Day 3: -$20.45 (-20 BB at $.50/1)

Overall: +$69.60 in 315 table minutes

Well, I probably shouldn't have played tonight. I play in a weekly home game with some friends and it was bad news. I should have taken that to suggest that I should do something else tonight. Here's what happened.

We're playing NL tournament style. The blinds were at 50-100 and I picked up KK UTG+1 (10 handed table). I raise to 250 and get called in 3 spots. The flop is AK3 rainbow (two red, one black). I lead out 500 and get called by one player. The turn is a 5 of hearts, I bet 1500 and get called again. At this point, I figure her to be sitting an ace and can't fold it. The river is a 4 of hearts, and I think for a while. I bet out 1100 as a small value bet, hoping to get called by that ace or maybe two pair. To my surprise, she pushes all-in for another 800. This makes me unhappy. I can't see her raising two pair, and I can't see her raising a set, so that means straight or flush. Even if she had a set of aces, she wouldn't raise this river. I look at my stack and see just over 1100 chips. Then I stare at the pot a while. 250 times 4 is 1000 preflop. Another 1000 on the flop. 3000 on the turn. My 1100 plus her 1900 makes another 3000 on the river. Sigh... 8000 in the pot and 800 to call. Am I folding a set of kings on the river getting 10:1? I know I should. I should trust the read. But I called. She had KJ of hearts. Ugh.

A little while later, the blinds are 100-200 and I push my 225 stack into the pot with QJo. It's 5 to the flop (a chance to quintuple up!). The flop is 943. Checked to the button who throws in a 500 bet. He knocks everyone else out and he turns over A3. The turn is a Q, but the river is a 3. And I go home in last place this time.

I don't really want to say much about the hands I played tonight, except that I played really bad. I wasn't steaming over the loss, but I just wasn't really concentrating that hard. So I lost 20 BB and quit when I realized how poorly I was playing.

In other news, I downloaded a skin and and the black PA layout for Stars. It's nice, but I need to take the time to memorize what all the numbers are. Of course, I don't datamine, and don't play that often, so I'm not sure how useful those numbers will be... But we'll see.