The next night

Well, I went to play at the place I talked about last time. It was a VERY frusterating night, with me bringing $160 and slowly dwindling down to $30 before I actually did anything worthy of talking about. Simply put, I caught nothing for 3 hours. I sat and folded, and folded, and folded, and called with a crap hand, and folded, and folded. It went on FOREVER. I got nothing. A few of my draws never paid out, and though I got my money in with excellent odds (lots of times I could actually call the nut-flush draw with PURE odds, not only implied odds, which is pretty awesome) but none of the draws hit and bam, down to $30.

Then a very loose player raised the pot to $7 with 5 callers and I sat there with A8h (the letter next to the number denotes the suit, h=hearts, c=clubs, etc.) . I was on the button, which means I was last to act in subsequent betting rounds, and I called, getting about 5:1 pot odds (which is generally pretty good!) The flop came Q-8-4 rainbow and the entire table checked to me. It was too easy, and I pushed my remaining $23 into the pot. The original raiser called, and nobody else did, and the guy turns over.... A7! He didn't even have a pair, and I more than doubled up!

A full circuit later I had 6-7h and called on the button after 5 people called the flop. I had about $150 in front of me or so. The flop came 7-2-6 with two diamonds, which gave me top two, but also gave lots of other people flush draws/straight draws. I bet $10 into the pot after it was checked to me, and was check-raised to $25. Leery of a set, I reluctantly called, and the next card was a Qs, not one of my danger cards, obviously. The check-raiser checked again, which led me to believe he was either on a draw or possibly a strong 7, maybe even a low overpair. I bet $30 which he called after MUCH hesitation. The river brought a 6, and gave me a boat. The only hand that could possibly beat me was QQ (highly unlikely the way he bet it) and 77, so I bet $40, basically the rest of my stack, to which he quickly folded, flipping over a counterfeited 7-2 for (3 pair). Sad he didn't pay me off, but the fact that he played that UTG (under the gun, or basically the first person to bet) was pretty surprising, and I'm glad his hand didn't hold up (obviously haha).

Anyways, I ended the night up and down a little and finished with $233. Not a bad end to a night that was so annoying. Here are the stats:

$1/$2 NL Hold'em
Hours logged for the session: 5
Started the night with: $160
Ended the night with: $233
Plus or minus for the night: +$73
Overall cash bankroll: $290
Total plus or minus: +$130
Total hours played: 9 (5 this session, 4 the time before)
Total per hour average: +$14.44/hour

haha, not as great as some jobs out there, but... I can't complain so far. Pretty neat place. I plan on going as often as I can, playing 4-5 hours sessions. Anyways, this is pretty long, and I need to go sleep, my mission today was looooong! Take 'er easy!

-Trike