No More Flush Draw Semi Bluffs!
Been a bit of a bumpy session. Called off my stack with a less then nut flush, a situation I usually avoid, and to rub it in villain flopped a full house. I then push into someone I’m certain is weak with a nut flush draw on the flop, only for him to call with AK, which holds up.
Here’s the hands :
I’m getting sick of posting these really embarrassing hands. On the turn I felt I could be ahead, as I’ve seen the villain stack off with TPWK, post session though, I was a fucking donkey, I’m getting sick of seeing me play like this. I’ve folded nut flushes in better spots then this… this hand makes me feel sick.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2756787
Same villain. I felt comfortable I could get a fold here, but I had to check-raise all-in, and If I’m wrong I say good bye to another buy-in. This was close enough to the above hand where it could have looked like tilt which could make a call more likely, so this looks like another badly timed play from me.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2756828
This hand is the last time, I’m semi-bluffing a flush draw in such a manner, its simply not working for me.
I had no doubt I was ahead here, but I felt a push was too much just to isolate the pre-flop raiser, if I had AKs I might have thought otherwise though, do you prefer a push pre-flop here? On the flop, I’m faced with a similar spot as before, villain leads out but I just know he’s weak, and I’ve got flush outs if I’m wrong, so I push looking to take the pot down. Obviously I have zero fold equity in this spot at 5NL, if he called with 99, TT, JJ, QQ, KK, AA fine but fucking AK!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2756829
Variance was kind though, giving me back to back sets on the flop, here’s one of them.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2756846
It’s unlikely I’ll be sitting in any more games today, though you never know. Its been a crap day really, started off almost a buy-in up, giving me some hope of a return to form, but that plus change has just been lost with the above. I should probably take tomorrow off to recompose myself, hopefully with a day off I’ll more focused and finally stop playing so pathetic.
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