Exactly 2 hours and 248 hands of 1/2 limit and finally something positive. A $14.50 win.

The Positives
AA/KK 5x all winners. +$48 from those hands alone. They basically made the entire session.
1 - KK won blinds
2 - KK in BB - 2 opp - 2J2 Flop - Raised on flop, but I 3 bet and took it down with turn lead out. +4 BB
3 - AA UTG+1 - UTG posts dead and calls flop QJ6. K on turn and he calls again. A on river and he check/calls again. He has KQ. Suck, re-suck. Looks like a 2 outter, but I actually had 12 outs (2-A, 4-T, 3-6,3-Q). +4.5 BB
4 - KK UTG+1 - SB and UTG limp and call me down with flopped middle pair of 10's each. +8.5 BB
5 - AA UTG - I've done the L/RR 2x w/ AA UTG and both times have won a large pot. I had BB idiot call me down with JT, no draw. Just 2 OC's. Unfortunately that was the only hand I won vs. him.

Flopped 4 hands w/ 12 outs or more, hit 2 of them. Much better than previous.

6 way flop w/ KT in the BB. Flop KK6 (2 clubs), I bet out and get raised by UTG+1 (4/2 over 100 hands - a ROCK), oh shit! T on the turn gives me the boat. I bet out and he folds. DAMN! I actually shoulda check-raised that one. He was such a rock I was sure he had AK or KQ. What else would a 4% player limp in that position and raise on that flop?

The Bad
So much turnover in a full ring game. It felt like new players were in and out every hand and I was paying blinds almost every other hand. 62 blinds hands out of 248 at a supposedly full table the whole time.

AP still gets their rake. Almost every heads up pot had both players flop enough to go to the river. Almost every blind steal and blind vs blind hand turned into a huge pot. Only open-raised the blinds 2x and with strong hands.
1 - ATs in SB. I open-raise, BB calls. Flop x9K. He calls 2 bets and shows A9o.
2 - I open raise OTB w/ AJo. BB has KK. I actually get lucky and flop an Ace, he takes his Kings to river.
After that I had A5o in an un-opened pot 2 more times and said the hell with it and folded. Both times at least 1 of the blinds had a better Ace in a blind vs blind monster pot that went to the river. AP ALWAYS gets their rake.

Guy that called me down in the last AA hand just kicked the crap out of me. He was in every pot until the river. Several times we were heads up and went to the river. I gave up betting against him because he wasn't folding. Several times in Blind vs Blind hands he would call the flop bet with nothing, turn middle pair, and beat me. I one only 1 of 5 pots against him, the AA hand.

Cleared $10 more. Hopefully this was the start of something positive. Currently sitting at -1.31 BB/100.

Had my best day of the month yesterday, evened up for the month (if you count bonuses), and decided to take today off and do some other things.

Monthly #'s:
NL (-$99.52)
Limit (-$31.38)
MTT +$96.02
Bonuses +$60

Total +$25.12
Not a big number to be sure, but a negative turned positive. I don't feel like I have to catch up now and can start my sessions in a more free state of mind.

So here's how it happened....

Started the night out on a waiting list for a 1/2 limit table for about 15 minutes. I sat down and immediately had my BB stolen and then my SB. Then I stole the blinds when I was OTB. By the 4th hand, when my GT+ kicked in, I realized that I had played a whole lot of hands with the people at this table and the table VP$IP was 13% PFR 8%. Forget about going to showdown. Only 2 hands even went to a flop, so when it was my time to post again, I got the hell out of there.

Luckily I was still on the waiting list and immediately found 2 more tables to sit out. Yet when GT+ kicked in there, I was horrified to find most of the same players and the table VP$IP's here were even worse (10% and 12%). As a matter of fact, the highest VP$IP on both tables was 18%. Now I normally do well in the tighter games where most of the people have fold buttons, but even I know I have no chance to make any money when nobody ever goes to a flop. I stayed for 2 orbits, actually had 1 hands go to a flop and picked up a combined $3.75 in 31 hands total.

So I scrapped the night session and played in the late $1.5K Guarranteed with 300 players. Much like the $1 rebuy I had played in the day before, I was very short stacked going into the 2nd hour. Somehow I managed to stick around near the bubble and just when it looked like I was going to miss the cutoff, I pushed with pocket 9's from UTG. I had about $1750 left and blinds were 150/300. It was folded around to SB who made a pretty terrible call. He had about $3500 left and called with QJo. It had been a pretty chatty table and he knew I had been playing tightly so he was lucky to have 2 overs. He hit his Q on the flop and I was typing my goodbye when all of a sudden the chips were pushed towards me. He typed something about making a stupid call and deserving that and I had to hit the replay button to see that I had runner-runnered a club flush. Ah, so things may finally be starting to turn around.

A few hands later, the bubble burst and the table split. My very first hand at the new table I caught pocket Jacks. There was a raise in front of me and I pushed. The raiser folded. Very next hand, pocket Jacks again. There was a raise UTG, but this time I just flat called. Have you ever just known that you were going to flop a set? I know it sounds stupid, but I flat called because I had a pretty wierd feeling that I was gonna flop a set. Flop 8JK. Raiser bets out an amount that made my remaining stack about the size of the pot. I figured they saw me push and then call a raise my 1st two hands at a new table so I may get a push called here. I pushed, but he folded. I then showed the set because I didn't want them calling every raise I made now thinking I was a maniac.

Before I knew it I was in the top 10 in chips. The middle to big pairs (99-JJ) were very kind to me, until extremely late, but I may have misplayed the one hand. So anyway, I had now final tabled my second 300 or more person MTT in consecutive days. I was one of the shorter stacks when the FT started, but I doubled up once and 2 of the medium stacks took horrendous (or typical AP) beats. Both lost with pair over pair to a 2 outter on the river.

We got down to 4 players left and at this point all 4 of us had stacks between 100K and 120K. It was anyone's game. The most aggressive player was to my immediate right. He had been putting in PFR's nearly every hand. Sometimes he gave up when met with resistance, sometimes he called and showed nothing, sometimes he got lucky. I was in the BB and picked up TT. He open-raised a fairly large amount from the SB. Instead of re-raising which would have meant a push at that point, I decided to flat call. I figured that he would probably call with any 2 overs and I thought I could outplay him later and would rather stay from a coinflip at this point. It turned out to be the wrong move. The flop came xAA and he bet out, I raised 3x his bet, which amounted to half my stack before the hand started and he pushed. I folded and was left with just under 60K. In retrospect, I probably should have pushed preflop and taken my chances. I ended up going out a few hands later when guess who open-raised from the SB. I pushed ATo in the BB and he called with QJs. Flop was xTJ and I was done. Good for 4th out of 300 and enough to pull me out of the negative for the month.

Random thoughts:
- As much as I love that World Series being played in participating teams home parks and wouldn't have it any other way, it is difficult to watch post-season games in the freezing cold and having many of them rained out because, let's face it, the weather in most of the country isn't conducive to baseball in late October.
- I don't understand how I can play 4 or more hours straight in an online MTT, but struggle to put in 2 hours straight playing cash games. I do, however, desperately need those 5 minute breaks every hour of the MTT's.
- So a few weeks ago Trixie showed up on Lost. This week Joanie Stubbs shows up as Sawyers ex-girl. Does this mean we'll be seeing Al and Dan soon. That would be pretty awesome. I don't think they'll ever be a TV character as good as Al Swearengen.

The Bad News
Let's just get this out of the way because this is going to be a 3rd consecutive positve post. The bad news is that I had planned to play about 2 or 3 hours of 1/2 limit late afternoon into early evening because the late evening/night games have been the rock gardens. Well I didn't get to do that and subsequently didn't clear any more of the bonus.

The Good News
The reason I didn't get to clear any more of the bonus is because the onslaught on MTT's continues this week. 3 hours late this afernoon and another cash. This one was more about survival than winning as I started off completely card dead and finished up the same, but the last 4 MTT's I've played....
Players - Finish
329 - 8
277 - 89
299 - 4
232 - 16 (today)

The big hand that pretty much boosted me from potential bubbler into the money...
AKo MP1 blinds 75/150. UTG limps, I PFR 4x (to 600), BB calls, everyone else folds. BB has me covered by 200. Flop [6s][Ad]. He checks, I bet 900 into 1425 pot, he min-c/r, I push, he calls and turns over [9h]. on the turn and he's dead. Now I know I do a lot of bitchin about bad beats here, but this guy was hysterical. He started complaining about how rediculous that hand was and how of course whenever he hits an Ace he loses. It's BS, blah, blah, blah. Dude, you had A9, I had AK! Your not supposed to win!!

Here's another kinda fishy wierd hand. You ever see a guy in an MTT who says he has to leave and dumps off his chips. I'm not real sure on the legality of it, but it's always kinda bothered me. Well we had this one guy that mentioned a few times that he has to go to work soon so he's all in soon and was telling anyone with a decent hand to call when he pushed in a few minutes. I didn't really by it because why would he even bother sticking around if he knew he couldn't finish. Anyway, a few minutes later he pushed.....and was called. He had KK........the bastard...........but his opponent had KK as well and they split. A few not so nice words followed from others at the table. Not only was that slightly shady, but that was the 3rd time this week I saw 2 people get it alll in the middle with the same pocket pair. I was actually involved in one of those hands with JJ vs JJ + an AK thrown in there for good measure. What are the odds of that?

We got to the bubble with an extremely short stack at our table. He never played a hand and was so low in fact that he was blinded off by the antes, but won. Then he was ante'd off again next hand, and won. Now he had enough for a blind and was blinded off for the 3rd time......and 4th time. He won 4x in a row forced all-in pre-flop with garbage hands. It was pretty sick, but basically it was just AP messing with us, letting us know that they were still watching

Here's my major suckout of the tourny....well not really because I had 7 outs and was ahead when I put my money in, but still.....
Blinds 300/600, I have 2,965 left and open push from 2 off the button with A4o. I was called by CO w/ KQs. Flop 5Q2, none his suit (actually giving me the nut backdoor flush draw), but I hit the 3 on the river to survive. Hey I did what I had to do and I was actually ahead so it's not really a suckout is it?

That was the only hand I saw in about the last hour I played. I eventually went out with [4s] short stacked in the BB. 39 of my last 54 hands contained a 2,3,4, or 5 including my last 7 in a row. In fact, a little over 1/3 of those 54 hands were both cards under 8.

I actually made an error in my last post about my profit for the month. Those were PT numbers. I saw that my numbers were actually better on pokercharts and I had forgot that I had won the VIP freeroll on 10/1. How could I have forgotten the tournament that led to my most controversial post ever on BTP and the only one I've ever started that ended up locked. So here are the updated monthly numbers.....

NL (-$99.52)
Limit (-$31.38)
MTT +$253.68
Bonuses +$60

Total +$182.78

So I guess this begs the question doesn't it? Should I just stick to MTT's? Over the long run, MTT's are definitely where I've had the most success. There are 2 factors that stop me from going this route..
1 - Bonuses. You can't clear deposit/reload bonuses by playing MTT's. Still, it may actually be more profitable for me to forget about the bonuses.
2 - Stubborness. I know I play better than almost everyone at the table in most cash games I play. I refuse to believe I can't consistantly beat these games and I feel I must prove it to myself although my AP numbers all-time, tell me that I suck (NL $.10 & $.25 combined -9.3 BB/100 over 5,617 hands and Limit from .02/.04 to $1/2 -0.19 BB/100 over 9,793. $1/2 limit alone is -0.88 over 6,487 hands)

Those were just AP numbers. All online PT compatable rooms combined all-time......
All limit poker from .02/.04 to $5/10
20,485 hands - (-0.71) BB/100
Best .02/.04 +6.44 bb/100 / Worst .50/$1 (-3.88) bb/100

All no limit poker from .04 to $2 big blinds.
17,268 hands - +0.85 BB/100
Best .20 +15.41 bb/100 / Worst .10 (-11.83) bb/100

The MTT cash run continued last night, but this time barely going past the bubble to finish 30th out of 283. A little different this time though as I was one of the bigger stacks through one of the mid-stages instead of one of those trying to survive.

I was making some sick reads all tourny long in this one. Pocket Queens in the SB. I raise and one limper calls. Flop comes 3 diamonds King high. I don't have a diamond. I bet and get called. Turn is a blank, check - check. As soon as he checked on that turn, I KNEW he had the . River is a blank and I knew the only way to make money on this hand was to check and get him to bluff. I checked and he bluffed. I called and saw the . [Kh] I PFR UTG. UTG+1 who has just suffered an ugly beat, but still had a formidable stack (about 3/4 of my stack) pushed. Somehow I was almost positive he was tilting a little and had something like AQ. I insantly called and he showed AQ.

Unfortunately, I got moved to another table of big stacks who were playing like maniacs. I had to tighten up and went card dead and watched the chips fly around the table. I actually had 2 idiots at my table who were playing every hand talking about how they were addicted to poker and each lost over $1500 on the site this week. One of them was coming in from EP with hands like Q6s and J8o and min-betting every street, even when he was raised, and going to the river almost ever time.

II think this small streak might have actually hurt my game a little as I think I got too conservative around the bubble. I folded one or two hands in position where I'm pretty sure I should have pushed, just so I would make the money. Oh well.

One hour of 1/2 limit tonight. Lost $1. Up and down the whole session. Go down a little, win a big pot to break even again, go down again, then the same thing. Just couldn't get ahead. Hard to figure out what your going to get on the 1/2 tables. Sometimes it's a rock garden, sometimes there are a few maniacs, sometimes it's sLAG aggressive. A little mix of everything tonight. I had one table where there was a whole lot blind stealing going on. I let a few of my blinds go with rags, then defended against a button raise w/ JTo. Flopped top pair and called down. Button had Aces that time.

On the other table I had a 45/25 maniac sitting 2 seats to my right. He would raise PFR a ton, but slow down or even fold when met with resistance. I picked off on blind steal with pocket 10's. 3x I had a hand when he PFRed from EP.
1 - I had AQo and 3 bet. However, BB cold-called. Maniac folded to my c-bet, but BB wouldn't fold 66 w/ a K on board and even had the balls to bet the river with 4 OC's on board. I dropped 3 BB total.
2 - I 3 bet him again w/ 88. All over cards on board which slowed him down as well. He actually had JJ that time. Dropped 2 BB.
3 - I had AKs and just cold called this time hoping a weaker Ace might come in behind. Had 1 caller behind. King on the flop and maniac folded, but caller went to the river with Jacks. Made up for the earlier hands by picking up 5.25 BB.

Not the worst session in the world, but slightly frustrating because despite not getting killed this week, I haven't had the big cash game winning session yet this month. We're looking at a big storm tonight on in the northeast and my internet connection sucks during bad weather so I'm probably done for the night.

[quote="MTPaid"]The Bad News
2 - Stubborness. I know I play better than almost everyone at the table in most cash games I play. I refuse to believe I can't consistantly beat these games and I feel I must prove it to myself although my AP numbers all-time, tell me that I suck (NL $.10 & $.25 combined -9.3 BB/100 over 5,617 hands and Limit from .02/.04 to $1/2 -0.19 BB/100 over 9,793. $1/2 limit alone is -0.88 over 6,487 hands)/quote]

mt - i first want to say that i like reading your journal, as you have a funny perspective on poker

but, i have to say that i am very worried about your BR as i read the paasage i quoted, i aint the most naturallt tactful dude out there, so pls dont be offended, but if youre losing over asn extended period in cash games, you aint
" better than mot people at tthe table". you definitely need to make adjustments - as far as i can tell, you get married to hands when you feel you have the best hand preflop. but even a 70-30 fav is going to lose 30% of the tme, so if you feel youve been outdrawn, you need to be able to get away from tptk abd overpair hands,

until you know your own self bettert i fear you will continue to scuffle at cash games. myabe the reason your having such success at donkaments is that theyy are more reliant on preflop play rather than post flop play, good luck dude.

Welcome to another late night edition of the rake show over at AP!

Put in about an hour of bonus clearing tonight. 171 hands and (-$2.50), but it could have been much worse. I scooped a $23.50 pot (+5.75 BB) just before I left. Cleared another $10 in bonus as well. If I could just have the sense to fold my blind hands before the flop, I think I'd actually be a profitable player. Seriously, these blind steals and blind vs blind hands continue to be sick. I kid about it, but they really want their rake. I defended my blinds 2x vs a possible steal attempt tonight and got into 1 blind v blind hand. Here are all 3.

1 - [Th] in the BB. Folded to CO. Tight, very aggressive, especially in position. He raises, I call.
Flop [9d][5h] P = 4.5 sb
I bet, he raises, I call.
Turn P = 4.25 bb
I check, he bets, I call even though I hate that card. I could have folded.
River P = 6.25 bb
Now I can't fold, I check/ call my 2 pair. He flopped the set with the other 2 Queens.
Rake = $.75 donated as opposed to 0 had I folded to his raise.

2 - [7h] in BB. Folded to Button who attempted to steal almost every chance he got and had an post flop AF of 10+. I call.
[7d][Qd] P = 4.5 sb
I check/called. I probably should have folded here, but I just didn't believe him. He would have bet no matter what he had.
P = 3.25 bb
Check/call again.
P = 5.25 bb
Check/call river thinking he still might have Ax since he was so aggressive. He had KQ.
Rake = $.50 dontated. (NOTE TO SELF: FOLD YOU IDIOT. LET HIM HAVE YOUR BB!)

3 - I wasn't involved in this one, but it needs to be seen.
[4d] in CO. Folded to me, but I passed on the steal. I'd been raising a lot lately. Turned out to be a great decision. Button raises, SB calls, BB 3-bets, both call.
[7h][7d] P = 9 sb
SB check, BB bet, But call, SB folds
P = 5.5 bb
BB bet, But call
P = 7.5 bb
BB checks, Stealer bets, BB calls.
BB had [As], Stealer [7c] and slow played himself out of a bet or 2 there.
AP found a way to generate another $.75 rake by rewarding that horrible steal attempt.

4 - My only Blind v Blind hand. [7c] in BB.
SB open limps. I check.
[5s][9c] P = 2 sb
So now I'm open-ended. Admitedly an ugly open-ender, but in a blind vs blind situation it should be a good hand, no?
SB bets, I raise, he calls.
P = 3 bb
I take my free card.
P = 3 bb
He bets, I bang my head and call. He has [7c]
Blind v Blind = Flush v Straight. Another $.50 of rake generated.

WTF HAND OF THE NIGHT
Villain here, was not a very loose or crazy player. Slightly loose maybe. 26 VP$IP/25 WTSD over 100+ hands. Neither aggressive nor passive.
He limps UTG+1, UTG+1 limps, I limp in CO [7s], SB calls, BB checks. 5 way pot.
[Js][6h] P = 5 sb
UTG+1 bets, 1 fold, I give a loose call
-BDFD = 1.5 outs + GSSD = 4 outs. I have 5.5 outs here. I'm only getting 6-1, BUT I think I have implied odds here as my draw isn't very obvious + one of the blinds may call as well. So I figured I had about what I needed to call. Both blinds did call.
Here's what happened....
http://www.pokerhand.org/?581327

That SOB bet out, OOP on a 5 handed flop w/ a BDFD! He bet all 3 streets and he had absolutely nothing until the river. It's almost like he knew he was going to walk into that. What are the odds of us both hitting that backdoor draw like that? I've been nailed so many ways by backdoor draws this month.

Same SOB got me again when I had Kings.
I open raise [Ks] and he's my only caller in the BB.
[Qc][5d] P = 2.5 sb
He check-raises me, I 3 bet and he calls.
P = 5.25 bb
He leads out, I call confused.
P = 7.25 bb
I can't beat anything now, but I call just to see it.
He has [Ts]. That SOB check-raised me with a GSSD and an over-card. And he hit again. He just owned me and the messed up thing was, he only went off like this against me. He was a pretty normal player otherwise.

Got it almost all back with this one about 1 orbit before I left though.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?581340

I fault myself for taking some of those blind hands too far. I should have gone out winner here. Still waiting for the big win though.

JACKPOT

I hit that big winning session I was looking for all month. Lot of big hands, lot of big pairs that held up. A few bad beats, but overall much more positive than negative. Did run into some Blind v Blind trouble, but I won the sickest one. In BB w/ JJ. SB open-raises, I 3 bet and he caps. Flop xQJ. Flop gets capped. Turn Q. Turn gets 3 bet because believe it or not I'm actually fearing quads now. River Q. He checks, I bet, and he calls. He has TT. So SB = TT, BB = JJ. Board = xQJQQ. Anyplace else I'd be surprise. I was actually on the positive end of most of the other monster hands. It was amazing that whenever someone had TT or better, at least one, or sometimes two, other players had AK or TT or better as well.

I played 3 tables, which I rarely do, because I really wanted to get the bonus all cleared today. Maybe that was the trick. I felt like I was being a maniac, but only played 18/9 combined. I just saw so many hands that I felt I was PFRing every other hand. Just gonna post the numbers now and sit back and reflect on them. The table where I was the loosest (20/13), I just kept getting dealt big hands. I couldn't lose. Ah, it feels so much better to be a poker player today than it did a week ago.

Today's stats: 2 hrs 35 min 1/2 limit
577 hands +$98.50 +8.54 bb/100
Table 1: 233 hands 20/9 +$.25 +0.05 bb/100
Table 2: 178 hands 13/8 +$32 +8.99 bb/100
Table 3: 166 hands 20/13 +$66.25 +19.95 bb/100

Didn't clear the entire bonus, but did clear another $20. That makes the profit $118.50. Here's the other neat thing. My new 1/2 numbers for the month:
2,289 hands 16/7 +$63.62 +1.39 bb/100

Numbers for the entire month:
1/2 limit +$63.62
.25 NL -$99.52
MTT +$255.43
Bonuses +$100

Totals +$319.53 (Almost entirely done in the past week)

Too many crazy hands to discuss individually so I'm going to post the biggest 3 winners and biggest 3 losers.

TOP 4
1 - +11 BB Completely sick hand where my Aces ran into AK and QQ on a 2AQ flop.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?584661

2 - +11 BB This one was even more sick. File it under extremely loose cold call, but 3 other players in the pot + the blinds, I made a call that I never make and only made here because I was up so big at this point. Unfortunately it was 3 bet by the blinds, but now I was getting 5-1 on my $3 so it was still ok. On the flop I only have bottom pair, but BD Flush and Straight draws (even though the straight draw wasn't a good one) getting 18-1 I had to call. Straight flush draw on the turn and by the river I am on the other end of a disgusting suck out. AP rewarded me for my questionable play.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?584666

3 - +8.88 BB Some genius goes ape-shit with middle pair vs my Queens
http://www.pokerhand.org/?584679

4 - +6.75 BB Another suckout to be sure (BB special), but I also think I played this extremely well. I tried to define my hand on the flop. If I get 3 bet or even called, I fold or slow down + I make it expensive for draws.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?584684


BOTTOM 3
1 - -5.5 BB Flopped TPTK w/ AKs vs AA. When he didn't 3 bet my c/r on the flop I thought he may have something like QQ or AK as well w/ the .
http://www.pokerhand.org/?584688

2 - -4.5 BB Ran QQ into KK. Nothing could be done. I suspected it when it was 3 bet before me PF, but I had to call him down because it could have been TT or JJ as well.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?584694

3 - -4.5 BB Ran AK into KQ. I flopped TPTK, he flopped 2 pair. He was also kind enough to trash talk afterward.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?584697

Here's a really cool thing that must have just started today. AP tournament summaries are now automated on PT. Didn't even have to download a new patch.

The assault on the MTT's continues. 26th out of 281. 3 interesting hands.

1 - I wasn't involved in this one, but following this "typical AP" hand, I saw more F' words in the chat box than I've ever seen.
I'm BB. Blinds are 40/80. UTG min-raises (1,120 behind), one caller and then a min-reraise (4090 behind). SB calls, I fold, UTG pushes for 1,280 total. MP2 re-pushes and SB folds.
SB = [Kd] MP2 = [Ad]
Board: [2c][4d] MP2 = 98% to win
MP2 = 95% to win
MP2 = an eruption of the F' bomb

2 - Blinds 200/400 Antes 50 - 7 handed.
I open up for 1,200 in MP1 w/ [Jc] (4,160 behind).
Button flat calls, biggest stack at the table w/ over 18,000.
Flop [3c][7s] Pot = 3,400. I push for 4,160 and he thinks and calls.
He shows [Kh]. For sure he had the far superior hand PF, but isn't that call a little ridiculous on the flop? He only has a BDFD and 2 overcards. What hand could I have done that with that he could possibly have been ahead of? AQ - the only one, right? AJ beats him now as well as any other PP. Maybe KQ?

3 - Last hand. Blinds 400/800 Antes 50. I have just under 6,000 left. I open-push in MP1 [Tc]. Called by chip leader who has 40,000 [Js]. Slightly loose call considering I'd been rocklike the past half hour watching chips fly around the table.
Flop is [5h][Th]. Someone else mentions that they folded a King. on turn.
Damn on the river. AHHHHHHH!!!

HALLOWEAN
The person that originated the idea of going door to door and ringing people bell, beggging for candy, should be hooked up to a little electric shock machine and be jolted everytimes a kid rings a bell anywhere around the world on Oct 31st. I don't so much mind the little ones, but when your old enough to drive door to door and trick or treat, it's time to stop. I actually had a kid ring the door bell and after I gave him the candy, he asked me if I had a cigerette. Today, I had a group of kids in the 12-14 year old range ring the bell. I answered wearing my "Guinness" sweatshirt. Kids says, "Guinness, that's great stuff. I love Guinness." I also had to cut one kid off a few years ago after he rang the bell for the 7th time.

POKER
I didn't think I would be able to get in much poker today, but somehow I was able to put in a 3 hour session tonight to finish off the AP bonus before the end of the month. The stars aligned again for me and it turned into my 2nd straight very profitable session. What a way to end the month. I never would have believed that I would have ended the month up, never mind as up over $400. I nearly doubled the money in my AP account, not my entire bankroll though, over the past week. I am still facing a lot of big hand vs big hand situations, driving up the rake, but the past few days, I've been winning most of them. I'm in a really good mood tonight.

3 tabling really seems to work for me. Maybe it's because I feel like I can lay down good hands that I suspect might be beat so easily because there is always another hand to plaly. I sometimes feel like I'm raising like a maniac, but when I look at my table numbers they are all around 18/8.

Today's stats: 3 hrs 0 min of 1/2 limit
540 hands +$66.51 +6.16 bb/100
Table 1: 203 hands 18/6 +$3.88 +0.96 bb/100
Table 2: 208 hands 19/8 +$54.38 +13.07 bb/100
Table 3: 129 hands 16/7 +$8.25 +3.20 bb/100

Finished off the last $15.90 of the bonus to make the total profits for the night +$82.41

1/2 Limit Numbers for the Month
2,829 hands 16/7 +$130.13 +2.3 bb/100

All Time 1/2 Limit Nubers
10,307 hands 17/7 +$17.24 +0.08 bb/100 (FINALLY POSITIVE!)

MONTHLY TOTALS:
1/2 limit +$130.13
.25 NL -$99.52
MTT +$264.43
Bonuses +$115.90

Total +$410.94 (Almost entirely done in the past week)

BIGGEST WINNERS
1 - My Aces OTB vs KQo UTG +6.75 BB
http://www.pokerhand.org/?586552

2 - The powerhouse 73o (BB special) +5.88 BB
http://www.pokerhand.org/?586555

3 - Flopped set of 7's vs an idiot +5.88 BB
http://www.pokerhand.org/?586559

There were 2 other flopped set hands where I profited +5.75 BB as well w/ 99 and TT. Actually all the big PP's were great to me tonight TT+ = 11 for 11. AQs/o = 8 for 8 as well.

BIGGEST LOSERS
1 - I ran AK into KK. Case King on the flop. -5.5 BB
http://www.pokerhand.org/?586569

That was the only hand I lost more than 4 BB's on. Actually there were only 3 hands where I lost more than 2 BB total. That's a good session.

WHAT'S NEXT?
So the AP bonus is finished. I really want to move some money to a new site with a decent sized, but clearable bonus. I have AP and Doyle's Room accounts right now. I'm thinking about going to Full Tilt, but I'm not sure how clearable the bonus would be at the levels I play ($25 NL and $1/2 Limit). I live in one of the 11 prohibited states at Prima so my options are limited. Are there any sites out there available to players from NJ with more to offer than Full Tilt?