A couple of interesting hands today...

In this first hand though the villain can only really have pairs TT and below by the river (except for the rare J - although I thought he may have raised the flop or turn with a J), so even though its a 'blank' I thought its a good 3rd barrel since my line is aggressive at every stage, consistent with KK/AA:

$800.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, October 10, 11:36:52 ET 2008
Table H1JOHN (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: Alexdb ( $1390.00 USD )
Seat 6: flintbro ( $1033.47 USD )
flintbro posts small blind [ $4.00 USD ].
Alexdb posts big blind [ $8.00 USD ].
Dealt to Alexdb [ ]
RAISE flintbro, $24.00 USD
RAISE Alexdb , $88.00 USD
CALL flintbro, $68.00 USD

Flop:
[ ]
BET Alexdb , $120.00 USD
CALL flintbro, $120.00 USD

Turn:
[ ]
BET Alexdb , $260.00 USD
CALL flintbro, $260.00 USD

River:
[ ]
BET Alexdb , $914.00 USD
flintbro folds
Alexdb wins $1865.00 USD from main pot

At the time it didn't occur to me quite how great a 'blank' the J was - because it even invalidated the most likely nut-hands; 44 and 88, while making holding a J even less likely. Essentially we are right back to comparing preflop strength, and I had represented the most back then. After timing down, villain said he passed 44, so I guess I hit a 2-outer to actually win this pot, and dodged a load of cards that seem like good 3rd barrels that ensure I lose the lot.

Here is one for anyone worried that games aren't good anymore. Against most people this shove would be bad, and I wasn't even sure it was OK against an erratic unknown (I had only played a few hands with him at this point):

***** Hand History for Game 1061657261 *****
$1000.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, October 10, 11:10:46 ET 2008
Table Wagga Wagga (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Seat 1: Nathalie91 ( $995.00 USD )
Seat 2: Thing_1 ( $1083.00 USD )
Seat 3: swordofgod ( $3337.84 USD )
Seat 4: Alexdb ( $1000.00 USD )
Seat 5: Diddlydoo ( $3842.70 USD )
Seat 6: NoMorePlease ( $2664.43 USD )
swordofgod posts small blind [ $5.00 USD ].
Alexdb posts big blind [ $10.00 USD ].
Dealt to Alexdb [ ]
Diddlydoo folds
NoMorePlease folds
Nathalie91 folds
Thing_1 folds
RAISE swordofgod, $25.00 USD
RAISE Alexdb , $95.00 USD
CALL swordofgod, $75.00 USD

Flop:
[ ]
BET swordofgod, $157.00 USD
RAISE Alexdb , $384.00 USD
RAISE swordofgod, $454.00 USD
RAISE Alexdb , $511.00 USD
CALL swordofgod, $284.00 USD

Turn:
[ ]

River:
[ ]
Alexdb shows [ ]
swordofgod doesn't show [ ]
Alexdb wins $1997 .00 USD from main pot

The insta-bluff-min-4-bet is an unusual one, and made this next hand much easier to play:

***** Hand History for Game 1061658849 *****
$800.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, October 10, 11:16:47 ET 2008
Table Keats (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Seat 1: swordofgod ( $800.00 USD )
Seat 2: Diddlydoo ( $965.44 USD )
Seat 3: deuce2 ( $1573.16 USD )
Seat 4: Alexdb ( $1352.50 USD )
Seat 5: CRAFTYCHRIS6 ( $515.00 USD )
Seat 6: Nathalie91 ( $1740.30 USD )
deuce2 posts small blind [ $4.00 USD ].
Alexdb posts big blind [ $8.00 USD ].
Dealt to Alexdb [ ]
CALL CRAFTYCHRIS6, $8.00 USD
Nathalie91 folds
RAISE swordofgod, $29.00 USD
Diddlydoo folds
deuce2 folds
RAISE Alexdb , $96.00 USD
CRAFTYCHRIS6 folds
CALL swordofgod, $75.00 USD

Flop:
[ ]
BET Alexdb , $110.00 USD
RAISE swordofgod, $400.00 USD
RAISE Alexdb , $1138.50 USD
swordofgod folds
Alexdb wins $1865.50 USD from main pot

Finished up 1 stack today making 10 for the month so far, new target is 40!