Friday, 03/02/07

Evening -

What a day of poker! I suffered all day with what I think are bad beats. I don't know, maybe not. It is really important to me to become a good poker player. I try and play quality hand in position and being very agressive when I do play. Using a trial version of a software named Sixth Sense, I spotted a table at the 25NL level that was 49/6 on the PT stats. This was the start of the first session. The whole table was loose- passive. There was a guy who was 79/10/4, playing every hand it seemed, but the guy would catch cards and win. He was up 3 buy-ins when I joined the table in position. This would be fun attempting to strip the table captain of his power. After folding sub standard hands. On the fifth hand, I pick up KK in the BB. Villain was in the CO and brought it in for a pot sized raise, I of course countered with a 3X raise to him. The villain thinks and shoved his $55.00 stack, well thank you sir for your donations. I call off my stack and the showdown begins. I expect to see 55 or 10/J, but he shows a nice pair of black Queens. The typical Men vs. Women. Well now he we go, I can see the table giving me atta boys for beating down the beast. The flop comes QA7, 5, 10. WTF!

I should have known, this was the start of something good. Before the end of the night, I get to witness my AA all-in against 56 with a K54 board just to see the case 5 hit the turn. And of course we all can feel the special touch of my JJ with a JA9, 1o, 8 board. The trouble is, the A, 10, 9 and 8 are all spades and my JJ are all red. The villain floated every pot sized bet, until the river where he shoved in his stack. When the dust settled I am south 3 buy-ins and wondering how anyone can make it up in levels. Oh Well. POKER!