Really bad :(

[AceLosesKing]

I doubt checking that flop would have saved you any money. The only thing i would have done differently, is muck the hand pre-flop. Hate those hands in EP.

If anything he would've bet, you would've raised... same outcome. That's just bad luck.

[bennymacca]

Don't check flopped trips. Bad beat avoided

the problem with that, is i know he had nothing, this dude was pretty easy to read. i also knew he would try to steal later on in the pot, so i wanted him to bet into me.

if the flush came, then i was just gonna grin and bear it. the thing that annoyed me is that he only called with a single spade, and a crap one at that.

secondly, i reckon he would have called any post flop bet anyway, such is the player

so yeah, probably should have bet post flop and taken a smaller pot.
oh well, live and learn.

[bennymacca]

I got absolutely spanked again tonight, to finish 15. man i am having a bad run.

blinds are 300/600. i get dealt

on the big blind, no harder for me

flop comes or something like that. first guy goes all in for his remaining 600. i call.

guy after me says 600 (puts them out) and another 1000. string betting, i pull him up for it, mainly because i wanted to see my draw. but everyone agrees it was a string bet, so it was all good.

turn comes another heart of some description, nut flush for me. i wanted him to throw his chips at me, and represent a Q or something, not a flush. i was hoping he had a lower flush.

so i check, and he also checks.

so then on the river, the last card is

i come out strong and put in 2K, and he shakes his head and says gotta call ya. turns over for a full house.

i was demoralised, another example of me not winning the pot when i should have, and trying for more chips.

man this is starting to get to me a bit. just no luck at all. finished in 15th in the end. if i won that pot, i would have been in the money, FT for sure.

at this venue, i have had results of 15th, 17th, 14th, 16th, 14th and DNP. where is my luck????

oh well, next season it is..
hope everyone else is happy pokering, because my cards are colder than a mother in laws kiss at the moment.

[AceLosesKing]

I just knew this would be on here when I got home, benny the cunt

Oh, you didn't bet on the turn? I thought you did... you probably should've. Of course he was gonna call you with a full house.

Still bad luck though. You are having a bad run this season. Well, I guess you can only go up from here, right?

[bennymacca]

well i may have chucked a couple of grand in at the turn as well, i am not sure. i just went a little numb when he turned the pockets over. it just seems the thing that happens to me when i play poker!

of course he was gonna call when he hit the 10 on the river, its just that 2-outers are looking like a good drawing hand when playing against me at the moment. always the way.

oh well, i will need FT every week from here on in to make top 5, something to aim toward i guess.

[Scotty]

its just that 2-outers are looking like a good drawing hand when playing against me at the moment.

Of course they are, it's not costing them anything to see it

[bennymacca]

true, i should have bet the turn. ( i may have done this cant remember, but if i did, i should have bet it harder)

still, the last 3 weeks in a row i have been crippled by hands such as this. just wondering when its time for my hand to hold up?!?!

[David]

Also - "pushing someone of a pot" and "NPL" doesn't always go hand in hand

[bennymacca]

very true. i used to be successful in doing this in the early stages of NPL as everyone was scared and wanted to get that first win. but now that most people are seasoned NPL players, and especially with the way the flight card system is now, i find that u prettty much get called on anything.

it means that i have to use a continuation bet a lot more sparingly these days. i still get caught with my hand in the cookie jar a lot more than i should (one of my poker weaknesses is letting people slow play me too much). but it annoys u when u throw out a bluff and they call with bottom pair and win on it.

[AceLosesKing]

very true. i used to be successful in doing this in the early stages of NPL as everyone was scared and wanted to get that first win. but now that most people are seasoned NPL players, and especially with the way the flight card system is now, i find that u prettty much get called on anything.

A double edged sword, here. Players are more eager to call your bet (when you have the winning hand ) but they'll also call your bluffs, which is why bluffing hardly ever works - unless you're playing with people that now what they're doing (read: no beginners).