Dropping down

We've got a lodger staying with us at the moment, he's been here quite a while and it would be getting annoying but he performs football songs in the style of sinatra and traditional russian dances on demand so we put up with him.

Here's a pic of him fwiw:


Anyway, the lodger has been running really badly at poker today and asked me to play on his account while he's out. I'm pretty tired today so it makes sense for me to lose his money rather than my own. Moving down has given me something of an epiphany regarding playing against fish. It's made me realise that i'm still bluffing these morons and i need to play waaay more straightforward against them. The fish at higher levels are slightly trickier than at .12/.25 but it's still the same game and they're still making the same mistakes, i'm employing all kinds of metagame plays when i should just be betting strong and folding weak. I always think i play badly against really big fish [not badly, because that's alomst impossible but definitely sub-optimally] and hopefully playing tighter and more ABC is going to help me.


The last few days have been a bit of a rollercoaster, i'm probably breakeven on the week, i dropped $12k last night just before i was supposed to go out which put me in such a bad mood that i never made it out. I ended up even for the night though, and made some more today so i'm pretty happy.

Played against a huge fish today and had some pretty sick hands against him. This is one of the toughest spots i've been in for a long time


$10/$20 Blinds No Limit Hold'em - *** 10 05 16:20:23 2007
Table Whitbread (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 3: BigFish ( $4136.4 )
Seat 4: Kesssen ( $5942 )
Seat 5: JLS1979 ( $3145 )
Seat 6: don19 ( $1056 )
Seat 7: ltt187 ( $1910.91 )
Seat 8: Hoooooof ( $7178.63 )
Kesssen posts small blind [$10].
JLS1979 posts big blind [$20].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hoooooof [ 3h 3c ]
don19 raises [$78].
ltt187 folds.
Hoooooof calls [$78].
BigFish calls [$78].
Kesssen folds.
JLS1979 calls [$58].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 2c, 3s, 8s ]
JLS1979 checks.
don19 bets [$221].
Hoooooof raises [$680].
BigFish calls [$680].
JLS1979 calls [$680].
don19 folds.
** Dealing Turn ** [ 5s ]
JLS1979 bets [$1250].
Hoooooof folds.
BigFish folds.
** Summary **
JLS1979 collected [$3829].

[his s/n isn't bigfish btw]

comments appreciated on this hand, i think the fold is pretty weak but i'm not sure if there's a better option.