Up & Down

I need to learn to quit when I am ahead! LOL. There are too many times that I start off on a good night and keep playing an playing and end up finishing with a losing night. Everyone says to keep playing when you are winning, but I think I either get tired or since I am ahead lose some focus. Last night I signed up for a $10.40 DON and a $5.20 DON. I cashed in both and while they were winding down I signed up for a $2.20 Badugi tourney and a 60FPP satellite to the steps tourneys. I got up to 5,000 chips in badugi and then gave 1/2 of them back on the next hand! I hovered at around 2,500 chips and picked up a 9 high starting hand and pushed. I got sucked out on and was out in 37th with 16 getting paid. Still not too bad though. The FPP satellite paid the top 10 with tickets into the steps tourneys. I ended up getting a “Step 1” ticket. I went ahead and signed up for it right away and we were down to 4 and I got too aggressive with my A-K and was killed by a J-J. So I ended up playing almost 2 hours to win $1.50! Well at least it was FPP points. I was starting to get tired and should have gone to bed, but I knew I wouldn’t probably get to play anymore this weekend so I was going to make it a late night. Big mistake of course.. I signed up for another $10.40 DON and we were down to 6 and I was sitting on around 2,000 chips and there was a small stack around 1,000. I get As-8s and the big stack bully raises to 450 (blinds are at 75-150). I should have folded but he had been raising every hand for a full orbit now. I went ahead and called hoping for a bunch of spades. They threw out a K-10-6 flop with 2 spades. Bully puts out another 300 and I called. Turn gives me my nut flush with a 9 spades. Bully raises 450 and I push in and he quickly calls with his set of Kings. River brings a nice 10 to fill him up and put me out. I really do some dumb crap sometimes! Well this put me on tilt and I signed up for a $20.80 DON. I know..I really do know better and regretted it as soon as I hit the register button…I get A-K first hand and raise to 100 and get a caller..Flop is all low rainbow and he raises to 200 and I call. Turn is another low and he pushes and I fold. Lost 20% of stack on 1st hand..nice.. I lost another 100 when I called 100 more from the big blind with a pair of 6’s and the flop came all big cards and he bet out. Then I get A-K again in late position and an early position raises to 250. Blinds are up to 25-50 and this was a larger raise than I had seen anyone do up to this point. I thought he might be on a small to medium pair so I pushed all in hoping he wouldn’t risk most of his stack as a 20-80 if I had an over pair. Well he had J-J and called me after thinking about it some. No help for me and I was out in 9th. When will I learn to control my tilt better and not play up limits when I am losing!!! Well I was pretty pissed at myself for tilting another $20 away. I should have just signed off, but I didn’t want to just yet. I signed up for 2 tables of .25/.50 limit Badugi. I was up $7.50 pretty quickly, but I slowly bled it all back and stepped out when I was back to even. Then I opened up a table of .15/.25 NLH and bought in for $15 only. I haven’t played a ring game of NLH in quite some time and never at this buy-in. It was always at the .01/.02 level or .05/.10 a few times. I just sat at the first table I came across (I know..I know). After one orbit I could tell that not much was happening here and when I looked up my table I was like “WTF..why did I sit here??” I found a juicy table that was running almost 50% to the flop with avg pots of $5.00..now there’s my table!! I quickly sat there for another $15 and was going to jump off the earlier table when the blinds got to me. Before they came around though I picked up Ac-Jc and called a raise of $.75. 2 clubs came on the flop and I wasn’t going anywhere and called another $1.00 raise. Nut flush hit on the turn (doesn’t this sound familiar!! It cost me $10 at the Don earlier tonight). He raised to $2 and I reraised him to $4 and he called me. River was another club so at least I knew I had the nuts (no straight flush draws showing). He raised again and I reraised all in and he quickly called with the 2nd nuts King high flush. Well that was a nice double up I wasn’t expecting at this nitty table. I went ahead and said one more round after that one, but I didn’t connect much and lost another $2.00 before I left the table. The other table really had the chips flying… I was just waiting to get some cards so I could make some money. I finally got K-K and made a few bucks. By this time though a few of the wildcats had gone busto and the table calmed down.. It was getting late so I went ahead and signed off before I could talk myself into signing up for something else. After a huge yo-yo night I ended $7.00 down total. So did manage to recoup a big portion of my tilted $20.80 DON loss. Some day I might learn..but probably not.
Dave
Starting BR: $142
Ending BR: $135