+$417 in 9.5 hours today. A decent win but a little disgusting since we were up as much as $1,263. Run bad and one major mistake cost us.
It should've been +$797 and here's why.
We have pocket aces in late position and a pretty good tight aggressive opponent makes it $15. I had noticed he was doing this on prior hands with suited connectors. One caller before me, and I make it $65. Both players call (no one else).
The flop comes Q88 rainbow and first to act, I make it $100. The original raiser casually bumps it up to $200 and the other guy folds.
The turn is a brick, I check, he shoves in his remaining $280 and I snap call. He has 78 suited and he wins the pot.
Now, to me, this is brain dead poker because I knew he was good and either had QQ or an 8. I gifted him $380.
Now if we take a look at recent weeks, I have been doing brain dead shit when significant money is on the line and I have big hands, be it the set of jacks that were obviously flushed out on a few weeks ago (estimated at a $600 fuck up), the mucked quads (estimated at $2,500), and this $380 stupid moment.
That is $3,480 that I SHOULD have without these brain dead moments, and think of how much I'd be up the past couple months, only playing weekends, without these blunders.
In an effort to minimize these unacceptable mistakes and hold myself accountable I will be tracking them and explaining them from here on out. When I used to play full time I used to keep track of any little of what I considered a mistake, and what my hourly wage would be without those mistakes, but I won't go into all that here. I'll just keep track of them, moving on from the set of jacks and the mucked quads (for the sake of my sanity). We start with the $380 obviously defeated aces blunder from tonight
A win is a win I guess, about as disgusting as winning $417 can be imo.
Regardless, it sure beats a loss.
We qualified for a free roll tomorrow for top 100 in hours and the top prize is $10k, so let's see what we can do in that. Nice promo.
Up to date:
68.25 hours
-$69
-$1.01/hr
$380 in mistakes
Hope everyone's doing well.