Fortune Inversion

My last post seemingly activated the doomswitch for the Flames, as they've now lost two in a row in regulation and are at best a coin flip to make the playoffs. Fortunately they have a relatively easy schedule to close out the season and a lot of their competitors play each other many, many times which can be a good thing providing there aren't too many 3 point games decided in overtime/shootouts.

My grind time between Friday and Saturday went well. On Tuesday I spent a little time taking a look at my game and identified a few things I haven't been doing as well recently as I used to, likely a result of my play the last year being split between fullstacked and 50bb tables, which is no longer a problem. I definitely think the tweaks will help. The one area I'd really like to improve on however is simply putting in more volume. While the 8.5k hands I managed on Friday wasn't bad, I only put in a little over 6k today and given that I don't play a whole lot outside of the weekends I feel like I need to be sucking it up and working longer hours.

Anyway, between Friday and Saturday I ran as well as I have in recent memory. That isn't saying much, and I'm still an underdog with top set against a fish with a gutshot, but I did manage to hold in some clutch spots like this one:

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $1.00 BB (8 handed)
MP2 ($180.80)
CO ($50)
Button ($120.90)
SB ($260.95)
BB ($84.20)
UTG ($102.80)
UTG+1 ($236.30)
Hero (MP1) ($104.40)

Preflop: Hero is MP1 with Q♠, K♠
UTG bets $3, UTG+1 calls $3, Hero calls $3, 4 folds, BB calls $2

Flop: ($12.50) J♠, A♦, 10♣ (4 players)
BB checks, UTG checks, UTG+1 bets $12, Hero raises to $33.50, BB raises to $81.20 (All-In), 1 fold, UTG+1 calls $69.20, Hero raises to $101.40 (All-In), UTG+1 calls $20.20

Turn: ($296.50) 8♦ (3 players, 2 all-in)

River: ($296.50) K♣ (3 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: $296.50 | Rake: $3

Results:
BB had 10♦, 10♥ (three of a kind, tens).
UTG+1 had J♣, J♦ (three of a kind, Jacks).
Hero had Q♠, K♠ (straight, Ace high).
Outcome: Hero won $293.50

Despite UTG+1 being a fish, the cold flop 3b jam from the regular holding TT is pretty suspect in my opinion, as he's overset by me a lot and when he's not drawing to one out he's in bad shape against one of us having KQ and the other AJ a lot of the time, etc. Were the fish a complete maniac it would be a lot more reasonable, but that wasn't the case in this hand.

I also put a pretty brutal beat on a regular today in which a table had broken and the first hand of HU was KK into AA (with me holding the lesser) 150bbs deep. The KKJ flop worked out nicely and diverted a cooler.