Running great this week. Played in the FTR300 + gear freeroll and took 5th place, cool. Played the next night in the FTR500 and took 5th as well, after a stupid move against spenda... well... it was late.

Other than that, am running good at cash also. Today had some good hands, maybe a few questionable ones... let me see if I can dredge one up...

On this hand I think I lost value... I was looking to give him the initiative and then call or raise... but this backfired... not a good idea, should have bet it out:

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10 BB (9 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

saw flop | saw showdown

MP3 ($9.80)
CO ($9.90)
Button ($21.05)
SB ($6.25)
BB ($2)
Hero (UTG) ($10.15)
UTG+1 ($14.20)
MP1 ($17.35)
MP2 ($9.40)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with 9, 9
Hero raises to $0.40, 2 folds, MP2 calls $0.40, 5 folds

Flop: ($0.95) 9, 2, 4 (2 players)
Hero checks, MP2 checks

Turn: ($0.95) J (2 players)
Hero bets $0.40, MP2 calls $0.40

River: ($1.75) 8 (2 players)
Hero bets $2, 1 fold

Total pot: $1.75 | Rake: $0.05

Results in white below:
Hero didn't show 9, 9 (nothing).
Outcome: Hero won $1.70

This one I'm pretty sure he hit the straight... so I dumped it... was a hard laydown for me...

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10 BB (6 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

saw flop | saw showdown

BB ($6.40)
Hero (UTG) ($10)
MP ($5.60)
CO ($7.10)
Button ($2.05)
SB ($2.80)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with J, K
Hero (poster) checks, MP raises to $0.20, CO calls $0.20, 1 fold, SB calls $0.15, BB calls $0.10, Hero (poster) calls $0.10

Flop: ($1) K, 9, J (5 players)
SB checks, BB bets $0.50, Hero calls $0.50, 3 folds

Turn: ($2) 10 (2 players)
BB bets $1.40, Hero folds

Total pot: $2 | Rake: $0.05

Results in white below:
BB didn't show
Outcome: BB won $1.95

Also, a funny hand came up, I had AK and flopped the nut straight, rainbow board, bet, got raised, re-raised, the guy shoves, I call, it holds up and another player at the board... bitches about how I'm lucky... I thought it was funny because I asked her what she expected me to do when flopping the nut straight, fold it? To which there was no reply.

I'm struggling with losing value. I think I'm having a real problem with stealing, having issue with trying it when it isn't good, hard for me to figure out when it is good lately. I also think that I'm not betting properly most of the time to cause value, too often my opponents are folding out when I want them to stay in the hand... even after I adjust my bet sizing down. I'm going ot have to figure out if that is just the micros or if that is my bet sizing...

Anyway, it has been a good week, here are the stats:

FT BR: $178
PS BR: $315 (28 FPP from my $50 bonus, should clear in a few days)
Total BR: $493

(+gear if I GMML gets time to fill me in on if I gave enough info).