The river has not been kind...

The other day I had a big losing session because of bad play, I'll be the first to admit that. But TODAY has been something else, as the title of this post suggests. I dropped around $140 this evening and pretty much all the big pots I played I was in front on the turn and behind on the river.

The first hand is the main exception to the rule however:

***** Hand History for Game 7160028517 *****
$50 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Saturday, June 21, 18:01:25 ET 2008
Table Table 163103 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 2: nancyboy88 ( $59.23 USD )
Seat 5: ruin_me ( $67.36 USD )
Seat 4: ben_w_2004 ( $50 USD )
Seat 6: SethGecko82 ( $50 USD )
Seat 1: Lines13 ( $37.04 USD )
Seat 3: klater ( $49.25 USD )
ben_w_2004 posts small blind [$0.25 USD].
ruin_me posts big blind [$0.50 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to ben_w_2004 [ 3d 3c ]
SethGecko82 folds.
>You have options at Table 163719 Table!.
Lines13 calls [$0.50 USD]
nancyboy88 raises [$2.50 USD]
klater calls [$2.50 USD]
ben_w_2004 calls [$2.25 USD]
>You have options at Table 163719 Table!.
ruin_me folds.
Lines13 folds.
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3h, 6d, 9s ]
ben_w_2004 checks.
nancyboy88 bets [$6 USD]
klater raises [$13 USD]
ben_w_2004 calls [$13 USD]
nancyboy88 is all-In.
klater folds.
ben_w_2004 is all-In.
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ah ]
** Dealing River ** [ 8d ]
ben_w_2004 shows [ 3d, 3c ]three of a kind, Threes.
nancyboy88 shows [ 9h, 9d ]three of a kind, Nines.
nancyboy88 wins $9.23 USD from the side pot 1 with three of a kind, Nines.
nancyboy88 wins $113.50 USD from the main pot with three of a kind, Nines.

There's no way I'm getting away from this for 100 big blinds and the set over set set-up was just typical of the whole night.

Next was the first of the river miracles:

***** Hand History for Game 7160022867 *****
$50 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Saturday, June 21, 17:59:10 ET 2008
Table Table 163103 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 2: nancyboy88 ( $59.98 USD )
Seat 5: ruin_me ( $65.11 USD )
Seat 4: ben_w_2004 ( $50 USD )
Seat 6: SethGecko82 ( $47 USD )
Seat 1: Lines13 ( $19.50 USD )
Seat 3: klater ( $50 USD )
SethGecko82 posts small blind [$0.25 USD].
Lines13 posts big blind [$0.50 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to ben_w_2004 [ Kh Th ]
nancyboy88 folds.
ben_w_2004 raises [$2 USD]
ruin_me folds.
SethGecko82 folds.
Lines13 calls [$1.50 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 5c, Js, Ks ]
Lines13 checks.
>You have options at Table 163719 Table!.
ben_w_2004 bets [$3 USD]
Lines13 calls [$3 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 4c ]
Lines13 bets [$2.50 USD]
ben_w_2004 raises [$14.50 USD]
>You have options at Table 163719 Table!.
Lines13 is all-In.
** Dealing River ** [ Tc ]
ben_w_2004 shows [ Kh, Th ]two pairs, Kings and Tens.
Lines13 shows [ 3c, Kc ]a flush, King high.
Lines13 wins $37.29 USD from the main pot with a flush, King high.
#Game No : 7160025811

To be fair he did have the flush draw and a few 3's to draw to so this wasn't the worst of the night.

This was probably the most annoying hand of the day:

***** Hand History for Game 7160090754 *****
$50 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Saturday, June 21, 18:24:39 ET 2008
Table Table 163718 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 2: pacuma ( $101.75 USD )
Seat 3: kaiserzose ( $35.93 USD )
Seat 6: hubdiflagner ( $51.88 USD )
Seat 5: ben_w_2004 ( $74.40 USD )
Seat 4: simaoclone ( $25.54 USD )
Seat 1: Youse11111 ( $50 USD )
Youse11111 posts small blind [$0.25 USD].
pacuma posts big blind [$0.50 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to ben_w_2004 [ Kd Th ]
kaiserzose raises [$1 USD]
simaoclone folds.
ben_w_2004 calls [$1 USD]
hubdiflagner folds.
Youse11111 folds.
pacuma calls [$0.50 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ks, 5h, Tc ]
pacuma checks.
kaiserzose bets [$2 USD]
ben_w_2004 raises [$6 USD]
pacuma folds.
kaiserzose calls [$4 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Kc ]
kaiserzose bets [$6 USD]
ben_w_2004 calls [$6 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ Ah ]
kaiserzose bets [$0.50 USD]
ben_w_2004 raises [$12 USD]
kaiserzose is all-In.
ben_w_2004 calls [$10.93 USD]
ben_w_2004 shows [ Kd, Th ]a full house, Kings full of Tens.
kaiserzose shows [ Ad, Kh ]a full house, Kings full of Aces.
kaiserzose wins $70.11 USD from the main pot with a full house, Kings full of Aces.
#Game No : 7160094798

Obviously any other card and I get his whole stack. He was a bad player this guy and I happened to be sitting next to him on another table when this happened:

***** Hand History for Game 7160030802 *****
$50 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Saturday, June 21, 18:02:21 ET 2008
Table Table 163719 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 2: Amela21 ( $20.60 USD )
Seat 3: Gamlet66 ( $27.05 USD )
Seat 4: hubdiflagner ( $50.50 USD )
Seat 6: kaiserzose ( $24.07 USD )
Seat 1: ben_w_2004 ( $50 USD )
Seat 5: Da__Banker ( $42.38 USD )
ben_w_2004 posts small blind [$0.25 USD].
Amela21 posts big blind [$0.50 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to ben_w_2004 [ Ad As ]
Gamlet66 folds.
hubdiflagner folds.
Da__Banker folds.
kaiserzose raises [$1 USD]
ben_w_2004 raises [$3.75 USD]
Amela21 folds.
kaiserzose calls [$3 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8c, 2s, Jh ]
ben_w_2004 checks.
kaiserzose bets [$5 USD]
ben_w_2004 calls [$5 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Th ]
ben_w_2004 checks.
kaiserzose is all-In.
ben_w_2004 calls [$15.07 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ Qc ]
ben_w_2004 shows [ Ad, As ]a pair of Aces.
kaiserzose shows [ 8s, Qs ]two pairs, Queens and Eights.
kaiserzose wins $46.21 USD from the main pot with two pairs, Queens and Eights.
>You have options at Table 163764 Table!.
#Game No : 7160033037

Boom...on the river again. So that's about $150 worth of pots I've been sucked out on and another $50 lost to a set up and I would say I've played great poker tonight and generally made the right decisions, just disappointing that it doesn't reflect in profit.

Just had this little gem as well:

***** Hand History for Game 7160098126 *****
$50 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Saturday, June 21, 18:27:16 ET 2008
Table Speed #1416553 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: Banu48 ( $43.16 USD )
Seat 2: suganutz911 ( $19.58 USD )
Seat 3: john_cormier ( $20.25 USD )
Seat 4: fullCastle ( $22.16 USD )
Seat 5: gorrie_1 ( $19.59 USD )
Seat 6: ben_w_2004 ( $50 USD )
gorrie_1 posts small blind [$0.25 USD].
ben_w_2004 posts big blind [$0.50 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to ben_w_2004 [ 8s 6s ]
Banu48 folds.
suganutz911 calls [$0.50 USD]
john_cormier calls [$0.50 USD]
fullCastle folds.
gorrie_1 calls [$0.25 USD]
ben_w_2004 checks.
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3s, 6d, 2s ]
gorrie_1 checks.
ben_w_2004 bets [$1.50 USD]
suganutz911 calls [$1.50 USD]
john_cormier calls [$1.50 USD]
gorrie_1 folds.
** Dealing Turn ** [ 8c ]
ben_w_2004 bets [$6 USD]
suganutz911 calls [$6 USD]
john_cormier calls [$6 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ 7s ]
ben_w_2004 is all-In.
suganutz911 did not respond in time
suganutz911 folds.
john_cormier is all-In.
ben_w_2004 shows [ 8s, 6s ]a flush, Eight high.
john_cormier shows [ 4s, Js ]a flush, Jack high.
ben_w_2004 wins $29.75 USD from the side pot 1 with a flush, Eight high.
john_cormier wins $46.55 USD from the main pot with a flush, Jack high.
#Game No : 7160101048

Thanks for that river Party, I was happy with the 2 pair though...

Here's the graph:



In other news I finally got round to playing another round of golf today for the first time since early April. Played a new course down near Folkestone at Etchinghill and it was a pretty nice, well-maintained course, would definitely visit again. I shot a 92 which I was more than happy with having not played for so long and was good preparation for La Manga next week. Dad managed to break a record...his highest ever round...by shooting 135, the most impressive holes were probably the 14 and 15...yes those are the scores not the holes! Some of the shots reminded me of N-Dog in his prime shanking days...