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February 23 2009

Sunday, Bloody Sunday

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Music by Jethro Tull (gogo jazz flute!)



Today's session was bloody. Murderous, in fact. I started off the session running about as bad as you can run in this game, losing both of these pots for stacks in my first 10 hands. Very shortly thereafter, Skjervoy took another stack from me after I got it in super bad in this hand. Not sure there's much else I can do though; he's a tough, aggressive player and effective stacks are only 1.5x pot. Plus this is a reasonably dry/non-descript flop, and I did have one bd NFD. Skjervoy runs so hot vs me. :(

Check out today's EV graph:

Running bad, then running good!  Happy endings are always nice.

I did eventually come back to post a solid winning day as my luck regressed back towards the mean. Picked off a donkish shorty's bluff here; I came very close to betting this turn again for value but decided against it because I felt like he'd bluff on most of my outs for me if I checked (even though I was pretty sure I had the best hand). Usually when a shortstacker bets 90%+ of his stack on the river instead of jamming he is very strong, but I simply didn't think he had any strong hands for this board in his range.

This hand was my last big winning hand of the session, and I'm still thoroughly confused what this villain could have possibly had. I'm guessing something like A5xx with non-nut spades, but your guess is as good as mine. He's never checking a boat to me on the river, and I really don't think he folded 56...who knows. Anyway, final session graph:

Crazy session, happy ending

One final (odd) note: as soon as Stinger sat at one of my Stars 10/20 tables, I started losing every pot I played. Literally *every* hand I played. I eventually stood up and returned once he left, and everything returned to normal. There's something strange about that guy.

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