Tuesday, 25 March 2008

new found optimism


I found a bit of my old poker confidence again last night. I had been down a few buyins at 50nl and was on the verge of giving up for the day when i finally made a good read;

Full Tilt Poker Game #5767454694: Table Dancing Leaf - $0.25/$0.50 - No Limit Holdem - 18:06:11 ET - 2008/03/24
Seat 1: Ixibat ($10)
Seat 2: WULLFMAN ($23)
Seat 3: GrrrMyLove ($38.95)
Seat 4: SCOTTAJR ($17.85)
Seat 5: Domino516 ($80.15)
Seat 6: scep99 ($39.45)
Seat 7: AA_REAL_MAN ($126.15)
Seat 8: Mr_Rahl ($51.35)
Seat 9: govornater ($31.25)
GrrrMyLove posts the small blind of $0.25
SCOTTAJR posts the big blind of $0.50
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Mr_Rahl [9d 9c]
Domino516 calls $0.50
scep99 raises to $2
AA_REAL_MAN folds
AA_REAL_MAN is sitting out
Mr_Rahl calls $2
govornater folds
WULLFMAN calls $2
GrrrMyLove folds
SCOTTAJR folds
Domino516 calls $1.50
*** FLOP *** [7h Tc 2d]
Domino516 checks
scep99 bets $4.50
Mr_Rahl calls $4.50
WULLFMAN has 15 seconds left to act
WULLFMAN folds
Domino516 folds
*** TURN *** [7h Tc 2d] [5s]
scep99 bets $17.75
Mr_Rahl has 15 seconds left to act
Mr_Rahl has requested TIME
Mr_Rahl raises to $35.50
scep99 has 15 seconds left to act
scep99 is sitting out
scep99 has timed out
scep99 folds
Uncalled bet of $17.75 returned to Mr_Rahl

In this hand i nearly insta folded when he made a pot size raise on the turn but then thought about it and couldnt see why he would do this with an overpair or even a 10 especially when there wasnt any easy draws he could be trying to price me out of, so i put him virtually allin and took the pot down. I went on to recover all my losses for the day and turn a slight profit, its very likely that this still will be my biggest loosing month ever but at least I havent given up. I have attached a graph of the easter break so far.

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