Went to the casino for the first time in months today. Up around $3.1k today, playing 5/5 ($1k buy-in) for about 10 hours or so. Was my longest grind thus far. Always seems crazy to me that in all that time it was only 600 hands or so. This makes it up about $15k in the last 9 visits, not too bad.

I'd imagine the last 9 visits total about 50 hours, at 60 hands/hour, so 3000 total hands. It's good to think about these stretches in terms of hands. Especially when being online grinders gives us good perspective on what kind of variance you can have over a 3k hand stretch. I can easily be running super hot, but I'll take it for now.



1. I had one SUPER luckbox hand today.
UTG+1 opens to $35 ($1k effective), MP short stack calls ($450 or so), Hero calls in CO with
Flop is
UTG+1 checks, MP checks, Hero bets $100 into $115, UTG+1 calls, MP shoves, Hero shoves, UTG+1 calls.
UTG+1 shows:
MP shows:
Pokerstoving after the fact, I realized I had about 10% equity here, which isn't quite as bad as upon first inspection.
Board runs out Flop is and hero scoops the pot with a runner flush.
Hero +~ 1450ish

2. Another hand, hero 3bets a NITTTY reg's utg open on btn with ATo. This reg has been pretty vocal about making very big folds (ie: folding big pairs pre to 3bets/heat, or folding AA etc postflop to flop raises and barrels). Given this my plan from the start of the hand was to rep a monster.

Nit UTG opens to $25 (deep effective stacks, around $2700), Hero 3b on btn to $80 with
Flop comes UTG checks, hero fires $155 into $170.
Turn , UTG checks hero fires $465 into $480. I'm betting HARD here, to let nitfest know we'll be playing for stacks on river. Nit folds, and shows QQ.

3. I had been opening for raises a TON in LP (HJ/CO/BTN). Villain on my left at one point freaked out very vocally about how I'm non stop stealing LP, and said he was getting fed up. he proceeded to 3b me $25 to $300 with KQ, and called my shove for $90 more or something. I had AK, but he rivered a Q.

4. I think the above villain setup my image pretty well though. Later on a very solid online playing reg (I think he's SNE on stars even), 3b my BTN open in SB $25 to $100. I 4b to $225 with KK and he ships 79hh and I hold.

I really should keep going to play live until my run hot runs dry!