Monday Feb 12th 2007 -- I am feeling cranky, because I just wasted my entire Sunday night accomplishing nothing.

I was playing only 2 or 3 tables at a time max, I thought I was really focused, and at times things looked really rosy, as I was slowly abusing my passive predictable opponents while building my stack. Then I inevitably gave it all away with a couple of hands.I ended up almost at where I started at.

I did play well on Sunday morning -- I won a modest $30+ and now my bankroll sat at around $1520.

Tuesday night was kind of like Sunday night -- I spent lots of time accomplishing nothing. I still made some mistakes, but I didn't feel as pissed as two days ago. I did notice on pokertracker that my win rate at 25NL 6-max so far is a disappointing 3.72 PTBB per 100 hands.

Weekend hands:

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Some big stack was on mild tilt and doubled me up when I had AA, he had A6 and the flop had a 6. I wish I had rebought before this hand.

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AA vs KK vs QQ in a 5-handed table, 10-high board. Wow. Again, I wished I had a bigger stack.

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A huge bluff with missed AK. I played this hand with the aggression of a real man.

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Another series of aggressive raise with a marginal hand, against someone who I suspected was stealing. I was probably ahead.

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I was trying to represent the 9 here. Opponent thought for a long hard while, and when he called I thought my TP no kicker was toast. I was relieved he actually didn't have an Ace.

Sunday night hands:

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A BB-special 2-pairs against 88 overpair, massive all-in on flop, my hand held up.

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At a time I was running really well because I was owning this guy. I turned a solid 2-pair hand when this guy went ape-shit with a gutshot. I called another bluff on the river and doubled up.

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Calling a raise with 53clubs against the same player, and then flopped a straight. The river gave him a set and me a flush that I didn't need. I had him in deep trouble since the flop.

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Losing a big pot with 99 unimproved -- yikes -- I didn't have any read at all. Maybe I should ask myself what hand he'll call a flop raise with and then a turn? In retrospect the only thing that i could do better is check/fold river.

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I'm too impulsive here -- calling an all-in for >half a buy-in with AK. The other guy turned out to be passive and straight-forward. If I knew he had KK it would still be a mistake for me to call, since I need to be a 38% dog or better to make this call ($12 to form a $31 pot) a profitable one. Of course, during the heat of the battle I wasn't thinking about math at all.

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A hand that I was really pissed about. Opponent has been quite honest and straight-forward. IT DIDN"T MATTER THAT MY HAND IS UNDERREPRESENTED -- opponent really liked his hand. If I could replay this hand I could certainly find the fold button.

3 Monday daytime hands:

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Opponent failed to believe I had a Queen, and he paid me off fully.

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A successful bluff and a medium-small pot. Theses plays are happening more frequently each day.

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I didn't know what straight / flush / combo draw opponent is on. But I surely made my opponent has to overpay for it. He got there at the end, but I can't complain about my flawless play.

Tuesday evening hands.

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Destack a donk, part 1. Every success story starts with a stumble -- no exception here. I though I already lost the least with AA when this donk flopped trip 10s on me and rivered the full house for good measure..

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Destack a donk, part 2. I was able to extract full value from my AA after he paired his King on the flop and turned extra outs. For a change AsAh actually behaves.

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Destack a donk part 3. The donk rebought for $13 and build it up slightly before we tangled again. I raised preflop with TT, we went all-in on flop, I had a set and he had TP plus open-ended straight draw. He turned the straight but I rivered uads, so justice prevailed. A rare occasion of me hitting quads when I actually needed to.

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22 vs 44, with me setting on an intriguing 235 board. I got my opponent to call my overbet all-in and then not improve.

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Turning a gutshot. The implied odds certainly have been compensated for ($0.5 * 47/4 ~$ 6), but did I actually get full value out of this? Was my turn raise big enough?

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KK vs QJ on a Jack-high board, opponent couldn't get away.

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Reraising preflop with 62s. Notice that position is really key to this type of donk play.

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By the small size of the flop bet and that everyone else just called, I reasoned that a lot of people could be weak, so I threw in a sizable check-raise. The turn was a non-diamond, and the only flop caller was short so it was an easy all-in. And then I got rivered......grrrrr......