Its been a strange old start to December. The month started with a couple of coolers that quickly put me on the back foot, but this was followed by two pretty awful days of play by my good self! The fact that I played so awful is compounded by the fact that now all my “big” hands, that is any hand that goes to show down of 50bb or more, is instantly sent to twitter for those sick enough to want to see. Im sure a few eyebrows would have been raised when I stacked of pre flop with A10 (I had good reason, and was pot committed to the all in), as im sure the stacking off with AQ did ( I had good reason, and was pot committed to the all in). I Think though it’s a hand that I won that would be the biggest eyebrow raiser. I was playing HU against a super, super, super aggressive donk. In the first 10 hands we played he open shoved all in on me 2-3 times, he didn’t want to play poker he wanted to gamble, which sadly is fine by me! On the button im dealt Kc9c and raise, he 3 bets me and I call. Flop is 6c7d10s. He goes all in. I snap call. Now I can see that this looked like a truly poor call, but I was pretty sure where I was in the hand, and I had him on some rag 8 hand. With my over card, flush draw and belly buster I was sure the price was correct (still not checked on pokerstove but sure I was slight fav against the range I had him on). Truth was I was in better shape than I thought as he showed 33, the turn 6 and river 7 giving me the pot, but not they way I expected! Ive spoken to few people about the hand who see that different than me, but the truth is I trusted my “read” and against a player who was never going to let me play small pot poker I took my chance………….strangely hes not played me since! The biggest losing pot of the week was yesterday, and just writing about it makes me a little mad. On the button with 1010, serial raiser raises and is flat called by a station, I squeeze betting the pot, both players call. Flop 10c2c5d. First player checks, second player moves all in (done this ALL day!!), Obviously holding the nuts I call……………then the next player calls. First player has total air, drawing dead on a completely idiot move, second player has Kc6c, hes called a 14bb 3 bet out of position with king f***ing 6 of clubs, excuses my French but the reason for my poor language is made more understandable when I tell you this is a multi tabling reg!!!!! FFS. Needless to say his class play was rewarded with the rivered club and a 300+bb pot rightfully ships his way. Bless him. Hopefully that hand on twitter cancelled out all the “fish” talk of my previous hands! Anyway, yesterday I played great and still lost, so this just makes the poor play of the previous few days even more expensive, variance takes care of itself, sadly poo play by me is basically me flushing money down the pan! A lot of the damage was put right this morning, with another “A” game performance that this time resulted in a nice upswing, promised land is here again!!

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