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Friday, December 4th, 2009 @ 6:29 pm | General

Whups! Gave it all back, and some.

First 30 minutes grabbed a seat in the same £20 game as Tuesday, racking a £100 profit in short order.

Around 11pm noticed a 2/2 dealer’s choice table opening with £50 min buy-in, so shifted to that. Stacked a player early with a K-Badugi vs a draw, but that was really the last winning hand I saw for the night, as over the next ninety minutes I managed to spectacularly stack off in a succession of bad plays and outdraws:

All the profit and my first stack lost in another Badugi hand, shoving a Badugi to the ten into an eight after the third draw.
My second £100 lost quickly afterwards in a hand of five card Omaha8, shoving the nut flush and nut low draw into two-pair that filled-up on the river.
Third stack lost in a hand of Superstud (dealt five cards, discard two, turn one face up, play out the hand like Stud8), overbet shoving with AA3 on the first betting round into an active player showing a 4. He improved to two-pair, while my pair of aces didn’t improve.
Fourth stack a bit of a blur to be honest, think it may have been frittered away in two halves of Omaha and four card Irish.
Fifth and final dealer’s choice stack in Omaha8, my AA2344 triple suited (!!) all-in pre-flop outdrawn by something like A478TQ single suited. There isn’t an online calculator for six card Omaha hi-lo, but I’m pretty sure I must have been something like 80%.

Made a shift to the 1/2 NL hold’em, but my luck wasn’t to turn.

Lost the sixth stack with a poor play, opening TT for £8, taking four to the flop of KK3, and stacking-off on the safe turn after nobody showed any interest. With so many players there’s just too much chance the king is out there, I should have saved £100 here.
Seventh and final stack with KhQd on a Qh8h4h board vs AhTh. I don’t think I’m ever getting away from this one in a game where my reputation is VLAG.

All in all then a rather horrendous two hours at the poker table. To be fair, profit from the Tuesday night absorbed some of the blow, but if I’d planned better would have either stayed and killed the 1/1 hold’em game in my inebriated state, or stayed sober if I was going to take-on the regulars at their own game.

Lesson learned (again!!). Booze and poker don’t mix!!!!!!