gettin hands in

i've played about 5.6k hands so far this month and am up around $850 which is nice. i basically try to get in around 1k hands per day, usually over two sessions that are broken up between a visit to the gym. last night i only played around 600 hands and booked most of my profit so far for the month and felt like relaxing afterwards. i generally don't play on sundays so im going to try and grind out around 4k hands between tonight and tomorrow during the day so i can take sunday off. i've also had a real craving to play live again so i think im heading down to play a little 1/2 live saturday night. im going to try and stay somewhat disciplined and not splash around as much as i usually do when i play live and hopefully i'll book a little win.

here's a hand from last night.

Full Tilt Poker $1/$2 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players

CO: $242.00
BTN: $411.30
SB: $740.35
BB: $202.00
UTG: $413.20
Hero (MP): $436.60

Pre Flop: ($3.00) Hero is MP with K :diamond: J :heart:

UTG calls $2, Hero raises to $11, CO calls $11, 4 folds

Flop: ($27.00) 7 :spade: 2 :spade: 8 :club: (2 players)

Hero checks, CO checks

Turn: ($27.00) 2 :heart: (2 players)

Hero checks, CO bets $15, Hero raises to $48, CO calls $33

River: ($123.00) 2 :diamond: (2 players)

Hero bets $90, CO folds

Final Pot: $123.00Hero shows K :diamond: J :heart: (three of a kind, Twos)Hero wins $120.00(Rake: $3.00)

villain is tag reg and when he cc's the iso raise his hand range is probably pairs 99 and down and maybe some suited broadways. on the flop he's never folding a pp and there are more combo's of pairs in his range that suited broadways that he doesn't 3-bet so i chose to check and give up but he checks behind. on the turn im in a similar boat as that of the flop except for one thing, i highly doubt that he checked a strong hand back on the flop. i think he's either a) pot controlling a small pair or b) trying to take it down w/ his big sc's w/o showdown. so i check again and decide that if he bets his hand range can't handle the heat of a c/r. when i c/r i can legitimately be repping an overpair or a set since i might have been going for a c/r on the flop and missed. the turn isn't a scary card if i have those hands and im not afraid of a flush draw since he would most likely bet that on the flop. now, the important part to the hand is that when i chose to c/r the turn, i must follow up with a river bet. i think 55 or 99 is gonna be suspicious of a turn c/r and could possibly put me on a semi-bluff and call but will have a hard time calling a river bet. i fire the rvr, he folds and i actually showed the KJ and made note of it. next time i face the same villain i will take this line with the nuts and relieve him of his stack.

tg

poker is shight

after my big win last week i had another small session where i won a buy-in and was feeling good. then as if howard lederer had some sort of webcam in my house and could see me smiling i got doom switched again and had my worse session ever at 1/2 dropping close to 1.6k.

i got back at it nov 1st and wiped the slate clean. so far i've put in a decent amount of hands for me and am hoping to play 25k hands 6 tabling this month. i'd also like to win the monies but that might be asking too much of team full tilt.

tg