Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Savage Beat Down
So I went to Greektown and took savage beat after beat. I kept my cool, kept plucking away and steadily slid backwards to the tune of $300 playing 3/6 kill Omaha/Holdem Round by Round.
It really sucked. I thought I had the mental make up to readily accept other player's "curious" plays that cost me huge pots. And by "curious", I mean donkish.
However, it really got to me during this session. First, the dealers at GT are ungodly bad. I know it's probably not fair to generalize this broadly; however, there are enough of the bad ones to over-compensate for the few that are mediocre. The dealer's put me on tilt.
Then, there was this one really bad player that went on such a sick run of cards that I started to belive that it was my personal challenge in life to outplay him. When we started playing 5 handed, I was dealt so many naked Aces in position against him in hold'em that I thought the deck must be defective. I lost every hand. He outflopped me hand, after hand, after hand. He single handedly moved about $100 from my stack. Then, I moved tables and lost with a set of Aces vs. a guy who caught a gutter ball despite my uber-agression. Then, I lost my last buyin with AK on a K-10-3 board against a guy holding 8-9.
I'm sick.
But, I'm coming back tonight. I'm a gonna put the smack-down on the Canadians in Oshawa.
It really sucked. I thought I had the mental make up to readily accept other player's "curious" plays that cost me huge pots. And by "curious", I mean donkish.
However, it really got to me during this session. First, the dealers at GT are ungodly bad. I know it's probably not fair to generalize this broadly; however, there are enough of the bad ones to over-compensate for the few that are mediocre. The dealer's put me on tilt.
Then, there was this one really bad player that went on such a sick run of cards that I started to belive that it was my personal challenge in life to outplay him. When we started playing 5 handed, I was dealt so many naked Aces in position against him in hold'em that I thought the deck must be defective. I lost every hand. He outflopped me hand, after hand, after hand. He single handedly moved about $100 from my stack. Then, I moved tables and lost with a set of Aces vs. a guy who caught a gutter ball despite my uber-agression. Then, I lost my last buyin with AK on a K-10-3 board against a guy holding 8-9.
I'm sick.
But, I'm coming back tonight. I'm a gonna put the smack-down on the Canadians in Oshawa.
