So Tuesday march 15th and wednesday march 16th, the poker gods were loving me. I have found that the $25 tables at party poker can be very profitable. My normal session consists of 3 tabling this $25 buyin. The 15th and 16th, I ended up profit $160 in a little over 6 hours of play (6 * 3 per table i suppose is 18 table hours.) I was playing well, confident in myself, and it didn't hurt that I had some key hands where I had the best hand, to someone's second best :)

Then, tonight happened. I dropped $50 on two tables in just under an hour. The first of which happened on this hand:

Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: guyonthecouc ( $20.8)
Seat 2: hot_porkchop ( $25.9)
Seat 3: McKim ( $25)
Seat 4: longshot223 ( $23.2)
Seat 5: markdzul ( $26.5)
Seat 6: pokerb4work ( $43.9)
Seat 7: TAMMY48 ( $24.35)
Seat 8: Howardo8 ( $27.85)
Seat 9: AngryFraggle ( $23.3)
Seat 10: sthortin ( $39.85)
markdzul posts small blind (0.1)
pokerb4work posts big blind (0.25)
McKim posts big blind (0.25)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to McKim [ 2c, 2h ]
TAMMY48 calls (0.25)
Howardo8 calls (0.25)
AngryFraggle folds.
sthortin raises (0.5) to 0.5
guyonthecouc folds.
hot_porkchop folds.
McKim calls (0.25)
longshot223 folds.
markdzul folds.
pokerb4work calls (0.25)
TAMMY48 calls (0.25)
Howardo8 calls (0.25)
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 8s, 2d, Qh ]
pokerb4work checks.
TAMMY48 checks.
Howardo8 checks.
sthortin bets (0.25)
McKim raises (1.5) to 1.5
pokerb4work folds.
TAMMY48 folds.
Howardo8 folds.
sthortin calls (1.25)
** Dealing Turn ** : [ Kh ]
sthortin checks.
McKim bets (3)
sthortin raises (6) to 6
McKim raises (9) to 12
sthortin raises (12) to 18
McKim raises (11) to 23
McKim is all-In.
sthortin calls (5)
** Dealing River ** : [ 7s ]
Creating Main Pot with $49.05 with McKim
** Summary **
Main Pot: $49.05 | | Rake: $2.55
Board: [ 8s 2d Qh Kh 7s ]
McKim balance $0, lost $25 [ 2c 2h ] [ three of a kind, twos -- Kh,Qh,2c,2h,2d ]
sthortin balance $63.9, bet $25, collected $49.05, net +$24.05 [ 8c 8h ] [ three of a kind, eights -- Kh,Qh,8c,8h,8s ]

I put him on a crappy two pair, maybe QK in that situation. Didn't put him on 88. No flush draws, nothing scary at all. QQ and KK were out of the question, he woulda raised preflop. I just found it very hard to lay down my set in that situation. Oh well.

The other hand was rather lame. I made a horrible reraise all in, the guy later told me if I pushed first, instead of letting him pot bet, he would have folded. Once you see his hand, I think he should have anyway... but that's just me:

(Real Money) -- Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: Syn_Sid2 ( $24.6)
Seat 2: Futter ( $24.75)
Seat 3: pikoby ( $26.2)
Seat 4: tom1957 ( $52.7)
Seat 5: michwolv ( $14.75)
Seat 6: JimmyX05 ( $25.5)
Seat 7: McKim ( $45.35)
Seat 8: sunryder ( $24.75)
Seat 9: HannibalMD ( $33.75)
Seat 10: trickydixon1 ( $3.9)
pikoby posts small blind (0.1)
tom1957 posts big blind (0.25)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to McKim [ 9h, Ah ]
michwolv folds.
JimmyX05 folds.
McKim calls (0.25)
sunryder folds.
HannibalMD calls (0.25)
trickydixon1 folds.
Syn_Sid2 folds.
Futter calls (0.25)
pikoby calls (0.15)
tom1957 checks.
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 5d, Th, 4h ]
pikoby checks.
tom1957 bets (1)
McKim calls (1)
HannibalMD folds.
Futter raises (3) to 3
pikoby folds.
tom1957 folds.
McKim calls (2)
** Dealing Turn ** : [ Qc ]
McKim checks.
Futter bets (7)
McKim raises (42.1) to 42.1
McKim is all-In.
Futter calls (14.5)
Futter is all-In.
** Dealing River ** : [ 6d ]
Creating Main Pot with $48.7 with Futter
Creating Side Pot 1 with $20.6 with McKim
** Summary **
Main Pot: $48.7 | Side Pot 1: $20.6 | Rake: $2.55
Board: [ 5d Th 4h Qc 6d ]
Syn_Sid2 balance $24.6, didn't bet (folded)
Futter balance $48.7, bet $24.75, collected $48.7, net +$23.95 [ 5h 2h ] [ a pair of fives -- Qc,Th,6d,5h,5d ]
McKim balance $20.6, bet $45.35, collected $20.6, lost -$24.75 [ 9h Ah ] [ high card ace -- Ah,Qc,Th,9h,6d ]

A pair of fives beat me, that just hurts :( haha.

My bankroll is sitting at $511 right now. I started at $100 so I am not doing too shabby. I'll just have to not do any stupid reraises all in tomorrow night. See you at the tables.