Been awhile

I haven't posted in some time, but I haven't really played much either. I've been very busy lately, and sadly poker had to take a back seat. I finally sat down for 45 minutes the other day when one of my friends was playing a $.10/$.25 game he told me I had to get in on. I sat and the table was full of fish. I got into a big hand and was an idiot trying to push someone off of a percieved weak top pair holding, which was actually nothing on the flop, flush draw on the turn, completed flush on river. So I gave away $25 there, and I wasn't happy about it. Hoped that maybe I'd get some metagame out of it, but it's doubtful, even at that level. Well I hit my own flush and won a nice pot back off the same player, then took the fish to my right with a big stack, doubling through him to put me up $25 for my 45 minutes. Not too shabby at all. It was AKd hit an ace on the flop after raising on the button against the fish limping from the cutoff. He checked, I bet pot he called. He led out the turn of a blank, and I raised pot, he thought and called. The river was another blank, and he checked, I only had another $8.50 behind and the pot was big, over $70, so I shoved, and he types in the chat box, "Ugh".



Music to my ears, I know he's beat and he's likely to call. He does call and mucks A7o. Nice win there.



On to today's play of the normal $.02/$.05.



I'm feeling lazy, so here's Poker Tracker for the day. Played 45 minutes today.










Got at a few tables with a player VeilSide, and man I have to play with him more. He's down $25 today, and is absolutely convinced that I limp with junk in early position and raise with junk on the button. The way he played against me, I believe it too. I hit top pair with AK on a flop of AQ4. Got Veily there all in for $5 and he had Q9, sadly spiking a 9 on the river for a two pair. Oh well though, I got the best of him today so that's fine. I wouldn't consider my stats loose though, lol.

After writing this, I had to check my position stats, so here they are in my defense.

Position
(# off the button) VP$IP
Button 14.29%
1 13.79%
2 11.32%
3 10.81%
BB 8.20%
SB 24.59%

So as I suspected, my play is positionally aware, albeit not that much so.