GUKPT Day 2- Who’s the donkey now?
I’m not going to write much today, but everything I do write on this blog will be exactly how it is; there is no point messing around.
I love this game, it creates so much enjoyment and excitement. But boy, can it bring some lows. At the moment, today feel like one of the lowest of the lows. I came back with 60,000 today, and having been eliminated within the first hour and a half, I am absolutely gutted on two counts. Firstly, in this never-ending bad luck that the last 28k went on another damn race, but above all with myself. The first 32k went on an absolutely horrific laydown.
I’ll detail the hand in full in “my 50 worst mistakes,” but basically here it is: I raised to 3,300 with pocket fives, and was re-raised to 8,700 by what looked like a weak player in the big blind. I called, and the board came out Jx8d7×5d3x (I turned a set). I checked the flop and turn behind (as it looked alot like he had ace-high), and bet 11,000 of the guy’s 29,500 stack when it was checked to me on the end. Suddelnly, the guy started shuffling with his chips, as if to raise, and soon went all-in, for his remaining 18,500.
Safe to say, this was far worse news than a flat-call. I think it is true to say that it did not matter what my hand was; I could only beat a bluff. I was faced with one of two unlikely scenarios; either he had not only made a flush on the end, but decided to check it, had played a flopped set very strangely, or had made an incredibly brave bluff. I think my analysis was right that there was no in between hand like AA or two pair.Bizarrely, I might as well have had 66, as I could only beat a bluff.
I eventually decided that it was so unlikely that an amateur would make a stone cold check raise all-in on the river for all his chips as bluff. I was horribly wrong- he triumphantly showed ace-nine high
I’m going to use all my frustrated energy to look into the ins and outs of this hand, but in a way it comes down to just one thing. The key to this hand is actually body language- it should not be possible for an amateur to pull a stone cold bluff for his whole stack, and for me not to be able to pick it up. There is no excuse for this at all- no excuse why I haven’t put more work into this part of the game. And from now on, there will be no excuses- all that today has done is to make me twice as determined to work harder at this beautiful game. One day it will bear fruit.
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