Session #88 - Will The Bleeding Ever Stop?

I took a break from work last night for three hours to stop in and play $1/$2 no-limit. I killed some time waiting for my seat playing Russian with Genesis, but after a dozen or so hands it was only +$5 in my favour so no biggie there.

I had three noteworthy hands to talk about so I might as well go about it in the order they happened. The first one had me sitting in the small blind with 5-5 and three people limp into the pot and Young Gun comes into it with his standard $5 raise on the button. I call as does the big blind and the limpers. The flop comes 4-4-8 and at this point I've put Young Gun on two over cards so I bet out a tease bet and he comes over the top for all-in. Without hesitating I call and he nods at me and says "nice hand" and I know I'm in front and show my 5-5. I think I astounded him a bit with this call, and I don't want to give all my reasons for doing so, but I had no qualms making the call. The hand held up and I doubled up nicely.

The second hand had me again on the button, this time with 8-9 suited. JT made it $10 to go before the flop and four of us came along for the ride. The flop is 9-8-9 with two clubs and it's checked to JT who bets $20. I call and everyone else folds. The turn is a rag and we check-check it and then a club falls on the river. JT bets $20 and I make an even raise to $40. He shows the flush and I show my flopped full house and JT laughs knowing he had fallen for the trap.

The final hand of the night for me was a monster in more ways than one. I had built my stack up to a nice $360 or so and I'm on the button with A-A. JT makes it $25 to go (the preflop cap) from mid-position (which put him all-in) and small blind calls, I call, UTG calls and another mid-position calls. The flop comes down 4-4-K. Small blind bets out $20 and I thought about it for a second and put him on A-K or K-Q. My thinking here was that I wanted to chase out flush potentials as I wasn't worried about the 4 with so many in the pot with a preflop cap. In hindsight, I definately overplayed my aces and should have been concerned about the pocket kings.

Regardless, I come over the top all-in. Mid-position says "Alright" and calls and then small blind blows me out of the water when he calls and I'm thinking "Holy shit, I'm either loaded or dead." Turns out I was dead. Mid-position shows a suited A-4, so not only does he have me dominated, he has one of my aces. Small blind then stomps both of us by saying "I have a full house" and shows his kings. JT then puts the nail in the coffin by saying he had the other ace and I'm completely 100% drawing dead.

Small blind raked a HUGE pot. Probably close to $800. If I were to play this hand over, I would come over the top for $80 or so to see what that would have brought on. Could I have gotten away from this hand? I don't know. Hard to put someone on a four and even harder to put small blind on pocket kings.

Live Session Total = -$120.

Live MTD earnings are -$930 CAN.
Live YTD earnings are -$1099 CAN.

Online MTD earnings are -$75 US.
Online YTD earnings are +$542.50 US.