It's the First Sunday of the NFL Season, and I'm Watching Hockey

I had a productive weekend on the tables in term of winnings this weekend, though didn't quite muster the volume I wanted. This is partially because there just aren't as many decent games running these days at small stakes. The good ones that are available still have their fair share of big fish and even outright whales (of which there were a surprising number this weekend), so while winrate isn't necessary suffering, hands per hour is. The good news is Pokerstars again increased its deal speed at "fast" tables, so that should help to squeeze in a few extra hands.

I'll post a few noteworthy hands. In the first two, I go from having 100bbs behind at a deep-ante table with an aggrodonk who has been overshoving 300bbs+ in quite frequently, to 550bbs behind in a single orbit. Not being bought in deep to start at this table is a very large mistake on my part, especially with the Jesus seat on the aggrodonk. Obviously I wasn't thinking.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $1.00 BB (9 handed)
MP3 ($250)
CO ($205.15)
Button ($405)
SB ($227)
Hero (BB) ($100)
UTG ($333.80)
UTG+1 ($692.90)
MP1 ($124.60)
MP2 ($260.40)

Preflop: Hero is BB with Q♦, Q♠
UTG bets $3, 3 folds, MP3 calls $3, 2 folds, SB raises to $226.80 (All-In), Hero calls $98.80 (All-In), UTG raises to $333.60 (All-In), 1 fold

Flop: ($558.20) 6♥, 8♠, Q♥ (3 players, 3 all-in)

Turn: ($558.20) J♣ (3 players, 3 all-in)

River: ($558.20) Q♣ (3 players, 3 all-in)

Total pot: $558.20 | Rake: $3

Results:
SB had J♠, 7♠ (two pair, Queens and Jacks).
Hero had Q♦, Q♠ (four of a kind, Queens).
UTG had K♥, A♥ (one pair, Queens).
Outcome: SB won $254, Hero won $301.20

When the original raiser who was also something of a fish called I was not pleased and expected to see KK+, but thankfully he had AK.

Exactly one orbit later this next hand went down. I checked the flop expecting him to overshove, but it took until the river to make it happen.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $1.00 BB (9 handed)
MP2 ($250)
MP3 ($204.95)
CO ($404.80)
Button ($254)
Hero (SB) ($301.20)
BB ($106.80)
UTG ($692.70)
UTG+1 ($124.40)
MP1 ($260.20)

Preflop: Hero is SB with A♣, A♥
5 folds, CO calls $1, Button bets $7, Hero raises to $27.50, 2 folds, Button calls $20.50

Flop: ($58.80) 2♦, J♣, 10♠ (2 players)
Hero checks, Button checks

Turn: ($58.80) 10♥ (2 players)
Hero checks, Button checks

River: ($58.80) 3♥ (2 players)
Hero checks, Button bets $226.30 (All-In), Hero calls $226.30

Total pot: $511.40 | Rake: $3

Results:
Button had 9♣, 4♣ (one pair, tens).
Hero had A♣, A♥ (two pair, Aces and tens).
Outcome: Hero won $508.40

Finally, one hand from today against a large regular who constantly tries to playmaster me. My turn and river play are obviously nonstandard, but I think against this particular guy they are great because he's a lot more likely to try to make me fold a "face up" AQ/KQ/KK/AA when I play it passively then bluff raise a turn barrel. He also can't call a second barrel with much worse than QJ/22/QQ since my flop cbet was multiway with a fish who doesn't like folding.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $4.00 BB (8 handed)
Hero (UTG) ($400)
UTG+1 ($470.90)
MP1 ($598.40)
MP2 ($235.30)
CO ($461.90)
Button ($418)
SB ($420)
BB ($388)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with 7♥, 7♣
Hero bets $12, 1 fold, MP1 calls $12, 4 folds, BB calls $8

Flop: ($38) 7♦, 2♥, Q♠ (3 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $24, MP1 calls $24, 1 fold

Turn: ($86) J♦ (2 players)
Hero checks, MP1 bets $72, Hero calls $72

River: ($230) 6♥ (2 players)
Hero checks, MP1 bets $490.40 (All-In), Hero calls $292 (All-In)

Total pot: $814 | Rake: $3

Results:
Hero had 7♥, 7♣ (three of a kind, sevens).
MP1 had A♠, Q♥ (one pair, Queens).
Outcome: Hero won $811

Outside of poker, as I'm not in any Fantasy Football leagues this year and the Patriots don't play until tomorrow, I haven't watched any football yet today! I have however watched some of the live stream of the first game of the prospect tournament between the Flames/Oilers/Sharks/Canucks/Jets, which has been entertaining.

I picked up two PS3 games recently, Disgaea 4 and Catherine, though I won't get into either until I finish Mother 3. My girlfriend has been playing Catherine and enjoying it however.