~600 hands, +$28.75
AP thievery and my miscalculations, -$1.60

PRAISE JEEBUS! My cashout from Vegas 24/7 went through this morning. Of course, those savages will only pay out in dollars, so I have some cents laying around in the account. Also, as any astute readers may have observed, my bankroll calculations over the last month may have been ever so slightly off. This could be for any number of reasons. The main culprit is proabably unimported hands in Poker Tracker, which can offset my maths a few nickels and dimes at a time. In any case, the difference is negligible, but I have gone through my ePass, Stars, and Cake accounts and gotten an exact figure for the sake of accuracy.

I'm really starting to get tired of Cake's interface. It's a fish fest for sure, but I wonder if it's worth it. Perhaps I could live with all the shortcomings of the software if there were soft tables available 24/7. Unfortunately, that is not the case. And even when traffic is [relatively] high, I can only stomach playing 4 tables at most with the unresizable tables. I know I've only been playing there for a short time, but I think it's time to look into making another switch. I would be willing to sacrifice a small portion of my winrate in exchange for Poker Tracker compatibility the ability to multitable proficiently.

A few hands of interest today:

Hand 1: Villain is very aggressive and slightly loose. Effective stacks are ~130bbs. I'm in the BB with 9d 8h. It folds around to the SB who completes. I check. Flop comes 7c 8c 9c. Villain pots it, I reraise 3x, villain calls. Turn is Kd, pot is ~$3.00. Villain checks, I bet $3, villain raises to $10, I reraise $24 (all-in), villain calls.

Result: Villain shows Js 4d!!! He misses his gutshot and berates me in the cha+room (wtf?)

Hand 2: Villain is a LAG tard who probably watches to much poker on TV. He loves making big bluffs and showing everybody. Effective stacks are ~90bbs. I'm UTG with 77, I limp, 2 others limp, button raises 6xbb, I call, everyone else folds. Flop comes 2h 7d 9d. Pot is about $3.00

Now I usually drop the hammer with a set on a board like this, but I'm 90% sure I have him killed and that my best chance at extracting from this particular opponent is to feign weakness.

I check. Villain bets $3, I call. I'm starting to like that "bet pot" button.

So the turn is 3c, and the pot is $9.00. I consider my next move for a moment. I really don't like checkraising more than once. I almost never do it. By checking again, it really narrows my hand down to either a monster or a flush-draw. My opponent is pretty bad, but I think he knows better than to give a FD a free card. So if he has any kind of hand he would probably bet about half the pot to give me bad odds, and perhaps throw the hand away to a reraise. Conversely, if he doesn't have any kind of hand OR he has a flush draw, he might check behind. Of course, I didn't really think about ALL this stuff at the time, but I knew that checking again would be a pretty bad move.

So I'm about to bet $6, knowing that he's probably going to fold any non-overpair, when I remember something IowaSkinsFan wrote about manipulation. I asked myself how I could make him bluff at this pot, and I put myself in his shoes with something like AT+. When looking at the problem from that angle, the answer was obvious! I'll just bet $2 into a $9 pot! It's like saying "Please mister, let me see the next card cheaply, I want to hit my flush". By making a "blocking bet" I'm actually feigning weakness more effectively than if I had just checked! If he has air, he's very likely to come over the top. Ditto if he actually has something like QQ+. The obvious drawback to this all is if he is actually on a flush-draw himself, but if its something like QJs, he can't call if he thinks I'm trying to hit the nut flush draw!

So I bet $2, he reraised all-in, and I called. I felt very proud of myself as he showed AKo and I scooped the pot. I look forward to trying this tactic some more against overaggressive opponents, but perhaps I will do so on boards with better texture.

Bankroll: $749.19