Day 3

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jchanhm Canada. Feb 08 2007 00:52. Posts 86

Day 3: Feb 7, 2007

Start: $43.42
Close: $40.38
Profit: (3.04)

And this is why my blog is called the bad beat. =] I played solid for pretty much the whole day. I was +$4.00 at one point, and then the bad beats started hitting.

There were two big ones that just really hurt.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/143490
This was the first. It took out all the profits that had took me the entire day to make.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/143491
This one is the second, which brought me down minus 1 buy in.

I really don't think I played these wrong, and it's really frustrating to lose to poor playing, especially after playing conservative the whole day to NOT lose to bad beats like these.

I managed to cut most of my losses at the end, where I got AA and all-in'd pf. Some guy called me with JTs . trip 3's in the community cards gave me a full house for the win. So now I am only minus $3.

Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day.

I've also been wondering. I see all these people with $15, $20 stacks on the $5NL tables, and I'm wondering how I can play in order to make that kind of profit? Not all of them can be lucky fish, right?

Is it just a matter of waiting for a strong hand to appear and then raising to hell and hoping someone calls, or is there something that I'm missing here?

I've also been noticing that the players who have the large stacks are often really aggressive. I know that at higher skill levels, aggressive play is the strongest, but in $5NL, where half of the people are calling stations, how do you play aggressively to maximize your profits?

I started drifting away from Grot's guide in the past few days, playing more loose, more aggressive. It's working fairly well when I'm alert and playing my A game. But I feel like I'm splashing around in the deep end without really knowing what I'm doing. It's really disconcerting, trying to mimic the aggressive patterns of other players who seem to know what they're doing.

Hopefully tomorrow I'll be up in the green. Today was pretty disappointing.

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