Welcome To The Bad Beat Tables!
So I decided I should really practice what I`ve been preaching and venture onto the Bad Beat tables. To say it has been a roller-coaster ride so far would be an understatement.
I sat down at the table with just $20,and waited for the BB. It duly came and went and I saw no action in my first orbit of the table until I was UTG. I glance down and see QQ. I make it $2 to go and the action folds to the BB who makes it $3. I decide to just call and the flop comes down Ks-Qc-9d. Perfect I`ve flopped a set. He bets. I decided I could perhaps get a little more value on subsequent streets and smoothcalled. The turn is Ah and he checks, I bet $2 and he raises. Again I smoothcall. The river is another ace and he bets, I raise and he re-raises his remaining 60 cents. The cards flip and yes of course he has AK for a runner-runner fullhouse to beat my own queens full. Welcome to the bad beat tables! Unfortunately not bad enough for the jackpot. Looking at the hand afterwards I can see I played it pretty badly but as things turned out there was no way I was getting him to fold, especially after the turn gives him top two.
So I`ve only been there a few hands and I`m already down a buy-in. Still I wasn`t about to be deterred and reloaded. Only to see myself outdrawn time after time and I wave goodbye to another $20.
Again I reload and it looks like this money is going the way of the first $40. I was down to about $7 when I finally had a hand hold up and I was on the road to recovery. After about three hours and after picking up AA I was back up to around $58 and considering leaving. Of course I decided to stick around just a little longer and again caught AA. This time it wasn`t anyhere near as profitable. Costing me around $6.
I departed soon after down around $6 but relatively happy with the session. True I`d ended up down but I`d been patient and hadn`t become downtrodden. I`d maintained discipline and fought my way back from a pretty large deficit.
Onto today`s session. I`ve just finished playing and it was more of the same for the early part of the session. Now I`m the first to admit I`m not the greatest FL hold`em player but when you play nothing but premium hands you`d expect to be at least close to a break even player. Again though my KK was snapped on the river, my AK ran into KK and there`s no ace for me on the flop. Again I`m down about $40 and debateing wether I should just call it quits and maybe play some NLHE to try and rescue what remained of my roll at the site.
What I actually did was move tables. At first that looked a desperate tactic as I lost $10 in short order. Fortunately though salvation was waiting for me at this table and finally my quality hands started hitting and holding. I climbed back up to over $30 and then hit this monster of a hand.
I have 10-10 in the cut-off. The action folds round to me and I raise. The SB 3-bets and the BB calls as do I.
The flop is 9h-7d-6h giving me an overpair and an inside straight draw. SB bets, BB calls and I smoothcall on what looks a dangerous though good board.
The turn is the 10c giving me a set and leaving me extra options for winning the hand. The SB bets out and the BB re-raises and I figure I`m probably behind now but reasoning I still have draws to the nuts I coldcall the 2 bets. SB call as well and we`re onto the river.
The river is quite the most beautiful card in the world at that moment, the 10d. The case ten and I`m now holding the stone cold nuts. SB checks, BB bets and I raise. SB fold and BB re-raises. Obviously I re-raise again and at last realising he`s in trouble my opponent just calls and then mucks his hand. I rake in a $38.50 pot and I`m again pretty much back to even.
Now I asked what he had and he said the straight which I kind of figured him for. The funny thing is he was awfully annoyed about losing the hand. Now I`ve just checked the HH for this post and this guy called 2 bets with K-8o. In other words I have very little sympathy. Actually I have NO sympathy because I just can`t see how he could justify that call.
He actually left the table a couple of hands later when my A-10 outflopped his KK. The flop came 10-10-J and it was only because I figured that he might have JJ that he didn`t lose more money on that hand.
Anyway the good news is that I ended up about $10 in profit from todays session and up $3 or $4 over the two sessions. With that huge jackpot out there waiting to go I`m happy enough if I can pretty much break even all the while hoping that someone is going to hand me the best bad beat of my life.
So after all that I`d better add that the jackpot has now climed to over $1,120,000. That`s a huge chunk of cash and it has to go sooner or later. If you have the roll to play at the levels required and you can break even or better taking into account the deduction for the jackpot then you should be playing those bad beat tables. As they used to say on our lottery adverts "It could be YOU!"
I sat down at the table with just $20,and waited for the BB. It duly came and went and I saw no action in my first orbit of the table until I was UTG. I glance down and see QQ. I make it $2 to go and the action folds to the BB who makes it $3. I decide to just call and the flop comes down Ks-Qc-9d. Perfect I`ve flopped a set. He bets. I decided I could perhaps get a little more value on subsequent streets and smoothcalled. The turn is Ah and he checks, I bet $2 and he raises. Again I smoothcall. The river is another ace and he bets, I raise and he re-raises his remaining 60 cents. The cards flip and yes of course he has AK for a runner-runner fullhouse to beat my own queens full. Welcome to the bad beat tables! Unfortunately not bad enough for the jackpot. Looking at the hand afterwards I can see I played it pretty badly but as things turned out there was no way I was getting him to fold, especially after the turn gives him top two.
So I`ve only been there a few hands and I`m already down a buy-in. Still I wasn`t about to be deterred and reloaded. Only to see myself outdrawn time after time and I wave goodbye to another $20.
Again I reload and it looks like this money is going the way of the first $40. I was down to about $7 when I finally had a hand hold up and I was on the road to recovery. After about three hours and after picking up AA I was back up to around $58 and considering leaving. Of course I decided to stick around just a little longer and again caught AA. This time it wasn`t anyhere near as profitable. Costing me around $6.
I departed soon after down around $6 but relatively happy with the session. True I`d ended up down but I`d been patient and hadn`t become downtrodden. I`d maintained discipline and fought my way back from a pretty large deficit.
Onto today`s session. I`ve just finished playing and it was more of the same for the early part of the session. Now I`m the first to admit I`m not the greatest FL hold`em player but when you play nothing but premium hands you`d expect to be at least close to a break even player. Again though my KK was snapped on the river, my AK ran into KK and there`s no ace for me on the flop. Again I`m down about $40 and debateing wether I should just call it quits and maybe play some NLHE to try and rescue what remained of my roll at the site.
What I actually did was move tables. At first that looked a desperate tactic as I lost $10 in short order. Fortunately though salvation was waiting for me at this table and finally my quality hands started hitting and holding. I climbed back up to over $30 and then hit this monster of a hand.
I have 10-10 in the cut-off. The action folds round to me and I raise. The SB 3-bets and the BB calls as do I.
The flop is 9h-7d-6h giving me an overpair and an inside straight draw. SB bets, BB calls and I smoothcall on what looks a dangerous though good board.
The turn is the 10c giving me a set and leaving me extra options for winning the hand. The SB bets out and the BB re-raises and I figure I`m probably behind now but reasoning I still have draws to the nuts I coldcall the 2 bets. SB call as well and we`re onto the river.
The river is quite the most beautiful card in the world at that moment, the 10d. The case ten and I`m now holding the stone cold nuts. SB checks, BB bets and I raise. SB fold and BB re-raises. Obviously I re-raise again and at last realising he`s in trouble my opponent just calls and then mucks his hand. I rake in a $38.50 pot and I`m again pretty much back to even.
Now I asked what he had and he said the straight which I kind of figured him for. The funny thing is he was awfully annoyed about losing the hand. Now I`ve just checked the HH for this post and this guy called 2 bets with K-8o. In other words I have very little sympathy. Actually I have NO sympathy because I just can`t see how he could justify that call.
He actually left the table a couple of hands later when my A-10 outflopped his KK. The flop came 10-10-J and it was only because I figured that he might have JJ that he didn`t lose more money on that hand.
Anyway the good news is that I ended up about $10 in profit from todays session and up $3 or $4 over the two sessions. With that huge jackpot out there waiting to go I`m happy enough if I can pretty much break even all the while hoping that someone is going to hand me the best bad beat of my life.
So after all that I`d better add that the jackpot has now climed to over $1,120,000. That`s a huge chunk of cash and it has to go sooner or later. If you have the roll to play at the levels required and you can break even or better taking into account the deduction for the jackpot then you should be playing those bad beat tables. As they used to say on our lottery adverts "It could be YOU!"
posted by DangerMouse at 10:57 PM
1 comments
