Flushes on the Brain

[StageWhisper]

I hadn't played online for over a month or so, but my husband put some money in the other night to play drunk maniac poker, so yesterday I spent an hour and a half or so playing with what was left.

Getting on the tables I felt a little rusty, and it took a bit for me to start feeling comfortable again.

Anyways, I noticed an annoying habit of mine in the short time I played. On the following hands, I put the villain on a flush/FD. I think this has a lot to do with starting out as a (live) FR limit player.

I tend to play all my hands faster when their are two suited cards on the flop, even excellent holdings like a flopped straight or a set. I know I'm losing value doing this, but I just can't beat the fear of getting flushed out. Help anyone?

PS - On hands 1 & 3 villain is short stacked and play is pretty much dictated from there. Please feel free to critique my play, but my irritation with these hands is how wrong I was about their holdings. If you pretend villain has me covered, esp. in hand # 3, you can see how flush paranoia could effect my game.


Hand 1 Full Tilt Poker (6 max) - $0.05/$0.10

Seat 1: Tucci 18 ($12.95)
Seat 2: tahmatster ($5.85)
Seat 3: TheCooler_x10 ($2.20)
Seat 4: blame ($10)
Seat 5: Shock da Monkey ($5.15)
Seat 6: StageWhisper ($10)
Shock da Monkey posts the small blind of $0.05
StageWhisper posts the big blind of $0.10
The button is in seat #3

Dealt to StageWhisper

Tucci 18 folds
tahmatster calls $0.10
TheCooler_x10 folds
Shock da Monkey calls $0.05
StageWhisper checks

Normally I would raise, but this was the first hand of my first table and I wanted to get a feel for it - rusty, rusty.

FLOP

Shock da Monkey checks
StageWhisper bets $0.30
tahmatster raises to $0.60
Shock da Monkey folds
StageWhisper calls $0.30

TURN

StageWhisper checks
tahmatster checks

I planned to c/r here and swore when it got checked through. The min raise the flop, check the turn looked like the most obvious FD in the world, and I just gave him a free look.

RIVER

StageWhisper bets $1
tahmatster raises to $2
StageWhisper raises to $9.30, and is all in
tahmatster calls $3.15, and is all in


Hand 2 Full Tilt Poker (6 max) - $0.05/$0.10

Seat 1: funkman2112 ($3.95)
Seat 2: leecando1 ($7.35)
Seat 3: aksonnyboy ($3.50)
Seat 4: Clarks ($5.50)
Seat 5: StageWhisper ($12.25)
Seat 6: pokerchik06 ($2.15)
leecando1 posts the small blind of $0.05
aksonnyboy posts the big blind of $0.10
The button is in seat #1

Dealt to StageWhisper

Clarks folds
StageWhisper calls $0.10
pokerchik06 calls $0.10
funkman2112 calls $0.10
leecando1 calls $0.05
aksonnyboy checks

FLOP

leecando1 checks
aksonnyboy checks
StageWhisper bets $0.40
pokerchik06 folds
funkman2112 folds
leecando1 calls $0.40
aksonnyboy folds

TURN

leecando1 checks
StageWhisper checks

RIVER

leecando1 bets $1.30
StageWhisper calls $1.30


Hand 3 Full Tilt Poker (6 max) - $0.05/$0.10

Seat 1: Tucci 18 ($12.80)
Seat 2: tahmatster ($2.30)
Seat 3: TheCooler_x10 ($2.35)
Seat 4: blame ($9.85)
Seat 5: Scazmatic ($1.90)
Seat 6: StageWhisper ($15)
Scazmatic posts the small blind of $0.05
StageWhisper posts the big blind of $0.10
The button is in seat #4

Dealt to StageWhisper

Tucci 18 folds
tahmatster has 15 seconds left to act
tahmatster calls $0.10
TheCooler_x10 folds
blame adds $0.15
blame folds
Scazmatic folds
StageWhisper checks

FLOP

StageWhisper bets $0.25
tahmatster calls $0.25

TURN

StageWhisper bets $0.75
tahmatster calls $0.75

RIVER

StageWhisper checks
tahmatster bets $1.20, and is all in
StageWhisper calls $1.20

[jackvance]

hand 1: rereraise the flop again, like $2. Shove any turn

hand 2: I overbet the pot here at 10NL, $0.80-$1

hand 3: I push the turn vs shortie.

[StageWhisper]

How does your betting change if all villains have you covered? What do you put them on?