Playing and struggling

Playing back in Kirkland. Not so busy, but enough demand for a new table. 8 players join. Little do they know, but they would get a few of my bucks. My attitude is a little different at this session. I play loose. Not sure why. There is a couple hands that I care to review. I did get some decent cards but I couldn't shake people off the flop.

After a few folds, I straddle to 10 (first time doing that). Got j9o. 3 players call in all. sb and cutoff. Flop j76. Bet 25. Cutoff called. Checked the turn for pot control. Folded to $50. Turn 5. My only read vs this player is that he was a little aggressive and I guessing he had a J too but with a better kicker.

JJ in SB. Called a raise of $18 from button. 4 players Q65. Checked. Initial raiser bets 100. I folded. He was a tight player and I felt he had an over pair.

I was playing loose, so why did I fold this hand? Folded 46h to $17 bet on the button. Straight flush draw on flop which would have ended up with a straight flush (7 high) on T. I could have tripled up.

K9 on the bb. Checked. Flop is 963. Folded to $20 from CO. I played this way too tight. I should have bet.

No idea what I was thinking here. 92s called $7. Flop is Aq2. One player. Checked. Turn is a 3. Called $11 on turn. I suppose I had a flush draw. River another A. Lost to 77.

QQ on button bet $16. 2 callers. K68 Bet $25. One caller. Nit player. I know he has a K. Check the turn. He bets the river like $40. I fold easily.

T9 sb. Flop is 3Q9. Checked vs 2 players. Called turn $10 bet when I see a 8. I pick up a gutter but possibly other has a straight. River is 9. I check, he bets $20. I raise all-in. I only have like $40 more. He folds. The reason I raised all in is because the player played just about every hand and he likes action. I doubted he even had a Q.

AJ. Raised to $15. Against one player (same one as hand before) Flop is 4kj. 2nd pair is not bad against a bad player. I check. Turn is 8. I check again. River is a 4. I bet $20. Got called and won.

Next hand I get KQ and raise to $12. I win the blinds. I'm on a roll!

At some point I do buy-in for another $100. I don't usually do that, but I wanted to play with some more chips.

I hated this hand. AKo middle position. utg+2 raised to $15. i re-raise to $45 another player calls. original bettor raises max to $175 I fold and so does the other player. He said he had KQh. The initial player was aggressive. I assumed he had a big pair. My guess is that he had QQ. From evaluation of ranges I should have called. I'm only a really bad dog vs AA and KK, but since I have one of those I wasn't betting he had that, but with my luck that might have been the case.

Anyways, I lose about $205 for this session. Kind of struggled. Table conditions were ok.

A couple of more games that I would mention but nothing interesting happened.

I also played the Tulalip casino. A couple of interesting things. I won a high hand jackpot with quad jacks. Unfortunately my opponent didn't get any of it so I had to settle for a small pot and the $300 high hand which held up for 30 minutes.

I think my first hand which was a disaster. I was on the button and I got 95 of diamonds. Never should play this, but I called and the flop comes out J93 with 2 diamonds. 2 other players. First player bes out $5 and 2nd calls. I think he is on a draw, so I raise to $25. He calls and other player folds. Turn is a A. He checks. I bet out $50. He calls. River is a blank. No flush for me. He checks. I can't win this pot without betting. So I go ahead. $75. He thinks briefly and calls. I got kind of lucky. He had A6 of diamonds. He wins, but if a flush had come I would have lost a lot more. Anyways my $300 buyin is cut in half:( Not sure how much I could have bet to get him off that pot. I was representing my hand either as a pair or a set, but he didn't seem to realize that. I could tell he was pretty straightforward, so I shouldn't have bothered after the river was a blank.

I played at Tulalip for about 3 hours and I did get a lot pairs. 55 3 times, TT twice, KK and QQ once. I played fairly aggressive at times. Table was a little soft. Without my high hand I would have lost $50.