Kush Patel

SORRY FOR LACK OF UPDATES

Was planning on blogging every day to start but this is harder then I thought it'd be. I haven't had a whole lot going on lately, just been playing a lot of hands. 6 max has tested my self control a lot more then I had initially thought it would, but i'm happy to say I still haven't gone on wild monkey tilt yet despite some pretty brutal sessions.

I'd been gaining a lot of confidence in my 6 max game and becoming pretty comfortable dealing with the over aggressive nature of the games up until today. It felt like I totally hit a wall in my (first) session, every time I 3 bet bluffed I was 4 bet, every time I 4 bet bluffed I was 5 bet shoved on, and every time I had a big hand preflop they just folded. I wasn't too worried about that stuff though because a lot of that is just variance and my opponents were pretty fortunate in their timing. I was also playing pretty poorly which is what really frustrates me. It was weird that yesterday I woke up earlier then usual and felt kind of terrible all day after 5ish hours of sleep and yet played great and today I got ~9 hours of sleep and woke up feeling great and just played terrible. Anyway 2 hands I felt like I played particularly badly :

Full Tilt Poker $1/$2 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players - View hand 108245
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

UTG: $391.75
MP: $487.05
CO: $200.00
Hero (BTN): $207.25
SB: $273.45
BB: $506.50

Pre Flop: ($3.00) Hero is BTN with Q K
2 folds, CO raises to $6, Hero calls $6, 1 fold, BB calls $4

Flop: ($19.00) 6 8 2 (3 players)
BB checks, CO bets $14, Hero calls $14, BB raises to $75, CO folds, Hero requests TIME, Hero raises to $201.25 all in, BB calls $126.25

Turn: ($435.50) J (2 players - 1 is all in)

River: ($435.50) 9 (2 players - 1 is all in)

I should have just raised on the flop vs the cbet initially and felted my hand, I feel like he's betting close to 100% of his range on this flop and I think he would just shove on me with a lot of worse flush draws and other hands that I have a ton of equity against. Once I call (which I still don't hate, just doesn't seem optimal), I think vs this guys raise I have to fold. He was a 42/2/2 so while he had really fishy stats, I just don't think I have enough equity against his range. He is probably not c/ring random J hi flush draws on this flop that I dominate, and so he either has a combo draw or a set or a 2 pair hand, and vs that range of hands I only had ~35% equity.

Full Tilt Poker $1/$2 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players - View hand 108246
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

BTN: $430.20
SB: $179.60
Hero (BB): $200.00
UTG: $65.00
MP: $200.00
CO: $228.70

Pre Flop: ($3.00) Hero is BB with K K
UTG raises to $7, 4 folds, Hero calls $5

Flop: ($15.00) 2 Q A (2 players)
Hero checks, UTG checks

Turn: ($15.00) 6 (2 players)
Hero bets $11, UTG calls $11

River: ($37.00) A (2 players)
Hero bets $28, UTG raises to $47 all in, Hero requests TIME, Hero calls $19

I called here preflop because of the villains stack size, if I 3 bet him here it looks really strong since i'm never folding to a 4 bet and his stats were ~30/25 so I didn't want him to fold almost all of his hands. Postflop after he checks back the flop I put him on a queen so I went for 2 streets of value but once he shoves the river I just made a really stupid call. My range looks pretty polarized to an ace or a missed draw of some sort so despite getting 6 to 1 odds I just don't think i'm shoved on often enough by a hand I beat to call here.

I'm about to fire up another session and cut down from 10-12 tables to 6 tables and slow things down a bit. Hopefully I can run well and feel better about my game so I can get another 2k hand session in later tonight.