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After losing from a lucky player in the tournament, I tried my luck on the real money tables.
Something I better didn’t do seeing afterwards. My buy-in was $2. Normally I start with 80 cents, but with $22.77 in my account ($21 won by tournaments) I can start playing with a higher amount.
I played on a pot limit $0,01/$0,02 table for 9.
The first 20 hands I didn’t win a thing, only lost my blinds and didn’t had a chance to defend them as it was obvious other players where have much better cards then me.

Then I started to win some small amounts, keeping me around the $2. After 30 minutes in play I got AJ suited on the button. 4 players limped in and I raised to 6 cents. 1 player called me.
Flop gave me 2 pairs with A J 10. On the turn I made a 30 cent bet after my opponent checked. He immediately called.  I was thinking he had an Ace also, but not putting him on 2 pairs like me. With a 3 on the turn he checked again. This time I made a 20 cent bet. If he would call now, he maybe has AA or JJ two pair like me? He called. The river was a 7. Could he maybe have 8 9, I started thinking? Would he bet?
Not really certain I had won the pot, I just checked after he did. I don’t want to lose more money.
And yes I lost, he had the straight with 8 9. It’s so frustrating to see other people are playing to the river and always getting the card they needed.

Immediately the hand after this one, I got KK. Still in late position, I raised to 10 cents to let everybody know I have something. I even got re-raised on this bet. But with these cards and position I didn’t mind about this. I called to see the flop. A J 10, almost exactly the same flop as the hand before (spades and clubs instead of spade diamond club). I was aware this was a dangerous flop for me. Could he have the Ace? I only needed the Queen for a straight, so I re-raised his 2 cent bet with 6 cent. He just called. On the turn there was an 8. He checked, so did I. I was certain he hasn’t got the Ace and certainly wasn’t playing for the straight. I felt I was still in the lead with pocket kings. The river didn’t give me my straight draw with a 2. Now he made a 2 cent bet, which I re-raised to 6 cents. He re-raised me to 12 cents. He re-raised me again, in my eyes still trying to make me believe he had an ace, but I didn’t bought it, so I went all in. He off course called me and showed me J 10 off suit, leaving me with nothing.

What a bad day I’m having? Nothing seems to work and everybody else is getting the cards they needed. That’s the feeling I had after this beat yesterday.

Well ok, it doesn’t really matter, as the money I’m playing with, is money I’ve won without investing anything.

But it’s the first real beat I received on the money tables. I can only take this beat with me and hopefully learn something from it for the next plays.
I still have over $20 in my account, so I don’t have to worry.
Certainly have to search for some more information about bankroll management and applying these rules, else I’ll be broke before I know it.

In the meanwhile I keep on playing on the freeroll tournaments.

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