It's never easy

The hardest things you have to deal with as a poker player are the downswings. I'm on a fairly massive one. I feel like I've been beat up for a month straight. Sometimes you run into better players, sometimes you run into better cards, and sometimes you let it go to your head and start playing poorly. I think I'm dealing with a mixture of all three. Yesterday I had an easy mark. Complete calling station, but I just couldn't get any cards... so I tried to make a couple bluffs. Huge mistake, because I have him pegged as a calling station. Even worse, the I lose all three big hands of the session. All three hands I knew I was beat and should have laid down. Lost boat over boat. Lost K hi flush to A hi flush. Lost straight to straight. The straight was especially brutal, because I flopped a 4way wrap and he went runner runner for a bigger straight. I might drop down to lower stakes for a while just to get my head on straight.
That being said I really like this hand. I raise my button. He calls. Flop is 9 5 4 two dimes. I make my standard cbet he minraises. He's been checkraising me about 25% which is really aggressive. It is much too frequent for him to be doing with big hands every time. If he fullpots I probably fold here, but since it is a minraise, my button, and I don't think he has a set I float. The turn is a Qx. He checks. This looks really weak. I could bet here, but I can't be sure I am ahead and I'm pretty sure he has at least the dime draw. The river is another Qx. He leads pot. I really like my call here. I'm pretty sure he's missed his draw and it feels good to be right! I don't run a lot of bluffcatchers, because normally I am betting those types of hand, but it's good to be capable of anything.

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