Grinding it out, one day at a time

Played a little NL10 last night when Pudding Jr went to sleep, around 120 hands, and finished around $2 down. Nothing really to moan about and no real hands of interest to be honest. I had a couple of beers and saw that Blackscribe was sat at a couple of NL20 tables so decided to join him. Yeah I know my previous post said not playing above my roll etc but I was being fuelled by some amber nectar going by the name of cider!

I ended up sitting to his immediate right and knew that I could be in for a rough ride as he’s a pretty aggressive player to say the least! The first time we butted heads in a hand of any significance was this one. I know he’s not called my potential steal with any rubbish but I think he bet on the flop is to stop me from c-betting as I had c-bet quite a bit. I raise it up knowing unless he has a pocket pair or the case 8 he has to fold.

We clashed again here. I don’t think the flop has helped him unless he’s played AT. I think he raises 99+, AQ+ here against me, maybe an even wider range. I raise again, representing a big PP as I was also weary of a small set and think if villain calls I need to re-evaluate on the turn and if he comes over the top I can get away from the hand.

Is there anyway I can get away from this hand and would you have played it any differently? I really put villain on A8 or A9 and thought he’d pay me off handsomely when the Ace hit the Turn. Meh!

I played in the “Rounders” game with the $27.25 buy in and busted out in 5th with the top 2 going through to round 3 ($112.50 buy in) and 3rd getting another shot at level 2. I didn’t really get involved with much but my JJ held against a short stack’s 99 and I was chip leader for a short while. I ended up pushing my AJs into QQ and I couldn’t catch any help. Oh well!

I have now withdrawn from Prima and will be taking an enforced break whilst my funds hit my Neteller account. By the time they hit I should have my roll back online and should have also decided where I am going to ply my trade! I can’t moan because I deposited $100 into Bowmans and have just withdrawn over $242 so not a bad return really. I’m going to spend this bankroll-less period learning some other games on the play money sites.I’m going to look into Omaha, Omaha H/L and Stud. I might also look into Razz as HORSE and HOSE seem all the rage at the minute.

Thanks for readingand best of luck for the weekend.