Saturday Night Fever (702 Hands)

Posted by icemonkey9 on Oct 19, 2008 in General | 0 comments

So after the baseball game tonight (Wow Red Sox force a game 7) the family went to bed and I had my handy MacBook Pro here ready to play some poker. I had used the demo before but today I 'took the plunge' and found a good coupon online and bought Parallels, which allows you to put PC software on your Mac and essentially run Windows XP (or Vista) as if it were running in a window like any other program. I also installed HEM (2nd license allowed) and imported this month's hand histories and then loaded her up and BAM I was playing 4 tables of 50nl.

I feel that I lost the right to play more than 4 tables yesterday after going on tilt and playing when tired and freaking out. That's just bad on my part but I could already feel about an hour after leaving the computer that my tilt was wearing off. I think recognizing the triggers and thinking about the big picture, and also "releasing the tension" by ranting a bit and then getting some tough love from friends at Cardschat really get me over the hump and back to playing my "A GAME" which is a damn good game at this point in my poker career.

I can't remember playing on a Saturday night EVER but I am sure it has happened before. Anyways the competition was laughable and at some tables I just knew I had to sit back and wait for a big hand while others I could run over with aggression. The HUD stats just help so much on weird nights where you aren't playing a table full of 10/7/2 nits like I usually do during the week at the late night hours.

Anyways got in 702 hands, ran very well (~20ptbb/100) (also PTBB/100 means Big Bets/100) for +3 buyins and am feeling good and confident.

Here's a fun hand ... hit a set and had a gross river card fill a flush and a possible straight and saw my opponent just SHOVE on me. He wasn't particularly good and seemed the bluffy type, and I also figured there was no way this player would take me to valuetown like this at the river. Not an easy call, I went with my gut, and it paid off.