Strong Weekend

I have good news and bad news.

Bad news first: I lost $340 on Friday night when I played from 640pm to 1020pm. I didn't play very well and was up $150 early only to lose that and then some. After that I went out with some friends to a club in Hollywood that was off the hook. I wasn't expecting it to be what it was.

Now the good news: Saturday morning I went back to Hollywood Park around 11:00 a.m. Before I left I thought about just playing the $400 game but then decided I should try to win a little bit on the $200 before jumping into the $400 game. By the time they started the first $400 game of the day I was up $150 in my game so I decided to just move to the $400 game. I like playing the $400 game because I tend to play a bit more solid and focus more due to the money involved. The problem is my bankroll is not really strong enough to play that game regularly. I played strong, got a few lucky flops and my stack ended up looking like this:




When I left the $400 game, I was up $1955 after six hours. I joined my guy at a loose $200 game and made another $935 on that game in 3.5 hours before I had to leave to go hang out with my girl. My boy couldn't believe that I was leaving with the way that I was running but sometimes you just gotta go.

I drove home at about 5 a.m. on Sunday morning and contemplated going straight to the casino but two weeks ago I did the same thing and went to Commerce only to lose over $900 in a few hours on a Saturday morning. So I decided to go home and take a nap before I went to play, hopefully around 10 a.m. because I was planning to see my girl again at 3:30pm.

Of course I woke up late at 11 a.m. I took a quick jog before I realized that my running shoes were cutting into my ankle and my fucking leg was bleeding so I walked back home with a gangster limp and took a shower. At this point it was almost 1pm and I was losing the motivation to go play since I only had a couople of hours. My guy texted me asking me if I was going. I told him 'I don't think so' and he said I should just go because I was running hot. So I went and sat down at the $200 game. I was really just planning to get some lunch and watch some football but before I knew it I was stuck $500 and in for $800. The floorman asked me if I wanted the $400 game so I moved to that game for the simple fact it would be easier for me to recover $500 in the hour that I had.

The minute I sat down at the $400 there was an Asian guy with blonde hair in seat 5 going all-in every hand. He was straight up gambling and this old white guy in seat nine was asking to see his hand every time. The Asian guy loses his stack and leaves and another kid tells the white guy that he's an idiot for asking to see all the hands because that's what caused the gambler to leave. The old white guy takes offense to this and they start yelling, threatening to fight each other and the white guy gets kicked off the table. As soon as he leaves, an older black guy tells the kid he needs to respect his elders and then they start arguing and acting like they're going to fight. This is within like five minutes of me sitting there. I had also caught two winning hands and ran my stack up to $700 (once with AA).

About 25 minutes in I'm in middle position with Jd9d. I call the $10 and the big blind makes it $40. There's four callers to me so I call and the button calls. The flop comes Ad10d2h. Everyone checks to the guy before me (the old black guy who is pissed and ready to fight) and he goes all-in for $200. My first reaction was to fold because I didn't really want to give him a bad beat at this point. But I thought about it for a minute and the odds were there for me to call, especially since I wouldn't face a bet from him on the turn. So I called. Then the button calls the $200 as well. I have him on a smaller flush draw. The turn comes a 9h so I bet $200 into the button to get a side pot going in case I miss my flush. I don't have him on any pairs. He's doing all this math in his head and then all of a sudden goes all-in. Hmm.. wtf? He has me covered for my remaning $300 and I'm looking at him like he's crazy and he says "I have a set, I just got lucky on the turn." I know that's bullshit because there's no way he smooth called that flop with 99 so I call his bet and the king of diamonds hits the river. He shows a smaller flush and I stack the chips.

Very next hand I hit the nut flush on the turn for another $200 pot and within an hour I was looking like this:



When 2:50pm rolled around I was up $2045 in the $400 game and I left, leaving me up $1535 on the day in two hours.

Good thing my boy told me to go up there.

After this weekend my BR is looking like this:

$4580 (before weekend)
-$340 (Friday loss)
+$150 (Sat $200)
+$1955 (Sat $400)
+$935 (Sat $300)
-$510 (Sun $200)
+$2045 (Sun $400)
= $8815

Things are going well so far, hopefully I can continue to improve my play and avoid the coolers.

4years.