Swingy Poker

My bankroll has fluctuated wildly over the past two days. Sunday I won two huge pots early and was up over 2k before a lack of cards and some suck-outs dragged me back down to +800 for the day, I was disappointed with this as I fell backwards but it was still a profitable day. Yesterday was disturbing as I dropped $1.3k in an early session through some poor play and then dropped a further 2k later on as everything I did went wrong, I was playing well and just managing to catch people with made hands. At this point I was back to being behind for the month and my confidence is a fragile beast to say the least and It hurt to be back at that stage. However again I perservered as I knew I was playing well and I would get some hands and some luck eventually.

My perseverence paid off as I raced back up by 3k - this is not typical for me, my game tends to see a fairly steady bankroll and 3k swings are not generally part of my plan (especially downwards). Anyway my recovery is very encouraging and at some point I may push on from one of these sessions and get a half decent bankroll again.

Some hands from the last two days....

This is the only time I have ever had thi shappen - quads over quads

***** Hand History for Game 6270996258 *****
$1,000 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, August 26, 15:56:20 ET 2007
Table Table 126894 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 7 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: mukl333 ( $272.75 USD )
Seat 2: Clemme_1982 ( $1,552.94 USD )
Seat 3: doombase ( $605.59 USD )
Seat 4: DB_69 ( $1,224.75 USD )
Seat 6: NUTSINURMOUTH ( $1,000 USD )
Seat 9: XBarbie_19X ( $1,220.25 USD )
Seat 10: Kyren06 ( $200 USD )
Seat 8: TiltyMonkey ( $933.50 USD )
Seat 7: Raoh_ ( $180 USD )
Seat 5: Up1million ( $985 USD )
TiltyMonkey posts small blind [$5 USD].
XBarbie_19X posts big blind [$10 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to TiltyMonkey [ Jh Jd ]
Kyren06 folds
mukl333 folds
Clemme_1982 folds
doombase folds
DB_69 raises [$40 USD]
Up1million folds
NUTSINURMOUTH folds
Raoh_ folds
TiltyMonkey calls [$35 USD]
XBarbie_19X folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ Jc, Ks, Js ]
TiltyMonkey checks
DB_69 checks
** Dealing Turn ** [ 9d ]
TiltyMonkey checks
DB_69 bets [$40 USD]
TiltyMonkey raises [$80 USD]
DB_69 calls [$40 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ 9s ]
>You have options at Table 126855 Table!.
TiltyMonkey bets [$210 USD]
DB_69 is all-In [$1,104.75 USD]
TiltyMonkey is all-In [$603.50 USD]
TiltyMonkey shows [ Jh, Jd ]four of a kind, Jacks.
DB_69 shows [ 9h, 9c ]four of a kind, Nines.
DB_69 wins $291.25 USD from side pot #1 with four of a kind, Nines.
TiltyMonkey wins $1,874 USD from the main pot with four of a kind, Jacks.


Below is a fine example of overplaying AA, I raised and was reraised big to $150, I decided that this player was very aggressive, unlikely to back down and so I thought that a push may look like JJ and get a call from hands like AK, KK, QQ. I pushed he called and I took down a fine pot.

***** Hand History for Game 6270988928 *****
$1,000 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, August 26, 15:54:22 ET 2007
Table Table 126366 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 7 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 6: TiltyMonkey ( $909.50 USD )
Seat 4: drounder2011 ( $1,668.45 USD )
Seat 1: Kyren06 ( $155 USD )
Seat 5: ingemars12 ( $995 USD )
Seat 10: Noodlebrains ( $1,012.50 USD )
Seat 9: CADEIRANTE ( $453 USD )
Seat 8: Raoh_ ( $200 USD )
Seat 3: zsutelek ( $1,000 USD )
Seat 7: NUTSINURMOUTH ( $984.50 USD )
Seat 2: dmmikkel86 ( $1,000 USD )
Raoh_ posts small blind [$5 USD].
CADEIRANTE posts big blind [$10 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to TiltyMonkey [ Ac As ]
Noodlebrains folds
Kyren06 folds
drounder2011 folds
ingemars12 folds
TiltyMonkey raises [$40 USD]
NUTSINURMOUTH raises [$150 USD]
Raoh_ folds
CADEIRANTE folds
TiltyMonkey is all-In [$869.50 USD]
NUTSINURMOUTH calls [$759.50 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4d, 7d, 6s ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Jh ]
** Dealing River ** [ Qd ]
NUTSINURMOUTH shows [ Ks, Ad ]high card Ace.
TiltyMonkey shows [ Ac, As ]a pair of Aces.
TiltyMonkey wins $1,831 USD from the main pot with a pair of Aces.
>You have options at Table 126894 (No DP) Tab



Steve