Back in Action

I'm finally back home in Tampa and ready to hit the tables harder than ever. I had a great first day back. I'll get into that tomorrow as I still need to wrap up the last day of my Seattle trip. My Dad and I figured there would be no better way to wrap up the trip than a trip to the local native American casino. I felt the essence of mother earth rush through my body as I entered those sacred grounds (well at least they had a man made water fall outside). Luckily they had some real poker (aka No Limit) at this place so I didn't have to rip my eyes out playing limit (read: lose all my money playing craps instead of limit hold em).

The game was 3-5NL with a $300 max buy in. The play started off as a limp fest till most of the people left for the tournament they were running that night. It was 4 handed when I returned from a call from Jared telling me about Rasheed Wallace's insane half court shot. I had missed my big blind so I just posted both and was the only blind. It folded to the button who was a fishy Greek sounding guy with a fanny pack full of hundreds (aka tru balla). He made it 15 and I decided to repop to 45 with my j2o. He thought about it for a while before calling. I knew he thought I was making a play and had just called me with some garbage. I decided to check and let him make a stab then move in to force him to fold his garbage. The flop came 967 , I checked, and he bet $5o like expected. I moved all in and he went into the tank. After a while he finally decided to call. I was dead on with my read he just happened to flop top pair with his dominated trash hand of 920. The always generous poker gods decided to pay off my great play by putting out a J on the turn. He went on mega tilt and kept saying "I's play so goot but I's alway get screwed".

About 2 hands later I made my only real hand of the night. I called his raise with Kd6d the button also called. The flop came Qd7d4d giving me the flush. He checked I bet $40 the button pushed for $150 and tilt monkey called. I just put all the money in and heard the sweetest words a poker player can ever hear "I know you have me this time but I'm going to call anyways". My flush did indeed have his Qs9c beat and I won a very nice pot.

The game got pretty wild after that and I bled off some money trying to make a hand. I think I won one more pot the rest of the night on a small flop bluff. I wish live NL was a bit faster as I have so much fun playing it each time I do. I made a decent $400 profit which was a pretty nice way to end the trip. Now that I'm back in Tampa I'm ready to apply everything I've been working on in the past 3 weeks and am very excited to see how much my game has improved.

Bankroll: $7511
Hands played this week: 200
Bonus cleared this week: 0
Hands played this month: 7150
Bonus/rakeback this month: $151