I didn't show my river action. As you can guess, I did call this hand. When I led out on the flop, I was betting because I assumed I had the best hand. He called me, and I had to now put him on something. He quickly checked again with a 4 turn and I decided to bet .22 which was well over half the pot. This bet is rather large, but I needed to find out where he was at in this hand because of all the outs he could have. He only called. The river was a 7 of spades. There was 4 cards to a straight and no flush possible. After me betting the whole time, he decides to bet the river and he bets 1 in to an .80 pot. I just thought this was an extreme overbet, and he completely missed a flush draw. If he was a skilled player, then this bet would make sense. I often overbet when I hit the nuts hand. But after playing 50 or so hands with him, I just didn't think he was that strong of a player to overbet this that much if he had the 6. I made the call and took down the pot. He showed J4 of diamonds so completely missed his flush. Very interesting hand and I guess a very good call for me.
After an hours worth of play, around 260 hands, I have accomplished my 2nd goal. I finished with 4 dollars profit and that makes for 5 sessions in a row now of profit poker. It was a really good hour of play and lately I have been feeling very good. I know I can keep this going. I am going to join a tournament that cost 2.75 and when I am finished I will give an update on how I faired. Tourney play and cash play are a lot different, but there are some skills that you can use in both and hopefully I can make it far. This is my first tourney in awhile, but I just thought it would be cool to take a break for a little bit and join a small tournament.
The tournament didn't go to well. Made it past the first break, but did not see any hands at all. For 30 hands or so I saw one flop, and this is very rare because I like to play hands early with a big chip stack. But litterally I did not get any playable hands. Just before the break, I lost 1000 on A10 to AA. I made the call, after he pushed and obviously is was the wrong play but he was low stack and I thought he could be making a move. I was down to 1500 and with AQ suited I decided to push. I got called by a very large stack and a small stack which I did not like. And the flop gave me nothing so I knew I was done. The large stack showed 55 which hit its set and I was out. It was fun but didn't go the way I wanted. I will play some more .01/.02 cent. Overall on the day I have played a little under 700 hands.
Just finished 500+ hands of play and pardon my language but kicked some fucking ass. Played for about 2 and a half hours and profited 15 dollars. There was a certain period where every big hand I played I either hit the flop or didn't even need to. When I had JJ, I hit the J on the flop. When I had AA, all little cards came out. One of the players were very aggressive and it was easy to slow play him and earn maximum profit. So today after 1300+ hands I finished up 20 dollars and by far one of my best days yet. My new goal will be to get to $45 the next time I play.
Overall, I am up 41.89 after 5300 hands of play. I feel very confident and know that I am now on my way. In previous days I struggled staying above after I had won, but I feel like I have learned how to and will not be looking back. Below is the latest graph of my progress.
Just to let you know, I have decided to move up to the .02/.05 level. I am playing really good poker and think that I have proven myself and can trust myself to do well at this level. I will not move up to the next level till I am at 100.
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