WOW. What a weekend.

Friday night and 2 small sessions on Saturday, and I was up 9.5 BI's in a little over 800 hands (> 50 BB/100). Moved to $25NL on Sunday and continued to run good until last night (17 BB/100 over 2000 hands). The bankroll exploded by about 35% in just a few days, it even peaked over $800 for a little while yesterday. Just absolute craziness. I'm still trying to get comfortable at the new limit, but so far, it's the same game, just more money.

Obviously my Biggest winners and losers of the week are at a new limit!

Villian was very tight for 6-max, running 13/8 or so...He's drawing DEAD on the turn.
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.25 BB (6 handed) Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

CO ($107.90)
Hero ($28.65)
SB ($25.55)
BB ($7.75)
UTG ($31.30)
MP ($46.75)

Preflop: Hero is Button with Q, T.
UTG raises to $1, 2 folds, Hero calls $1, 2 folds.

Flop: ($2.35) 7, J, K (2 players)
UTG bets $1.75, Hero calls $1.75.

Turn: ($5.85) 9 (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero bets $3, UTG raises to $13.5, Hero raises to $25.9, UTG calls $12.40.

River: ($57.65) 8 (2 players)

Final Pot: $57.65

UTG has Kh Ad (one pair, kings).
Hero has Qd Td (straight, king high).
Outcome: Hero wins $57.65.

I was TRAPPED! But I'd do it again the same way! No read yet on villian, got a decent one after this though...

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.25 BB (5 handed) Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

BB ($30.30)
UTG ($31.05)
MP ($26.95)
Button ($23.75)
Hero ($28.45)

Preflop: Hero is SB with Q, K.
UTG calls $0.25, 2 folds, Hero raises to $1.25, 1 fold, UTG calls $1.

Flop: ($2.85) T, Q, J (2 players)
Hero bets $2.5, UTG raises to $7.5, Hero raises to $27.2, UTG calls $19.70.

Turn: ($57.25) 3 (2 players)

River: ($57.25) 2 (2 players)

Final Pot: $57.25

UTG has Ad As (one pair, aces).
Hero has Qs Kc (one pair, queens).
Outcome: UTG wins $57.25.

In my very short time so far at $25NL, my impression is that the players are a little bit weaker overall, and know where the fold button is. My Non-Showdown pots are going back up considerably due to this, I hope I'm not being overly aggressive? This might just be due to table selection and luck of the fish, so we'll see what happens.

Played in the gauntlet last night, and nitted it up quite well (Ran 10/8 for the tourney!). Actually just had a really shitty run of cards early on, and didn't want to steal itty bitty blinds with crap. Rilla was the bounty, and he was LAGGing it up pretty good, eventually taking me out with 67o vs my JJ AIPF shortly after the first break. I earned a nickname from him also: ChrisBNitter... hmph. I'm not used to tourney play anymore, and always having a short-stack (relative to the blinds) doesn't lend well to my cash-game style. I was really just there kinda to hang out, so playing nitty ensured that I could stay reasonably long. Maybe I'll be "rushed" next time, we'll see.

My wife is now in California, so I'm a single parent for the next couple weeks. I've got really good kids, so I don't think this'll be much, if any, of a problem. The weather did thankfully hold off on the weekend, so we had a great (albeit short) time at FunTown. The kids went on probably every single kiddie-ride they had, and had a lot of fun. They went to sleep very easily that night. I'll be having a LOT of free time in the evenings now when the kids go to bed, so I'll be playing a LOT for sure in the next couple weeks. Look here for more updates!

BR: $773