Alright, so tonight I played some live poker. We actually had 15 people playing, it was pretty sweet, I have never had a homegame of this size before excluding the bigger mtts that we rarely run.

We started out with 2 different cash game tables of 7 and 8 people, it was a good size, you could be sufficiently aggressive. Early on I f*cked myself by playing A2 of diamonds on the button, there was an 3xbb EP raiser and 3 callers in front of me, i decided to call the 3 dollars in hopes of a massive pot. Flop came AJ8 with 1 diamond. The UTG bet $4 into the $14 pot and 2 people called in front of me, so it was 5.5:1 to call and I prospected. I spiked a deuce on the turn and again UTG raiser bet 7-8, MP also called with what looked like a flush draw, I decided to push and hopefully make AK do a bad call. UTG called and MP folded, UTG was raising with A8, I was down to $8 after this hand from my 40. I didn't rebuy anything right away for some reason. Maybe 2 hands later I picked up AK in mid position and I tossed in my 8 and got 2 callers, K6 and Q-10. I spiked a king and it held up brining me back to 25 or so. This is a hand that benefited from having a short stack because neither of my preflop callers would have stuck around if I wasn't so short-stacked.


I chipped away to get back up to around $40, with some nice steals and some good preflop re-raises to pick up some dead money. Semi-bluffing with hands like KQ ect.

Later on I picked up AJ sooooted in the BB. LP raised it up for $4 preflop and I called along with another player. The flop was A-10-8 I assumed he might C-bet so I wanted to trap him a little bit and at worst lose the minimum if he had a hand like AK, although I didn't gain much info from just calling, at this point in the hand I am in a way-ahead/way-behind scenario. The turn card was another 10, which didn't change too much in the hand. Either he had AK and was value betting, or had a hand like QQ or KK and didn't believe I had a good enough hand to stick around. I could lead out on the turn to solidify my position, but at this point my opponent probably didn't put me on the hand that I had. If he had a mid pair and was betting, he might feel inclined to raise again and build the pot for me, if he has AK or better he will call or raise my bet. In any case, I decided to let him tell me how much money it would cost me to see a potentially profitable pot.

Fortunately, the river was my joker card, another Ace, giving me at least a split. I would have been pissed if he had A9 or worse, but I highly doubted that situation. I only had about 15 or 20$ left at this point, I just pushed on the river. There was $60 in the pot and my opponent was completely comitted to paying me of, he had QQ.

Soon after that the cash game wrapped up and we started a nice big tournament.

I don't recall too many of the hands that were played b/c it's basically morning and I haven't slept yet, my brain function has reached max capasssssity at this point.

I played pretty well early, I continued playing my small-ball strategy for the tournaments, generally avoiding re-raising preflop with a large range of hands. I would often smoothcall/limp with AA-QQ and decent drawing hands such as JQs or J10, Q10s. I saved my bluff/semi-bluff hands for AK-KQ and other beauties like 7-9s, 7-6s 6-8, ect. I never play K10, which is the worst of all possible hands in a tournament situation aside from 3 handed push-bot play.

I caught enough great bluffing situations throughout this tournament that my stack was healthy all the way down. I didn't realy knock too many people out, but I made lots of medium stacks short. 3 handed was quite a battle, it was me and the 2 best other people in our group, basically the 3 of us own everyone else consistantly. Anyways, we bust out one of the guys with a blow from each of us and then me winning AJ > 33 when he was very short.

We played heads up for a little while but we decided to chop it 50/50 :):)

Then just 6 of us played another turbo with 10 minute blinds. I was huge chipleader for most of this due to some great luck but started to play kind of shitty and lost almost my entire stack. I also got pretty unlucky and doubled up a short stacked when I pushed from the button with A8 and he woke up w/ KK. Anyways, I luckily survived as one bigstack busted the other one. We arranged a split for the money and played the match out for fun, I didn't overcome the 5:1 chip defecit, although I almost got it to even at one point.

Meh, defnitley a profitable evening of poker :)