Keep HFL Free

4:14pm: The opening table last night was a pretty tough table, at which I felt I played really good. Within the first two hours of play, I picked up a seemingly never ending barrage of high pocket pairs (AA, KK, QQ, JJ, QQ, KK). I was able to come out +$500 after that heater, but then disaster struck against this LAG player that plays higher limits usually. Two people called someones raise of $25 preflop. When action came to me, I made it $100 because I felt like people were in a gambling mood and would probably get at least one caller.

The LAG guy that I referenced before called, and we saw a flop with a $250 pot. I figured he had something like 78s, 89s, 910s, or 10Js. If it wasn’t that, it was probably 66, 77, 88, 99, ot 10 10. So I knew if the middle of the deck hit in any way I could possibly be screwed, but that wasn’t going to stop me from leading out, because (a) the guy loves to draw and if he happens to flop one, I’m going to make him pay for it, and (2) the guy has a bad case of “fancy play syndrome” and I refused to get outplayed on this hand. Even an ace wouldn’t scare me because I was relatively sure he had some kind of suited-connector situation going on. I just didn’t know which ones.

Anyways, the flop held: 8h7h2c

Which told me that he’s probably either open ended, or if I’m extremely unlucky he just flopped top two (but I doubt it). I led out for the pot, $250, and he immediately goes all in — which he has been known to do on more than one occasion on a draw. No more than 10 minutes before this hand did I see the same man stick $700 all in on a 9 high flush draw. Since it’s only another $270 to me, I have to call and unfortunately he flipped over 8c7c. He filled up on the river, and I blanked out so he took the hand, which put me down almost $600.

This volatility was only a prelude of things to come. My “chip mileage” the whole night led me to call last one night one of the “swingiest” sessions I’ve ever played. Here is my journey to +$275:

Hours Into Session, Total Net Profit:

1, +$500
2, -$575
3, -$125
4, EVEN
5, +$300
6, +$400
7, EVEN
8, -$475
9, -$250
10, -$450
11, -$120
12, +$275

As you can see it was a complete roller coaster ride, racking up nearly $4,000 in “chip mileage” — which is simply the distances between all of the points of total net profit. The night ended on positive note, when everyone was tired, and someone paid me off to the river with AK on a K 10 8 7 2 board.

I was going to play another live session tonight, but I might have to switch up and play tomorrow because my girlfriend is sick, and I may have to stay here and nurse her to health. The good news with that is that I can still play online though.

More later….

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