So I've been playing as much live poker as able. Seem to still have it, and doing quite well on the real felt. In fact, knock on wood, I haven't had a losing session since....honestly I can't remember a losing session. The places I've been finding games (dog tracks, casino boats, on a cruise) these people are the biggest fish. It brings back memories of the way the $2/$4 NL tables online were back in 2002/2003.
Anyway, I got an email from Carbon telling me I had funds in my account. I honestly thought I'd emptied that but okay, let's see. Lol, it's $100. I think it was payment from rakeback that I forgot about. Well since I don't have any other games to play I figure what the heck, let's grind some uNL!
I came across Verneer's Well post on 2p2 and it kind of made me wanna see if I can't run this tiny $100 into $10,000. I know I'm not going to have as much time as I'd like to play, but something to aim at right? Maybe we'll set the sights on $1,000 to start.
Looks like game selection on Carbon = play what tables are available. Whatever, it's poker still.
All right so good little session there, I put in 1699 hands in just over 3 hours 6-tabling $4nl.
Fairly standard session. I did a better job than before of understanding taking villains to valuetown, even at uNL does not mean barrel three streets with any piece. I actually did a fairly good job of understanding when I could expect to extract value versus worse hands that will call, and when I couldn't, simply checked. I made a stupid bad terrible play on one hand, the only really poorly played one.
I'm not sure what it was, but I felt like he was pushing a draw hard. Of course I made a stupid horrible play and overvalued top pair, which is very unlike me. I honestly felt he was bluffing so I didn't care what it was that I held so much really though. Of course he had me beat, he had JJ and in retrospect was protecting versus the flush draw. But other that that one, I played quite well. Have to remember at these stakes just let them run you over. If they push back at all, you better have the nuts or close to it. No hero calls, no bluffing, just hit solid hands (Overpairs+ basically) and push them hard.
I hit a few more hands and have my "roll" up to $128.58 so not too shabby. +28.58% in one day
