Day 6: Still Rollin'...

Weekend was good... actually in retrospect this was one of my best post-college weekends ever. Friday night I was so tired from staying up all Thursday night that as soon as I got home from work, I fell asleep. I planned to go to my boy P-Wee's bday party but I was too tired. Tomo came over to wake me up but was unsuccessful so he went with Mark and Lamar. I woke up around 1 a.m. and was supposed to meet some friends at a bar, which by now I had flaked on so I sent them a message apologizing and we ended up kickin it after they got out of the bar. Saturday just got a fade, chilled with my friend who came up from Dego, went to play poker. After I played poker I went out and we got rejected at the door of some club in Pasadena, which was about a 45 minute drive. That really put me in a bad mood because the door man was basically just hatin on us for no reason. Sunday I had my championship game for my baseball league at Dodger Stadium. We won 7-4, which was nice because the other time we played at Dodger Stadium two years ago we lost. My boy/ex-roommate Mark won the MVP, he struck out 11 people and allowed 1 earned run in about 5 or 6 innings. I was 0-3 at the plate with 1 RBI. I sucked but we won so it's all good. I saw "The Departed" last night and it was a pretty good movie. Ending was kind of fast/weird but overall it was good.

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My session on Saturday was great. I actually knew I wouldn't be able to play that long but I wanted to go try a few hands and see where they took me since I've been running decently. I had to wear some shades because I was a little lifted and didn't want to appear that way.

I put my name on the list for the 200 NL game and sat at a 100 NL game while I was waiting. The following hand occurred when I had about $95 behind: I am in the small blind with 22. UTG raises to $20 and four people call, so I call. Big blind then raises to $40. UTG goes all-in for (what I thought was $63) and gets two callers. I put in an additional $43 (trying for luck here, bad call I know) and the dealer says it was $83 total. I then was like "F it," maybe I have the only pair by the way the hand played and I go all-in, hoping to get one caller with an AK or something. I actually get two callers plus the guy that was all-in for $83. Board comes 8-7-4. Two players with money check. Turn = 2. River 6. Anyone with a 5 has a straight. Everyone turns over and the hands were: KQ, AK, A-10. My pair of deuces was good the whole way. AK was pissed at me for going all in with deuces. Oh well. I left the table shortly after to go to the 200 NL and won 253 in the 100 game.

200 NL. Had a crazy table. Two completely loose players, one drunk, and a guy who kept proclaiming "it's only money, I don't care about money." I worked my way up to about $600 by playing the table and catching some good hands with cards like KQ, etc. Nothing spectacular, just grinding pot at a time and slowly stacking over about an hour.

Then 10 pm came around and it was about time for me to leave. I decided to play one more circuit just because my table was so crazy, maybe I can win a big hand. I caught suited connectors my first two hands and was down about 100 (to stack of about 500) calling pre-flop raises and trying to catch draws on the turn. With about two hands left before the blind hit me, I look down at A-Q. UTG, who was on tilt, raised to $20. I called. Then the drunk goes all-in for $100. Action folds to the original raiser, who thinks for a while and then only calls. I can tell he's weak because if he was strong he would have tried to isolate himself with the drunk. In a prior hand when he had QQ, he went all-in to isolate himself. So after he called, I went all-in for $500 to isolate myself with the drunk, thinking the other guy would fold. I was wrong, he called and had me covered. I now put him on a high pair or AK, all bad for me. But he says to me "I got nothin," I told him "I have AQ." He says "You got me." Board comes 2-2-7-9-Q. On the river he goes "I GOT THE QUEEN!" and shows Q-10. I was like, "I told you I had A-Q" and showed my hand. The drunk showed A-10 so I was a heavy favorite in the hand and I left the table +906. Solid.

Summary: 2.5 hours, profit $1159 (first table $253, second table $906)

Saturday:
100NL: +253
200NL: +906
Overall: +1159
Hourly: $463.6/Hr.

To date:
40NL: -100
100NL: -67
200NL: +3844
Overall: +3677