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Brian Townsend : Poker Blog

June 23, 2009

Last night I had a rough session playing in a short handed live 500/1000 PLO game. In total I lost 363k. In terms of BI's this wasn't a big loss for me but losing about 25% of what I was up for the year in one night wasn't too fun. I thought I played really well and even quit after 10 hours when I felt myself getting tired instead of tilting away the remaining 200k that I have at the bellagio.

The game was really great, probably one of the best I have played all year, with people who sat after they had been out partying. Can't really ask for more than playing 500/1000 with drunk people. I didn't really lose any massive pots just 50k-100k here and there.

In one hand against a drunk player I opened from the button with AK45ss in a four handed game while there was a straddle so I opened to 6k. The drunk big blind called and the two other players folded. The flop was K82r giving me top pair top kicker and a backdoor flush draw. I bet 10k into a 15k pot. He check raised me to about 35 or 40k and I called. Turn was a 2 bringing a flush draw. He checked I bet like 20k into an 90k pot and he called. River was a brick he checked and I checked back to get shown A642. Not a horrible beat or anything, just kinda sucks since I haven't played this large in a few years.

Its funny how losing 363k bothered me. I used to not get to bothered about losing but for some reason losing 25% of my profit on the year really got to me. There was a great game supposed to be running tonight but the thought of the possibility of losing 500k or so just sounds so unappealing to me. My brother is getting married this weekend so I am going to take the weekend off and see how I feel about playing next week when I get back into town.

All that said I really don't regret my decision to play. I was very focused and played well, and the game was amazing. Not much else you can do but put yourself in those good situations.

So today I played some 50/100 HU PLO on fulltilt against a very good aggressive player, I won 50k off of him and 40k overal today. We played for a few hours and I ran very hot. I think I was out played, but ran well above expectation.

Flopping top two vs two pair in a RR pot.

http://weaktight.com/1233383

A big suckout by me.

http://weaktight.com/1233384

A great flop for both of us in a four bet pot.

http://weaktight.com/1233385

Sucking out with aces.

http://weaktight.com/1233386

Running into top two pair.

http://weaktight.com/1233388

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Jun 24, 09 02:42:12

Good One

I like it

rakesh_sharma

Jun 24, 09 02:58:52

Take pride in having played well. Money isn't everything.

ECart

Jun 24, 09 05:36:56

dont other players take % of you when u play these big games?

reallygambling

Jun 24, 09 07:13:29

Heh, was it Ziigmund playing? His target for Vegas trip was to play once totally drunk big cash game so it did not happen by accident or by drunk decision...

Finnish way to do things ;)

Mikodeemus

Jun 24, 09 20:00:39

play tonight and win 500k

C.R.E.A.M

Jun 24, 09 23:48:33

Sorry about the loss. Thanks for being so open about your results though. It really makes me feel better to know other players share similar feelings. gl in future sessions.

ryanhop

Jun 25, 09 01:49:11

"the drunk big blind called".....dying

sillydonkey

Jun 25, 09 11:07:49

I'm curious as all get out how you money manage, because a one session loss is just that, and we've got to be able to handle what, ten or so of those in a row in a really bad run that WILL happen once in awhile despite our best play? And with that we'd probably want to lose no more than what, 1/2 our roll? Which implies you have a \$50M roll...okay probably not at least directly, you have backers? Just speculating and curious here how at these levels money management is handled.

zinc1024

Jun 25, 09 17:48:30

just a down payment on your heater to come, gotta give em something or they won't come back : )

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