Quote Originally Posted by fishstick
i tried a 6 player table saturday night, and lost my stack, but not because of the table, because i was a dumbass.

after an hour of maintaining my $25 stack with sh*t cards (which was no small feat!), i tilted and went all in on pocket 88 - i'm an idiot.
How did that happen?

Quote Originally Posted by fishstick
so, there is now Fishstick Rule #1: if you get crap cards for 45 minutes with nothing really playable - end the session. losing doesn't make me tilt, but an hour of rags will make me do something stupid.
Dumping rags has a fixed small loss and there's not much you can do about it. Misplays, bad calls/no-calls and bad beats are what eats away at my composure.

Drifting off topic...

Played 4 handed last Saturday in the work game and cleaned up. Never got to play a premium pocket pair although I caught Big Slick a couple times (and lost an all-in with AKs.) Pre-flop in Hold'em is overrated. I'll take a great flop over a great hand any day.

Biggest hand of the night...

Down to heads up in a 4 player tourney, payout is 5/15. I've caught up to almost even with the tall stack (tight/aggressive but folds too easily) I'm in the BB with like 1/8 - 1/10th of my stack in already. I got Q8s, button raises to 2x BB, I call. Flop comes rag - 8 - 8. Check check; rag on the turn check, check; rag on the river (decision time) check, all-in, call! Big slick goes down on a needless buy attempt.