Italian Vegas

Flop comes 5 7 5, he leads for $20 into a $36 pot. I should have mucked my 8s right there and I knew it but I was playing too aggressively and popped it up to $60, thinking I might get him to fold AK/AQ. EUGH, about the worst hand I’ve played in ages, I’m NEVER GOOD there. He just never has AK/AQ there, it’s always an overpair, in this case most likely aces.

I was definately in a different state of mind when I sat down to play at the table. I wasn’t focussed like I usually am on trying to use my time in the most profitable way possible and keep my PT earn rate as high as possible. I was making way too many loose plays.

Final hand of the night
I pick up 88 on the BTN and opened for $7, the SB raises to $17 total, BB folds. $27 in the pot, $10 to me we’ve both got ~$200 stacks so I’m calling here to try to crack his AA-JJ every time. I guess there’s a chance he could have AK too but I think he’d have been more likely to flat call from the SB, also it’s the first time he’s re-raised preflop, so I really have to give him credit for AA-KK here.

Played like a fucking fish on Blonde tonight.

I moved on to a new 6-handed table, with 3 other players at it. After 10 mins I knew they were strong players, one in particular made a couple of fantastic plays. Normally my table selection skillz are fantastic and I’d immediately log off the table and search for a better one… instead tonight I decided that I’d try to be a hero.

Gonna take a break from poker over the next few days, and just spend time analysing the hands from tonights session.

Broke even across a couple of tables, played good but got outdrawn a couple of times. I didn’t feel like this put me on tilt, but I definately loosened up.

He flat calls, and shoves the K on the turn, I muck and instantly close down all of my tables… but it’s 30 mins too fucking late.

The thing that bothers me the most is that I absolutely knew that I was -EV at that table in my state of mind, but I played on anyway. I could have dropped from the table like 10 times, but I continued to post to try to win my money back telling myself that I could play against the maniac fish image that I’d built up.

Also, played the £100 freeze at the new Circus casino last night with the cash from staking Matt Hilger in the WSOP, I bust out 29/143.

The WSOP Main Event started today… GO MATT HILGER! (who I’ve got $200 of) Check www.pokernews.com for updates.

I run gooooooooood…
Noone wants to play any more…

For this I thank Taylor Caby. CardRunners is AMAZING. Oh, and all of the donkeys on iPoker.

I do variance good.

So it’s me and UTG to the flop, $120 in the pot, and we’ve got about $140 stacks each. Flop comes 889 rainbow, I shove $140, he insta-calls… I’m pretty much fearing 99 here. The ladies hold, and I win a $410 pot on my first hand. I check the HH and he had T9s. LOL.

This went nicely with the 45 min session 4-6handed table I played last night where I absolutely ran it over for +$180. I’d say that my $250/hr per table is maintainable. OMG, I’m going to quit my job tomorrow, etc.

Tonight was particularly good. I just sat down at a $200NL table on Blonde for a wee 30-min session, first hand get dealt QQ in the BB, we’re five handed. UTG raises to $12, fold, button cold-calls $12, SB folds, I raise to $55 total, UTG calls, button folds.

So I moved up to $200NL this month… piece of piss.