So another month comes to an end.

Slightly disappointing overall, but still far ahead of my original plan (I should be on about $1700 now, I'm actually on $2785).

Not including my Party Poker bonus and profit (which wasn't part of this operation), I cleared $550 in bonus (couldn't clear the extra $100 from Sun ran out of time).
I earned about $200 in rakeback, and yet finished just $325 up this month. So obviously a fair amount of losses at the table.

Well, it was at $2/4 SH-LHE.

Witness the awesome destruction:


I'm now quiting LHE for the time being. I'll need to play something like 900 hands of $1/2 on Interpoker and 350 hands of FR on Will Hill (unless I decide to play $100NL for the bonus). But that' s it. I'm done with it.

I had a rather standard time at $25NL on Party, little bit more LAG nowadays than I used to be and quite profitable.


Main game has been $100NL for a bit now. Got 3k hands in at it, finished down, but balanced out by some $50NL on the side.


Ups and down at $100NL, but I don't really feel intimidated, even after the -$350 day I had in the middle of the month.

If just one hand had gone the other way I'd have been up. This is a hand from yesterday which just underscores for me how swingy poker can be.


Opp is fairly aggressive. Earlier I called him down with TPWK against TPGK and I caught 2p on the river, so I know he'll go a long way with a reasonable hand and he will suspect me of calling too light (and he may be right ).

No Limit Hold'em CryptoLogic ($100NL)
Converted by FTRConv
6-handed

StacksBTN: $126
SB: $99.75
BB: $73
Hero: $161.18
UTG+1: $105.57
CO: $103


Pre-Flop: Hero is UTG with T A
Hero raises to $4, UTG+1 folds, CO raises to $12, BTN folds, SB folds, BB folds, Hero calls

I believe I have enough against his range to make this worth a call. It gets expensive

Flop:($25.50) J 5 7 (2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $22, Hero calls

Putting him on JJ+ and perhaps AK my EV is 44% here. I thought that the A+draw made it worthwhile and the stats bear that out

Turn:($69.50) 9 (2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $48, Hero calls

He left about $20 behind. Funnily enough I was ready to fold to a push (which is roughly PSB). But the pot-size now means I have to call. The extra outs from the gutshot keeps me at around 30% if we take away AK from his range. 2.4:1 to call.

River:($165.50) J (2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $21 and is all-in, Hero calls

I'm not sure if you can call here. I did, there's nothing I can believe is in his range which I beat here. So it's a stupid call, but it's hard to not call for $20 into a pot that big.
Is there any value in it? Not sure if enticing him to bet value bet his rivers more can work to my advantage...
Final Pot: $207.50

Basically, I only regret the river call. The rest I think was +EV.