I love it when hands just work themselves out:

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, $1 BB (8 handed) Full Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: HTML)



MP2 ($96.85)

CO ($106.95)

Hero ($139.50)

SB ($28.70)

BB ($93.05)

UTG ($189.60)

UTG+1 ($27.05)

MP1 ($97.50)



Preflop: Hero is Button with 8d, 7d.

4 folds, Button raises to $4, 1 fold, BB calls $3. <---pretty standard button steal with a suited connector, and the big blind elects to smooth-call with aces.



Flop: ($8.50) Td, 6s, 3s (3 players)

BB checks, Hero checks. <---- With the board fairly unassuming, the BB maybe goes for a c/r on my expected c-bet (or, given the turn action, a slow-played c/c). I don't know exactly why I didn't throw that c-bet out there; there wasn't much I could represent, and didn't feel it had a good chance of being successful, and since I flopped the inside straight draw I decided to give myself a chance to hit it.



Turn: ($8.50) 9d (3 players)

BB checks, Button bets $6, BB calls $6. <---- Wham. The straight hits, also giving me a flush draw I don't particularly want or need. The BB gets overly cute here with a c/c, treating his aces as invincible.



River: ($20.50) Ah (3 players)

BB bets $14, Button raises to $40, BB raises to $80, Button raises to $132, BB calls $17.05 (All-In). <---- For the bb, things progress from bad to worse, as he catches the worst possible card in the deck. My hand is well disguised, and I'm not entirely sure the bb even sees that there's a straight out there. He's played the hand poorly to this point, but nobody can blame him for getting it in here.



Final Pot: $249.55



Results in white below:

BB doesn't show.

MP1 doesn't show.

Hero has 8d 7d (straight, ten high).

Outcome: Hero wins $249.55.

A bit of a roller coaster ride so far this week, with 3BI's lost Thursday and then gained again yesterday, but being back home, and sleeping again, should help immensely. Today is the iron man freeroll as well, and I hope to get in some 4,000 hands.

I would have played more yesterday, but I was playing Rock Band online and ran into a drummer who could play anything on Expert, who was thrilled to have a guitarist that could also play anything on expert. We were teamed up with a singer who was singing on Easy. It was quite comical. Later I found myself as leader with a good guitarist and drummer and for the 4th and final song of our set chose Green Grass and High Tides, whereupon we scored a disgusting 2.3M points.

The Friday night tables were not nearly as lucrative as normal, with all the drunks finding other things to do it seems. Oh well. Saturday afternoons are usually good as well, so I'd probably best get on to it.

Oh, and also, congratulations to Elky for his win in the Pokerstars Carribean Adventure! He's an ex-pro RTS gamer who made it big in the poker scene, and that tournament was one of the largest in history (I think the largest with a $10k buyin outside of the WSOP ME). First place netted him a cool $2M. TillerMaN already has a challenge on his blog for Starcraft 2, $5k a game :)