Winning session!

Quite a rollercoaster session tonight!

I thought overall I played well, but there was a couple of hands against the same villain where I spewed chips. He basically kept reraising me and pushing me out of pots, and when I finally made a stand, he had a set and bet it hard.

So fair play to him, he outplayed me, and I’ve hopefully learned a lesson to not tilt against a particular player at the table. I am here to make money, not have pissing contests and ego battles. I play poker to win money, not pots, and I need to remember that  

The session started off great – I sat down at 2 10NL tables and there was a complete fish at one of them who kindly donated a large chunk of his chips. I had been playin pretty tightly and observing his play. He was basically calling and betting with any 2 cards, so I knew I was way ahead on every street here :

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1278566

Another hand, same villain, I had QJs in the BB. He limped in and I checked.  Queen and a couple of low cards on the flop, rainbow. I value bet for 2/3 of the pot and he calls obv. Another Q on the turn and I make a pot bet for value again. He tries to represent the Queen with a min raise (lol) and I re-pop it. He folds!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1278560

These 2 hands were against another villain. He was very loose pre-flop (VPIP about 40%) and he was either catching a lot of good flops or bluffing a lot. In any case he seemed to be taking down a lot of pots unchallenged post flop without showing any hands. This made me want to target him and I lost a lot of money against him..

First hand: http://www.pokerhand.org/?1278554

I really should have raised  preflop and charged him to see a flop. Big mistake, but maybe I’m being results-oriented ? comments ?

Second hand: http://www.pokerhand.org/?1278549

I was tilting against him at this point. He had already won money off me in hand above and I had observed him donking off vs other players at the table. I was waiting for a good hand and AQo was good enough against his pre-flop range. Fair play to him, I think he knew I was steaming and he came out betting on the flop…

At this point I was well down on the session. But yet again, I managed to stay pretty calm, won it back to break even and then won a big hand at the end to finish on a winning session.

Couple of hands from the fight back:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1278546

The raise on the flop ensured I won a big pot here IMO. Villain put me on top pair, weak kicker I think, and not a flush draw. So when I came out betting on the turn, he thought he was still ahead. Plus he had a shortish stack, so I knew he wasn’t getting away from the hand

Final hand:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1278539

I was really delighted with how I played this hand. Couple of limpers and a weakish raise and callers in front of me. No way I was just going to call, so I repopped it to $1.20, trying to isolate. No luck! Everyone came along for the ride. The flop comes 2 hearts, all low cards, so I had 9 strong outs to the nut flush and 6 weakish outs to my 2 overcards. I reckoned I had ~12 discounted outs which is huge so I decided to go all-in.  The villain who called me actually berated me after the hand, calling me an idiot. What he didn’t realise was that I was a 54% favourite on the flop !

Comments ?
 

Session stats:

ptbb/100: 10.4

Amount won: $8.85

Bankroll:  $310.33