One or two pots over the evening all the difference?

[Penguinfan]

This is actually a take off of a thread TP has going in the Bad Beat forum, but I honestly wanted to post about this before and he just reminded me with his story.

Do you find that 1 or 2 pots over a session make you a winner or loser for the session? Last trip to Atlantic City sticks out in my mind, at a 5/10 limit game I get AA and raise pre-flop with a total of 4 callers including both blinds do 50 in the pot pre flop, flop K-7-2 rainbow which is just what I wanted becsuse the guy with the K in his hand is gonna play till the bitter end unless an Ace fall, and I doubt he has K7 or K2, so I bet after the flop and only he calls both blinds fold, 60 in the pot at this point, turn is 8, I bet he calls, river J, I bet he calls so $100 in the pot and he turns over KJ for two pair. I ended the 9 hour session down $60, so the pot would have made me a winner, though not a big one, but still it was the swing hand for me I think. I this pretty common for everyone or am I just looking too much into it?

[Defendant]

There is definitely key pots that CAN make the difference in one nights play, like you just posted...it also goes the other way, for example when you hit open ended draws etc.

Defendant

[Penguinfan]

Yea, I wasn't saying it a bad beat or anything, he had top pair on the board plus a playable kicker, it just seems like time and time again one pot like that puts you over or under for a given session.

[Kidd7138]

If you win or lose one big hand it can definitely make or break a session. But I guess that's just the way poker works, sometime the luck goes your way sometimes it doesn't, I actually found myself on the winning side of a similar situation this morning, so you have to take the good with the bad.

EDIT: and 7 minutes after I post this I find myself on the losing side of this situation

[junYUN]

well this is definatly true...most pots you'll pick up a few bucks here and there, or lose a few bucks here and there. then there are the times where you just happen to have one other player at the table who thinks he has the best hand, you guys go at it and one of you is either really on top or really on bottom.

[2Tone]

Absolutely. This is especially true in NL of course, but even at 2/4, there a dozen hands over the course of the night which I win or fold before the turn, resulting in small wins or losses. But these aren’t the hands that determine whether I finish in the red or black. It’s when a straight or flush beats a set, (especially if it hits on the river) and one, two or three players have been calling/raising every step of the way. Two or three of these 12BB hands make a mighty big difference.

[bothecorgi]

I would agree - last night I lost a total of $60 - one pot cost me $40 alone. The day before, I played for 30 minutes and made $50 playing $50 buy-in NL HE when I hit 1 monster hand on each table.