Weird Start to August

Posted by icemonkey9 on Aug 4, 2009 in 100nl | 0 comments

I've started the 100nl Full Ring grind again and the start of the month has included a lot of hands - 3,155 to be exact!  Being on a 1k hand a day pace is obviously not sustainable for me, but pretty fun nonetheless.  I've had some really funny/weird stuff happen at the tables.  It's not to say it's way out of the ordinary but these are things that were just LOL and nothing more to do.  Some of these "weird" things include:

• Two times flopping a set on a monotone board.  One time the villain flopped the flush in a 3bet pot with QTs ... wow ... the other time the villain called pot bets with an over card and a flush draw and hit. Bummer.
• Two times flopping the stone cold nuts (straight) and getting it in against the villain ... only to see him flip over the same 2 cards for the same nuts. Unreal!
• Open raising thanks to a software glitch UTG to $23.50 with 10 10.  Yeow!  Fortunately everyone folded.
• Been seeing a villains "get there" on the river more ... fortunately I'm not spewing there and only once so far this month have even paid them off.  I have about 10 examples of this happening ... no need to list them all out.

The good news is that I'm still winning for a modest winrate, but it's only 3,000 hands so there's no way to draw conclusions or look at results.  In fact, I'm kind of disappointed in myself that I looked at the hands/results so far for August.  Much too soon to do so!

Not sure what else to post about.  Watched the first episode of the WSOP 2009 coverage ... they do a great job as always and am looking forward to the rest of the episodes.  Major update for PokerStars is coming tomorrow, basically gives people some features already on Full Tilt Poker such as synchronized breaks, so I am sure the PS people will be stoked.  I guess that does it lol ... anyways hopefully the next blog post will be more interesting!