Been on my grind

I have been grinding a lot lately as you can see by the session log in this post. Most of my sessions are not marathon sessions but somewhat quick hitters in a few hours or so, although I did pull an all-nighter on Friday night-Saturday morning. I've been running pretty well (mostly avoiding bad beats) with the exception of one hand where this idiot got lucky as hell on me after I had set him up nicely. Let me explain.

There's a guy, who is a skinny white guy with his hat pulled down low to cover his eyes that just sits there and doesn't say a word and rarely ever has to show his hands. He always raises ridiculously high amounts. Like if the pot is $100 and I bet $75 with top pair, he'll raise it $400 more or just go all-in. Believe me after a few sessions playing with this guy I've noticed him constantly doing this and I've been waiting for him, continuously folding decent hands to his huge raises.

So I've already actually told my boy (who's at my table) about this guy and that I'm just waiting for him. I have a pack of Trident on the table and I've put two short $45 stacks (nine chips) on top of the pack of gum. I told my boy I was going to raise blind with the Trident pack of $90 on my button. But when it's my button I notice the big raiser limp under the gun, so I know he's just waiting for me to raise on the button. I tell my boy I can't do it because big raiser limped UTG so I look at my hand and what do you know? Two black aces.

So I laugh and say "raise" and slide the pack of Trident into the pot with the $90 on top. The guy in the small blind calls my $90 (suprisingly) and then I get even more than I expected. The big raiser announces "all in" for $900!! I have about $2000 at this point. I can't believe it and I call immediately. I'm assuming he also has aces to go all-in for $900 like that pre-flop but he has jacks. Of course he spikes a jack on the flop and takes down the $2000 pot.

11.21, 200 (2/5 blinds), 3.0, +230
11.22, 200*, 2.5, -900
11.22, 200, 3.5, -200
11.24, 200, 9, -800
11.28, 2-40 spread**, 2.75, -100
11.30, 200, 5.5, +1140
12.01, 200, 4, +605
12.04, 200, 5, -220
12.05, 200, 3.5, -340
12.06, 200, 0.5, +150
12.06, 400, 6.5, +1955
12.06, 200, 3.5, +935
12.07, 200, 0.75, -510
12.07, 400, 1.0, +2045
12.08, 200, 3.0, -880
12.09, 200, 1.0, -750
12.09, 400, 3.5, +755
12.09-10, 200, 7.0, +600
12.10, 400, 3.25, +1460
12.12, 400, 2.75, +1300
12.13, 400, 1.75, +280
12.15, 15/30L, 0.25, +30
12.15, 200, 1.0, -80
12.15, 400, 2.75, -695
12.17, 400, 8.25, +1740
12.18, 400, 5.75, +1500
12.19, 200, 0.5, +315
12.19, 60sat, 0.25, -60
12.19, 400, 9.25, +250
12.20, 500(no cap), 0.5, +190
12.20, 200, 2.5, -360
12.20, 400, 3.0, +375
12.21, 200, 0.5, -60
12.21, 400, 2.5, +700

BR: 15500 (+500)

Kind of ridic that I'm 11/12 in winning sessions at the 400 since I started playing the 400.

The +500 is because they called my name in the drawing on Sunday for $1000 (chopped it with my boy that I had made a deal with). Also at this point I've spent a good deal of money on xmas gifts and other stuff and I have about $12000 ready to go. I'm going to continue playing the $400 nl until I run up to $20000 (which I can hopefully do) and then I may start taking some shots at the $500 (no cap) nl game, where I'll be buying in for $1000.

I have to say that things are going really well for me and I've tried to leave when I thought I was getting tired or that I wasn't playing my sharpest.

4years!