undisciplined, or, i nearly busto'd this weekend

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collegesucks United States. Oct 26 2009 17:36. Posts 5780

This past weekend, I nearly decimated my bankroll by playing poker drunk. What was initially an innocuous drink eventually led to a horrible binge. In my drunkenness I became totally fearless so I fired up multiple tables of 50nl on cake and stars. Well I wasn’t making any money and that got boring fast, so it seemed fit at the time that I move up in stakes and try out a little bit of 1/2 6max and HU. I don’t remember most of the hands. One hand I do remember that probably exemplifies that session is the one in which I call some reg’s 4bet with Q9o, float a 762r flop 100bbs deep, and get it in on a 9 turn. He flipped over 88s and rivered a 5. Well, after about 3/4s of a fifth and ~10 buyins later, my bankroll was crippled. I tried to salvage what I could by joining as many 5400fpps I could find, but I fell asleep during most of the games and I lost them all.

I’ve never felt so sick in my life. I mean I’ve lost a lot of money playing drunk and nothing has hurt my progress more than this, but despite the painful results of the past, I somehow concluded in my drunken stupor that playing my normal stakes drunk wasn’t enough and moved up. As I write this, totally sobered by the devastating results, I realize yet again how ridiculously undisciplined I am for online poker. I can make disciplined folds and lose less in pots, but what does that matter when I’m risking my entire bankroll on a drunken spree?

Anyways, as I lay in bed yesterday morning, I determined that I would do something to make up for the past night’s mistake. I cashed out my remaining 1k online and got an immediate cash stake from my brother. I drove an hour down to Harrah’s New Orleans while suffering from a massive hangover. I sat in the parking lot for about 3 hours and I tried meditating in my car to get de-tilted or whatever. When the headache subsided, I went in and played 1/2 for 15 hours straight and ended up sitting with a 3k stack, making back most of the money I lost. The table had been extremely crazy and the 1/2 game actually ran like a 2/5 or even a 5/10 game for most of the night. I kind of regret leaving earlier because there was this ridiculous fish with a 2.6k stack, but I was dozing off and I couldn’t really focus anymore so I left.

Well, I think I learned a lot about live games last night. I used to get so pissed off at how the pots would get so unmanageably large when you only have 100bbs and people are sitting with 500bb+ stacks and opening to like 10bbs pre as a standard, with multiple players and a 40-50bb+ pot on the flop nearly every pot. But when you’re sitting 1500bbs deep with multiple players, the game gets super interesting. When the players in question are fish, all u need to do is aim to see lots of flops in position with a wide range of hands for a relatively small percentage of your stack, and rely on huge implied odds as u draw to nutted holdings. However, in order to play with 100bbs, it seems one must develop a tight-aggressive “shortstacker” mentality to overcome the lack of implied odds. It’s impossible to do anything when you’re out of position with shallow stacks, without the aggression initiative. But when you’re deepstacked, you get so many opportunities to see all five cards and thus play with such a huge edge over other players.

Anyways, couple of big hands:

I have AThh, 100bbs deep, 2 callers. Flop is J84 with one heart. I cbet 30 into 45, sb folds and reg black guy who limped called check/raises to 70. I think his range is mostly bullshit hands here, weighted toward gutters and T9, rarely ever tpgk+ cuz those hands raise pre with the exception of maybe 44 or J8. Hands like QJ probably check calls. I plan to ship on good turns. 8 is a sweet, sweet turn so I raise ott and he calls and makes a priceless wtf? face when I show down AT ftw on a J8484 board.

7 players limped pot, I have Td 8d in the sb and complete. Flop comes Jd 6s 9d and I pot the flop. Fish calls and some reg calls. I turn Qs and pot again. Fish raises me with Q6 and the reg FOLDS T8hh because once i pot the flop/turn I presumably have the immortal nuts and he had no flush redraws. Lol I’m pretty sure that was a bad fold but w/e. I ship it in and river a 7d for the nuts and a 800 dollar pot. Sweet, free hat.

Some maniac Chinese dude raises to 10, followed by a call by the same reg. I make it 60 from the sb with KK, 400bbs deep and both call. Flop came Q9xr and I check/raised. Meh, betting would most likely lead to a 3 way turn on a potentially ugly board with lots of money behind and I almost always get action vs Qx and draws after the maniac makes his mandatory bet with like 95% of his range here because pot control isn’t really his forte. Anyways, Chinese guy bet 120, reg calls (when he calls here, I’m 90% certain he’s drawing to something), and I check raise to 300, get called by BOTH, but the stacks are nicely prepared for a shove on the turn. A beautiful offsuit 5 turns and both fold to the shove. Oh well, Ship the 1k pot.

Table fish snapcalls with QJo on AKxhh flop when some dude overbets all in for 120 into a 20 dollar pot… and hits. 7way single raised pot, fish check/call, check/call, check/calls on a QJ8TJ board with KJ. Idiot regular bet 1/4th pot twice and then like 1/2 pot on the river with AK when he could have shoved for less than a psb.

Limped pot with A6s in the bb, straddle is on. I flop AT6, bet near pot, turn an ace, and get shoved on by some guy with a 200bb stack (lol). Guess he limped AK or AQ pre.

Raise KK utg to 20 (obv), multiway flop (surprise!), get check called twice by this guy who’s trembling a TON on a QJxxr board and he rivers a two pair with QTo after the stacks go in on the turn.

Raise KK to 20, get 3bet to 60 by the blinds, I flat because the fish is still in the pot with me. Flop is TT8, 3bettor overbet shoves and I call. QQ vs KK boy I run good.

I flop a flush after raising QThh, fish calls pot with Ah, checks back the fourth flush card, and I bet/call the river T_T but it should’ve been the easiest fold ever.

I raise KK lp, 5 callers. Some other asian guy 700bbs effective bets halfpot and calls my raise on a Q5xdd flop. Turn is an offsuit 6 and I think I made this bet too small. I dunno… Let’s see, the pot was 370 and I bet 200, thinking it was like 2/3 pot but w/e. he rivers his flush with KJdd but I check it back lol.

Same Asian makes it ten to go utg and I flat with T9o cuz lol He and I are like a million big blinds deep. Btw I didn’t 3bet that much because 3-4 players had pretty shallow stacks and could 4betshove and I would look dumb if I find myself committed with some trash. Flop comes 867dd, asian bets 20, I raise, and the reg coldcalls o_O. Effective stacks are like 700bbs or something. Turn is a 6s and reg check calls 150. River is an offsuit 4 and reg donks out for 175 and I call (i should raise/fold as a standard? live regs don't call here with worse...? probably flats some full houses and folds 5? idk lost here). I’m really surprised that he had As 9d here. WTF I thought he wasn’t completely retarded?

Alright. Anyways, so I think I’m going to give online poker a break for a while and get back to playing live. Online poker requires so much more discipline than I can muster up at the moment cuz clicking buttons is way too easy, and way too easy to screw up during one crazy night of drunken stupidity.

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Last edit: 26/10/2009 18:00

TremendousGats Canada. Oct 26 2009 17:57. Posts 467

epic sorry

How you want it, bars or bullets?

edzwoo United States. Oct 26 2009 18:06. Posts 5911

WOW sir. So did you end up winning it all back playing live?

Lets talk MSN sometime.

LikeASet United States. Oct 26 2009 18:52. Posts 2113

very lucky to make the money back in the live game. I'd be hella juiced to come up big while drunk though, prolly put on my birthday suit if i were to come up 500+ at nl.50. Always gotta think of poker as a job. Would you go to work drunk?

wait, bad example...