By Landlord79 on May 1st, 2007 (more posts by author)

Well, my night started abismally and thought I was in for a bad run. The third hand of the night I'm dealt AA on the button. I've got the nutz and the best possible position, I'm ready to rock this pot. 3 players limp ahead of me and I hit the pot button and make it $0.55 to go. Both the blinds fold and the original limper calls and the other two limpers fold. The flop comes a semi-safe 6-8-6. I figure that I'm good and that a CB should take this one down. The villain checks and bet out a luring 1/2 pot bet. He takes forever and finally calls, I'm hoping that he has AK or something. The turn is another blank, he checks and bet out another 1/2 to 2/3 of the pot. He pulls the same ruitine and eventually calls. The river is a Jack, and he checks again. Now, the intelligent side of me was saying to check this and go to the showdown, but the gambler in me said, "He may just call another bet, swing it out there and see if he'll bite." Sure enough I did and sure enough I get min raised which effectively commits my stack that was close to 100 BBs when we started this hand. The idiot turns over 6-2o and says, "Sry man!" I puke and reload hoping to clean his clock. Well, he takes the money and runs after I take a small pot from him on a CB.

Anyway, enough of the bad beat story. My night started off down one buyin. I caught AA 2 more times in the night that helped catch me up because there was no fluke hand to suck out on me after that. QQ made a big winner for me and my favorite hand came through for me once again. (I'll keep the favorite hand a secret for now. A magician doesn't reveal his tricks.) I did flop the nuts with it and stacked an opponent. Most of my tables were LP and I was able to run over them pretty consistently. In fact, I did a little scouting based on a LPP player that was sitting at my table. I found her at 3 other tables and proceeded to sit down at 2 more of them. When I had doubled up on one of my tables I pulled some money off the table and moved over to another table that she was sitting at. Every table that she was at was around 18 VP$IP and 3 PFR%. I used position and aggression to make my buyin back and eventually ended the night up $6.10 over 350 or so hands.

When I review my PT records, mostly I notice that big losses happen because of one hand played badly and then to a smaller degree to calling too many pfr's throughout the night. I don't even think that I call too many pfr's but the few that I do call really add up. I really don't see how some players can keep playing when they are calling another player's raises. Having the initiative is such a powerful weapon. I think one of the biggest improvements to my game will be the recent adjustment of laying down AJo and AQo to pfr's. I haven't won many big pots with those hands, but I have sure lost some big pots with them.

The bankroll stands at $63.10 and I am right on the brink of getting another $5 bonus from FTP.

I should be playing tonight and hopefully the BR will be over $75 come morning.