Off the Snide and VEGAS!!!

So I finally popped my live poker winning session cherry. Had a 6-hr session where I banked $430 which is almost a buy-in. I'm not going to complain about the small win cause I am just happy to get off the snide and lock up that first win.

On Friday morning (1am), I went to a casino and crushed the $300NL game. The first table I was at was the SOFFFFTEST table that I had played in a very long time. It consisted of 4 weak tight players 3 above average players 1 nit and myself. I tried not to get in pots against the above average players because the bad players were just so easy to play against, but I ended up taking some pots against them when they made mistakes. I also was able to squeeze them out of pots with a couple check raises on the turn when the W/T players would make extremely weak bets on the turn.

The second table I went to was a little bit tougher. Much more aggression, but I was able to bring out more of my poker arsenal, which is always fun. I made a Monster bluff against a very good player where he raised to $25 preflop and I called with 83s out of position (Disclaimer: Do not attempt to make this kind of bluff against anyone except for the most advanced thinking player because you will get called by even above average thinking players), the flop came K75r and he bet $50. At this point in the hand, I didn't think he had a monster (ie monster = set) so I felt my balls tingle and decided to make a move. I check raised him to $125 ($75 more). He then made a good read and thought I had air so he made it $275 ($150 more). A better play imo is to call my flop bet and let me bluff the turn, but most players at middle stakes don't play well Post-flop so they try and inflate pots whenever they can. Anyways, he had about $400 behind and so I made a big speech telling him that he had to have Aces or AK and couldn't of had KK or 77. I then made the big big bluff and moved in on him. He took awhile but then mucked and asked for me to show my hand, so I obliged and the table talked about the hand for the next hour.

It felt good to make one of those monster bluffs. It felt even better for it to work, because if it didn't I would of been down $200 instead of up $850. So I left that session up $850 and very happy because I starting to get my live groove back which is awesome for the fact that I am going to Vegas tomorrow for 5 weeks. Damn...5 weeks, it should be a ton of fun.

Well, I need to pack, so see ya next time.