I was able to sneak in a decent session Monday evening. I continued Saturday's practice of multitabling both 25NL and 50NL.

50NL is definitely a different game from 25NL. People are tighter preflop. People raise or fold on the flop. My continuation bet with missed big cards got called by bottom pair much less frequently. These all mean certain strategy adaptations.

I played a steady game and made $150 over 5 tables, on the strength of 2 big hands:

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This power move still works, even in 50NL. AA, preflop all-in, original PF raiser called with QQ.

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Playing against a reraise which usually means AA or KK, I knew I must flop a set with my 99 and not just an overpair to play for stacks. I flopped a set and min-raised my opponent. This was such a tough situation for my opponent, and he inevitably went broke.

The 25NL tables were less eventful. This is the biggest hand of the session:

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A few hands ago this player was a shortie and won a pot from me when I pushed a combo draw (bottom pair + FD) with 32 suited and didn't improve (he had top pair with Ace-rag). Here he must be thinking that I was full of crap again, and reraised me big preflop. But I had a real hand here. My QQ held up against his JJ, allowing me to get my money back.

I also snuck in a brief session before bedtime. It was anything but smooth. Hardly any big pots, and bad beats galore. Fortunately most of the bad beats involved only medium-small pots, and I only lost $15 at the end:

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My only big winning hand of the session. K8s in BB, Flopped 2 pairs after calling a moderate PFR from SB. Scary board -- certainly not the time to get fancy -- and I correctly overbet shoved. He called. Turns out he had a combo draw -- the Ace of hearts and a gutshot, meaning I was only a slight favorite. Extra outs for him on turn, but my hand held up at the end.

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Flopped a combo draw with KTs after I was the preflop aggressor. I had no idea that Apoc84 was chasing a gutshot and hit it on the turn. The river kind of saved me. Had it been another King (giving me trips) or Ten (2 pairs) I would have lost much more.

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This opponent likes to play his draw aggressively. Here he pushed all-in with a 12-out combo draw, hit it and destacked me.

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KK was really no good for me on this night. Another short-stacked opponent chased a gutshot, caught extra outs on turn and hit on the river.

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A shortie going all-in preflop with AT. He rivered trip 10s and my JJ was smoked.