Not much poker

Played a small amount of HU last night at FT. Lucky that I run good. I start out just playing way too passively against a pretty good, but overly aggressive villain. He takes about a half BI from me with me just doing check/call, check/fold over and over. I hate when I get in those ruts as I often struggle to get out of them.

Then, I get AA in position. I raise pre and he 3 bets me as has been his tendency over and over.

Flop A63 rainbow. He bets, I have a choice here, but based on my history with him, it is pretty easy. I have played at least 3 hands in the last 10 horribly where I called, called and folded on the river. Just bad. So, I am pretty confident he will bet out on the turn as well.

So, I call. Turn is a 9 completing the 4th suit. He bets again. I think and call.

River J. He bets 75% of my remaining stack. I push and he calls with JTo. Thanks for playing and thanks for the AA, because my donkiness was likely the sole reason he got stacked there.

Next villain showed the power of making good notes. He is the first guy that I have played twice HU at FT and I took great notes on him the first time. He was a fold/3 bet guy that never just called my pre-flop raises. If he was playing, it was for 3 bets. So, I was able to 4 bet him pretty light early in the match and he isn't a reloader, so he ended up with a small stack pretty quickly and then quit me with about half stack left.

At that point, I was watching basketball and enjoying the ride of my (bought them in the auction) Western Kentucky team. Too bad they couldn't shoot in the first half. Valiant ride! And quite the ROI for me. $85 profit on my $16 investment.

Running crazy good.

Probably lots of Bodog playing this weekend. Need to finish March on the right note. $370 to my March goal. Which keeps me on pace for 2008 goals.

Now, if I could just catch up to Neff.

Abby17