random AC night trip part 2

Holdem results ($2/$4 LHE) session 1
Time played today: 4 hours or so
Results today (green=win; red=loss): -$50
Location: Taj Mahal
Holdem winnings (Atl City) 2007: +$ 453.00

Holdem results ($1/$2 NLHE) session 1
Time played today: 1 hours or so
Results today (green=win; red=loss): -$300.00
Location: Taj Mahal
Holdem winnings (Atl City) 2007: +$ 203.00

Simply disgusting.

i probably played the worst poker of my life this night. I am writing this out of memory of a trip I went with Fabio and Fish about a month ago I would say. We randomly decided to hit up AC again, and I was eager to make some cash. I just ended up playing scared and dumb, and completely predictable.

i should have listened to my instincts and touched up more on some poker reading material before I went down to AC again. Even though all my sessions at AC were winning sessions up until this night, I knew I was in a slip, playing passive and not really utilizing my assets that I had studied before. I had wanted to read up and re-establish my skill set before heading to AC but in the heat of the moment I decided to just say fuck it and head down without addressing these needs.

basically at the limit table I was playing like a little bitch, not raising much..but when the few times I did raise I would play so damn predictable that I would take down small pots, and then invest too much in drawing hands, which is a probably the most common mistake in limit. after a couple of hours, I was sitting at -$50 and decided to switch to the NLHE tables..

in less than maybe 15 hands I lost my entire stack in one hand.

dealt to me: AKo
dealt to villian: 10 2 o

action:

i was UTG and i made the raise from $2 to $12
2 folds
villian calls $12
small blind calls $12

flop:

A K 10

small blind checks
I bet out $35
villain calls
small blind folds

turn:

A K 10 8

i bet out $55
villian thinks for a minute and then calls

river:

A K 10 8 10


I bet out all-in
villain hesitates for awhile and then calls.

i lost $250 in that hand and it fucking sucked.



I'm on a break from poker, in a sense that I don't have the income to comfortably play at the level I want to, and with having a job, my clinical research design class, and other shit I want to accomplish this summer, there is no way I can dedicate enough time to be where i want to be.

poker in general has taken a back-seat in my list to-do