A fun hand

Capped three ways on all streets! Who says poker is dead?


Hand Information

Game:	Limit
Room:
Blind:	$1.50 / $3

Table Information

Seat 1:	cakeseat1	($156)
Seat 2:	cakeseat2	($256)	Dealer
Seat 3:	cakeseat3	($180.25)	Small Blind
Seat 8:	Hero	($84)	Big Blind
Seat 9:	cakeseat9	($63.25)
Seat 10:	cakeseat10	($116.46)

Dealt to Hero

Preflop (Pot:4.50)

cakeseat9

RAISE

$6

cakeseat10

RAISE

$9

cakeseat1

FOLD

cakeseat2

FOLD

cakeseat3

FOLD

Hero

RAISE

$12

cakeseat9

CALL

$6

cakeseat10

CALL

$3

Flop (Pot: $40.50)

Hero

BET

$3

cakeseat9

CALL

$3

cakeseat10

RAISE

$6

Hero

RAISE

$9

cakeseat9

CALL

$6

cakeseat10

RAISE

$12

Hero

CALL

$3

cakeseat9

CALL

$3

Turn (Pot: $85.50)

Hero

BET

$6

cakeseat9

CALL

$6

cakeseat10

RAISE

$12

Hero

RAISE

$18

cakeseat9

CALL

$12

cakeseat10

RAISE

$24

Hero

CALL

$6

cakeseat9

CALL

$6

River (Pot: $175.50)

Hero

BET

$6

cakeseat9

CALL

$6

cakeseat10

RAISE

$12

Hero

RAISE

$18

cakeseat9

ALL-IN

$9.25

cakeseat10

RAISE

$24

Hero

CALL

$6

ShowDown:

cakeseat10 SHOWS

Hero SHOWS

cakeseat9 SHOWS

Hero	win the pot: $158

Winrates and idiots

Sometime I wonder how a good winrate can be "only" 1BB per 100 hands. I wonder this, particularly when a bonafide idiot comes along and hands you about five of them in a single hand.



The only downside is that he left the table before I could tag him..

Back in the saddle

Rumours of my demise have been somewhat exaggerated.

After doing my best to annihilate my online bankroll, I took another hiatus from poker of several weeks. Having dropped significantly more than half of my bankroll, and probably 80% of the online roll I was basically on the felt as far as online poker was concerned. I did actually manage to zero all of my poker site accounts, but still had a bit sitting in Neteller.

A couple of weeks ago then, I decided to deposit $100 to play a $10 rebuy on Red Star. I went deep in the tourney, but not deep enough, basically just recovering my buyin. That left me with $78 after losing some in a cash game. Since then, I have run like God, starting with single tables of 1/2 and working up. In two weeks, I would estimate that I have probably won around 300BB at all stakes.

In the context of the cooler of the last few months it's still a pretty tiny dent, but gee it feels like such a long time since I've run this good.

Sorry, can't help it..

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Limit Holdem $2(BB) Prima Game#3435842680

ShotintheDark ($98.20)
Hero ($35.52)
zappa12 ($215)
LuigiVampa ($129)

ShotintheDark posts (SB) $1
Hero posts (BB) $2

Dealt to Hero Ad Ah
fold,
LuigiVampa raises to $4
ShotintheDark raises to $6
Hero raises to $8
LuigiVampa calls $4
ShotintheDark calls $2
FLOP ($24) 9d 5h Ks
ShotintheDark checks
Hero bets $2
LuigiVampa calls $2
ShotintheDark calls $2
TURN ($30) 9d 5h Ks 5d
ShotintheDark checks
Hero bets $4
LuigiVampa folds
ShotintheDark calls $4
RIVER ($38) 9d 5h Ks 5d 6s
ShotintheDark checks
Hero bets $4
ShotintheDark raises to $8
Hero calls $4
Hero shows Ad Ah
(Pre 81%, Flop 90.0%, Turn 95.5%)

ShotintheDark shows 6d 6h
(Pre 19%, Flop 10.0%, Turn 4.5%)

ShotintheDark wins $51.30

We resume our normal programming

Ok, so a few days of running good have been well and truly reversed.

Exhibit A: the one outer

Fun times

It's a very long time since I've felt really good about a hand.



The irony is that I had only just won two big pots by calling down bluff raises on the river from the same player.

Good beat!!

This makes for a nice change:



and this:



especially coming after this:



and this: