Weekend poker sucks

Yeah, I said it. I can't seem to make a hand or buy a pot on Saturday or Sunday. I'm matched up against a table full of fish and just can't hit or hold up or both. It's not worth iso-raising AK because 4 callers is routine. Open-raise, yes. Iso-raise, no. And forget bluffing. You can't bluff players who'll call the river with a pair of twos, or, for that matter, eight-high.

Yep, you read that right. Playing FT 6-max RUSH LHE 25c/50c, in a blind vs blind hand tonight the SB open limped and I raised with 5 6 and the SB called. I had this player flagged as a weak player, with seven different notes on him. He chases to the river with any draws (including gutshots) regardless of pot odds, and folds if he misses, except for a couple times when he had ace-high . He tends to raise the flop or turn with made hands as weak as second pair. The flop came down 2 3 A. The SB checked, I bet my gutshot straight-flush draw, and he called. The turn was the Q. The SB checked, I again bet my draw, and the SB called again. The river was the K. The SB checks again. At this point, I have to bet. No question. There's no hand I can beat at showdown and he is known to fold rivers where he's missed. I bet. He tanks for a full ten seconds and calls. He has 78 and wins the pot. I could not believe my eyes.

I quit once I hit my stop loss of 50BB. It always hurts when I play well and the deck just bends me over. And it's really, really hard to quit when I know I'm playing well but just not hitting my fair share of the time. But the truth is if you can't bluff, and you can't hit, you simply can't win.

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Hope the deck is being kinder to the rest of you.
M