While I am currently in the black by about $500, it is not because of my cash play in Weatherford. I have struggled to make a profit at my regular game. Last night was a frustrating session. After being knocked out early in the tournament, we started the cash game four-handed and in the first hand I was dealt pocket queens. After the first two players limped in, the small blind raised it to $13. I re-raised in the big blind and made it $40. That was a little on the large side, but I wanted to get it heads up with just me and the small blind. The pot had $86.
The other two folded and the small blind called. The flop was 5-7-8 with two hearts. The small blind checked and I did a down bet of $30. The flop was certainly more in the caller's range, as he could have hit a set or had a pair with a straight draw. I decided to maintain control, but keep the pot manageable. He called my $30. The pot now had $146.
The turn was a black king. I had $130 remaining in my stack. The small blind again checked. This is probably where I screwed up, but I didn't want to give a free card. I bet $50. The small blind didn't take long to check-raise it all in. We both started with the same $200, so his all in was my all in as well.
I no longer had top pair, but I was more concerned about two pair or a set than him holding a king. I rushed my decision and made the crying call with my queens. He showed ace-king for top pair. I didn't hit my miracle card and was down $200 in one hand. I haven't done that in a while, but it is always frustrating.
After rebuying for another $200, I built that up to $550 and was back in the black after flopping a small flush draw with bottom pair and then turning three of a kind. All the money went in on the river when the flush didn't complete. It was against the same player who had busted my queens, and he was holding aces and had played them a little slow, electing not to three bet after a player ahead of him had raised. Had he re-raised the original bet, I would have let go of my 7-5 of spades and never seen the flop. As it turns out, all of us hit a piece of the flop and the pot became inflated, which is how I turned my $200 into $550.
Unfortunately I didn't maintain that chip stack and things got progressively worse from there. It was one of those nights that you have good hands, but they always end up being second place. At one point I flopped an open-ended straight draw with pocket sevens, but lost to pocket kings after running two turns and rivers. I also lost a hand of Texaha when I flopped a straight with my Omaha hand and the nut flush draw with my Texas Hold'em hand. The river paired the board and I lost to a full house and didn't hit the flush.
At one point I pulled a classic tilted Matt and pushed for $90 pre-flop with ace-rag and called called by ace-queen. It was just a frustrating time and I have to realize that the Weatherford game is no longer going to be a game that plays until two or three in the morning. I am only going to get about three hours of the cash game and once I am up I need to just maintain that lead and not take unnecessary risks.
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