The Part Where I Light a Fire Under my Ass

Been playing some mid-stakes the last few days. It's been fun despite more or less breaking even. It's cool to play against guys I see in videos or who's forum posts I read on 2p2 and stuff that have been playing for forever. There really are some massive whales on the 20-50bb tables at 2/4 and 3/6 though. I'm a little dissapointed they're probably getting rid of them for CAP games, but if that means more fish play the 40-100bb then I'm all for it. It will be really unfortunate though if a lot of fish end up playing CAP because at least in the 20-50bb games the fish double up sometimes and then you're playing fairly deep with them. 

I thought I was gonna stack the legend today: 

***** Hand History for Game 49886047606 ***** (Poker Stars)

$200.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, September 20, 01:18:30 ET 2010

Table Orion III (Real Money)

Seat 5 is the button

Seat 1: sunpharm ( $198.55 USD )

Seat 3: LEB SHACK ( $160.20 USD )

Seat 4: Atrain3016 ( $226.40 USD )

Seat 5: hero ( $334.75 USD )

Seat 6: vulgokrusty ( $236.80 USD )

Seat 8: vinivici9586 ( $249.90 USD )

Seat 9: ><3bet4food> ( $642.45 USD )

vulgokrusty posts small blind [$1.00 USD].

vinivici9586 posts big blind [$2.00 USD].

sunpharm posts ante of [$0.40 USD].

LEB SHACK posts ante of [$0.40 USD].

Atrain3016 posts ante of [$0.40 USD].

hero posts ante of [$0.40 USD].

vulgokrusty posts ante of [$0.40 USD].

vinivici9586 posts ante of [$0.40 USD].

><3bet4food> posts ante of [$0.40 USD].

** Dealing down cards **

Dealt to hero [  9h 7c ]

><3bet4food> folds

sunpharm folds

LEB SHACK folds

Atrain3016 folds

hero raises [$6.00 USD]

vulgokrusty folds

vinivici9586 calls [$4.00 USD]

** Dealing Flop ** [ Jh, 8d, 5s ]

vinivici9586 checks

hero bets [$10.00 USD]

vinivici9586 raises [$30.00 USD]

hero calls [$20.00 USD]

** Dealing Turn ** [ 6s ]

vinivici9586 bets [$48.00 USD]

hero calls [$48.00 USD]

** Dealing River ** [ 7h ]

vinivici9586 checks

hero bets [$25.00 USD]

vinivici9586 folds

hero wins $25.00 USD

hero wins $168.80 USD from main pot

Definitely possible I should have just raised the turn, but I thought there was some chance he could find a fold with a set and that he might be bluffing some small %.

In other news I think Stephen and I almost have an apartment locked up for LA in January. I seriously can not wait to get out there and start the SNE grind.  

-that's all for now

gl at the tables