Epic

Sometimes you win small in cash games and sometimes you lose big.  Yesterday's game was fairly epic.  It started fine, playing tight and winning.  At my peak probably doubled my buy in.  And then the wheels fell off.   Lost hand after hand, including 3 full houses.  The players were "T" in the 1 seat, an aggressive good player particularly when he is winning like yesterday.  Seat2 was "V", a very tight Asian player who only bets or calls with the nuts.  Easy to play against.  Seat 3 was a loose regular who is usually lucky.  Seat 4, "V", sporadic player who runs very hot or very cold.  He was running hot.  Seat 5 had turnover with an older lady who I played no limit 1/3 against recently.  She was a very marginal player.  She left down and gave her seat to "pretty boy", one of my least favorite people.  He buys light and plays every hand.  Seat 6 was "J" whose favorite seat happens to be mine too.  We race to get here early to lock it.  I "won" unfortunately.  Seat 7 was a jovial regular "M".  He plays well and is fun to have at the table except for when he takes your chips like yesterday.  Seat 8 was occupied by one of my favorite poker buddies, "B", who admittedly loses nearly always.  I have talked to him about the need to play fewer hands but he refuses to do so.  He suffered a larger loss than me.  I was in seat 9, my favorite.

The hand that really tilted me was a button straddle hand from seat 1.  He was straddling a lot and winning, so in the cutoff I folded 4S/5S/7x/9S as I suspected it would be 3 bet and frankly, while playable with 6 or 7 callers in late position it is a weak hand.  Nonetheless I would have played it for $4 or even 8 with multiple callers but folded wisely I thought when he raised and it got re-raised and capped at $20.  The flop came down 6S/7S/x, giving me the open ended straight flush draw.  The turn brought the 8S, giving me the 9 high straight flush in a gianormous pot, and also a $150 high hand bonus. Unbelievable.  The $20 fold cost me $300+. Made some other bad folds like top set on a straight and flush board, and bad low hands that would have won. That said also made some good laydowns that others would have called.  Comes with the territory in omaha 8B, but sometimes the fold costs you the pot.  Not sure if it all comes out in the wash or not.

The only bright spots were winning a high hand with a pair of 4's against 2 players, and collecting one high hand with aces full of kings.  Despite this, big loss and a dreaded trip to visit "Adam", or the ATM.  Better luck next time I say.

P.s.  congrats to Dewey for Wildhorse cash.  Would have liked to have gone but the stars did not properly align this year.