Might be one of those weeks again

Played some NL5, and it was infuriating. I had $10 stack vs another $8.50 stack, and he limps everything, rarely raises. He raises, so 33 in position seems like an easy call. Flop is gin, 763. He is lurking around minbet calling, and by the turn, I realise he isn't going anywhere and that he has JJ+, probably KK/AA, I just know it. So I raise his crappy bet to full pot on the turn (a 4, so I have a full house) and he calls. River is a king and he bets half pot of about $3, and all I can do is raise him back another $2 knowing he will have KK sometimes, but also can't fold AA/AK now. He had KK, fuck. Not much else big happened there, but when you 3 bet AKo, and someone calls and flops two pair with 94s (???) you know it's not your night. A lot of crazy plays like that, and if anyone calls your cbet, it means they have a flush draw 99% of the time, because they never fold suited cards pre flop, and either fold without hitting, or raise to protect themselves from the flush if they have top pair or call to hit the flush. What's also nice is that every flush chaser hits by the turn against me. This is of course before you get a real read that he's chasing the flush, so they usually get another street out of you if you have a hand.

Somewhat tilted, I decided NL25 would be the go, however table selection saved me. Right at the point of moving, I'd lost the AK vs 94 hand, and was ready to unload 5 bets pre flop. Well not quite, but I was still fuming. However, I said I have to table select, and since I didn't have the tables running, I started them up. Then I went and had a break for five minutes, came back and found 3 juicy tables, and sat on the waiting list. In the meantime I visited forums, and all up had probably a 20 minute break, which got me right off tilt, and I was prepared to play again.

Horrible start, running KK into AA preflop, and with this guys stats and style, I knew it was AA about 85% of the time, but have been told to never fold KK ever preflop. Not sure if I should trust my gut there, or trust everyone else on that one. Full Stack gone, got into a few pots then when nothing hit. I'd have QQ and a TAG had AK and hit on the turn, he'd call my 3 bet with QQ when I had AK and I didn't hit. People still calling flush draws and hitting, me calling for a couple and missing. My only big winning pot came from a retard, getting his stack in with 2nd pair on a K9x board. I'm not even sure if my play was correct with KQ, you shouldn't win too many big pots with one pair and KQ, but he was slightly shorter, had horrible stats, and had just sat down and posted out of position, so while reads were thin, it's not the sort of guy that will only turn up with the nutz post flop.

Anyway, live to fight another day, scrapped and scraped my way back to being down about 2/3rds of a BI, which I was OK with. Table selection was OK, although since it takes a lot longer to find tables, I tend to hang around when people 3 bet too much with position on me, which I don't like at all. I really have to cut chords. My player reading was improved a lot last night, doing everything possible to see how people played different hands. PS is now miles ahead of FT with their live hand replayer, but I'm pretty sure there are tools that will do that for me on Full Tilt, so I might need to find those.

I've decided NL25 is my home. I'm not rolled for it, but it's where I feel comfortable, and I'm sure I'm a winner at these stakes. I'm not sure what will happen if I grind my BR down too much, but for now I'm more committed to playing solid 6 max poker than ever, and this is a much more logical place to play than the crap shoot at NL5 or even NL10 to a lesser degree.