to average 20-40 games a season otherwise), the one thing that I feel I've cleaned up on this year compared to last year is that I'm playing within myself alot more in terms of buyins and I'm not chasing cash in games that I don't play that often anymore, if I do it has to be at venues I do well in or against a bunch of players I'm familiar with/chip stack formats I have done well in.

So I seem to regularly play $25-30 games now and I'm cashing in them at around 1 in every 4-5 games, occasionally I will play an el cheapo $15 or I might play a $50-60 game like last week's end of the month games at venues I'm familiar with, unfortunately I haven't cashed yet this season at the higher buy in price, but I have at least final tabled a few times/bubbled and got some rankings points out of it, whereas previously my split would've been 40-45% at $50-60 games and I'd struggle to cash regularly in this bracket (would only be one or two venues where I'd sometimes see the money here), once or twice a season I'd play a $105-110 game and the rest in that $15-35 range where I would cash and recoup the losses on the higher buyins but would only make a small profit.

I think since this time last year I've gone

Season 2 2023, small profit here, could've been far better if I wasn't chasing as much, but I won a ticket and got $1100 for it and paid for Season 3, so I guess it wasn't too bad

Season 3 2023, was an absolute stinker until like the last week of the season where I won $700 in a public holiday eve big field game, so found a way to breakeven

Season 4 2023, Shit, November was terrible with bad beats galore, always getting it in good and the hand never holds, recovered in the first half of December then proceeded to lose it all in the weeks either side of Xmas. Probably my worst season to date.

Season 1 2024, I went against the grain and played $55-70 games half the time but I concentrated on playing against the same crop of players at like 3 different venues. I chopped twice in them which paid for a majority of them, not to mention February was bad also. A couple of cashes in cheaper games elsewhere saw me make like $350 on the season, so with fuel and a couple of soft drinks probably a breakeven season that could've been better if February wasn't bad. That season reinforced my view some games/venues I just do not do well in and should avoid/not persist with.

This season I'm currently up nearly $900, would love to hit a 4 figure profit, but we'll see how it pans out. There were a couple of games I could have avoided in April and I had a bad May with only the 1 cash 2 weekends ago, but this season has largely been good in terms of figuring out where I should be playing and figuring out the end game better among them when I have ran deep.