Night of playing

Well, played again tonight for a while, and was actually losing for a while. There was a player playing the absolute worst hands, calling with NOTHING for as much as I bet (which kept being a lot) and then on the river catch his random 3-outer card and win. It happened like 6 times, til I finally had to switch tables because I could feel him putting me on tilt.

I played break-even poker then, for a few hours, with almost no hands worth mentioning. After a while, I started making my money back slowly, when this hand came up:

PokerStars Game #33931551512: Hold'em No Limit ($0.02/$0.05 USD) - 2009/10/12 2:36:03 ET
Table 'Oppavia VI' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 2: Hugo-1303 ($2.50 in chips)
Seat 3: mmg2009 ($4.70 in chips)
Seat 5: Xaereth ($7.48 in chips)
Seat 6: gbb4653 ($8.96 in chips)
Seat 7: NiteSkyy ($4.46 in chips)
Seat 8: NoobStore ($12.38 in chips)
Seat 9: kristiano772 ($9.34 in chips)
vlass763 will be allowed to play after the button
Hugo-1303: posts small blind $0.02
mmg2009: posts big blind $0.05
heuschrecker: sits out
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Xaereth [4c 4s]
Xaereth: calls $0.05
gbb4653: folds
NiteSkyy: raises $0.10 to $0.15
NoobStore: folds
kristiano772: raises $0.15 to $0.30
Hugo-1303: calls $0.28
mmg2009: calls $0.25
Xaereth: calls $0.25
NiteSkyy: calls $0.15
*** FLOP *** [3h 4d Qc]
Hugo-1303: checks
mmg2009: checks
Xaereth: checks
NiteSkyy: checks
kristiano772: checks
*** TURN *** [3h 4d Qc] [Kc]
Hugo-1303: checks
mmg2009: checks
Xaereth: bets $0.50
NiteSkyy has timed out
NiteSkyy: folds
NiteSkyy is sitting out
kristiano772: raises $0.50 to $1
NiteSkyy has returned
Hugo-1303: calls $1
mmg2009: calls $1
Xaereth: calls $0.50
*** RIVER *** [3h 4d Qc Kc] [Ah]
Hugo-1303: checks
mmg2009: checks
Xaereth: checks
kristiano772: bets $3
Hugo-1303: folds
mmg2009: folds
Xaereth: calls $3
*** SHOW DOWN ***
kristiano772: shows [Kh Ks] (three of a kind, Kings)
Xaereth: mucks hand
kristiano772 collected $10.95 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $11.50 Rake $0.55
Board [3h 4d Qc Kc Ah]
Seat 2: Hugo-1303 (small blind) folded on the River
Seat 3: mmg2009 (big blind) folded on the River
Seat 5: Xaereth mucked [4c 4s]
Seat 6: gbb4653 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: NiteSkyy folded on the Turn
Seat 8: NoobStore folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: kristiano772 (button) showed [Kh Ks] and won ($10.95) with three of a kind, Kings

Now, you may ask why I limped with the pocket pair under the gun, and my response would be that I'd raised the past 4 hands, and decided to vary my play, because people were starting to re-raise me a lot. So I limped in, and caught the hand I wanted, and expected the original raiser to bet, so I could re-pop him, and if he had KK or AA, I could take all his money. He obviously checked, and the K came out, and suddenly I got real cautious. I was actually pretty proud of my play though. To not go broke on a hand like that shows at least discipline, even if I might have been able to play it better.

Here are the stats:

Starting PokerStars Account: $36.46
Ending PokerStars Account: $49.34
Total Gain/Loss from Session: $12.88

Total Hands Seen: 720
Percentage Played: 20%
[a total of 144 out of 720 (20%)]

I'm happy enough with my play tonight. I was glad I could beat back the tilt. Only another $25 or so until I can go up another level. 2cent/5cent feels big to me still, and I'm sure 5cent/10cent will feel a whole lot bigger. Sort of strange to feel like these low limits are 'big' but... I guess thats how it goes when you don't have a 'big' bankroll and are trying to work your way up from nothing.

Alright, I'm outro.