Small home game tournies and cash game

Yesterday my boy Pete hit me up and asked me if I wanted to go play in a home game tournament. Normally I wouldn't really want to because i feel like the casino is more profitable, but it was convenient because I had a softball game out in the valley and that's where the tournament was. It also started at 9:30 and my game was over at 9:00 so the time was good as well.

First tournament the buy-in was $40 and the overall prize pool was like $720 or something. We started with 18 people and I was knocked out seventh. Top three places paid.

After I was knocked out, I played in a cash game with the rest of the people that were knocked out and I won $165, hitting a full house with 44 and hitting a set on the river with AA to suck out on two pair (6-8 called my pre-flop raise).

We broke the table and started the second tournament. I made it down to top three players and the chip leader was bullying us (me primarily because the other player was his friend) when I had 5h6h in the big blind. Chip leader raised to 1200 (200/400 blinds) and I called. Flop came Q-5-3 and the chip leader went all in. I knew he had nothing because he slow played all of his big hands. I went all in and he goes "Damn you got something" and showed A-J. Turn 10, river K, GG me. I won $100 for third.

So my profit for that tournament was $60 and my friend and I agreed to chop any winnings, so I made only $30 on that tournament and lost -$10 on the two tournaments overall.

After that we played another cash game. I really wanted to go home but my boy wanted to stay and play and I drove. He was down so I wanted him to have a chance to get some money back. I ended up losing -$43 in the second cash game. I never caught any hands and lost 10-10 to AQ when a player pushed all-in on my raise.

I'm glad I won because I loaned my boy that I was with some money to pay for his entry and cash game. He's a great player but I was disappointed that he didn't cash in the tournaments because I know he's better than the other players, as am I.

I also went to the mall and bought a couple hats and a shirt so it's nice if I can always win spending money back.


Tonight I can't decide if I want to go play cards or go out. I really feel good about my game right now, almost like I'm in the zone. But at the same time, I need to get out and meet new "people." Yadada!

I'm not going to add these figures to my overall results but last night went as follows:

Tournaments: -10 (100-40-40-30)
Cash Game: +122 (165-43)
Overall: +112