Session #33 - Greek Salad

You may have noticed that I've decided to starting "naming" my blog entries as opposed to just giving them a session number. Figured this would be a nice way to individualize the posts and make them more memorable.

So Thursday evening was the $1/$2 NL game and I came into it after playing a couple of mini-tournaments with three other guys, neither of which I won. So I sat down at the table already $40 behind (well, actually $30 since I was out of the second one early and dealt the rest of it and the winner tipped me $10).

There were two tables running and I did ok at the first table, reclaimining my lost $30 and adding another $50 on top of it. When a seat opened up at the main table I moved up into seat three with a buddy of mine on my right, a semi-tight aggressive to his right and another player who I would even more sub-categorize as semi-tight aggressive/tricky. The reason for this is he likes to check-raise big hands and I've used this to great effect in previous games when I've flopped a monster against him. For those that know the clubhouse, they'll get the title of this entry as the loose player who's this entry's namesake was sitting in seat ten.

It was a satisfying evening slapping seat ten around as he played his usual coconut combinations like K-10 offsuit in mid position calling two bets cold and then whining to beat the band when he's outkicked or someone makes their straight. Thing of beauty. I personally pushed him all-in four times and won three of them. The one I lost I wasn't worried about as I was sitting on around $400 at the time and he had $30 or so. No big loss.

But I will talk about this hand since I got caught with my hand in the cookie jar and I told a buddy in seat six that I would write it up. Hehe.

So I'm sitting on the button with 2-5 offsuit and four come into the hand, including seat ten. I figure this is a great time to pick up the pot as everyone has limped in and a reasonable sized bet would get them out so I make it $16 to go. The blinds fold and so does everyone else except seat ten. The flop, I believe, was K-2-10 and seat ten checks to me and I also check. The turn is a rag and he bets $8 and I raise to $20 figuring him for stealing the pot with his usual crap. He thinks for about 10 seconds and then pushes all-in for $12 more. I'm pretty much pot committed so I call and turn over showing my measley pair of ducks and he shows 7-7. The river is inconsequential and he takes the pot down. I believe my mistake here was not making him commit on the flop. That would have been the ball buster. Credit me with an overpair of some sort or call and take your chances with 7's. Lesson learned.

Session Total = +$265.

Live MTD earnings are +$385 CAN.
Live YTD earnings are -$552 CAN.

Online MTD earnings are +$21 US.
Online YTD earnings are +$386 US.