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July 19 2010

Killer Weekend

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I had some time to grind this weekend and did exactly that. While I didn't hit my goal of getting to 18k hands on the month (I'm only at 15,256) I played a lot of good poker. I finished +$989 ($1072 including rakeback) in 4175 hands despite running 3 buyins below ev. I obviously ran well in other areas but overall I think I played the best poker I ever have. I played a little bit less aggressively, a little tighter and was less in a hurry to get draws all in. These were all good adjustments for me and they payed off.

I only got stacked 4 times. 2 were big suckouts and 1 was a flip. This is the other:

http://weaktight.com/2469100
Here the player on the button is a huge fish and the SB is a tag who in general gives me no credit. Heads up against the SB I would raise the flop and call a shove (since he never gives me credit and its such a dry board) but with the button in the hand I wanted to keep it 3 way since he calls with so much trash. On the turn, we're heads up and I think I'm right to call and not raise since if I raise my hand looks so strong and I think the only hand that calls is AK. On the river, I think I should have folded. Had he checked to me I think I could shove and get looked up by weaker aces but I don't think villain would make the same river bet with AJ. I think he has AK or AT basically 100% of the time. While I was good to remember that he gives me no credit, tag players are not firing the third barrel very often as a bluff.

Besides that hand, and a couple other spots where I think I missed some value my play was really sharp. I experimented with playing 5 or 6 tables and it went well. After winning 6 buyins on Saturday my coach reminded me not to get over confident on Sunday and I think that was really helpful advice. Going forward I just need to keep playing my game, stay off tilt and let the winnings come.

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