All Good - Except for That One Stacking...
I have been playing quite a lot at some small obscure sites recently. Tropical Poker, Wingows Poker , Jungle Poker, etc... Also at Absolute Poker. I have been finding some tables there that are looser than normal. Playing mostly micro-limit NL at the smaller sites. That's all they have available for the most part. I can get a .25/.50 NL game from time to itme, but usually its smaller stakes than that. Anything goes at Absolute. They have enough traffic and I can play comforatbly up to $5/10 limit.
I have been tearing it up. I have been single tabling. I really think my poker play has been excellent, and my cards have been running above average also. I have been very satisfied for a while. And I have been up about $400 as a result.
I did get stacked for $120 at an Absolute $1/2 NL table last weekend, though. I was playing after a night out with my neighbor Bubba (which involved several bottles of wine, of course.) Probably not my best choice, going to a $200 NL table with a snoot full, but it looked like the loosest table going at Absolute, so I took it.
There was one player who was being very aggressive. He was making big raises quite often, and stealing lots of small pots. I was waiting for my opportunity to get him. He limped into a hand from EP, and this sent some warning signals off - he never limps. With several callers I limped from MP3 with 43s. 5 of us saw the flop. 334. He bet out $1 and I smooth called. 3 of us saw the turn A. He bet the pot and I raised. He called. River was a blank and he bet. I raised and he re-raised me all in. I called and he showed pocket AA. He had turned a bigger boat and got me!
I am not unhappy that I slow-played this and got outdrawn. I think a flopped boat is a decent slow-playing hand. Even a mini-boat like mine. It was a bummer to get stacked, of course, but doo doo happens. Had this happened when I was in a slump, I might have a different opinion, but I had been running well, so it bugs me less. Strange thing that, eh?