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11:50am: It was my first live session in nearly two months, but I returned back to Harrah’s New Orleans yesterday and was able to pull out a decent winning session playing 2-5 NLHE. 30 minutes into the session I walked into trouble as I re raised to $65 from $20 with QQ and got two callers. The flop was 8 5 2, and I led out for $100 to see where i was at. I found out real quick, as the fairly tight player to my left raised it up to $400, only to get check re raised all in for $600 by the guy on my right. Although I got away fairly cheap on the hand, I was up against 55 (left) and KK (right). The set held up, as the man to my left took down a fairly sizable pot.
The rest of the night consisted of the following distribution of premium/notable hands:
AA: 0 times
KK: 4 times (1W, 3L)
QQ: 2 times (1W, 1L)
JJ: 1 time (1L)
10 10: 1 times (1L)
99: 4 times (2W, 2L)
AK: 2 times (2W)
KK and 99 were the two most frequently dealt hands pre flop. Amazingly, I flopped a full house with 99 once and filled up on the river on a lady who turned trips the other time. Unfortunately, she was really tight and I didn’t get paid off as much as I normally would have had anyone else in poker room had what she had.
That being said, the majority of the night I sat at -$200 to -$300, before going on a late run the last hour and a half of my 9 hour session. Included in that run was a great call I made with AJ against a guy who was trying to represent trips. I realized about 3 minutes into my thought process when I had to call $200 on the river that he had missed his flush draw and was trying to represent that he had been calling me down with middle pair and tripped up on the river. When I put the money into the pot, he just put his head down and mucked his hand.
All in all, it was a solid return for me as I profited $400. However, that was just a warm up and I expect better days to come. I will split my time this week between heads up matches, the blog, and live poker. This will be my first full week of full time poker since my apartment caught fire.
Good luck to everyone playing today, and happy mothers day!
