Saturday, March 6, 2010

Polarizing

Over the last couple days it seems like things have either gone really well or really poorly. I ran into the ass end of variance on Thursday, ending my sessions 550bbs ($700+) below AIEV. Thankfully I booked a solid win on Friday, shipping $1.5k and running a beastly 150bbs above(!!) AIEV. To continue with the polar positive/negative theme, thus far in March I've run really awful at 600NL (over a super small sample, obv), great at 400NL (again, smallish sample), really awful at 200NL, and great at 100NL. Everything is happening in polarized pairs.

Similarly, the Flames played a lousy game against the Wild on Wednesday, but rebounded nicely and actually managed to score a bunch of goals against the Devils on Friday. I still don't believe the new look Flames will be make the playoffs however, and even if they did somehow squeak into the 8th seed their chances against SJ or CHI wouldn't look good.

On Wednesday I picked up my copy of the PSP Lunar remake. As someone who very much enjoyed the first remake of Lunar: Silver Star Story for the PS1, I've been very impressed with this latest offering. It doesn't hurt that it must be 7+ years since I've played the first Lunar - but at the very least the upgraded visuals have been down right impressive. I'm going to have to use some big time willpower to not interrupt my Lunar play through with FFXIII when it is released in a few days.

Here's a fun hand from Friday vs a very LAG reg whom for whatever reason was playing 100NL rather than his usual 400/600NL and had been spewing like crazy.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $1.00 BB (8 handed)
MP2 ($40)
Hero (CO) ($118.10)
Button ($87)
SB ($220.15)
BB ($20)
UTG ($101.50)
UTG+1 ($18.50)
MP1 ($32.65)

Preflop: Hero is CO with A, 7
4 folds, Hero bets $3, 1 fold, SB raises to $11, 1 fold, Hero calls $8

Flop: ($23) A, 5, A (2 players)
SB bets $12, Hero calls $12

Turn: ($47) 3 (2 players)
SB bets $31, Hero calls $31

River: ($109) 10 (2 players)
SB bets $166.15 (All-In), Hero calls $64.10 (All-In)

Total pot: $237.20 | Rake: $3

Results:
SB had 8, 5 (two pair, Aces and fives).
Hero had A, 7 (three of a kind, Aces).
Outcome: Hero won $234.20

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