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After a week of bad beats...time for a break me thinks

edited November 2011 in The Poker Clinic
p0j0 Small blind 10.00 10.00 1970.00
StephW Big blind 20.00 30.00 1980.00
  Your hole cards
A
A
     
Nikki982 Fold
jordz16 Call          20.00 50.00 2010.00
XXX     Raise 80.00 130.00 1920.00
121285 Fold
p0j0 Fold
StephW Raise 300.00 430.00 1680.00
jordz16 Fold
XXX          Call          240.00 670.00 1680.00

Flop       Js Jh Ah
   
      
StephW       Check
XXX    Bet          335.00 1005.00 1345.00
StephW Call          335.00 1340.00 1345.00

Turn      3s
   
    
StephW       Check
XXX     Bet          320.00 1660.00 1025.00
StephW Call          320.00 1980.00 1025.00

River   8d
   

     
StephW Bet          960.00 2940.00 65.00
XXX     All-in          1025.00 3965.00 0.00
StephW All-in          65.00 4030.00 0.00

StephW
Show   Ad As

XXX   
Show  Jc Jd


XXX    Win Four Jacks 4030.00 4030.00


I've had a pretty poor run lately partly due to bad play but a lot of times taken some pretty bad beats also...think I've been a little on tilt last few days. I'd like some feedback on where I've went wrong in the above hand, I know its pretty bad luck but think I played poorly too. 

Thanks

Comments

  • edited November 2011
    Just a bad beat.
  • edited November 2011
    Yeah that's pretty bad but they come and come and come again. The trick is marching through them. You will be on the other side of bad beats just as much as you get them.
  • edited November 2011
    We have a 15% chance our AAs will be cracked by a random hand which means AA does not always wins as we all know, you say "I've had a pretty poor run lately partly due to bad play" so if your game has some big leaks in it when theses ontdraws come you shout badbeat! Rather than focusing on the badbeats which you can do nothing about you will be better posting other losing hands which will allow other players to help you plug the leaks in your game.
  • edited November 2011
    In Response to Re: After a week of bad beats...time for a break me thinks:
    We have a 15% chance our AAs will be cracked by a random hand which means AA does not always wins as we all know, you say " I've had a pretty poor run lately partly due to bad play" so if your game has some big leaks in it when theses ontdraws come you shout badbeat! Rather than focusing on the badbeats which you can do nothing about you will be better posting other losing hands which will allow other players to help you plug the leaks in your game.
    Posted by waynec
    thanks Wayne, I will do... 
  • edited November 2011
    Steph you really did nothing wrong here. You'd have done something wrong if you didn't get every single one of your chips into the top when you flop a fullhouse. It's just unlucky.
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