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C-note that is.

Friday night was a milestone in my short poker career: I won more than $100 in one session. I know some of you do more than that in one hand, but until tonight I have not been able to clock one of those big sessions. Once again I played one 1-2 table and one 50-1 table. I also had the Stars “simulcast” of the WSOP final going. I was playing the 50-1 table to keep me somewhat focused while limiting the amount I could lose. I find that I don’t get so distracted if I have enough action going on the tables.

The 50-1 table was exactly how I expected, full of calling stations and a few maniacs. I fluctuated quite a bit on that table, going from my $25 buyin down to $4, and back up to end the night at $31 for a net total of $6 or 6BB.

The 1-2 table was wonderful. I only played good hands, and when I did, I pumped them as much as I could. I wasn’t getting hit by the deck, but I was getting enough that I was able to work them hard. No fancy play tonight. If I got trips on the flop, the bet was thrown out, no matter what the rest of the board was. I capped pre-flop a couple of time and I even stole a couple of blinds later in the night. Things went really well and after a couple of hours I was up $50, doubling my buyin. Soon after I won a big pot by rivering my nut flush and got to around $125. Then the goal of winning $100 popped up and I thought I’d keep going until I got it. It took about three more orbits and then I got KK in the big blind and won 8BB on the hand which put me over the $150 mark on that table. I played my free hands, didn’t get anything more and left.

In the end I was up 51BB at 1-2 and 6BB at 50-1 for a total of +$108.

W00T!!!

Once again, it’s easy to feel good about your play when you have a big win, and I have not had time to review the hands yet (almost 500, another record for me). I do, however, feel I played well. I only played worthwhile starting hands and if the flop hit, I played hard. If it missed, I took as many free cards as I could, or I got out. Simple as that. I was doing much more raising, especially on the 1-2 table (which is where I was concentrating). Everything I have read says that this is the way to play and now I’m finally starting to see it.It’s starting to click with me now.

Suffice it to say that it was a fruitful 4 hous of poker
Congrats to Greg “Fossilman” Raymer on winning the WSOP and the $5 million that goes along with it.

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