I wanted to take a second to show you what may be the worst played hand in the history of poker. There is some history between villan and I as we have been playing back and forthe between each other quite a lot, most of the times one or the other of us didnt have shit. When he min raised my flop bet I really though he was full of it, he had done the same thing earlier when i reraised him and flopped a set of aces he folded to the rereraise that time. I really thought I could take it away from him. I have no excuse for calling his allin other than there was a bagillion dollars in the pot and there was a slim chance my overs were good, plus I had the backdoor K high flush. Please berate me to know end as this is the 1st 500bb pot I think I have ever lost. And I did it with A high!

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $2 BB (6 handed) from (Format: Bet The Pot)

saw flop|saw showdown

MP ($362.70)
CO ($214.30)
Button ($467.50)
SB ($214.35)
Hero ($810.80)
UTG ($197)

Preflop: Hero is BB with , .
2 folds, CO raises to $6, Button calls $6, SB calls $5, Hero raises to $36, CO folds, Button calls $30, SB folds.

Flop: ($84) , , (2 players)
Hero bets $75, Button raises to $150, Hero raises to $275, Button raises to $431.5, Hero calls $156.50.

Turn: ($947) (2 players)

River: ($947) (2 players)

Final Pot: $947

Results in white below:
Hero has Ad Ks (high card, ace).
Button has Js As (flush, ace high).
Outcome: Button wins $947.

ohhh that makes my stomach hurt

I think I played better today in the UB $30K tourny than I ever have in a tourny before. I made all the right reads and did everything exactly how I should have. And what do I have to show for it? Busting out 4 spots short of the money. I went from top 10 in chips to out when AK < A9 and then TT < A9 when I made a great call and what looked like a very stong hand that turned out to be a steal. Obv he hit his A on the flop cause that's how I run. I f'n love the structure on UB though.

Hard I will take like $1K of that money u have on there for Stars money or for Cash, that I can give u in Vegas. Let me know.

O.K. so I just had an epiphany. I am not a good cash game player. In fact I'm not even a mediocre cash game player. I tilt way to easily and literally just give money away. So I'm am going to go back to the basics. 20K hands at NL100. If after that 20k hands I'm not at 5PTBB then I play another 20K hands. I am going to start posting a ton in the strategy section and try and get out of this funk that I am in. How bad am I do youi ask. Here is a graph of all my NL $200 hands from Poker Stars (It includes $800 I just tilted off in the last hour):



So I start after dinner with my 20K hands at $100...I am hoping to knock them all out the month, but it may take me a few days of next month since i will be in Vegas some.