One thing about playing a lot of hands is that you see a lot of suprising stuff.

Had a short session of 200 hands this morning. It went a bit poor at $100NL. Was forced to fold QQ on an A-flop to a villain's push. And got a villain all-in with just two overs on the turn (13%) and he hit one.

But that's as nothing when you look at the $50NL session.
There's a bit of background. The first hand sets up my stack.

Hand 1:

No Limit Hold'em CryptoLogic ($50NL)
Converted by FTRConv
6-handed

StacksSB: $55.75
Hero: $50
UTG: $13.18
UTG+1: $46
CO: $109.10
BTN: $49


Pre-Flop: Hero is BB with T A
UTG folds, UTG+1 calls, CO calls, BTN folds, SB folds, Hero raises to $3, UTG+1 calls, CO calls

Flop:($9.75) 3 9 5 (3 players)
Hero bets $5, UTG+1 folds, CO raises to $13.50, Hero calls

Have to call this even if my overs are no good

Turn:($36.75) 7 (2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $4, Hero raises to $12, CO calls
River:($60.75) 4 (2 players)
Hero bets $21, CO calls
Final Pot: $102.75

Villain has KK

Hand 2
No Limit Hold'em CryptoLogic ($50NL)
Converted by FTRConv
6-handed

StacksCO: $74.81
Hero: $98.75
SB: $39.92
BB: $42.25
UTG: $42
UTG+1: $50


Pre-Flop: Hero is BTN with A A
UTG calls, UTG+1 calls, CO calls, Hero raises to $5, SB folds, BB calls, UTG calls, UTG+1 calls, CO calls

So this is going to be a big pot... lets hope I have the big hand post-flop

Flop:($25.25) A 5 4 (5 players)
BB checks, UTG checks, UTG+1 checks, CO checks, Hero bets $20, BB folds, UTG folds, UTG+1 raises to $45 and is all-in, CO raises to $69.81 and is all-in, Hero calls

The deep stack enables me to cover both villains. UTG+1 is the villain from those hands I gave yesterday, he's donated a number of stacks to my monsters now.
He actually is a major dog here and doesn't have the odds for this.
CO has a much better hand and his push is great with an OESFD, but he's still a significant dog because the flush won't help.
UTG+1 shows: 8 9 (16%)
CO shows: 6 7 (21%)


Turn:($209.87) K (3 players)

River:($209.87) K (3 players)

Final Pot: $209.87

Now that feels good.

One pot and I'm now >2.5bb/100 @ 50NL.
(Which, kids, is why 6k hands is not a significant sample size.)

BR right now is sitting at $2977, with another $130 already cleared in RB. But I'm not going to celebrate the $3k mark until the moneys in one of my accounts :S

I always thought it would take some sort of magical alignment of the stars to get me over that barrier (the third grand has been much harder than the second).

Onward to $4k!!