Solid Day

Over the last week or two I've been playing a mixture of 115s and 230s and mixing in some 2 tabling as well. Today I decided to just go back to what I'd been doing most of 08 which is one tabling the 115s. This little break even streak I'm on was getting to my head so I just wanted to take the pressure off a bit. It worked out pretty well, I played 21 games posting a 14-7 record despite a couple brutal beats the first few games(one which I posted in my last post earlier today). It's nice just to have a solid day where I feel I played my A-game in all my matches. Plus it's always nice to outdraw and cooler people every once in a while. See below.....


PokerStars Game #24346728767: Tournament #136880312, $110+$5 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2009/01/27 20:57:35 ET
Table '136880312 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: villain (1650 in chips)
Seat 2: bartchalker (1350 in chips)
bartchalker: posts small blind 10
villain: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to bartchalker [6c 6d]
bartchalker: calls 10
villain: checks
*** FLOP *** [Ad 6h 4s]
villain: checks
bartchalker: bets 20
villain: calls 20
*** TURN *** [Ad 6h 4s] [6s]
villain: checks
bartchalker: bets 40
villain: calls 40
*** RIVER *** [Ad 6h 4s 6s] [Ks]
villain: checks
bartchalker: bets 100
villain: raises 100 to 200
bartchalker: raises 1070 to 1270 and is all-in
villain: calls 1070
*** SHOW DOWN ***
bartchalker: shows [6c 6d] (four of a kind, Sixes)
villain: shows [4h 4d] (a full house, Fours full of Sixes)
bartchalker collected 2700 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2700 Rake 0
Board [Ad 6h 4s 6s Ks]
Seat 1: villain (big blind) showed [4h 4d] and lost with a full house, Fours full of Sixes
Seat 2: bartchalker (button) (small blind) showed [6c 6d] and won (2700) with four of a kind, Sixes



PokerStars Game #24347791337: Tournament #136883894, $110+$5 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level V (75/150) - 2009/01/27 21:34:01 ET
Table '136883894 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: villain (830 in chips)
Seat 2: bartchalker (2170 in chips)
villain: posts small blind 75
bartchalker: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to bartchalker [Kh Jh]
villain: calls 75
bartchalker: raises 2020 to 2170 and is all-in
villain: calls 680 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (1340) returned to bartchalker
*** FLOP *** [Js 9h Jc]
*** TURN *** [Js 9h Jc] [Th]
*** RIVER *** [Js 9h Jc Th] [2c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
bartchalker: shows [Kh Jh] (three of a kind, Jacks)
villain: shows [Ah Ad] (two pair, Aces and Jacks)
bartchalker collected 1660 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1660 Rake 0
Board [Js 9h Jc Th 2c]
Seat 1: villain (button) (small blind) showed [Ah Ad] and lost with two pair, Aces and Jacks
Seat 2: bartchalker (big blind) showed [Kh Jh] and won (1660) with three of a kind, Jacks


Not too often in heads up play do you see set over set, usually because pairs are played aggressively preflop, but when the blinds are low it can happen. I prob raise this hand preflop 90% of the time, switched it up a bit this time. We both made passive preflop plays and I hit a beautiful flop it turns out. When he min check raised the river I knew he had prob flopped a set or backed into a flush because he played all his monsters tricky like that, so jamming was an easy choice

The 2nd one I actually had to think twice before jamming there because his play looked so suspicious, since he'd been jamming all the time when under 9 or so bb's. But I don't think checking is even an option with stacks this shallow, I'm prob not getting away if i flop top pair anyways when villain doesn't even have 4 bb's behind. Nice to get lucky though.

Profit for month at about 4.1k. For how god awful I feel I've ran this month it's nice to see I'm still up this much. I would be very happy with a 5k month at this point. Hopefully I can get there, got a few days left.

The timberwolves have the best record in the NBA since the new year. Who in the hell would have expected that.......maybe they can stay hot and sneak into the 7 or 8 spot and get smoked by the Lakers or Spurs in first round. GO GO GO!!!!