pretty gross night

incredibly ugly night honestly. started out with some .10/.20 HU plo. someone was sitting with half a buyin, so i sit with a full buyin and the match begins. first hand, flopped the nut straight on a rainbow board, we end up all in on the turn, board pairs on the riv and he tables top set for the house.

ok thats cool.

i rebuy and lose a handful more races, end up with about 3.50 of the 2nd 20$ buyin left, when i basically crank up the aggression PF and c-bet pretty much every single flop, as i notice he is playing absolutely any 4 cards for any amount PF. this strategy works, quite well, and simply through stealing blinds and C-betting indiscriminately i work my way up to about 12$. i eventually take the chip lead by potting draw heavy boards then firing a third barrel when no 3 flush appears.

this combined with my absurd aggression factor pays off, as shortly after taking the chip lead we end up getting it all in the middle PF.

i held KKxx single suited (hearts). flop was KcTc4s, turn was a Qc (uh oh) and river was a 6h or something similarly brickish.

he tabled KdTd9d3s. just complete garbage. lucky i didnt have aces tho.

anyway despite felting him, i was still down 6$ due to rake, which is really unacceptable. basically we paid about 16$ in rake for maybe 45 minutes of play. thats outrageous. thats almost a full buyin. even with 33% rakeback (thank christ), its almost impossible to be profitable with that much money leaving the table so quickly.

i really need to figure out what the smallest stakes i can play are that provide reasonable rake-to-profit ratios, which is unfortunate since according to standard bankroll theory, i cant afford to play them!

still and all id rather go busto from playing too high than go busto from paying the house a full buyin an hour. there is no profit in that equation, none. at best i break even.

anyway, i decided to play some 6 handed 2/4 LHE as the game was luridly juicy. no one was giving a fuck about prehand selection, and thats basically how i lost half my roll in about an hour.

example:

TT on the button, 4 limpers then the CO raises. i RR, and get 3 callers. CO caps, *and we see the flop 5 handed*.

KsQsTc. jesus christ. check check then seat 5 bets, CO raises, i RR, 2 folds, seat 5 caps, CO calls.

turn is a Jd. greeeeeeat. incredibly, it gets checked to me. i bet and get called *everywhere*, river is an Ad.

seat 5 bets. CO and i call, seat 5 tables 9d5d.

it just got worse from there. people were opening UTG with 35o, calling my RR in LP with AKo, and the flop would be A24 rainbow.

the final straw for me was when i opened in LP with Ac6c against a few limpers. flop was T77, one club. check to me, i bet, 2 callers. turn is a Qc. i bet, 2 callers. river is a 3c, check to me, i bet, i get RR by seat 6, i tilt-RR obv, call the cap, and get shown Q7 for the house.

at this point i left the table.

with rakeback i was down to about 135$ at this point (plus my silva wager which may or may not bear fruit).

i decide that its time to either double up leave myself just enough to play a nightly MTT or two, so i sit at 1/2 NLHE with half a buyin.

i go completely card dead for about 25 minutes, occasionally thieving blinds to stay even, when i defend the BB against what was almost certainly a positional steal with J9o.

flop is 579, 2 spades, i check. LP donks a pot size bet, i shove. LP tanks for maybe 15 seconds then calls. turn 7, riv 9, and im back to even.

LP suggests he had an over pair, and 'got primad'. i suspect hes telling the truth but he could just as easily had a 7 or AK.

anyway, fucking nerve wracking experience over all.

with rakeback im at +225. so down about 20$ last night.

tonight i think im going to try some HU plo at .25/.50 and see how badly rake impacts winrate.

kinda sucks tho because im not comfortable stacking off when its just under a quarter of my roll, but im going to have to adapt and deal with it if i expect to be profitable overall.

if all goes well and silva comes through, i *should* be up to about a grand this weekend, which would allow me to do full buyins at .50/1 HU PLO and NLHE, which i think is a very profitable target range for me.