Sunday night was extremely productive. I was fairly focused. Soft tables didn't hurt, either. There were loose callers, predictable bettors and mice here and there. I also had good hands and played well enough for them to be paid off. I played 25% of my hands in other position, which was tight enough to be profitable on this night.

Things were a bit rocky to begin with. The 1st big hand I had AQo on a PL table, reraised an EP min. raise to 5x, and was check-raised max on a flop of JT6 all spades, I had the Ace of the suit. I decided to push and EP, who was kind of short, called. Running 3s completed my flush but also gave EP a house with JJ.

Then there were some connection problems, when I was dealt AA and facing a 4x raise. I simply pushed preflop for 72+x. It worked out perfectly because 1) opponent called and 2) I was disconnected for like 2 min shortly afterwards. When I was reconnected I noticed my stack having doubled, as my opponent called with QJo!?

Things went uphill quite quickly afterwards. The only blemish was me going all-in on the flop with AA against some loose shortie who had K9 on a K98 flop for maybe 1/3 of a buy-in. Otherwise I kept raking in the chips:

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How is this for fast-playing? 1st hand at the table, newbie blind, AA UTG, open push.

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Set with 77, turned house, doubling up through position 4 who limped with J5s and turned trip 5s.

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This is actually a bit of a suckout -- calling a raise and then a big reraise before flopping trip 6s and turning quads.

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This is the aforementioned AA vs. QJ preflop all-in.

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Dealing with some absurd maniac's bluff. The 6 on the turn makes calling easier.

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Flopped a nut house (8s full of 7s) and destacking some mouse who paid to draw (successfully) to a dead straight.

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Turned flush against a clueless opponent pushing with trip As.

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Flopped 7s full of 8s and destacking an opponent who limped preflop with AKc and drew to a dead nut flush.

Those hands pretty much summed up my night: flush over trips, house over straight and flush. I started with 488 and left with 644. So sweet.