Session 31

This was quite the interesting session, because I started so strongly, played very mediocre during the middle hours, and then played some of my best poker to date in the wee hours of the session.

I'm seated in seat 10 which in my opinion is the worst seat at any poker table. The dealer is to your left 100% of the time and you can't see the players in the 1 & 2 seats very well, and since they are on your left as well, typically that is where your money is going. But anyway, the guy on my right is an idiot. I wish I knew his name but I don't, he's just an idiot, I run to his tables. After about 10 hands at the table I've already doubled up, a cooler hand KK vs QQ, but a double up none the less.

So I'm sitting with ~$400 in front of me, maybe a bit less. The idiot to my right opens for $7 in with 90-ish behind. I make a standard raise to $21 with AKs from the cutoff. Folds to the BB and she ships for $45. Idiot to my left 5 bet shoves his stack. Now typically in this position I'd think about just lying my hand down, but I call because the idiot never has a hand.

FML idiot tables AA, I don't improve and he scoops.

I slowly build my stack up again and i'm sitting around $400 again when I wake up in the SB with AA. UTG straddles to $6 and 6 ppl call, I pop it to $40 and the uber donk UTG+2 whom had just limped for 6 in EP insta-ships his stack. Folded back around to me with $106 more to call and I snap. He shows 88, and proceeds to flop a set.

Again, I went back to the grind didn't win many big pots, but I adjusted my bet sizes enough that I thought I was getting a bunch of extra value out of many of my hands(ie. better $22 rather than $20, or opening for $13 rather than $12). I was also value betting pretty then on a bunch of rivers and value-owned myself a time or two, but that I can live with.

On the table behind me, Brian "The Kid" Biagi was chatting it up with an older black gentleman who appeared to be feeding the table chips.

Soon I looked up and it was almost 4am, my table was the only table going in the room and it was running 4 handed. 3-handed play followed and soon after I was playing HU with the same gentleman that Brian had been punishing so handily hours earlier. This guy had NO IDEA how to play HU poker. His fold, fit or bluff-shove game was very easy to pick apart and I just continuously raised the button and folded 70-80% of my BB's so that all my hands played were in position. I eventually finished him off by raising the button with Ac4h to which he called(he always called). The flop came 5c,6c,3c and he insta-shoved for about $100, I snapped and he said good call and mucked his hand before the 7c turned giving me a flush anyway.

I chatted briefly with Nick and Jason and then headed back to the garage to brave the snow