Mother Shipton's Diary

Sometimes a session just serves to kick you in the balls. As per my last post I was planning to move up to 25NL once my BR reached $500. Starting the session at $475 and having banked $25 in the previous session I was all set to really work at this one, reach $500 by the end of the evening and hit the weekend at 25NL.

To say my sessions started well would be an understatement. Just shy of 300 hands in and $20 up.

Then followed the hand from hell that started the slide.

Poker Stars $0.05/$0.10 No Limit Hold’em – 5 players
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

SB: $5.45
BB: $2.00
Hero (UTG): $17.55
CO: $11.55
BTN: $4.15

Pre Flop: ($0.15) Hero is UTG with A A
Hero raises to $0.30, 1 fold, BTN calls $0.30, SB raises to $0.50, BB raises to $2 all in, Hero calls $1.70, BTN calls $1.70, SB calls $1.50

Flop: ($8.00) 3 2 6 (4 players – 1 is all in)
SB bets $0.20, Hero raises to $15.55 all in, BTN folds, SB calls $3.25 all in

Turn: ($14.90) 4 (3 players – 3 are all in)

River: ($14.90) 9 (3 players – 3 are all in)

Final Pot: $14.90
SB shows 2 2 (three of a kind, Deuces)
BB shows K K (a pair of Kings)
Hero shows A A (a pair of Aces)
SB wins $6.60
SB wins $7.60
(Rake: $0.70)

OK – I should have shoved again after the first short stack shoved. That would have locked the pot into a heads up – I know I got greedy – was hoping that by calling I would get one of the other short stacks to come over the top and I’d felt two instead of one. But what a flop! Safe as houses as far as I could see. Arse!

Still, only $5 lost. Plenty of play left – no? Now look at the second part of my session.

I swear I couldn’t buy a pot. Every 3 bet was 4 bet shoved. Every possible draw hit the vilain. Every all in started ahead and then ended behind by the river.

So close – looks like it’s 10NL for another week.