Sunday, August 3, 2008

Moral victory

Finished +$80 in cash games today, though I crashed out of a $50+5 donkament so it's just barely a profitable day. However, it's a significant victory of sorts to turn a profit despite:

1) Being oversetted for a full 100bb
2) Losing 75bb with the 3rd nut 2-card flush to the nut flush
3) QQ < AKo for 90bb
4) QQ < AQo for 30bb

...and having no significant beats or coolers in the other direction. Flopped a straight against a guy that turned TP and decided to stack off for 65bb, hit a straight in a 4-way pot to drag it on the river w/o a showdown, had AA > TT AIPF (dude 3bet my EP raise from the blinds and then called my shove; what a maroon!), had QQ > JJ against a limp-RRAI for 50bb, and had JJ > A3o against a dude that defended his blinds against an mp raise, check-minraised a T53 flop, and called off his last $48; had AJ > A7 both flopping TP for 44bb, had JJ > 6Ts against a dude that limp-called and then stacked off after flopping TP for 40bb.

The only hand that could be called a cooler in my favor was flopping a flush against bottom set with 5c 6c, having the dude play it like the biggest pussy on the planet (check-called two streets), then losing any value on a club river (check-check). Won 30bb in that hand, and if my opponent wasn't a wussling would have won much more.

I prefer actual victories to moral ones, but this will do.

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