$1 - $2 No Limit
Start 8:15pm
End 12:12am
Total Hours: 4
# of Bets Called Pre-flop, then fold to re raise: 2
# of Hands: 147
# of Flops: 26
# of Turns: 6
# of Pots Won: 7
# of Showdowns: 3
Total Profit: (+245)
Hourly: $61.25/hr
So I hope to be building a trend, that is a tend of winning sessions. So far I have learned, people don't miss me in pots, they will play them without me. I watched the standard raise of $12 go 3, 4 5 ways consistently. All the while I kept folding. So big improvement today on number of flops, to pots won. I won 27% of the hands I saw the flop with, and only had 3 showdowns in 4 hours.
This is defiantly a grinder win, but at this point a win is a win. I never really tried to make any moves, I just played text book (depending on what book you read) plays. During this session I had very few big hands, AQ twice, JJ once 10 - 10 once 6-6 twice, 5-5 Once & 2-2 Once. Of all these hands the AQ's were both good the Jacks and one other pocket pair held up.
What was that pocket pair? 6-6 and also the biggest pot of the session that I won. I was in the Small Blind with two black 6's. The player under the gun was very loose aggressive and raised to $10, there were three callers then the 10 seat, who I think was getting tired of the UTG players raises re raised to $30. It folded to me and I scanned the table. I noticed the UTG player had grabbed $20 more in chips and looked as though he was just going to call. Seeing this I felt confident I could get into this 3 way pot for $30 and may have the best hand. I called. To everyone Else's surprise so did every other player that had placed a $10 bet. We went 6 ways to the flop for $30, yeah $180 pot pre-flop.
The flop came down Ks Js 3h, I was first to act and checked, the UTG player bet $20, then a short stack called, he been playing very bad, (he made an all in call with bottom two when the board was paired with Aces). Then the re raiser pre-flop folded. It came to me and I called figured I was getting better then needed odds to see a turn card. The 7d came on the turn, I checked again and UTG bet $20 again, this time the short stack thought, and went all in for $37. I started thinking, I was almost positive the short stack was drawing, he usually would try to go broke a lot sooner if he liked his hand, I finally called when I noticed the UTG player had gotten his chips ready to just call. At this point I was getting 8 to 1 to call,and if the UTG player just called it was almost 10 - 1.Plus I may have the best hand.
The UTG player just called and the river card was delt, it was the 3d. So the board now was Ks Js 7d 3d 3h, I noticed a disappointed look on both players faces, I bet out $40, as I felt I had the best hand, the UTG player folded and I went to showdown with the short stack. Before the hands were turned I looked to my neighbor on my right and told him I had the best hand, showed him and he laughed, I said, "you had a flush draw right?" To the short stack, he flipped over the Qs 8s and I showed my pocket 6's the table just made a huge awe sound and a couple players from other table (*Kenny to be one)came over to see me in my glee of my pocket 6's holding up.
I feel that I am focusing more on the players, with playing tighter, I feel in the hand above it allowed me to make a couple of real good reads and win a nice pot. This pot was (+264) and I had less then $100 invested total, nice +EV.
Today Highwaytime Mike and I are planning on playing again at Planet Hollywood, I will be playing the same way I have in my last two sessions Wish me luck.
As they said in the movie Major League about winning streaks, win tomorrow (a 3rd game) and guess what? Your on a winning streak. Well let's go streaking.
The Gamblin Duke
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