Over the weekend I separated my poker between two different sources. On Saturday I had a four hour session of low-limit Hold Em and on Sunday I played in several Sit and Go’s and some low-limit Omaha Hi/Lo.
Over the course of my session at
KK (twice)
AK
JJ
TT
AJ
The sad part of the session was not the fact that I lost with these hands but rather that I won with :
T8 (these were suited and I turned a flush)
I look at the bright side though and it is pretty simple in this case. When I can still break even after getting a lot of strong starting hands beaten it means I’m able to read my opponents and lay down losing hands before I invest too much money in them.
I did end up making one mistake that I will hopefully learn from. I had a new player sit down two seats to my right. I was dealt ATo UTG. By the time the action got around to me the new player (in the small blind) raised it up. I called as did everyone else in the hand. The flop came A K 9 rainbow. The original raiser bet out, the person on my right called, as did I and most other people in the hand. A lot of argument could be made for me to raise here but with low-limit I wanted to see what would happen on the turn. I’m not knocking anyone out with a raise here and if the small blind checks I’m pretty sure I have the best hand. I realized that I probably had 5 outs, any Ten or Ace. Before the turn came I knew that the person to my right held JQ, and therefore any 10 gives him the nut straight. The turn comes a 6 and the small blind bets out again. The gut to my right calls (chasing a 3 outer) and I decide to fold. A blank comes on the river. The small blind bets out and Mr. Chase folds. The player turns over Jacks and takes down the pot.
Even though I know it was a bad decision to fold now, in the course of the hand it was very easy to put my opponent on AJ,
I played several Sit and Go’s on Sunday as well as some low-limit
All in all a mediocre weekend of poker, but I did eek out a profit, I learned that I need to raise on the turn more often and I learned that even I can get lucky and win a pot with T8.