I played two sessions today (50nl fr), and it was a little weird. I decided to tighten up a bit (though I think I tightened up more than I meant to) and played about 14/12 with a 31% ats and 45% wwsf. I wasn't very into what I was doing mentally, and I felt like shit the entire time I was playing. Despite this, I don't think I played particularly bad, though I did run kind of good.

My biggest wins were set over set, AK > AK aipf (which is basically winning a flip, bam), AA vs JT ai on Jxxx, and 77 vs AJ on Q7xJ all for a stack each. My biggest losses were AK vs KJ on KJx for half a stack and this AK hand where I made probably a bad double barrel on TT49r and the guy shoved and showed JT.

The one hand I really think I made a big mistake on was with trips + top kicker on a weird board. At the time I think he was an unknown who was something like 20/0 over 10 hands or something, but looking at PT3 now I have 62 hands on him and he's 38.71/0. Anyway, we're full stacked and he limps in the HJ 8-handed, I raise in the CO with AK of diamonds and he calls.

The flop comes KK3 with two spades and he checks. Now the flop pot is like $5.75 before the rake so probably like $5.50 after the rake, and I decide to bet $3.50. This might seem smallish, but this is the bet size I'd make if I was bluffing, so I decided to make the same bet size. I'm not sure if this is best or not, but I think there's not much of a difference. He calls. The turn is the 8 of spades which makes the board KK38 with three spades. He checks and the turn pot is like $11-$11.50. I bet $8 and he quickly calls.

The river is an offsuit Q that makes the board KK38Q with three spades and he insta-shoves $33 into about $27-$28 and I have him covered. Now I need somewhere around 35-37% equity to call here, and it's hard to put him on a range because I know so little about him. If I give him {KQ-KT, 33, 88, 5 spade combinations} then I have about 36% equity and it's about break even. This is probably a bit pessimistic, but he's not always going to play KJ and KT like this since he'll raise on the earlier streets, so it's hard to say. The problem is that I think he'll be more likely to raise KQ preflop and on the flop/turn also, so it's really tough to say.

I wasn't feeling too great and I wasn't sure if losing a big pot would push me over the edge of not giving a damn, so I decided to make a fold in what I felt was about a break even scenario. The problem is that it never occurred to me that this guy is a total unknown at a game I log tens of thousands of hands at a month, and total unknowns this time of year are going to suck. I should have realized that he's going to show up with some really weird stuff here sometimes (like the AA he showed me when I folded) and insta-snap called so fucking hard it broke my mouse. But it's all good.