Should I have folded

Got back on my game doing really well bank roll to $350.

Playing against a player who is really loose and gambles a lot, not very good in my opinion, he has reloaded at this table a few times, lost his stack all in with a Q9 off he had top pair on the flop, after calling a 4 x BB raiser, he bet out Q9 pushed gets called by QQ and lost. I'd watched this guy for an hour making donk bets at boards he couldn't win. He called every bet on the flop and chased and chased, bet hard 2nd and 3rd pairs.

I was sitting with $39 ($14 profit) AQ on the button flop 9Q3 I bet he calls like he's done all session, Turn come Q I check he checks, river 4 he goes all-in - no straight, no flush, I call because he's be playing everything, even really poor hands, I've seen him stack off with nothing two times, I think he has a worse queen or perhaps 2 pair, he doesnt he has 99 and busts me with a fullhouse, man was I wrong to call I had a good hand only thing I wasn't beating was 99, 33, 44, Q3, Q4, Q9 and much of why I called was because of his previous play.

I was gutted but some of your poker decisions have to be made on the players style, I wouldn't have been suprised to see his turn over AA, KK thinking them invincible or even 10J having chased and missed a straight.

One thing I've been trying to stop doing is insta calls when I think I'm ahead but don't have the nuts, I pretty much clicked call instantly, think donk has boobed, may be I should have thought a while.

Only thing that pissed me off was why does he get this hand against me after donking off $50 bucks to other players in the session.

My I've lost a few big pots to trips making fullhouse over my flopped trips - need to look out for that, but then I've won the same way. It's easy to see a player who has made trips on the board they get excited and if you have a fullhouse your on for a win most times.

Bank Roll £317

Monday Night

Combination of bad luck and poor play left me with heavy loses on Monday Night got out tripped 3 times. Did seem everytime I hit and someone chased they made flushes or straights round me.

Got counterfeited a few times on the river with 2 pair

Played some real donkey hands, chased with no odds, all stuff I know I should'nt do but did - time to learn

Bankroll $295

Player Notes

I find that making small notes on players, bet sizes, tendancy to call, bluff chase etc. is working well.

Stuff like check will bet for players who see any check as a missed flop and will push in some extra cash, then re-raise and they fold, if they don't re-adjust.

I also not things down they think about me like - thinks I bluff etc.

On very poor players who have just to much to note I just write PLAY!

Loose a lot win more lose a little

Doing quite well after making two stupid moves each cost me around $25 and blowing a chuck of cash sending bankroll down to $290 or there abouts.

Steps away for a day and comes back supertight, winning well to just over $100 then got hit trips over trips.

Bankroll $375.23

Ticking Along

Playing well, only slipped once go involved in a marginal hand with a very poor player and lost $15, I'd waited for a hand against him, but it never came. He got busted by another player, he was calling all-in with second and all sorts of loose play.

Pacific has hand stats and my average is about 35% seeing the flop which I think is tight enough for me.

Bank Roll $361.00

Bad Beat Cash Out Myth

Decided to cash out some of my winnings leaving $300 in the kitty.

Cash out to date a healthy $950.

I've read about the cash out bad beat and to be honest the first time I cashed out I lost most of the $200 I left in, I thought it a bad beat but looking back I was just playing shit.

First hand after cashing out 99 (12c/25c) 3 players in for $1 each flop 3 5 9 top set for me 2 hearts out first to act bets the pot (I'm think big pair frightened of flush draw) next folds I push at this point I've got to be ahead and a pretty good favourite against anyone they call with AA, come one 10-1 in my favour until they hit an Ace on the turn and I lose $21 bang bang! Cash out bad beat here I come.

Was playing at the same time on a 5c/10c table with 10 10 I raised to 30c called by 2 players, flop 1052 two spades I checked player 1 40c bet player 2 40c bet, I raised it to $2. Player 1 all-in player 2 folds, I call he has 52 for two pair and I win his stack of $9. Bad beat myth killed?

Now if the river and turn had been 55 or 22 then I'd have been worried, and this has happened to me with Ahigh flush on the flop v Ax who flop pair of aces last card on the flop 3 turn 3 river 3 and I'm dead to a fullhouse beating my flush. I went from 20-1 fav to a 10-1 fav to a loser in 2 cards.

Bank Roll $313.60

An Amazing Hand

On a 12c/25c Table $25 Buy-in

Button calls, SB calls, BB all-in for $22
Button calls, SB folds

Its Button AA v BB 34off nice match up


Flop is 444 wow turn and river don't come down aces

BB say it wasnt luck? 10-000 to 1 I think