Day # 18

Today i played for around 5 hours and the session started off pretty bad. I played a few tournaments that started at 9 and 2 tables of 5/10. I played the 150 buy in and the 22+re buys and didn't cash in either of them. I started off pretty good in both and got pretty deep into both but busted out before cashing in either of them so it was pretty much a waste of time. I would've easily cashed in the 150 but of course my qq was no match against 88s all in preflop haha. I really do hate tournaments but i just know that if i would not get so unlucky all the time i could actually do pretty well in them. So i managed to bust out like 200th out of 1100 and that one only paid the top 150 so that sucked. In the 20 re buy i was card dead the whole time and couldn't really get anything going. The cash games i was playing were going pretty slow too and i was about to quit but started getting some cards and played for a few more hours. I was stuck about 1200 after 3 hours of play and then picked up a few nice pots over the last few hours and was able to get out of the red and into the green. I am really glad that i was able to turn it around today because today's session really feels like a losing one. You are going to have days and sometimes weeks like this where you are just card dead and you have to be able to just grind it out and pick good spots to try and pick up pots to stay a float. I don't really recall playing many pots but was somehow able to turn my deficit into a profit which is huge considering i really didn't play many hands and was down 1200 at one point. Anyways with that being said i am calling it a night, here are some hands from today and I'm out.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?782182 - pretty bad river card here for me and a pretty bad call of his reraise. I figured if i caught a diamond or the straight i would be good but once he reraised i knew i was beat. Thought about it for a while and paid him off anyways, bad call by me.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?782190 - pretty sick that once he calls the flop and checks the turn i actually have him on 44/33. So i checked the turn planning to just call off his river bet and i manage to get lucky in the process.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?782192 - just outflopped here nothing really else to say about it other than the fact i couldnt fold for 120 more on the flop.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?782196 - playing aces extremely slow here which is usually not a good idea but this guy was playing tight and once he reraised preflop i have him on a hand like qq/kk. I really hated that A on the flop because i thought for sure i wasnt going to make any money so i check two times to him hoping he does anything. Once he bets out that feeler bet on the turn i know if i just call i make no more money on the hand so i decide to put a big raise in there like i am raising with some type of draw or am trying to steal it from him. The river was a good card because it doesnt complete any drawing hands in his mind. So i thought for like 10 seconds and shoved all in hoping it would look like a bluff with a missed draw and it ended up working out.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?782203 - This hand i got pretty lucky on the flop here. Everytime i would raise he kept reraising me 80 more so im thinking if i finally come back over the top he will give me credit for a real hand and fold, which did not happen. So once he calls im thinking he has like ak/qq/maybe kk and luckily i hit a very nice flop. I throw out kind of a small bet hoping it looks weak like i have ak and really want him to come over the top here which he does not do. The turn card looked scary but really didnt scare me that much. Once he calls the flop i am putting him on ak and that turn did not help his hand. I thought about checking here and having him push but i really dont want it to go to a river card. So i push and unless he has qq he isnt calling in this spot. He mightve folded kk here but i think he had ak but who knows.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?782210 - not really a big pot but it was ok for A high. Im not going to brag haha....... but this was a pretty nice call.

Daily total- 329.34 (doesnt look like much but feels great after how card dead i was)

Total needed- 28,864.21

-Nechita-