.05/.10 NLH LH 21/5/07

Opening balance: $102.79

Buy in : $10+10 (2 tables)
No. of hands : 141
Left with : $16.89 + 4.61

Closing balance : $104.29

Running total: -$2.81/951
-28ptbb/951

Two tables, could hardly have been more different. Once again, my biggest losses were from value-crap in the blinds getting outkicked, twice in two hands, to the same villain. Didn't really do anything wrong, losing three 8s with a king to three eights with an Ace is just lame. Also lost a big pot on the other table with 5s full of 8s against a rivered 5s full of 9s.

big_ab0 posts small blind [$0.05 USD].
YagaS posts big blind [$0.10 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to YagaS [ 8c Qs ]
realmoney78 calls [$0.10 USD]
darkarif calls [$0.10 USD]
5 folds
YagaS checks
** Dealing Flop ** [ 5c, 5d, 8h ]
YagaS bets [$0.30 USD]
realmoney78 folds
darkarif raises [$1.20 USD]
YagaS calls [$0.90 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 5h ]
YagaS checks
darkarif checks
** Dealing River ** [ 9h ]
YagaS bets [$1.75 USD]
darkarif raises [$5.10 USD]
YagaS calls [$3.35 USD]
darkarif shows [ 9s, 6d ]a full house, Fives full of Nines.
YagaS doesn't show [ 8c, Qs ]a full house, Fives full of Eights.
darkarif wins $12.31 USD from the main pot with a full house, Fives full of Nines.

I should have bet the turn, really. I was giving him the chance to bet at me, but he didn't, plus I didn't want to build the pot excessively when I could be on a two-outer or drawing dead (this line may be excessively cautious).

This is the very next hand

Dealt to YagaS [ Ad 3d ]
1 fold
darkarif calls [$0.10 USD]
3 folds
C_Coutinho raises [$0.50 USD]
1 fold
YagaS calls [$0.45 USD]
1 fold
darkarif calls [$0.40 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Td, 8c, 7c ]
YagaS bets [$1.20 USD]
darkarif calls [$1.20 USD]
C_Coutinho folds
** Dealing Turn ** [ Tc ]
YagaS checks
darkarif checks
** Dealing River ** [ Qh ]
YagaS checks
darkarif checks
YagaS shows [ Ad, 3d ]a pair of Tens.
darkarif doesn't show [ Kd, 9s ]a pair of Tens.
YagaS wins $3.80 USD from the main pot with a pair of Tens with Ace kicker.

Didn't play it spectacularly, and it's a quarter of the pot I just lost, but damn it felt good.

Nearly at 1K hands, nearly breaking even for .05/.10NL. I was going to go for the last 49 hands tonight, but the tables were breaking up all over the place and I was getting tilty with darkarif, so I decided to call it a night. Getting back on track. I remember where I left my optimism.