Tilting

I've learned now that when I'm playing, it's best NOT to have anything else going - TV, e-mail, anything.

Last night, I'm playing in the Mookie, and I've moved up to about 17th of 69 starters. I'm fairly focused, making moves when I need to, and avoiding big confrontations and committing myself too badly in any spot. Doing better than the previous couple of outings.

I get an e-mail notification. It's from a company I interviewed with on Friday, who I can now name....Accenture. I'd interviewed about a support role with them Friday and had thought it had gone quite well.

Apparently not. I got a form letter e-mail notifying me that I was not going to be offered the position after all, after I'd thought I was in pretty good shape to get it.

Well, after that, I started to not play so well, and donked out in 42nd of 69. I made a couple of raises out of position with medium pairs, and committed myself too much in hands I should have tried to see cheaply. By the time I had to push all in, I only had an M of 4 so I have to push in the blind and hope. Unfortunately, I'll probably get called with anything - and the A-9 held up to knock me out.

I also tried a Sit and Go - bounced in 4th, but again, not playing clearly.

I finally sat down at a Cap NL game, at a micro-limit table. I'm not playing anything higher in my frame of mind.

Which is too bad, considering the hand that went down:

Full Tilt Poker Game #2240158334: Table Asbury (6 max) - $0.05/$0.10 - $3 Cap No Limit Hold'em - 1:07:15 ET - 2007/04/19
Seat 1: thatoneguy0999 ($14.10)
Seat 2: APOSEC72 ($9)
Seat 3: Str8Whiskey ($4.95)
Seat 5: slaveinacubical ($3.10)
APOSEC72 posts the small blind of $0.05
Str8Whiskey posts the big blind of $0.10
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to APOSEC72 [7c 9c]
slaveinacubical folds
slaveinacubical is feeling confused
thatoneguy0999 calls $0.10
APOSEC72 calls $0.05 (From the SB, sure.....besides, it's SOOOOOOOTED)
Str8Whiskey checks
*** FLOP *** [3d 6d 8c]
APOSEC72 bets $0.40 (Open-ended straight draw)
Str8Whiskey folds
thatoneguy0999 calls $0.40
*** TURN *** [3d 6d 8c] [Tc]
APOSEC72 checks (Check the nut straight, with a flush draw, want to keep him in the pot)
thatoneguy0999 bets $0.50 (guess the ten helped you a little - not enough, though)
Dublk sits down
Dublk adds $6
APOSEC72 calls $0.50
*** RIVER *** [3d 6d 8c Tc] [Jc]
APOSEC72 checks (Checking the straight flush)
thatoneguy0999 bets $1.50 (Gotcha!)
APOSEC72 raises to $2, and is capped
thatoneguy0999 calls $0.50, and is capped
*** SHOW DOWN ***
APOSEC72 shows [7c 9c] (a straight flush, Jack high)
thatoneguy0999 mucks
APOSEC72 wins the pot ($5.50) with a straight flush, Jack high
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $6.10 Rake $0.60
Board: [3d 6d 8c Tc Jc]
Seat 1: thatoneguy0999 (button) mucked [8h Td] - two pair, Tens and Eights
Seat 2: APOSEC72 (small blind) showed [7c 9c] and won ($5.50) with a straight flush, Jack high
Seat 3: Str8Whiskey (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 5: slaveinacubical didn't bet (folded)

So he calls my flop bet with top pair, bets out with top two pair, but after I call and then check, he bets big to take it. He almost played it perfectly to lose the minimum until the river. Given how he bet the turn, I thought he would fire one out on the river if I just called the turn bet and I could get the max - which is what happened, since he thought he was ahead with his two pair.

Getting a read online.........too bad the rest of that session didn't go as well. Other players came in and knocked me around a bit. But, hey, you don't get a straight flush too often.

Hopefully, tonight will be better overall: