Winning more $$$

I put in a very good session today and ended up $2450 playing most 2/4. I woke up around 12:00 and was actually going to put in a huge tourney day so I booted up all the noon tournies and got about 8 going. Naturally I run super bad and get frusterated and stop registeresting for tournies and finish up the ones I have (which is obv super easy when you run bad.) ala I do some quick AA<55, style=""> Just such sick beats. Whatever.

So I take a break and go to Safeway to buy all sorts of delicious food. On a side note, Santa Cruz had a ridiculous number of bums/homeless which makes any outing interesting. Every time I go to Safeway (where the bums tend to congregate), there is always a huge party outside- people drinking, etc. So far nothing too crazy has happened but when it does…my loyal readership will be the first to know.

So anyway, food in hand I head back, watch some CR vids and get excited about playing. I reg for nightly hundred grand and the 50/50’s and boot up some 2/4 tables. And boom, 4 hours later or whatever I’m up 2500 in cash and down a couple hundred in tournies. Now I’m going to drink some gin and tonics and watch TV.

Ah, the life.

Here is something that I’m still trying to work on and had some discussion on 2p2 about. So I called the 3-bet in position with QJ because it was an agreesive match and hit top pair. Now I posted a hand on 2p2 similar to this and they pretty much said what is the point of calling a 3-bet with a hand like QJo if you are not willing to get it AI when you flop top pair? Even though I know 100% I’m beat after you 3-bets over me on the flop. Who knows. I don’t think this hand is THAT bad but I don’t’ think its optimal either.

FullTiltPoker Game #7008980824: Table Carruth (deep hu) - $1/$2 - No Limit Hold'em - 19:04:40 ET - 2008/06/28

Seat 1: Ricky_Travel ($411)

Seat 2: pungy ($188)

Ricky_Travel posts the small blind of $1

pungy posts the big blind of $2

The button is in seat #1

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to Ricky_Travel [Qh Jd]

Ricky_Travel raises to $6

pungy raises to $21

Ricky_Travel has 15 seconds left to act

Ricky_Travel calls $15

*** FLOP *** [Th Qc 5c]

pungy bets $34

Ricky_Travel has 15 seconds left to act

Ricky_Travel raises to $76

pungy has 15 seconds left to act

pungy raises to $167, and is all in

Ricky_Travel calls $91

pungy shows [Ad Qd]

Ricky_Travel shows [Qh Jd]

*** TURN *** [Th Qc 5c] [4h]

*** RIVER *** [Th Qc 5c 4h] [3s]

pungy shows a pair of Queens

Ricky_Travel shows a pair of Queens

pungy wins the pot ($375.50) with a pair of Queens

*** SUMMARY ***

Total pot $376 | Rake $0.50

Board: [Th Qc 5c 4h 3s]

Seat 1: Ricky_Travel (small blind) showed [Qh Jd] and lost with a pair of Queens

Seat 2: pungy (big blind) showed [Ad Qd] and won ($375.50) with a pair of Queens

I'm also on track to hit 10k for the month even though I was even on the 25th and hardly played at all.