Note to self: when I have pocket Aces or Kings, and I can't get all the money into the middle of the table preflop.... slow the f* down after the flop. For some reason, I can't seem to remember this little rule. Tonight I proved once again I should be held back a poker grade.
Was playing two tables of $10NL tonight when I picked up KK on the button in one of them. Mid-position semi-loose player min-raises. I make it 4x his bet and get two callers, including the original raiser. We get a fairly dry flop of 8-5-2 rainbow. Check, check to me, so I raise 2/3 pot, get smoothed by one guy and then shoved on by the other. Instead of slowing down and thinking things through, I insta-call only to have the other player to reshove on me. At this point I'm sure I'm beat, but it's just one dollar (my final one out of my original $10) to make the crying call. Min-raiser turns over JJ, but the other guy has 88 for a set. Ten bucks down the drain, just like that. Arhghg.
I don't know if I could have gotten off the Kings if there had been just one other player I was up against, but against two opp, I should have just folded. The smooth calls before the flop usually mean middle pairs, and the shove and reshove on the flop almost always mean at least one guy has a set. Sure, one player could have been semi-bluffing, but two? Not likely.
This all comes on the heels of my earning $11 earlier in limit today. I was feeling pretty good about that session, but after giving nearly all my winnings back on this one boneheaded play tonight, I'm not too happy again. When will this dry spell end? When will I ever learn?
All-in for now....
-Bug
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