You'll Only Get Called By A Hand That Beats You Or Me

Few sessions since Friday's post with no real BR movement one way or the other. Total profit of $6.75 over 850 hands. Meh, at least I didn't give away too many stacks. I'm really beginning to wonder if I have what it takes to play this game for any kind of real money (not for a living but for some decent fun money). I mean I've been playing so much more than my usual over the last few months and I really felt I was improving and my BR agreed. Now when I look back at some of the horrible mistakes I've made this month, I wonder if I hadn't just been lucky for a few months and this month is closer to my real expectations? I hope not, but I'll admit I have been considering that possibility.

Anyway you know the poker cliche that says that in certain spots you shouldn't bet because you'll only be called by a hand that beats you? Well that obviously doesn't apply when you're playing me:



So we hit our set on an Ace high flop and get a caller to our check-raise, great! Why then do I fail to bet the rest of his stack on the turn? Then when the board gets amazingly scary our villain turns his very strong hand into a bluff but gets lucky because he's playing my dumb ass. This is a hand we beat no where near enough to call when he pushes here. Folding the river should be pretty standard (especially to a loose/passive player like this villain 36/2/1), but I just can't fold my incredibly weak, for this board, hand. Ugly.

Anyway tomorrow marks my first fantasy football drafts of the season. The first is for a keeper league I have been the commissioner in for 4 years (I'm not in that league I just run it) and it will be held at a friend's bar. I'll have my laptop with the software (Fandraft) connected to the big screen and I'll just be running the draft while enjoying a few beers. Then a few hours after that draft ends I'll be participating in the draft for my longest running (7 years) league. It's an online draft but I'll be hanging around the bar and doing it from there (the owner of the bar is in that league as well). I can't wait to get going. I love this time of year. Even better yet it's only 6 days to opening day for my beloved WVU Mountaineers!