New formula: short and sweet

Played another very short session yesterday, only 250 hands on four tables, and won another buyin, $117.60 to be exact. I feel like I'm making better decisions in the short sessions, in addition to running pretty well. The big profit hand this time was a limp-called set of 333 against AQ on a 3TA4 board where I check/called the flop (it was rainbow) and check-raised the turn all in, getting AQ to stack off to me drawing dead. For all my downswing I bitched about people making calls they had no business making when I happened to be bluffing. This is the fortunate flip side to that: someone making a terrible call on me when I actually do happen to have it, and they happen to be drawing dead. Although it looks innocuous enough as he does have TP with a good kicker, this is one of the worst calls I've seen against me in months, as there is like a 0% chance this could be a bluff and basically a 0% chance AQ could possibly be good here. At the *very least* I have aces up, but my line was so strong that it's almost always a set. Any half decent player gets rid of that hand there.

In other good news, there was a complete idiot at the table who admitted he was new to the game. He was running 74/8 and very tough to get to fold postflop: kind of the sort of donkey opponent you run into at the live tables all the time. He quickly gave away most of his initial $50 buyin, and finally gave his last $10 to me. I raised from LP with QQ, donkey called from the button, BB reraised to $9. BB only had $30 or so in his initial stack and I felt like he was observant enough to know that the donkey could be very weak, which opened his range up considerably, so I pushed. Donkey calls, BB calls, donkey has 77, BB has JJ. The flop comes J high, but I catch runner-runner clubs for the flush to bail me out. Woot!

Obviously if I'm serious about making this my living I need to play more hands per day, as while I can certainly live on $120 a day (if I keep my standards low), I'm quite obviously not going to be able to run at 24PTBB/100 forever. But I feel the need just to work myself into a rhythm and make adjustments to my style to maximize my profitability. Playing in small increments helps that a great deal. Maybe soon I'll feel the desire to put in another marathon session. In the meantime, I'll take it one step at a time to dig back out of my little hole.