August Rush

After a fruitful July, we are now in August. Fortunately for me I’m still doing well.

I’ve been double tabling 25NL to see how far I can get. I’m still playing 50NL but I since I’ve been doing so well in 25NL maybe I’ll put the 50NL on the back burner for a bit until I build a substantial bankroll to play those levels comfortably. Perhaps when my BR hits $1,500 I’ll start at those levels permanently.

For now I’ll be two tabling 25NL. I still feel that I can observe the players closely and still make money while playing 2 tables.

I tried 3 tables for a bit but I lost $9.70 in 563 hands while doing that. I just don’t feel like I can get a handle on the players playing 3 tables. Maybe I just need more practice at playing 3 tables at the same time because I clearly was uncomfortable, thus the decision to play 2 tables at once.

The results for August are pretty good:

I’m positive $46.30 in 1,256 hands played.

I’m hoping to log in about 5k-7.5k hands this month two tabling. 

As for my poker league, we’ve taken some time off. I haven’t played a poker league game in two weeks. Mostly I’ve been busy as I’m trying to take advantage of what’s left of the Summer but I suspect that the league will start to pick up soon.

My goals for the month of August is to log in 5k-7.5k hands and hope to clock in $200 in profits playing 25NL and 50NL.

So far it’s a good start and I hope that things will continue to look up.

Of course it’s always nice to hit quads and have somebody pay me off:

Full Tilt Poker Game #7544271501: Table Savin (6 max) – $0.10/$0.25 – No Limit Hold’em – 2:47:55 ET – 2008/08/07

Seat 1: ThumThum ($54.30)

Seat 2: Hoppy_Hop ($22.50)

Seat 3: YelloMenace ($20.60)

Seat 4: Lost Kid 012 ($5)

Seat 5: rodrigo_buliga ($27.85)

Seat 6: DISAINTDEDKSH ($25)

Hoppy_Hop posts the small blind of $0.10

YelloMenace posts the big blind of $0.25

Lost Kid 012 posts $0.25

The button is in seat #1

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to YelloMenace [4c 4h]

Lost Kid 012 checks

rodrigo_buliga has 15 seconds left to act

rodrigo_buliga folds

DISAINTDEDKSH raises to $1.10

ThumThum folds

Hoppy_Hop folds

YelloMenace calls $0.85

Lost Kid 012 calls $0.85

*** FLOP *** [Tc 4d 9h]

YelloMenace checks

Lost Kid 012 checks

DISAINTDEDKSH bets $3

YelloMenace raises to $12.40

Lost Kid 012 folds

DISAINTDEDKSH has 15 seconds left to act

DISAINTDEDKSH raises to $23.90, and is all in

YelloMenace calls $7.10, and is all in

DISAINTDEDKSH shows [Td Ah]

YelloMenace shows [4c 4h]

Uncalled bet of $4.40 returned to DISAINTDEDKSH

*** TURN *** [Tc 4d 9h] [4s]

*** RIVER *** [Tc 4d 9h 4s] [5h]

DISAINTDEDKSH shows two pair, Tens and Fours

YelloMenace shows four of a kind, Fours

YelloMenace wins the pot ($40.30) with four of a kind, Fours

DISAINTDEDKSH adds $20.60

ThumThum: nh

*** SUMMARY ***

Total pot $42.40 | Rake $2.10

Board: [Tc 4d 9h 4s 5h]

Seat 1: ThumThum (button) didn’t bet (folded)

Seat 2: Hoppy_Hop (small blind) folded before the Flop

Seat 3: YelloMenace (big blind) showed [4c 4h] and won ($40.30) with four of a kind, Fours

Seat 4: Lost Kid 012 folded on the Flop

Seat 5: rodrigo_buliga didn’t bet (folded)

Seat 6: DISAINTDEDKSH showed [Td Ah] and lost with two pair, Tens and Fours

The villain was a thorn in my side all session. He was very aggressive on his draws and hit me for a big pot when he rivered his flush vs. my two pair. He shoved and I called but he outdrew me.

He also stole some pots from me that I kind of felt that I was ahead but I figured I’d let him run over me a few times so I can set him up for a big pot when the time came.

I’d try to check raise him earlier in the session but he always came over the top and I always folded to his shove, even though I felt like I was ahead.

This hand I check raise big to make it like I was trying to steal and bluff him out of a pot because he had been running over me all session and I wanted to make it seem like I had enough of his constant raising over me (at least that was my line of thinking) and I wasn’t going to take it anymore so I made the raise look like a bluff as check/calling would look fishy IMO. He fell for it hook, line and sinker.