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March 11 2009

On The Grind

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Music: Going For The One, by Yes. Awesome band, phenomenal musicianship, excellent songwriting. Enjoy!



I put in a bunch of hands in the past few days with mixed results. Let's start with Sunday:
Sunday

I played really well overall and the games were great. 5/10 & 10/20 are my main games these days, with some 2/4 & 3/6 thrown into the mix every now and then for fun or when the bigger games are really bad.

Monday was pretty crazy:
Monday

I ran pretty bad early on at 10/20, then followed a fish to 25/50 with a good seat in a pretty tough lineup. I lost a stack pretty quickly, then won 3 back, then lost a little over 2 more back (hence the huge spikes in the middle). I should have taken a short break after quitting the 25/50 game down just a little bit, but my brilliant "games are so good, no way I can quit!" mindset wouldn't hear anything of it, so onward I went!

After dropping a 60/40 with a 250bb stack at 10/20, I quit the 10/20 games and focused on 5/10. And by "focused on", I mean "went on tilt at". But the games were still quite good, and I only managed to lose a couple of buyins in marginal spots to tilt. I talked some stuff over with a few friends, and we agreed I should continue provided I was feeling good, which I was. The fish at 5/10 kept rebuying, then jumped to 10/20 to chase losses where he ran pretty hot before dumping his 8k stack to me. I somehow managed to finish my session in the black when all was said & done, which honestly surprised me when I pulled up PTO.

And finally, Tuesday:
Tuesday

Yesterday's session was short & sweet. I ran pretty well from the start, winning a nice 3-way allin pot at 5/10 for ~$5k in the middle. My friend Joe called right as I dropped my first stack, so I decided to call it a night and hit the bars with him instead of continue my session.

Two interesting hands from Monday's session:

Here I stack a guy at 5/10 with KJ-high. This player's flop c/r range is super wide so I think my pair outs are often good, hence the light call.

Super sick spot on the river in a limped pot vs an extremely passive donk. I posted a thread about this hand in the CR forums, and I absolutely agree that this should be a fold. I was even sure of it at the time, but as stated in the thread I called solely out of principle and wrote off the $1200 fully expecting to lose to quads because this player is simply never bluffing in this spot. Ever. I am 100% convinced that he misread the board and thought his nut flush was the nuts on the river.

Outro song: Siberian Khatru, also by Yes. I love these guys.

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