3103 Hands @ 11.04 BB/100

I reached my 3100 hands goal, and even reached my pseudo-goal of running hotter than 10 BB/100.

Hand #1:

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Preflop: Hero is SB with Ad, Ah.
UTG raises, MP calls, 1 fold, Hero 3-bets, 1 fold, UTG calls, MP calls.

Flop: (10 SB) 4h, 2d, Qd (3 players)
Hero bets, UTG calls, MP calls.

Turn: (6.50 BB) Qh (3 players)
Hero bets, UTG calls, MP calls.

River: (9.50 BB) Jh (3 players)
Hero bets, UTG calls, MP raises, Hero calls, UTG folds.

I took a long time before calling here. I'm beat very very often here, but the way that it played out, I didn't really think Qx was a likely hand to see, unless it was QJ. Backdoor flush draws are a little bit sparse as MP would probably have needed a combo draw like A3s or A5s. So after thinking for a while, I decided to go ahead and look him up. It turns out I got beat by JJ.

Hand #2:

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Preflop: Hero is Button with Ad, Kd.
Hero raises, SB 3-bets, 1 fold, Hero calls.

Flop: (7 SB) Ac, 6c, 7d (2 players)
SB checks, Button bets, SB calls.

Turn: (4.50 BB) 3c (2 players)
SB bets, Hero calls.

River: (6.50 BB) Qh (2 players)
SB bets, Hero calls.

I don't always cap AKo HU in position, though in a 3-handed game I probably should have. Villain's flop play confused me, and I was wondering if he flopped a set on me, which is why I only called on the turn and the river. In retrospect, since I underplayed my hand preflop, I have a little more latitude to put in an extra bet postflop simply because villain will not read my hand quite right.

Hand #3:

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Preflop: Hero is Button with Jd, Ah.
UTG raises, MP calls, Hero 3-bets, 2 folds, UTG calls, MP calls.

Flop: (10.40 SB) 5d, 8h, Ad (3 players)
UTG checks, MP bets, Hero calls, UTG folds.

Turn: (6.20 BB) 8d (2 players)
MP bets, Hero calls.

River: (8.20 BB) 8s (2 players)
MP bets, Hero raises, MP 3-bets, Hero calls.

Looking back at the experiment, I'm quite amazed at how much money I made because villain put in far too many bets with a second place hand. I thought about raising the flop donk, but with AJ facing an coldcall of an UTGraiser, I figured myself to be in decent shape, but not good enough to face lots of heat. It turns out that villain flopped a flush draw with K4s and caught up on the turn. But the river was odd as anyone can plainly see the trip 8s on the board, so that any pair beats his flush. But he felt it necessary to put in the extra raise (I probably could have raised again expecting to chop often, but I didn't want to feed extra to the rake).

Fatigue is kicking in right now because once again I'm posting this at the end of a work day. So that's all.