I can't frickin believe it, I did it again. Playing in a Satty to the Stars Sunday 100K tourney and I am what I feel is safe but still have a small amount of apprehension as to whether I am good or not. I am dealt AA from the bb and my opponent in the co+1 goes all in. There are 9 more to go out and I have just under 5K in chips. It is only after I call his shove which he had me covered by about 200 chips that I say to myself I am a dumb ass.
The cards are flipped and he shows KK, the board runs 8TJ followed by fourth street of a Q followed by me slipping into the frickin river with a K.....Holy f'in crap. In staring at the screen for the rest of the match I found that I would have easily had over 2.5k in chips as a cushion.
I learned my lesson on this a while back when deal was teaching me the satty strategy where as I had it made in the shade and got dealt AA and decided to go against his advice and played the dam hand. The board went four diamonds and wouldn't you know it he had the fifth diamond to win the hand putting me out with only three to go. Took me hours to stop beating my head against the wall that night.
Oh well, I swore I learned my lesson that night but obv I didn't. So this only goes to confirm that the hardest element of this game is by far the self control aspect. It's one thing to get your chips in when ahead only to deal with the beats you take once in, but it is a completely different thing when playing satty's and knowing your safe and then let ego take you out of the game faster then a donkey pullin a load over your dumb ass.
I sure wish this post was about another cute puppy story but I just had to get this out in the open so to reduce the amount of stress it is putting on that ego saturated brain of mine.
Thx for stopping by. I plan on doing an article on here real soon so check back. I am waiting for one of my buds to do something spectacular so that I can write an article about them. Freddy came so frickin close the other day with his finish for $1700. GG Freddy my man. GG deal as well with all of your success in your wsop and Aruba classic satty's you have been taking down. I can't believe that your taking your wife to Aruba instead of me though....just kidding bud...
jd
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The ability to fold AA in the correct situation is a sign of a great player in my opinion. I've seen you do it and just knowing your mistake means you are way ahead of the field. Most would be complaining about the RNG or how bad they run etc. versus looking in the mirror. You are on the right path. It's lonely and long at times though bud. Keep treking.
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