[OnTheButton]

Impromptu 5 player NLHE game last night.

I start off good by getting the button via high card on the first deal.

I could not catch a THING, and the player after me was catching EVERYTHING.

I was almost literally blinded or beat out of $60 playing super tight/aggressive in 5 hours of play last night with 25/50 cent blinds.

Examples of some of the very few hands I actually played. (If I had to guess, I actually got involved in about 6-8 hands in 5 hours of play.)

I've got . Raise, called.

Flop comes .

I start the action, long story short, player (Villian) acting after me has

.

Sigh.

I tighten up again, folding out of another 15 or so hands of garbage and questionable hole cards. I think my eyes would fall out of my head if I even saw a face card, let alone an Ace.

Villian is now stacked 2x more than any other player so he's calling everything. This guy is hitting everything, and no one is even calling to see the flop with less than premium hands, so he is now overbetting every hand pre-flop ($2.00) and stealing the blinds 5-6 hands in a row before even getting a call.

I finally get another hand worth playing. . Raise, call.

Flop comes up .

Action ensues, I'm playing top pair with an OE straight draw with 2 cards to come, only to find out after the river that the villian already has a
and flopped the nut straight. I never hit mine.

12-15 hands later I get a tasty hand

Raise again, villian calls. Flop comes

I push BIG with 4 to the nut flush. He calls. No wonder. At the end he turns over an , having hit the wheel on the flop and no more diamonds come for me.

Ever have one of those nights where the board just won't finish your hand even after you've tried to raise your opponent off their hand only to find out their hand is already made and you are grasping for straws? Getting hands with huge potential that never materialize and only cost you more and more chips?

This happened to me on EVERY hand that I tried to play last night.

Man it was frustrating to have to act before the "golden child" at the table that was getting disappointed with the fact that he had only hit 2 pair ("Oh, I've only got 10's and 7's." to your top pair of kings) on the flops he played after a few hours. 3-4 hours into the game, he is now sitting on a huge stack and is making a $3.00 bet pre-flop for EVERY hand. So you knew that even to see the flop you would have to pay 6x the BB regardless of your position. Sure he lost a few hands, but nothing compared to the pots he won.

The other 4 players (me included) tried our hardest to wait until we had a hand of enough quality to take him on, but when we did the results were similar to the examples above. It was a sad sight.

It really sucks to sit upstream from the hot seat that never seems to cool down. I know he played an excellent "big stack" game, but it's so disheartening to get beat over and over again even with decent hands and playing your best game at the same time.