Pud's Poker Progress / Matthew Pitt / 16 July 2009 /

Whilst I haven't played an extra 2-4k hands as I originally planned at the end of my last post, I have managed to play around a thousand hands taking me close to 2,000 hands played in five days, which is pretty good for me!

With the amount of money involved in these games being pretty pitiful, I am trying to think in terms of big blinds instead

As soon as I posted Monday's blog entry I hit the tables determined to turn things around and I played quite a lengthy session of 95 minutes, during which I played 372 hands, making the kingly sum of $4.45. Cheeseburgers are on me! With the amount of money involved in these games being pretty pitiful, I am trying to think in terms of big blinds instead so for those of you who are interested I won 111.25BB.

The session started off in frustrating fashio when I got AQ all-in preflop against JT and lost over half a stack. I don't usually advocate getting Big Chick all-in pre but I had been very aggressive early on and had raised or re-raised the last 3-4 hands and I knew this guys was just getting fed up with me and made a stand. Nice hand sir.

Most of my profit came from flopping a set of sixes after a pretty loose call preflop. My call is borderline IMO but this guy had come over the top of me a couple of times during the session and I knew if I flopped a set I would stack him and if the flop came without an Ace or King then I could take the pot down too. I did indeed flop a set but it wasn't need, WTF was he thinking?

I'd appreciate any comments on this hand that cropped up during my next session where I think I misplayed a blind vs blind situation. I think I should be betting the turn but I didn't as he could easily bluff me off the hand representing the flush and when he checks behind I thin I should be leading the river if I am planning on calling a bet. Thoughts?

Yesterday's session was a real roller-coaster of a session that saw me 4 buy-ins down at one stage only to come back to lose just 2BB! I simply got owned by a guy playing 70/40/3 who was hitting flops left, right and centre and generally making a real nuisance of himself.

I thought I had won a decent pot when I turned trips with The Hammer only to find I had run into full house then saw the tosser call a four-bet with 94s and turn a straight to crack my Jacks for a 165BB loss. Thankfully I clawed back my losses when I went on a mini heater starting with being on the right side of AA vs KK for a change, then had Kings hold in a crazy four-way all-in pot, followed by Aces again and finally Queens! LOL at the fish in the last hand!

So after 1,892 hands I am a whopping 90.75BB to the good which is pretty pointless but at least it is profit baby! I'm not sure how much I will get to play over the next couple of days as I am going to see Pud Jr on Saturday, which incidentally is Mrs P's 21st birthday too. I'm already in the good books after sending her for a massage this morning and her first driving lesson tomorrow evening! Happy Birthday sweetheart!

I think I'll leave it there for now but not before giving a massive shout out to James Akenhead who battled hard to claim his place in the November Nine at the World Series of Poker. I really hope he takes it down after he was cheated by the deck at the last series in THAT AK vs T4 hand. He's also 25/1 to take it down, could be worth a quick tenner on I reckon.

As always, thanks for reading and best of luck at the tables!

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