Good Friday

Finally had my first really great day of the month today. Wound up +$480, and was up $580 at one point late. As usual, I started the day dropping almost a buy-in in the hole but quickly found my groove. The tables were fishy and I was running well.

Some of my more fun hands:

Not a good place to call an all-in with AK, methinks. Ouch. I was not happy at all when my KK got 2 cold-callers, but then the SB bails me out with a reraise. He called my push so fast I was sure I was going to run into AA. No such bad luck, although I did have to sweat a diamond on the river.

A nerve-racking hand here, but it paid off. Phew. What convinced me most to push my weak hand here was that the raise was so big. This particular player I'd seen slow-play in some marginal situations, and decided that a move that fast was either some kind of draw, a chop, or exactly what he turned out to have. When he snap-called I was sure I blundered my way into a set, and was very surprised to see his poor holding. What a terrible call of my push!

I don't understand people. Why call off your whole stack with second pair in this spot? What do you think you're beating here? JJ?

Totally sick river value bet. I was totally convinced I was up against 99 or TT this hand. And hot damn!

God I love Friday nights. Let's see. Pure aggression every step of the way from a tight player. Yeah, it makes sense to stack off with K8 on an 8-high board here!

Why you never, ever, ever min-reraise with AA.

He said "nice catch fish" after the hand. I responded, "What, one of my 13 outs?" Nice little coinflip win.

Pretty sick call on the river. I put him on QT exactly.

Here's my MTD graph. Finally starting to make a little progress. I haven't given up on my goals for the month yet, although I've got a lot of ground to make up and not a great deal of time in which to do it.