Well, the Party Poker move has been working really well for me so far.

Having taken the free $50 from the staking site and opening an account on Party I've sat down at 8 tables, played 342 hands and made $19.80 in profit.

Now, I'm a cheapskate (is that coming across?) so I haven't bought PokerTracker and instead I've written my own database (so I could also put in my Everest Poker histories). But according to that I so far have a VPIP of 39.8% (yeah, I know, small sample) which sounds high, but looking at the hands I played outside of the blinds only A6s, A7s and J9s (limped each once, folded after a missed flop) are considered marginal hands (or worse).

One of the reasons for the high VPIP (it is high, right?) is that I'm obviously getting good cards atm. The other is that players limp almost everything. I've played every KQ, KJ, AJ, AQ because I've never been raised pf with them. (I've folded QJ a couple of times just because it was early position, but that's it).

So, I hope that even when a poor run of cards comes I still get away with a few mistakes because these tables are terrible.

Anyway, while part of my brain is falling into the "oooh, this is sooo easy" trap (I won $20 in two days compared to the $0.75 from 80 micro sngs- about 18% ROI) I know that part of my success is the cards.

Tonight I played a little while eating dinner (no, I'm not addicted. No. Hush). 15 hands went like this:

1)Post blind: 34s, check, flop comes up 567, two clubs. I'm worried about better draws so bet over and take the pot.
2-5) 73o, A4o, T9o, 72o all fold.
6) JTo BB, check, nothing.
7) JTo SB call BB, nothing.
8) QAs, one caller, miss flop, bet turn, take pot.
9) KQo flop Q44, take pot
10-11) T6o, 82s fold
12) 44, limp, hit trips. Win big pot.
13) 94o BB, check, flop a 9, river 4, win big pot
14) 66, no trips, fold
15) 33 (see below)

Those who've played a lot probably think nothing of this, but when I'm used to getting a playable hand once per round or something, this was stunning. I wonder if online poker is rigged?

Anyway, while making a tidy profit from my dinner, I felt I had to lay this one down. What do you guys think?

Party Poker
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.02/$0.04
9 players
Converter

Pre-flop: (9 players) Hero is Button with 3 3
UTG calls $0.04, 3 folds, MP3 calls $0.04, CO calls $0.04, Hero calls $0.04, SB calls $0.02, BB checks.

Flop: 3 9 7 ($0.24, 6 players)
SB checks, BB checks, UTG bets $0.15, MP3 folds, CO raises to $0.3, Hero raises to $1, 3 folds, CO raises all-in $4.97, Hero folds.
Uncalled bets: $3.97 returned to CO.

Results:
Final pot: $2.39

What can he have had? Didn't raise pf, but goes all-in with this flop? If he's hit trips he's beaten me, pretty much anything else and I've won.