Hits and misses

The games have been pretty good these past couple weeks, especially the NL5k+ games have had tons of action due to a select few fish who keep coming back for more. I've been playing the higher games when the spots were good and here are some of the more interesting hands:

NL10k: A heart would have been more realistic but running 6s will do the trick, too.

NL10k: 3bet pot against a pretty big fish. Pretty satisfying flop, pretty satisfying result.

NL10k: He takes it right back. His check-minraise looks strong, but he does it with a ton more than just sets so I don't mind my calldown too much. My whole line is pretty hero-callish and it doesn't get rewarded.

NL5k: Here my hero call actually does get rewarded by the poker gods. This guy is pretty aggro and we had been tangling in a few 3bet/4bet pots. He berated me in the chat afterwards asking me what I could beat, to which I responded: A9.

NL5k: The obligatory 3bet light and hit good hand.

NL5k: I'm pretty sure he knew he was drawing to precisely 8 outs (potentially even 6) and decided to gamble.

NL5k: I was pretty sure his minraise was a misclick so I 3bet expecting to take down the pot preflop. The 3bet gets coldcalled and we see a flop 3way where I elect to check behind a flush draw. I really like doing this occasionally (even sexier if it's the nut flush draw) because it makes your hand so disguised when the flush actually hits. I continue my deception on the turn at which point my hand looks like some random Ax hand. On the river, my hand certainly doesn't seem like it can take much heat (and JT got there which he could rep) and my opponent pounces on that and fires away.

NL5k: MirNiceGuy insisted that I post this one, but I was going to anyway obviously :) When you're constantly getting 4bet light then light 5bets definitely need to be in your arsenal as MrNiceGuy came to realize this hand. His hand was mucked but it's AK > 90% of the time here.

NL5k: I was shoving the river for value against a pretty big fish here but ended up valuetowning myself.

NL10k: It's close but I am a favorite here. Not when MrNiceGuy binks the river, though.

I'm down ~ $50k with the NL10k shots but have made about half of that back at NL5k. One of these days I'll hit my run-like-Jesus heater and then I'll show them! muhahahaha