Day 7 Recap!

I didn't have a chance to make a post last night after I finished up, and I had a long day of work today so I'm just now finally getting a chance to post about how yesterday went. I started the day with 215$ and some change, I decided not to immediately jump into the NL10 and just stick with the NL5 until I reached 230 and had enough to lose 3 buy-ins and still have 200, I'm weird like that. I didn't start of playing that well though, I was in a bad move and I probably shouldn't have been playing anyways, and I made 2 decisions that ended up costing me 10 dollars in the first hour. The first I had K10s on the button and was the first in the pot so I raised it up, and the BB flat called. Flop came down 4Q7, BB checked, I bet into him about 3/4ths the pot, he called. Turn came a K lucky me right!? This time he bet into me, and it just seemed like he was slow playing me with the Q, because a lot of players will check-call lead the turn when they hit the flop, so that's where I felt like I was, so I reraised him ending up getting all-in just to see he had AK, ouch. Next hand I had pocket 8's and was in the CO, there was an early raiser, and I just flatted to try to spike a set, no set and this time flop came down 2J5, I felt like I was still ahead and he lead out into me, so I reraised him, he flat called and the turn came a K, then he lead out again and I figured it was a toss up from him having AK, or AQ, I figured I'd be right enough of the time to shove and be ahead, or even to get top pair to fold. So I shoved, he called though, didn't even think about me having a set, and turned over AK, another AK, K on the turn thing.


After that though I settled down and started playing much better, started at 215, went down to 205 then back up to 232$ and some change, when I hit that mark I closed my NL5 tables and opened up to NL10 tables! Exciting! (Fiance showed up and I didn't get anytime to play after work yesterday or even finish the blog but here we go). The first half hour of the NL10 tables didn't go so well, the first hand I had KJs in the BB and the button raised and I flat called and someone who limped in early position also flat called. Flop came down 26K, and I did something I shouldn't do, I checked to the raiser figuring he would bluff at it. I checked, and both other players checked behind. Turn was a 9, this time I bet out, guy in early position folded and the original raiser check raised me, the first thing I thought was he spiked a set of 9's on the turn, but somehow I talked myself into him bluffing, which I promise you hardly ever happens at the micro stakes, if you just have top pair and you are raised, or check raised, I'd say at least 80% of the time more than likely more than that they have you crushed. But I talked myself into it and ended up losing 10$ on that hand because he did spike a set of 9's on the turn. Then I had pocket aces and ended up folding and losing 4$ and some change because I knew he had me beat. After starting out bad though I started playing much better, was down to around 215 again, and I closed out up to 236.18$ - so at the end of the day and the end of the rollercoaster ride I was up 21$.

After the way the day went though, I've decided to implement a new rule for myself, and that's if I'm ever raised by someone after I've lead out or if I'm check raised, I'm going to fold. The best +EV play in this situation, is to fold. Keep that in mind.