Swings

The last few months have been very up and down for me. I have had relatively decent success online, but have been pretty inconsistent live. This last week, I was able to beat up .50-1 HU online for a few buy-ins and even had a decent night at a 1-3 homegame, beating it for almost $400.

Last night, after getting home from work, I fired up a HU table and quickly got stuck for a buy in when I 3 bet preflop with KQs flopped a flush draw and barreled into the river where I hit top pair and paid off a check shove. Anyways, I spent a little time getting my money back before the guy quit me when I was still stuck a few dollars. He doesnt owe me anything, but I find it annoying when people do that. It would make the poker world so much better if people were a little more courteous to each other. Just a simple, "Hey, Im done playing after this hand," would be better then suddenly sitting out and disappearing. That minor gripe aside, the guy played pretty decent and I tried a few new things while playing against his aggressive style that worked with varying degrees of success.

Ashley and I went to grab pizza with my friend Joe for his birthday, and we arranged to meet up with him later in the week for board games, probably Risk since we are both kinda strategy nerds and I haven't got a chance to play a game like that in years.

Afterwards, Ashley and I headed to Sycuan Casino to put in a session. I played in their 1-3 game where most of the players knew me and I had a decent start. A weird hand came up where I turned a gutshot straight after the flop was checked around and my villian called a healthy bet with a pair/flush draw and got there and took me to value town. Sigh.

A few hands later I picked up QQ on the button, made a standard raise, and had Randy, one of the loose aggressive regular players, ship his $300+ stack on me. Normally I wouldn't think about folding, butI know that Randy is capable of making silly moves against me because he knows my range is wide, and he is willing to gamble, so I stuck it in, and he rolled AA on my foolish ass.

That ended my night, and I was on the wrong side of the happy with my life spectrum. Ashley on the other hand, was very happy with defeating her opponents for $3. I guess she had a few awkward spots where she was happy to escape the casino with a break even night.

I'm not really sure what my plans are for the weekend. My best friend is back in town after traveling for the New Year, so I might try to hang out with him, while squeezing in a session or two before the weekend is out. Guess we will just have to play it by ear.