Visiting Fish

Only a little time to post this morning. Had a brutal couple of sessions yesterday, including an ultra-fast $15 loss at $1/2 limit. The pathetic thing is that I knew I was playing poorly, and I knew that I should quit... but I didn't. I chased and made a number of bad decisions, including the one big cash loss for the day when I raised on the button with QJ, continuation bet into a Q-high flop, and fired all the way to the river, trying to get the opp to fold, even though I was getting fast smooth calls from a tight-aggressive BB. The opp turned up KQ for the win. Of course. Nine times out of ten I would see this train wreck coming, but when I'm not on my A-game, I might as well have a nametag that says: "I.M. Fish"

And speaking of undersea denizens, I received an email from Bret yesterday about playing against fish. Bret's been running into bad, unpredictable players at the low-dollar SnG's he frequents. Yesterday, he had pocket kings cracked by a loose-goose bozo calling a raise prefop with Q2o. B's comment, which I agree completely with, is that you sometimes just can't around bad players. The thing I only half agree with, though, is when Bret said he's much more comfortable playing good players than bad because they're more predictable. Yes, they're certainly less unpredictable, but I wouldn't call them more predictable (and, yes, I know that sounds like an oxymoronic statement, but the truth is that good players generally play only good hands (preditable) but they're far trickier with them (unpredictable)). In other words, good players are tougher to beat consistently. The bad players will suck out on you occasionally, but in general, their Q2o's won't hold up against your KKs. I'll take those kinds of situations any day over the sharks I ran into yesterday, smooth calling my pitiful bets with their KQ hands.

Okay, with that said, I will leave you with a quote from Bret, our guest blogger for the day: "With lucky fish you might as well stop trying to put them on a hand--and don't even bother thinking they're trying to read you. You really want to take their money, but, damn, sometimes it comes with the hook already attached."

Moneyed in 3 of 8 SnGs yesterday (crashed and burned VERY fast in the five losses).
24-hour Bankroll Change: -3.2%
All-in for now...
-Bug