Week 18

Really good cash game results.  Failed to make the final table in the tourney.  Let's talk tourney first:

Ran bad when AT>KK all-in pre-flop, especially when, right before the river, players to my left and right both said they folded and A, and the dealer proceeded to river the case A!  Then I had AK>QQ, but thankfully not cost me my tourney.  I shoved a few times to steal the blinds, and was finally called the 3rd time when I shoved A8o and was called by 66 and lost the race.

Results: -$45, 15/31

Cash game:

I arrived early and was able to get 2.25 hours in before the tourney.  I continued to chart my hands this week, and so far, it's given me some luck.  I have yet to lose a big pot.  Although this time, I got the money in with the right odds in spots, but not necessarily the favourite to win with one card to come.

I played another hour and 15 minutes after the tourney and both ran really good, and got somewhat unlucky.

I'll start with unlucky...  After I was eliminated from the tourney, they had enough players to start a 2nd 1/2 NLHE table.  This was a "must move" table, so whenever an opening happened in the main game, that seat needed to be filled.  Now Sycuan is lax with some rules (see this post about what constitutes a bet), so they are lax with this one.  First they will ask the "must move" table if anyone wants to voluntarily move.  Then they'll occasionally ask the player waiting to be seated if they'd prefer to be in the main game.  After that, they'll force the top-of-the-list player from the "must move" to the main game (which is usually what you will see elsewhere).  After 16 hands at the "must move" table, I get called to the main game.  In hand 17 at the "must move" table, they hit the bad beat jackpot!  :(  Loser of the hand won $5300, winner of the hand won $2650, and the 6 remaining players split $5300 ($883).  Yeah, I missed out on almost $900 because of a table change...

However, as unlucky as that was, I didn't lose any money in the process.  So, I played in the main game, and ran hot again, mostly at the expense of one player, who I got all-in on 3 different hands in the span of an orbit.  Flopped top-bottom 2 pair in a straddled pot, where I filled up on the turn and the player "said" he had top-two on the flop.  If it's true, it's probably the only time in the past two weeks I've really got my money in bad in a big pot.  The next time, in a cash splash pot (extra $50 added to the pot), he put the rest of his money in, $32, and I raised to $75 to isolate with AJo and won (he had ATo).  Finally, he straddled the button, and I raised from the SB with AKo, and he shoved for $100, and I called and my AK>JJ.

So, in the first 2.25 hours, I won $464 and in the last 1.25 hours I won $449.

Here is the link to the spreadsheet, with the new tab for 5/13/2014.  Here are some analyses:

1. My hand distribution was good starting hand heavy again.  I should have an average of 5.75 hands per 5% bucket, but I've got 8 top bucket and 33% of my hands with in the top 25% of starting hands.
2. I did not get my good hands in good positions, yet I still won raised pots with them, mostly on the flop.  KK and AJs in the BB raised and cbet and won on flop, QQ in the SB (although straddled pot made it easier to raise larger and win a bigger pot outright at the beginning), AKo in the SB (again straddled, and won the race against JJ).
3. I didn't have a failed multi-street bluff.  The only bluffs I lost were getting my cbets check-raised on the flop.  I think reducing my PF raises is helping me not get into many situations where I need to bluff medium strength hands out, because my hand would be weak against their range.
4. I saw only 4 3-bets: KK, KQo, JJ, and ??.  The ?? hand ended with the 3-bettor betting the flop and taking it down.
5. I didn't suffer a bad beat or suckout again.
6. I like the distribution of the hands I played.  I was tight in the first few positions, and played a lot looser in late.  I was a little tighter in the SB than I was last week, and I am comfortable now with the amount of hands I'm playing out of the BB.

I'll chart my hands one more week and see if anything is different and decide to continue from there.  I hope that should I start on a bad streak again, I should remember to chart again, as I find it makes me think of the hand a little longer, and actually keeps my focus better on the game, rather than the TVs.

Results so far:

+675 1/2 NLHE
+25 3/6 LHE
+315 Tourney
+200 Promos
-8.50 food
= +1206.5 profit