To the Moon!

I had a very good session yesterday in the Oceans 40 game.  I headed up to the casino after my morning class and got there around 11:15 or so.  The 40 game was full, so I sat down in a 5/5 game and played 2 orbits.  I played only one hand where I opened with 99 in early position and took down the blinds and one limper.  I booked a $5 win there.  Then I went to an 8/16 game that had just started and played for about an hour and lost $172.  Then we fired up a second short handed 40/80 game that I started around 1:00pm or so.  By 8:00pm when that photo was taken, I was up over 100 big bets.  It may not be clear from the photo, but the first base is a triangle of 28 stacks.  The middle layer is 21 stacks, and the top is 3.5 stacks, for a total of $10,500 in chips I have in front of me.  I bought in 2 racks, so at this time I was up $8500.

Of course, at this time I had my designs on breaking my single session win record of 125 bets.  But alas it was not to be.  For the next 4 hours, I pretty much treaded water.  I actually gave back like $1500 or so, before I went on a mini rush before I quit around 11:45pm to get up to my peak at $10,700.  So for the first 7 hours, I could do no wrong, but the last 4 hours not much happened.  Oh well.

Nights like these don't happen very often so you definitely need to appreciate it when it does.  Of course on nights like this, it always helps to have more than your fair share of big pairs, and flop sets galore and have most of them hold up.  And have more than your fair share of semi-bluffs get there.

I got to own Helen one hand.  I opened with KJs button - 3, she 3-bet the cutoff and we went heads up to the flop of AQx, 1 of my suit, but 2 diamonds.  Check/call.  Turn was a blank, and I check/raised and she called.  River was ten of diamonds.  I checked.  She hesitated and thought for a little bit, bet, and I insta raised and she called, saw the bad news and flung her cards at the dealer in frustration.

I have varied up my turn check raises against Helen quite a bit here lately.  I would go into my reasons and rationale, but I'm not sure I want to get deeply into how my poker mind works in such a public forum.