Pain Spiral

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Binions:
Just got home after bombing out of the tournament when blinds were 300/600 and I had 3.2k left. Action was weak to me in the cutoff, I had K9 spades, shoved. The two players after me happened to have hands that counterfeited me. One blocked my spade draw with AT, the other had KQ. Board did not help. I had made a few "bad" calls earlier that put me on a crippled stack. Raised to 700 earlier with AJs, re-raised to 2500, I called. King on flop, had to fold. Had AA UTG, raised to 700 when blinds were 200, and it was folded all the way around.

Golden Nugget:
Could not catch a hand, was batting about 3%. When I did make a hand, I was coolered. Flop came 9K9 when I had A9. Someone had K9. Doubled them up. Never made a set...

Bellagio:
Was playing pretty damn well, but the cards were abusing me at the 1/2 table. AQ was my kryptonite, could not win with it, and could not beat it. Was taking it from both ends.

key hand AQ:
I bet pre-flop, someone across from me snap raised. Flop came AQ4. I bet, they called. Turn came another rag. All my money went in, and they beat me to the pot with a set of Queens. Now, I could have gotten away from this because, based on the player, I had a strong feeling he had a pocket pair pre-flop, and a good one at that. So if he had AA, KK, or QQ, 2/3 of these hands gave him a set on the flop. I should have gone with my suspicions and kept myself from losing another 400$ on that hand.

Sat down at the 5/10 game with 400 or 500. Worked it up to 2300 and then had a pivotal hand that I was bluffed off of. I had AA, made a solid pre-flop bet, got called. Flop was 682, made a big bet, called. Checked turn of 7, he made a big bet, called. River was 9, putting four to a straight on the board. I made a tiny bet, hoping to provoke a show-down. He raised 300$, I folded AA face up. He showed 33, OUCH. I was tearing myself up trying to figure out why that hand bothered me so much, and I think the issue was that he had a mountain of chips, but when he raised me, he used 100$ bills. I should have felt suspicion. Also, the pot was so huge, that 300$ may not have been too much. I proceeded to tilt off more than I care to admit.

Rough night. And my girl seems upset about some things, but won't share...



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