Too Many Hands!

So on Saturday, May 9th, I went up on the bus to the Indian Reservation casino to try and put my plan in motion!

I get to the casino and put my name on for the 2-4 holdem list. While waiting, I play my free $10 slot play. I end up playing a 2 cent machine at 80 cents a spin. I calculate that I have 12 spins and 1 spin at 40 cents. I go through my 12 spins and wind up with $5.60 left in the account. I cash out and already am up for the day!

I get in the 2-4 game and play for 3 hours with my stack moving up and down around the even mark. The promotion for the day is a $50 high hand every hour and splash pot. The splash pot works by the floor man randomly selecting a table, spinning a wheel that determines how much they will give away (either $50, $75, $100 or $250), and the money being placed in the pot of the next hand for the table that was chosen. During my first three hours of play my table was selected all 3 times. The first two times it was chosen I ended up not being able to see past the flop. The third time, however, I wake up with A-K. In 3rd position, I raise the pot. The player on my left ( who is a very aggressive player) re raises the pot. I loved the raise, because I believe that he is raising just to limit the field. The raise was unsuccessful because everyone still called. The flop comes K-Q-7 in different suites. The action gets checked to me and I bet. The player to my left raises and the button calls. I re raise and the player to my left caps the bets with the button calling. The turn is a King! I again bet, and the player to my left raises. I am thinking that the raiser must have a king with a lower kicker. The button calls and I re raise with the raiser capping the bet again and the button still calling. The river hits an Ace. Bingo! Full house! However, I didn't think I needed it. I bet the raiser raises, the button calls, I re raise, and everyone else just calls. Turns out the raiser had pocket sevens and the button had A-Q. I take down the pot and am suddenly up $200! About 15 minutes later my Kings full of Aces win the high hand and I am rewarded the $50.

In a 2-4 game the game really is no fold'em hold'em. After a few hours of random bad beats, I really started to notice that I was playing many more hands and playing them very aggressively. However, the 2-4 hold'em crowd did not respect any of my raises and I ended up losing most of my winnings.

I ended up cashing out $45 winner for the day. That's right, I lost $200 back in a 2-4 game!! With the slot money and player hours reward (50 cents an hour), I ended up making $54 for the day. About $19 than I estimated which is not that bad. What was bad was that I was playing too many hands and really fell into the trap playing like my competition.

On the way home during the bus ride, I promised myself that the next day I will make some adjustments!

Total win for the day = $54