So, using what has been said here about my raising and isolating. It's working well. Friday night I had a bad run of cards and by bad run I mean I lost about 2.5 buy-ins inspite of hitting both my first royal flush and first two str8 flushes in the same session.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?550934

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With these hands all you can do is hope someone has a monster and bets back at you. I was hoping someone would have a flush at least and think they have the pot. I had a hard time on friday night extracting any cash off guys and when you see the chart you can tell that I got ansy and started to bet at pots without the goods. I got used to the higher raising requirements after about a thousand hands and climbed out of the hole. I played close to 4k hands this weekend and that's with going out to two turkey dinners. (It was canadian thanksgiving)

Here's my weekend rollercoaster. ther first 500 hands are actually the slide from thursday night. (to the bottom of the first slide)Other than a couple of stackings on some questionable calls. I think I got it figured out. I still give guys too much credit for not chasing flushes after large preflop raises, overbetting the pot after the flop and still betting 2/3 the pot after the turn that when that third suited card comes on the river, they can't possibly have chased the flush after all that. But my str8 or two pair never holds up. they always have the flush. It's an interesting thing at 10 and 25NL. they fold up like cheap tents when the board flushes no matter what has happened before that or how much money they have invested, but they will chase a flush with any two suited if they have 4 to the flush post flop. I think I need to get into that mentality. On the flip side, my set's never get paid. Any scare card on the river and off they run. I want to post some other stats when I gethome and have someone tell me, do I seem to get less sets than the odds suggest, or is it just in my head.



Even though this chart shows I'm down. I won a $5 15man S&G to pay $45 I think and a couple ITM's from $2.50 10 man S&G's as well. I cleared another $40 from the "slow" bonus so my roll is over $200 again on riverbelle.