From $1,200 toZero in 320 Seconds

[Guest mondo]

last night i played hold em as usual at a local club. i took my 100. buy in for a no limit game to 1,200. in 3 hours. i was betting right playing right and obviously getting some cards.

 

ok so here is the hand that i cannot get out of my mind. it is kind of long and if u do not understand texas hold em it may be boring to you. it is actually a copy and paste of an email i sent to a friend about the hand. so that is why it repeats a few things.

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I cannot sleep I am wide awake. OK I am into the game for one buy and have nearly $1200. in front of me. It’s a very juicy game. I keep thinking about how I was outplayed in that hand. I am in the big blind 6 people limp in, I am holding pocket 8s Both black, I make it$ 43. I get a call, call then the guy in middle position raises $160. He has about $950. in front of him a reasonable player who I haven’t played with much. Everyone folds to me I flat call. The other two callers to my raise both fold.

 

 

 

The flop is 10c 9c 6d. The raiser has position on me. I check he bets $300. I cannot put this guy on a hand at all. I keep going over the hand so far in my head. He limps in middle position which for this game is out of character. I look at my outs a runner runner flash draw a gut shot straight and a set. they are limited but I call him.

 

 

 

The turn is a 4d as far as I am concerned a complete blank but I check again. I am still trying to put this guy on a hand. He bets another $300. I again think for a long time, I already have $500. (about 1/2 of my money) in the pot. Plus there is about another $210. pre-flop money in the pot. So I call.

 

 

 

The river is a Ac. I think for a while, I am tempted to push all in at this point but still cannot put him on a hand. He bets another $300. which seemed very strange to me because he only had another $40 in front of him. Now I am wondering why he didn’t just go all in. I think this through for a long time. I cannot even put this guy on a Ace all of my instincts were correct but I laid down my cards. He then turns over a J 8 o/s. I am so fucking mad at myself for letting him take $800 from me I cannot tell you how much it is bothering me.

 

 

From that hand on I lost every hand pocket Qs, Pocket Ks, a straight to a flush and so on. I ended up losing $400 for the night! I simply left at that point. i cannot stand it this guy outplayed me and then on top of it everyone outplayed me even with a table change or i just was not getting good cards and when I did i was being beat on the flop. Well I will talk with you tomorrow.

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So that was my fucked up night guys.I think I am done with poker for a while. I should not have called the original re-raise but I did because I knew I was right yet didn't follow through.