The Streak Ends

I got greedy.

Last week I won Sunday through Thursday every day and went back Friday after work before hanging out with my girl. I played pretty tight and secured the $230 win in about two hours.

So I kicked it with my girl and left her house at 6 a.m. Originally I planned to go home, do some laundry, and then hit Hollywood Park for a session and an attempt to capture the rare seven-for-seven week, which is pretty much like hitting for the cycle in baseball.

But instead of staying due west on the 10 freeway, I made a sudden turn onto the 5 south onramp, leading me straight to Commerce Casino.



Bad move.

I got to Commerce and they had three or four $200 NL games running. I sat at one and was waiting for my big blind to start playing when this guy paid someone off with the worst hand ever. He basically had Q-8 offsuit on a board of 5-6-8-10-J and three diamonds and bluffed all-in on the river. Once I saw this, I decided to post just to get in the action and was dealt 5-3 my first hand (already in for the bb). Everyone limped and the flop is 2-4-5. I bet $20, everyone folds to the Q-8 guy and he goes all-in. The pot at this point was like $40. I'm thinking wtf? So I call and he shows KK and I miss the straight. After that I went on to lose $900 in the session. My next buy-in I went all-in preflop with JJ when a guy raised to $25 and the whole table called him so I shoved on the button for $150 only to get four callers and end up with the fourth best hand. AK flopped a K, 6c8c flopped a flush, KQ flopped a king, and Ac4h was the only hand I could beat. My last buy-in I raised with TT, got one caller who I put on a mid pair, flop comes 2-2-3, he checks, I bet $40 to look weak, he shoves, I call, he shows 99 and turns a 9. Like a guy told me, it just wasn't my day.

Unfortunately I could have avoided all of that if I had just stayed on the 10 west.

I went to Hollywood Park later that day and again got incredibly unlucky getting my set hit by a gut-shot and my two pair counterfeited. Also flopping trips with a higher kicker only to get felted when the other guy turned his full house. Luckily in this session I only lost $200 and left.

So overall for the weekend I went +230, -900, -200.

After last week's winnings, paying off some bills, and the loan check, my bankroll is now at $4300. I'm going to put $900 aside for some other expenses and that will leave me at $3400 going into tonight's session.

4years.