No more NL cash!

Played at the rio last night. I had to wait a LONG time for a table, they were only spreading 2 limit games… eventually, I sat at a NL table to kill time. What I learned is that it’s been a long, long time since I played NL cash games, and that my bet sizing is way off. I was raising too much or not enough, and dropped 1.1k pretty quickly. I also got unlucky when a guy hit his five outer on the river to beat me (we would have chopped otherwise, we were all in on the turn on that one).

I got moved to a 10-20 table, dropped a little more cash there, then to a 20-40 table where everything suddenly started going right:

I flop top pair and an open ender, pick up a flush draws on the turn, get raised on the turn, make the flush on the river.

Three bet on the button a late position (hijack) raiser and caller (cut-off)with kj of diamonds, get four bet by the cut-off (!), and flop a jack. He’s all in on the turn… I hit another J on the river… he turns over 2 queens and curses his luck. I didn’t say anything to him about how if he played it correctly I never would have been in the hand.

Raise with AK, flop an ace, get called all the way and win!

Raise with AQ, flop a gutshot wheel draw, turn and ace, river a Q and get called the whole way.

In about 70 min, I won 900… which made the session, while still a loser, not nearly as bad.

No more NL cash!