Unlucky at $2/$4nl

Ok, so I rele did not run well today at all. Played probably a 2 hour session and lost ~$1500. Probably lost more than that in NLHE but did very well in PLO and efinitely made the sickest call ever for me. My PT says I lost $2k (5 buyins) in 1300 hands playing 28/23/3.5 losing 17bb/100. This was not the happiest of sessions...I thought I played quite well to be honest, and just got coolered/unlucky a lot.

Bad beats: A perfect 3 outs, and after insta check-minraising turn, he instashoved riv. http://www.pokerhand.org/?1405897

Not a bad beat here, but a shove on an attempted resteal. Didn't get to suck out :-( http://www.pokerhand.org/?1405898

I was going to give up on this hand but got coolered to hit my set...http://www.pokerhand.org/?1405902

Losing flip http://www.pokerhand.org/?1405905

Cooler where I maybe coulda folded flop but as played by just betting/calling the flop, I thought he would shove a fairly wide range of like two pairs/combo draws/ATss and shit like that I thought I had to call. http://www.pokerhand.org/?1405906

Some winners, and the last hand will be my SIIIICK PLO RIVER CALL!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1405907

I still got value tho the flush hit :) I didn't rele notice how small his bet was in relation to the size of the pot. It screamed overpair to me and he wanted to get raised. I'm quite surprised it was just 77. http://www.pokerhand.org/?1405908

Shoulda been an easy c/rai turn for him but he played it coy and it cost him, allowing me to hit my 8 outs. This was a very drawy board so c/c is bad. http://www.pokerhand.org/?1405910

LOOL soo sick my one suckout... thought he had like Axcc or somethin. http://www.pokerhand.org/?1405912

Woulda been a sick valueshove on riv. Don't understand this guy's play but the 8 on the turn rele screwed him up from bluffin me :) http://www.pokerhand.org/?1405913

TalentedTom, who held cards over me NUMEROUS times in position, with just slightly better hands, valuetowned himself here. I went for value on this riv from maybe 77 or 88, then he raised me. I realized he oculdn't be repping much at ALL, and Kx is not in his range, so rele no hand made sense except for a bluff. I made a nice call, and he berated me, saying "I thought u were decent." Yea, he's a real fag. http://www.pokerhand.org/?1405918

And for the MOTHER OF ALL CALLS. I checked the flop because I felt I would get c/r a lot, so I took the freebie. On the turn I think calling is ok. I assumed because of his bet size he did not have the nuts, because normaly people with the nuts on that board just instapot it. Therefore I called assuming my 2 was good, maybe A, and definitely a diamond. getting good odds to call to hit 11 possibly 13 outs and bust him. He bet the riv big. I thought for a long time and realized he had something like Ks and a straight draw he turned into a bluff, and probably would not vbet a set or some sort of two pair on this riv. I went with my tuition, and low and behold, my read was right! :) http://www.pokerhand.org/?1405850

Ok so my roll is $6500, started at $7900, so I actually lost $1400 not $1500. I went really deep and got 44th in the $20 rebuy, being in for probably $160 total. I lost 44 to 77 and I got fairly lucky to get that deep but w/e, still disappointing. I will move back to $1/$2nl for a few sessions then take more shots at $2/$4. I'm very happy I didn't tilt because I realized I was lucky enough to win that huge tourney that got me playing this high in the first place. Without it, I'd be a fairly sitting duck still grinding the .25/.50 or .50/1 and maybe taking ridiculous stupid shots. I have a good roll now, so I'm happy. Perhaps I'll just play $1/$2nl with like ~$6k roll and just cash out everything past it? Swings at $2/$4nl r so sick I mite not even wanna play it; we'll see.

On a side note, installed Vista. Had to reinstall everthing but it wasn't THAT big of a deal. I like the new look and feel of Vista, though still getting used to a few ins and outs. I will miss recording TV shows that my Media Center pc could do, but w/e. I might still be able to buy a software package to allow me to do that since I still have my remote, receiver, and TV tuner card all set up.

Tonight I will go to a poker game from 8:30 or so till 2:30. Very excited this will be the first time going. My friend finally got me into the game. Unfortunately, I will be dealing, but maybe I can play from the box (play AND deal), or someone else can maybe deal and I can get in on the game. I'll bring $1500 in cash from me and my friend will prob let me borrow up to 600 or somethin if I need to.

In conclusion, still happy with my play on stars and very happy I got pretty much everything set up on Vista fairly quickly. Will grind the $1/$2nl and if I keep making good money, I jus won't move up. $1/$2nl 6max as well as 1/2nl hu can pay very high dividends for someone w/o a real job, so maybe I'll just stick to that, MAYBE with occasional shots at $2/$4 for some big scores if I don't mind the swings...