Near Miss

During the past week I've run the worst of this year thus far. Thankfully, after a large downswing (~15 BIs) early in the week I did manage a respectable Thursday followed by a rather monstrous Friday. Had I been able to fade a couple 2-3 outers in huge pots on Friday I would have easily had my first ever 3k profit day, but alas it was not to be.

Here's a graph of the full stretch, huge downswing included at the start:


Below is my favorite hand from Saturday. Villain is a bad reg who almost never folds to cbets, but manages to break even so he's obviously not going to mindlessly stack any pair 100bb deep. I really like my river c/shove because he basically can't have straights/sets but I absolutely can. In addition, he has busted draws a fair bit too.

(Ugh, I can't convert the hand because the convertor I use doesn't support Euro tables! You'll have to deal with raw text I guess.)

PokerStars Game #41068901513: Hold'em No Limit (€0.50/€1.00 EUR) - 2010/03/12 16:18:37 MT [2010/03/12 18:18:37 ET]
Table 'Sampo V' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: Ronfar3 (€100.50 in chips)
Seat 2: bertucho (€130.75 in chips)
Seat 3: machiaktzu (€232.15 in chips)
Seat 4: Levy Process (€111.40 in chips)
Seat 5: SoNe1988 (€144.90 in chips)
Seat 6: floppeyone (€100 in chips)
Seat 8: CI58 (€145.90 in chips)
Seat 9: TheGraveWolf (€157.35 in chips)
Ronfar3: posts small blind €0.50
bertucho: posts big blind €1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Ronfar3 [Ah 8h]
machiaktzu: folds
Levy Process: folds
SoNe1988: folds
floppeyone: folds
CI58: folds
TheGraveWolf: folds
Ronfar3: raises €2 to €3
bertucho: calls €2
*** FLOP *** [Jd 9d 7s]
Ronfar3: bets €4
bertucho: calls €4
*** TURN *** [Jd 9d 7s] [6s]
Ronfar3: bets €11
bertucho: calls €11
*** RIVER *** [Jd 9d 7s 6s] [Qh]
Ronfar3: checks
bertucho: bets €20
Ronfar3: raises €62.50 to €82.50 and is all-in
bertucho: folds
Uncalled bet (€62.50) returned to Ronfar3
Ronfar3 collected €74 from pot
Ronfar3: doesn't show hand
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot €76 | Rake €2
Board [Jd 9d 7s 6s Qh]
Seat 1: Ronfar3 (small blind) collected (€74)
Seat 2: bertucho (big blind) folded on the River
Seat 3: machiaktzu folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: Levy Process folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: SoNe1988 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: floppeyone folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: CI58 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: TheGraveWolf (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Some additional positives: Lunar remains awesome and the Flames have won four straight. I really do hope the Flames can sneak into playoffs, but given the schedules of the three teams fighting for the last two playoff spots in the West, it is going to be really tough and they're definitely an underdog.