I played the $400 again last night and was smart enough to completely bypass the $200. Within 90 seconds of sitting down I was up $500 and five minutes later I was up $700. My first hand I sat down and had AdTd in the cut-off so I call the $10. The BB makes it $40 and under the gun calls the $40, as do I. The flop comes something like 4-8-T with one diamond and they both check to me so I bet $80. The raiser folds and the UTG player thinks for a minute before calling. The turn is the queen of diamonds and he checks to me. At this point I'm pretty certain I have him. I put him on a smaller pair than the tens. I bet $100 and he thinks for a while and then goes all-in. I consider folding until I realize I have the nut flush redraw so I call. The river is a blank and he says he missed and I'm up $440 after one hand.
The next hand I get AQ and limp. Flop comes KTJ rainbow and I bet $35. One caller, turn is a blank and I bet $80 and he folds.
Anyways I won $930 before our table broke. I went to a $200 game for two hands and got moved back into the only $400 table where I won $530.
Last night was the first time I played and really feel like I didn't make one mistake, which felt extremely ... great. Didn't make one bad call, raise or fold.
There's definitely a hand I played that I could have played differently (better) right before I left. A tight player UTG raised to $35 and there were two callers before me. I called with 99 and there were a few more callers. The flop comes 883 and the SB, who is a loose donkey (see picture) bets $110. A good player calls his $110. I know the good player could be calling the $110 with any pair seeing as the donkey was making an obvious stab at the pot on the paired flop. So now I have position and I raise to $250. The donkey insta-folds and the good player goes into the tank before calling reluctantly. We check it down the rest of the way and he shows Js8s for trips. Thanks to my table image he said he put me on a higher 9 and I'm not mad at the play that I made to see the free turn and river. In hindsight I definitely should/could have re-raised preflop to at least see where I was at. I'm pretty sure the J8 suited would have folded also and the only callers would possibly have been the donkey and the original raiser but I had position on both players.
This is the donkey, who gambled hard as soon as he sat down and ran his stack up to about $1500 before losing it all back (I only won one relatively small pot from him). He was a nice, overweight guy who was just there to have a few beers and gamble to put some players on tilt. He played every single hand and raised half of them preflop, never failing to bet on the flop. He also offered one of the asian chick dealers a free trip with him for a few days. For some reason she refused.
Yesterday's big day was great for the simple fact that I was really just hitting the casino to kill a few hours and eat dinner while my girl was at her workout class. I was there from 6pm to 945pm and ended up $1460. The session took my bankroll over $10k to $10075. I would have to go back and look at my old blog but I think this is the first time I've been over $10k and I definitely have a better handle on the money management this time so things are looking good (at the moment).
Poker is a beast and I don't want to get too cocky. My good friend who plays for a living is in the middle of a huge downswing and I know it can go either way i.e. he flopped two pair when one player flopped a set and another player flopped top two. Hopefully I'll keep capitalizing while the cards are hot.
4years.
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