An Encouraging Day

I didn't take a single bad beat yesterday. It was a day in which everything that could go right did go right. When I had kings, they had queens. When I flopped a set and some dumbass felt like paying me off with an overpair (or gutshot) it held up. I'm pleased to say the memo from a couple days ago was received by the appropriate parties and yesterday they began responding:

Dealt to APotIsAPot [ Jh, Qd ]
MASTER8857 folds.
JB845 raises (65) to 65
snuffy7 folds.
ladgez folds.
curlysam calls (65)
radicaldude2 calls (55)
APotIsAPot calls (45)
** Dealing Flop ** : [ Jc, 5s, Th ]
radicaldude2 checks.
APotIsAPot bets (144)
JB845 calls (144) (instantaneously)
curlysam folds.
radicaldude2 folds.
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 9h ]
APotIsAPot bets (4993.50)
APotIsAPot is all-In.
JB845 calls (731.50) (instantaneously)
JB845 is all-In.
** Dealing River ** : [ 8s ]
** Summary **
Main Pot: $2008
Board: [ Jc 5s Th 9h 8s ]
JB845 balance $0, lost $940.50 [ Kh Ts ] [ a pair of tens -- Kh,Jc,Ts,Th,9h ]

I folded pocket kings before the flop yesterday. This was about the third or fourth time I've made this laydown, and I think this was the first time I've done it with nothing invested. This spot was less about knowing someone had aces, and more about avoiding an ugly situation out of position.

Seat 1: nestegg1 ( $1950)
Seat 2: adadfasdfdsa ( $2000)
Seat 3: AssaniFisher ( $1822)
Seat 4: l_D1d_Th1S ( $1960)
Seat 5: greengreedo ( $1717)
Seat 6: Mammon666 ( $1950)
Seat 7: KohSamet ( $875)
Seat 8: dfram ( $7833.83)
Seat 9: APotIsAPot ( $5279.06)
Seat 10: MATPAT ( $2990.50)
APotIsAPot posts small blind (10)
MATPAT posts big blind (20)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to APotIsAPot [ Kh, Ks ]
nestegg1 folds.
AssaniFisher folds.
l_D1d_Th1S folds.
greengreedo folds.
Mammon666 raises (80) to 80
KohSamet folds.
dfram raises (250) to 250
APotIsAPot folds.
MATPAT folds.
Mammon666 calls (170)
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 3c, 7d, 5s ]
Mammon666 checks.
dfram bets (400)
Mammon666 raises (1400) to 1400
dfram folds.

At night I played a few tournaments including the 200k Guaranteed. I hung around with a below-average stack, scrapping and clawing for hours until I hit a rush with about 80 people left and surged into a contending position. I got most of my chips in typical fashion - winning a coinflip with AK, fending off a button steal with a medium ace, waking up with aces after someone had moved in, etc. But there was a hand where I made one of those "stand up and take a bow while the rest of the table applauds", ballsy, do-or die calls:

Seat 1: IShowMyNuts (37987)
Seat 2: Tipyourduke (43156)
Seat 3: joeygoo56 (14712)
Seat 5: soeunman (42993)
Seat 6: NY_Rooster (30198)
Seat 7: beauty2 (38662)
Seat 8: Katod (43680)
Seat 9: APotIsAPot (42541)
Seat 10: Ditka89 (31139)
APotIsAPot posts small blind (1000)
Ditka89 posts big blind (2000)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to APotIsAPot [ Qd, Jh ]
IShowMyNuts folds.
Tipyourduke folds.
joeygoo56 folds.
soeunman folds.
NY_Rooster folds.
beauty2 calls (2000)
Katod folds.
APotIsAPot calls (1000)
Ditka89 checks.
** Dealing Flop ** : [ Ac, Qh, 9h ]
APotIsAPot checks.
Ditka89 checks.
beauty2 bets (6000)
APotIsAPot calls (6000)
Ditka89 folds.
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 4c ]
APotIsAPot checks.
beauty2 bets (30662)
beauty2 is all-In.
APotIsAPot calls (30662)
** Dealing River ** : [ 7h ]
** Summary **
Main Pot: 79324
Board: [ Ac Qh 9h 4c 7h ]
beauty2 balance 0, lost 38662 [ Kc Jd ] [ high card ace -- Ac,Kc,Qh,Jd,9h ]
APotIsAPot balance 83203, bet 38662, collected 79324, net +40662 [ Qd Jh ] [ a pair of queens -- Ac,Qd,Qh,Jh,9h ]

Shortly after this I lost a heartbreaker when I raised with AQ, a short stack moved in, the big stack in the SB flatcalled, and I called getting huge pot odds. The flop came rags and the SB bet out small. I folded, the SB had AK, the short stack had jacks, and a queen hit the river. If the SB had played his hand differently I would have been chip leader after this. I think his play is actually quite good.

Unfortunately I then went a bit card dead after this and got down to average chips. My last hand was a bit unlucky and a bit marginal, but I think I did everything right:

Seat 1: donflun (233126)
Seat 2: Ivvan (74744)
Seat 4: APotIsAPot (64660)
Seat 5: jdl441 (46853)
Seat 6: pushing247 (74173)
Seat 7: FRANK24_7 (19902)
Seat 8: Tarjei82 (101604)
Seat 9: spacekadet (170528)
Seat 10: maggan2222 (99596)
Tarjei82 posts small blind (3000)
spacekadet posts big blind (6000)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to APotIsAPot [ Qh, Th ]
maggan2222 folds.
donflun folds.
Ivvan folds.
APotIsAPot raises (13468) to 13468
jdl441 folds.
pushing247 calls (13468)
FRANK24_7 did not respond in time.
FRANK24_7 folds.
Tarjei82 folds.
spacekadet folds.
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 9h, Jc, 2s ]
APotIsAPot bets (45500)
pushing247 raises (60705) to 60705
pushing247 is all-In.
APotIsAPot calls (5692)
APotIsAPot is all-In.
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 2d ]
** Dealing River ** : [ Jd ]
** Summary **
Main Pot: 138320
Board: [ 9h Jc 2s 2d Jd ]
APotIsAPot balance 0, lost 64660 [ Qh Th ] [ two pairs, jacks and twos -- Qh,Jc,Jd,2s,2d ]pushing247 balance 147833, bet 74173, collected 147833, net +73660 [ 9d 9c ] [ a full house, Nines full of jacks -- Jc,Jd,9d,9c,9h ]

27th out of 1550 - just close enough to get excited about the big money. Soon I will get PokerStars going, and maybe FullTilt and UB as well. I may be playing more tournaments than cash games by the summer.

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Yesterday afternoon: +10078

200k Guaranteed: +1552

Year to date: +10212