Day 18: +$4.10 (+4 BB at $.50/1)

Overall: +$34.05 in 2610 table minutes

I squeezed in a quick session this evening because I had a little free time on my hands. It turned into a small win with a couple hands which I thought were interesting.

Hand 1: PokerTracker lists AA at the top, and I can't help but feel a little glad that villain was all-in on the flop.

Preflop: Hero is MP with Ac, Ah.
UTG raises, Hero 3-bets, 2 folds, SB calls, 1 fold, UTG caps, Hero calls, SB calls.

Flop: (13 SB) Qd, 6h, 8s (3 players)
SB checks, UTG bets, Hero raises, SB folds, UTG 3-bets (All-in), Hero calls.

Turn: (9.50 BB) Td (2 players)
River: (9.50 BB) 2c (2 players)

Results:
UTG has Qc Qs (three of a kind, queens).
Hero has Ac Ah (one pair, aces).

Hand 2: I donked up this flopped flush. I don't have anything in particular about MP. He raises some preflop and plays too many hands. I figure that this is a decent semi-coldcall with a hand that can flop well in so many ways. I played it poorly by check-raising instead of betting out.

Preflop: Hero is SB with Qc, Jc.
UTG calls, MP calls, CO raises, 1 fold, Hero calls, BB calls, UTG calls, MP folds.

Flop: (9 SB) 6c, 7c, 9c (4 players)
Hero checks, BB checks, UTG checks, CO bets, Hero raises, BB folds, UTG folds, CO calls.

Turn: (6.50 BB) Tc (2 players)
Hero bets, CO folds.

Hand 3: This was a failed steal attempt. BB didn't seem particularly loose or tricky, so I decided that if he called a flop bet, he must have the best hand, which is why I check-folded the turn. Maybe he has a heart draw or a queen, but there are far too many ways I'm beat now, and those hands against which I have the lead, they all have many outs on the river to win, and I don't want to fire three barrels into this board with this hand.

Preflop: Hero is SB with 7c, Ac.
3 folds, SB raises, BB calls.

Flop: (4 SB) Jh, Th, Ks (2 players)
Hero bets, BB calls.

Turn: (3 BB) 2d (2 players)
Hero checks, BB bets, Hero folds.

Hand 4: Villain is a LAG. I would have 3-bet him except that CO is a fairly readable player. He's tight enough that I know he's calling with at least a decent hand and I know that he knows that villain is a bit overaggro. I'd rather keep the pot small preflop so that I don't have a bloated pot to contend with postflop. On the flop, CO's call means a weak hand (except if he had 55 or 22 or A2s), and his call is a loose peel to snag a pair with two overs to the board. I check-raised here for value, and CO's fold is a little surprising given that he closes the action and is getting monster odds. He must have made a very loose peel on that first bet. I thought about throwing a screwplay on the turn with the aggro villain, but decided to just value bet instead.

Preflop: Hero is BB with Ac, Qs.
1 fold, MP raises, CO calls, 2 folds, Hero calls.

Flop: (6.50 SB) 5d, 2s, 2h (3 players)
Hero checks, MP bets, CO calls, Hero raises, MP calls, CO folds.

Turn: (5.75 BB) Ah (2 players)
Hero bets, MP calls.

River: (7.75 BB) 4h (2 players)
Hero bets, MP calls.

Results:
Hero has Ac Qs (two pair, aces and twos).
MP has As Td (two pair, aces and twos).

Hand 5: Here's another hand with the same two villains. I could have only called the 3-bet preflop, but my table image was pretty solid at the time as I had been showing down solid hands and taking a number of pots uncontested. I suspected that aggro-villain was playing back at me a little bit. On the flop, I went back to playing the relative position game. With the predictable player in the pot, I knew I could count on him to tell me what he has. Sadly for him, CO caught a nice flop.

Preflop: Hero is UTG with Ks, Ad.
Hero raises, 1 fold, CO 3-bets, Button calls, 2 folds, Hero caps, CO calls, Button calls.

Flop: (13.50 SB) 9d, 7c, Tc (3 players)
Hero checks, CO bets, Button calls, Hero calls.

Turn: (8.25 BB) Qh (3 players)
Hero checks, CO bets, Button raises, Hero folds, CO 3-bets, Button calls.

River: (14.25 BB) 5h (2 players)
CO bets, Button calls.

Results:
CO has Ts 9c (two pair, tens and nines).
Button has Qd Ah (one pair, queens).

Hand 6: I think I played this perfectly. A turn raise is bad because it allows better hands to raise me, and if he has a worse hand, it's either much worse (so that he may not pay me off) or not much worse (and could chop on a range of cards on the river). Since it's heads up, there's no point in pumping the pot.

Preflop: Hero is Button with 9d, Ad.
UTG calls, MP calls, 1 fold, Hero raises, SB calls, BB calls, UTG calls, MP calls.

Flop: (10 SB) 5c, Jh, 5h (5 players)
SB checks, BB checks, UTG checks, MP checks, Hero checks.

Turn: (5 BB) As (5 players)
SB bets, BB folds, UTG folds, MP folds, Hero calls.

River: (7 BB) Qd (2 players)
SB bets, Hero calls.

Results:
SB has Ks 5s (three of a kind, fives).
Hero has 9d Ad (two pair, aces and fives).