Wanna have a quickie?

Just another quick update for you guys. Not sure if I'll play today but I put in a few thousand hands yesterday and the day before with mixed results. Aside from two pots (JJ vs a limp-raise, then stacking a rag flop vs KK, and AJ for a very bad call down vs a lag - KK again), I thought I played pretty well. The results disagree somewhat, but if you take away those two stacks I'm in the positive. Just gonna keep grinding it out.

Got my cheque today and I'm gonna go buy myself a case of 8 ball and a hooker, brb. Sorry for the short post.

Stormy monday

Short update here - I told you I was confident that I was playing well and today it showed directly in my results. Through losing several big pots (KK<{AJ,A8s,JJ} AI on rag flop) I still managed to nearly mirror Sunday's losses. A couple of the bigger (winning) pots:

Poker Stars, $0.50/$1 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 8 Players LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter


UTG+1: $93.15

MP1: $100

MP2: $100

CO: $101.90

Hero (BTN): $101.35

SB: $40.80

BB: $102.50

UTG: $99

Pre-Flop: 7 7 dealt to Hero (BTN)

UTG calls $1, UTG+1 calls $1, 2 folds, CO raises to $3, Hero calls $3, 2 folds, UTG calls $2, UTG+1 calls $2

Flop: ($13.50) 7 A K (4 Players)

UTG checks, UTG+1 checks, CO bets $4, Hero calls $4, 2 folds

Turn: ($21.50) 3 (2 Players)
CO bets $5, Hero raises to $18.50, CO calls $13.50

River: ($58.50) A (2 Players)

CO checks, Hero bets $75.85 and is All-In, CO calls $75.85

Results: $210.20 Pot ($3 Rake)
CO showed T A (three of a kind, Aces) and LOST (-$101.35 NET)
Hero showed 7 7 (a full house, Sevens full of Aces) and WON $207.20 (+$105.85 NET)


Poker Stars, $0.50/$1 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 9 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter


UTG+2: $49.40

MP1: $89.75

MP2: $108.25

CO: $107.20

BTN: $93

Hero (SB): $167.70

BB: $26

UTG: $43

UTG+1: $121.80

Pre-Flop: A 5 dealt to Hero (SB)

UTG folds, UTG+1 checks, UTG+2 calls $1, MP1 calls $1, MP2 calls $1, CO calls $1, BTN calls $1, Hero calls $0.50, BB checks

Flop: ($7) 7 T 5 (8 Players)
Hero bets $6, 3 folds, MP1 calls $6, 2 folds, BTN calls $6

Turn: ($25) 4 (3 Players)
Hero bets $17.50, MP1 calls $17.50, BTN folds

River: ($60) Q (2 Players)
Hero bets $29, MP1 raises to $58, Hero raises to $143.20 and is All-In, MP1 calls $7.25 and is All-In

Results: $190.50 Pot ($3 Rake)
MP1 mucked Q T and LOST (-$89.75 NET)
Hero showed A 5 (a flush, Ace high) and WON $189 (+$99.25 NET)



Anyways, fun stuff. I'm glad I'm back on the winning track, but even happier that I kept my cool yesterday and managed to come back today refreshed through all the coolers and beats. Getting better handling the tilt monster.

EDIT: on a side note, I'm WELL on my way to platinum this month! Wee!

Bloody Sunday

Perfect timing for another downswing - just after I've regained my confidence. If I was mentally handicapped as most of the 'rigged' believers were, I'd be insisting I was doomswitched today. The day started fine with a ~$150 profit through a few hundred hands, but soon went on a very steep downhill nosedive.

Overpair runs into set. Set runs into bigger set. Second nut flush runs into nut flush. Trips vs trips, he spikes his kicker on the river. All for stacks. Countless other smaller 20-60bb pots where I made thin-ish value bets that happened to run into more of what seemed like nightmarish miracles.

Ah well. I insist I played fine, if not great today, but I can't say I'm not steaming like a pile of dog shit in the middle of Siberia. Grr.

Well needless to say I'm done for the day and I'm not sure I'll have calmed down by tomorrow. I don't know what it is about Sundays - they're by far the juiciest day of the week but I can't remember the last time I won on one, and I all my record biggest losses were on Sundays. Grumble grumble.