Another 1k hands tonight.

Current Roll: 630$
I Just noticed the rake I pay is 6BB/100, so I'm not too happy about that. The rake at micro stakes is brutal :(. To put that in perspective, I've paid 150$ in rake over the 5000 hands I've played at 25NL. Or since Saturday. This represents 1/4 of my current roll.

But onto the poker:
The Tricky LAG (TL) player I mentioned previously was there for the start of my session tonight. Which sucked, as he 3 bets every single time I raise. Tonight he got the better of me. However, we only had 2 AI hands vs each other (one I had an overpair and he had a set...I thought I was trapping him and he was shooting off air. The other I flopped gin with AJs vs AA :D). So he ended up leaving after about 30 minutes, which was nice.

Pocketfours' little test run with playing 25NL at 56/44 has inspired me. (He ran +40BB/100 over 1000 hands and after seeing him post some hand histories I actually think this is pretty close to optimal at 25NL for a good mid stakes player, if you're keeping really close attention. Ie: playing one table).

Seeing as I am 8 or 9 tabling, I really don't think playing 56% of my hands and raising 44% of them would be good for me. Plus P4's is better than me :P. With that being said, after TL left I really opened up with my raising. I played pretty tight while he was there, because he had position on me on almost every table and playing loose when I'm going to be 3 bet a ton probably isn't smart. Overall for the session I ran about 26/24 (apparently I don't ever call? My Hand History converter may not be entirely accurate, as I think I called PF more than this.)

Probably butchered 2 hands pretty badly tonight. One I over-bet shoved on the river with complete air after 2 barrelling vs a super nit who I knew had to have a really good hand. But I thought I might be able to fold out a really good hand and can't resist the opportunity to 3 barrel queen high LOL. At least that did wonders for my image and I caught a hot streak on that table shortly after.

Then there was this hand:

So I guess my thinking on the river is:
Let's just bet the river just because its fun to do so and because I'm angry he called!!!
Well played Kyle. Well played.

At least I got it back 5 hands later when he bet/3bet/called AI with TPWK... I had a set.

STAGE #35863133203: HOLDEM NO LIMIT $0.25 - 2008-03-20 01:38:18 (ET)
Table: Tijuana -10435863 (Real Money) Seat #5 is the dealer
Seat 4 - PDC-fengyun ($8.10 in chips)
Seat 6 - PDC-geefers2 ($33.27 in chips)
Seat 3 - PDC-pokerfiend101 ($36.56 in chips)
Seat 1 - PDC-highlowhoney1 ($23.37 in chips)
Seat 5 - PDC-yijingpk ($9.74 in chips)
Seat 2 - PDC-MBPats80 ($25.00 in chips)
PDC-geefers2 - Posts small blind $0.10
PDC-highlowhoney1 - Posts big blind $0.25
PDC-MBPats80 - Posts $0.25
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to PDC-pokerfiend101 [Ad Kc]
PDC-MBPats80 - Raises $0.50 to $0.75
PDC-pokerfiend101 - Raises $2.75 to $2.75
PDC-fengyun - Folds
PDC-yijingpk - Folds
PDC-geefers2 - Folds
PDC-highlowhoney1 - Folds
PDC-MBPats80 - Calls $2.00
*** FLOP *** [9d 4s 3d]
PDC-MBPats80 - Bets $2.00
PDC-pokerfiend101 - Calls $2.00
*** TURN *** [9d 4s 3d] [Td]
PDC-MBPats80 - Bets $4.00
PDC-pokerfiend101 - Raises $12.00 to $12
PDC-MBPats80 - Calls $8.00
*** RIVER *** [9d 4s 3d Td] [9c]
PDC-MBPats80 - Checks
PDC-pokerfiend101 - All-In $19.81
PDC-MBPats80 - All-In $8.25
*** SHOW DOWN ***
PDC-pokerfiend101 - shows [Ad Kc] ( )
PDC-MBPats80 - shows [7h 7c] ( )
PDC-pokerfiend101 Collects $11.56 from side pot-1
PDC-MBPats80 Collects $47.84 from main pot