Swings Are Fun - 1.1k Hand Thursday Session.

I played a quick session Thursday night, and experienced exactly why lots of folks can't handle NL compared to Limit - massive swings. I began running very very good, and was up four buyins ($200) in less than a half hour. I plateaued for a tiny bit, then ran good again, reaching a peak of +$300, before hitting a nasty string of cooler hands to drop my total winnings to $140 at the end of the session. In the past my session have typically fallen into the "hot", "cold", or "average" category, but this one has a clear turning point where "hot" turns to "cold" and never comes back.

That said, I ran $10 hot in showdown equity, but was -$10 in all-in luck, so from a Showdown EV perspective I ran almost exactly average. I think I definitely had a couple more heater hands during the "hot" section of my session than I had coolers during the "cold", which would explain my juicy 12.1 ptBB/100 winrate... though it sure would have been nice to maintain the 35+ ptBB/100 I was churning out over the first 800 hands.

Below is my EV graph:


There aren't any terribly interesting hand histories to post, although I believe I set my new "biggest pot won" record with quad 10s (flopped a set, rivered quads) versus some terribly played pocket aces. We were both 120BBs deep, and the villain bet all three streets, ending with a shove on the river. By the turn, there was basically nothing he beat that I would call his bet with, so when he shoved the river anyway I had a great laugh. I guess he probably wasn't thinking any higher than the first level, and AA as an overpair is a huge hand, am I right?