Okay, so my last post was read by someone at Pacific poker or something. They must have seen what I had to say and were like "shit, this guy is gonna scare people away from our site, we better rig his account and let him win a little" or something. I just played for two and a half hours and I'm up 6 buy-ins for the day. Just as everything was going so bad the last few days (when you can get someone to call you all-in for 100BB preflop when you have KK and they have 2-4 and they flop the straight it sorta feels like they know what cards are coming), today was like magic.
My biggest hand happened early on. I had AQcc in the CO and it folded around to me. I raised to 4x and the BB called. Flop was a very nice looking KJ10 with two spades. Flopping the nuts rocks. I bet out for three quarters of the pot and the BB flat called me. At this point I put him on two pair, probably KJ, or the flush draw. A blank hit on the turn and I bet two thirds the pot, hoping for a call from the flush draw (or semi-bluff) and figuring a two-pair hand is gonna follow along anyway. He ends up clicking it back and I just shoved over the top. He insta-called with K10. Ship it. Oh and did I mention that was for 150BB.
On another table not long after this I was in the SB with 88. UTG+1 raised to 4x, I flat called and the BB called as well. The flop comes 8JQ, with the two broadway cards suited. A little scary I guess, but I wasn't about to put anyone on 9-10 in this spot. I check, hoping the initial raiser will put in a c-bet, which he does. I re-raise it here, more to chase away all the drawing hands on such a scary board. The BB folds and the villain simply calls me. His range is huge here still, but when an A hits on the turn I'm not too worried. I really can't put him on A10, unless it was suited and he had the nut flush and nut gutshot, there is no way he would call my raise on the flop. I bet out close to the size of the pot here and he shoves. I put him on either JQ, AQ or some semi-bluffing hand like A10 or AK with the flush draw. I don't see how I can fold though and he turns over Q10. The river blanks and I take down another nice pot.
The next few hours kept up like this. I ran a set into an overpair for another stack, played a pair of aces really aggressive and got a guy to commit $15 of his $20 stack on the turn, before folding without seeing the river. Everything just went my way and the next thing I knew I looked at my balance and I was up 6 buy-ins. If Only every day could be so wonderful. I feel a bit vindicated now actually, after playing what I thought was good poker and dropping so fucking far down. I'm pretty much even (down a stack maybe) since I got my account going on Pacific, so it looks like my goal of leaving their site with $700-$800 is very much possible now, while as before I was starting to hope to escape from their hell hole break even.
I feel much better and I needed to brag a little. Last night I played like a donk, getting up 2 stacks before blowing them (and one more) away on stupid hands, so I'm happy now. It also showed me that as long as I stay patient and don't play stupid hands or draws against donks, I can rake it in. There really is no need to play hands like 5-6s at this level, the players are too bad to risk bringing up your variance with marginal hands. Yeah, you can stack someone with a hand like that, but when I raise pre-flop I'm being called by Q10, what's the need to play suited connectors and all that? TAG and ABC poker is the way to go here.
