Little Things Mean So Much

liquid's YTD: $412.45

Started out the night with a bonehead call when my bodacious semi-bluffing 8-outer ran into an obvious set of aces. This hand laid bare an apparent weakness of mine: I cannot resist getting short stacks all-in.

Thereafter, I sobered up and steadily won occasional moderate pots. Nothing spectacular, just deliberate, relatively conservative play as I experimented with various sub-pot-sized bets. What do you know, they work! I'm sure I left money on the table, as I got involved in only two pots bigger than $20, but I'm not greedy. (Yet another hole in my game.)

As for those two larger pots:

First, I drew TAA6 single-suited and got a $20.50 short stack with A3QQ all-in pre-flop. (There I go again!) I won when the board blanked for both of us. Foe said afterwards that he inadvertently re-raised my pre-flop raise when he pushed the wrong button. Been there, pushed that.

Then at the end of my hour-and-a-half stint, I succumbed to "just-one-more-hand" syndrome:

Omaha Hi $0.50-$1 PL (real money), hand #740,xxx,xxx
Table Bacolod, 17 Mar 2005 10:16 PM

Seat 1: MP3 ($50 in chips)
Seat 2: CO ($50.75 in chips)
Seat 3: button ($52.50 in chips)
Seat 4: foe 1 ($40.75 in chips)
Seat 5: BB ($50 in chips)
Seat 6: UTG ($51 in chips)
Seat 7: UTG+1 ($22.50 in chips)
Seat 8: foe 2 ($58 in chips)
Seat 9: MP1 ($30 in chips)
Seat 10: hero [JH,6D,QD,JS] ($87.50 in chips)

ANTES/BLINDS
foe 1 posts blind ($0.25), BB posts blind ($0.50).

PRE-FLOP
UTG folds, UTG+1 folds, foe 2 calls $0.50, MP1 calls $0.50, hero calls $0.50, MP3 folds, CO calls $0.50, button folds, foe 1 calls $0.25, BB checks.

FLOP [board cards 9H,KC,10D ]
foe 1 checks, BB checks, foe 2 checks, MP1 checks, hero bets $2, CO folds, foe 1 calls $2, BB folds, foe calls $2, MP1 folds.

TURN [board cards 9H,KC,10D,6C ]
foe 1 checks, foe 2 checks, hero bets $4, foe 1 calls $4, foe 2 calls $4.

RIVER [board cards 9H,KC,10D,6C,5S ]
foe 1 checks, foe 2 checks, hero bets $2, foe 1 folds, foe 2 bets $11.50, hero calls $9.50.

SHOWDOWN
foe 2 shows [ 5C,KD,8H,KH ]
hero shows [ JH,6D,QD,JS ]
hero wins $42.

SUMMARY
Pot: $44, (including rake: $2)
MP3, loses $0
CO, loses $0.50
button, loses $0
foe 1, loses $6.50
BB, loses $0.50
UTG, loses $0
UTG+1, loses $0
foe 2, loses $18
MP1, loses $0.50
hero, bets $18, collects $42, net $24

Again, the under-bet pays dividends. Yay me.