Another night of bad results at Commerce Casino. I dropped 15.5BB at 9/18 for an hourly of -4.4BB/hr. My play was good, the players were bad, and my cards were worse.

“Yeah, yeah,” you’re thinking, “Bloggers always blame the cards.” But honestly I think it was a good table.

F-Train sat in the 5 seat and suffered a few moderate beats and still came out ahead. Two of those losses were to the same guy–the first time the enemy jammed on the flop with no pair and the third nut flush draw, the second time he led on the flop with bottom pair and backdoor flush draw. There was also a guy at our table that liked to limp re-raise pre-flop and another guy who liked to raise on the flop with any piece of it.

I did make a couple mistakes, though. I missed out on at least 1-2BB when I flopped trip aces. Somewhere in my mind I knew we were going to hit the jackpot and I didn’t want to miss out on that. As it turns out, I should have check-raised them on the turn. They’d stay in for the jackpot, right?

This week is kicking my ass, and probably yours, too. But I’d say it’s pretty likely you didn’t get a tear in your colon and a heap of medical bills besides.

Help BG per Dr. Pauly’s instructions by transferring $20 to one of these two online accounts:

Full Tilt: GamblingBlues
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Thanks.

The s.o. had a dream last Tuesday that I had a hole in my pants. This was interpreted Wednesday to mean that I’d lose money in gambling in the month of February.

The s.o. joined in the fun at HDouble’s home game. She took 3rd in the tourney. She caught a 2-outer against me in the cash game to give me a net loss for the evening. As it turned out, one of the other players had actually folded one of those two outs, so… yep.

One other notable hand occurred when I limped with 77. Absinthe limped along, and RW raised the pot. For some reason, no one folds in this game. I certainly didn’t, and figured Absinthe would go along for the ride. Flop comes AA7 and I check to Absinthe who moves in for the rest of his chips. RW calls all-in and I call as well. I show my sevens and RW shows his AK. Absinthe hangs onto his cards. The case ace falls on the turn and quad aces takes down the main pot. I take the side pot from Absinthe with aces full and… end up not having lost any money in the hand. Crazy shit.

Went back to Commerce Saturday night for more 20/40. Missed a couple draws, missed a few flops, only took the blinds with AA, went card dead off and on, and ended up trickling away 10BB, for an hourly of -2BB/hr. Not great, but then again, I’d been stuck 20BB until a mini-rush in one orbit cut that in half. The nature of these games is that you can often hover around being two good pots away from even, and that keeps me in the game.

That is, until I call the s.o. on the cell phone three times, don’t reach her, and then go wandering around the Crowne Ballroom looking for her among the 2/4 tables. She was down 38BB or so and looking a little worn out. We waited out her orbit, cashed in her chips, then went to collect mine.

I felt okay about the loss and had intended to head back Sunday to whack away at the 9/18 game, but ultimately decided that the Superbowl was going to put a damper on a lot of the action and stayed home instead.

There’s something about losing a buy-in in online poker that’s more demoralizing than losing a larger dollar value in a live game. Maybe it’s the pace of the action or something, but yeah, if I were really tiltable I’d be sitting in that Party BBJ 15/30 game right now. I won’t, but I almost feel bad enough to make some grand declarations to my reading public about how I’m going to do this or that and swear off online limit games and only play WPBT tourneys, but that’d be pretty silly. I should just be a better player.