So I'm really back in the game now, and I've played most days in the last two weeks. Feels pretty uplifting, and I think the break did me no harm, although I'm definitely a bit rusty.
Overall I posted around +$8.5k for June, playing a mix of 1/2, 2/4, 3/6, 5/10 and... 25/50. Most of the profit, $5.6k, came from the 23 hands of 25/50. So wtf am I doing playing 1/2 and 25/50 within a couple of days of one another?
Like a lot of people I often open up the bigger games to see who's playing. Well, I opened up a 25/50 table and saw 3 shortstacks with $1-3k. Within 5 hands I could see that all 3 sucked badly. But I'm not nearly rolled for the game since I withdrew most of my roll. ZOMG a dilemma?!?
In the end I couldn't walk away, so i bought in for $1200 - yes a mighty 24BB. Baller. 3 hands in I open AQ from the button, BB shoves, and I win the flip with TT. Hold'em is easy when you make pairs.
By the 23rd and final hand I was down to 2200 when I pick up QQ first to act. I make it $155 and all 3 players call - sweeet. Now I just need a low flop. I don't get it - but A-Q-9 with two spades isn't bad either.
I bet $444 into about $600. Button shoves for $700. SB shoves for $3100. BB shoves for $1500. wtf? OK boys, I guess I'll gamble with you...
The turn is the A of spades and the river is the 6 of spades. I'm fervently hoping no-one has A9, which isn't unlikely with the action. Buttons turns over A2 of hearts. SB has KJ spades, for the nut flush draw with a gutshot; unlucky. BB has the boat, not with A9, but with 99. Man that guy must have slit his wrists when I showed.
So that hand pretty much made my month. After a few bad days I ended up down more than $3k from peak by the end. Today, first of July, I ran awesomely hot at 3/6 and 2/4 and won $2.8k.
Right now I'm just playing very solid, trying to make good decisions and hardly bluffing at all, since I'm finding that no-one folds these days. I'm not at 100% of my old self yet but I'm certain I can already crush the 3/6 and 5/10 games that I've sat in so far. The future looks good.
Sunday 1 July 2007
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