Back to Reality

I knew it was going to come and it did last night... in spades.

I don't have a lot of time; but in fairness, I wanted to at least post something.

The basic gist of the story is that I was down 7 buyins last night. It was 10 at one point. It was back to 5 at one point; but then ultimately it ended up at 7. It was just one of those nights that even if you got it in good, you lost. I was stacked four times as a 80% favorite. There was a set over set stacking. There was a flopped dummy straight losing to a flopped nut straight. You know, those kind of things that happen when you play this game long enough. I must have got JackAce 30 times (27 last time I checked) and just could flop anything and when I did, it wasn't good enough. I was a loser with KK, QQ, JJ and TT. Etc. Etc.

I played BoDonk last night and was a big chip leader for a while; but gave it all back. I did make the final table; but ran into ThreeJacks Pocket Aces.

Have a good Turkey Day weekend.

Nice Weekend pretty much all around

I pretty much how a nice weekend all around from Sports to poker.

First let's talk about Friday's Hand.

The villain here is pretty much a maniac playing 57% of his hands while raising 41% and very aggressive with a 4.0 aggression factor.

Full Tilt Poker $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

BB: $145.85
UTG: $106.00
Hero (MP): $129.30
CO: $254.15
BTN: $426.05
SB: $108.50

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is MP with Kh Kd
1 fold, Hero raises to $3.50, CO calls $3.50, 3 folds

Flop: ($8.50) Js Ts Qh (2 players)
Hero bets $5, CO calls $5

Again, pretty standard preflop and flop bets. I flop an over pair with and OESD so not bad.

Turn: ($18.50) Jd (2 players)
Hero bets $12, CO requests TIME, CO calls $12

Given his stats, I thought it was safe to fire another bullets as I most likely ahead. He takes a long, long time and finally just calls. I was fully expecting a push after him taking that much time; but he didn't

River: ($42.50) 8s (2 players)


Hero checks, CO bets $42.50, Hero requests TIME, Hero ??

Wow, could this river card be any worse? If he was drawing to the spades, he hit it. If he had a straight draw with a 9, he hit it. If he has a J, he wins. He bets the pot. From a maniacal type player, it seems like a bluff. What do you do?





As you can see I took my time and finally ended up folding. I think taking a river shot at this might have been the best play. Just a small blocking type bet of say $20. If he pushes, I can probably fold. Instead, he could represent many, many hands and I couldn't call.





Friday, was just poker night. I played a little longer to get points for Saturday as I wasn't sure how much I would be able to play on Saturday. Anyway, it was a good night of poker.





Saturday was a good sports day. It started off with my college, Missouri State opening up their new building with a win over Arkansas. MO State doesn't get to play schools from large conferences very often; but they have started off with 2 or their first 3 against Southeast Conference teams. They hung in with Auburn for a bit before losing by 15; but have come back to win the next two games against Central Michigan and Arkansas. MO St was picked to come in last place in the Missouri Valley Conference which is the first time that has ever happened as they are typically in the top half.





The big college football game Saturday was OU vs Texas Tech. As hard as it was, I was rooting for OU; however, I did not want them to destroy Tech as they did. While, Texas did remain at #2 in the polls, it looks as though they might lose that ranking next week if OU handles OSU.





And then on Sunday, The Cowboys took care of business. So sportswise, things went well. Not so much for my Fantasy teams; but what can you do.





Poker wise for the weekend, things went really well. Here is the chart.







My good fortune seems to be continue. I am enjoying the ride; but know that it can't last.

I'm even having thoughts of moving up a step to 200NL. Has anybody played both 100NL and 200NL to tell me any major differences (6max)? I'll finish out the month per my normal routine and see how it goes.

Onto the hand of the day. While there were some tough decisions this weekend; nothing was really too far out of the ordinary. I'll throw this one out there for comments.


SB is weak passive at 67/7/2.0 or small amount of hands
BB is more aggressive at 33/18/1.8 over 60 hands.




Full Tilt Poker $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold'em - 5 players
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

BB: $91.20
Hero (UTG): $112.30
CO: $104.40
BTN: $32.65
SB: $43.30

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is UTG with 8s 8c
Hero raises to $3.50, CO calls $3.50, BTN calls $3.50, SB calls $3, BB calls $2.50

hmmm family pot

Flop: ($17.50) 6s 5c 4d (5 players)
SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets $12, CO folds, BTN folds, SB calls $12, BB calls $12

OK.. not a terrible flop, let me take a shot here.

Turn: ($53.50) Ac (3 players)
SB checks, BB bets $12, Hero calls $12, SB raises to $27.80 all in, BB calls $15.80, Hero ??

I think the first call seems a little weak and then after check raise and a call, somebody would seem to have an ace. I've got odds; but is it worth it?

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I did play a home tourney at JamyHawks house but went out right at the first break. I ran into a guy that hadn't really played holdem much and as it always seems to go, they catch cards. No matter what I had, he had better such as flush over flush. Finally, right before the break everybody (or most) limped to my BB. I probably had a little over 12 or 13 big blinds and pushed my JackAce. Of course the new guy says.. what the heck and calls with KTs and catches a Ten and I go home. Oh well, that is how it goes sometimes. I still had a good time meeting some new guys and it always fun playing live poker. Maybe next time, I'll do better.


Have a nice day!!!

Did anybody order a Cooler?

Well, did my blog about winning show it's ugly face tonight? Did the poker gods decide to punish me for posting positive results? We shall find out soon.

But first, let's talk about the hand from yesterday. Here it is again.

The villain here is a weak passive player seeing 38% of flops and only raising 2%.

Full Tilt Poker $0.50/$1 Pot Limit Hold'em - 5 players
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

UTG: $100.00
Hero (CO): $196.55
BTN: $51.90
SB: $100.50
BB: $41.30

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is CO with 9d Ah
1 fold, Hero raises to $3.50, BTN calls $3.50, 2 folds

Standard raise from cutoff.

Flop: ($8.50) 6h 8c 3d (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $3, Hero raises to $10.25, BTN calls $7.25

I don't always C-bet. I typically C-bet around 70% of the time and I had check folded once or twice at this table most likely. So I check raise and he calls?? The call seemed weak to me given his stack size.

Turn: ($29.00) Kd (2 players)
Hero bets $15, BTN ??

First thing to note here are original stack sizes. BTN is only playing about 52BB. He is also very weak passive calling almost 40% of the hands while only raising 2% of them. These things add up to not a very good player and you are able to pick up pots from these guys. Well, at least typically you can.

Let's talk about this hand. Standard raise from cutoff. I am pretty much open raising any Ace from there. The only time I may not raise A9o is if I have been overly active in the past couple of hands.

So the flop missing me altogether and I am pretty much ready to give up on the hand. That is until the button decides to put a weakish bet out on the flop of less than half the pot. What could I do? I could easily fold as I am most likely behind. After a bit of thought, I wanted to test him to see how much he actually liked his hand and check raised him only to see him call.

Does this call seem strange to anybody else besides me? If he had something, he would have pushed given his stack size, don't would think? So usually when a call scares you, this one made me a little puzzled. Is he slow playing a monster type hand? I don't think so. Short stackers love to get it in early if they hit.

That can only mean that I am not done with this hand. I felt the pot was big enough to take a stab. But how much to bet. Do I push him all in? Do I bet pot? We have to know that he is pretty weak; but is he drawing or does have a small pair such 3rd pair or just ace high? My thoughts are that we didn't like his hand; but was going to try to hit on the turn so I put a very small bet of a little less than his remaining stack trying to make it look like I wanted to string him along. The problem is that if is drawing, he absolutely is getting the right price to come along; but then again he would be committing himself to the hand.

One thing else to mention as I noted before, I was playing pretty tight.

What did he do? He folded.

I was right; but it doesn't make it typically the right play. Klopzi was right to question it; especially at these small stakes. I heard an interesting thing on the way home tonight while listening to an old 2+2 Pokerkast with David Sklansky giving a little tidbit during a commercial break. He says these new style of 6 max players can make a good living by winning a lot of small pots. He was referring to stealing blinds, continuation betting and even firing second bullets (thanks Dubspoke for the tip and link to his blog). After the last couple of months, I whole heartedly agree with him. Maybe not on the good living part; but helping you make a good hourly rate. Anyway, that's my story and I am sticking to it.

OK, onto tonight and this is where the coolers come in. Things pretty much picked up where they lift off and I was up over 1 1/2 buyins after 272 hands. I was then handed this hand:

Full Tilt Poker $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

BB: $348.95
UTG: $249.70
MP: $192.45
CO: $198.90
BTN: $287.70
Hero (SB): $104.50

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is SB with 9s 8s
1 fold, MP raises to $3.50, CO calls $3.50, 1 fold, Hero calls $3, 1 fold

Farily loose call out of position. Could have raised/squeezed.

Flop: ($11.50) Ah 4s As (3 players)
Hero checks, MP bets $7.50, CO folds, Hero calls $7.50

Turn: ($26.50) Qs (2 players)
Hero checks, MP bets $17.50, Hero calls $17.50

Normally a raise here; but the Queen truly did scare me.

River: ($61.50) 9d (2 players)
Hero checks, MP bets $44, Hero raises to $76 all in, MP calls $32

apparently, the Queen didn't scare me enough. It was one of those things that you know what he has, you just have to see it to believe it.

Final Pot: $213.50
MP shows Qd Ac (a full house, Aces full of Queens)
Hero shows 9s 8s (a flush, Ace high)
MP wins $210.50
(Rake: $3.00)

I could have only called on the river; but while I was very afraid of AQ and knew there was a good chance he had (even on the turn, I was fearful of it); but I didn't want to lose any value if I was wrong.

Then about 100 hands later, this one came up against a very well known player (at least to me who looks at tableratings.com) at these limits.

Full Tilt Poker $0.50/$1 Pot Limit Hold'em - 6 players
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

BB: $119.80
Hero (UTG): $205.20
MP: $101.50
CO: $100.00
BTN: $100.00
SB: $104.65

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is UTG with 9d 9c
Hero raises to $3.50, 1 fold, CO calls $3.50, BTN calls $3.50, 2 folds

Flop: ($12.00) 7c 3c 5c (3 players)
Hero bets $8, CO raises to $22, BTN folds, Hero calls $14

Turn: ($56.00) 7s (2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $34, Hero raises to $158, CO calls $40.50 all in

River: ($205.00) 3s (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $205.00
Hero shows 9d 9c (two pair, Nines and Sevens)
CO shows 7h 8h (a full house, Sevens full of Threes)
CO wins $202.00
(Rake: $3.00)

That put me in negative territory until this hand came a bit later...

Full Tilt Poker $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold'em - 5 players
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

BTN: $74.00
SB: $102.00
BB: $103.10
Hero (UTG): $134.50
CO: $102.20

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is UTG with Qs Qc
Hero raises to $3.50, CO calls $3.50, 3 folds

Flop: ($8.50) Ad Qh 6h (2 players)
Hero bets $5.10, CO raises to $16, Hero calls $10.90

Turn: ($40.50) Td (2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $22, Hero raises to $83, CO calls $60.70 all in

River: ($205.90) 6s (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $205.90
Hero shows Qs Qc (a full house, Queens full of Sixes)
CO shows As Ts (two pair, Aces and Tens)
Hero wins $202.90
(Rake: $3.00)





I called it quits not too much later after I got my 200 pts up a little over $80; but the coolers were definitely out tonight. Here's a look at the graph:








Again, I played very tight as I just couldn't get very many cards.

Stats looked like this:

18.2 / 13.2 / 2.61
3bet only 4.9%
Went to Showdown 27.1%
Won $ at Showdown 47.4%

Works out to about 14.37 bb/100

OK, onto the hand of the day.

A hand with pocket Kings...




The villain here is pretty much a maniac playing 57% of his hands while raising 41% and very aggressive with a 4.0 aggression factor.

Full Tilt Poker $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

BB: $145.85
UTG: $106.00
Hero (MP): $129.30
CO: $254.15
BTN: $426.05
SB: $108.50

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is MP with Kh Kd
1 fold, Hero raises to $3.50, CO calls $3.50, 3 folds

Flop: ($8.50) Js Ts Qh (2 players)
Hero bets $5, CO calls $5

Again, pretty standard preflop and flop bets. I flop an over pair with and OESD so not bad.

Turn: ($18.50) Jd (2 players)
Hero bets $12, CO requests TIME, CO calls $12

Given his stats, I thought it was safe to fire another bullets as I most likely ahead. He takes a long, long time and finally just calls. I was fully expecting a push after him taking that much time; but he didn't

River: ($42.50) 8s (2 players)


Hero checks, CO bets $42.50, Hero requests TIME, Hero ??

Wow, could this river card be any worse? If he was drawing to the spades, he hit it. If he had a straight draw with a 9, he hit it. If he has a J, he wins. He bets the pot. From a maniacal type player, it seems like a bluff. What do you do?

Have a nice day!!!!

Good Times and Bluffing

The times that you are running good need to really be cherished as they don't come around too often.

Tonight, my night looked like this:

456 Hands (1.22 Hours)

I played a typcial TAG game with stats of 21.7/14.3/2.17 . I 3 bet about 8% and I did NOT hit any sets tonight.

Went to Showdown 31%
Won $ at Showdown 70%

Here is the sick graph (for me at least) as this never really happens to me.




Everybody knows that as soon as you blog about this, you totally jinx yourself. I hope that is not the case in the future.

Yesterday, I talked about a hand (I'll have another one below this) where I turned a straight; but that card also hit a flush draw. Here is the hand in review:

Villain is your typical TAG... 17/14/2.0.. but only after 30 hands.

Full Tilt p0ker $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

SB: $120.85
Hero (BB): $120.00
UTG: $121.20
MP: $158.05
CO: $113.85
BTN: $200.00

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is BB with 4s As
UTG raises to $3.50, 2 folds, BTN calls $3.50, 1 fold, Hero calls $2.50

Closing the action here, I don't mind seeing a flop. Thoughts?

Flop: ($11.00) 3c Ad 2d (3 players)
Hero checks, UTG checks, BTN checks

Anybody bet out here?

Turn: ($11.00) 5d (3 players)
Hero checks, UTG checks, BTN bets $9, Hero raises to $28, UTG folds, BTN calls $19

I check raise and get called? Shut it down?

River: ($67.00) 9s (2 players)
Hero ?

Two things were going on in my head when this happened. One of them kind of made sense and one of them didn't.

First, the one that didn't. After I made that check/raise on the turn, my focus immediately changed to another table where I was involved in a 125BB pot.

Second, after a brief time of thinking, it just seemed like a 2 pair type of hand such as A9.

So what did I do?

River: ($67.00) 9s (2 players)
Hero bets $44, BTN raises to $168.50 all in, Hero calls $44.50 all in

Final Pot: $244.00
Hero mucks 4s As
BTN shows Kd Jd (a flush, Ace high)
BTN wins $241.00
(Rake: $3.00)

I bet and got shoved on and really had to make the call. As this guy was a pretty straight forward tight player, I was pretty surprised to see him cold call with KJs; but live and learn.
Perhaps, I could have bet a little bit less and maybe could have folded. Also, maybe if I would have thought a little longer on his cold call on check raise, it probably should have sent out more warning signals.

I really didn't have any real tough decisions tonight so since I had just listened to a podcast from poker road called All Strategy about bluffing, I thought I would post a hand about bluffing from tonight to get your thoughts.

First, the podcast said that bluffing at the micro/small levels is not necessary and most likely a losing proposistion. I guess I somewhat agree; but there are plenty of players at my level that know what there doing and can fold to bets. That player was NOT the player that I was dealing with here.

The villain here is a weak passive player seeing 38% of flops and only raising 2%.

Full Tilt Poker $0.50/$1 Pot Limit Hold'em - 5 players
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

UTG: $100.00
Hero (CO): $196.55
BTN: $51.90
SB: $100.50
BB: $41.30

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is CO with 9d Ah
1 fold, Hero raises to $3.50, BTN calls $3.50, 2 folds

Standard raise from cutoff.

Flop: ($8.50) 6h 8c 3d (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $3, Hero raises to $10.25, BTN calls $7.25

I don't always C-bet. I typically C-bet around 70% of the time and I had check folded once or twice at this table most likely. So I check raise and he calls?? The call seemed weak to me given his stack size.

Turn: ($29.00) Kd (2 players)
Hero bets $15, BTN ??

I thought this was a good spot to bluff and I knew it wouldn't take much of a bet to find out and I actually thought a 1/2 pot bet (again given his stack size) would definitely look like I wanted a call.

Let me know of your thoughts and I will post if he called/pushed/or folded tomorrow.

Have a nice day!!

BoDonk Deja Vu and Auto Bailout

I had a good day yesterday where I was up about 3 or 4 buyins. I'll throw one hand out there for your thoughts and I will follow up with the results tomorrow.

Villain is your typical TAG... 17/14/2.0.. but only after 30 hands.

Full Tilt p0ker $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

SB: $120.85
Hero (BB): $120.00
UTG: $121.20
MP: $158.05
CO: $113.85
BTN: $200.00

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is BB with 4s As
UTG raises to $3.50, 2 folds, BTN calls $3.50, 1 fold, Hero calls $2.50

Closing the action here, I don't mind seeing a flop. Thoughts?

Flop: ($11.00) 3c Ad 2d (3 players)
Hero checks, UTG checks, BTN checks

Anybody bet out here?

Turn: ($11.00) 5d (3 players)
Hero checks, UTG checks, BTN bets $9, Hero raises to $28, UTG folds, BTN calls $19

I check raise and get called? Shut it down?


River: ($67.00) 9s (2 players)
Hero ?


In other news, I played in the Tuesday BoDonk again. This time, I just stayed in the middle of the pack for the most part; but found myself at the final table again and then eventually headsup with none other than Iam23skiddo again. At one point, I took over the chip lead; but I not sure I had the lead when it came to heads up. There was definitely some DejaVu going on as soon as it got to heads up, I went card dead. I ended up check raising 2nd pair only to find out that I was outkicked. So, 2nd place again for me. Good Game skiddo. I believe I am in 7th place in the leaderboard standings.

In other, other news, I was off work yesterday and sat down around 4PM to see how the stock market did that day and they were showing the Senate Hearings with the Auto Makers. I was just drawn to this and couldn't stop watching. Watching the Senators drill these highly successful (and paid) executives who were more or less begging for money just caught my attention and kept it. They definitely had to answer some tough questions around executive pay, going concern questions, why they deserve it, what are they going to do with it, etc... It was some good TV. At the end of the day, I'm sure that they will get it and then some other industry will takes it turn. We'll see how it goes.

Have a nice day!!!

Getting Back on the Blogging Horse... Maybe

I have been very bad at blogging lately. I wish I had a good excuse; but I don't. Typically, it is because I haven't be running very well and therefore I don't want to own up to it. That may have been the case early on; but I have been doing OK so far this month. It's been a really roller coaster month. I won't post a chart yet; but will start posting more stats and charts in upcoming posts.

This post is more for me organizing my plan for the rest of the year.

One of my first goals is blogging? Why, you ask? Well, let me tell you. When I first started this blog, this was a great place to journal and document my poker journey. I want to get back to that. So for the rest of the year, I want to blog once a day on the weekdays where I will document my thoughts for the day as well as show some of my interesting hands (to me anyway). What this does is makes me take a look at my hands.

Next, study more. I think it is a given by now that I don't read books. I just don't make enough time to do it. While, I'm not saying that I won't as I have 5 or 6 books that I would like to read and the holidays is always a good time to do that. So instead, I will continue to read blogs, forums and other sites like this one where I can get a Poker Tip Of the Day. Any and all tid bits that I can pick up can only help me become a better player.

On a similar note, I plan to watch more videos. I am member of Stoxpoker and Cardrunners. I want to commit at the beginning to watching 2 videos a week and hopefully more.

I'm not sure that I want to set a monetary goal because that can always change; but I want to continue to play and get better and perhaps move up a level by year end. I am still currently playing 50c/$1. Before I move up, I want to have at least 20 buyins on the particular site that I am playing on. For example, I still need to make 11 buyins on Full Tilt before I can move up even though as a total bankroll, I have more that enough to play at that level.

I'm not sure what the difference between 100NL and 200NL; but I imagine it to be a pretty big jump. It is amazing to see the amount of people that totally grind out 100NL. Currently, I am playing 4 tables at a time and that seems to work; but I am not discounting trying more tables.

OK, we'll see how it goes and starting tomorrow, I will try to post more.

Have a good day!!!!

PokerSoftware

It seems like these days, there are more and more poker type websites popping up and to be truthful; very few of them are worth going to as they are pretty much rehashes of other Poker Info type websites. On the other hand, there are some out there that are truly worth the visit over and over again. One website that fits this category is something that I have just been made aware of and that is PokerSoftware.com.

Let me start off by saying that I love using Poker Software. Anything that can help me improve my game, you can count me in. The trouble sometimes is finding this software. Before today, I've had to look in bigger forums that weren't focused on software; but now I don't have to. PokerSoftware.com has all the info I need.

As of right now, Poker Software rates and reviews many different poker programs and AHK (Auto Hot Key)scripts. These AHK scripts are really cool. I use a couple of them already; but I am excited to read about the others. They have these programs in easy to find categories such as Tracking/Analysis, Odds Calculators, Table Selection, Buddy Lists, SNG Tools, Bankroll Trackers, AHK Scripts and More. They also have video reviews of software such as this one for Holdem Manager.

Not only do they rate and review programs, they also have written articles revolving around the topic such as the most current article about Determining if Poker Software is Legit. This is really good stuff.

One of the main things I like to see in a website is a forum and is the forum active. The answer for that here is yes and yes. They a few different categories. It looks like they have about 484 members with the newest member being yours truly, WillWonka.

I'm interested to see what others are using in the way of Poker Software so I have put a poll up on my website (upper right hand side). Let me know what you use. You can select multiple answers.

So, if you are looking around for Poker Software and don't know what is worth it and will help you with your game, then PokerSoftware.com is your answer.

** This had been a paid advertisement **

Have a nice Weekend!!!

Better to be Lucky than good

I have played a fair amount of poker this month. The results have been mixed, as usual; but sometimes, it is better to be lucky than good.

Hand #1

Full Tilt p0ker $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

SB: $100.00
BB: $114.10
UTG: $103.65
MP: $100.00
Hero (CO): $138.30
BTN: $103.85

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is CO with Kc Kh
2 folds, Hero raises to $3.50, BTN calls $3.50, 2 folds

Flop: ($8.50) 8s 6c Ks (2 players)
Hero bets $5, BTN calls $5

Turn: ($18.50) 4c (2 players)
Hero bets $14, BTN raises to $48, Hero raises to $129.80 all in, BTN calls $47.35 all in

River: ($209.20) Kd (2 players - 2 are all in)

Final Pot: $209.20
Hero shows Kc Kh (four of a kind, Kings)
BTN shows 7h 5h (a straight, Eight high)
Hero wins $206.20
(Rake: $3.00)



Hand #2

No reads

Full Tilt p0ker $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold'em - 5 players
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

BB: $222.55
UTG: $100.00
CO: $88.35
BTN: $328.45
Hero (SB): $100.00

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is SB with 6s 6d
UTG raises to $3.50, CO calls $3.50, 1 fold, Hero calls $3, 1 fold

Flop: ($11.50) 5h 8d 7s (3 players)
Hero checks, UTG checks, CO bets $7, Hero raises to $20, UTG folds, CO calls $13

Turn: ($51.50) 8c (2 players)
Hero bets $30, CO requests TIME, CO raises to $64.85 all in, Hero calls $34.85

River: ($181.20) 6c (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $181.20
CO shows 9h 9s (a straight, Nine high)
Hero shows 6s 6d (a full house, Sixes full of Eights)
Hero wins $178.20
(Rake: $3.00)

I'm putting a new poll with the November Nine. Let me know who you are pulling for. I can honestly say that I am getting excited for the Final Table.

Have a good weekend!!!

Sports Weekend Nightmare

To say that I am on suicide watch, may be an under statement.

Watching my Texas Longhorns come back on to lose it on the last play hurt. Then on Sunday, my Cowboys got demolished. While I was expecting them to lose, I was hoping that they would at least put up a game.

Pokerwise, I am back to playing cash and I found that I did truly miss it. Unfortunately, it started off terribly as well.

I hope to post some hands tomorrow; but here is the graph.

So, only a little over 1,500 hands; but it was brutal for a while there. Luckily, I got hot towards the hands and my big hands help up. I can tell, that I hadn't played in a while because I believe I was back to my more aggressive play.

I played at a 29/20/2.37 pace. I was 3 betting a lot more at 10.3% in position. Knowing what to do and actually doing it, is a different thing. Two barreling was also something I tried more. Many people will float the flop; but will fold the turn. We'll see how it goes this week.

Have a nice day!!!!