Good Night for a Grinder
I meant to post some real poker content the other day. Basically, I played for a little while and ended up -7BB. I think I played OK, but nothing too exciting. I was more passive than I wanted to be, but some of that may be due to not playing at all for ten days or so.
Thursday night, however, was a different story entirely.
Things were really clicking tonight. I got some good cards, and when I did, I played them hard. I won back to back 20BB hands to end up a net of +35BB. I played one table of 1-2 and one of 50-1 (I was up on both tables). This helped me keep focused, even though the Timberwolves game was taking some attention away. I raised quite a bit more tonight and it paid off. I am really working on being more aggressive as it definitely seems to pay off if used correctly. I was pretty happy how I played, I even check raised for the first time in forever. The great thing was that the other three people in the pot called.
I think I played pretty well. It’s easy to think that when you have a big night, but I still plan on going back and reviewing to make sure I didn’t just get lucky. I know on one of my big hands it was a good play (Axs, two more on the flop, called one bet, made the nut flush on the turn). I think the other one was OK too but I was involved in another hand at the same time, so I can’t remember for sure. I want to go back and check some of the other hands though. I know for sure I chased a couple of things that I shouldn’t have, so I need to find those and figure out for sure what happened.
It sure felt good to play again though.
I’ve finished around 30% of my final papers, and am done with my weekly work for this week. The nice thing is that I can continue on with my paper and should get it done before my Montreal/Indy trip. So I’ve got that going for me.
That means more poker time 
Don’t forget, live “simulcast” of the WSOP final table at PokerStars on Friday afternoon.
May 28th, 2004 at 11:41 am
Good work, CHal… I had one of your tables up, but didn’t say anything… saw that you went from 55 to $100 in a short bit.
Bravo.
I tried a passive (ultra fancy) move last night and it blew up in my face. I made a tiltish call on the river (witnessed by Otis & Stinky) when I went all-in with just two pair and a possible straight out there… I slowplayed AK preflop and let a guy with KQ catch a broadway straight on the turn, AND I checked with an Ace on the flop which gave him the fre card that screwed me. Awful, awful play by me. I should have been shot on site for poor play. I should stick to betting out strong and being a bully. The snake in the weeds is something I am not… I’m the charging rhino in the open field.
Keep up the added aggressive tone to your game