Ran into bad beats today
I am playing a lot at Monte Carlo because they have a freeroll for locals in July. You have to play 50 hours in June to qualify. Played the 9 am tournament. Made the final table, (usually do), and down to the last 5. I was the short stack so I went all in with Jc9c. Got called by one of the large stacks that said, "I shouldn't, but here goes". He flips over Ks8c. I really just wanted to take down the blinds which were 1k and 2k. Flop comes 4s, 8c, Js. Turn 9s, yeah 2 pr for me. River 10s, lose to his flush on the river. After that I played 1/2 nl. Now the book I told you about in my previous post preached to only play limit, never nl. He said even the biggest game at Bobby's Room is limit. So, you can guess what happened. I bought in for $200. 2nd hand got AsQs. I bet $50 and got called. Flop was 4s, Ac, J,d. I bet another $50 and got called. Turn was 2h. I put the other guy on AK so I went all in. He had a set of 4's and that was the end of me. My daily gambling money was shot down. I call both of them bad beats, but I don't feel that bad, because it was the money I had won 2 days before. I learned my lesson the hard way to not play nl anymore. It is going to be difficult to stay away from nl, because it is more exciting than limit, but I am going to try. My poker winnings are what we do fun stuff with, like eating out and buying things. My wife and I have been living here for 6 weeks now and it is still unbelievable. Like a permanent vacation. I am still waiting to work, I am a Massage Therapist and it takes a while to get licensed here. Once licensed I am going to specialize in Dealer Massage for repetitive motion injuries. I practise a special type of muscle release massage which can cure things like Carpal Tunnel, etc. Sorry for the advertsing, maybe it won't post. That's all today!! Mike.
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Was there a typo in this part of the post? If not, then it looks to me like you put your money in thinking you were behind and drawing to 3 outs, only to find out you were really behind and drawing dead. Not exactly a "bad beat" ... tough hand, maybe, but after his call of $50 preflop and $50 on the flop, I would be thinking I am likely behind. I would've put him on A-K or J-J, with A-A, A-J, and 4-4 also possible. Really hard to credit him with any drawing hand given the board, so not many hands you are ahead of. Not saying fold the turn, but check-calling it down as cheaply as possible would've been my preference at that point.
Yeh, I'm confused about that second hand too. In a 1/2 NL game, you raised to 50 pre-flop and someone called, and then on the turn bluffed $100 into a $200 pot?
To each his own I guess, but as I see the hand you were behind the whole way; hard to call that a bad beat.
These guys are being nice, I think the play (if its as you wrote it) was very, very bad
@Ecs
To say the least...lol.
I had to read that three times just to make sure I wasn't seeing things. "I put him on AK so I went all-in (with a weaker ace and no redraw)."
Um...ok.
@ajs510
To say the least...lol.
I had to read that three times just to make sure I wasn't seeing things. "I put him on AK so I went all-in (with a weaker ace and no redraw)."
Um...ok.[/quote]
Exactly! Which is why I assumed there had to be a typo in the description. Maybe he had either A-Js or the flop was A-Q-4; either way he has top two pair run into a set, which is certainly tough. As written, well ... there are a lot of ways to play poker, and some are more profitable than others.
Hey Mike,
There are a lot of things that I would have done differently in the hands you posted above. I'm not going to pile on, but it looks kind of like you were playing the cash game like it was a tourney. If you want feedback on these hands or NL cash game strategy, in general, you can put a post in the strat forum.
I hope you got your hours in for the free roll.
GL.
You were never ahead in either hand. So, how could they be bad beats?