Three Way Tie

To kick off December I've been grinding hard, putting in 8 hours on Thursday, 11 on Friday and another 8 on Saturday. Hands/hour and VPP/hour rates are unfortunately still very low like last month, and as a result I've been mixing in some 6-max games to help things.

I ran into some pretty awful variance on Thursday, and though I was stuck as much as $800 at one point in the session I managed to recover and book a modest win. My luck turned on Friday, in which my 11 hours of determined grinding resulted in another $2.2k table winnings day, which enters into a three way tie with a Friday from last month and a Saturday from January 2010 as my "best day ever". Sort of strange how $2.2k seems to be my magic number.

On Saturday I had a respectable showing though nothing compared to Friday. I did manage to stack both Dante63s and Ljuti_Gusar in the same day, which is something of an accomplishment as they are two of the better 100NL regulars. The hand against the latter was boring, but versus the former I think is really interesting and was spewy on both our parts, particularly my flop float and his turn play.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $1.00 BB (9 handed)
Hero (BB) ($100)
UTG ($100)
UTG+1 ($54.50)
MP1 ($100)
MP2 ($105)
MP3 ($102.65)
CO ($197)
Button ($75)
SB ($45)

Preflop: Hero is BB with Q♠, A♠
4 folds, MP3 bets $3, 3 folds, Hero calls $2

Flop: ($6.50) K♠, 9♦, 3♥ (2 players)
Hero checks, MP3 bets $4, Hero calls $4

Turn: ($14.50) Q♦ (2 players)
Hero checks, MP3 bets $10, Hero raises to $30, MP3 calls $20

River: ($74.50) 4♣ (2 players)
Hero checks, MP3 bets $65.65 (All-In), Hero calls $63 (All-In)

Total pot: $200.50 | Rake: $3

Results:
Hero had Q♠, A♠ (one pair, Queens).
MP3 had 9♣, A♣ (one pair, nines).
Outcome: Hero won $197.50