Bet the guy who folded had 77.

my new theory on poker...you cant run bad if you dont play

CA is awesome. christmas was so much fun. the woman and i got a ton of stuff.

ive played a few short sessions and so far its gone pretty well. waiting for stelvask to not be a lazy heeb so we can go to commerce. but meh.

dec.

ytd

played about 4 hours today at Commerce with Rhound. i really dont feel like i played my "A" game. there were a couple hands where i wussed out and missed some value i think (and i was told by rhound). but i booked a $250 winner, so im not too displeased. couple hands of interest...(all at $2/$5 $200max)

i raise one limper with KQo from MP to $25 and the SB calls. flop is Khigh rainbow and SB leads $25, i call. turn is an A that puts a FD out. SB checks, i check after thinking (heres one of those spots i missed out on some fold equity i think). check/check brick river, and we chop as SB has KQo as well.

hand 2, Rhound blind raises my BB to $10 (as commerce wont allow a live straddle), couple calls to CO who raises to $35, folds to me and i reraise to $100 with KK. folds to the CO who thinks for a while and folds and flashes QQ....i think if i was playing on a deeper roll i make a smaller reraise, to like $85 or something but b/c i really only wanted to play on the one buy-in and not have to borrow $ from Rhound, i didnt want to see an A on the flop and/or let some random hand in. so again, probably missed some value there, but im not unhappy with how i played it.


ok, so now the year-end wrap up and '08 goals.

december


basically december sucked balls. i went on a downswing and that caused me to start playing pretty poorly imo. i stopped playing the poker that i had played to build my BR. i started just trying to put in tons and tons of hands. i dont need to. im not playing poker to support myself. im playing to make $ and i clearly make more $ playing shorter sessions.
2007


overall...im pretty happy with how poker went for me this "year" (last few months). i played pretty disciplined. there were definitely moments where i could have gone on super crazy monkey tilt and gone busto. but everytime i needed to, i dropped down and played within my bankroll. i dont think i would have done that in years past.

goals for '08
i'll keep these short since this is getting long.

1)play within my bankroll
2)play short(ish) sessions (500-1200 hands)
3)move up when i have 20BI
4)make the most of my lessons with Kenny

How about the hand you raises KQ flop comes K72, weak tight lady checks, you bet, she calls. Turn A, she checks, you check. River some brick, she checks again, and you check behind? Power poker at its finest Doyle would be proud.