Best Online Session in a Month (11/11/2010)
Thursday, November 11, 2010 at 5:42AM
Baglife

This isn't a joke.  Absolute ROLLER COASTER of a night.  The first 4 hours (discussed in my last post) represented the worst online net loss I've had in a month.  Then I come back the next 4.5 hours and log the best net profit session I've had (probably during the last year).   I just finished my last 4.5 hours from 12:50 a.m- 5:30 a.m up +$494.  So I won 10 buy-ins in 4.5 hours of play.  This completely negates the session earlier and I finished my online session this week actually up +$66 in 24 hours.  I'll take it, never been so relieved to be up just over a buy in.  Everything went wrong this week until that last session.  Also keep in mind I'm still clearing the VPPs and FPPs from playing 8-10 tables for a good amount of hands.  It was a struggle but I did my job online this week.

How to win 10 buy-ins in 4 hours:

(It's only fair)

First drag a $185 pot with AKs.  A short-stacker pushed $18 all in pre over my open and I called.  I was relieved another guy behind me also called.  With the short-stacker out of the way there I was, myself and the 61/7 toolbox left to fight it out.  This was going to end in disaster or fortune.  Board

Kc 2c 4d Ah 8c

I didn't want to push this all in pre-flop because we happened to be deep stack for this format.  I bet $20 on the flop villain calls.  I shove $50 on the turn he CALLS.  Villain shows JJ.  WOW.  I know it's normally a good play because the two outer comes against me every time, but for real?

Next, attack one of your most hated regular's blinds and stack his stupid ass.  I stole with 8Ts and turned a nut straight.  He instantly stacked off with a doomed set of nines.  His fault, he could have raised me out pre-flop but he wanted to play for the big pay-off (like I'm going to ever pay his set-mine off anyways, haha).  I know this guy was shocked, he couldn't have had the 8Ts hand in my range.  +$140 pot there.

Next hold up all in preflop AKo > A5o.  I open from MP and a psycho jams me $54 all in pre-flop.  I had to call based on the villain.  +$108

KK > JTs +$103.  All in on the flop over-pair kings holds against top pair T, jack kicker.

KK > JJ +$108.  All in preflop here against another bad player.  Kings made a come-back during this session big time.

KK > AA +$100.  This time notice we get dealt KK vs AA (like every session), but wait WE ACTUALLY HIT A KING.  No remorse because he smooth called the $12 3 bet pre with AA despite only being 50BB deep.   It's going all in anyways, feels good to suck out for once.  I certainly never get the situation where I'm dealt AA over my opponent's KK deep-stacked so again no remorse, it was nice to have some justice.

JJ > 88 +$100.  The two outs miss.

TT > KK +$100.  Set mined to hell.

66> KJs +$100.  Flopped set holds against top pair king, jack kicker?

AA > J9 +$90.  Overpair holds against top nine, jack kicker.  Go figure.

KK > JQo +$80.  Overpair holds against top pair quee, jack kicker. 

And that's really the idea.  One of those incredibly rare online session where for a few hours EVERYTHING seemed to be going right for me.  I'll enjoy it until next Monday, when it's back to being sucked out like usual.  I'm glad I finished up the online part of the week week as scheduled and kept fighting.  I really feel I'm improving weekly.  If the live tables are slow tomorrow (Thursday night) I might even put in another online session Thursday night around 2a.m- 6a.m.

The biggest question mark I had going into playing full time would be my ONLINE progress.  The last three weeks I'm doing enough to get by online, which is really exciting to me:

Week 1 (10/25- 10/27):  +$749 in 27 hours

Week 2 (11/1- 11/3):  -$50 in 25 hours

Week 3 (11/8- 11/10):  +$66 in 24 hours

SN Bonus + Tournament Freeroll Cash:  +$2,000

Even if I manage to play just break even during next week or two I'll still be up because I can begin clearing another $1,500 Supernova bonus.  My goal is always to do everything I can to profit every session, but it obviously doesn't always work out that way.  The bonuses are a great security net.

It's 6a.m my schedule is slightly off, but I feel great!

-bag

EDIT:  It's 6:30 haha.

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