In the last two days, I am really angry about how I played two hands, and yet I won a good amount of money (I mean relative to the blinds, chunk change in reality) on both hands.

First situation, A-Q, flop gave me top pair. Both players left had about $2 left, one $1.75, $10 maximum buy-in at the 5-10 cent table. I idiotically called the first player's all-in, the other player called behind me, and just as I had read I was losing, KK and two pair Q-8, and I hit my ace on the turn and won. I read correctly that the all-in had two pair, and yet I didn't trust my read and just stupidly called anyway. It made me angry for the rest of the night. I mean that kind of bad play will cost me in the long run, and because he had a smaller amount of money I just made a dumb decision anyway. Win or not wasn't the point, I was angry enough at that hand to sit out for about 5 minutes at all of my tables and just think about what I had done, haha.

Then tonight, early raiser minimum raises, I re-raise 3 times his bet with QQ, he re-raises all-in for $4. I request time and let my hands at the other tables sit, and I think to myself ok a lot of times players here min. raise AA to make the pot a bit bigger then trap on the flop. I somehow stupidly called anyway, my read was dead on, he did have AA, and I hit my set on the flop and won. I think I'm even more angry about that hand because I made such a good read and like a moron I acted against it and just called anyway. Grrr...

I have to start trusting my reads better even when it hurts to lay down a hand. I've lost plenty of other hands in the last few days yet I'm most angry about two that I WON, does anyone else have this happen? I mean I care more about how I play than just the results of the actual hands and those were just in my opinion really bad calls, so it frustrates me that in both cases I was smart enough to figure out I was probably beat and just ignored that and called anyway. I have to get better at following through with what I think instead of just hoping that my opponent actually doesn't have what I think they do, haha.

Ouch runner-runner queens, ouch!!! Wow. That's a tough beat dude, lol. I'd feel really bad honestly.

Haha, Clown that was nice, I was going to write to him, "Wait THAT WAS YOU?! YOU SOB I HAD BULLETS AND YOU DONKED ME LIKE THAT!" haha

No, I'm not at all new to the game. I've been playing very actively for 7 years and been a winning player online for all 5 since I started playing on Poker Room. At the time, I was a really mediocre player, I mean honest assessment of myself looking back, but I did quite well not exactly sure how. I guess at the low limits I played I was just better than the other donks. I'm relatively new to playing cash games, though, I am a tournament player and that takes a bit more gambling at the right situations, so in those situations my tournament mind thought, "Well they have many fewer 'chips' than I do, and if I lose I'll still have money but they will be gone if I win," well that's irrelevant in a cash games. You can rebuy. You have to make good decisions no matter whether your opponent has $1 left or $10 left. Like I called this guy's all-in the other day because he had only $1.50 left and I had something marginal like A-J suited, and I ended up winning but he had pocket 10s I think and it was a silly call. Would I normally call a raise of $1.50 with A-J suited? HECK NO. So why call an all-in? Because I was thinking like a tournament player. So I'm still learning that kind of thing, I just haven't played enough cash games yet to take in all of the nuances.

I'm doing very well so far, though, really really happy with it! I think I'm beginning to enjoy this a lot more than tournaments. For one I can four-table, instead of only two at tournaments (too many tough decisions, I found three tables or four tables at tournaments, tried both, to be exhausting mentally and with no breaks, you can't just get up when you want, I found that even harder and I had to hold in the, ahem, needed bathroom break for a long time, hehe). Also the beats don't seem AT ALL as bad, I mean I take a bad beat every once in a while but I manage to avoid most of them. It's just a lot more fun so far. I love huge tournaments, but the SnGs were killing me. The profit I was eeking out, 15-20% usually, 22% on Poker Room over about 400 tournaments, was solid but the daily swings were annoying me, like up $50 one day, down $20 the next, the next day play 8 hours up $2. Ugg, I mean what the heck. With cash games if I just play four tables for about 5 hours I seem to always finish up so far, it just is a matter of how much. Plus the bonuses clear FAST!!! Wow. It would take me 5-6 times as long to clear bonuses at tournaments, I didn't realize this until I started playing the cash games.

I made a really bad decision tonight with A-K, flop came A-2-2, I knew he didn't have the 2, and there was not much else there by the turn and river. He had pocket aces. Uhh... whoops. I'm retarded. I should have folded that. Oh well it hurt the night pretty badly but not even close to bad enough to ruin my night, I mean, god, I had pocket aces like 10 times no joke and won EVERY TIME, some of them HUGE pots, like full house on the river and I got a guy to call my re-raise all-in for $10, which on a max buy-in $10 table is really a massive pot. He was money leader at the table before that. My pocket kings hit a flop of K-9-9 won another great pot. Another time my AA ran into KK and I took down another huge pot, actually there was someone else in there with something stupid I can't even remember what, but they got owned too.

The poker gods were so kind to me with AA the last few days, I've had that hand a remarkable number of times, I don't even know, 15-20 times, and I haven't lost one time with it. That's really rare.

FaDi,

Nobody is requiring you to read them. I'm sorry you find reading so difficult.

Thank you,

Jonathan

Jonathan,

You owned me.

Thank you,

FaDi

Originally Posted by FaDi

Jonathan,

You owned me.

Thank you,

FaDi

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