Slobberknocked

So like I said, I ran like the Jesus until 1 hour into my session yesterday, at which point I was up about $1000 for the day. At that point I looked at my stack and said to myself "Self, this is the point where the hobbyist picks up his chips and calls it a day. You, however, are not a hobbyist, so you must carry on the good fight." And fight I did.

Over the next 6 hours or so of 20/40, I slowly but surely lost a rack and a half (700). At some point I decided to put myself back up on the 40/80 list because the game looked good and I have been promising myself I'll shoot at that game more. So at 5:30 when I got called for the game, I looked at my chips and again spoke to myself..."Self, there is no shame in going home. You're up a few hundred, a fine and respectable sum, and calling it in would be fine. But you're a professional, you're playing well, and that game looks very snuggly. Make it so." So I sit in the 40/80 for less than 60 minutes and proceed to lose about 1800 dollars. Just like...wham, bam, thank you m'aam and that was that. I didn't win a single pot...of note:

I had KJo or KJs in pretty early position 3 times. I raise it and got my ass kicked, all 3 times.

I flopped top set of Jacks...no good.

I flopped an open ended straight draw with KTs on a board of QJ8. The turn was another Jack, putting up two of my suit for good measure. The other two hands in the pot were AJ and 88. Let's just say that one wasn't cheap.

So at 6:30 I picked up, licking my wounds, and drove home. Today I returned for another bludgeoning, losing 1400+ in about 5.5 hours. I made a few mistakes and called down Gordan (the regular prop) a little light a few times....my previous experience with Gordan was that he was kind of spewy and laggy...today he proved himself to be a super nit, failing to extract even close to max value with things like second set turned second boat (twice), or even top set on the river on what was a scary but still eminently bettable board heads up. The total carnage from the 1 hour mark of my session yesterday: -$4000. Ouch.

The only bright spot of today was watching Yodaman win 6 racks in the 20/40 game. It was beautiful. The only way it could have been more beautiful was if I'd had 50% of his action :)