Bumpy Landings

My travels are never smooth at the best of times. Usually faults with planes, luggage, general delays, large turbulance, terrorist activity or something seems to crop up when im on one of my poker trips. A few days yet but i guess be a it will bit more nervy landing at heathrow in a BA plane.

Anyway poker follows a similar path compared to real life actually and i can definitely say the cash session i had yesterday was anything but smooth. Sitting with $500 and topping up once with $100 more i was steady enough for a while around level. Then it all went backwards, i had many lagers but this wasnt the culprit, just bad variance really. Key hands below:

Sitting with about $600 at time i call a $30 raise in sb with 22, flop is J32 and i lead a weak 40 into the tight agressive guy who i know will prob raise even if only overcards. He makes it 125 in total and i call. Turn is a 5 and ive checked in the dark, he only bets 100. I think and say why only 100 then make it 400 in total, he moves allin, i call and he shows A4off and holds up. Sick turn :(

I then make a debatable pot odds call with 9,10off preflop expecting a guy to have AK but he has A9 and holds for $330 pot.

Then just to rub salt in my wounds i call a raise with 54std and flop top 2 pair but that same A9guy has 333 and i have no way away from the hand committed way before he moves in over the top of my raise. That would have been about a $600 pot i guess.

So finished the session $800 down but drunk and happy that i didnt do anything wrong really. Proceeded to get more lagers and cider down me and ended up crashing mayb around 1 or 2am. Suffering for it today with one of my famous hangovers but gonna try sweat it out in the steam room shortly.

I actually expected to play more poker online out here but the multis im used to start from 7am out here and i just havent had the desire to play that early even when ive been awake. For that reason i cant see me extending this trip and unless i have a change of heart i will be back on the flight home on Monday evening.