Very early on it folds to me in the SB, I make a standard steal raise, get flatted, don't pay attention to any of the warning signs, cbet the A high flop instead of shutting down. A third club hits the turn (I have hearts) and I intend on check-raise bluffing (see what an idiot I am?), but he checks behind. I definitely know he has no clubs and fire a near pot size bet on the river and of course get called by AJ for top pair on the flop. Just like that, half my stack is gone on an idiotic bluff. He thought about that river bet for a while, not sure if he was contemplating folding or raising. Either way, I couldn't have butchered that hand any worse than I did, and there was no reason at all for me to be making a move like that so early with crap cards and no real read on my opponent.
From there I maintained my 1500 chips for a while, making steals where I could, but pretty much card dead. I finally get below 1k with I think 200 blinds and shove JTo from EP and I'm out to ATo.
I'm pretty sure this was my worst showing in a Mookie ever. Need to think before I act. Been bombing out on the bubble of my last few 18 mans I've played as well - pretty much the same stupid shit. Time to get my act together and concentrate.
Played a few $2-$5 HU sngs afterwards, then decided to try a couple $10's just to see what the competition was like. WTF. Is it a standard thing in the $10's for idiots to monkey shove every f*cking hand? I played 3 different guys and they were exactly the same... it looked to me like they just wanted to coin flip for ten bucks. I ended up down $10 for the night and called it quits.
The good thing was.... no tilt. I was a bit disappointed in the way I played the Mook, but quickly shrugged it off + played reasonably well in the HU games. Even the $10 monkeys didn't get to me. Guess that's something...
I do not think your play was a bad one necessarily.. although maybe a lead out value bet on the turn would convince him of a flush a little more.. but you have to consider who your playing against too. Someone calling a pre- with AJ and willing to stack off (call not push) with it is not someone you want to bluff.
ReplyDeleteI figured he would have bet the turn to see where he was if he had an Ace and a check raise would scare the bejesus out of him... if he didn't raise the turn I could put him on second pair or a weaker pp or a draw usually and take him off it on the river. It wasn't necessarily a terrible line on my part as it seemed he was playing it rather weakly, probably for pot control, as it was just as likely I had a hand as not that early and could easily have him out kicked with AQ or AK, not to mention actually having the flush... this was the one time I didn't.
ReplyDeleteWhat I hate most is trying a play like that without any thought to who I was playing and having no notes on him. Just plain stupid. Too excited to jump in there and mix it up.