Nice week

Another good day today, actually breaking my best one-day results posted 4 days ago. While I feel like I played well, I will say that my good hands mostly held up again and one big hand helped make it a great day:



I limp with 44 in mid position. cutoff raises $1.25, button calls and the guy to my right calls. Price is right to see the flop so I call. Flop is 49T rainbow. I check, cutoff bets $3, button folds but the guy to my right calls. I raise to $12.75 only to see the original raiser shove all in for his last $24 and the other guy shove right along with him for about the same amount. At this point, I figure there's a good chance I've been outflopped set over set, but the pot is so big that I can't fold. Turn is a 9 and river is a 7. Cutoff shows AA and guy to my right shows JQ offsuit. I drag the $73.50 pot and exhale. Again, the best hand (postflop) held against a lot of draws that could have sunk me. I need to remember these days for the times when the suckouts make me feel like the best hand never holds.

Happy Accidents

In the past few nights I've seen a lot of ups and downs. The one consistant thing has been that almost every night I've stayed up too late and finished on a downturn, losing all or most of what I've won earlier in the evening. I decided tonite was going to be different. Stars was good to me tonite....several big hands and with few exceptions they held up. The biggest score of the night was by total accident. I've been playing exclusively at the 10c/25c no limit tables with the full buy-in of $25. I'd been playing on 4 tables and one of them lost a few players so I got up and opened another. By mistake I opened a 50c/$1 table and proceeded to buy in for the max as usual. I guess I had action on the other tables while doing this because I was in my second hand before I realized that I had $99 on the table of the $100 full buy-in. I decided that I would see a few hands and sit out when the blinds came back around to me. In my last hand (UTG) I was dealt AA. I raised to $4 and got 2 callers....not what I was hoping for. The flop came down A25 with 2 spades. I fired $5 into the $13.50 pot hoping to get down to heads up at least. First bad guy folds but the second raises me to $16. I have $90 left on the table to his $24. Now there is more in the pot than he has left so there's no way he's folding, so I ship it knowing I have the best of it for now, and hope it sticks. Of course he calls, the turn pairs the 2 and the river is a meaningless 3. He turns over 55 for a lower full house and I take a $90.40 pot. Whew!
As I said before, I had already decided that I wasn't staying too long to lose back my winnings, so I quit soon after up $110 on the day. If only all accidents worked out so well.