Boredom Revisited

So anyway, the only poker I've really been able to play was on tuesday. As I mentioned in a previous post, I've been trying to focus more on cash games, mainly because I'm in a transitional period with my backer. By "transitional period" I mean I haven't heard from him in like a month. So, rather than blast away at more tournies with my roll, I'd rather wait things out and grind some micro cash games for a bit, and avoid the financial swings of tournament poker. This will allow me to pad my roll a bit, see a bunch of hands with little risk, improve my short handed game, etc...

So yeah, I played all day tuesday and got in about 1400 hands (playing 3 tables at a time) of $50 NL hold 'em on Pokerstars. Well, the day was just sick. On one of the very first hands of the day, the following happened:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1780430

I make a standard repop from the small blind with KK, Villain calls with 56o (questionable, but he has position, we're deep stacked, and at this level, its easy to get value from a deceptive hand like this is you flop big vs and overpair. Also, since I've only been at the table a short while (this may have actually been my very first hand at this table) I haven't been able to establish my nutty image, so he's probably giving me a pretty tight range (AQ+, 1010+, etc) like most of the other players at this level who only repop with monsters (which is not the case with me at all). However, it just so happens that I do have a monster, and he has the kind of hand that can crack it if he flops big. Well, he does flop a big draw, and though I am still ahead on the flop, things get ugly. I obviously can fault his post flop play, as I could easily c-betting AK here and folding to a shove, and even if if do have an overpair, if I don't have a club in my hand, he would be way ahead. In reality, I happened to be ahead and he sucked out, and started the session on a sour note.

I was down as many as 4 buy-ins at one point, and although I was running bad, I felt that I was playing pretty terribly as well, and only decided to keep playing because the games were so good - heres a hand where I made a bit back

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1780432

pretty standard - I flop a set, and decide to play it slow, which I'm not so crazy about in hindsight, especially bc I feel like someone with my style 3-betting pre and not firing at a King high flop screams set. Fortunately, my opponent is too weak to notice, and gets stacked. Any reason why he's getting involved there with 10 7? Putrid.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1780434

The above was another big hand for me - his repop pre is large, which makes me question my call pre, but I do have position, and we're deep stacked enough that I feel my call is +EV, and honestly I may have been tilting a bit from getting crapped on all day, so I took a flop here. Anyway, I flopped huge and stacked him. (Almost the converse of my KK hand, although I'm in much better shape preflop here obviously)

And to finish, here's one of the many bad beats I took and felt like posting:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1780436

I ended up winning a little less than a buy-in for the day (miraculously) and was more than happy with that. I ran like shit, and was not pleased overall with my play, so felt very fortunate to end the day up. I'll try to put in some more hands this weekend, as well as my Poker Tracker stats to take a gander at.