nasty side of NL

Well, tonight was pretty brutal. Got cleaned out at Straddle within an hour basically. So here's what happened. I get there a little past midnight and the place is PACKED. The list on 1/2 is like 7 people deep but there's open seats at 2/5 so i wasn't prepared to just leave and go home.

I sat down with $500 and a couple hands in the following hand comes up. I'm in the bb with K9d and end up calling a raise to 15. Went 3 way and flop came 9 8 6, rainbow. Pretty good flop for me but i decided to check. They both checked and i peeled off a K on the turn. Now i checked hoping someone would steal or have a king. 1 guy bet 10 and another raised to 50. I re-raised to 150 and he called pretty quickly. river was an 8 and i put him all in for 160. He ended up catching a 2 outter for a boat with 89...ouch.

I dug into my pockets and reached out 400 more. I was ready to play my A game and just go on a tear when i look down and see Kings. There was a $20 raise and i re-popped to $100 pretty quicky, hopefully making it seem like AK. The guy instantly shoves all in for $400 total so i call and he has QQ. Dominating right now but ofcourse he hits the Q on the flop...shocker.

I was down to my last $150. I probably shoudlv'e just left then but i figured i would finish off the half, double up or die trying. So i ended up picking up a few pots and getting to around $250 when i ran into 2 pair with top pair QJ but ended up getting away from it even though i did lose about 100 on the hand. Anyways, the next hand i had KK utg and decided to limp. No one raised which sucked but flop came Q J 2 with 2 diamonds. Immediately the sb bets 50, so i push for 150 all in and he calls with J5d. Turn is the best card, K. Taking away alot of his outs and leaving only diamonds that don't pair. River - 4d...naturally.

It's definitely frustrating but I still have high hopes of what's to come. Besides, i've been playing pretty well with these past nightly sessions so hopefully good play will get rewarded soon. Peace out.