Pretty slow going the last couple of days. I think I put in a total of about an hour and half. I played one 180-man and finished OOTM. I'm really slacking on the SNG front. Haven't played any since this weekend.

Cash games are still going well though. Wednesday I was up $1.12 in about 20 minutes of play before someone brought it to my attention that the Pens were waxing the Caps. So I had to watch the end of that game and see my team make it to the Conference finals.

Yesterday was the same thing. I was pretty busy and managed to only play 36 minutes (43 hands) of FR. Haven't played 6-max this week, but I will. It was a short session but a hugely profitable one. Right now, I've been lucky to pick the right tables and also lucky that no one has drawn out on me. Here's a couple of hands from last night:

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.02 BB (6 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Hero (Button) ($3.13)
SB ($1)
BB ($5.22)
UTG ($1.41)
MP ($3)
CO ($0.41)

Preflop: Hero is Button with K, Q
UTG calls $0.02, MP (poster) checks, CO calls $0.02, Hero bets $0.16, SB calls $0.15, 2 folds, MP (poster) calls $0.14, CO calls $0.14

Flop: ($0.68) 8, K, K (4 players)
SB checks, MP bets $0.20, 1 fold, Hero calls $0.20, 1 fold

Turn: ($1.08) 10 (2 players)
MP bets $0.42, Hero calls $0.42

River: ($1.92) 7 (2 players)
MP checks, Hero bets $0.72, 1 fold

Total pot: $1.92 | Rake: $0.05

Results:
Hero didn't show K, Q (nothing).
Outcome: Hero won $1.87

I love it when they think they can steal the pot. I suppose there was an outside chance he had flopped a boat or had A-K, but I couldn't let myself worry about that. I didn't re-raise because the board was so dry and I thought if I did, he'd fold quickly. On the River, I don't think he calls any raise of mine, but I thought a little less than half the pot was appropriate. I'm not checking down so he can see what I had. Why did I raise so big pre-flop? I wanted to whittle the field down and isolate. I assumed that I would still be called and I had position, so I was more interested in building a bigger pot. These guys weren't tricky to this point. A check meant weakness.

Now here's the big hand. This flop was much more dangerous so I thought I'd push and see what happened.

PokerStars Game #28209284353: Hold'em No Limit ($0.01/$0.02) - 2009/05/14 23:30:49 ET
Table 'Gothard IV' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: tuuk2 ($4.12 in chips)
Seat 4: nono93150 ($0.91 in chips)
Seat 5: ag0ng ($6.81 in chips)
Seat 6: rocket132 ($1.59 in chips)
Seat 7: naffopca ($2.14 in chips)
Seat 8: stucknohio ($3.25 in chips)
Seat 9: betoconforti ($0.27 in chips)
stucknohio: posts small blind $0.01
betoconforti: posts big blind $0.02
PEELII: sits out
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to tuuk2 [Jd Jc]
tuuk2: raises $0.12 to $0.14
nono93150: calls $0.14
ag0ng: folds
rocket132: calls $0.14
naffopca: folds
stucknohio: calls $0.13
betoconforti: raises $0.13 to $0.27 and is all-in
tuuk2: calls $0.13
nono93150: calls $0.13
rocket132: calls $0.13
stucknohio: calls $0.13
*** FLOP *** [7d 3h 9h]
stucknohio: bets $0.48
tuuk2: raises $3.37 to $3.85 and is all-in
nono93150: calls $0.64 and is all-in
rocket132: folds
stucknohio: calls $2.50 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($0.87) returned to tuuk2
*** TURN *** [7d 3h 9h] [Js]
*** RIVER *** [7d 3h 9h Js] [4h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
stucknohio: shows [Jh 8c] (a pair of Jacks)
tuuk2: shows [Jd Jc] (three of a kind, Jacks)
tuuk2 collected $4.48 from side pot-2
nono93150: mucks hand
tuuk2 collected $1.82 from side pot-1
betoconforti: mucks hand
tuuk2 collected $1.30 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $7.95 Main pot $1.30. Side pot-1 $1.82. Side pot-2 $4.48. | Rake $0.35
Board [7d 3h 9h Js 4h]
Seat 1: tuuk2 showed [Jd Jc] and won ($7.60) with three of a kind, Jacks
Seat 4: nono93150 mucked [9c 9d]
Seat 5: ag0ng folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: rocket132 folded on the Flop
Seat 7: naffopca (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: stucknohio (small blind) showed [Jh 8c] and lost with a pair of Jacks
Seat 9: betoconforti (big blind) mucked [4d Ac]

Here since I'm under the gun and we're 8-handed now, I want to raise to try to narrow the field, but I want to try to keep the pot a bit smaller because I'm OOP. I must admit I was a little concerned when my 7bb bet was called by 3 players and the fourth one re-raises all-in. His re-raise meant nothing to me, however since it was only another .13 to call. No one folded so we went to the flop which was pretty favorable, but drawy. I decided to push all-in to not give people the odds to draw out on me, but this is 2NL so they called anyway.

I especially like the second big stack who donked off all his chips on the Gutshot straight draw. Like I said, I'm getting lucky (or at least not unlucky) right now and they aren't hitting their draws. Out of all 4 opponents, not a single one had a flush draw. That hand put me way up in the profits. I finished about 20 minutes later with $9.68 in hand.

So here's the new totals after two days. Cash total: over $27 (over halfway to 5nl!). Total BR: just over $334. I'll post some stats from PT3 tonight when I get home. I'm running at 51bb/100 over 1000 hands. If only I could stay there!