Wed Jan 12, 2005

bought in for $50 tonight. bought in $20, bought back in for $10,
Tommy spotted me $20 for a final buy back.

down to about $5. caught the boat As full of 9s. won that hand...just about tripled my $. from there played strong. was at about $35. someone called 15 more minutes till the lat hand. big blind...9,10C. someone raised $2.50. i called. flop was 5c,6c, 5s. someone made a $2 bet, call, call, i went all in $27. chasing a flush, figured i could scare most people out of the pot, if not everyone. 3 people called (there were 3 pots at this point, i can't remember the break down). the guy to my left showed the boat, flopped the fucking boat. even if i made the flush he had me beat. i didn't make the flush. someone else had two pair. i need to learn when to chase a straight or flush and how to properly bet on it. i thought making a bet of $27 with that kind of flop would be a good way to scare people out of the hand....but i had two callers. more often than not when i've got the flush draw on the flop i don't make it.

so what did i learn? i could have folded on the flop and had the chance to walk away with $30. could have payed back tommy and been down $20 instead of being down $50. or i could have folded and played a few smart hands before the night was called.

i had been watching the WSP dvd and i think that made me more confident about calling $1-2 bets with not great hands (K,6. 9,10 suited, etc). this is a bad idea for the wednesday night game because i'm only playing with $20 worth of chips. although calling these bets on the big blind is a better idea than off the blind.

in the future i should stick to these rules
1) for now don't buy in for more than $30 or $40 for the night, don't buy back in more than once.
2) only 2 beers a night at poker.