Ok, so is this tilt, part tilt or just a cold deck?
I’m sorry if this post is a little long, but please stay with me and see if you can recognise what just happened to me.
Some background. The 50p/£1 game at DTD. Table banter is good and most of the players are out to have fun. There are a couple of beginners at the table, one of whom is sat to my left who has already said and done a number of things that suggest he is new to the game.
I have just made a tit of myself in the following manner - After 3-betting on the button with AKs and having my c-bet min-check-raised on the flop and then calling with plenty of outs (10) with the odds to improve, I do the weirdest thing. My opponent checks to me and I announce “Ace high” and turn my cards over. There is an awkward moment when everyone goes “wtf!?” and the dealer (Cold Deck Chris) explains rather sarcastically that we have yet to see the river. Shit the bed, what the hell have I just done - and why?!!
The hand is declared live but I can’t raise. The guy leads out on the river and I pass and he is kind enough to show that he had indeed hit top pair and that I was losing anyway. It has cost me £45 that pot, but mostly I just feel a bit of a tit. I can’t explain why I did it, other than my thought process was that he had top pair and that I had the odds to improve so had already mentally conceded the pot if I didn‘t hit. But I’ve only played a zillion hands of Hold’em so I’m pretty sure I knew about this thing called the river. Oh, and I’m as sober as a judge and not particularly tired either.
Bizarre. I try to make light of it, but deep inside I’m wondering if I’m losing it. This is further compounded a few hands later when I make a comment about a hand I’m not involved in. The guy to my left takes a while to call a fairly obvious river bluff. When he tables his cards I say that he must call with the straight there, to which he replies “I don’t have a straight, just a pair of eights”. I double take the board and he is right. Oh my god, I really must be losing it.
Anyway, enough background, although I must mention it because I don’t know precisely how significant it is.
I now get a three hand whammy. These hands happened one after the other, literally, and in the space of three hands I lost two buy ins (£200).
First hand. In the small blind. Limp city, about six in all. I have
I have been 3-betting from here recently and getting into all sorts of shit (see my post two days ago) so this time, given my terrible position, I decide to join the limp fest.
The flop is
I check. UTG (the beginner) leads out for £11. It’s folded to me and I check raise to £35. He calls.
Turn is
He leads again for £40. Would he do that with an 8? Probably not. He limped under the gun so his most likely holding is a weaker queen. If I was ahead on the flop, I am still ahead. I only have £53 behind, so it’s pass or stick it all in. I stick it all in. He calls with a flopped set and turned full house (QQ).
I am so used to people raising with QQ that I never saw this coming.
Second hand.
Top up to £100. On the button with
Two limpers. I raise to £5 and sarcastically say “tilt raise”. Guy across the table, who has played with me many times before, says “you are the least likely player I know to tilt”.
Anyway, the SB calls, as does a calling station lady who has just sat down. Now £18 in the pot.
Flop is
SB leads out for £12. Calling station passes. I don’t like it much but he either has hit the board or is pushing a flush draw, with the former being the most likely. I have position and decide to peel one off and bet the turn if he checks to me, as I feel I may get him to pass a weak Jack if I bet once more. This is what happens. Turn is
. I bet just under the pot. Then to my horror I see (after my bet) that the ten has completed the very flush that he may have been pushing. A sure sign that my brain is quite possibly fooked. Anyway he dwells for ages. He says I can’t have the flush because I wouldn’t lead out. He says I might have KQ. He has £55 left so for him it is pass or shove. He shoves, now I know he has the Jack. I have to call, it’s only another £25. I blank on the river and he shows
Player says my comment "tilt raise" meant he had to call.
Third and final hand
My head is probably not in a good place. However, I have about £40 left and decide to just play for another 20 minutes and just shove in a premium hand should I get it, in the hope that it will look like tilt - and if I don’t get such a hand in the next 20 minutes then I will just go home.
I am in the cutoff, and get
I chuck in a fiver as an opening raise and then realise pretty soon that I din’t announce it. Oh, ffs. I don’t let on that I meant to raise.
Flop is
Checked to me, I bet £4
Two callers, a kid who I stacked the other day with a nice bluff catch and the calling station.
Turn is
Checked round.
River is
Kid leads out for £20 or so, I chuck the rest in with my trip jacks (about £35) and he insta calls.
He has
for the straight.
I get up and go over to another table to take some immediate notes so that I can try and ascertain how much of this is tilt, how much is poor play and how much of it is just the deck hitting me in the face.
I go home in a zombie like state. I feel like a golfer who was cruising along under par and who then suddenly runs up a 10 on a par three. (Lol, this has happened to me as well..)
Anyway, your comments please.
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