Tonight started out with a great run. I sit down and notice that I’ve got notes exported on half the table. Wow! This is yet another difference between 50/1 and 1/2, you actually see some of the same people again. I wait for my BB and I get QQ. Nice! I raise it as much as I can and pull down a 13BB pot on my first hand. Things are looking good! I got another couple decent hands and am up 10BB or so within the first 2 orbits.
Then I forgot about the raise button.
I get dealt
Party Poker 1/2 Hold’em (10 handed) [url=http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi]converter[/url]
[b]Preflop:[/b] Hero is UTG+1 with A:diamond:, Q:diamond:. MP2 posts a blind of $1.
UTG folds, Hero calls, UTG+2 folds, MP1 folds, MP2 (poster) checks, MP3 folds, CO calls, Button folds, SB completes, BB checks.
[b]Flop:[/b] (5 SB) 6:heart:, K:diamond:, 6:diamond: [color:blue](5 players) [/color]
[color:#CC3333]SB bets[/color], BB folds, Hero calls, MP2 folds, CO folds.
[b]Turn:[/b] (3.50 BB) 8:diamond: [color:blue](2 players) [/color]
[color:#CC3333]SB bets[/color], Hero calls.
[b]River:[/b] (5.50 BB) J:spade: [color:blue](2 players) [/color]
[color:#CC3333]SB bets[/color], [color:#CC3333]Hero raises[/color], [color:#CC3333]SB 3-bets[/color], [color:#CC3333]Hero caps[/color], SB calls.
[b]Final Pot:[/b] 13.50 BB
[color:#990066]Main Pot: 13.50 BB, between SB and Hero.[/color] > Pot won by SB (13.50 BB).
Results below:
SB shows 6c 8s (full house, sixes full of eights).
Hero shows Ad Qd (flush, ace high).
Outcome: SB wins 13.50 BB.
I’m kinda thinkin’ that if I had raised, SB may have folded. Of course, this is Party, so who knows (I wouldn’t complete this SB). I had no notes on this guy, and he had just recently sat down (this was his 2nd hand). I probably didn’t play this totally right in other respects (I probably should have raised the flop and the turn, this time it saved me on the turn, but in the long run it will cost me, it was a bit of FPS), but by not making the pre-flop raise I essentially gave him a free card, or in this case, two, to make his trips.
Lesson of the day then is to raise it up. This was an obvious on and I totally blew it. Of course, after that I got jack for cards for about 45 mins, then got AA and KK back to back. Didn’t win with either of course. I think the action flops, the bots and the pattern matching got me on those though. 
A bit later I got the exact same AQ, I raised it and got nothing on the flop. The poker gods were angry and decided to show me that I made a mistake. As if I needed reminding.
So, the moral of the story is that one should raise premium hands and don’t go on tilt after realizing that you made a terrible mistake. Basically, my play that had been pretty solid over the last couple days went into the toilet tonight. I won a couple decent hands right away, got cocky, then got pissed after losing with the AQs. If that’s not tilt I don’t know what is. Tomorrow is another day. I’ll be back and I’ll have learned something in the meantime.
The dreaded flush vs. the boat. I actually prefer to limp and reraise with AQs and AKs, since they are easy to fold on the flop if you don’t hit, and can win you a lot of money if they do. So I wouldn’t feel too bad about calling.
Sounds like the $1-2 games are treating you better (at least you’re enjoying them more) than the 50-1.
Ya, maybe it was because mine actually hit and the other guy limped in (completed his SB) with an offsuit one gapper and the proceeded to catch a boat. Like I said, it’s Party, so he may have come in with a raise anyway.
Ya, 1/2 is much more fun. Now if I get a couple more winning sessions I’ll be happier.
The big thing is that I feel I’m learning things and the play is actually “real”.
D’oh! AQ is one of my trouble hands… like Hank said, I’d limp in or reraise (if there is another limper) with it.
I don’t know that I’d limp in with AQs. AQo, in early position, I think it’s alright. Then again, I may be a little too attached to it, because it wins more than it should for me. According to Poker Tracker, my winning percentage with it is between AA and KK (AKs is way down below TT). I guess 16k hands just isn’t enough.
You link to something by Izmet but don’t automatically raise w/ AQs? Go read your S&M and stop playing like a frightened girl.
Ouch, no one is harsh. Good thing I don’t have comment capabilities on my blog.
No doubt. I even admit I screwed it up. Thankfully I can delete the comments