After setting my new ground rules for my weekday sessions all was going well last night. I'd been sat for around 30 mins, playing the tight aggressive poker that counters the limp and smash the flop tactics of the table and was up around £80-100. However, I felt it wouldn't be too good of me to just stand up and leave with the money at that point, I planned to stick around for another 30mins or an hour and then get up with my buyin profit. An hour later I'm faced with my original stack after frittering away my profits and then couldn't leave. I spent the next 6 hours stuck, card dead and frustrated, rebuying in frustration to bump up my stack to try and win a massive pot which didn't work either. The game began to break and I was about even, I'd sat for 7.5 hours with nothing to show for it.
Finally with 30 minutes left however I got into a hand out of position with a guy who had sat recently, had sat down about 9 hours ago and looked pretty ragged. I raised A7dd and got 2 callers, one to my left (B) and one to my right (A). Flop came A93dd, player to my right checked, I checked to the raiser and he bet out. Player A folded and I called for the turn. The turn brought a 7 giving me 2 pair and the nut flush draw. I led out and Player B went all in, snap call and he flipped JJ. I faded the one outer and shipped a pot giving me a healthy £71, not great for 8 hours work but profit is profit, 8 hours and profit is better than 7 with a loss. I played the game till it broke at 5:30am, went around the casino trying to get more action but gave up in the end and drove home.
Reviewing the session I think in the long run it was a +ev decision to not leave after 30 mins with the profit, this will be my local game for the next 4 months or so, hit and running is not going to endear myself to those I will be spending a lot of time around and wanting to get action from. After losing the profit my preparation that allows me to play long sessions if needed kicked in and I managed to grind out the profit. I would have left at any point if I had made £80-100, avoiding the instant hit and run but it never came, I was card dead and had to put the long hours in. Once again I felt it was a marginal game but I feel that if I'm going to sit in the game, I need to make a profit, there is no point in sitting for 3 hours and leaving broken even or booking a loss if I spend the day preparing to be able to play all night if needed.
Funnily enough I bumped into someone from FriendlyPoker who recognised me, or somehow managed to ask the right questions to find out that I was on there. o22 sat for a while in the game, booked a good win and went off home, this was a bit of a turning point in my evening, brought me out of my frustration and cleared my mind a bit.
Time played: 8:02
Buyin: £200
Cashout: £271
Profit: £71
Hourly: £8.74 (fml)
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