Crawling Back

Not that anyone really reads this but if you do you'll notice that it's been about three weeks since my last post. The reason is nothing but embarrasement. I became the definition of a donkey. I lost about $150 getting hit in the face and then I did the worst thing I could possibly do. I tried to win it all back by raising up in levels. The deck continued to crush me and now I lost that much more money because of the higher stakes. All in all I dropped about $600+ in 2-3 days.

So I had $1000 sitting in neteller and $50 in rakeback on Battlefield. I cashed the $50 out and decided to do what I could with that. It's taken me three weeks but I've made about $700 back bringing me close to where I was before. Lesson learned...I hope.

One nice boost to my bankroll happened a couple nights ago in a $15 multi on Battlefield. I made the final table as the short stack but ended up taking the chip lead with four left. It was then that I took a huge hit on a perfect hand for the other guy. Here is the hand.

Me 99 in the BB.
He raised twice the BB on the button and I call

Flop is A9x - not wanting to scare him away I check and he checks.

Turn A

I check again and he checks

River X

I make a small bet assuming he has nothing just hoping to just maybe get a call. It's then that he makes a huge raise on me. I was a little confused by this becuase we are getting close to the big money and I didn't think he'd risk that much of his stack on a bluff. I push the rest of my money and he calls me immediately. Turns out he was holding A9. I had him on the flop but then it was all his on the turn. That's poker. AAA99 vs. 999AA. So I go from 1st with 85k to 4th with 30k and am never able to move up again. I ended up taking 4th for $240.

Lately I've been playing shorthanded 2/4 limit. It's been working well for me. Not sure if I've got a good strategy down or not. Time will tell. I think I might play that same tourney tonight at 10:00 on Battlefield. My name is funkytown.

Bankroll $1575