I Run Like Carl Lewis

Went on a pretty sick heater today - won about 6 buyins in under 400 hands, and will be able to post some HH's if fucking Parallels ever gets fired up.  I really really love my Mac, but having to use this program for Pokerstars (and Pokertracker) is kind of a drag, especially since sometimes it takes a few minutes to load up.

So yea, I totally got hit with the deck - was dealt AA six times (in 400 hands - sick), and they held up every time, including once vs KK all-in pre for a full buy-in.  I also felt like I played quite well, and actually tightened up a hair, having a VPIP of "only" 25, as opposed to the 27.5 that I've been averaging.  I can attribute this to not completing from the SB as much as I was, and not 3-betting pre in a few of the situations that I had been previously.  Obviously my perspective is a bit skewed since I ran so well today, but I'm definitely gonna pursue this approach a bit further and see how my results pan out.  Also, I've still played a relatively small number of hands at this level, so it will still be a while until I get an accurate assessment of what my expectation is at this level.  Theoretically, a player doesn't get a concrete portrait of his play until after 60k hands or so, and I'm not even at 10k yet.  Barf.

Oh.  I also played in my first tourney today in about a month.  Got about half way through the field, and got AA all-in pre vs JJ.  J on flop.  GG me.

Todays hands (most are pretty standard - all comments welcome)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1796885 nice flop call, sir.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1796891 not pleased with the size of my river bet.  i feel i gave up some value

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1796902 - easily the most interesting hand of the session.

Villain opens with a min-raise from ep, I repop from button with 67, he essentially min 3-bets me, which is showing a lot of strength (although at this lvl, some donks are capable of getting cute with shit here).  Regardless, I'm getting almost 3-1 on my call, have a hand that is quite capable of cracking a monster, we are deep stacked (100 bb effective stacks), I have the button, and am most likely the most experienced player in the game, so I take a flop.  I flop open ended, he makes an extremely small c-bet, I call, hit gin on the turn and stack him.  Turned out the guy had AK clubs, for the nut flush draw and 2 overs, which granted is a big hand, but he misplayed it nonetheless - tried to get cute pre, more cuteness on the flop, relieved of his chips on the turn.  Needless to say, the guy went absolutely apeshit, and was just totally outraged that I would have the gall to play my meager 67 offsuit against him.  Yawn.  He played the hand begging to get stacked, so I obliged.

OK, its not 9:30 am - probably time to try and get some sleep :)