In class and bored right now. I'll probably replace this post later today with an update after I play some games. I'm getting off from school early, so I should have time to play from around 2-5, and then from 6-8 or 9 when my girl goes out for supper. So if I get five solid hours in I'll be happy.
And solid is key here. I played last night, and lost two games (out of the three I played), both of which I should have won. I have some big holes in my game, mostly with discipline to holding with my reads, or when it comes to reacting to a playing style in the wrong way.
I was playing one guy who was horrible. When he had a hand, he'd min-bet every street. If he hit the flop in anyway, he'd min-bet the flop and then c/c the other streets, sometimes folding, but usually calling. Sometimes he'd bet big, and I had a feeling he'd only do it with a bluff. So on one hand he bet big on the flop and w/ A9 (two overs) I called. I missed the turn, but he checked behind me, and then when I checked back to him on the river he bet close to pot and I called and he had a gut-shot that had missed, then proceeded to call me a calling station and donkey and I clearly got him on tilt as he started firing pot on every flop, whether or not he was IP. Then I flopped two overs again and jammed (for an overbet) over his pot sized donk and he called w/ bottom pair and held. I had him beat, and then I beat myself.
The other game I lost was rather insane. In the first hand I turned two pair and took half his stack. One the next I got it in w/ a mediocre hand and doubled him up. My flopped trips (T8 on TT6) ran into better flopped trips (T9), which he could have stacked me with if he was more aggressive. I then flopped bottom set and turned a FH, and he called two streets w/ an open ender, which hit on the river and we were back at even. Our big hands kept running into bigger hands, and then I made some rediculous moves against someone who was clearly passive and essentially handed him most of my chips, and when I finally shoved w/ QJs w/ about 12bb, he called w/ Ax and held.
I've come to realize if I play bad early, I need to stop right away or I try to 'get revenge' or some shit. I sometimes loose despite playing well and it doesn't bother me, and I can continue playing well, but if I lose due to my own bad play (or what I see as a bad play), it tilts me. I can be sucked out on and live with it, but my mistakes cause me to get pissed at myself, then in an angry attempt to prove I can play better I generally do the opposite and it turns into a giant disaster.
