How to recover from this? Play three events online, that's how!!
* I've toyed around a bit with Stars, but hadn't played any MTTs there in a long LONG time. So last night I settle in and see a Stud8 MTT. Why not? Well here's why not - it's a $1 buy-in. And I couldn't catch a cold, let alone any decent starting hands. Let's just move on.
*...to a $5 NLHE SNG. In the very first hand, I notice some mook making a big turn or river bet, inducing a fold and showing a pure bluff. Valuable information right out of the gate. Well I chipped up early in this one to around 3000 chips. Next thing you know, I wake up with KK in late position. Said mook makes a 2x raise (to 160) from UTG or UTG+1. It folds around to me and I pop it to 760. He calls. Therefore, any and all logic says he has either a pair of paint cards, or maybe AKs, perhaps AKo. The flop comes 6 9 5 rainbow and he shoves all-in. Well God bless him if he has AA, but I'm calling this 99.9% of the time against a proven knucklehead.
He had 66 for the flopped set. Ugh. I was short, I prayed, and I lost.
* Never fear, we march right into a $6 Turbo NLHE. I was on the winning end of a fairly nasty suckout, chipped up, and found myself heads up against another player who played only the two cards in his hand. It's such a great feeling when you can clearly determine your opponent's tendencies. Wrapped it up when I saw a cheap flop w/ 58o, flopped two pair and got him to call my pot size bet w/ two overs. He paired his Q on the turn and got it all-in, but I held up.
Small profit = good night.
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