Cooling my heels....

Cooling my heels....

Well it's been a while since my last entry, and now I'm making it I'm not sure what I have to add. My play since has been mostly hit-and-miss, but I feel that I am making progress overall. I continue to sustain losses from what I feel are too frequent bad beats, and occasionally making a bad call or read. That said, my aggression is much more controlled and informative; I am respecting re-raises and strong bets far more than I have been of late, and I am no longer trying to bully the tables. I think I'm still losing too much with TPTK against the overpair on re-raised preflop pots, but am slowly working out how best to minimise losses in such situations.
My plan is still to keep my game small and focussed until my bankroll has been restored to 10k and then try playing 2-4 seriously again. If that proves successful (as it once was) that may lead to a very gradual build-up to the 3-6 tables again (but this time I'll wait until I get to 20k when I can better afford the vicious swings I've experienced first hand). Wanted to post an example of a hand where fortune was against me, but was lucky enough to get it checked down (and thus not lose any more money than I had already invested). Very very rarely does the under full-house collapse, but when it does it sure does suck; would have loved to stack 2 players in one hand!

Table Name Hand ID Game Stakes
Fantastic Four 10475498-97573 Holdem No Limit $2/$4
[Jan 6 15:44:26] : Hand Start.
[Jan 6 15:44:26] : Seat 1 : fighting5th has $39.25
[Jan 6 15:44:26] : Seat 2 : Sub_Zero has $466.50
[Jan 6 15:44:26] : Seat 3 : ice025 has $123.25
[Jan 6 15:44:26] : Seat 4 : shettapants has $83.50
[Jan 6 15:44:26] : Seat 5 : thebunster1 has $421.97
[Jan 6 15:44:26] : Seat 6 : pdr507 has $140.93
[Jan 6 15:44:26] : fighting5th is the dealer.
[Jan 6 15:44:29] : Sub_Zero posted small blind.
[Jan 6 15:44:29] : ice025 posted big blind.
[Jan 6 15:44:29] : Game [97573] started with 6 players.
[Jan 6 15:44:29] : Dealing Hole Cards.
[Jan 6 15:44:29] : Seat 2 : Sub_Zero has 2h 2s
[Jan 6 15:44:31] : shettapants folded.
[Jan 6 15:44:32] : thebunster1 folded.
[Jan 6 15:44:34] : pdr507 folded.
[Jan 6 15:44:38] : fighting5th called $4 and raised $8
[Jan 6 15:44:52] : It's your turn.
[Jan 6 15:44:52] : Sub_Zero has 10 seconds to respond.
[Jan 6 15:44:58] : Sub_Zero called $10
[Jan 6 15:44:59] : ice025 called $8
[Jan 6 15:44:59] : Dealing flop.
[Jan 6 15:44:59] : Board cards [2d 4s 4h]
[Jan 6 15:45:06] : Sub_Zero checked.
[Jan 6 15:45:08] : ice025 bet $8
[Jan 6 15:45:11] : fighting5th called $8 and raised $19.25 and is All-in
[Jan 6 15:45:16] : Sub_Zero called $27.25
[Jan 6 15:45:18] : ice025 called $19.25
[Jan 6 15:45:18] : Dealing turn.
[Jan 6 15:45:18] : Board cards [2d 4s 4h 4c]
[Jan 6 15:45:24] : Sub_Zero checked.
[Jan 6 15:45:26] : ice025 checked.
[Jan 6 15:45:27] : Dealing river.
[Jan 6 15:45:27] : Board cards [2d 4s 4h 4c 5c]
[Jan 6 15:45:29] : Sub_Zero checked.
[Jan 6 15:45:32] : ice025 checked.
[Jan 6 15:45:34] : Showdown!
[Jan 6 15:45:35] : Seat 2 : Sub_Zero has 2h 2s
[Jan 6 15:45:35] : Sub_Zero has Full House : 4s full of 2s
[Jan 6 15:45:35] : Seat 3 : ice025 has Td Tc
[Jan 6 15:45:35] : ice025 has Full House : 4s full of 10s
[Jan 6 15:45:35] : ice025 wins $114.75 with Full House : 4s full of 10s (10 kicker)
[Jan 6 15:45:45] : Hand is over.