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This may come as a shock to all readers and viewers, but I am running good. Really good.
This month I've had my 2nd, 3rd and 4th biggest winnings days ever. Last week I had my biggest ever winning cash game session and then last night almost doubled that in the same game. Was a sick sick game. It was a private game and the blinds were 5/10/20 with straddles commonly to 40 and sometimes to 80 or 160. It was MENTAL! Loved it though, exhilarating feeling playing in bigger games, games with so much action and gamble and insane money flying about. This was by quite some way the biggest game I've ever played in. Smashed my record for biggest ever losing pot last night, which was somewhere in the region between £4.6k and £5.2k with ACES allin pre against Mitch's JACKS. If I hold in that pot I win over £12k for the night. Pretty insane to lose such a big pot but still have a ridic winning session. I'm not going into any more detail about the game, but I will mention one hand, probably the biggest hand I won of the night. And it was so golden in more ways than one, because it could've played out 5 or 6 different ways, all of which I go broke in except for the way it actually played out, where I scooped a massive pot.
Raise £60, call, call, I make it £250 with
, pick up a cold caller on the button and the other 3 all call.
checks to me, I decide to check and hopefully let the button shove who has about £1k back and seemed in the mood to gamble. This can result in one of the other three players calling/jamming thinkking they are good vs the button, only to find me waiting behind with basically the nuts.
It checks through.
. Now we really do have the nuts. Player 1 bets out £350. Played 2 goes all in for £1100. I am playing £2500, as is player 1. I contemplate how ridiculously good life is for a minute. And then JAM.
Player 2 now shows me his hand, laughing and joking around, loving life -
. He tries to look at my cards (It's that sort of game). I want player 1 in though! Or do I?!
Player 1 says he has 55 and is deep in the tank - he knows he's behind. I don't know whether I want a call or fold. Mathematically I do want him to call, because then I'm 80% to win a £8.5k pot rather than 100% to win a £3.7k pot. But emotionally?! Losing an 80/20 for a £8.5k pot, the biggest pot I've ever played, would hurt A LOT!
He folds.
River
.
Absolute relief.
So then we lose the AA<JJ pot, but then go on a massive card rush, make loads of hands, pulled off 2 or 3 of my biggest ever bluffs, made some more hands, left extremely happy.
I know it seems like I'm only saying this cos I won big, but games like that are so so so fun to play in. Full of characters all round the table, everyone really relaxed, just there to have a laugh win or lose. Everyone takes losing really well, everybody wins with class too and they all give each other chances to get back into the game, giving each other spins for huge amounts of money, to try and help their mate get his dough back. It's just a great atmosphere and I love it.
Drove to Luton in the early hours, got some kip before the main event, barely won a pot, and did some barreling, picked up a flush draw and jammed the turn, got called by Mr Lee who had not only a pair (disaster!), but also a bigger flush draw (even bigger disaster!) leaving me drawing dead and sheepishly walking back to the hotel
May have been a bit too aggressive. Think it's close. Drove back to Nottingham as they wasn't much in Luton worth hanging around for.
So with the Riga and Sky Poker binks, and a couple of huge cash game wins, this is shaping up to be a pretty massive month, not Monte Carlo territory, but its almost 3x bigger than my previous 2nd best ever month. Insane heater. I am playing OK, not making mistakes, but it doesn't take a lot of skill to play the nut flush vs 2nd flush, and AA vs KK etc. I feel I've got a lot less "fearsome" in these big games though. I used to lock up pretty hard and also be scared of doing huge bluffs. But i've lost most of that fear and that is making me harder to play against also.
Anyway, long may it continue I say, but if you look at the big picture, I feel I've ran well over EV for like 2 years now so I'm starting to wonder, really, #whenwillitend?
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