Session #91 - Back in the Virtual Saddle

Well, I'm posting again. The reason it took me so long is that I forgot to renew my domain and after a bunch of clusterfucking with my online host, it appears that my domain has actually slipped from my grasp. I have a new host sitting on the domain so as soon as it comes back into the public domain, I'll snatch it up again and have it back up and running. Until then I will post to this free space provided by Blogger (although the advertising is annoying).

Last night saw me able to get out to the evening game for the first time in a while since the famn damily went camping this weekend (I have to work). The Friday night game is $4/$8 Limit with a Full Kill (which means the blinds double if someone wins two consecutive pots). I was doing fairly mediocre as a Limit game full of decent players tends to be, but the impetous for me was when I produced two wins in a row instigating the Kill and then hit three solid hands in a row and jammed the pot all three times. The first two produced wins with the second one being an ugly suckout when I hit my kicker on the river and won over a fellow that had already hit his kicker on the flop. I was the aggressor the whole time with no backraises so perhaps he let me get there. Although with top pair and a strong kicker I don't think I would have gone anywhere had he raised, I just would have reverted to calling station mode. The third hand I lost so my little streak was over but I had turned a $50 stack into a $280 stack in short order.

By the end of the night I left with just under $400 in chips in front of me, and I think it's worth noting on why I left. The table was getting short and the action was drying up. Genesis had showed up towards the end of the night and had pumped off a couple of hundred and he was getting frustrated. Busdriver and The Pirate were sitting tightly on the stacks they had built up and TJ was playing his normal tight game so there wasn't a lot of action going on. This can be a dangerous time for your stack if you lose focus and get frustrated with the extremely tight game. When the table gets to this point, it's time to go. Not much else will be going on and there are only two types of players left. Those who have built up their stack and those that are stuck. So get while the gettin's good.

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