Challenge, Day 1

Day 1 has come and gone and here are my results:

Played hours: 3.5 (max allowed)
Stacks: +3.29 (€2964.50)
Total stacks for the challenge: +3.29

I'm pretty happy with the result, even though Heiko outdid me for the day. Overall I ran relatively well, which is nothing I'm not used to to :) I broke the day into two sessions, one in the afternoon for 2 hours and one late at night for 1.5 hours. This is something I'll probably continue to do to get the best of both worlds.

Here are some interesting hands (predominantly large pots) from the first session of the day. For some reason the hands from my second session are now showing up right now, I may need to recover those tomorrow.

In this hand I was playing $10/20NL HU against a superaggressive opponent who had been going after me left and right with raises and 3bets. I clearly committed myself on the turn but I guess he figured his T2 was still good.

Same opponent, just a couple hands later. Pretty standard preflop and postflop, I give him rope to hang himself on the turn even though a case can be made to just continue firing at the draw heavy board. I had a supereasy call and dodged his 9 outs to take down the pot. He quit me after this hand.

This next hand is all but standard. I isolate a limper preflop and get a coldcall from the BB and the limper. I shut down on the flop and it is checked through to the river, where I hit my boat. Now all of a sudden the BB fires a pot bet and I have a decision. Call, raise or shove? My first instinct was to call, because anything he is checking through the whole way then potting the river is either killing my tiny full house or is a pure bluff where I am getting no value from a raise anyway. However, because the guy is a huge fish, I took the high variance move and shoved. I assume he called me with KJ or QJ, unfortunately the HH does not show his mucked hand.

Fish and I are each 200BB+ deep, I once again isolate his limp and we see a pretty nice flop for me where I hit bottom set on a 3-flush board. I fire rather large flop and turn bets, only to see him donk the river pretty strong. It's a pretty trivial call for me, as I'll be shown the naked ace of spades a ton in this spot. Needless to say, I was pretty shocked to see his hand.

Another set, I was obviously really happy to get it all in on the flop against a tilted opponent. He hit the flop pretty hard as well, though.

Once again, I have some more hands from the evening session but the HH function is currently not working. Looking forward to tomorrow...oh and thanks for all the people who voted for me to win, I'll do my best not to let you down!