I use the check box so 10 BB/100 is 10 BB/100 for NL.

Anyway, another bullshit session today for the addict.

235 hands -$34.60 -29.45 BB/100

Kinda like yesterday I'm only going to post every significant hand I played, $10 pots or more, winners or losers. My problem seemed to be that I couldn't auto fold my 2 pair and sets whenever a set or a straight possibility was on board. I assumed that maybe my opponents didn't flop a monster once in a while and.......

This was probably my best hand of the night. I hit the river and he bet into me, but I couldn't get paid here. I thought he was gonna call for $16 more. +$11.75
http://www.pokerhand.org/?986385

All downhill from there......
Flop 2 pair, shortie's got me crushed, wrong card paired on river. I thought he was on the diamond draw and I was kinda right, but still wrong. -$12
http://www.pokerhand.org/?986394

Flopped top 2 pair this time. Didn't auto-muck again thinking he was on a draw the way he played it. Thanks for the free cards, I'll pay you off anyway. Maybe I'll flop a big hand and win before I'm done. -$12.50
http://www.pokerhand.org/?986398

So this is pretty interesting. I went my first 89 hands on this table without a preflop raise. My first preflop raise is [Ts] OTB. I flop top set, but get lucky enough to suck out on a river miracle all because I refuse to believe they flopped a monster on my 2 pair or better for the 3rd straight time tonight. +$35.25http://www.pokerhand.org/?986405

So now my 2nd raise at the table about 20 hands later with [Qd]. COMPLETE rag flop [5s][Tc] and the only thing to do is sit back and find out who flopped the set against my only overpair of the night. Mr. Rock (9/1/19 after 120 hands) doesn't disappoint and steps up with the check-raise. -$21.25
http://www.pokerhand.org/?986410

Here we go. Just what I was missing. I can't leave without my customary 2 outter every night. Well yeah he had me on the flop, but do you think I'm puttin in another $15 if I don't turn that set? -$22 AAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?986418

Since withdrawal now at NL50
3,982 hands -$242.25 -12.17 BB/100

Also tried to get back on the MTT horse tonight. Fell right back off about 20 minutes in. JJ<KQ

1: this shouldn't be a raise from that far away in FR...just fold pf plz.

Yay! Winning Session! Someone called a push with AKs preflop and my Aces held up. It's a start.

278 hands +$14.25 +10.25 BB/100

So it was basically that Aces hand and another mostter hand where I induced a river bluff from an aggressive and tricky sLAG. Without those 2 I would have been down about a stack again due just to having a lot of decent starting hands (PP + SC) and missing bout every flop + 3 hands in a row in SBvBB situations where I flopped top pair, but other blind had the flush all 3 times. I just can't accept that fact that they have the flush everytime. At least I didn't lose too much in any one of those hands.

All significant hands:
AA hand where I got it in 87% favorite and it held up +$47.05
http://www.pokerhand.org/?989974

JJ hand vs sLAG +$19.20
http://www.pokerhand.org/?989983

Here's one more with QQ where an Ace flopped, but I put the guy on a flush draw and was actually right. +$13.55
http://www.pokerhand.org/?989988

The most I lost on any single hand was $9.50, but I did lose $5 or more 7x.

I did run QQ into QQ once and dropped $1 in rake for a split pot. I hate those hands where you lose, but you didn't even lose.

This was a pretty sick one. In a $10 pot on a board of [3s][Ks][8h] one player pushes for $17 and the other calls. The pusher [6s], the caller [9c]
Neither one had been out of line prior to the hand so it was just weird.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?990007

Gained a little more sanity back today when I flopped a set and took out a 1/2 stack just a few hands in when he actually didn't hit a 2 outter with his over-pair. That's 2 in a row. Not sure the last time that happened.

222 hands $47.90 +43.15 BB/100

There were 4 significant hands to speak of. I didn't lose more than $3.25 in any single hand, but there were 2 hands I wish I could have gotten paid off on, the nuts both times, but then there was also a large bluff (maybe?) that I got away with.

Too many draws. No slowplaying here. BB even complained that he would have hit his straight. Happy with +$30.55
http://www.pokerhand.org/?992999

First nut hand I thought was getting paid. He was tricky and c/r'ed me just like I wanted, but folded to the push. My hand was well hidden too. Questionable flop all by me, but I knew that UTG would fire more than one bullet even on bluffs. +$11.75
http://www.pokerhand.org/?993009

Here's the bluff(?). CO was raising every hand folded to him in late position. I 3-bet with 77 and got 2 callers. Took a shot with a 2/3 pot c-bet and it worked. Both players said they had better hands (88 and JJ) +$11.35
http://www.pokerhand.org/?993014

Then this nut flush where I couldn't get paid. I guess I'm the only one that will call when the flush card hits. I need to start bluffing that more again in position. +$9.15
http://www.pokerhand.org/?993020

I might either have to stop drawing or push draws more often when they're accompanied by at least 1 OC (12 possible outs) if they aren't going to ever pay me off.

I'm pretty numb right now. I continue to try and find a game that I won't get slaughtered in. After watching one of those capped games on Full Tilt last night I figured I'd try it out. I also thought it would help me learn NL 6-max. So I sat in a .20/.50 $15 capped bet 6-max game. It took me 37 hands to figure out 6-max. I can't figure out where I may have played more than 1 or 2 hands badly, yet I ended up losing about $120 in 300 hands total over 2 sessions. I just expected to keep seeing miracle cards on the turn or river and I wasn't dissapointed.

First session
38 minutes....37 hands......-$58.15

Got it "all-in" 5x.
JJ vs AK all-in preflop (57% fav) - Lose $10
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1012408

QQ vs AK all-in preflop (57% fav) Lose $15
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1012411

***This one I played badly. Flopped trips in BB, but just called SB bet cause I knew he was a bluffer. But button was on the draw and got there. Even so I did have most of my stack in by the turn and opponent wasn't even getting 4 to 1 implied odds on the flush. I was 80% favorite on the turn. Lose $12.35
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1012414

TPTK all-in on flop vs TP2K 82% favorite Lose $15
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1012422

Overpair all-in vs 2 overs on scary flop. 70% fav Sick Sick Sick. He called an all-in with 2 overs on a monotone board with none of that suit! And I had to hit a 2 outter on the river to win! Win $10.60
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1012428

So basically 6-max is a full ring game where they throw away the 3 or 4 hands that would be worst by the river and deal out the rest.

Next 263 hands -$64.80 -49.28 BB/100

I actually got hot for a few hands on table one and found a maniac
Opponent 73/24/50 in first 2 hands.....

Flopped a set 100% fav - drawing dead. only way I can win it seems. Win +$16.85

He limp/re-raised AND CALLED A PUSH WITH Q7s!!! 70% fav Win $14.45
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1012815

This guy was a little better. Hadn't been at the table long. He's giving me 3-1 on the flop with 2 overs, GSSD, BDFD. Then the turn I was only 34% dog so I had to push my last $10 no? Win $15.90

Table 2:
QQ 5-handed. No good. I still think it was a bad call by him since he could only win $9 more, but he hit on the turn and did. Lose $15
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1012829

Player to my immediate left is a maniac. 90/28/40. All-in with Q5o post flop with no pair and all-in with 22 post flop. NUTS
I flopped a flush draw with 2 overs. I knew BB was calling and thought I would triple up if I hit. Nope. All-in drawing dead. Lose $15
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1012839

Same lunatic. Not something I usually do, but got him in as 80% fav Lose $15 Bitch took his money and ran right after this hand.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1012843

Flopped top and bottom pair in a HU pot. No good. I mean what cand I do here? Lose $15
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1012844

Table 3:
Raised AJo. Flopped TPTK. Got it all-in against slowplayed Aces.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1012851


Now at -$900 or a little less than 1/3 my bankroll since withdrawing last month.

You would have to believe that even by sheer stupid luck I would actually win a few hands. Played some more .25/.50 Capped $15 All-in today

201 hands -$74.40 -74.03 BB/100

Total now
501 hands -$197.35 -78.78 BB/100

This is staggering. No matter what my hand is, your hand is going to be better by the end. No matter how short handed we are, there is going to be a monster vs monster showdown.

First 15 hands....all against the same opponent.
Yup, he called the c/r AI with 64o (pair of 6's)
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1016159 44% to win - LOSE

Same guy, all-in KQo preflop.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1016165 75% to win - WIN

Two hands later, he gets it all-in A4o against my JJ
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1016168 70% to win - LOSE

Yup, I flopped 2 pair and IMMEDIATELY folded. I'm not stupid
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1016173

Just a pair of Aces in a HU pot. You know he's outflopping me. LOSE
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1016178

AA-QQ 7x so far. 3-4 for -$41.45

Is there actually a game I can win?

-$300 for the week now.
-$1000 (1/3 of bankroll) since withdrawal.

Yeah, I'm insta-folding 2 pair on the flop now.

Played my first MTT in a week tonight. Lasted about an hour. Saw 2 flops, both AI preflop.
1 - JJ vs AKo - Lose to King on the river
2 - AKs vs 99 - Lose (I'm playing 17/7 VP$IP and raise from EP committing almost half my stack and the guy 3-bets me with 99)

One big positive though. The Full Tilt RNG kinda of lost track of me for a few minutes. I flopped the nuts and got it all-in vs 2 players drawing dead on the turn. The RNG caught up and gave them both 2 pair on the river, but it was too late. The only 2 ways to win.....have them drawing dead or when they fold.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1016614

It's just that range between 70-99% favorite when I get it all-in that I gotta work on winning now.

Maybe, just MAYBE, Full Tilt has hit the threshold when I went down $1K and now they'll allow me to begin climbing again. I've made back about $150 since then.

Today was MTT day. Haven't played many this month, but played 5 today. Also played 63 hands of normal NL $50 FR while playing an MTT and finished +$6.50 (the sum of it was picking up AA 2x, 3-betting and taking it preflop both times).

$5.50 L08 MTT
13th out of 119 Cashed $7.44
Actually ended up going out from SB when MP limped and then called my short stack push. Their [7h][Qh][Jh] was good vs my [3c][6d][Qc] with trip Kings no low.

$7.70 FTOPS Event #1 Super Satellite
12th out of 29 Top 5 paid
Ran AK UTG into KK in BB

$5.50 HORSE MTT
19th out of 77 Top 16 paid
Went out during Razz. I pushed with A246 and was called by 7545. I paired on the turn and caught a K and then a Jack. He caught an Ace and then a 3.

$19K Guarranteed - $26 buy-in
755 out of 759 Lasted 1 entire minute
Ran AK in BB into QQ from CO

$11K Guarranteed - $26 buy-in
11th out of 471 Cashed $130 (Only 2nd cash over $100 this year - 99 MTT's)
Just hit a bad run towards the end. A short stack open-pushed OTB and I called from BB with 55. He had TT and cut me in half. Then he open pushed again OTB a few rounds later and I called with [9d]. He had [Th]. Flop came [Ac][3h] giving him about half the freaking deck to work with (any heart, Queen, King, or Ten). He hit the on the turn and then the on the river just for good measure.

Happy that I had a decent cash, never content unless I make the Final Table at least.

Played my first session of 3/6 today. Found what looked to be a really good game so I single tabled for about 45 hands. I'm really proud of myself for not getting out of hand when I ended up folding the first 27 hands then got donked into on my first raise, actually a 3-bet.

I had [9h] OTB. High-jack raised it, I 3-bet. Flop came [8h][Ts]. He donked, I raised my OESD. Turn and he donked again, I called. River , I folded to his bet. Right after that hand, both players that were over 50%VP$IP on the table left and I left soon after with 45 hands played and down $33

Moved on to a couple of crazy games at .25/.50 NL 6-max $15 capped bets. This is such an action junkie's game. I lasted 31 hands before both of my tables broke up, but it was enough to get it all-in 3x.

This might be one of the sickest calls I've ever seen. He called my all-in with K-high 4 kicker???!!!! What's even sicker is I won the hand.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1022032

This guy was limping every hand. Scary board to slowplay a set of Kings. Figured I'd check the turn and then call any river bet on a safe card.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1022036

Lucky me? Although I was never really behind. I was at least a 3-1 favorite all the way.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1022040

I finished it up with a decent NL 50 FR session which I don't have time to recap right now. I think the last 2 times out, although not necessarily the best I've ever played, was a combination of the best I've played + the best I've run in NL50 session.

Actually I'm seeing my last 4 or 5 sessions of NL50 FR. Last 705 hands I'm running at +44.85 BB/100 and almost even at that particular game since my withdrawal.

Played a mostly card dead session of NL50 FR vs 2 tables of calling stations and donkeys today and was down a little over 1/2 stack just from constantly whiffing. Then I grinded back to just about even when I picked up my 1st big pair of the day, [Kh] in CO w/ $59.40.
UTG raised to $1.75 w/ $20.05 behind
MP1 called w/ $17.90 behind
I didn't even mess around and put them both all-in for $22 because BB had over $100 and just loved to call. UTG called and his [Ad] flopped a boat.

So I waited an hour and a half for that and decided that I would get up and take the small loss when the BB got back to me rather than go on tilt.

But just before that happened, I picked up [Jc] UTG+1 and raised to $2. I was called by BB w/ just $15.90 behind.
[Js][8s] Pot $4.25
BB checked, I bet $3, and he called
Turn Pot $10.25
I'm not sure if that's a great card or a horrible one for me.
BB bets $10.25 and I just call. Doesn't really matter whether I put him in for his last $2.65 does it?
River Pot $30.75
BB bets his last $2.65 and turns over [Kc]. That 2nd J on the turn had him drawing dead.

Thank you very much. I decided to stay for one more orbit.

Then in the SB at the same table a few hands later I pick up [Ts].
MP1 and MP2 limp. Button raises to $3. I call and MP2 calls.
[Tc][9s] Pot $10.25
My sets are always difficult.
I check, MP2 checks ($30.15), Button bets pot and had less than $5 left. I check-raise enough to put MP2 all-in and he folds, button calls w/ [Kc] and I'm a 95% favorite which scares the crap outta me, but I hold up.

I'm realy happy with my $17.40 profit because it's much better than going on tilt and possibly losing a lot. I'm also pretty damn happy because on Thursday I was -$300 for the week and looking at possibly my biggest losing week ever (or at least since my early PartyPoker days when I first started playing), but finished the week winning back just over $200 the past 3 days.

The Good:
The upswing continues. +$51.35 over 243 hands today. Everything worked. Almost all my reads were correct and therefore almost every bet, raise, and fold on my part were correct and what's even more is they worked.

Even better, I'm finally out of the NL50 hole since I withdrew (not even close to the overall hole yet though). 5,611 hands +$46.75 +1.67 BB/100. That's mostly due to running +43.22 BB/100 over last 1,500 hands since 4/11.

Now +$328.70 +4.18 BB/100 over 15,720 hands total at NL50 FR

The Bad:
If it seems that everytime things start going well, something goes wrong, well that's just cause it's my life I supposed. I was notified of a slight family financial emergency today (emergency may be too strong a word, maybe need is better) where I may have to use my poker bankroll for other things. Kinda sucks, but family and health do come first.

Also, I'm having a not so small arguement with Full Tilt this week regarding another situation which may lead to withdrawal if they can't rectify it, which I'm not thinking they're going to be very helpful with.

Anyway, back to the session today:

Very first hand I went into a semi-daze and had a brainfart for a few seconds and couldn't read the board. I felt like a retard, but I wasn't sure exactly what beat me for a second.
I was in BB with [3c]. 3 limpers + SB. 5 way flop.
[Th][6h] Pot $2.50
Middle limper min-bets and everyone, but SB calls.
Pot $4.50
OK, this wasn't the brainfart. I know my 2 pair is counterfeited by the paired board. Same limper min-bets again, but this time only myself and 1 limper call.
Pot $6
I stare at the board and check, 1st limper checks, the min-betting limper makes a pot sized bet now and here's the brainfart. For a second or two I'm not sure that any 6 beats me and for some reason I thought he needed TT or T6 which I'm sure he doesn't have. Anyway I called and he had [Ts]. Well, he made it cheap enough.

Later, a BS player limped into the pot and I raised w/ [Th] to $2.25 and he called. I had $50 and he had me covered.
[8h][4h] Pot $5.25
BSer checks, I bet $4, BSer calls.
Pot $13.25
For some reason I just knew he was going to take a stab at this and I was just about positive he didn't have it. He bet pot ($13.25) and I called.
Pot $39.75
He gave up and I checked. He showed down [5h]

One limper, I raise MP1 [Jc] to $2.25, CO and tight straight foward 17/3/20 Button calls as does first limper.
[4c][6c] Pot $9.75
limper checks, I bet $7.50, CO folds, Button min-raises to $15, SB folds, I take almost all my time and fold.

I'm pretty sure he either flopped a set or had at least 14 outs because of the way he played just a few hands later against me with a flush draw.
[4s] in BB
Just that one player and SB limp in. (SB TOTAL FISH w/ short stack - $20)
[5h][Jd] Pot $1.50
SB checks, I bet $1.50, limper calls, SB calls (myself and limper started with full stacks)
Pot $6
SB checks, I bet $4, limper calls. (Thinking SB had an Ace + a pair and may have just out 2 paired me)
Pot $18
I'm done. SB checks, I check, limper bets $10, SB calls $10, I fold
limper had [Td] SB had [2d]

Last significant hand. [Kh] UTG+1
I limp, 2 limpers behind me and it does not get raised. Usually when this happens I have no problem getting rid of my Kings on the flop if an Ace falls or if anyone is overly aggressive when they shouldn't be.
[Qc][2d] Pot $2.50
SB bets $2.50, BB folds, I just call because......
-there aren't any scary draws here, if someone gets aggressive behind me, it's most likely a set.
- I'm pretty sure SB has a Queen and he only has $18.85 left. I don't want to scare him off.
the other 2 limpers fold and we are heads up.
Pot $7.50
SB bets $7.50. If he has QT, so be it. I put him all in for another $11.35 and he calls with [3c]. NH me.