By verneer on July 20th, 2009 (more posts by author)

I played a guy earlier today who was 3-betting 40% of his hands and just playing super aggro. I would limp and he would make it $8 to go almost always. Vs. a guy like that, you are abound to play some big pots and it seemed like anytime I was starting to pick up some momentum, he would ping one on me:

AJ in 3-bet pot: http://www.pokerhand.org/?4452132
AA in 4-bet pot: http://www.pokerhand.org/?4452131
77 in 3-bet pot: http://www.pokerhand.org/?4452126
Needless to say, I was super frustrated by the time the session was over. I regrouped and played another session where I played much lower variance players. In this hand, I 2-outered a player for a $425 pot at 200NL (although if not for me hitting my gin card, we wouldn't play that big of a pot):

JJ in 4-bet pot: http://www.pokerhand.org/?4452147
I saw that cpar1 just had his biggest cash day ever. I've always looked up to him as a HU player due to his unbelievably sick results at the lower and mid limits so I was pretty excited for him.

Here is my update for the month: