Day 1
6/4/09
Starting Roll $50.00
End: $65.92
Hands Played: 130

Day 1: Well I started playing late so got no where close to the Volume that I wanted to put in for a session. But the end result was fine.

Today I felt good with my play. I was playing solid just grinding it out, I also had some real nice reads of other players on the table. I started with a $5.00 Buy-in on the $0.02/$0.05 6max table. The players at the table were real playing real loose and wild at first, then things calmed down. The only thing that was not so good today was my total number of hands played. I wanted to play more volume each session, but no big deal maybe my next session.

Some Hands of the day:

This hand was good, I was playing a tight style, I noticed the SB in this hand doing a few position raises from the button, also he hit my BB and SB a couple times before. I noticed him fold a few times when someone did a re-pop, the strange thing was he never folded if he got re-raised pre-flop. Now for the most part I would hit this type of player pre-flop, but since I knew he did not fold much pre flop I wanted to take him after flop

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.05 BB (6 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Button ($2.19)
SB ($3.52)
Hero (BB) ($5.10)
UTG ($5.62)
MP ($5.13)
CO ($8.27)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 2, 4
4 folds, SB bets $0.10, Hero calls $0.05


Flop: ($0.20) 4, A, 6 (2 players)
SB bets $0.10, Hero calls $0.10 The SB did a standard C-bet, I just decided to call here to show him that I was strong, of course I was not strong but what did he know. I wanted him to bet another 0.10 at least on the turn, then I was going to re-raise him and take it down. Before it's asked, yes I knew he did not hit the Ace. The couple times I seen him hit the flop strong, he played hard by betting strong right away. He just was not the slow playing type

Turn: ($0.40) K (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $0.15, 1 fold He did not make that extra 0.10 wager that I was looking for, but the SB shows some standard weakness with a check in this position, a small wager was enough to take it down. I was a little upset that I did not get to show him my re-raise, I wanted to prove a point to him, but I did later on.

Total pot: $0.40 | Rake: $0
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Ok this hand was at the same table, I was on the same table the whole time for the whole session. I have no clue What was up with the SB in this hand. He sat down and for the last 5 hands in a row this guy raises pre-flop to 0.50 and shoves after flop if he is called. Now since I am grinding it out I don't want to be in hands like this to often, just for the fact that if this guy gets lucky he can kill what work you have done already. I did not do much at this point and I did not want to really mess with this wild bill type of guy.

So with that being said why was I in the hand??? I just felt so strong that the Q 9 suited was better then anything he was holding. I just knew for the last 5 hands he did not have AA, KK etc..

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.05 BB (5 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

UTG ($5)
MP ($4.13)
Hero (Button) ($5.46)
SB ($4.84)
BB ($5)

Preflop: Hero is Button with Q, 9
UTG (poster) checks, MP calls $0.05, Hero calls $0.05, SB bets $0.50, 3 folds, Hero raises to $1.15, SB calls $0.65 I just had to see if I did a re-raise which nobody did try yet at the table would he let the hand go, of course he did not, he called.

Flop: ($2.45) 8, Q, 5 (2 players)
SB bets $3.69 (All-In), Hero calls $3.69 Not really to much to say here, he pushed and I figured I flopped the best had.

Turn: ($9.83) 6 (2 players, 1 all-in)

River: ($9.83) K (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: $9.83 | Rake: $0.45 He showed down 5s 3h and I took it down.
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The rest of the hands played in this session where kind of the same, just me picking up on a few things like the first hand I posted, and players just handing there chips over, like in that last hand I posted. I mixed in a few well timed position steals, and called a few people down for cheap just to see what they were playing, that was it.

I hope next session brings some better hands to post. I am not the type of player that will just post good hands that I played, if I get out played on a hand I will post it as well so others can learn from mistakes made. I may in the future record some of my play and post it during this operation, so stay tuned.