Iron man day 1 down

What a boring day at work. I spent quite a while posting on the 2+2 message boards, and getting pumped for tonight. One of my resolutions while doing this challenge is to post my biggest losing hand for each session and talk about it a little. I also may post another hand I found interesting. At least this will make this blog more informative rather than a simple stat tracker for me.

Overall my session went poorly, but I felt that I played alright. I feel that it's good that I can stay emotionally detached from my winnings or losings as long as I feel that I'm playing my best. Of course this can be a huge detriment if you're fooling yourself...

Either way -2 BI on the day. I felt like every decision I made turned out wrong. My KQ rivered my AA to catch a straight, while I had a set of Aces. KK was folded to me in the BB. Regarding my hand history, I figure that I'll post it without discussion first, so people can mentally grunch. Read 2p2 if you don't know what that means :). Here is my biggest loser from my session:

Seat 1: SSSABINO ($20.90)
Seat 2: 1kuelkat ($7.70)
Seat 3: CmonAlex ($5), is sitting out
Seat 5: systeempje ($16.80)
Seat 6: hackers238 ($26)
Seat 7: drexter ($23.65)
Seat 8: Tesch C ($25)
Seat 9: Einstein1882 ($21.75)
KIRK777 adds $25
SSSABINO posts the small blind of $0.10
1kuelkat posts the big blind of $0.25
The button is in seat #9
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to hackers238 [As Kh]
systeempje folds
hackers238 raises to $1
drexter folds
Tesch C folds
Einstein1882 folds
SSSABINO calls $0.90
1kuelkat folds
*** FLOP *** [Td Qd 5d]
SSSABINO checks
hackers238 bets $2
SSSABINO calls $2
*** TURN *** [Td Qd 5d] [Kc]
SSSABINO checks
hackers238 bets $4
SSSABINO raises to $8
hackers238 raises to $23, and is all in
SSSABINO calls $9.90, and is all in
hackers238 shows [As Kh]
SSSABINO shows [6d Ad]
Uncalled bet of $5.10 returned to hackers238
*** RIVER *** [Td Qd 5d Kc] [3h]
hackers238 shows a pair of Kings
SSSABINO shows a flush, Ace high
SSSABINO wins the pot ($39.95) with a flush, Ace high
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $42.05 | Rake $2.10
Board: [Td Qd 5d Kc 3h]
Seat 1: SSSABINO (small blind) showed [6d Ad] and won ($39.95) with a flush, Ace high
Seat 6: hackers238 showed [As Kh] and lost with a pair of Kings

Ugh. Ugly play by me here. Forgetting Baluga's THM seems the main problem here. I think the main problem was reading an old post by pokey today talking about monochrome flops. As he said there's a 3.3% of any given opponent flopping the flush, and a 15% of them flopping a draw. I think that said I put a little too much faith in the fact that they "didn't have the flush". I feel everything is standard including the CBet until the turn. I'm not sure if firing a 2/3 pot sized bet is the right move here, however it's not a terrible mistake. The BIG mistake was shoving over on the turn, but my logic was that if he has the FD I'm letting him see the river free. I realize in retrospect that that minraise looks VERY suspect, especially when he could have just called to see the river. If he HAD the FD, he would be bloating the pot a little prematurely there.

Anyway, on to a better day tomorrow. 100 points logged today, so I'm on my way to becoming an Ironman.


Session: -$46 -- 711 Hands
Overall: $454.70-- +$147.85 -- 10,718 hands