Stack: $181.42
I have been playing lots, but have not been blogging. Part of that is because my 'real life' and my 'other game' have been pressing their demands on me. Most of it is because I just don't know how to report my experiences.
Because, even at my level, I see lots and lots of hands, I have been getting dealt AA lots of times since my last blog entry. I have come to dread seeing these foul cards in my hand. This is because they are routinely cracked. Routinely, as in 'almost all of the time'.
I am still playing the 2euro regular speed HUSNGs. When you get supposedly decent cards, you are meant to play them hard. Upon applying this doctrine to AA, I have repeatedly been called/reraised/whatever/you name it, all the way to the river by random starting hands. That is to say, my opponents have run with hands in the bottom 10% of the range which, by the river, have mysteriously transformed themselves into straights, trips, flushes, cheese sandwiches, accordions and wardrobes.
I now dread seeing AA, and feel relieved when the SB immediately folds or, when I am in the SB, the BB immediately folds to my openraise. I know, yes I positively know, that if the hand goes any further, the AA will be massacred, yet I also know that you are 'meant' to play them hard.
As may be imagined, this situation has poisoned my judgment and mindset, hence the pissy stack, despite the serious volume [for my level and available time] since the last post.
Netbet's recent disconnection and crash issues have also poisoned the well, as the situation has led to the feeling that it doesn't matter how competent you are, the site will just crash and fold you out/sit you out every time you get anywhere.
i think dont forget AA its only one pair , best option if dont wana get them see turn or river rise so much then they just gone fold and you gone take some smaller pot but not so big . I see to many friends ,or players which saying i cant win with AA and after they thinks is something wrong with internet poker , at internet poker its going to many hands(and its a lot chances to see bad beats and you loosing with AA) then in live poker you see only few hands . Anyway i thinking its just coming bad days and if you gone count from 50 hands with AA you not gone lose more then 30% with one oponent or i you gone play against 2 or 3 players afcorse they gone get some stronger hands ,because like i said you have only one pair , but with AA you geting good chances to hit highest flushes, or best sets . So just play and forget that loses, its for everyone.
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