All Things Poker

Session one of my grand Las Vegas experiment was a mix of excitement, pucker, and then eventually dry, low-level suck.

The poker table I was seated at had one very belligerent, loose-aggressive player at it. He obviously was the envy and ridicule of the entire table as everyone had a comment about him, and he had a comment about them. I do have to admit however, that he was good. He had fine hand reading skills and a way of making just the right comment to bring out the worst of his opponent, a trait he admired about himself I am sure. He was, for me however, a great source of entertainment and delight. I loved it when he scared people out of hands or sucked out by the river to crush the opposition. Even when he lost he could make the winner feel as though it wasn’t worth it. I loved this guy! He was funny, aggressive, and he was going to give it all back eventually.

In explaining what happened next though, I am going to break one of my new cardinal rules: To never blame my failure or success on luck or variance (can it really be a cardinal rule if you break it?); I was card dead. No good or even drawing hands. Nothing. J-2, 10-5, 7-2, ad nauseam. The only hand I got, played and hit with was 7-7. The loose-aggressive raised pre-flop (nothing new), and I called in the big blind. The flop is Q-7-5 and I check, he bets, I call. The turn is a J and I check, he bets, I start acting (my poor play at work) and then I raise. He makes a comment about me hitting my second pair by playing Q-J, and he folds.

The rest of the night was fold, fold, fold fold, and then make an extremely poor quitting decision by leaving at 3 in the morning. My explanation for this night (without excuses) is this: I continue to make poor quitting decisions. I should have recognized my lack of cards, and gotten up, and went home. But because I was marginally “behind” I stuck it out trying to get “even”. Which means I also forgot (or rather ignored) the rule “you are always even”.

End result: 7.5 hours and $20 down.
Stats:
P/L: ($20)
Hourly Rate:  ($2.66)

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