A decent session

I’ve just finished an average-length (by my low volume standards) session and finished slightly up.  Apart from one iffy hand, I feel I played optimally.

 

I lost a buy-in early on vs a donkey which was more of a cooler really. In hindsight, I think I would play the hand the same. I was particularly pleased with how I handled it mentally. Like I said, it happened early in the session, but I just knuckled down and carried on playing according to my gameplan, which ended me finishing the session slightly up

 
Here are some key hands in order of play:

 
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2824970

 

Here the villain had been very aggro preflop and so I chose to 3 bet this hard to regain the initiative in the hand and help me take it down with a c-bet (repping a premium pair)

 
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2825019

 

This was the early hand I lost a buy-in in.  For info villain was a maniac and running at 43/43/4, and would happily bet out any hand if checked to, so I’m putting this down as a cooler. Vs this kind of villain, I think this standard in such a big pot. Thoughts ?

 
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2825039

 

lol at villain’s min-raise 3bet preflop. Obviously no way I am folding vs a shorty. I could have just put him all-in preflop, but didn’t want to give him an opportunity to fold. This was a perfect opportunity to 4bet minraise him back and leave me a single pot-sized bet (on any flop) to put him all in.  Nice suckout fish, but not to worry, I got my own back a bit later…….

 
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2825060

 

lol, I told you he was bad. When the second 8 came on the turn, and he pushed, I got flashbacks to the second hand above, but pushing here made no sense if he had an 8, so this was an instant call.

 
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2825073

 

I was amazed to get paid off here in an unraised pot and OOP. I had to bet out on the flop with all the draws out there. When the second K came on the turn and he raised me, I just knew he had a K and he wasn’t going to fold, but again had to reraise to leave me a pot-sized bet on the river to get his stack in the middle

 
GL at the tables !