Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Progress Check 10%

Well, I am a little over 10% of the way to my first goal of 52 sessions.  Time for a progress check.  These numbers will be a little inflated becuase of the 275 roulette win I added to my bankroll, to cover the horrible first day in Vegas.  But, I am not adding any of the 1000 I won in Let-It-Ride to the bankroll, and it is early enough in my session count, that I dont think it will impact my overall results over 52 sessions.  I am also only working out of state 3 weeks over the next 2 months so will have alot more time working from home and being able to play more than once a week, so will be able to reach my 52 count alot faster.  Right now my BR is up 758 which is averaging 24/hr and 126/session.  The 126 puts be a little under the middle mark of my BR goal, so pretty satisfied with that result so far.

Depending on how tired I am when I get to Virginia on Sunday morning, I may head out to Hollywood Casino in West Virginia.  I have been there twice and it is huge, I was suprised how big it was considering where it was at.  They have a pretty big poker room, I have played 1-2 no limit there twice and actually lost both times, but I know where my errors have been those two times, so if I go, I will really have to watch how I start off.  I will frequently take chances and play "bad" very early, so I will just need to calm down when I get there and take it easy.  I had a pretty memorable hand the last time I was there.

When I got there I was in seat 10 and in seat 6 or so there was a guy and he had about 2grand in front of him.  It was 1-2 NL.  The max initial buy-in is 300 at that table so he must have been doing really well all day.  I got there in the middle of the afternoon and he said he had been there all day.  Listening to him talk to his friends that where coming by I learned that at the WPT foxwoods event he said he got (If I remember correctly) 6th place in that tournement.  So I will be watching it when it comes around, he said it will be televised in June.  I will post his name and the place he got when I catch it on TV.  Anyway I was in the BB with 6-4 of diamonds.  It was an un-raised pot so got to see a flop for no extra money.  I dont remember what the first card was, but the 3 and 5 of diamonds came out on the flop.  So, I flopped the open-ended straight flush draw.  I also dont remember how much he bet on the flop and turn it was a while ago, but I check called the flop and turn.  The river brought the 7 of diamonds.  So I hit the 7 high straight flush.  I did not put him on a flush draw, and he was playing very tight and well the entire time I was there, so I did not think he would call a large or all in bet even though he had me about 8 to 10 to 1 in chips.  If I would have known what he said he had later I would have checked, but I figured he had some kind of top pair or two pair, so I lead out and bet 15 which is a pretty small bet compared to the pot size.  Then he thought about it for several minutes and then he called.  I turned up the straight flush and he folded face down.  He said he had the King high flush.  If I would have put him on a big flush draw I would have check raised him instead of leading out, if he did have the king high flush and I checked he would have put a good sized bet on the river, unless he really thought I was check calling with the nut flush draw the whole time.  Hard to tell what the best thing to do in that situation against a good player.  Anyone else at that table would have raised me with the King high flush, little unlucky hitting such a huge hand against a great hand against such a good player.  Would be nice to have that bet back and try different things to see what the outcome would have been.  Would he think I was bluffing with a huge bet, would he have gone all in if I checked?  Only he knows I guess.

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