LOVE the Helmuth rant! Just LOVE it! Watching Poker After Dark and Laak's QQ just knocked out Helmuth's 99 to send Helmuth to the rail, but not before throwing a tantrum.

HOORAY rare Semi-loose Full Ring 1/2 Limit games at Full Tilt tonight - +$37

BOOOO $25 PL Omaha H/L - (-$25.05) - I got 3 outted and then 4 outted in all-in pots. Also got counterfeited a few times and lost the nut flush to a paired board on the river.

Had a good session despite getting JJ cracked by Q7 (the Q7 actually open-raised and ran a runner-runner straight) and KK from 44 in the SB. Thankfully the idot with the set decided to call down hands with Jack high on a few occasions and gave more than he took.

The 2 big hands were 52s in the BB flopping 2 pair. Turned Ace caught me a few extra bets from AJ. And 66 on a QT9 monotone flop that was checked around. 6 on the turn and then Q on the river.

14686 total hands of 1/2 limit. Approaching the 15K mark.....
17/7/29 - look good, but only +0.48 bb/100 BUT +2.64 bb/100 over the last 5500 hands


Off to AC tomorrow. Gonna be hangin around the Borgata, but poker is questionable. Going for a birthday, although I don't know why anyone's actually celebrating this guy's b'day. He's kinda an asshole.

B'Day

Fun. I had fun at least. No actual gambling, dinner, hung out at the Gyspy Bar at the Borgata in AC. Bands were pretty good. I drank a lot. That was my only goal because it was my goddamn b'day and I'm another year older.
FACT: Females in their 20's are fun.
FACT: Females in their 30's are paranoid.
Basically some girl, friend of a friend we barely knew, started some type of drama that because we weren't talking to them, we must have been talking about them. And they're 30 years old for god's sake. What is wrong wth them? How come nobody wants to marry them? I just wanted to drink and hang out. I didn't care. I still don't. I had fun.

Superbowl

The first superbowl since I can remember that I didn't really have much of a financial interest in. I have no money left in my sportsbook accounts so I just threw the last $20 on a 2 team parlay. Coin toss Tails and Bears Moneyline.
OBSERVATION: WTF were the Bears trying to do? I thought they had a good chance at running a kick back, and they did. I thought they had a good chance of getting a TO and turning it into points, and they did. Then their master plan was to sit back in zone and only rush 4 and give Mannng all day to pass. Anyone who has watched the Colts play for the past 10 years knows that this is the exact OPPOSITE of the strategy you take against Peyton Manning. You rush more guys, hit him, rattle him. Did they think that Rex Grossman and their offense were going to outslug the Colts? Horrible defensive gameplan that lost them a game that the may have otherwise had a chance to win despite their pathetic offense. Also a rough game to watch in that weather.

POKER

Just a $2 rebuy satellite today for the FTOPS Event #1. I've played in 2 damn satellites now and bubbled both. I actually made about $7, but didn't get a ticket. I played tight and waited and waited and waited and waited. Limped in TQ from LP. Flopped OESD. Shortie was slowplaying AA. I waited and waited and waited and waited. Next hand I play is final table with AKs. Guess what I run it into. AA maybe? 9th place finish. 7 got tickets. 10 paid in all.

#'s for the Week
Yearly Results:
WEEK 1 +$95.60 (23h 11m)
WEEK 2 +$61.05 (14h 53m)
WEEK 3 +$159.12 (18h 42m)
WEEK 4 -$193.65 (26h 45m)

JANUARY +$152.69

WEEK 5 +$57.85 (25h 32m)

I guess I could continue this in the AA thread I started in the NL section, but anyway......what now?

8 players and I open-raise [Ac] to $2 just 2 off the button. Button is only caller.
Button is 28/3/21 over about 100 hands.

[5s][4c] Pot $4.75.
I bet $4 and he calls.

Pot $12.75
I bet $7 and villain min-raises to $14.

I have $51.15 left. He has me covered. I had only PFRed 5x at this table and won all 5. 3 of them I took with a c-bet. The only one I didn't, I fired turn and river bets and showed QQ. I hadn't shown down a garbage hand or a bluff yet in the session and I was playing fairly tight (21/6/25) and aggressive (6.5 Total AF)

So what now?


I'm running at +1.98 PTbb/100 so far in Feb (NL50). Just 603 hands. I'm not really that upset with it because it is winning rather than losing, but I'd really like that to improve.
So far, I've lost every time I've taken a big pair hand to the turn, except for once (QQ tonight).

I'm running +1.12 PTbb/100 over 6,302 total NL50 hands. I'm having particular trouble with big pairs.
AA - 40x +$20.20 +0.51 PTbb/hand
KK - 23x +$4.95 +0.22 PTbb/hand
QQ - 25x -21.85 -0.87 PTbb/hand

And here's another kinda frustrating stat from PT. I haven't had a win over $22 with mid to small suited connecters and 1 gappers, but have lost 4 that were over $40 (3 of them due to rivered boats vs straights or better - 1 a boat over boat)

Gettin kinda frustrated, but from the looks of the stats it also looks like its more luck than mediocre play.

161 hands of 50NL today. Down $33.40.

5 flush draws - 1 completed and it lost

1 - [7s] on [2s][3s] board. I took it away from the raiser when an hit the turn. This $9 profit was my biggest hand of the session.

2 - [8c] OTB in a limped 4 way pot. [6h][2c] then BB overbet on turn and I had to give it up.

3 - [8h] in a min-raised pot. [5h][4d]. I actually had 15 outs vs the aggressor with 77. Had I known that I would have c/r'ed or pushed, but I whiffed.

4 - [Jc] on [Qc][4c] Flop. I was the raiser and had my c-bet called. Turned 12 outs but missed the river again.

5 - Then there was this sick one.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?800042

Other notables:
1 set in a limped pot - made a small profit (+$7.75)
Open-raised 99 OTB to $2. SB (brand new) re-raised to $7 with a full stack. I called and had to give it up to a pot bet on the flop.

I've now gone 14 straight NL sessions without finishing up more than $20. That's 1/24/07 or more specifically 2,343 hands. The above hand is the 1st flush I've completed since 1/27. That's a week and a half and over 1500 hands.

There most likely will be more whining tonight, but I'll just edit this post instead of bumping this crap to the top.

Welcome to another edition of "What The Fuck Just Happened To Me". This may be one of my longer rants because I gotta go through this last session just now and make sure what I think happened really happened here. I just played 2 hours, 4 tables of 1/2 Limit Full Ring. I found some semi-loose tables and figured I'd sit down. 570 hands later, I dropped about $100. I was 3-bet or cold-called and then c/r'ed on the turn every time I raised. The BB seemed to catch every single time he called my raise. If there was a flop, I was in trouble. If there was a river, I was dead. To win with a big pair I had to flop a set.

I played a 16/8/28 game tonight, but only won 40% of my showdowns.

I didn't have Aces once and at one point I had TT 3x in a row on the same table....AND LOST ALL 3. I won with KK-TT only 2 of the 7x I saw a flop with them and didn't flop a set. I only won with AK 2 of 6x and ran it into AA/KK 3x.

Table 1 - 151 Hand -$55.50
- 3rd hand in KK OTB. BB c/r on the Turn w/ AT. He's way behind, but hits his Ace on the river. LOSE - BB SPECIAL #1
- Donk (53/14/37) took practically my entire stack. His Q9 beat my AQo after a 232 flop. He called with 3 outs and turned his winner. LOSE
- His 86s beat my A9s when his runner-runner flush overcame my pair or Aces LOSE
- His J2s beat my flush when he hit running cards for a boat. LOSE
- I had a small measure of revenge when I flopped a set with KK, but he flopped and OESFD. The incredible part about it is that I got 2 bets out of him on the river after he missed with JACK HIGH???? POSSIBLE SOFTWARE GLITCH
- He cracked my KK next time from the BB when he flopped a straight with 98o AMAZING - BB SPECIAL#2
- 58/14/37 finished up about 40BB after 150 hands and I had my KK cracked from the BB 2x at this table. ABOUT RIGHT
- I flopped a set of Queens in a raised and 3-bet pot. Amazingly this is the first time the entire table believes I have a hand and folds. WIN?
- Open-raised KQo from the Button. BB flops a pair and flush draw. Hits it on the river. BB SPECIAL #3
- I flop a pair and flush draw, but miss my 14 outs for the umpteenth time today.

Table 2 - 163 hands -$19.25
- I raise AJs OTB. BB wins with A4o. BB SPECIAL #4
- Raise AK, cold-call and a 3-bet behind by tight players. WHIFF
- I limped 88 UTG, something I normally don't do and flopped a set, turned a boat WIN
- T7s in the BB. I flop TP and call down CO raiser with AQ who fired 3x. BB SPECIAL #5
- AK raise, cold call and 3-bet AGAIN. WHIFF
- Blind vs blind battle. I flop TP of Jacks. He turns 2 pair with 84o BB SPECIAL #6
- Something wierd happened. My KK held up. Probably cause I was in the BB this time.


Table 3 - 133 hands -$28.25
- First hand I post in CO then open-raise QTs. Flop TAA vs BB caller. River Q. BB has A6 and just check/called down. BB SPECIAL #7
- My AK actually hits and I get called down by A3s. ODDITY
- Raised AK UTG. BB just called. I gave up after the flop. Poor guy wanted to c/r me with his slowplayed KK on the Turn. STANDARD
- Raise to JJ. Lose to cold-caller in MP w/ AJo. STANDARD
- Flop of 586. I have 87 in SB. Miss the straight, but still end up with top pair. Lose to limper in MP who called down with KK WTF??
- Dealt TT 3x in a row from LP/MP. Lose 1x to BB who c/r's Ace on turn. 2x to cold-callers who raised A on turn and then J on flop.
- Raise KQ and some jackass tries to raise me off a scare card the 3rd time, but I'm starting to tilt and call him down. His 55 is no good. IDIOT
- K4s in SB vs BB. KJx flop. 4 on River. BB has KJ and waited until river to raise.
- Flopped a pair and straight draw in BB w/ 43s. Hit runner-runner flush vs PFRer who hit top pair of Queens on the river. BB SPECIAL #8
- Flop the nut flush draw and straight flush draw with A5s on 23x flop. CO hits running quads.
- KTo in BB. SB open-limps and then bets AKQ flop. I call him down. T on the river. He has a small Ace. He curses at me and I welcome him to the club. BB SPECIAL #9

Table 4 - 123 hands +$5.75
- Rivered a set of Queens that I didn't even need when someone went nuts with pocket 5's. WINNER
- 77 in CO is no good to Ax in the BB BB SPECIAL #9
- My 98s in the BB is good against AQo after flopping a pair and turning a flush draw BB SPECIAL #10
- QJs OTB flops top pair, but loses to BB with Ace on the river. BB SPECIAL #11
- Raise AKo. Get cold-called by the same player for like the 4th time in row. He called every c-bet and then bet the turn when I checked (cause I usually miss AK-AJ). This time I check/called him down with AK just to see what he was doing it with and thinking I may have even been ahead. He has AA naturally. STANDARD
- I flop top pair from the BB on 2T2 flop and get called down by A4. No Ace this time. BB SPECIAL #12
- Flopped top 2 with AQs and amazingly it held up against the BB. GLITCH
-QTo in BB vs OTB raise. I flop OESD and hit on the river to beat KT which had me dominated. BB SPECIAL #13

OK. I GOT IT! I know how to win now. I'll just request that I be placed in the BB every hand and start off with a dominated hand. I've now been in one of those "run worse than you thought possible" streaks for about 2.5 weeks now. I'm really due to sit in the lucky seat soon aren't I?

That freaking fish from Table 1 that was cracking all my hands with garbage really got to me the most. And I wasn't the only one. He was cracking everybodies Kings. He 3-bet an UTG raiser 2x with Ax and won both times. How do these guys always seem to leave with everybody's money?

You see, I can't even follow my own advice. I posted this whole big thing, mostly as a joke in the Limit section and then I go ahead and play in the $25K Guarranteed tonight. And I can't even fold AKs even though I know I can't win with it. What else is the only other player in the hand going to flop when I flop a FD+2OC's. Of course he has a set and I last only 16 hands. Only 3 hands I played.....

http://www.pokerhand.org/?806547

http://www.pokerhand.org/?806548 (DUH! BB always wins. Fold preflop stupid)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?806549 (AKs LOL. Must be sadistic playing that hand)

Anyway, onto a hand I played in a NL session last night. It was the difference between a breakeven session and a losing session. I was going to lose some money with this hand, but how much should I have lost?

Situation: I had just had AK the hand before and of course run it into KK and AA behind me. I luckily got out of the way. So immediately after that hand, 3 players leave the table and we are 6-handed.

I pick up [Qs] and I'm MP with $52.75
UTG (40/2/19 - 42 hands) with $44.20 limps, I raise to $2. Folded back around and he min-raises to $4. That's a pretty dumb re-raise no matter what he has cause he's giving me a chance to bust him. I call.
[7s][3c] Pot $8.75
He bets $5. This really tells me nothing. I figure a call would be stupid here. I have a pretty good hand so I guess I have to raise and fold if he pushes. I raise to $12.50.

Here's the interesting part that changed the hand a bit for me. He took up almost all of his time, to the point where he almost ended up folding because his time had ran out and then he called............and checked the turn!!!
Pot $33.75
UTG checks

Now do I try to check it down? What do I do if he bets the river? Do I try to make another bet and take it down? Might he have AK or JJ? Does he think I have a set of Queens? Can I make him lay down a better hand?

I bet $15. He pushed all-in and I folded. Could I have gotten away from this particular hand cheaper or would I have had to call a $15 bet on the end anyway? Was there any reason for me to think that he was folding that after the way he had played after his c-bet on the flop?

Change of subject, but I did have a total lucksack hand last night in the Midnight Madness. My table had been insane and I had been playing like a rock, waiting for a big hand.

I had 2030 left (blinds 100/200) and there was a min-raise and then a re-raise to 1000. I had [Qs] OTB. I had to push and of course I ran this hand into [Kc]. No other option.

[Qd][Qh]...........

Just sick!

Day's Events

FTOPS Satelitte
2h 33m 183 hands
10th out of 79
Exit hand: above (AJ fell to Q4s all-in preflop)
Net: +$24.40

$15K Guarranteed
1h 28m 95 hands
242nd out of 718
Exit hand: KK fell to T9s. I didn't give him the odds to chase, but he rivered his OESD anyway.
Net: -$26

1/2 Limit
1h 8m 249 hands
Notes: KK cracked by TT, QQ ran into AA, AK 5x and only win was 3 out resuck on AT on the river, ran into bigger idiot than me who limped 72o and then paid off my flush although he actually rivered one himself. Lucky I had the 8-hi instead of 6 or computer would have been smashed to pieces.
Net: +$9.50 + $20 bonus

Midnight Madness
1h 0m 66 hands
402nd out of 957
Exit hand: AQo BB. 2 limpers, I raise to 5x (500 w/ 1010 left). 1 limper pushes. He has 55. I turn an Ace, he rivers a flush.
Net: -$11

Day total: +$16.90 including bonus.

I'm GOING NOWHERE!...........and yet it seems like a good day because I didn't get slaughtered.

Is it wrong that I just pray they fold whenever I bet?......Even when I'm holding the nuts at that time?

NOTE: I've now cashed 4 out of 7 MTT's this month with a -18.02 ROI. HOW? Who does that?

This may calm AllStar's nerves a bit. I'm finally going to have a good post and post some solid hands where my big pairs actually held up. I had my best NL session since 1/24 today. Only a $33.25 profit, not that much, but that just illustrates how rough the run has been. So I'm pretty happy with my play today except for 1 hand I'm unsure of which I posted in the NL section.

Started off today with a half hour of 50/1 Limit Omaha H/L (1 table). This is a game I am enjoying more and more and am not really playing as much for money right now as much as I am to learn and because I enjoy it. I profited $2.10 in the half hour. Hopefully, at some point soon I will be able to play this game for a profit. I am up about $30 over a small sample (7hrs) of very small stakes Omaha H/L this year.

Now here are some good hands from an hour and a half of NL50 today....

Got it all-in and stacked a shortie with 20 outs. My specialty: beating up on short stacks.
Weird being behind and still being a 2-1 favorite
http://www.pokerhand.org/?811622

This is the hand I posted in the NL section asking for help so I'm not going to ruin the ending.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?811630

The Limp/Push Experiment in Action.
First time I've had a chance to run it in a while. I'm amazed at the % of the time I'm getting called even though this was a short stack. I decided to limp after the 1st limper because both players directly behind me were chronic min-raisers and I got my wish.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?811632

UPDATE
Limp/push experiment:
10 pushed - 5 calls (50%) = (-$30.10) (-$3.01) per push
AA: 1 push - 1 call = (-$56.75)
Calls = 0 Wins 1 Loss
http://www.pokerhand.org/?762382 (AKs)
KK - 2 pushes - 1 call = +$21.85
Calls = 1 Win 0 Losses
http://www.pokerhand.org/?811632
QQ: 1 push - 1 call = (-$41.70)
Calls = 0 Wins 1 Loss
http://www.pokerhand.org/?767894 (AKo)
AK: 4 push - 2 call = +$41
Calls = 1 Win 1 Loss
http://www.pokerhand.org/?787600 (A9o)
http://www.pokerhand.org/?790129 (QQ)
76s: 1 push - 0 calls = +$4
Calls = NONE
65s: 1 push - 0 calls = +$2.50
Calls = NONE

In a non-limp/push hand, I had a big pair flop a set and hold up. I really liked the way I played this one and posted it in the NL section with the reasons why as well.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?811645

The AJ hand was the only hand in the session where I lost more than $2.50. I'm pretty damn happy about that with the way things have been running. My only bone to pick is that I pretty muched dumped about 1/4 of a stack without seeing a flop. 4x I called a PFR in position with a PP or whatever and it was then 3-bet or pushed behind me causing me to fold. This is becoming a much more prevelant move at the 50NL level than it was about a month ago.

I'm probably going to stay home and take another shot at one of the Guarrantees tonight. I know I have a big one coming soon.

I Will Persevere

Or blow off my entire bankroll trying. Whichever comes first at this point.

I took a few days off and made my triumphant return to NL50 tonight. At least that would sound nice. I payed 2h 12m (268 hands) of 15/4/20 poker. Not as a conscious effort, but because I was pretty much card dead. I was just waiting for the big hand tonight and I was ready to pounce.

After missing 3 flopped flush draws in a row, I flopped a monster....
[Ts] on a [Qs][9h] board against an aggressive bluffer with a big stack. I was oop, but instead of c/r in a smallish pot ($7) on the flop I just called knowing he would bet big on the turn no matter what card fell.
and he bet $10 into a $15 pot. I c/r all-in here and he actually called with [5h]. His 15 outs were better than mine with the on the river and there goes a stack.

Stack #2

I had PFRed only 3x in over 100 hands.
1st time - with JJ - tight player directly behind me (14/7/18) called, floated the flop, and then pushed a scary turn. I believed him and folded.
2nd time - same tight player 3 bet - I folded AQo
3rd time - again, same player called, floated flop and fired turn. I missed and folded.
After I saw him try this and bluff all-in on the river vs another player and get called by TPNK and then saw him go down another stack almost the same way, I decided to wait for a big one and check-raise him. Just seemed strange for someone on the surface playing such a tight game according to PT.

4th time - I raised AK and he called again as expected. Flop xKJ. I bet and he called. I feigned giving up on the turn blank and got him to put in another large bet and just before I check-raised all-in I thought JJ, but figured that was just the paranoid monster's under the bed part of me. So he called and stacked me with his set of Jacks. Glad I waited almost 2 hours for that.

Just after that it seemed that both tables broke up and everyone went home. To be fair, I'm looking for some big hands that I won, but the only pot I won over $5 was when I turned 2 pair vs QQ, but did't get paid off. Only +$12.60. Finished down $85 for the session.

Here's a numerical update for last week. I'm now closing in on a 1/3 bankroll defecit since 1/24.


#'s for the Week
Yearly Results:
WEEK 1 +$95.60 (23h 11m)
WEEK 2 +$61.05 (14h 53m)
WEEK 3 +$159.12 (18h 42m)
WEEK 4 -$193.65 (26h 45m)

JANUARY +$152.69

WEEK 5 +$57.85 (25h 32m)
WEEK 6 -$167.65 (26h 17m)

Just to quickly update before I forget. Didn't something kinda silly today and limped Kings on the Button. SB raised, BB called, and I pushed so it kinda worked and I'm going to include the hand in the experiment. I should have done it again w/ QQ today, but I raised instead and lost to a half stacker with AQ on an Ace on the river. Didn't think he was calling a pot sized c-bet for 1/3 his remaining stack with 2 overs and no other possible draws.

Limp/push experiment:
11 pushed - 5 calls (45%) = (-$26.10) (-$2.37) per push
AA: 1 push - 1 call = (-$56.75)
Calls = 0 Wins 1 Loss
http://www.pokerhand.org/?762382 (AKs)
KK - 3 pushes - 1 call = +$25.85
Calls = 1 Win 0 Losses
http://www.pokerhand.org/?811632
QQ: 1 push - 1 call = (-$41.70)
Calls = 0 Wins 1 Loss
http://www.pokerhand.org/?767894 (AKo)
AK: 4 push - 2 call = +$41
Calls = 1 Win 1 Loss
http://www.pokerhand.org/?787600 (A9o)
http://www.pokerhand.org/?790129 (QQ)
76s: 1 push - 0 calls = +$4
Calls = NONE
65s: 1 push - 0 calls = +$2.50
Calls = NONE

Frustration of a different kind today.
- Flopped a set in a 3-way raised pot. PFRer just checked twice and folded on a K5xx board. No action
- Raised 35s from 2 off the buttton. Button and BB called. Flop 555. Checked around and nobody wanted to play a pocket pair on the turn.
- The short stack hit and runs are taking over. I ended up playing at one table where I noticed that all other 8 players had bought in for $20 or less at one point. On other tables there are always 2 or 3 players with 40% or less of a stack. They wait until someone puts in a big raise then push with something like QJo. They beat AK, double up, and immediately all of the short stacks will leave the table and then then the table is entirely empty a few hands later. It's aggrivating because you know that if you lose a decent pot you aren't going to even have the chance to get it back.

So what's this new tournament rule where when someone raises one of your blinds, you are required to put in a re-raise of at least 1/3 of your stack no matter what 2 cards you have?

Lasted just 12 hands in the Midnight Madness tonight. Ran JJ into AJ (2nd best hand on full tilt next to 44) and even though he only needed the 1 Ace, he hit 2 of them. I open-raised from MP, he 3-bet from the small blind and I pushed. I'm still waiting patiently for my big MTT hit. I haven't final tabled an MTT with over 100 entrants in 43 attempts yet this year.

A few hands earlier I saw a player open-raise from early, the big blind put in large re-raise. The flop came TJA. BB pushes, EP calls. Your thinking AK vs JJ or AA or TT some huge kinda hand like that right? How about EP had ATo and BB had 57o. WTF is up with this psycho aggression from the blinds?

Anyway, today was a GREAT day otherwise!

What I was really looking for was a couple of decent 1/2 limit tables to grind out for a long session today, but the waiting lists were 4 and 5 long for the few tables running so I endedup playing 4 short session (3 50NL FR - 1 6-max 1/2 limit) and making a small killing.

Mini-session 1
118 hands NL50 50 minutes +$20.10
This was the session where I had KK 3 hands in a row and profited only 25 cents and also the where I raised 53s, got 2 callers, and flopped quad 5's, but nobody wanted to play. I basically won a bunch of small pots here, which is fine.

Mini-session 2
88 hands 1/2 Limit 6-max 23 minutes +$2
This was just psychotic. I couldn't stay. I don't know if this is standard or not, but I got players at 60/30/50 all around me just cleaning up. Here are some just sick hands in a short time span.....

[Qh] in the SB.
CO limps, Button (53/18/44) raises, I call, BB calls, CO calls
[9h][8h] Pot 8 SB
I bet, BB raises, CO calls, Button 3-bets, I cap and only Button calls.
Pot 10 BB
I bet, Button raises, I call
Pot 14 BB
I check/fold

[Jd] in BB
CO (79/0/67) limps, SB (33/15/30) calls, I raise, both call.
[6h][7s] Pot 6 SB
SB bets, I raise, CO calls, SB 3-bets, I cap, CO folds, SB calls
Pot 8 BB
SB bet, I called
Pot 10 BB
SB bet, I called
SB had [3h]

[4h] CO
MP limps, I limp (I know, pretty loose), Button limps, SB calls
[Th][8s] Pot 5 SB
3 checks, I bet, SB and MP call
Pot 4 BB
2 checks, I bet, both call
Pot 7 BB
SB bets, MP raises (oh sh*t), I call, SB calls
SB plays the board and MP has [Jh] - score 8.5 BB for me

[Jd] CO
MP rasies, I 3-bet, MP caps
[2h][6h] Pot 9.5 SB
MP bets, I raise, MP 3-bets, I call
Pot 7.75 BB
MP bets, I call
Pot 9.75 BB
MP bets, I call
MP [7h] - score 5.75 BB for me

[9s] MP
I raise, CO calls, Button 3-bets, SB calls, I call, CO calls
[4d][5d] 13 SB
SB checks, I check, CO bets, Button raises, SB folds, I fold, CO calls
Pot 8.5 BB
CO checks, Button bets, CO calls
Pot 10.5 BB
Check, check
CO has [9h] and Button has [Kh]


Mini-session 3
72 hands NL50 37 minutes +$30.95

http://www.pokerhand.org/?821293 - Found my balls and became aggressive again.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?821298 - Dumb ass Turn check and river call. I had him either on a Ten or a flush draw. One got there, the other didn't, but way to go calling off 1/3 of your stack with 3 outs. Even better, way to go me for not being able to lay that down.

Here is a stilly decision, which ironically ends up turning into my biggest profit. Actually, now that I look at it, it was the right move, but I didn't have the short stack who was playing every hand on Aces.......

I limp [9d] UTG+1 (7 handed) MP raises to $2 (shortie 40/20/22), CO calls, SB calls, BB calls, so I have to call
[[7d][Qd] Pot $10
SB bets $10 into the pot (SB has $17.05 left), BB folds, I'm not sure what to do, but end up pushing, MP calls off his last $7.15, CO folds, SB calls his last $17.05
So I now realize that there was enough in the side-pot to make me a profit even if I didn't catch my flush, as long as SB didn't hit. I was actually ahead of him.
SB [5s] - MP [Ac]
Moot point. I turned and scooped. Right push, wrong push? Results oriented? I'm not sure.

Mini-session 4
115 hands NL50 54 minutes +$47 + $20 bonus
Kept up the aggression........
http://www.pokerhand.org/?821310 (BB was ABSOLUTELY CONVINCED I had a set of 4's here - even told me he was glad he folded a half hour later)
and it was nice flopping the nuts and actually not being drawn out on.....
http://www.pokerhand.org/?821309

+$120.05 with only one decent sized pot to speak of. I will grind out this win and happily take that EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK!

Lucksacked my way to a decent finish in the Midnight Madness last night. Luck was badly against me tonight as I lasted 15 minutes.

2 blind vs blind battles.
1 - [4c] in BB. SB limps in and board flops all hearts. BB has [6h]
2 - [Ks] in BB. SB limps, I raise 4x, SB calls. Flop [7s][5d]. SB has [5h]

All I can do is play them right and hope.

I Make Great Laydowns
Last night's Midnight Madness was a different story. I waited patiently and raised my good hands and all of a sudden I'm facing a re-raise and a push so I lay them down.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?827073 (JJ to a BB push and UTG limp/push)
http://www.pokerhand.org/?827075 (AJo in the BB vs a fishy limp/re-raise)

Among others. So after a while I got kinda sick of watching the blinds push vs every raise and turn over garbage. It also meant a little something that I had only and M of 3, but I pushed A3 from CO and ran into KK from the SB
http://www.pokerhand.org/?827078 (I wasn't proud of this, but I played it right)
Then I tried to steal in CO with K9s and ran into BB AA.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?827079 (I still feel like I played it correctly)
How was I supposed to fold to that re-raise? Was that even legal?

So I guess that's how you have to win hands. Get it in with the worst and it'll work out.

Knockout blow was again from CO. I open-pushed 9K with 600/1200 blinds with A8o and ran into AQo in SB. Good for 44th out of 815. Can't complain, but I want a Final Table dammit.

Running Normal?
2 NL sessions (1:20 and 0:50) went rather well today again. I want to say that I'm running well because I got my money in pretty far ahead a few times and didn't take many bad beats, but isn't that just running normal? Which, by the way, I would be estatic to run every single day. But I don't think you can call it running well. I mean no sets, no straights, no flushes (one, but I had AA and didn't even need it), no boats (Also one, but un-needed), but a winning day because I beat up on short stacks that wanted to call off way behind.

Got it in preflop vs a short stack with TT vs 66 and didn't get drawn out.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?827093

Got it all-in with AA vs a short stack idiot and didn't get sucked out on.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?827095

I don't ask for much. This is all I ask for and this is a good day. OK, I also ask that after I beat up a couple of short stacks, I don't take my one bad beat in the only gigantic pot I play and end up stuck on the day.

2nd session, I lost a few bucks
Guy played his Aces like and idiot, flopped a set, gave a free draw, then resucked the river on me. Just glad this was a short stack because this is usually when the big stack breaks me. Very lucky idiot.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?827100

And that was the difference between winning and losing in the 2nd session.

Most Ridiculous Call Ever?
Here's a special treat to anyone actually reading this. Go ahead and laugh your ass off. This is the same short stack that dumped his stack to my Aces with K9.
Can tell me what the hell he was thinking......
A) When he called a raise and then a large re-raise from the BB with K8o
B) When he min-bet the Turn (50 cents into a $33 pot)

I'm actually a little bit surprised that he lost this hand. LOLOLOL. Maybe bad beat month at FT is over.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?827109

Now this is a run.....

19 straight hands on a 1/2 Limit table
AA - WIN
AJs - Flop TPTK - WIN
Fold
AKo - Beat 88 in BB w/ Ace on turn - WIN
AA - WIN
Fold
Fold
77 - Bad Flop - LOSE
99 - vs 77 on 976 flop - WIN 8.5 BB
99 - ATo calls me down uninproved - WIN
QTs - Open-raised OTB - LOSE
ATs - facing an MP PFR. almost called, but I've been playing every hand lately. Fold.
AQo - 9KJ flop and a c/r. fold turn - LOSE
Fold
KQo - LOSE
Fold
Fold
QJo - Steal - WIN
KJs - Button raise, flop OESD, hit on river to beat ATo in SB - WIN

19 hands = +18.89 BB

I like running at 1 BB per hand. Good way to spend a day. Unfortunately I didn't do as well at my other tables. +10 BB total over 229 hands. I'll still take it.