7/8 Winning Sessions since the BR plan started

I took off work and went straight to the Park. I had plans for later that night either going out to a club called 740 or hanging out with a friend so I wanted to go to HP and put in a few hours. The action on Fridays and Saturdays is the best. I got on a table that was okay. Then a loose cannon showed up. His name was Mike and he was incredibly nice, just sucked at poker. He was hitting his horses and just pouring money into the table. He loved to raise pre-flop, which made the pots big and also made it expensive to play.

I hit two big hands and lost both of them. In the first hand, I had AK in the big blind. A tight player raised to $35 pre-flop and I called, as did like five players. The flop came King high with rags. I bet $100 and got two callers and then the button went all-in. Three people called. Everyone checked the turn and river and I had the second best hand with AK. The button had AA and one of the callers had QK. I was pissed at myself for not creating a side pot with the QK player. There was a 10 on the board and I was a little worried that someone may have had K10 so I checked it down. Stupid me.

The second hand I had QhKh on the button. Another loose cannon raised to $25 and got about five callers including me. The flop came 10 high with two hearts. The orignial raiser went all-in and I also went all-in. We got one caller so the pot was huge. The heart hit the river and the original raiser had AhJh. Damn!

Before I knew it, I was in for my fourth buy-in. The loose player had dumped an estimated 3k into the table and finally left. After he left around 3 a.m. I started getting some cards and hitting them hard. I doubled up first with 88 when my full house hit the river and the other player had the nut flush. I hit another set, although I don't remember what it was. I was grinding, grinding, grinding, grinding and finally had broken even. By the time our table broke around 8:30 a.m. I was sitting with about 1415 and was up on the night.

I decided to take $100 of my profit to one of the two $100 tables going. I recognized a few of the players and they are not very good so I thought it was a good opportunity. Before I knew it, I was up 1k on the table! I got AA and KK in back-to-back hands. My aces held easily and I hit a set of Kings to take down aces and AQ, who both went all-in pre-flop. It was lucky against the aces but the guy who had them was a horrible player so there was no way I was folding KK pre-flop to him. I ended up bleeding some chips back and left the table up 750.

Saturday night I went to see Blades of Glory, which wasn't very good. Some hilarious parts but for the majority of the time it was pretty corny. Plus I was lifted and kind of drifting to sleep most of the time. After the movie, I went to meet up with my boy at Commerce. I played the $200 table and really grinded and played the players just as much as the cards. I came up $655 in four hours and bounced for Easter Breakfast at 7 a.m. I don't really remember any huge hands. I'm pretty sure I mostly just won a bunch of $100 pots or so. The biggest hand I had was KdQd on the button. I raised to $35 and got a few callers. Then the flop comes 99K and a tight player in the blind comes out betting $80. I put her on probably the 9 but possibly the King, so I called to see the turn and see how she bet. The turn was another king. She checked and I immediately checked, trying to make her believe that I had QQ or AA. The river was a blank and I bet a weak $75. She reluctantly called and I took it down. She had the 9.

I'm playing pretty well and I'm happy because there are a lot of things that I can improve in my game and I know what they are. I'm trying to work on improving these aspects but at the same time I'm winning so that's good. Hopefully if I can continue improving my profits will get better, although I definitely can't complain.

My bankroll is now not really at what it is on this blog as I have paid back some bills/credits/etc. and used some of the money for other things but I plan on paying my poker bankroll back through my paychecks so I'm keeping the records consistent. Right now I think out of the $3730 that my BR is at, I only have $2250 of it. Still solid for me. The best part about this recent hot streak is that I can't even say that I'm running great. I'm definitely not running cold but my cards aren't on fire or anything. They were at the 100 table on Saturday morning though.

Oh yeah, I'm feelin this Redman album also. It's called "Red Gone Wild" and it's refreshing to hear him again.

Friday Night/Satruday Morning:
100NL: $750
200NL: $415
Overall: $1165
Hourly: $66.57/Hr.

Sunday Morning:
200NL: $655
Overall: $655
Hourly: $163.75/Hr.

Bankroll Plan To Date:
4/8 Limit: +33
1/2 NL: +195
2/3 NL: +750
3/5 NL: +2752
Bankroll: +3730