When I got home from work yesterday, I fired up some 5/10 limit 5 card draw. For about 2 hours it was just break even poker. Then I saw a 10/20 game going on with some players I knew I could exploit so I sat in. In about 30 minutes, I walked away up $500! Then I went back to the 5/10 just to win another 200! Not bad at all.

Then my wife and I left to eat dinner. I chose to go to the local Mexican restaurant. Not so much for the food as for the craving I was getting for their margaritas.

After dinner and some text exchanges I met up with some friends at another bar that had a patio with a band playing. By time it was 10pm, I was feeling pretty good.

My wife and I called it a night around 11pm as everyone else was going downtown. When we got back home, I decided to play some more poker.

Still drinking, I decided to play headsup 15/30 limit draw. What a mistake! To make a long story short I was down $1200 in about 45 minutes, if that.

Waking up today, kicking myself in the ass, I look back on the big loss and ask was I outplayed? I think to some extent, probably. But realistically, my opponent was on a pretty lucky swing of cards.

The thing about 15/30 compared to 5/10 is you have to much looser due to the blind structure. In 15/30 you start with 10 and 15 blinds, a ratio of 2/3. Whereas in 5/10, the blinds are 2 and 5, which is a ratio of 1/2.5. BIG DIFFERENCE!

I might have caught on a little late, but when I tried to adjust my opponent was hitting every freaking card, very frustrating. At one point, my opponent raised like 10 hands in a row with my hand being ahead more than half the time pre, just to be outdrawn.

When will I learn? First of all, I probably shouldn’t even be playing 5/10 at my bankroll, not to mention 15/30. Playing drunk and outside of my bankroll is never a good thing. My BR is now at $2,257.80 (# includes W$)