Day 21: Getting Cracked

The good news is I'm finally getting back into some exercise and played basketball the last two days. Monday I felt pretty good and was getting my jumper back, yesterday I was playing better and feeling better but now my knee feels like something's wrong. Hopefully it's just a stretching issue.

After I played and had dinner with my godparents, I went to HP. The 200 NL list was long as hell and my boy Matt was playing the 40 NL so I sat in the empty seat next to him and lost -$40 in about five hands calling with ace rag suited three times.

Finally made it to the 200 NL table and won about an $80 hand with A-9 two pair but no one had the ace anyways. I was pretty patient at this table because I recognized some of the good players as well as some of the bad ones. One of the good players raised my small blind to $40 from early position. He got one caller and I peeked down at AA. I knew the player was good so he must have a good hand and I had a feeling he'd call my all-in. So I pushed for about $250 or so and he thought for a minute before calling. The other player folded. Flop comes 10-10-3, turn Queen, River Jack. He shows AK for a straight. Ugh.

I rebuy and shortly after get AK. I raise to $35, get two callers and the button raises $80 more. I know the button over values any pocket pair so I'm pretty sure he doesn't have aces or kings and I push all-in. ANOTHER guy calls and he calls. He shows 77 and the flop comes KQ7. I actually thought I was good when the king hit but I didn't realize he caught his 7 as well. I left after that, was only there for about two hours and I played well but just lose a 98%er on my aces flop.

There are two ironic things about this hand:

(1) The only two hands the AK guy really could have beaten were KK and AA, the two hands that would have had him dominated. If I have QQ or JJ I'm full boating, 1010 and I'm quadded up.

(2) I just put a picture of pocket aces on my myspace page yesterday with a stack of cash behind it, lol. I definitely jinxed myself.

It's pretty frustrating to get the aces cracked head's up like that but I had him completely dominated when it went all-in. I also noticed that the guy I lent $200 to wasn't at the casino the last two nights but I'm not worried about it at all. I'm sure he went broke and will be back when he gets some money. I've been there before so I know how it is.

I'm not sure when I plan to go back. I need to go back soon but I want to figure out what I'm going to play. I'm thinking about the $100 game or 6/12 Limit just to build a stack back up. I paid a ton of money in bills on Monday so my funds are limited right now and I don't want to keep playing the $200 NL if I'm not beating it right now.

Summary: 2 hours (11:00p - 1:00a), -440 (two tables)

Wednesday Night:
40 NL: -40
200NL: -400
Overall: -440
Hourly: -146.67/Hr.

To date:
4/8 Limit: +201
6/12 Limit: +170
40 NL: -119
100 NL: -114
200 NL: +7841
December: +608
Overall: +7979